Famous people died in January - page 6

Harold Urey was an American physicist and chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of deuterium

Jean Merilyn Simmons was a charming and captivating British actress, who became one of the prominent screen goddesses of the mid-twentieth century.

Jose Ferrer or Jose Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintron was a Puert Rican actor, director and pianist

Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Soviet ballet dancer, considered a prominent figure of the art in the 20th century.

Fritz Haber was a German chemist who won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements

Georges-Augustin Bidault was a French politician who served as the Prime Minister of France twice.

Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev was the King of Nepal from 1955 to 1972

Vincent Jules Auriol served as the first President of the Fourth French Republic between 1947 and 1954

Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist and inventor

Albert Jacka was an Australian military man hailed for his gallantry during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I