What happened on January 31 ?

743 - Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam (b. 676)

1398 - Emperor Suko of Japan (b. 1334)

1435 - Xuande, Emperor of China (b. 1398)

1561 - Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar

1561 - Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (b. 1496)

1580 - King Henry of Portugal (b. 1512)

1606 - Gunpowder Plot conspirators executed: Guy Fawkes (b. 1570)

Ambrose Rokewood

Thomas Wintour (b. 1571)

1615 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)

1632 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)

1665 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philsopher (b. 1622)

1686 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)

1720 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councilor

1729 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)

1736 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (b. 1678)

1788 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (b. 1720)

1790 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)

1794 - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)

1815 - José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)

1844 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)

1851 - David Spangler Kaufman, American politician (b. 1813)

1888 - John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)

1892 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)

1907 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)

1933 - John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)

1944 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)

1945 - Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)

1955 - John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)

1956 - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)

1967 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)

1970 - Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)

1973 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1895)

1974 - Samuel Goldwyn, American film studio executive (b. 1882)

1976 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)

1981 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)

1990 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (stabbed) (b. 1935)

1992 - Willie Dixon, American musician (b. 1915)

1995 - George Abbott, American stage director and producer (b. 1887)

1997 - John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)

1999 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (b. 1929)

2000 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)

2001 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)

2004 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)

2006 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)