{ "site": "Dead-People.com", "feed_type": "deaths_on_date", "date": "2026-01-31", "timezone": "+01:00", "generated_at": "2026-07-09T22:59:48+01:00", "canonical_html_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/31-january-2026", "permanent_archive_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/31-january-2026", "items": [ { "name": "Morley Robertson", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/morley-robertson", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 63, "death_date": "2026-02-01", "reported_date": "2026-02-01", "published_at": "2026-02-01T22:30:03+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Japanese-American musician", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morley_Robertson" }, { "name": "Joe Mulholland Managing Director of RTÉ Television dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/joe-mulholland-managing-director", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "managing director of rtÉ television", "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "Ireland" ], "description": "Joe Mulholland, the Irish television executive who served as managing director of RTÉ Television, died on January 31, 2026, aged 85. Patrick Joseph Mulholland worked in a number of capacities with national broadcaster RTÉ, including as managing director of RTÉ Television. Born in 1940 in Ballybofey, County Donegal, he later returned to Ireland in 1970 and joined RTÉ on its first trainee TV producer/director course. His early work included Irish-language programming, and he later became head of current affairs in 1980 before being appointed Director of News in 1990.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mulholland_(managing_director)" }, { "name": "Wally Maxwell Canadian ice hockey player dead at age 92", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/wally-maxwell", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 92, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Canada" ], "description": "Wally Maxwell, a Canadian ice hockey player who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, died on January 31, 2026, at the age of 92. Born Wallace David Maxwell on August 24, 1933, in Ottawa, Ontario, he played two games in the National Hockey League with Toronto during the 1952–53 season. Maxwell also skated for the 1955–56 Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team, which won the 1956 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/01/Wally_Maxwell.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Maxwell" }, { "name": "Masaru Ikeda Japanese voice actor, heart attack dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/masaru-ikeda", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Japan" ], "description": "Masaru Ikeda, a Japanese actor and voice actor known for his work in Yatterman, Sakura Wars and One Piece, died on January 31, 2026, of a heart attack. Born in Tokyo on September 27, 1942, he was active from 1963 to 2026. Ikeda was a graduate of Tokyo Metro Fifth Commerce Senior High School and was affiliated with the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. He was also known for Japanese dubbing roles for Danny Glover.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Ikeda", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Heart attack", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-heart-attack" } }, { "name": "Gerardo Taracena Pablo Acosta in Narcos: Mexico dead at age 55", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gerardo-taracena", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 55, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "pablo acosta in narcos: mexico", "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Mexico" ], "description": "Gerardo Taracena, a Mexican actor and dancer, died on January 31, 2026, at age 55. Born in Mexico City on March 27, 1970, he worked in film, television and theater from 1994 to 2026. He was known for roles in Apocalypto, Man on Fire, The Violin and Sin nombre, and for the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, in which he portrayed Pablo Acosta. Taracena also studied dramatic arts at the University Center of Theater of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardo_Taracena" }, { "name": "Raghunatha Reddy Actor dead at age 82", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/raghunatha-reddy", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 82, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actor", "actors", "artists" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "Raghunatha Reddy, an Indian actor known for his work in Telugu-language films as a character artist, died on January 31, 2026. He was 82. Active from 1991 to 2026, Reddy was known for his metallic voice. Born in Krishna District in 1943 or 1944, he studied in Vijayawada and Machilipatnam before working at Lallaguda railway station. He later entered the stage through the play Aakasa Ramanna and had also been part of the Jyothirmayi acting group in Vijayawada.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghunatha_Reddy" }, { "name": "Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez Lawyer, politician dead at age 62", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gustavo-sanchez-vasquez", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 62, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "lawyer", "politician", "lawyers", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Mexico" ], "description": "Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez, a Mexican politician and lawyer, died on January 31, 2026. He was a member of the National Action Party (PAN) and served as municipal president of Mexicali, Baja California, from 2016 to 2019. At the time of his death, he was a senator for Baja California. Born in Mexicali on September 17, 1963, he earned a law degree from the Autonomous University of Baja California in 1984, later taught there, and founded a private law firm in 1987.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_S%C3%A1nchez_V%C3%A1squez" }, { "name": "Kazuhiko Hasegawa Japanese film director dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/kazuhiko-hasegawa", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Japan" ], "description": "Kazuhiko Hasegawa, a Japanese film director and screenwriter, died on January 31, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Kamo District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, on January 5, 1946, he began his career in film at Nikkatsu in the early 1970s as a scriptwriter and assistant director. He made his directorial debut with The Youth Killer in 1976 and later directed The Man Who Stole the Sun in 1979, which won him the Best Director award at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuhiko_Hasegawa" }, { "name": "Paolo Cristoni Politician dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/paolo-cristoni", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politician", "politicians", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Paolo Cristoni, an Italian socialist politician, public administrator and author, died on January 31, 2026. Born in Castelfranco Emilia, Italy, on September 9, 1945, he began his political career in 1973 and served as mayor of Castelfranco Emilia from 1973 to 1976. He later became provincial secretary of the Italian Socialist Party in Modena. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1987, he served until 1992 and sat on the committee on agriculture, where he advocated on issues affecting his constituency.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Cristoni" }, { "name": "Normana Wight Artist dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/normana-wight", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artist", "artists" ], "nationality": [ "Australia" ], "description": "Normana Wight, an Australian artist best known as a painter and printmaker, died on January 31, 2026, aged 89. Born on March 9, 1936, she studied painting at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1954 to 1957 and later studied printmaking at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in 1962 and 1963. After working briefly as a fabric designer and high school art teacher, she returned to Australia in 1964 and moved to Sydney, then Mittagong, New South Wales. She returned to Melbourne in 1967 to teach at the Preston Institute of Technology. Her early work focused on abstract forms in fields of bright colour.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normana_Wight" }, { "name": "Burt Wolf Travels and Traditions TV series dead at age 87", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/burt-wolf", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 87, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "travels and traditions tv series", "actors", "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Burt Wolf, an American journalist and writer, died on January 31, 2026. Born Burton R. Wolf in New York City on September 28, 1938, he was also a businessman, chef and television producer. He was the host and author of nine internationally syndicated television series on cultural history, travel and gastronomy, including Travels & Traditions, which he hosted with his son, Nicholas Wolf.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/01/Burt_Wolf.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Wolf" }, { "name": "Desmond Williams Ecclesiastical architect dead at age 93", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/desmond-williams-architect", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 93, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "ecclesiastical architect" ], "nationality": [ "Britain" ], "description": "Desmond Williams, the British architect who specialised in church architecture, died on January 31, 2026, aged 93. Desmond James Williams OBE was influenced by the Liturgical Movement and was among the most important architects of the Catholic Modernist movement in the United Kingdom. Born in Whalley Range, Manchester, on 7 July 1932, he studied at Xaverian Grammar School and the University of Manchester School of Architecture. He later married Felicity McDonnell and Susan Richardson.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Williams_(architect)" }, { "name": "Gillian White British-born Swiss sculptor dead at age 86", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gillian-white-sculptor", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 86, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists" ], "nationality": [ "Britain", "Switzerland" ], "description": "Gillian White, the British-born Swiss sculptor, died on January 31, 2026. Born in Orpington, Kent, on June 20, 1939, she lived and worked in Leibstadt, Switzerland. She studied at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design in London, and at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1969, shortly before moving to Switzerland, she won her first competition with Gewässerschutzplastik, a polyester sculpture for a public artwork in Olten. White was known for large-scale public works and art commissions for buildings, including Echodrome, made with her husband Albert Siegenthaler, and other public installations in Switzerland and Germany.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_White_(sculptor)" }, { "name": "Len Pavy Australian cricketer dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/len-pavy", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-01-31", "reported_date": "2026-01-31", "published_at": "2026-01-31T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Australia" ], "description": "Len Pavy, an Australian cricketer, died on January 31, 2026, aged 89. Born Leonard Pavy in Boulder, Western Australia, he played seven first-class matches for Western Australia in 1954 and 1955. A middle-order batsman, he made his first-class debut for Western Australia in February 1954 at the age of 17. He was educated at Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia, and later worked as a school physical education teacher and teacher of PE teachers. In 1983, he was the West Australian director of coaching, and in 1994 he prepared a report for the West Australian government on the recognition of umpires.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Pavy" } ], "fallback_items": [], "page": 1, "per_page": 100, "total": 14, "total_pages": 1, "count": 14 }