Famous Deaths on 2 Feb

Famous Deaths on 2 Feb

1124 - Bořivoj II of Bohemia
1218 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
1250 - Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England
1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)
1580 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
1594 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)
1648 - George Abbot, English writer
1660 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
1660 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (b. 1608)
1661 - Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
1688 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
1704 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661)
1712 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
1714 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (b. 1643)
1723 - Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (b. 1666)
1768 - Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
1769 - Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
1804 - George Walton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1749-50)
1895 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)
1904 - William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841)
1907 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
1918 - John L. Sullivan, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1858)
1922 - William Desmond Taylor, Irish film director (b. 1872)
1925 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
1926 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
1932 - Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader
1942 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)
1945 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (b. 1884)
1948 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870)
1948 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
1950 - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873)
1956 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
1956 - Charles Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
1957 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
1961 - Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905)
1969 - Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
1970 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (b.1898)
1970 - Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1872)
1972 - Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer (b. 1876)
1973 - Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician (b. 1902)
1979 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957)
1980 - William Howard Stein, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1982 - Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (b 1905)
1987 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
1987 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
1988 - Marcel Bozzuffi, French film actor (b. 1929)
1989 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (b. 1951)
1990 - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
1992 - Bert Parks, American television host (b. 1914)
1995 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
1995 - Fred Perry, British former tennis player (b. 1909)
1996 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (b. 1912)
1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904)
1999 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962)
2002 - Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960)
2002 - Claude Brown, American writer (b. 1937)
2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
2004 - Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
2005 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2007 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2007 - Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927)
2007 - Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
2007 - Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)
2007 - Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
2007 - Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2008 - Katoucha, Guinean model and activist (b. 1960)
672 - Saint Chad