Famous Deaths on 4 Feb

Famous Deaths on 4 Feb

1508 - Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)
1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)
1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath and child prodogy (b. 1535)
1615 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
1617 - Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher (b. 1546)
1694 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)
1774 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
1781 - Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)
1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
1894 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (b. 1814)
1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1853)
1933 - Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
1940 - Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
1943 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (b. 1877)
1944 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
1944 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
1958 - Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
1959 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
1966 - Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875)
1967 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
1968 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
1975 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
1975 - Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
1977 - Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
1982 - Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (b. 1909)
1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
1987 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
1987 - Liberace, American musician (b. 1919)
1990 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917)
1992 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
1994 - Fred De Bruyne, Belgian cyclist (b. 1930)
1995 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
1995 - Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (b. 1915)
2000 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)
2000 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
2000 - Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
2001 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924)
2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (b. 1922)
2002 - George Nader, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)
2003 - Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2006 - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
2006 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
2007 - Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
2007 - Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2007 - Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
2007 - José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (b. 1925)
2007 - Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
2008 - Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (b. 1942)
211 - Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)
708 - Pope Sisinnius
856 - Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz (b. circa 780)
869 - Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)