Famous Deaths on 5 Feb

Famous Deaths on 5 Feb

1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
1578 - Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter
1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
1766 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1775 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)
1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
1892 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807)
1915 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
1917 - Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
1922 - Christiaan De Wet, South African general (b. 1854)
1927 - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi
1937 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
1938 - Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)
1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
1946 - George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)
1948 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
1957 - Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
1962 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)
1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
1969 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)
1970 - Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1972 - Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)
1976 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)
1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
1981 - Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
1984 - Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, Mexican wrestler and film actor (b. 1917)
1985 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (b. 1907)
1987 - William Collier, American film and stage actor (b. 1902)
1991 - Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
1993 - Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (b. 1930)
1993 - Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958)
1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909)
1995 - Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
1997 - Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)
1998 - Tim Kelly, American musician (b. 1963)
1999 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
2000 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
2003 - Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer
2004 - John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
2005 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
2006 - Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
2006 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
2007 - Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983-1995) (b. 1930)
2007 - Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)
2008 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. ca. 1917)
995 - William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)