Famous Deaths on 7 Feb

Famous Deaths on 7 Feb

1045 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
1317 - Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
1560 - Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
1626 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
1642 - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
1652 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1690 - William Morice, English royalist statesman
1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)
1779 - William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711)
1799 - Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711)
1801 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
1823 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (b. 1764)
1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
1839 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
1871 - Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)
1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
1878 - Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (b. 1847)
1919 - William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
1937 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
1938 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)
1939 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
1942 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
1944 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
1959 - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1959 - Guitar Slim, American blues guitarist (b. 1926)
1960 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (b. 1903)
1962 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
1963 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1964 - Sophoklis Venizelos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)
1968 - Nick Adams, American actor (b. 1931)
1979 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)
1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen of Greece (b. 1917)
1985 - Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1932)
1986 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
1990 - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
1990 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1991 - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
1991 - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
1992 - Buzz Sawyer, wrestler (b. 1959)
1994 - Stephen Milligan, British journalist and politician (b. 1948)
1994 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
1996 - Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
1998 - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
1999 - José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
1999 - Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)
2000 - Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (b. 1943)
2000 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
2000 - Big Pun, Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
2001 - Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)
2002 - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (b. 1913)
2003 - John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
2003 - Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
2005 - Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
2006 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
2008 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
999 - Boleslaus II of Bohemia