Famous Deaths on 3 Feb

Famous Deaths on 3 Feb

1014 - King Sweyn I of Denmark
1116 - King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
1399 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)
1428 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)
1451 - Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)
1468 - Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher
1566 - George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1619 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
1737 - Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)
1802 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (b. 1723)
1832 - George Crabbe, English naturalist (b. 1754)
1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774)
1866 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
1874 - Lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)
1889 - Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848)
1922 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
1935 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)
1936 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
1937 - Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (b. 1887)
1945 - Roland Freisler, Nazi leader (b. 1893)
1947 - Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (b. 1887)
1956 - Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
1956 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)
1959 - Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
1959 - J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)
1959 - Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
1960 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
1961 - Viscount Dunrossil, Australian governor-general (b. 1893)
1964 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)
1967 - Joe Meek, English record producer (b. 1929)
1969 - Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican independence founder (b. 1920)
1975 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873)
1975 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
1985 - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
1989 - John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929)
1989 - Lionel Newman, American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (b. 1916)
1991 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
1991 - Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
1993 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (b. 1916)
1996 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1926)
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (b. 1959)
2000 - Richard Kleindienst, American politician (b. 1923)
2003 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)
2005 - Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
2005 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)
2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b. 1904)
2006 - Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
2007 - George Becker, American president of United Steelworkers (1993-2001) (b. 1928)
2007 - Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916)
2007 - Pedro Knight, Cuban-American musician, husband of legendary singer Celia Cruz (b. 1921)
2008 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot (b. 1916)
619 - Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury
699 - Saint Werburgh