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)

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)