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

Famous Deaths on 6 Feb

Famous Deaths on 6 Feb

1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1497 - Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1410)
1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
1585 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
1593 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
1740 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
1775 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
1783 - Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
1807 - John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
1899 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
1899 - Prince Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
1910 - Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b.1839)
1916 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
1927 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
1938 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
1958 - Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
1958 - David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
1958 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
1958 - Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
1958 - Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
1958 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
1963 - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician
1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (b. 1869)
1966 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
1967 - Martine Carol, French film actress (b. 1920)
1976 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)
1981 - Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (b. 1925)
1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
1988 - Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (b. 1925)
1989 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
1989 - Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
1989 - Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
1989 - Osbourne Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
1991 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
1994 - Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
1995 - James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
1997 - Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
2001 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
2001 - Fulgence Charpentier, Quebec journalist (b. 1897)
2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
2005 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005 - Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
2007 - Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
2007 - Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007 - Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
2007 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 - Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
2008 - John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
2008 - Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)
891 - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople