Famous Deaths on 2 Feb

Famous Deaths on 2 Feb

1124 - Bořivoj II of Bohemia
1218 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
1250 - Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England
1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)
1580 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
1594 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)
1648 - George Abbot, English writer
1660 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
1660 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (b. 1608)
1661 - Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
1688 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
1704 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661)
1712 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
1714 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (b. 1643)
1723 - Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist (b. 1666)
1768 - Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
1769 - Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
1804 - George Walton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1749-50)
1895 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)
1904 - William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841)
1907 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
1918 - John L. Sullivan, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1858)
1922 - William Desmond Taylor, Irish film director (b. 1872)
1925 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
1926 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
1932 - Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader
1942 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)
1945 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (b. 1884)
1948 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870)
1948 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
1950 - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873)
1956 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
1956 - Charles Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
1957 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
1961 - Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905)
1969 - Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
1970 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (b.1898)
1970 - Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1872)
1972 - Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer (b. 1876)
1973 - Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician (b. 1902)
1979 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957)
1980 - William Howard Stein, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1982 - Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (b 1905)
1987 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
1987 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
1988 - Marcel Bozzuffi, French film actor (b. 1929)
1989 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (b. 1951)
1990 - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
1992 - Bert Parks, American television host (b. 1914)
1995 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
1995 - Fred Perry, British former tennis player (b. 1909)
1996 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (b. 1912)
1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904)
1999 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962)
2002 - Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960)
2002 - Claude Brown, American writer (b. 1937)
2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
2004 - Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
2005 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2007 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2007 - Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927)
2007 - Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
2007 - Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)
2007 - Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
2007 - Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2008 - Katoucha, Guinean model and activist (b. 1960)
672 - Saint Chad

Famous Deaths on 1 Feb

Famous Deaths on 1 Feb

1248 - Henry II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1207)
1328 - King Charles IV of France (b. 1294)
1542 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1480)
1563 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (died of fever)
1590 - Lawrence Humphrey,English clergyman and educator
1691 - Pope Alexander VIII (b. 1610)
1718 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660)
1733 - King Augustus II of Poland (b. 1670)
1734 - John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
1761 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (b. 1682)
1768 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685)
1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717)
1832 - Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician (b. 1777)
1850 - Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
1851 - Mary Shelley, English author (b. 1797)
1893 - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist (b. 1826)
1903 - George Gabriel Stokes, Irish physicist (b. 1819)
1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
1928 - Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
1936 - Georgios Kondylis, general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
1940 - Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888)
1944 - Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (b. 1872)
1957 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
1958 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1888)
1959 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (b. 1873)
1963 - Fleetwood Lindley, the last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face (b. 1888)
1966 - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b. 1885)
1966 - Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)
1970 - Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1921)
1976 - George Whipple, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1878)
1976 - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1901)
1980 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
1981 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1892)
1981 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b. 1908)
1986 - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
1986 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1902)
1987 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (b. 1900)
1988 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
1989 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1918)
1991 - Phil Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
1991 - Carol Dempster, American actress (b. 1901)
1997 - Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1916)
1999 - Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
1999 - Barış Manço, Turkish singer, composer, television producer and celebrity. (b. 1943)
2001 - André D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist (b. 1929)
2002 - Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (b. 1925)
2003 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (b. 1922)
2003 - Ilan Ramon - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1954)
2003 - Willie McCool - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Rick D. Husband - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1957)
2003 - Laurel Clark - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Kalpana Chawla - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - David Brown - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1956)
2003 - Michael P. Anderson - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1959)
2004 - May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)
2005 - John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)
2006 - Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
2006 - Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
2007 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
2007 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (b. 1937)
2007 - Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (b. 1926)
2007 - Ray Berres, American baseball player (b. 1907)
2007 - Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)