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)

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