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

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