February 14 - Deaths

Deaths

• 270 – St. Valentine marking Valentine's Day
• 869 – Saint Cyril, Greek monk, scholar, theologian and linguist (b. 827)
• 1229 – Raghnall mac Gofraidh, King of the Isles.
• 1317 – Marguerite of France, queen of Edward I of England (b. 1282)
• 1400 – King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)
• 1405 – Timur, Mongol conqueror (b. 1336)
• 1571 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)
• 1676 – Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
• 1714 – Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen Consort of Spain (b. 1688)
• 1737 – Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
• 1744 – John Hadley, inventor (b. 1682)
• 1779 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728)
• 1780 – William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)
• 1782 – Singu Min, King of Burma (b. 1756)
• 1808 – John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
• 1831 – Vicente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782)
• 1831 – Henry Maudslay, English inventor (b. 1771)
• 1870 – St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
• 1881 – Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (b. 1812)
• 1884 – Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, Mother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
• 1885 – Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
• 1891 – William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)
• 1894 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)
• 1910 – Giovanni Passannante, Italian anarchist (b. 1849)
• 1919 – Pál Luthár, Slovene writer, teacher and cantor in Hungary (b. 1839)
• 1922 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)
• 1929 – Thomas Burke, American sprinter (b. 1875)
• 1929 – Frank Gusenberg, American gangster (b. 1892)
• 1929 – Peter Gusenberg, American gangster (b. 1889)
• 1937 – Franz Böckli, Swiss sports shooter (b. 1858)
• 1942 – Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)
• 1943 – Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)
• 1943 – David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)
• 1948 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (b. 1876)
• 1949 – Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
• 1950 – Karl Guthe Jansky, American Discoverer of cosmic radio waves (b. 1905)
• 1952 – Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
• 1954 – Henri Laurent, French fencer (b. 1881)
• 1958 – Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
• 1959 – Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)
• 1967 – Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884)
• 1969 – Vito Genovese, American gangster (b. 1897)
• 1970 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880).
• 1974 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
• 1975 – Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
• 1975 – P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
• 1978 – Paul Governali, American football player (b. 1921)
• 1979 – Adolph Dubs, American diplomat (b. 1920)
• 1980 – Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor (b. 1926)
• 1983 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
• 1986 – Edmund Rubbra, English Composer (b. 1901)
• 1987 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
• 1987 – Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
• 1988 – Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
• 1989 – James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
• 1990 – Tony Holiday, German singer (b. 1951)
• 1992 – Helen Vela, Filipina TV host/journalist and actress (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)
• 1994 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and social critic (b. 1932)
• 1994 – Rodney Orr American racing driver (b. 1962)
• 1995 – Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1995 – U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)
• 1999 – John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2002 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Mick Tucker, English drummer (Sweet)
• 2003 – Dolly, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
• 2003 – Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
• 2004 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
• 2005 – Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, Greek novelist and journalist (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Rafic Hariri, Lebanese businessman and politician (b. 1944)
• 2005 – Najai Turpin, American boxer (b. 1981)
• 2006 – Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
• 2007 – Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated filmmaker (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Sir Bernard Ashley, Welsh businessman (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Louie Bellson, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
• 2009 – John McGlinn, American conductor (b. 1953)
• 2010 – Doug Fieger, American musician (The Knack) (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, Bahraini protester killed by security forces (b.1989)
• 2011 – Sir George Shearing, Anglo-American jazz pianist (b. 1919)