February 2 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1124 – Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (b. c. 1064)
• 1218 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
• 1250 – Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
• 1260 – Sadok and 48 Dominican martyrs from Sandomierz
• 1294 – Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1229)
• 1307 – Oljeitu Temur Khagan, Emperor of the Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty (b. 1265)
• 1461 – Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England (executed after the Battle of Mortimer's Cross)
• 1512 – Hatuey, Taíno chief and resistance leader
• 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)
• 1675 – Ivan Belostenec, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (born ca.1594)
• 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)
• 1905 – Henri Germain, French banker et politician, founder of Le Crédit Lyonnais (b. 1824)
• 1907 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
• 1909 – Carlo Acton, Italian composer and concert pianist (b. 1829)
• 1918 – John L. Sullivan, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1858)
• 1925 – Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
• 1926 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
• 1932 – Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader (b. 1880)
• 1942 – Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)
• 1942 – Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian theatre entrepreneur (b. 1876)
• 1945 – Alfred Delp, German Jesuit priest, member of the German resistance (b. 1907)
• 1945 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician, member of the German resistance (b. 1884)
• 1945 – Johannes Popitz, Prussian finance minister, member of the German resistance (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)
• 1952 – Callistratus, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia (b. 1866)
• 1956 – Charles Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
• 1956 – Truxtun Hare, American track and field athlete (b. 1878)
• 1956 – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
• 1961 – Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1962 – Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-born Israeli biochemist (b. 1914)
• 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)
• 1974 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1922)
• 1975 – Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian and archivist (b. 1883)
• 1979 – Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957)
• 1980 – Hanna Rovina, Israeli actress
• 1980 – William Howard Stein, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 1982 – Paul Desruisseaux, Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (b. 1905)
• 1983 – Sam Chatmon, American blues musician (Mississippi Sheiks) (b. 1897)
• 1986 – Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
• 1987 – Carlos José 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)
• 1989 – Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand politician (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
• 1992 – Bert Parks, American television host (b. 1914)
• 1993 – François Reichenbach, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1995 – Thomas Hayward, American tenor (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Fred Perry, British tennis player (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
• 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 – Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
• 2007 – Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Katoucha, Guinean model and activist (b. 1960)
• 2008 – Barry Morse, Anglo-Canadian actor (b. 1918)
• 2011 – Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ (b. 1975)
• 2011 – Margaret John, Welsh actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Jane Ising, German-born wife of Ernst Ising (b. 1902)