February 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 619 – Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury
• 699 – Saint Werburgh
• 1014 – Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, England and Norway (b. c. 960)
• 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 (b. c. 1398)
• 1549 – Sri Suriyothai, Chief Queen of Ayutthaya
• 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)
• 1820 – Emperor Gia Long the founded the Nguyễn Dynasty, the last of the Vietnamese dynasties (b. 1762)
• 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)
• 1873 – Isaac Baker Brown, English gynaecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
• 1874 – King William Charles Lunalilo of Hawaiʻi (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)
• 1952 – Harold L. Ickes, American administrator and politician (b. 1874)
• 1955 – Vasili Blokhin, Soviet Union executioner (b. 1895)
• 1956 – Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
• 1956 – Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)
• 1959 – The Day the Music Died
  • Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
  • Roger Peterson, pilot (b. 1937)
  • Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
  • J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)
• 1960 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
• 1961 – Viscount Dunrossil, Australian governor-general (b. 1893)
• 1961 – Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905)
• 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 – Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Fat Pat, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (b. 1970)
• 1998 – Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (b. 1959)
• 2002 – Lucien Rivard, Quebec criminal (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (b. 1962)
• 2004 – Jason Raize, American actor (b. 1975)
• 2005 – Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
• 2006 – Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Sheng-yen, Buddhist monk and founder of Dharma Drum Mountain. (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Regina, Crown Princess of Austria (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Ron Piché, Canadian baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Ben Gazzara, American actor (b. 1930)