February 5 - Deaths

Deaths

• 523 – Avitus, archbishop of Vienne
• 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
• 1578 – Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter (b. c.1520-24)
• 1705 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
• 1754 – Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch cartographer (b. 1678)
• 1766 – Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• 1775 – Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
• 1790 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
• 1807 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)
• 1881 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
• 1882 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish traveler, writer and diplomat (b. 1841)
• 1892 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807)
• 1915 – Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
• 1917 – Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
• 1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
• 1922 – Christiaan De Wet, South African general (b. 1854)
• 1927 – Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (b. 1882)
• 1931 – Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician (b. 1849)
• 1933 – Joseph Roffo, French rugby player (b. 1879)
• 1933 – Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (b. 1863)
• 1937 – Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
• 1938 – Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)
• 1941 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (b. 1864)
• 1946 – George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)
• 1948 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
• 1952 – Adela Verne, English pianist (b. 1877)
• 1955 – Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885)
• 1957 – Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
• 1962 – Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
• 1967 – Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (b. 1917)
• 1969 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1970 – Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1972 – Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)
• 1976 – Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)
• 1977 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
• 1981 – Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
• 1984 – Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, Mexican wrestler and film actor (b. 1917)
• 1985 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, French-Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• 1987 – William Collier, American film and stage actor (b. 1902)
• 1991 – Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Seán Flanagan, Irish Gaelic footballer and politician (b. 1922)
• 1993 – Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (b. 1930)
• 1993 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909)
• 1993 – Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958)
• 1995 – Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
• 1997 – Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)
• 1997 – René Huyghe, French writer (b. 1906)
• 1998 – Tim Kelly, American musician (Slaughter) (b. 1963)
• 1999 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 – Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
• 2001 – Jean Davy, French voice actor (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer (b. 1970)
• 2004 – John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
• 2005 – Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Henri Rochon, Canadian tennis player (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983–1995) (b. 1930)
• 2007 – Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. c. 1917)
• 2010 – Brendan Burke, Gay rights activist, son of Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke (b. 1988)
• 2010 – Ian Carmichael, English actor (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Brian Jacques, English author (b. 1939)
• 2011 – Peggy Rea, American actress (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Blaine, Canadian cartoonist (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Sam Coppola, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Al De Lory, American musician, producer, and conductor (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Bill Hinzman, American actor and director (b. 1936)
• 2012 – John Turner Sargent, Sr., American publisher (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Jiang Ying, Chinese singer (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Jo Zwaan, Dutch sprinter (b. 1922)