February 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 531 – Emperor Keitai of Japan (b. 450)
• 999 – Boleslaus II of Bohemia
• 1045 – Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
• 1317 – Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
• 1560 – Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
• 1603 – Hermann Wilken, German humanist and mathematician (b. 1522)
• 1626 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
• 1642 – William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
• 1652 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)
• 1690 – William Morice, English royalist statesman
• 1693 – Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
• 1736 – Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)
• 1779 – William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711)
• 1799 – Qianlong Emperor of China (b. 1711)
• 1801 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
• 1823 – Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (b. 1764)
• 1837 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
• 1839 – Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
• 1862 – Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa, Spanish statesman and dramatist (b. 1787)
• 1871 – Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)
• 1873 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
• 1878 – Blessed Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
• 1897 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (b. 1847)
• 1898 – John Reily Knox, Lawyer and founder of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity (b. 1820)
• 1919 – William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
• 1920 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
• 1920 – Charles Langelier, Canadian politician, judge, journalist, and author. (b. 1850)
• 1937 – Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
• 1938 – Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)
• 1939 – Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
• 1942 – Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
• 1944 – Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
• 1952 – Pete Henry, American professional American football player and coach (b. 1897)
• 1959 – Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (b. 1874)
• 1959 – Daniel François Malan, South African Prime Minister, father of Apartheid policy (b. 1874)
• 1959 – Guitar Slim, American blues guitarist (b. 1926)
• 1960 – Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (b. 1903)
• 1962 – Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
• 1963 – Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
• 1964 – Sophoklis Venizelos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Perikles Ioannidis, Greek admiral (b. 1881)
• 1968 – Nick Adams, American actor (b. 1931)
• 1971 – Douglass Cadwallader, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1972 – Walter Lang, American film director (b. 1896)
• 1979 – Dr. Josef Mengele, German, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
• 1990 – Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino military figure (b. 1905)
• 1990 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (b. 1913)
• 1991 – Amos Yarkoni, Israeli soldier, Medal of Distinguished Service recipient (b. 1920)
• 1991 – Jean-Paul Mousseau, French-Canadian painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
• 1992 – Buzz Sawyer, wrestler (b. 1959)
• 1994 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Stephen Milligan, British journalist and politician (b. 1948)
• 1994 – Arnold Smith, Canadian diplomat (b. 1915)
• 1996 – Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
• 1999 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
• 1999 – José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
• 2000 – Big Pun, Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
• 2000 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
• 2000 – Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (b. 1943)
• 2001 – Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
• 2001 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Jack Fairman, British racing driver (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
• 2003 – John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Atli Dam, Faroese politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Brian Naylor, Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Molly Bee, American singer (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Blossom Dearie, American singer (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Franco Ballerini, Italian Cycler, Coach of the Italy team of cycling (b. 1964)