Famous Deaths on 7th February

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590 - Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague
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)
1593 - Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79
1609 - Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
1626 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
1642 - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
1690 - William Morice, English royalist statesman
1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)
1743 - Lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57
1749 - Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76
1779 - William Boyce, composer, dies at 67
1799 - Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711)
1801 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
1820 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57
1823 - Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58
1827 - Franz Anton Dimmler, composer, dies at 73
1830 - Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, Portuguese composer, dies at 67
1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
1839 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
1857 - Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
1862 - Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61
1865 - John Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64
1871 - Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)
1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
1878 - Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
1881 - Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49
1901 - Benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64
1911 - Harry Graham, cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies
1915 - Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68
1918 - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, composer, dies at 68
1919 - William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
1920 - Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed
1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
1921 - Peter Kropotkin, Russ Prince/geologist/revolut anarchist, dies at 78
1931 - Ion Vidu, composer, dies at 67
1933 - Albert Gyorgy Earl Apponyi, Hung minister of Education, dies at 86
1937 - Elihu Root, US min of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91
Tire Industrialist Harvey Firestone (1938) 1938 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer, dies at 69
1939 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
1940 - Francis Ford, cricketer (5 Tests for Engld v Australia 1894-95), dies
1942 - Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, marathoner (Oly-gold-1908), dies at 56
1942 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
1944 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
1948 - "Red" McKenzie, blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies
1954 - Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54
1957 - Rudolph Reti, composer, dies at 71
1958 - Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76
1959 - Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84
1959 - Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
1959 - Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar, rocker, dies at 32
1960 - Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
1962 - Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow
1962 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
1963 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1964 - Hermann A J Kees, German egyptologist, dies at 77
1964 - Lillian Copeland, US discus thrower (Oly-gold-32), dies at 59
1965 - Nance O'Neil, actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at 90
1967 - Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74
1968 - Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36
1968 - Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
1969 - Bainbridge Crist, composer, dies at 85
1974 - Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61
1975 - Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54
1977 - Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer, dies at 82
1979 - Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns
1980 - Ernst Kunz, composer, dies at 88
1980 - Katherine Emery, actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at 73
1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)
1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen of Greece (b. 1917)
1984 - Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67
1985 - Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83
1985 - Uday Merchant, cricket (bro of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies
1985 - Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1932)
1986 - Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/lyricist, dies at 81
1986 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
1988 - Lin[wood V] Carter, US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57
1990 - Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
1990 - Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
1990 - Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
1990 - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
1991 - Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75
1991 - Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87
1991 - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
1991 - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
1992 - Jeanne Gerson, dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87
1992 - Buzz Sawyer, wrestler (b. 1959)
1993 - W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82
1994 - Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74
1994 - Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
1994 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
1995 - Helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70
1995 - Massimo Pallottino, Ital archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86
1996 - George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary, dies at 89
1996 - Isian Kehinde I K Dairo, musician/academic, dies at 65
1996 - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84
1996 - Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer, dies at 88
1996 - Tiny Winters, musician, dies at 87
1996 - Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
1997 - Danil Shafran, cellist, dies at 74
1998 - Carl Dean Wilson, musician, dies at 51
1998 - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
1999 - Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)
1999 - José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
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 - 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 - Brian Naylor (broadcaster), Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
2012 - Patricia Stephens Due, African-American civil rights activist, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 72
2012 - Phil Bruns, American actor and writer, dies of natural causes at 80
2012 - Florence Holway, American rape victim and activist, dies at 96