February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 332 days remaining until the end of the year (333 in leap years ).
Events
506 – Alaric II , eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum ), a collection of "Roman law ".
962 – Translatio imperii : Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor , the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
1032 – Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy .
1141 – The Battle of Lincoln , at which King Stephen is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda , presenting her with an opportunity to become the first queen of medieval England; this fails to occur, however.
1207 – Terra Mariana , comprising present-day Estonia and Latvia , is established.
1461 – Wars of the Roses : The Battle of Mortimer's Cross is fought in Herefordshire , England.
1536 – Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires , Argentina .
1542 – Portuguese forces under Cristóvão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente .
1653 – New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe .
1848 – Mexican–American War : The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
1848 – California Gold Rush : The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco .
1868 – Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
1876 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1887 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1899 – The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra , between Sydney and Melbourne .
1901 – Funeral of Queen Victoria .
1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
1914 – Charlie Chaplin 's first film appearance, Making a Living premieres.
1920 – The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
1920 – France occupies Memel .
1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1925 – Serum run to Nome : Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1933 – Working as maids, the sisters Christine and Léa Papin murder their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans , France. The case is the subject of a number of French films and plays.
1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine .
1942 – Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of Resistance [against the German occupation of Norway] when Østbanehallen (at present-day Oslo Central Station ) was blown up to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling .
1943 – World War II : The Battle of Stalingrad comes to conclusion as Soviet troops accept the surrender of 91,000 remnants of the Axis forces .
1957 – Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage .
1959 – Dyatlov Pass incident
1966 – Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 .
1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda .
1971 – The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran , Iran .
1972 – The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday .
1976 – The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
1980 – Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
1982 – 1982 Hama massacre : the government of Syria attacks the town of Hama .
1987 – After the 1986 People Power Revolution , the Philippines enacts a new constitution .
1988 – Auntie Anne's is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan : The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul .
1990 – Apartheid : F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela .
2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments .
2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player , a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks .
2007 – The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.
2012 – The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District , with an estimated 300 people missing.
Births
1208 – James I of Aragon (d. 1276)
1455 – John, King of Denmark (d. 1513)
1457 – Peter Martyr d'Anghiera , Italian-Spanish historian and author (d. 1526)
1494 – Bona Sforza , Italian wife of Sigismund I the Old (d. 1557)
1502 – Damião de Góis , Portuguese philosopher and historian (d. 1574)
1506 – René de Birague , Italian-French cardinal and politician (d. 1583)
1522 – Lodovico Ferrari , Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1565)
1600 – Gabriel Naudé , French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
1613 – Noël Chabanel , French missionary and saint (d. 1649)
1621 – Johannes Schefferus , Swedish author and hymn-writer (d. 1679)
1650 – Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
1650 – Nell Gwyn , English actress (d. 1687)
1669 – Louis Marchand , French organist and composer (d. 1732)
1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin , French composer (d. 1745)
1695 – William Borlase , English geologist and archaeologist (d. 1772)
1695 – François de Chevert , French general (d. 1769)
1700 – Johann Christoph Gottsched , German author and critic (d. 1766)
1711 – Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (d. 1794)
1714 – Gottfried August Homilius , German organist and composer (d. 1785)
1717 – Ernst Gideon von Laudon , Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
1754 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord , French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1838)
1782 – Henri de Rigny , French admiral and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1835)
1786 – Jacques Philippe Marie Binet , French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1856)
1802 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault , French chemist and academic (d. 1887)
1803 – Albert Sidney Johnston , American general (d. 1862)
1829 – Alfred Brehm , German zoologist and illustrator (d. 1884)
1829 – William Stanley , English engineer and philanthropist (d. 1909)
1841 – François-Alphonse Forel , Swiss limnologist and hydrologist (d. 1912)
1842 – Julian Sochocki , Polish-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1927)
1849 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav , Slovak poet and playwright (d. 1921)
1851 – José Guadalupe Posada , Mexican illustrator and engraver (d. 1913)
1860 – Curtis Guild, Jr. , American journalist and politician, 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1861 – Solomon R. Guggenheim , American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (d. 1949)
1862 – Émile Coste , French fencer (d. 1927)
1866 – Enrique Simonet , Spanish painter and academic (d. 1927)
1872 – Clara Butt , English contralto (d. 1936)
1873 – Leo Fall , Austrian composer (d. 1925)
1873 – Konstantin von Neurath , German politician and diplomat, 13th German Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1956)
1875 – Fritz Kreisler , Austrian-American violinist and composer (d. 1962)
1878 – Joe Lydon , American boxer and soccer player (d. 1937)
1880 – Frederick Lane , Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
1881 – Orval Overall , American baseball player and manager (d. 1947)
1882 – Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (d. 1944)
1882 – James Joyce , Irish author and poet (d. 1941)
1883 – Johnston McCulley , American author and screenwriter, created Zorro (d. 1958)
1886 – William Rose Benét , American poet and author (d. 1950)
1887 – Ernst Hanfstaengl , German businessman (d. 1975)
1887 – Pat Sullivan , Australian-American animator and producer (d. 1933)
1889 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny , French general (d. 1952)
1890 – Charles Correll , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1972)
1892 – Tochigiyama Moriya , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (d. 1959)
1893 – Cornelius Lanczos , Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1974)
1893 – Raoul Riganti , Argentinian race car driver (d. 1970)
1893 – Damdin Sükhbaatar , Mongolian military leader (d. 1924)
1895 – George Halas , American football player and coach (d. 1983)
1895 – Robert Philipp , American painter (d. 1981)
1895 – George Sutcliffe , Australian public servant (d. 1964)
1896 – Kazimierz Kuratowski , Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
1897 – Howard Deering Johnson , American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's (d. 1972)
1900 – Willie Kamm , American baseball player and manager (d. 1988)
1901 – Jascha Heifetz , Lithuanian violinist and educator (d. 1987)
1902 – Newbold Morris , American lawyer and politician (d. 1966)
1904 – Bozorg Alavi , Iranian author and activist (d. 1997)
1905 – Ayn Rand , Russian-born American author and philosopher (d. 1982)
1908 – Wes Ferrell , American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1909 – Frank Albertson , American actor and singer (d. 1964)
1912 – Millvina Dean , English civil servant and cartographer; last survivor of the RMS Titanic (d. 2009)
1912 – Burton Lane , American songwriter and composer (d. 1997)
1913 – Ohn Maung , Burmese martyr (d. 1947)
1913 – Poul Reichhardt , Danish actor and singer (d. 1985)
1914 – Eric Kierans , Canadian economist and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Communications (d. 2004)
1915 – Abba Eban , South African-Israeli politician and diplomat, 1st Israel Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2002)
1915 – Stan Leonard , Canadian golfer (d. 2005)
1915 – Khushwant Singh , Indian journalist and author (d. 2014)
1916 – Xuân Diệu , Vietnamese poet and author (d. 1985)
1917 – Đỗ Mười , Vietnamese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam
1918 – Hella Haasse , Indonesian-Dutch author (d. 2011)
1919 – Lisa Della Casa , Swiss soprano and actress (d. 2012)
1919 – Georg Gawliczek , German footballer and manager (d. 1999)
1923 – Jean Babilée , French dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
1923 – James Dickey , American poet and author (d. 1997)
1923 – Bonita Granville , American actress and producer (d. 1988)
1923 – Red Schoendienst , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1923 – Liz Smith , American journalist and author
1923 – Clem Windsor , Australian rugby player and surgeon (d. 2007)
1924 – Elfi von Dassanowsky , Austrian-American singer, pianist, producer (d. 2007)
1925 – Elaine Stritch , American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1926 – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , French academic and politician, 20th President of France
1927 – Stan Getz , American saxophonist (d. 1991)
1927 – Doris Sams , American baseball player (d. 2012)
1928 – Jay Handlan , American basketball player and engineer (d. 2013)
1928 – A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. , American judge, author, and activist (d. 1998)
1929 – Sheila Matthews Allen , American actress and producer (d. 2013)
1929 – George Band , English engineer and mountaineer (d. 2011)
1929 – Věra Chytilová , Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1929 – Waldemar Kmentt , Austrian operatic tenor (d. 2015)
1931 – Dries van Agt , Dutch lawyer, jurist, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1931 – Les Dawson , English comedian and author (d. 1993)
1931 – Glynn Edwards , Malaysian-English actor
1931 – John Paul Harney , Canadian educator and politician
1931 – Judith Viorst , American journalist and author
1932 – Arthur Lyman , American vibraphone player (d. 2002)
1932 – Robert Mandan , American actor
1933 – M'el Dowd , American actress and singer (d. 2012)
1933 – Tony Jay , English actor and singer (d. 2006)
1933 – Orlando "Cachaíto" López , Cuban bassist (Buena Vista Social Club ) (d. 2009)
1933 – Than Shwe , Burmese strongman politician
1934 – Khalil Ullah Khan , Bangladeshi actor (d. 2014)
1935 – Evgeny Velikhov , Russian physicist and academic
1936 – Duane Jones , American actor (d. 1988)
1936 – Metin Oktay , Turkish footballer and manager (d. 1991)
1937 – Don Buford , American baseball player and coach
1937 – Anthony Haden-Guest French-English journalist, poet, and critic
1937 – Remak Ramsay , American actor
1937 – Tom Smothers , American comedian, actor, and singer (Smothers Brothers )
1938 – Norman Fowler , English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1938 – Gene MacLellan , Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1995)
1939 – Dale T. Mortensen , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
1940 – Alan Caddy , English guitarist and producer (d. 2000)
1940 – Thomas M. Disch , American author and poet (d. 2008)
1940 – Wayne Fontes , American football player and coach
1940 – David Jason , English actor, director, and producer
1941 – Terry Biddlecombe , English jockey (d. 2014)
1941 – Lee Redmond , American woman with the longest fingernails
1942 – Bo Hopkins , American actor
1942 – Graham Nash , English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Jang Sung-taek , North Korean politician (d. 2013)
1943 – Susan Hanson , English actress
1944 – Andrew Davis , English organist and conductor
1944 – Karen Foss , American journalist
1944 – Geoffrey Hughes , English actor (d. 2012)
1944 – Ursula Oppens , American pianist and educator
1945 – John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell , English economist and academic
1945 – Kerem Yılmazer , Turkish actor and singer (d. 2003)
1946 – John Armitt , English engineer and businessman
1946 – Blake Clark , American actor
1946 – Alpha Oumar Konaré , Malian academic and politician, 3rd President of Mali
1946 – Constantine Papadakis , Greek-American businessman and academic (d. 2009)
1947 – Greg Antonacci , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1947 – Farrah Fawcett , American actress and producer (d. 2009)
1948 – Ina Garten , American chef and author
1948 – Al McKay , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire )
1948 – Roger Williamson , English race car driver (d. 1973)
1949 – Duncan Bannatyne , Scottish businessman and philanthropist
1949 – Yasuko Namba , Japanese mountaineer (d. 1996)
1949 – Brent Spiner , American actor
1949 – Ross Valory , American bass player
1950 – Osamu Kido , Japanese wrestler
1950 – Libby Purves , English journalist and author
1950 – Barbara Sukowa , German actress
1950 – Genichiro Tenryu , Japanese wrestler
1951 – Vangelis Alexandris , Greek basketball player and coach
1951 – Ken Bruce , Scottish radio host
1952 – John Cornyn , American lawyer and politician, 49th Attorney General of Texas
1952 – Rick Dufay , French-American guitarist and songwriter
1952 – Park Geun-hye , South Korean politician, 11th President of South Korea
1952 – Carol Ann Susi , American actress (d. 2014)
1953 – Duane Chapman , American bounty hunter
1953 – Jerry Sisk, Jr. , American gemologist, co-founded Jewelry Television (d. 2013)
1954 – Christie Brinkley , American model and actress
1954 – Hansi Hinterseer , Austrian skier, actor, and singer
1954 – John Tudor , American baseball player
1955 – Leszek Engelking , Polish poet and author
1955 – Virginia Leng , Maltese horse rider
1955 – Bob Schreck , American author
1955 – Kim Zimmer , American actress
1956 – Adnan Oktar , Turkish theorist and author
1957 – Phil Barney , Algerian-French singer-songwriter
1958 – Michel Marc Bouchard , Canadian playwright
1960 – Jari Porttila , Finnish journalist
1961 – Abraham Iyambo , Namibian politician (d. 2013)
1961 – Lauren Lane , American actress and academic
1961 – Steve Penney , Canadian ice hockey player
1962 – Philippe Claudel , French author, director, and screenwriter
1962 – Andy Fordham , English darts player
1962 – Luke Johnson , English businessman
1962 – Paul Kilgus , American baseball player
1962 – Michael T. Weiss , American actor
1963 – Eva Cassidy , American singer and guitarist (d. 1996)
1963 – Kjell Dahlin , Swedish ice hockey player
1963 – Philip Laats , Belgian martial artist
1963 – Stephen McGann , English actor
1963 – Vigleik Storaas , Norwegian pianist
1965 – Carl Airey , English footballer
1965 – Naoki Sano , Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1966 – Andrei Chesnokov , Russian tennis player and coach
1966 – Robert DeLeo , American bass player, songwriter, and producer
1966 – Michael Misick , Caicos Islander politician, Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands
1967 – Artūrs Irbe , Latvian ice hockey player and coach
1967 – Laurent Nkunda , Congolese general
1968 – Sean Elliott , American basketball player and sportscaster
1968 – Scott Erickson , American baseball player and coach
1968 – Thomas Teige , German martial artist and actor
1968 – Simon Wickham-Smith , English singer, astrologer, and academic
1969 – Valeri Karpin , Estonian-Russian footballer and manager
1970 – C. Ernst Harth , Canadian actor and producer
1970 – Roar Strand , Norwegian footballer
1970 – Jennifer Westfeldt , American actress, singer and writer
1971 – Rockwilder , American rapper and producer
1971 – Michelle Gayle , English singer-songwriter and actress
1971 – Isaac Kungwane , South African footballer and sportscaster (d. 2014)
1972 – Dana International , Israeli pop singer
1972 – Melvin Mora , Venezuelan baseball player
1972 – Aleksey Naumov , Russian footballer
1973 – Andrei Luzgin , Estonian tennis player and coach
1973 – Aleksander Tammert , Estonian discus thrower
1973 – Marissa Jaret Winokur , American actress and singer
1975 – Todd Bertuzzi , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Donald Driver , American football player
1975 – Naomi Grossman , American actress
1975 – Ieroklis Stoltidis , Greek footballer
1976 – Lori Beth Denberg , American actress
1976 – Ryan Farquhar , Northern Irish motorcycle racer
1976 – James Hickman , English swimmer
1976 – Ana Roces , Filipino actress
1977 – Shakira , Colombian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1977 – Libor Sionko , Czech footballer
1978 – Eden Espinosa , American actress and singer
1978 – Annabel Ellwood , Australian tennis player
1978 – Barry Ferguson , Scottish footballer and manager
1978 – Rich Sommer , American actor
1978 – Faye White , English footballer
1979 – Urmo Aava , Estonian race car driver
1979 – Christine Bleakley , Irish television host
1979 – Fani Chalkia , Greek hurdler and sprinter
1979 – Klaus Mainzer , German rugby player
1979 – Irini Terzoglou , Greek shot putter
1980 – Angela Finger-Erben , German journalist
1980 – Teddy Hart , Canadian wrestler
1980 – Gucci Mane , American rapper, producer, and actor
1980 – Oleguer Presas , Spanish footballer
1981 – Salem al-Hazmi , Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (d. 2001)
1981 – Emre Aydın , Turkish singer-songwriter
1981 – Michelle Bass , English model and singer
1981 – Gemma Collins , English television personality
1982 – Sergio Castaño Ortega , Spanish footballer
1982 – Kelly Mazzante , American basketball player
1982 – Brandy Talore , American porn actress
1983 – Ronny Cedeño , Venezuelan baseball player
1983 – Carolina Klüft , Swedish heptathlete and jumper
1983 – Jordin Tootoo , Canadian ice hockey player
1983 – Vladimir Voskoboinikov , Estonian footballer
1983 – Alex Westaway , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1984 – Brian Cage , American wrestler
1984 – Mao Miyaji , Japanese actress
1984 – Rudi Wulf , New Zealand rugby player
1985 – Masoud Azizi , Afghan sprinter
1985 – Renn Kiriyama , Japanese actor
1985 – Kristo Saage , Estonian basketball player
1985 – Silvestre Varela , Portuguese footballer
1986 – Gemma Arterton , English actress and singer
1987 – Anthony Fainga'a , Australian rugby player
1987 – Saia Fainga'a , Australian rugby player
1987 – Athena Imperial , Filipino journalist; Miss Earth-Water 2011
1987 – Mimi Page , American singer-songwriter and producer
1987 – Gerard Piqué , Spanish footballer
1987 – Javon Ringer , American football player
1987 – Jill Scott , English footballer
1987 – Victoria Song , Chinese singer and actress
1987 – Martin Spanjers , American actor and producer
1988 – Zosia Mamet , American actress and singer
1991 – Nathan Delfouneso , English footballer
1991 – Gregory Mertens , Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
1992 – Lammtarra , American race horse (d. 2014)
1992 – Joonas Tamm , Estonian footballer
1992 – Danielle White , American singer-songwriter and actress
1993 – Jake Cassidy , Welsh footballer
1993 – Ravel Morrison , English footballer
1995 – Paul Digby , English footballer
1995 – Arfa Karim , Pakistani student and computer programmer (d. 2012)
Deaths
619 – Laurence of Canterbury , English archbishop and saint
1124 – Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1064)
1218 – Konstantin of Rostov (b. 1186)
1250 – Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
1294 – Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1229)
1448 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani , Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1372)
1512 – Hatuey , Caribbean tribal chief
1529 – Baldassare Castiglione , Italian soldier and diplomat (b. 1478)
1580 – Bessho Nagaharu , Japanese daimyo (b. 1558)
1594 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Italian composer and educator (b. 1525)
1648 – George Abbot , English author and politician (b. 1603)
1660 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans (b. 1608)
1660 – Govert Flinck , Dutch painter (b. 1615)
1661 – Lucas Holstenius , German geographer and historian (b. 1596)
1675 – Ivan Belostenec , Croatian linguist and lexicographer (b. 1594)
1688 – Abraham Duquesne , French admiral (b. 1610)
1704 – Guillaume de l'Hôpital , French mathematician and academic (b. 1661)
1712 – Martin Lister , English physician and geologist (b. 1639)
1714 – John Sharp , English archbishop (b. 1643)
1723 – Antonio Maria Valsalva , Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
1768 – Robert Smith , English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
1769 – Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
1802 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip , English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1713)
1804 – George Walton , American lawyer and politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1749)
1904 – William Collins Whitney , American financier and politician; 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1841)
1904 – Ernest Cashel , American-Canadian criminal (b. 1882)
1905 – Henri Germain , French banker and politician, founded Le Crédit Lyonnais (b. 1824)
1907 – Dmitri Mendeleev , Russian chemist and academic (b. 1834)
1909 – Carlo Acton , Italian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
1913 – Gustaf de Laval , Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
1918 – John L. Sullivan , American boxer (b. 1858)
1919 – Julius Kuperjanov , Estonian lieutenant (b. 1894)
1925 – Antti Aarne , Finnish historian and academic (b. 1867)
1925 – Jaap Eden , Dutch speed skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
1926 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov , Russian general (b. 1848)
1932 – Agha Petros , Assyrian general and politician (b. 1880)
1939 – Bernhard Gregory , Estonian-German chess player (b. 1879)
1942 – Ado Birk , Estonian lawyer and politician; 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1883)
1942 – Daniil Kharms , Russian poet and playwright (b. 1905)
1942 – Hugh D. McIntosh , Australian businessman (b. 1876)
1945 – Alfred Delp , German priest and philosopher (b. 1907)
1945 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , German economist and politician (b. 1884)
1945 – Johannes Popitz , Prussian politician (b. 1884)
1948 – Thomas W. Lamont , American banker and philanthropist (b. 1870)
1948 – Bevil Rudd , South African runner and journalist (b. 1894)
1950 – Constantin Carathéodory , Greek mathematician and academic (b. 1873)
1952 – Callistratus of Georgia , Georgian patriarch (b. 1866)
1954 – Hella Wuolijoki , Estonian-Finnish author and politician (b. 1886)
1956 – Charley Grapewin , American actor and singer (b. 1869)
1956 – Truxtun Hare , American football player and hammer thrower (b. 1878)
1956 – Pyotr Konchalovsky , Russian painter (b. 1876)
1957 – Grigory Landsberg , Russian physicist and academic (b. 1890)
1960 – André Alerme , French actor (b. 1877)
1962 – Shlomo Hestrin , Canadian-Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1914)
1966 – Hacı Ömer Sabancı , Turkish businessman (b. 1906)
1968 – Tullio Serafin , Italian conductor and director (b. 1878)
1969 – Boris Karloff , English actor and singer (b. 1887)
1970 – Lawrence Gray , American actor and singer (b. 1898)
1970 – Bertrand Russell , English mathematician and philosopher; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
1972 – Natalie Clifford Barney , American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
1973 – Hendrik Elias , Belgian academic and politician; 9th Mayor of Ghent (b. 1902)
1974 – Imre Lakatos , Hungarian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1922)
1975 – Gustave Lanctot , Canadian historian and academic (b. 1883)
1979 – Sid Vicious , English singer and bass player (b. 1957)
1980 – William Howard Stein , American biochemist and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1982 – Paul Desruisseaux , Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
1983 – Sam Chatmon , American singer and guitarist (b. 1897)
1986 – Gino Hernandez , American wrestler (b. 1957)
1987 – Carlos José Castilho , Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
1987 – Alistair MacLean , Scottish-German author and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1988 – Marcel Bozzuffi , French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1989 – Ondrej Nepela , Slovak figure skater and coach (b. 1951)
1989 – Arnold Nordmeyer , New Zealand minister and politician; 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance (b. 1901)
1990 – Paul Ariste , Estonian linguist and academic (b. 1905)
1990 – Joe Erskine , Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
1992 – Bert Parks , American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1993 – François Reichenbach , French director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1995 – Thomas Hayward , American tenor and actor (b. 1917)
1995 – Fred Perry , English-Australian tennis player (b. 1909)
1995 – Donald Pleasence , English-French actor and singer (b. 1919)
1996 – Gene Kelly , American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1912)
1997 – Erich Eliskases , Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
1997 – Sanford Meisner , American actor (b. 1904)
1998 – Haroun Tazieff , German-French geologist and cinematographer (b. 1914)
1999 – David McComb , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
2002 – Paul Baloff , American singer-songwriter (Exodus ) (b. 1960)
2002 – Claude Brown , American author (b. 1937)
2003 – Lou Harrison , American composer and educator (b. 1917)
2004 – Bernard McEveety , American film director and producer (b. 1924)
2005 – Birgitte Federspiel , Danish actress (b. 1925)
2005 – Max Schmeling , German boxer (b. 1905)
2007 – Vijay Arora , Indian actor (b. 1944)
2007 – Billy Henderson , American singer (b. 1939)
2007 – Joe Hunter , American pianist (b. 1927)
2007 – Filippo Raciti , Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2007 – Masao Takemoto , Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2007 – Eric Von Schmidt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
2008 – Barry Morse , Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
2008 – Katoucha Niane , Guinean model and author (b. 1960)
2011 – Defne Joy Foster , Turkish actress (b. 1975)
2011 – Margaret John , Welsh actress (b. 1926)
2012 – Joyce Barkhouse , Canadian author (b. 1913)
2012 – Frederick William Danker , American lexicographer and scholar (b. 1920)
2012 – George Esper , American journalist and academic (b. 1932)
2012 – Dorothy Gilman , American author (b. 1923)
2012 – James F. Lloyd , American pilot and politician (b. 1922)
2013 – Abraham Iyambo , Namibian politician (b. 1961)
2013 – John Kerr , American actor and lawyer (b. 1931)
2013 – Chris Kyle , American soldier and sniper (b. 1974)
2013 – Lino Oviedo , Paraguayan general and politician (b. 1943)
2013 – Pepper Paire , American baseball player (b. 1924)
2014 – Gerd Albrecht , German conductor (b. 1935)
2014 – Tommy Aquino , American motorcycle racer (b. 1992)
2014 – Nicholas Brooks , English historian (b. 1941)
2014 – Eduardo Coutinho , Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2014 – Philip Seymour Hoffman , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1967)
2014 – Bunny Rugs , Jamaican singer (b. 1948)
2014 – Werner Husemann , German soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
2014 – Luis Raúl , Puerto Rican comedian and actor (b. 1962)
2015 – Joseph Alfidi , American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1949)
2015 – Dave Bergman , American baseball player (b. 1953)
2015 – The Jacka , American rapper and producer (Mob Figaz ) (b. 1977)
2015 – Andriy Kuzmenko , Ukrainian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1968)
2015 – Molade Okoya-Thomas , Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935)
Holidays and observances
Earliest day on which Shrove Monday can fall, while March 8 is the latest; celebrated on Monday before Ash Wednesday (Christianity), and its related observances:
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Months and days of the year
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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