1755 – Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1852 – Samuel Prout, British water color painter, dies at 68
1939 – Pius XI [Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti], Italian 259th Pope (1922-39), dies at 81
1951 – Joseph Bovet, composer, dies at 71
1993 – John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
1995 – S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
2001 – Lewis Arquette, American actor (Horror Show, Book of Love), dies at 65
2003 – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer, dies at 92
2007 – Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor (Jaws, The French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion), dies at 75
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 9th February 2022
1199 – Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese founder of bakufu and 1st shogun, dies at 51 (b. 1147)
1567 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, King consort of Mary, Queen of Scots, murdered at 21 in the orchard of Kirk o’ Field in Edinburgh
1824 – Anna Katharina Emmerick, Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist, dies at 49
1846 – Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies
1977 – Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
1996 – Gerald Savory, British actor playwright and TV producer (Heart of the Matter), dies at 86
2015 – Ed Sabol, American filmmaker (NFL Films), dies at 98
2015 – Marvin David Levy, American composer (Mourning Becomes Electra), dies at 82
2018 – Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic theatre, dance, and film score composer (The Theory of Everything), dies form a combination of cocaine and prescription medication at 48
2020 – Mirella Freni, Italian lyric soprano (Madame Butterfly), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 8th February 2022
1250 – William II Longespee, dies as a martyr at the battle of Al Mansurah, Egypt (7th Crusade)
1296 – Przemysł II, King of Poland (1295-96), dies at 38
1640 – Murad IV, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1623-40) who conquered Baghdad, dies from cirrhosis in Istanbul at 27
1924 – Gee John, Chinese-American gangster (1st person in US to be executed by lethal gas in Nevada), executed at 29
1942 – Fritz Todt, German construction engineer, Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions Reichs minister and Head of the Organization Todt, dies in a plane crash at 50
1968 – J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56
1987 – Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], Polish-Romani writer, dies at 78
1993 – Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82
1996 – Del Ennis, American baseball outfielder (MLB All-Star 1946, 51, 55; NL RBI leader 1950; Philadelphia Phillies), dies from complications of diabetes at 70
2021 – David Egerton, English rugby union #8 (7 caps; Bath Rugby) and broadcaster (BBC), dies from COVID-19 at 59
Famous Deaths for 7th February 2022
1871 – Henry Steinway [Heinrich Steinweg], German American piano manufacturer (Steinway and Sons), dies at 73
1881 – Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
1911 – Harry Graham, Australian cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies at 40
1920 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander, dies at 45
1948 – Red McKenzie, American jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies at 48
1959 – Daniel François Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa (1948-54) who began the implementation of apartheid, dies at 84
2009 – Brian Naylor (broadcaster), Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
2015 – Dean Smith, American actor and relay runner (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 83
2020 – Steve Weber, American folk guitarist, (Holy Modal Rounders), dies at 76
2021 – Ralph Backstrom, Canadian ice hockey center (6 x Stanley Cup with Montreal Canadiens; 6 x NHL All-Star), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 6th February 2022
1695 – Ahmed II, 21st Sultan of Turkey (1691-95), dies at 51
1740 – Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini], Italian Pope (1730-40) who despite ill health and total blindness (1732) unsuccessfully stemmed decline of papal influence, dies at 87
1923 – E. E. [Edward Emerson] Barnard, American astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65
1947 – Luigi Russolo, Italian Futurist composer (The Art of Noises), dies at 61
1964 – W L “Tich” Cornford, English cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests, 8 dismissals; Sussex CCC), dies at 63
1981 – Frederica of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece, dies at 63
1989 – Barbara Tuchman, historian (Guns of August-Pulitzer), dies at 77
1996 – Rosemary Tsay, drama critic/SOE operator, dies at 76
2010 – John Dankworth, English jazz musician and composer, dies at 82
2012 – Noel Kelehan, Irish pianist, conductor (RTÉ Concert Orchestra), and arranger (Eurovision; U2), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 5th February 2022
1658 – Maria Margaretha van Angels, Dutch prioress at Oirschot, dies at 52
1915 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player, dies at 64
1922 – James W. Tate, English composer, dies at 46
1948 – Johann Blaskowitz, German general (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64
1960 – Rudolf Nelson, German composer, dies at 81
1973 – L C William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral
1981 – Kuda Bux, Indian mystic (I’d Like to See), dies at 75
1982 – Wies [Aloisius CA] Moens, Flemish writer/nazi, dies at 84
1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
1995 – Court Benson, Canadian-American actor and broadcaster, dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 4th February 2022
1222 – William I, earl of Holland (1203-22), dies
1714 – Duke of Berry, French King Louis XIV’s grandson, dies
1954 – Vaclav Vackar, composer, dies at 72
1957 – Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies
1974 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (Bose–Einstein statistics), dies at 80
1975 – Julian Fuhs, German-American jazz pianist and bandleader (Follies Band), dies at 83
2003 – Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2012 – Istvan Csurka, Hungarian writer and politician, dies at 77
2016 – Edgar Mitchell, american NASA astronaut (Apollo 14), dies at 85
2018 – Kenneth Haigh, British actor (Look Back in Anger, Search for the Nile), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 3rd February 2022
1014 – Sweyn Forkbeard, Viking king of Denmark, Norway and England (1013-14), dies at around 54 (born cira 960)
1669 – Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet (Friend of Abandoned Child), dies at 31
1737 – Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)
1846 – Joseph Weigl, German-Austrian composer (La Principessa d’Amalfi; Emmeline), and conductor, dies at 79
1866 – François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
1900 – Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33
1985 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
1991 – Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
1995 – Turner Fodrell, American blues and folk singer, and guitarist, dies at 66
2018 – Leon “Ndugu” Chancler, American pop, funk and jazz session and touring drummer, (Michael Jackson -“Billie Jean”; George Duke; Herbie Hancock), composer, and producer, dies of prostate cancer at 65
Famous Deaths for 2nd February 2022
1597 – Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 61
1873 – Edward Johnson, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 56
1909 – Adolf Stoecker, German conservative politician, and reformer who founded the German Christian Social Party, dies at 73
1953 – Gustav Strube, composer, dies at 85
1974 – Jean Absil, Belgian organist and composer (Benedictions; Peau d’Ane), dies at 80
1980 – William H. Stein, American biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68
1987 – Patrick “Spike” Hughes, British jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78
1994 – John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62
1997 – Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier, dies at 65
2005 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (world heavyweight champion 1930-32), dies at 99
Famous Deaths for 1st February 2022
1967 – Ernie Bromley, Australian cricket batsman (2 Tests; first Western Australian to play Test cricket for Australia), dies at 54
1980 – Romolo Valli, Italian actor (Boom, La Viaccia), dies at 54
1992 – George Berkeley, American actor (Life Stinks, Capts and Kings), dies at 70
2003 – David Brown, American astronaut and member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 46
2003 – Laurel Clark, American astronaut and member of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster), dies at 41
2008 – Shell Kepler [Michelle Alaine Kepler], American actress (General Hospital), dies from renal failure at 49
2009 – Frankie Ervin, American RandB singer (The Three Blazers -“Dragnet Blues”; The Shields -“You Cheated”), dies at 82
2014 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish soccer forward (11 caps; Atlético Madrid) and manager (Spain 2004-08; Atlético Madrid, Barcelona), dies from leukemia at 75
2017 – Desmond Carrington, British radio host (The Music Goes Round), dies at 90
2021 – Dustin Diamond, American actor (Saved By Bell – “Screech”), dies of cancer at 44