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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== *[[AD 6|6]] – [[Emperor Ping of Han|Ping]], emperor of the Han Dynasty (born 9 BC) * [[456]] – [[Sihyaj Chan K'awiil II]], ruler of Tikal * [[639]] – [[K'inich Yo'nal Ahk I]], ruler of Piedras Negras * [[699]] – [[Werburgh]], English nun and saint * [[865]] – [[Ansgar]], Frankish archbishop (born 801) * [[929]] – [[Guy, Margrave of Tuscany|Guy]], margrave of Tuscany * [[938]] – [[Zhou Ben]], Chinese general (born 862) * [[994]] – [[William IV, Duke of Aquitaine|William IV]], duke of Aquitaine (born 937) *[[1014]] – [[Sweyn Forkbeard]], king of Denmark and England (born 960) *[[1116]] – [[Coloman, King of Hungary|Coloman]], king of Hungary *[[1161]] – [[Inge I of Norway|Inge I]], king of Norway (born 1135) *[[1252]] – [[Sviatoslav III of Vladimir|Sviatoslav III]], Russian Grand Prince (born 1196) *[[1399]] – [[John of Gaunt]], Belgian-English politician, [[Lord High Steward]] (born 1340)<ref>{{cite web |title=John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster {{!}} English prince |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-of-Gaunt-duke-of-Lancaster |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=26 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1428]] – [[Ashikaga Yoshimochi]], Japanese shōgun (born 1386) *[[1451]] – [[Murad II]], Ottoman sultan (born 1404) *[[1468]] – [[Johannes Gutenberg]], German publisher, invented the [[printing press]] (born 1398) *[[1475]] – [[John IV, Count of Nassau-Siegen]], German count (born 1410)<ref>{{cite book |last=Ditzhuyzen |first=Reinildis van |title=Oranje-Nassau. Een biografisch woordenboek |language=nl |location=Haarlem |publisher=Becht |date=2004 |orig-date=1992 |edition=3rd |isbn=90-230-1124-4 |pages=151 |url=https://archive.org/details/oranjenassaueenb0000ditz }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Becker |first=E. |title=Schloss und Stadt Dillenburg. Ein Gang durch ihre Geschichte in Mittelalter und Neuzeit. Zur Gedenkfeier aus Anlaß der Verleihung der Stadtrechte am 20. September 1344 herausgegeben |language=de |location=Dillenburg |publisher=Der Magistrat der Stadt Dillenburg |date=1983 |orig-date=1950 |edition=Neuauflage |pages=13 }}</ref><ref>{{aut|Schutte, O.}} (1979). "Genealogische gegevens". In: {{aut|Tamse, C.A.}} (red.), ''Nassau en Oranje in de Nederlandse geschiedenis'' (in Dutch). Alphen aan den Rijn: A.W. Sijthoff. p. 41. {{ISBN|90-218-2447-7}}.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Dek |first=A.W.E. |title=Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau |language=nl |location=Zaltbommel |publisher=Europese Bibliotheek |date=1970 |pages=69 }}</ref><ref>{{aut|Blok, P.J.}} (1911). "Johan IV". In: {{aut|Molhuysen, P.C.}} en {{aut|Blok, P.J.}} (redactie), ''Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek'' (in Dutch). Vol. Eerste deel. Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff. p. 1218.</ref><ref>{{aut|Vorsterman van Oyen, A.A.}} (1882). ''Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden tot heden'' (in Dutch). Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff/Utrecht: J.L. Beijers. pp. 93.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Wenzelburger |first=Karl Theodor |title=[[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]] |language=de |location=Leipzig |publisher=Duncker & Humblot |date=1881 |volume=Band 14 |pages=252 |chapter=Johann IV. (Graf von Nassau-Dillenburg) }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Aa |first=A.J. van der |title=Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden, bevattende levensbeschrijvingen van zoodanige personen, die zich op eenigerlei wijze in ons vaderland hebben vermaard gemaakt |language=nl |location=Haarlem |publisher=J.J. van Brederode |date=1860 |volume=Negende deel |pages=87 |chapter=Jan IV, graaf van Nassau, Vianden, Dietz enz. }}</ref> *[[1537]] – [[Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare]] (born 1513) *[[1566]] – [[George Cassander]], Flemish theologian and author (born 1513) ===1601–1900=== *[[1618]] – [[Philip II, Duke of Pomerania|Philip II]], duke of Pomerania (born 1573) *[[1619]] – [[Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham]], English politician, [[Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports]] (born 1564) *[[1737]] – [[Tommaso Ceva]], Italian mathematician and academic (born 1648) *[[1802]] – [[Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes|Pedro Rodríguez]], Spanish statesman and economist (born 1723) *[[1813]] – [[Juan Bautista Cabral]], Argentinian sergeant (born 1789) *[[1820]] – [[Gia Long]], Vietnamese emperor (born 1762) *[[1832]] – [[George Crabbe]], English surgeon and poet (born 1754) *[[1862]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Biot]], French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1774) *[[1866]] – [[François-Xavier Garneau]], Canadian poet, author, and historian (born 1809) *[[1873]] – [[Isaac Baker Brown]], English gynecologist and surgeon (born 1811) *[[1899]] – [[Geert Adriaans Boomgaard]], Dutch supercentenarian (born 1788)<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-49970-9_15|chapter=Geert Adriaans Boomgaard, the First Supercentenarian in History? |title=Exceptional Lifespans |series=Demographic Research Monographs |year=2021 |last1=Chambre |first1=Dany |last2=Jeune |first2=Bernard |last3=Poulain |first3=Michel |pages=211–232 |isbn=978-3-030-49969-3 |s2cid=230608319 |chapter-url=https://findresearcher.sdu.dk/ws/files/178600288/Chambre2021_Chapter_GeertAdriaansBoomgaardTheFirst.pdf }}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1922]] – [[Christiaan de Wet]], South African general and politician, [[State President of the Orange Free State]] (born 1854) * 1922 – [[John Butler Yeats]], Irish painter and illustrator (born 1839) *[[1924]] – [[Woodrow Wilson]], American historian, academic, and politician, 28th [[President of the United States]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1856) *[[1929]] – [[Agner Krarup Erlang]], Danish mathematician and engineer (born 1878) *[[1935]] – [[Hugo Junkers]], German engineer, designed the [[Junkers J 1]] (born 1859) *[[1944]] – [[Yvette Guilbert]], French singer and actress (born 1865)<ref>{{cite book|first=Jill Berk|last=Jiminez|title=Dictionary of Artists' Models|location=London|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn|year=2001|isbn=978-1-57958-233-3|page=254}}</ref> *[[1945]] – [[Roland Freisler]], German lawyer and judge (born 1893) *[[1947]] – [[Marc Mitscher]], American admiral and pilot (born 1887) *[[1952]] – [[Harold L. Ickes]], American journalist and politician, 32nd [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] (born 1874) *[[1955]] – [[Vasily Blokhin]], Russian general (born 1895) *[[1956]] – [[Émile Borel]], French mathematician and academic (born 1871) * 1956 – [[Johnny Claes]], English-Belgian race car driver and trumpet player (born 1916) *[[1959]] – [[The Day the Music Died]]<ref>{{cite news|author=Associated Press staff|year=1959|title=Iowa Crash Kills 3 Singers; Rock 'n' Roll Stars and Pilot Die as Chartered Craft Falls After Its Take-Off |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/02/04/archives/iowa-air-crash-kills-3-singers-rock-n-roll-stars-and-pilot-die-as.html |agency=Associated Press|newspaper=New York Times|page=1|access-date=November 13, 2010}}</ref> ** [[The Big Bopper]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1930) ** [[Buddy Holly]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936) ** [[Ritchie Valens]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941) *[[1960]] – [[Fred Buscaglione]], Italian singer and actor (born 1921) *[[1961]] – [[William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil]], Scottish-Australian captain and politician, 14th [[Governor-General of Australia]] (born 1893) * 1961 – [[Anna May Wong]], American actress (born 1905) *[[1963]] – [[Benjamin R. Jacobs]], American biochemist (born 1879)<ref>''Announcements'', ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'', New Series, volume 139, number 3557, pp. 818–819, March 1963</ref> *[[1967]] – [[Joe Meek]], English songwriter and producer (born 1929) *[[1969]] – [[C. N. Annadurai]], Indian journalist and politician, 7th [[List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu|Chief Minister of Madras State]] (born 1909) * 1969 – [[Eduardo Mondlane]], Mozambican activist and academic (born 1920) *[[1975]] – [[William D. Coolidge]], American physicist and engineer (born 1873) * 1975 – [[Umm Kulthum]], Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress (born 1904) *[[1985]] – [[Frank Oppenheimer]], American physicist and academic (born 1912) *[[1989]] – [[John Cassavetes]], American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1929) * 1989 – [[Lionel Newman]], American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1916) *[[1991]] – [[Nancy Kulp]], American actress (born 1921) *[[1993]] – [[Françoys Bernier]], Canadian pianist and conductor (born 1927) *[[1996]] – [[Audrey Meadows]], American actress and banker (born 1922) *[[1999]] – [[Gwen Guthrie]], American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1950) *[[2005]] – [[Zurab Zhvania]], Georgian biologist and politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Georgia]] (born 1963) * 2005 – [[Ernst Mayr]], German-American biologist and ornithologist (born 1904) *[[2006]] – [[Al Lewis (actor)|Al Lewis]], American actor and activist (born 1923) *[[2009]] – [[Sheng-yen]], Chinese monk and scholar, founded the [[Dharma Drum Mountain]] (born 1930) *[[2010]] – [[Dick McGuire]], American basketball player and coach (born 1926) * 2010 – [[Frances Reid]], American actress (born 1914) *[[2011]] – [[Maria Schneider (actress)|Maria Schneider]], French actress (born 1952) *[[2012]] – [[Toh Chin Chye]], Singaporean academic and politician, 1st [[Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore]] (born 1921) * 2012 – [[Ben Gazzara]], American actor and director (born 1930) * 2012 – [[Terence Hildner]], American general (born 1962) * 2012 – [[Raj Kanwar]], Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1961) * 2012 – [[Zalman King]], American actor, director, and producer (born 1942) * 2012 – [[Andrzej Szczeklik]], Polish physician and academic (born 1938) *[[2013]] – [[Cardiss Collins]], American politician (born 1931) * 2013 – [[Oscar Feltsman]], Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer (born 1921) * 2013 – [[James Muri]], American soldier and pilot (born 1918) * 2013 – [[Jam Mohammad Yousaf]], Pakistani politician, [[Chief Minister of Balochistan]] (born 1954) *[[2015]] – [[Martin Gilbert]], English historian, author, and academic (born 1936) * 2015 – [[Mary Healy (entertainer)|Mary Healy]], American actress and singer (born 1918) * 2015 – [[Charlie Sifford]], American golfer (born 1922) * 2015 – [[Nasim Hasan Shah]], Pakistani lawyer and judge, 12th [[Chief Justice of Pakistan]] (born 1929) *[[2016]] – [[Joe Alaskey]], American actor (born 1952)<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Dornbush|first=Jonathon|date=2016-02-04|title=Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck voice actor Joe Alaskey dies at 63|url=https://ew.com/article/2016/02/04/joe-alaskey-dead/|access-date=2021-09-16|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|language=en}}</ref> * 2016 – [[Balram Jakhar]], Indian lawyer and politician, 23rd [[Governor of Madhya Pradesh]] (born 1923) * 2016 – [[József Kasza]], Serbian politician and economist (born 1945) *[[2017]] – [[Dritëro Agolli]], Albanian poet, writer and politician (born 1931) *[[2019]] – [[Julie Adams]], American actress (born 1926)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julie-adams-dead-creature-black-lagoon-actress-was-92-1047543|title=Julie Adams, Damsel in Distress in 'Creature From the Black Lagoon,' Dies at 92|date=February 3, 2019|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref> * 2019 – [[Kristoff St. John]], American actor (born 1966)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://globalnews.ca/video/4922577/kristoff-st-john-dead-young-the-restless-star-dies-at-52|title=Kristoff St. John Dead Young and the Restless Star Dies at 52|work=GlobalNews}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[George Steiner]], French-American philosopher, author, and critic (born 1929)<ref name=Lehmann-Haupt>{{cite news |last1=Lehmann-Haupt |first1=Christopher |last2=Grimes |first2=William |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/books/george-steiner-dead.html |title=George Steiner, Prodigious Literary Critic, Dies at 90 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 3, 2020 |access-date=February 4, 2020}}</ref> *[[2025]] – [[Harry Jayawardena]], Sri Lankan industrialist (born 1942)<ref name="AD-3F-J">{{Cite web |date=2025-02-03 |title=Prominent businessman Harry Jayawardena passes away |url=https://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=105475 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250203053854/https://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=105475 |archive-date=2025-02-03 |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=www.adaderana.lk |language=en}}</ref> *2025 – [[Kandiah Balendra]], Sri Lankan corporate leader and executive (born 1940)<ref name="AD-3F-B">{{Cite web |date=2025-02-03 |title=Sri Lankan corporate leader Ken Balendra passes away |url=https://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=105479 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250203053247/https://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=105479 |archive-date=2025-02-03 |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=www.adaderana.lk |language=en}}</ref>
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