Deaths on 2 February
2000s
Brian Murphy (actor)
2025
English comic actor (1932–2025)
Don Murray (actor)
2024
American actor (1929–2024)
Carl Weathers
2024
American actor and football player (1948–2024)
K. Viswanath
2023
Indian director, screenwriter, and actor (1930–2023)
Butch Miles
2023
American jazz drummer (1944–2023)
Captain Tom Moore
2021
British Army officer and fundraiser (1920–2021)
Bernard Ebbers
2020
Canadian-American businessman and fraudster (1941–2020)
Mad Mike Hoare
2020
British-Irish military officer and mercenary (1919–2020)
Bob Elliott (comedian)
2016
American comedian (1923–2016)
Joseph Alfidi
2015
American pianist, composer, and conductor
Dave Bergman
2015
American baseball player (1953–2015)
Andriy Kuzmenko
2015
Ukrainian musical artist (1968–2015)
Molade Okoya-Thomas
2015
Nigerian businessman and philanthropist
Stewart Stern
2015
American screenwriter (1922-2015)
The Jacka
2015
American rapper (1977–2015)
Gerd Albrecht
2014
German conductor (1935–2014)
Tommy Aquino
2014
American motorcycle racer
Nicholas Brooks (historian)
2014
English medieval historian
Eduardo Coutinho
2014
Brazilian film director, screen writer, actor and film producer
Philip Seymour Hoffman
2014
American actor (1967–2014)
Luis Raúl
2014
Puerto Rican actor and comedian (1962–2014)
Bunny Rugs
2014
Musical artist
Nigel Walker (footballer)
2014
English footballer
Abraham Iyambo
2013
Namibian politician (1961–2013)
John Kerr (actor)
2013
American actor and attorney (1931–2013)
Chris Kyle
2013
American sniper (1974–2013)
Lino Oviedo
2013
Ex-general and Paraguayan politician (1943–2013)
Pepper Paire
2013
Baseball player
P. Shanmugam (Pondicherry politician)
2013
Indian politician
Walt Sweeney
2013
American football player (1941–2013)
Guy F. Tozzoli
2013
Joyce Barkhouse
2012
Canadian writer (1913–2012)
Frederick William Danker
2012
George Esper
2012
American journalist and academic
Dorothy Gilman
2012
American novelist
James F. Lloyd
2012
American politician (1922–2012)
Edward Amy
2011
Canadian soldier
Defne Joy Foster
2011
Turkish actress and presenter (1975–2011)
Margaret John
2011
Welsh actress (1926–2011)
Barry Morse
2008
British-Canadian actor (1918–2008)
Katoucha Niane
2008
Guinean model, activist and author
Vijay Arora
2007
Indian actor (1944–2007)
Billy Henderson (American singer)
2007
American musician (1939–2007)
Joe Hunter (musician)
2007
American musician (1927–2007)
Catania football riot
2007
2007 riot in Catania, Sicily, Italy
Eric Von Schmidt
2007
American musician and artist
Masao Takemoto
2007
Japanese gymnast (1919–2007)
Birgitte Federspiel
2005
Danish actress (1925–2005)
Max Schmeling
2005
German boxer (1905–2005)
Bernard McEveety
2004
American film director (1924–2004)
Lou Harrison
2003
American composer (1917–2003)
Paul Baloff
2002
American heavy metal vocalist (1960–2002)
Claude Brown
2002
American writer (1937–2002)
1900s
David McComb
1999
Australian musician
Haroun Tazieff
1998
Franco-Belgian volcanologist
Erich Eliskases
1997
Austrian-Argentine chess player
Sanford Meisner
1997
American actor and acting teacher (1905–1997)
Gene Kelly
1996
American actor, dancer, singer, and producer (1912–1996)
Thomas Hayward (tenor)
1995
American operatic tenor
Fred Perry
1995
British tennis player (1909–1995)
Donald Pleasence
1995
English actor (1919–1995)
Marija Gimbutas
1994
Lithuanian archaeologist (1921–1994)
François Reichenbach
1993
French film director (1921–1993)
Bert Parks
1992
American actor and singer (1914–1992)
Paul Ariste
1990
Estonian linguist (1905–1990)
Joe Erskine (Welsh boxer)
1990
British boxer
Ondrej Nepela
1989
Slovak figure skater (1951–1989)
Arnold Nordmeyer
1989
New Zealand politician (1901–1989)
Marcel Bozzuffi
1988
French actor (1929–1988)
Carlos Castilho
1987
Brazilian footballer and manager (1927–1987)
Alistair MacLean
1987
Scottish writer (1922–1987)
Murder of Anita Cobby
1986
Australian murder case
Gino Hernandez
1986
American professional wrestler
Sam Chatmon
1983
American Delta blues musician (1897–1983)
Paul Desruisseaux
1982
Canadian politician (1905–1982)
William Howard Stein
1980
American biochemist (1911–1980)
Jim Burke (cricketer)
1979
Australian cricketer
Sid Vicious
1979
English bassist (1957–1979)
Gustave Lanctot
1975
Canadian historian and archivist
Imre Lakatos
1974
Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922–1974)
Hendrik Elias
1973
Belgian politician (1902–1973)
Natalie Clifford Barney
1972
American playwright, poet and novelist (1876–1972)
Lawrence Gray
1970
American actor (1898–1970)
Bertrand Russell
1970
Mathematician and philosopher
Hannah Ryggen
1970
Norwegian artist (1894–1970)
Boris Karloff
1969
English actor (1887–1969)
Tullio Serafin
1968
Italian conductor
Hacı Ömer Sabancı
1966
Turkish entrepreneur
Shlomo Hestrin
1962
Israeli biochemist
Grigory Landsberg
1957
Soviet physicist
Charley Grapewin
1956
American circus performer and actor
Truxtun Hare
1956
American track and field Olympian
Pyotr Konchalovsky
1956
Russian painter (1876–1956)
Hella Wuolijoki
1954
Estonian-Finnish writer
Callistratus of Georgia
1952
Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia (1932-1952)
Constantin Carathéodory
1950
Greek mathematician (1873–1950)
Thomas W. Lamont
1948
American banker (1870–1948)
Bevil Rudd
1948
South African athlete
Alfred Delp
1945
German Jesuit resistance fighter (1907–1945)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
1945
German politician (1884–1945)
Johannes Popitz
1945
German politician and resistance member (1884–1945)
Ado Birk
1942
Estonian politician (1883–1942)
Daniil Kharms
1942
Russian writer (1905–1942)
Hugh D. McIntosh
1942
Australian entrepreneur
Amanda McKittrick Ros
1939
Irish writer
Bernhard Gregory
1939
Baltic German chess player
Agha Petros
1932
Assyrian military leader (1880–1932)
Vladimir Sukhomlinov
1926
Russian general (1848–1926)
Antti Aarne
1925
Finnish folklorist (1867–1925)
Jaap Eden
1925
Dutch speed skater and cyclist
Julius Kuperjanov
1919
Estonian military personnel
John L. Sullivan
1918
American boxer (1858–1918)
Gustaf de Laval
1913
Swedish engineer and inventor (1845–1913)
Carlo Acton
1909
Italian composer and concert pianist
Dmitri Mendeleev
1907
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Henri Germain
1905
French banker and politician (1824–1905)
Ernest Cashel
1904
William Collins Whitney
1904
American politician (1841–1904)
1800s
Henry Parker (Australian politician)
1881
Australian politician
Théophane Vénard
1861
French Catholic missionary (1829–1861)
Letizia Bonaparte
1836
Mother of Napoleon I
Vincenzo Dimech
1831
Maltese sculptor (1768–1831)
George Walton
1804
American Founding Father and politician
Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip
1802
British politician (1713–1802)
Before 1800
Ferdinand Ashmall
1798
Pope Clement XIII
1769
Head of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769
Robert Smith (mathematician)
1768
English mathematician
Antonio Maria Valsalva
1723
Italian anatomist
John Sharp (bishop)
1714
Archbishop of York from 1691 to 1714
Martin Lister
1712
English naturalist and physician (1639–1712)
Guillaume de l'Hôpital
1704
French mathematician (1661–1704)
Abraham Duquesne
1688
French naval officer
Ivan Belostenec
1675
Croatian linguist and lexicographer
Lucas Holstenius
1661
German historian and humanist
Gaston, Duke of Orléans
1660
French prince (1608–1660)
Govert Flinck
1660
Dutch painter (1615–1660)
George Abbot (author)
1648
English religious writer and politician (1604–1649)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
1594
Italian Renaissance composer (c. 1525 – 1594)
Bessho Nagaharu
1580
Japanese daimyō (1558–1580)
Baldassare Castiglione
1529
Italian Renaissance author (1478–1529)
Hatuey
1512
Hispaniolan Cacique (died 1512)
Owen Tudor
1461
Welsh courtier and soldier (c.1400–1461)
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
1448
Egyptian Islamic scholar (1372–1449)
Vittorino da Feltre
1446
Italian humanist and teacher (1378–1446)
Joanna II of Naples
1435
Queen of Naples from 1414 to 1435
Racek Kobyla of Dvorce
1416
14th-century Bohemian nobleman
Narimantas
1348
Prince of Polotsk and Pinsk
Thomas Bek (bishop of Lincoln)
1347
14th-century Bishop of Lincoln
Louis II, Duke of Bavaria
1294
Duke of Upper Bavaria (1229–1294)
Erik Eriksson
1250
King of Sweden (r. 1222–1229; 1234–1250)
Joan, Lady of Wales
1237
13th-century illegitimate daughter of King John
Konstantin of Rostov
1218
Grand Prince of Vladimir
Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia
1124
Duke of Bohemia
Bruno, Duke of Saxony
880
Duke of Saxony
Laurence of Canterbury
619
Archbishop of Canterbury from 604 to 619, Christian saint