Deaths on 7 February
2000s
Dafydd Elis-Thomas
2025
Welsh politician (1946–2025)
Tony Roberts (actor)
2025
American actor (1939–2025)
Li Wenliang
2020
Chinese ophthalmologist (1985–2020)
John Dingell
2019
American politician (1926–2019)
Albert Finney
2019
English actor (1936–2019)
Jan Olszewski
2019
42nd Prime Minister of Poland from 1991 to 1992
Frank Robinson
2019
American baseball player and manager (1935–2019)
Richard Hatch (actor)
2017
American actor (1945–2017)
Hans Rosling
2017
Swedish statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)
Tzvetan Todorov
2017
Bulgarian-French literary scholar et al (1939–2017)
Billy Casper
2015
American professional golfer (1931–2015)
Marshall Rosenberg
2015
American psychologist and mediator (1934–2015)
Dean Smith
2015
American basketball coach (1931–2015)
John C. Whitehead
2015
American civil servant (1922–2015)
Doug Mohns
2014
Canadian ice hockey player
Krsto Papić
2013
Harry Keough
2012
American soccer player (1927–2012)
Franco Ballerini
2010
Italian cyclist (1964–2010)
Blossom Dearie
2009
American jazz singer and pianist (1924–2009)
Dürrüşehvar Sultan
2006
Ottoman princess (1914–2006)
Atli Dam
2005
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
Augusto Monterroso
2003
Guatemalan writer
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
2001
American aviator and author (1906–2001)
Doug Henning
2000
Canadian illusionist (1947–2000)
1900s
Hussein of Jordan
1999
King of Jordan from 1952 to 1999
Bobby Troup
1999
American actor and musician (1918–1999)
Witold Lutosławski
1994
Polish composer and conductor (1913–1994)
Amos Yarkoni
1991
Israeli military officer and civil servant
Alan Perlis
1990
American computer scientist (1922–1990)
Alfredo Santos
1990
Filipino general (1905–1990)
Cheikh Anta Diop
1986
Senegalese politician, historian and scientist (1923–1986)
Josef Mengele
1979
Nazi SS doctor at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
Walter Lang
1972
American film director (1896–1972)
Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)
1968
American actor, screenwriter (1931–1968)
Sofoklis Venizelos
1964
Greek politician (1894–1964)
Learco Guerra
1963
Italian cyclist (1902–1963)
Igor Kurchatov
1960
Soviet nuclear physicist (1903–1960)
Nap Lajoie
1959
American baseball player and manager (1874–1959)
D. F. Malan
1959
Prime Minister of South Africa from 1948 to 1954
Guitar Slim
1959
American guitarist (1926–1959)
Lina Cavalieri
1944
Italian operatic soprano (1874–1944)
Ivan Bilibin
1942
Russian illustrator (1876–1942)
James McCormick (Irish republican)
1940
Irish republican (1910–1940)
Peter Barnes (Irish republican)
1940
Boris Grigoriev
1939
Russian painter (1886–1939
Harvey S. Firestone
1938
American businessman (1868–1938)
Elihu Root
1937
American politician, statesman, and Nobel Laureate (1845–1937)
John J. Gardner
1921
American politician
Alexander Kolchak
1920
Russian admiral and White movement leader (1874–1920)
Charles Langelier
1920
Canadian politician (1850–1920)
William Halford
1919
1800s
Galileo Ferraris
1897
Italian physicist and electrical engineer (1847–1897)
Marie Louise Andrews
1891
American short story writer, journalist, editor
Pope Pius IX
1878
Head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878
Sheridan Le Fanu
1873
Irish Gothic and mystery writer (1814–1873)
Henry E. Steinway
1871
German-American piano maker (1797–1871)
Vuk Karadžić
1864
Serbian philologist and linguist (1787–1864)
Francisco Martínez de la Rosa
1862
Prime Minister of Spain (1787–1862)
Mariano Paredes
1849
President of Mexico from 1845 to 1846
Gustav IV Adolf
1837
King of Sweden from 1792 to 1809
Ann Radcliffe
1823
English novelist (1764–1823)
August Wilhelm Hupel
1819
Baltic German linguist
Daniel Chodowiecki
1801
German painter and printmaker (1726–1801)
Before 1800
Qianlong Emperor
1799
Emperor of China from 1735 to 1796
William Boyce (composer)
1779
English composer and organist (18th. c.)
Stephen Gray (scientist)
1736
English physicist
Paul Pellisson
1693
French author
William Bedell
1642
16th/17th-century Anglo-Irish churchman
William V, Duke of Bavaria
1626
Duke of Bavaria from 1579 to 1597
Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter
1623
English politician and courtier (1542–1623)
Bartholomäus Sastrow
1603
German politician (1520–1603)
Baccio Bandinelli
1560
Italian artist (1493–1560)
Alfonsina Orsini
1520
Regent of the Republic of Firenze (1472–1520)
Nikkō Shōnin
1333
Senior disciple of Nichiren
Jan Muskata
1320
Polish bishop (1250–1320)
Robert, Count of Clermont
1317
French nobleman, Son of Louis IX (1256–1317)
Thomas, Count of Flanders
1259
Count of Flanders from 1237 to 1244
Stephen of Armenia
1165
Ava (poet)
1127
Medieval German poet
Siegfried I, Count of Sponheim
1065
Emperor Go-Suzaku
1045
Emperor of Japan from 1036 to 1045
AD 999
999
Calendar year
Emperor Min of Jin
318
Emperor of the Jin Dynasty from 313 to 318
Lü Bu
199
Chinese warlord and general (died 199)