Temür Khan
1307 Temür Khan, Second Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (1294-1307), grandson and successor to Kublai Khan, dies at 41
Temür Khan
- 1482 Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies at 81
- 1495 William Stanley, Engl lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy
- 1543 Johann Eck, German Scholastic theologian and early counter-reformer against Lutheran challenges, dies a 56
- 1567 Lord Darnley Stuart, husband of English queen Mary, murdered
- 1576 Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
- 1588 Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at about 82
- 1598 Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies
- 1657 Sebastian Stosskopf, Elizabethan painter, dies at 59
- 1678 Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried
- 1686 William Dugdale, English antiquarian and Garter King of Arms (1677-86), dies at 80
- 1711 Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager & Atalante), dies at 22
- 1722 Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (raided ships off the Americas and West Africa between 1719-1722), dies at 39
- 1755 Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
- 1758 Thomas Ripley, English architect
- 1772 Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general, dies at 75
- 1782 Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German Lutheran theologian, dies at 79
- 1822 Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, dies at 83
- 1825 Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant), dies at 68
- 1829 Leo XII [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
- 1837 Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and writer (Eugene Onegin), killed in a duel at 37
- 1857 David Thompson, English-Canadian explorer (Columbia River), dies at 86
- 1861 Francis Danby, Exmouth, painter, dies
- 1865 Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
- 1868 David Brewster, Scottish physicist and inventor (kaleidoscope), dies at 86
- 1876 Reverdy Johnson, American politician and jurist (Dred Scott v. Sandford), dies at 79
- 1878 Claude Bernard, French physiologist involved in the founding of modern physiology (blind experiments), dies at 64
- 1887 Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73
- 1887 Pieter Jan Baptist Carel Robidé van der Aa, Dutch Indologist and geographer, dies at 54
- 1891 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
- 1902 J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies
- 1904 John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
- 1906 Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician, dies at 78
- 1907 William Howard Russell, Irish war pioneering correspondent, dies at 87
- 1908 Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Egyptian lawyer, journalist, Nationalist and a founder of Egyptian National Party, dies at 33
- 1912 Joseph Lister, British surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic surgery), dies at 84
- 1915 Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65
- 1917 John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
- 1918 Abdul Hamid II, 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909), dies at 75
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
1918 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 84
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Wilhelm Röntgen
1923 Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist who discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901), dies of cancer at 77
Wilhelm Röntgen
Edgar Wallace
1932 Edgar Wallace, English novelist, playwright and journalist (The Terror, The Four Just Men) who created King Kong, dies of diabetes at 76
Edgar Wallace
- 1939 Pius XI [Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti], Italian 259th Pope (1922-39), dies at 81
- 1943 Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance
- 1944 Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
- 1945 Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
- 1950 Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
- 1952 Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
- 1957 Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (Little House on the Prairie), dies at 90
- 1960 Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
- 1962 Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter and graphic artist, dies at 83
- 1964 Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
- 1966 Billy Rose [William Samuel Rosenberg], American theatrical producer (Diamond Horse Show), dies at 66
- 1968 Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79
- 1975 Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
- 1983 Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet (Diario d'Algeria), dies at 69
- 1987 Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
Alex Haley
1992 Alex Haley, American writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), dies at 70
Alex Haley
- 1992 Florence Tarlow, dies of cancer at 70
- 1992 Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper), dies
- 1992 Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr Faustus), dies
- 1993 John Grossman, Czech director (Process, Revisor), dies
- 1993 Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France (1957), dies
- 1993 Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
- 1995 Kenton Kilmer, American writer, dies of cancer at 85
- 1995 Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder, dies at 75
- 1995 Paul Monette, American writer, dies of AIDS at 49
- 1995 S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
- 1996 Hugh Francis Lamprey, British ecologist, dies at 67
- 1997 Milton Cato, 1st Prime Minister of San Vincent and the Grenadines (1979-84), dies at 82
- 1997 Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
- 1998 Buddy the Wonder Dog, dog (Air Bud), dies of cancer at 9
- 1998 Maurice Schumann, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (1969-73), dies at 86
- 2001 Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
- 2002 Traudl Junge, German secretary to Adolf Hitler, dies at 81
- 2003 Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer, dies at 92
- 2003 Clark MacGregor, American Republican politician (involved in Watergate), dies at 80
- 2003 Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
- 2003 Ron Ziegler, White House press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
- 2003 Bengt Edlén, Swedish Astrophysicist who specialized in spectroscopy and discovered the source of unidentified emission lines in solar spectrum, dies at 86
- 2004 Margaret Stacey, English sociologist who helped shape the distinctively British genre of empirical sociology, dies at 81
Arthur Miller
2005 Arthur Miller, American playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible), dies at 89
Arthur Miller
- 2008 Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)
- 2010 Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
- 2012 Jeffrey Zaslow, American author and columnist, dies in a car accident at 53
- 2013 Eugenio Trias, Spanish philosopher, dies at 70
February in History
![2,000-year-old Glass Treasure Shattered by a Drunk]()
2,000-year-old Glass Treasure Shattered by a Drunk
One of the British Museum's treasured pieces of Roman antiquity was shattered on this day by a drunken visitor.
February 7, 1845![Earthquakes and a Book Rock London]()
Earthquakes and a Book Rock London
In the 18th Century, Englishmen went into a panic when London, of all places, was hit by earthquakes. But was there a stronger force than Mother Nature at work?
February 8, 1750![Why 'SuperMac' was Banished From Number 10]()
Why 'SuperMac' was Banished From Number 10
War hero, Edwardian gentleman, academic, friend of the Kennedys, former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was born on this day.
February 10, 1894![Ancient Dresden Reduced to Rubble]()
Ancient Dresden Reduced to Rubble
The blanket bombing of Dresden in East Germany which began on this day, cost thousands of lives and remains highly controversial.
February 13, 1945
