Deaths in History on February 4

Septimius Severus (146-211 AD)

Emperor of Rome (193-211), dies at 64

708 Sisinnius, Greek-Syrian pope (708, 20 days), dies
856 Hrabanus Maurus, East France, archbishop of Mainz, dies
869 Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)
1189 Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint, dies
1222 William I, earl of Holland (1203-22), dies
1505 Joan of France, Queen of France (1498) and Catholic saint who founded several religious orders, dies at 40
1508 Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar and manuscript thief, dies at 49
1555 John Roger, English religious reformer and translator (Matthew Bible), 1st protestant martyr under Mary I, burnt at the stake at Smithfield, London (b. c. 1500)
1615 Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
1615 Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath and child prodogy (b. 1535)
1617 Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher, dies at about 76
1640 Hendrick C Vroom, Dutch seascape painter, dies
1694 Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
1714 Duke of Berry, French King Louis XIV's grandson, dies
1746 Robert Blair, Scottish poet (The Grave), dies at 46
1774 Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
1781 Willem Crul, British admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War at 59
1799 Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
1815 Geert Reinders, Dutch cattle breeder and inoculation proponent, dies at 77
1815 Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist and graphic artist, dies at 58
1844 Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/literary, dies at 49
1847 Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist (discovered & named process of osmosis), dies at 70
1869 Johan Michiel Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future), dies at 60

James Donnelly (1816-1880)

Irish-Canadian patriarch of the Donnelly family, murdered along with his family in the "Black Donnelly" massacre at 63

1885 Sarah Miriam Peale, American portrait painter (General Lafayette, 1825), dies at 84
1905 Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor, dies at 63
1911 Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75
1918 Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, dies at 49
1921 Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter and illustrator, dies at 75
1928 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist (electromagnetic radiation, Nobel 1902), dies at 74
1933 Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
1936 Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
1939 Edward Sapir, American linguist and cultural anthropologist (North American Indian languages), dies at 55
1939 Henri Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell), dies at 72
1940 Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
1941 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian and archaeologist, dies at 79
1944 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer, dies at 72
1946 Margarete Boie, writer, dies
1953 Alexander Loudon, Dutch diplomat (League of Nations), dies at 60
1956 Leendert Antonie Donker, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA), dies at 56
1957 Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies
1958 Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince, dies at 46
1961 Piet[er] L. Kramer, Influential Dutch architect (Amsterdam School), dies at 79
1964 Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica), dies at 71
1965 U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse), dies at 33
1966 Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American geographer and 1st full-time editor of National Geographic Society (1899-1954), dies at 90
1967 Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army, dies at 80
1968 Gerard den Brabander [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New), dies at 67
1968 Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
1970 Louise Bogan, American poet (Sleeping Fury) and critic, dies at 72
1974 Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (Bose–Einstein statistics), dies at 80
1977 Brett Halliday, American writer (Dividend on Death), dies at 72
1978 Bergen Evans, American professor of English ($64,000 Question), dies at 73
1982 Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (b. 1909)
1987 Carl Rogers, American psychologist (Client-Centered Therapy), dies at 85
1992 Fred Slyter, dialogue coach, dies after long illness at 56
1994 Han Jansen, Dutch painter, dies at 62
1994 Harold Schneider, US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games), dies at 55
1994 Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal, dies at 79
1995 Patricia Highsmith [Plangman], American novel writer (Strangers On A Train; The Talented Mr. Ripley; The Price of Salt), dies of lung cancer at 74
1997 James Friell, Scottish political cartoonist (Daily Worker), dies at 84
2000 Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1971-77), dies at 91
2003 Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)

Betty Friedan (1921-2006)

American writer and feminist (The Feminine Mystique), dies of congestive heart failure at 85

2007 Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
2007 Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2008 Stefan Meller, Polish diplomat and 9th Minister of Foreign Affairs (2005-06), dies at 65
2010 Kostas Axelos, Greek-French philosopher, dies at 85
2012 Florence Green, last surviving veteran of World War One, dies at 110
2012 Istvan Csurka, Hungarian writer and politician, dies at 77
2012 Robert Daniel, five term American congressman for Virginia, dies at 75
2012 Robert Glaser, American educational psychologist, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 91
2013 Theresia van der Pant, Dutch sculptor, dies at 88
2016 Edgar Mitchell, American NASA astronaut (Apollo 14), dies at 85
2016 Edgar Whitcomb, American politician and Governor of Indiana (1969-73), dies at 98
2020 Daniel Arap Moi, Kenya's longest serving President (1978-2002), dies at 95
2020 Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Caribbean poet (Born to Slow Horses) and academic, dies at 89