7 February Deaths

February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 327 days remaining until the end of the year (328 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

    318 – Jin Mindi, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 300)
    590 – Pope Pelagius II (b. 520)
    812 – Li Ning, Chinese prince (b. 793)
    999 – Boleslaus II the Pious, Duke of Bohemia (b. 932)
    1045 – Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
    1165 – Marshal Stephen of Armenia
    1259 – Thomas, Count of Flanders
    1317 – Robert, Count of Clermont (b. 1256)
    1320 – Jan Muskata, Bishop of Kraków (b. 1250)
    1333 – Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism (b. 1246)
    1626 – William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
    1642 – William Bedell, English bishop and academic (b. 1571)
    1693 – Paul Pellisson, French lawyer and author (b. 1624)
    1736 – Stephen Gray, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1666)
    1779 – William Boyce, English organist and composer (b. 1711)
    1799 – Qianlong Emperor of China (b. 1711)
    1801 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and academic (b. 1726)
    1819 – August Wilhelm Hupel, German-Estonian linguist and author (b. 1737)
    1823 – Ann Radcliffe, English author (b. 1764)
    1837 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
    1862 – Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo, Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1787)
    1864 – Vuk Karadžić, Serbian philologist and linguist (b. 1787)
    1871 – Henry E. Steinway, German-American businessman, founded Steinway & Sons (b. 1797)
    1873 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (b. 1814)
    1878 – Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
    1897 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1847)
    1919 – William Halford, English-American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
    1920 – Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer (b. 1874)
    1920 – Charles Langelier, Canadian journalist, judge, and politician (b. 1850)
    1921 – John J. Gardner, American politician (b. 1845)
    1937 – Elihu Root, American lawyer and politician, 38th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
    1938 – Harvey Samuel Firestone, American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (b. 1868)
    1939 – Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1886)
    1942 – Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator and stage designer (b. 1876)
    1944 – Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress (b. 1874)
    1959 – Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
    1959 – Daniel François Malan, South African minister and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (b. 1874)
    1959 – Guitar Slim, American singer and guitarist (b. 1926)
    1960 – Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1903)
    1963 – Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (b. 1902)
    1964 – Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek captain and politician, 133rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)
    1968 – Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1931)
    1972 – Walter Lang, American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
    1979 – Josef Mengele, German SS officer and physician (b. 1911)
    1986 – Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (b. 1923)
    1990 – Alan Perlis, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1922)
    1990 – Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino general (b. 1905)
    1991 – Amos Yarkoni, Israeli colonel (b. 1920)
    1994 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1913)
    1996 – Phillip Davidson, American general (b. 1915)
    1999 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
    1999 – Bobby Troup, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1918)
    2000 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician and politician (b. 1947)
    2001 – Dale Evans, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1912)
    2001 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and pilot (b. 1906)
    2003 – Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
    2005 – Atli Dam, Faroese engineer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1932)
    2006 – Princess Durru Shehvar of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1914)
    2009 – Blossom Dearie, American singer and pianist (b. 1924)
    2009 – Reg Evans, Australian actor (b. 1929)
    2010 – Franco Ballerini, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1964)
    2012 – Harry Keough, American soccer player and coach (b. 1927)
    2013 – Krsto Papić, Croatian director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
    2014 – Doug Mohns, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
    2015 – Billy Casper, American golfer and architect (b. 1931)
    2015 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (b. 1934)
    2015 – Dean Smith, American basketball player and coach (b. 1931)
    2015 – John C. Whitehead, American banker and politician, 9th United States Deputy Secretary of State (b. 1922)
    2016 – Konstantinos Despotopoulos, Greek philosopher and politician (b. 1913)

Source: Wikipedia