Died on This Day (02-Feb)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Jon Huntsman Sr. | Jon Meade Huntsman Sr. was an American businessman and philanthropist. | American businessman and philanthropist | 80 | 2 | |
Philip Seymour Hoffman | Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor. Known for his distinctive supporting and character roles—typically lowlifes, eccentrics, underdogs, and misfits—he acted in many films and theatrical productions, including leading roles, from the early 1990s until his death in 2014. | American actor | 46 | 6 | |
Girish Sant | Girish Sant was a noted energy analyst held in high esteem as an energy policy commentator from India. | Indian social worker | 46 | 8 | |
Cochin Haneefa | Muhammed Haneefa , better known by his stage name Cochin Haneefa, was an Indian actor, film director, and screenwriter. | Indian actor | 58 | 10 | |
Alvino Rey | Alvin McBurney , known by his stage name Alvino Rey, was an American jazz guitarist and bandleader. | American guitarist, bandleader | 95 | 16 | |
Donald Pleasence | Donald Henry Pleasence OBE was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before transitioning into a screen career, where he played numerous supporting and character roles including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape , the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice , SEN 5241 in THX 1138 , and the deranged Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright . | British actor | 75 | 25 | |
Hermann Prieß | Hermann August Fredrich Priess was a German general in the Waffen-SS and a war criminal during World War II. | German general | 83 | 35 | |
Bryan Wynter | Bryan Herbert Wynter was one of the St. Ives group of British painters. | British artist | 59 | 45 | |
Alfred Delp | Alfred Delp SJ was a German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance. | German priest | 37 | 75 | |
Eugène Fichel | Benjamin Eugène Fichel son of Moise Mayer Fichel and Lili Abigail Sasias, was a French painter. | French painter | 68 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Bob Elliott | Robert Brackett Elliott was an American comedian and actor, one-half of the comedy duo of Bob and Ray. | American actor and comedian | 92 | 4 | |
Lino Oviedo | Lino César Oviedo Silva was the leader of the National Union of Ethical Citizens, which split from the Colorado Party in 2002. | Paraguayan politician | 69 | 7 | |
Darrel Baldock | Darrel John Baldock AM was an Australian sportsman and state politician. | Australian rules football player and coach | 72 | 9 | |
Max Schmeling | Maximilian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. | German boxer | 99 | 15 | |
Michael Zerner | Michael Charles Zerner was an American theoretical chemist, professor at the University of Guelph from 1970 to 1981 and University of Florida from 1981 to 2000. | American theoretical chemist | 60 | 20 | |
Jadwiga Apostoł | Jadwiga Apostol-Staniszewska was a Polish teacher in the interwar period, an underground activist during World War II, and a writer in postwar Poland. | Polish resistance fighter | 76 | 30 | |
William Howard Stein | William Howard Stein was an American biochemist who collaborated in the determination of the ribonuclease sequence, as well as how its structure relates to catalytic activity, earning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 for his work. | American biochemist | 68 | 40 | |
Bertrand Russell | Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. | British philosopher | 97 | 50 | |
Field Eugene Kindley | Captain Field Eugene Kindley was an American aviator and World War I flying ace credited with twelve confirmed aerial victories. | United States Army officer | 23 | 100 | |
Esther Hunt | Esther Hunt was a pioneer who lived on America's frontier as a wife, a mother and a leader in her Quaker faith. | American pioneer | 68 | 200 |