What happened on February 2 ?

1124 - Duke Bo?ivoj II of Bohemia

1218 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)

1250 - King Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)

1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England

1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)

1580 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)

1594 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)

1648 - George Abbot, English writer

1660 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)

1660 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (b. 1608)

1661 - Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)

1688 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)

1704 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661)

1712 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician

1714 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (b. 1643)

1768 - Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)

1769 - Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)

1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)

1895 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)

1907 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)

1922 - William Desmond Taylor, Irish film director (b. 1872)

1925 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b. 1873)

1926 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)

1942 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1906)

1945 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (b. 1884)

1948 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)

1950 - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873)

1956 - Charles Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)

1956 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)

1957 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)

1969 - Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)

1970 - Bertrand Russell, British mathematician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)

1979 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957)

1980 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

1987 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)

1987 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)

1992 - Bert Parks, American television host (b. 1914)

1995 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)

1996 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (b. 1912)

1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904)

1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)

2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)

2004 - Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)

2005 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)