What happened on February 3 ?

619 - Laurence of Canterbury, second Archbishop of Canterbury

699 - Saint Werburgh

1014 - King Sweyn I of Denmark

1116 - King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)

1399 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)

1428 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)

1451 - Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)

1468 - Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher

1566 - George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)

1619 - Henry Brooke, 8th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)

1737 - Tommaso Ceva, italien mathematician (b. 1648)

1802 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (b. 1723)

1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774)

1889 - Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848)

1922 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)

1924 - Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1856)

1935 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)

1945 - Roland Freisler, Nazi leader (b. 1893)

1956 - ÿmile Borel, French mathematician, politician, statesman, and resistance figher (b. 1871)

1959 - Also known as The Day the Music Died because of the deaths of: Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)

Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)

J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)

1960 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)

1964 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)

1967 - Joe Meek, English record producer (b. 1929)

1975 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)

1985 - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)

1989 - John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and writer (b. 1929)

1991 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)

1996 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1926)

1998 - Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (b. 1959)

2000 - Richard Kleindienst, American politician (b. 1923)

2003 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (murdered) (b. 1962)

2003 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)

2005 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)

2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b. 1904)

2005 - Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)

2006 - Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)