What happened on February 4 ?

211 - Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)

708 - Pope Sisinnius

856 - Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz

869 - Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)

1508 - Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)

1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)

1615 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)

1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian physicist (b. 1535)

1694 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)

1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)

1774 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)

1799 - ÿtienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)

1781 - Josef Myslive?ek, Czech composer (b. 1737)

1894 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (b. 1814)

1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)

1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)

1933 - Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)

1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)

1940 - Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)

1944 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)

1944 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)

1958 - Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)

1959 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)

1967 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)

1968 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)

1968 - Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875)

1969 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)

1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)

1975 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)

1977 - Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)

1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and musician (Carpenters) (anorexia) (b. 1950)

1984 - Anna Anderson, claimant to the throne of Russia

1987 - Liberace, American musician (b. 1919)

1987 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)

1992 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)

1995 - Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (b. 1915)

1995 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)

2000 - Carl Albert, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)

2000 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)

2001 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924)

2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek-born composer (b. 1922)

2005 - Ossie Davis, American actor (b. 1917)

2006 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)