What happened on February 5 ?

995 - William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)

1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)

1578 - Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter

1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)

1766 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)

1775 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)

1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)

1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)

1818 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (b. 1748)

1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)

1915 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)

1917 - Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860 )

1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)

1922 - Christiaan De Wet, South African general

1937 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)

1946 - George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)

1948 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)

1962 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)

1966 - Ludwig Binswanger, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1881)

1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)

1970 - Rudy York, baseball player (b. 1913)

1972 - Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)

1976 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)

1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)

1981 - Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)

1991 - Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)

1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)

1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909)

1995 - Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)

1997 - Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)

1999 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1906)

2003 - Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer

2005 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)

2006 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedienne (b. 1930)

2006 - Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)