What happened on February 7 ?

1045 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)

1317 - Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)

1560 - Bartolommeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)

1626 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)

1642 - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)

1652 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)

1690 - William Morice, English royalist statesman

1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)

1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)

1779 - William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711)

1799 - Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711)

1801 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)

1823 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (b. 1764)

1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)

1839 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)

1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)

1878 - Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)

1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (b. 1847)

1898 - John Reily Knox, Founder of Beta Theta Pi (b. 1820)

1919 - William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient

1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)

1937 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1845)

1938 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)

1939 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)

1942 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)

1960 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (b. 1903)

1968 - Nick Adams, American actor (b. 1931)

1973 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)

1979 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)

1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)

1985 - Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1932)

1986 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)

1990 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (b. 1913)

1993 - Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)

1994 - Witold Lutos?awski, Polish composer (b. 1913)

1994 - Stephen Milligan, British journalist and politician (b. 1948)

1996 - Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)

1998 - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)

1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)

1999 - José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)

1999 - Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)

2000 - Big Pun, Puerto Rican rapper (b. 1971)

2000 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)

2001 - Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)

2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)

2002 - Elisa Bridges, American model (b. 1973)

2003 - Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)

2003 - John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)

2004 - John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)

2006 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)