6 February In History
Self Reporter
publish : 06 Feb, 2016
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February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 328 days remaining until the end of the year (329 in leap years).
Events
1649 – The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1806 – Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
1815 – New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1833 – Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
1840 – Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1843 – The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1851 – The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
1862 – American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
1899 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1900 – The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1914 – The Bondetåget, a peasant uprising in support of the monarchy, takes place in Sweden
1918 – British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
1919 – The five-day Seattle General Strike begins.
1922 – The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1934 – Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1942 – World War II: The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand.
1951 – The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1954 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 112 relating to Sudan is adopted.
1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1959 – Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 – At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1975 – A crucial by-election is held in Kankesanthurai, Sri Lanka.
1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
1978 – The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.
1981 – The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
1988 – Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1996 – Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
1996 – Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane are killed. This is the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757.
1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
2012 – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hits near the central Philippines off the coast of Negros Island causing at least 51 deaths and injuring 112 others.
2013 – A 8.0 magnitude earthquake hits the Solomon Islands killing 10 people and injuring 17 others.
Births
976 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan (d. 1017)
1347 – Dorothea of Montau, Prussian saint (d. 1394)
1452 – Joanna, Princess of Portugal (d. 1490)
1461 – Džore Držić, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1501)
1465 – Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician and theorist (d. 1526)
1536 – Sassa Narimasa, Japanese samurai (d. 1588)
1577 – Beatrice Cenci, Italian murderer (d. 1599)
1582 – Mario Bettinus, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (d. 1657)
1605 – Bernard of Corleone, Italian saint (d. 1667)
1608 – António Vieira, Portuguese priest and philosopher (d. 1697)
1611 – Chongzhen Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1612 – Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician, theologian, and philosopher (d. 1694)
1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German author and scholar (d. 1691)
1643 – Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, Prussian politician, 1st Minister President of Prussia (d. 1712)
1664 – Mustafa II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1703)
1695 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss-Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1726)
1665 – Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714)
1721 – Christian Heinrich Heineken, German scholar (d. 1725)
1726 – Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (d. 1805)
1732 – Charles Lee, English-American general (d. 1782)
1736 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
1744 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
1748 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (d. 1830)
1753 – Évariste de Parny, French poet and author (d. 1814)
1756 – Aaron Burr, American colonel and politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
1757 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Belarusian-Polish poet, playwright, and politician (d. 1841)
1769 – Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general (d. 1862)
1772 – George Murray, Scottish general and politician, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (d. 1830)
1772 – Karl von Kügelgen, German painter (d. 1832)
1778 – Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet (d. 1827)
1781 – John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, Irish-born British general and politician; Governor of Saint Lucia (d. 1844)
1796 – John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist (d. 1861)
1797 – Joseph von Radowitz, Prussian general and politician, Foreign Ministers of Prussia (d. 1853)
1799 – Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist (d. 1870)
1800 – Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer (d. 1857)
1802 – Charles Wheatstone, English-French physicist and cryptographer (d. 1875)
1811 – Henry Liddell, English author and academic (d. 1898)
1814 – Auguste Chapdelaine, French missionary (d. 1856)
1818 – William M. Evarts, American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of State (d. 1901)
1818 – Henry Litolff, English pianist and composer (d. 1891)
1818 – Jenaro Quesada, 1st Marquis of Miravalles, Spanish general and politician (d. 1889)
1829 – Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect, designed the La Santé Prison and Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge (d. 1914)
1830 – Daniel Oliver, English botanist and academic (d. 1916)
1832 – John Brown Gordon, American general and politician, 53rd Governor of Georgia (d. 1904)
1833 – José María de Pereda, Spanish author and academic (d. 1906)
1833 – J.E.B. Stuart, American general (d. 1864)
1834 – Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist (d. 1913)
1834 – Ema Pukšec, Croatian-German soprano (d. 1889)
1834 – Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and author (d. 1911)
1838 – Henry Irving, English actor and manager (d. 1905)
1838 – Israel Meir Kagan, Lithuanian-Polish rabbi (d. 1933)
1839 – Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1907)
1842 – Mary Rudge, English chess player (d. 1919)
1843 – Inoue Kowashi, Japanese scholar and politician (d. 1895)
1843 – Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet and philologist, co-founded the Society for Psychical Research (d. 1901)
1845 – Isidor Straus, German-American businessman and politician (d. 1912)
1847 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (d. 1918)
1849 – Ida Straus, German-American businesswoman (d. 1912)
1852 – C. Lloyd Morgan, English zoologist and psychologist (d. 1936)
1852 – Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1918)
1854 – Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa (d. 1931)
1859 – Wilhelm Cohn, German chess player (d. 1913)
1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1953)
1864 – John Henry Mackay, Scottish-German philosopher and author (d. 1933)
1866 – Karl Sapper, German linguist and explorer (d. 1945)
1872 – Robert Maillart, Swiss engineer, designed the Salginatobel Bridge and Schwandbach Bridge (d. 1940)
1874 – Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (d. 1937)
1873 – Billy Gohl, American serial killer (d. 1927)
1875 – Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
1876 – Henry Blogg, English fisherman and sailor (d. 1954)
1879 – Othon Friesz, French painter (d. 1949)
1879 – Magnús Guðmundsson, Icelandic politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1937)
1879 – Edwin Samuel Montagu, English politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1924)
1879 – Carl Ramsauer, German physicist and author (d. 1955)
1880 – Nishinoumi Kajirō II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th Yokozuna (d. 1931)
1884 – William Andrew, English Anglican priest (d. 1963)
1884 – Marcel Cohen, French linguist and scholar (d. 1974)
1887 – Josef Frings, German cardinal (d. 1978)
1892 – Maximilian Fretter-Pico, German general (d. 1984)
1892 – William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
1893 – Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Pakistani politician and diplomat, 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs for Pakistan (d. 1985)
1894 – Eric Partridge, New Zealand-English lexicographer and academic (d. 1979)
1894 – Kirpal Singh, Indian guru and author (d. 1974)
1895 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (d. 1948)
1897 – Louis Buchalter, American mobster (d. 1944)
1898 – Harry Haywood, American soldier and politician (d. 1985)
1899 – Ramon Novarro, Mexican-American actor, singer, and director (d. 1968)
1901 – Franziska Liebing, Swedish-German actress (d. 1989)
1901 – Ben Lyon, American actor and singer (d. 1979)
1902 – George Brunies, American trombonist (d. 1974)
1903 – Claudio Arrau, Chilean pianist and composer (d. 1991)
1905 – Władysław Gomułka, Polish politician (d. 1982)
1905 – Jan Werich, Czech actor and playwright (d. 1980)
1906 – Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (d. 1980)
1908 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1999)
1908 – Edward Lansdale, American general and CIA agent (d. 1987)
1908 – Michael Maltese, American actor, screenwriter, and composer (d. 1981)
1910 – Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
1911 – Ronald Reagan, American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
1912 – Eva Braun, German wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
1912 – Christopher Hill, English historian and author (d. 2003)
1913 – Mary Leakey, English-Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist (d. 1996)
1914 – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (d. 2005)
1915 – Kavi Pradeep, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1998)
1916 – John Crank, English mathematician and physicist (d. 2006)
1917 – Louis-Philippe de Grandpré, Canadian lawyer and jurist (d. 2008)
1917 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and singer
1918 – Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author and painter (d. 2007)
1919 – Takashi Yanase, Japanese poet and illustrator, created Anpanman (d. 2013)
1921 – Carl Neumann Degler, American historian and author (d. 2014)
1922 – Patrick Macnee, English-American actor (d. 2015)
1922 – Denis Norden, English actor, screenwriter, and television host
1922 – Haskell Wexler, American director, producer, and cinematographer (d. 2015)
1923 – Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1981)
1924 – Billy Wright, English footballer and manager (d. 1994)
1924 – Jin Yong, Hong Kong author and publisher, founded Ming Pao
1925 – Donald Mitchell, English musicologist and academic
1925 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006)
1926 – Walker Edmiston, American actor and puppeteer (d. 2007)
1927 – Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1992)
1928 – Allan H. Meltzer, American economist and academic
1929 – Pierre Brice, French actor (d. 2015)
1929 – Colin Murdoch, New Zealand pharmacist, invented the tranquilliser gun (d. 2008)
1929 – Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan author and critic (d. 2011)
1929 – Valentin Yanin, Russian historian and author
1930 – Lionel Blue, English rabbi and journalist
1930 – Jun Kondo, Japanese physicist and academic
1931 – James Bonk, American chemist and academic (d. 2013)
1931 – Rip Torn, American actor, director, and producer
1931 – Mamie Van Doren, American actress and singer
1931 – Ricardo Vidal, Filipino cardinal
1932 – Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban soldier and anarchist (d. 1959)
1932 – Heinz-Klaus Metzger, German critic and theorist (d. 2009)
1932 – François Truffaut, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1933 – Leslie Crowther, English comedian, actor, and game show host (d. 1996)
1934 – Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
1936 – Donnie Brooks, American singer (d. 2007)
1936 – Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2009)
1936 – J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
1938 – Fred Mifflin, Canadian admiral and politician, 19th Minister of Veterans Affairs
1939 – Jean Beaudin, Canadian director and screenwriter
1939 – Mike Farrell, American actor, director, and producer
1940 – Tom Brokaw, American journalist and author
1940 – Petr Hájek, Czech mathematician and academic
1940 – Jimmy Tarbuck, English comedian and actor
1941 – Stephen Albert, American pianist and composer (d. 1992)
1941 – Gigi Perreau, American actress
1942 – Sarah Brady, American activist and author (d. 2015)
1942 – Charlie Coles, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1942 – Ahmad-Jabir Ahmadov Ismail oghlu, Azerbaijani philosopher and academic
1942 – James Loewen, American sociologist and historian
1942 – Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer (d. 2012)
1943 – Fabian Forte, American singer and actor
1943 – Ernie Field, English boxer and rugby player (d. 2013)
1943 – Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress
1943 – Georgeanna Tillman, American singer and dancer (The Marvelettes) (d. 1980)
1944 – Christine Boutin, French politician
1944 – Willie Tee, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (The Wild Magnolias) (d. 2007)
1944 – Michael Tucker, American actor
1945 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bob Marley and the Wailers) (d. 1981)
1945 – George Mudie, Scottish engineer and politician
1946 – Richie Hayward, American drummer and songwriter (Little Feat and Fraternity of Man) (d. 2010)
1946 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer-songwriter and accordion player (Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Mountain City Four) (d. 2010)
1946 – Jim Turner, American captain and politician
1947 – Richard Bowring, English orientalist and academic
1947 – Bill Staines, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Daniel Yergin, American historian and author
1948 – Bunny Rugs, Jamaican singer (Third World and Inner Circle) (d. 2014)
1949 – Mike Batt, English singer-songwriter and producer (The Wombles)
1949 – Manuel Orantes, Spanish tennis player
1949 – Jim Sheridan, Irish director, producer, and screenwriter
1950 – Natalie Cole, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2015)
1950 – Timothy M. Dolan, American cardinal
1951 – Margo, Irish singer
1951 – Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer
1951 – Huw Lloyd-Langton, English guitarist (Hawkwind, Widowmaker, and The Meads of Asphodel) (d. 2012)
1951 – Jacques Villeret, French actor (d. 2005)
1951 – Kevin Whately, English actor
1952 – Tim Blake, English keyboard player (Gong and Hawkwind)
1952 – Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss actor, producer, and screenwriter
1952 – Ricardo La Volpe, Argentinian footballer, manager, and coach
1954 – Bob Sirois, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 – Michael Pollan, American journalist, author, and academic
1955 – Bruno Stolorz, French rugby player and coach
1956 – Nazan Öncel, Turkish singer-songwriter
1956 – Jon Walmsley, English-American singer-songwriter and actor
1957 – Matthew Best, English bass singer and conductor
1957 – Andres Lipstok, Estonian economist and politician, Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs
1957 – Kathy Najimy, American actress
1957 – Simon Phillips, English drummer (Toto, Michael Schenker Group, 801, RMS, and PhD)
1957 – Robert Townsend, American actor and director
1958 – Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (d. 2004)
1958 – Tim Dakin, English bishop
1958 – Barry Miller, American actor
1960 – Jeremy Bowen, Welsh journalist
1960 – Megan Gallagher, American actress
1961 – Cam Cameron, American football player and coach
1961 – Bill Lester, American race car driver
1961 – Yury Onufriyenko, Ukrainian-Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1962 – Stavros Lambrinidis, Greek lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Greece
1962 – Axl Rose, American singer-songwriter and producer (Guns N' Roses, Hollywood Rose, and Rapidfire)
1963 – David Capel, English cricketer and coach
1963 – Scott Gordon, American ice hockey player and coach
1963 – Mike Hough, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – Quentin Letts, English journalist and critic
1964 – Gordon Downie, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Tragically Hip)
1964 – Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian actor and director
1965 – Jan Svěrák, Czech actor, director, and screenwriter
1966 – Rick Astley, English singer-songwriter
1967 – Anita Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1967 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter (Zard) (d. 2007)
1968 – Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
1968 – Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer and producer
1969 – David Hayter, American actor and screenwriter
1969 – Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1969 – Tim Sherwood, English footballer and manager
1970 – Per Frandsen, Danish footballer and manager
1970 – Zhou Kehua, Chinese murderer (d. 2012)
1971 – Brad Hogg, Australian cricketer
1971 – Carlos Rogers, American basketball player
1972 – Stefano Bettarini, Italian footballer
1972 – David Binn, American football player
1973 – Jeff B. Davis, American actor and singer
1973 – Ian Scott, French pornographic actor and director
1974 – Aljo Bendijo, Filipino journalist
1975 – Chad Allen, American baseball player and coach
1975 – Orkut Büyükkökten, Turkish computer scientist and engineer, created Orkut
1975 – Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer and coach
1975 – Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (The Brilliant Green and Tommy heavenly6)
1976 – Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder and educator
1976 – Princess Marie of Denmark
1976 – Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast and coach
1977 – Jason Euell, English footballer and coach
1977 – Josh Stewart, American actor
1977 – Sergei Sychyov, Ukrainian-Estonian ice dancer
1978 – Yael Naim, French-Israeli singer-songwriter
1979 – Dan Bălan, Moldovan singer-songwriter and producer (O-Zone)
1980 – Ben Lawson, Australian actor
1980 – Mamiko Noto, Japanese voice actress and singer
1980 – Conor O'Brian, American wrestler
1980 – Kim Poirier, Canadian actress, singer, and producer
1980 – Luke Ravenstahl, American politician, 58th Mayor of Pittsburgh
1981 – Ricky Barnes, American golfer
1981 – Calum Best, American model and actor
1981 – Shim Eun-jin, South Korean singer and actress (Baby V.O.X.)
1981 – Alison Haislip, American actress and producer
1981 – Jens Lekman, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981 – Ty Warren, American football player
1982 – Tank, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
1982 – Jade Edmistone, Australian swimmer
1982 – Alice Eve, English actress
1982 – Elise Ray, American gymnast
1983 – Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
1983 – Melrose Bickerstaff, American model and fashion designer
1983 – Brodie Croyle, American football player
1983 – Dimas Delgado, Spanish footballer
1983 – Jamie Whincup, Australian race car driver
1983 – Myron Wolf Child, Canadian activist (d. 2007)
1984 – Darren Bent, English footballer
1984 – Piret Järvis, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Vanilla Ninja)
1984 – Katarina Gospic, Swedish author
1984 – Antoine Wright, American basketball player
1985 – Kris Humphries, American basketball player
1985 – Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
1986 – Yunho, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (TVXQ)
1986 – Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
1987 – Hayato Ichihara, Japanese actor
1987 – Luisa Värk, Estonian singer
1988 – Bailey Hanks, American actress and singer
1988 – Allison Holker, American actress and dancer
1989 – Craig Cathcart, Northern Irish footballer
1989 – Jonny Flynn, American basketball player
1990 – Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Aida Rybalko, Lithuanian figure skater
1992 – Víctor Mañón, Mexican footballer
1993 – Jonas Heymans, Belgian footballer
1993 – Tinashe, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (The Stunners)
1993 – Teresa Scanlan, American model, Miss America 2011
1995 – Moon Jong-up, South Korean singer and dancer (B.A.P)
1995 – Sam McQueen, English footballer
Deaths
743 – Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Arab caliph (b. 691)
797 – Donnchad Midi, High King of Ireland (b. 733)
891 – Photios I of Constantinople (b. 810)
1215 – Hōjō Tokimasa, Japanese emperor (b. 1138)
1378 – Joanna of Bourbon (b. 1338)
1497 – Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer and educator (b. 1410)
1515 – Aldus Manutius, Italian publisher, founded the Aldine Press (b. 1449)
1585 – Edmund Plowden, English lawyer and scholar (b. 1518)
1593 – Jacques Amyot, French author and translator (b. 1513)
1593 – Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1612 – Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1538)
1617 – Prospero Alpini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1553)
1685 – Charles II of England (b. 1630)
1695 – Ahmed II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1643)
1740 – Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
1775 – William Dowdeswell, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1721)
1783 – Capability Brown, English gardener (b. 1716)
1793 – Carlo Goldoni, Italian-French playwright (b. 1707)
1804 – Joseph Priestley, English scientist and theologist (b. 1733)
1806 – Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Haitian-French general (b. 1762)
1807 – John Reid, Scottish general (b. 1721)
1833 – Pierre André Latreille, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1762)
1834 – Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (b. 1804)
1899 – Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1874)
1899 – Leo von Caprivi, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
1910 – Alfonso Maria Fusco, Italian priest (b. 1839)
1916 – Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat (b. 1867)
1918 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
1929 – Maria Christina of Austria (b. 1858)
1931 – Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1861)
1938 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
1942 – Jaan Soots, Estonian general and politician, 7th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1880)
1951 – Gabby Street, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1882)
1952 – George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
1958 – victims of the Munich air disaster
– Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
– Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
– Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
– Walter Crickmer, English footballer and manager (b. 1900)
– Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
– David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
– Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
– Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
1963 – Abd el-Krim, Moroccan guerrilla leader (b. 1880)
1963 – Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (b. 1933)
1964 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (b. 1869)
1966 – Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film producer (b. 1877)
1966 – Abdurrahman Nafiz Gürman, an officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army (b. 1882)
1967 – Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
1976 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bangladeshi-Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
1976 – Vince Guaraldi, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1928)
1981 – Gilbert Ashton, English cricketer (b. 1896)
1981 – Hugo Montenegro, American composer and conductor (b. 1925)
1981 – Frederica of Hanover (b. 1917)
1985 – James Hadley Chase, English-Swiss soldier and author (b. 1906)
1986 – Frederick Coutts, Scottish 8th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1899)
1986 – Dandy Nichols, English actress (b. 1907)
1986 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center (b. 1912)
1987 – Julien Chouinard, Canadian lawyer and jurist (b. 1929)
1989 – André Cayatte, French director and lawyer (b. 1909)
1989 – Chris Gueffroy, German man, who attempted to climb the Berlin Wall (b. 1968)
1989 – Joe Raposo, American pianist and composer (b. 1937)
1989 – King Tubby, Jamaican DJ, producer, and composer (b. 1941)
1989 – Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian and author (b. 1912)
1990 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American pianist and composer (b. 1913)
1991 – Salvador Luria, Italian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
1991 – Danny Thomas, American singer, actor, and producer (b. 1914)
1993 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1943)
1994 – Joseph Cotten, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
1994 – Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
1995 – James Merrill, American soldier and poet (b. 1926)
1996 – Guy Madison, American actor and producer (b. 1922)
1997 – Roger Laurent, Belgian race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1913)
1998 – Falco, Austrian singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
1998 – José Marroquín Leal, Mexican actor and clown (b. 1933)
1998 – Carl Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
1999 – Danny Dayton, American actor and director (b. 1923)
1999 – Don Dunstan, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (b. 1926)
1999 – Jimmy Roberts, American tenor (b. 1924)
2000 – Phil Walters, American racing driver (b. 1916)
2001 – Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian soldier and journalist (b. 1897)
2001 – Filemon Lagman, Filipino theoretician and activist (b. 1953)
2002 – Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
2002 – Osman Bölükbaşı, Turkish politician and political party leader (b. 1913)
2004 – Gerald Bouey, Canadian lieutenant and economist (b. 1920)
2005 – Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005 – Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (b. 1913)
2006 – Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, American actor and singer (b. 1925)
2007 – Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)
2007 – Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
2007 – Len Hopkins, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1930)
2007 – Frankie Laine, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1913)
2007 – Harry Webster, English engineer (b. 1927)
2007 – Willye White, American runner and long jumper (b. 1939)
2008 – John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
2008 – Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)
2009 – Philip Carey, American actor (b. 1925)
2009 – James Whitmore, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
2011 – Gary Moore, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Skid Row and Thin Lizzy) (b. 1952)
2012 – David Rosenhan, American psychologist and academic (b. 1929)
2012 – Antoni Tàpies, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
2012 – Janice E. Voss, American engineer and astronaut (b. 1956)
2013 – Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (b. 1923)
2013 – Alden Mason, American painter and academic (b. 1919)
2014 – Vasiľ Biľak, Slovak tailor and politician (b. 1917)
2014 – Alison Jolly, American-English primatologist and zoologist (b. 1937)
2014 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922)
2014 – Maxine Kumin, American author and poet (b. 1925)
2015 – André Brink, South African author and playwright (b. 1935)
2015 – Marisa Del Frate, Italian actress and singer (b. 1931)
2015 – Assia Djebar, Algerian-French author and translator (b. 1936)
2015 – Alan Nunnelee, American lawyer and politician (b. 1958)
2015 – Pedro León Zapata, Venezuelan cartoonist (b. 1929)
Holidays and observances
Christian feast day:
Amand
Dorothea of Caesarea
Mateo Correa Magallanes (one of Saints of the Cristero War)
Paul Miki and Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan
Titus
Vedastus
February 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (United Nations)
Ronald Reagan Day (California)
Sami National Day (Russia, Finland, Norway and Sweden)
Waitangi Day, celebrates the founding of New Zealand in 1840.
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