February 5

February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 329 days remaining until the end of the year (330 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links

Events
62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. 756 – An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan. 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. 1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1782 – Spanish defeat British forces and capture Minorca. 1783 – In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins. 1807 – HMS Blenheim (1761) and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues. 1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins. 1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. 1849 – University of Wisconsin–Madison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy. 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. 1859 – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state. 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. 1887 – Verdi's opera Otello is first performed in Teatro alla Scala. 1905 – in Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialities. 1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane. 1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia. 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. 1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk. 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists. 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips". 1933 – Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. 1937 – United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes his Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 in an attempt to reduce legal opposition to his New Deal. 1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain. 1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea. 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. 1946 – The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea. 1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. 1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence. 1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law. 1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission. 1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. 1975 – Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship. 1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ. 1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years. 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. 1994 – Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo. 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. 2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya. 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion. 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.

Births
976 – Emperor Sanjō of Japan (d. 1017) 1505 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian and author (d. 1572) 1519 – René of Châlon, (d. 1544) 1534 – Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian soldier, composer, and critic (d. 1612) 1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet and educator (d. 1669) 1594 – Biagio Marini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1663) 1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1666) 1626 – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696) 1650 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (d. 1708) 1703 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-American minister (d. 1764) 1723 – John Witherspoon, Scottish-American minister and academic (d. 1794) 1725 – James Otis, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1783) 1748 – Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer and conductor (d. 1798) 1784 – Nancy Lincoln, American mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818) 1788 – Robert Peel, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1850) 1795 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (d. 1871) 1804 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet and hymn-writer (d. 1877) 1808 – Carl Spitzweg, German painter and poet (d. 1885) 1827 – Peter Lalor, Irish-Australian activist and politician (d. 1889) 1810 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer (d. 1880) 1837 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Church, Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers (d. 1899) 1840 – John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, co-founded Dunlop Rubber (d. 1921) 1840 – Hiram Maxim, American-English engineer, invented the Maxim gun (d. 1916) 1847 – Eduard Magnus Jakobson, Estonian missionary and engraver (d. 1903) 1848 – Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (d. 1907) 1848 – Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean lieutenant (d. 1882) 1848 – Belle Starr, American criminal (d. 1889) 1852 – Terauchi Masatake, Japanese field marshal and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1919) 1866 – Domhnall Ua Buachalla, Irish politician, 3rd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1963) 1876 – Ernie McLea, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1931) 1878 – André Citroën, French engineer and businessman, founded Citroën (d. 1935) 1880 – Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (d. 1973) 1889 – Patsy Hendren, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1962) 1889 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1962) 1889 – Recep Peker, Turkish officer and politician (d. 1950) 1897 – Dirk Stikker, Dutch businessman and politician, 3rd Secretary General of NATO (d. 1979) 1900 – Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier, politician, and diplomat, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1965) 1903 – Sakari Momoi, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2015) 1903 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1975) 1906 – John Carradine, American actor and singer (d. 1988) 1907 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000) 1908 – Marie Baron, Dutch swimmer and diver (d. 1948) 1908 – Peg Entwistle, Welsh-American actress (d. 1932) 1908 – Daisy and Violet Hilton, English conjoined twins (d. 1969) 1909 – Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1969) 1910 – Charles Philippe Leblond, French-Canadian biologist and academic (d. 2007) 1910 – Francisco Varallo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2010) 1911 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960) 1914 – William S. Burroughs, American author and painter (d. 1997) 1914 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist, biophysicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) 1915 – Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990) 1917 – Ruth Mott, English chef and author (d. 2012) 1917 – Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress (d. 2012) 1919 – Red Buttons, American actor (d. 2006) 1919 – Tim Holt, American actor (d. 1973) 1919 – Andreas Papandreou, Greek economist and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1996) 1920 – Frank Muir, English actor and playwright (d. 1998) 1921 – Ken Adam, German-born English production designer and art director (d. 2016) 1923 – Fatmawati, Indonesian wife of Sukarno, 1st First Lady of Indonesia (d. 1980) 1923 – Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013) 1924 – Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal (d. 2014) 1927 – Robert Allen, American pianist and composer (d. 2000) 1927 – Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch captain and pilot (d. 1977) 1928 – Tage Danielsson, Swedish author, actor, and director (d. 1985) 1928 – Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, and author (d. 2013) 1928 – P. J. Vatikiotis, Israeli-American historian and political scientist (d. 1997) 1929 – Luc Ferrari, French pianist and composer (d. 2005) 1929 – Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician, 19th Chancellor of Austria (d. 2008) 1932 – Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2016) 1933 – Jörn Donner, Finnish director and screenwriter 1933 – B.S. Johnson, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1973) 1934 – Hank Aaron. American baseball player 1934 – Don Cherry, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster 1935 – Alex Harvey, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982) 1936 – K. S. Nissar Ahmed, Indian poet and academic 1937 – Stuart Damon, American actor and singer 1937 – Larry Hillman, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1937 – Gaston Roelants, Belgian runner 1937 – Alar Toomre, Estonian-American astronomer and mathematician 1937 – Wang Xuan, Chinese computer scientist and academic (d. 2006) 1938 – Rafael Nieto Navia, Colombian lawyer, jurist, and diplomat 1939 – Brian Luckhurst, English cricketer (d. 2005) 1940 – H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (d. 2014) 1940 – Luke Graham, American wrestler (d. 2006) 1940 – Dick Warlock, Canadian actor and stuntman 1941 – Stephen J. Cannell. American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010) 1941 – David Selby, American actor and playwright 1941 – Kaspar Villiger, Swiss engineer and politician, 85th President of the Swiss Confederation 1941 – Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night) (d. 2015) 1942 – Roger Staubach, American football player and sportscaster 1942 – Susan Hill, English author 1943 – Nolan Bushnell, American engineer and businessman, founded Atari, Inc. 1943 – Michael Mann, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1943 – Craig Morton, American football player and sportscaster 1944 – Henfil, Brazilian journalist, author, and illustrator (d. 1988) 1944 – J. R. Cobb, American guitarist and songwriter (Classics IV and Atlanta Rhythm Section) 1944 – Al Kooper, American singer-songwriter and producer (Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears) 1944 – Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (d. 1971) 1945 – Douglas Hogg, English lawyer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1946 – Amnon Dankner, Israeli journalist and author (d. 2013) 1946 – Mauro Pagani, Italian singer-songwriter and violinist (Premiata Forneria Marconi) 1946 – Charlotte Rampling, English actress, model and chanteuse 1947 – Regina Duarte, Brazilian actress 1947 – Clemente Mastella, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Justice 1947 – Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver and sportscaster 1948 – Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish footballer and manager 1948 – Christopher Guest, American actor and director 1948 – Barbara Hershey, American actress 1948 – Errol Morris, American director and producer 1948 – Tom Wilkinson, English actor 1949 – Kurt Beck, German soldier and politician 1949 – Yvon Vallières, Canadian educator and politician 1950 – Catherine Castel, French actress and makeup artist 1950 – Jonathan Freeman, American actor and singer 1951 – Russell Grant, English astrologer and author 1951 – Nikolay Merkushkin, Mordovian engineer and politician, 1st Head of the Republic of Mordovia 1951 – Robin Sachs, English-American actor (d. 2013) 1951 – Elizabeth Swados, American composer and director (d. 2016) 1952 – Daniel Balavoine, French singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1986) 1952 – Vladimir Moskovkin, Ukrainian-Russian geographer, economist, and academic 1953 – Freddie Aguilar, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist 1953 – John Beilein, American basketball player and coach 1953 – Gustavo Benítez, Paraguayan footballer and manager 1954 – Cliff Martinez, American drummer and songwriter (Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Dickies, and The Weirdos) 1954 – Frank Walker, Australian journalist and author 1955 – Mike Heath, American baseball player and manager 1955 – Kenji Ohba, Japanese actor 1956 – Héctor Rebaque, Mexican race car driver 1956 – David Wiesner, American author and illustrator 1957 – Jüri Tamm, Estonian hammer thrower and politician 1957 – Nick Laird-Clowes, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dream Academy and Pink Floyd) 1959 – Sudip Chatterjee, Indian footballer and manager (d. 2006) 1959 – Jennifer Granholm Canadian-American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Michigan 1959 – Armando Husillos, Argentinian footballer and manager 1960 – Aris Christofellis, Greek soprano and musicologist 1960 – Bonnie Crombie, Canadian businesswoman and politician, 6th Mayor of Mississauga 1961 – Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager 1961 – Tim Meadows, American actor and screenwriter 1961 – Hakan Peker, Turkish singer-songwriter and dancer 1962 – Jacqui Dankworth, English singer and actress 1962 – Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress, producer, and screenwriter 1963 – Steven Shainberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1964 – Laura Linney, American actress 1964 – Duff McKagan, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Loaded, and Neurotic Outsiders) 1964 – Helena Bergström, Swedish actress, director, and screenwriter 1964 – Piotr Trzaskalski, Polish director and screenwriter 1964 – Alexia Vassiliou, Cypriot singer-songwriter 1965 – Tarik Benhabiles, Algerian-French tennis player and coach 1965 – Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer and manager 1965 – Keith Moseley, American bass player and songwriter (The String Cheese Incident) 1966 – Jonathan Morgan, American porn actor and director 1966 – Dean Nalder, Australian footballer and politician 1966 – José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer 1966 – Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (d. 1993) 1967 – Chris Parnell, American actor 1968 – Roberto Alomar, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach 1968 – Marcus Grönholm, Finnish race car driver 1969 – Bobby Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (New Edition) 1969 – Michael Sheen, Welsh actor and director 1970 – Jean-Marc Jaumin, Belgian basketball player and coach 1970 – Darren Lehmann, Australian cricketer and coach 1971 – Michel Breistroff, French ice hockey player (d. 1996) 1971 – Sara Evans, American singer-songwriter 1972 – Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark 1972 – Brad Fittler, Australian rugby player, coach, and sportscaster 1973 – Richard Matvichuk, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1973 – Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch singer-songwriter 1973 – Luke Ricketson, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster 1974 – Juha Tapio, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1974 – Jenny Alversjö, Swedish television presenter 1975 – Adam Carson, American drummer (AFI and Tiger Army) 1975 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer and manager 1976 – John Aloisi, Australian footballer and manager 1976 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor, singer, and producer 1976 – Tony Jaa, Thai actor and martial artist 1976 – Brian Moorman, American football player 1977 – Ben Ainslie, English sailor 1977 – Simone Cristicchi, Italian singer-songwriter 1977 – Adam Everett, American baseball player and coach 1977 – Andrew Baldwin, American soldier, physician, and triathlete 1977 – Andrejs Prohorenkovs, Latvian footballer and manager 1977 – Elin Topuzakov, Bulgarian footballer and manager 1978 – Brian Russell, American football player 1978 – Samuel Sánchez, Spanish cyclist 1980 – Stefano Di Fiordo, Italian footballer 1980 – Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer, created LiveJournal 1980 – Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia 1980 – Tiwa Savage, Nigerian singer-songwriter and actress 1980 – Jo Swinson, English politician 1981 – Sara Michael Foster, American actress and producer 1981 – Mia Hansen-Løve, French director and screenwriter 1981 – Loukas Vyntra, Czech-Greek footballer 1981 – Nora Zehetner, American actress 1981 – Julie Zenatti, French singer and actress 1982 – Wheesung, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer 1982 – Kevin Everett, American football player 1982 – Tomáš Kopecký, Slovak ice hockey player 1982 – Rodrigo Palacio, Argentinian footballer 1983 – Sanna Askelöf, Swedish martial artist 1984 – Carlos Tevez, Argentinian footballer 1985 – Lindsey Cardinale, American singer 1985 – Constantinos Georgiades, Cypriot footballer 1985 – Lloyd Johansson, Australian rugby player 1985 – Julia Kova, Russian model and singer, Miss Universe Russia 2003 1985 – Laurence Maroney, American football player 1985 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer 1985 – Tatiana Silva, Belgian model, Miss Belgium 2005 1986 – Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian footballer 1986 – Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer 1986 – Gerardo Flores, Mexican footballer 1986 – Sekope Kepu, Australian-New Zealand rugby player 1986 – Roger Kluge, German cyclist 1986 – Sebastián Pinto, Chilean footballer 1986 – Madison Rayne, American wrestler 1986 – Billy Sharp, English footballer 1986 – Reed Sorenson, American race car driver 1986 – Carlos Villanueva, Chilean footballer 1987 – Darren Criss, American actor and singer 1987 – Curtis Jerrells, American basketball player 1987 – Alex Kuznetsov, Ukrainian-American tennis player 1987 – Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player 1987 – Donald Sanford, American-Israeli sprinter 1988 – Natalie Geisenberger, German luger 1988 – Štěpán Kodeda, Czech orienteering competitor (d. 2015) 1988 – Kevin J. Maclean, Scottish singer-songwriter 1988 – Karin Ontiveros, Mexican model and sportscaster 1989 – Marina Melnikova, Russian tennis player 1989 – Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress 1989 – Jeremy Sumpter, American actor 1990 – Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player 1990 – Lars Krogh Gerson, Luxembourgian-Norwegian footballer 1990 – Kim Ji-soo, South Korean singer-songwriter 1990 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian cricketer 1990 – Jordan Rhodes, Scottish footballer 1991 – Nabil Bahoui, Swedish footballer 1991 – Alba Riquelme, Paraguayan model, Miss Paraguay 2011 1991 – Gerald Tusha, Albanian footballer 1992 – Neymar, Brazilian footballer 1992 – Nabilla Benattia, French model 1992 – Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer 1993 – Aleksandr Ilyin, Russian footballer 1993 – Ty Rattie, Canadian ice hockey player 1994 – Arisa Komiya, Japanese actress and model 1994 – Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer and actress (Cute and Guardians 4) 1995 – Adnan Januzaj, Belgian-Albanian footballer 1997 – Patrick Roberts, English footballer 1998 – Sara Tomic, Australian tennis player 2001 – Juan Karlos Labajo, Filipino singer and actor 2002 – Davis Cleveland, American actor 2016 – The Gyalsey, heir to the Bhutanese throne

Deaths
523 – Avitus of Vienne, Latin archbishop and saint (b. 470) 806 – Emperor Kanmu, Japanese emperor (b. 737) 1578 – Giovanni Battista Moroni, Italian painter (b. 1520) 1705 – Philipp Spener, German theologian and author (b. 1635) 1751 – Henri François d'Aguesseau, French jurist and politician, Chancellor of France (b. 1668) 1754 – Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch astronomer and cartographer (b. 1678) 1766 – Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) 1775 – Eusebius Amort, German theologian and academic (b. 1692) 1790 – William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710) 1807 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican commander and politician (b. 1725) 1881 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, historian, and academic (b. 1795) 1882 – Adolfo Rivadeneyra, Spanish orientalist and diplomat (b. 1841) 1892 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish author (b. 1807) 1915 – Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1850) 1917 – Jaber II Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860) 1922 – Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854) 1922 – Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the Mechanical pencil (b. 1871) 1927 – Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882) 1931 – Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849) 1933 – Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician (b. 1863) 1937 – Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1861) 1938 – Hans Litten, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1903) 1941 – Banjo Paterson, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1864) 1941 – Otto Strandman, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1875) 1946 – George Arliss, English actor and playwright (b. 1868) 1948 – Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883) 1952 – Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (b. 1877) 1955 – Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and author (b. 1885) 1957 – Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon and author (b. 1890) 1962 – Jacques Ibert, French-Swiss composer (b. 1890) 1967 – Leon Leonwood Bean, American businessman, founded L.L.Bean (b. 1872) 1967 – Violeta Parra, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917) 1969 – Thelma Ritter, American actress and singer (b. 1902) 1970 – Rudy York, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1913) 1972 – Marianne Moore, American poet, author, critic, and translator (b. 1887) 1976 – Rudy Pompilli, American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1926) 1977 – Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894) 1981 – Ella T. Grasso, American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919) 1982 – Neil Aggett, Kenyan-South African physician and union leader (b. 1953) 1983 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American chemist and academic (b. 1925) 1984 – Santo, Mexican wrestler and actor (b. 1917) 1987 – William Collier, Jr., American actor and producer (b. 1902) 1989 – Joe Raposo, American pianist and composer (b. 1937) 1991 – Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903) 1992 – Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (b. 1913) 1993 – Seán Flanagan, Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (b. 1922) 1993 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909) 1993 – William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (b. 1916) 1995 – Doug McClure, American actor and singer (b. 1935) 1997 – Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (b. 1920) 1997 – René Huyghe, French historian and author (b. 1906) 1998 – Tim Kelly, American guitarist (Slaughter) (b. 1963) 1999 – Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) 2000 – Claude Autant-Lara, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901) 2004 – John Hench, American animator (b. 1908) 2005 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Togolese general and politician, President of Togo (b. 1937) 2005 – Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1921) 2006 – Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress (b. 1927) 2006 – Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928) 2007 – Leo T. McCarthy, New Zealand-American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1930) 2007 – Alfred Worm, Austrian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1945) 2008 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founded Transcendental Meditation (b. 1918) 2010 – Brendan Burke, Canadian ice hockey player and activist (b. 1988) 2010 – Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 13th South Africa Ambassador to United States (b. 1924) 2011 – Brian Jacques, English author and radio host (b. 1939) 2011 – Peggy Rea, American actress and casting director (b. 1921) 2012 – Sam Coppola, American actor (b. 1932) 2012 – Al De Lory, American keyboard player, conductor, and producer (b. 1930) 2012 – John Turner Sargent, Sr., American publisher (b. 1924) 2012 – Jo Zwaan, Dutch sprinter (b. 1922) 2013 – Stuart Freeborn, English make up artist (b. 1914) 2013 – Reinaldo Gargano, Uruguayan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Uruguay (b. 1934) 2013 – Egil Hovland, Norwegian composer and conductor (b. 1924) 2013 – Tom McGuigan, New Zealand soldier and politician, 23rd New Zealand Minister of Health (b. 1921) 2014 – Robert A. Dahl, American political scientist and academic (b. 1915) 2014 – Samantha Juste, English-American singer and television host (b. 1944) 2015 – K. N. Choksy, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka (b. 1933) 2015 – Marisa Del Frate, Italian actress and singer (b. 1931) 2015 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) 2015 – Herman Rosenblat, Polish-American author (b. 1929) 2016 – Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (b. 1919)

Holidays and observances
Christian feast day: Agatha of Sicily Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson (Episcopal Church (USA)) Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan (in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Anglican Church in Japan) February 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Constitution Day (Mexico) Crown Princess Mary's birthday (Denmark) Kashmir Solidarity Day (Pakistan) Liberation Day (San Marino) National Weatherperson's Day (United States) Runeberg's Birthday (Finland) Unity Day (Burundi)