page_title: February 2
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: February 2 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Español: Fotografía promocional del actor británico Boris Karloff.
context_page_description: February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 332 days remain until the end of the year.
context_section_description: 619 – Laurence of Canterbury, English archbishop and saint
  880 – Bruno, duke of Saxony
  1124 – Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1064)
  1218 – Konstantin of Rostov (b. 1186)
  1237 – Joan, Lady of Wales
  1250 – Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
  1294 – Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1229)
  1347 – Thomas Bek, Bishop of Lincoln, was the bishop of Lincoln (b. 1282)
  1348 – Narymunt, Prince of Pinsk
  1435 – Joan II of Naples, Queen of Naples (b. 1371)
  1446 – Vittorino da Feltre, Italian humanist (b. 1378)
  1448 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1372)
  1461 – Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty (b. c. 1400)
  1512 – Hatuey, Caribbean tribal chief
  1529 – Baldassare Castiglione, Italian soldier and diplomat (b. 1478)
  1580 – Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1558)
  1594 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer and educator (b. 1525)
  1648 – George Abbot, English author and politician (b. 1603)
  1660 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans (b. 1608)
  1660   – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
  1661 – Lucas Holstenius, German geographer and historian (b. 1596)
  1675 – Ivan Belostenec, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (b. 1594)
  1688 – Abraham Duquesne, French admiral (b. 1610)
  1704 – Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician and academic (b. 1661)
  1712 – Martin Lister, English physician and geologist (b. 1639)
  1714 – John Sharp, English archbishop (b. 1643)
  1723 – Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
  1768 – Robert Smith, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
  1769 – Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
  1802 – Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1713)
  1804 – George Walton, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1749)
  1831 – Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (b. 1768)
  1836 – Letizia Ramolino, Italian noblewoman (b. 1750)
  1861 – Théophane Vénard, French Catholic missionary (b. 1829)
  1881 – Henry Parker, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1808)
  1904 – Ernest Cashel, American-Canadian criminal (b. 1882)
  1904   – William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1841)
  1905 – Henri Germain, French banker and politician, founded Le Crédit Lyonnais (b. 1824)
  1907 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (b. 1834)
  1909 – Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
  1913 – Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
  1918 – John L. Sullivan, American boxer (b. 1858)
  1919 – Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian lieutenant (b. 1894)
  1925 – Antti Aarne, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1867)
  1925   – Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
  1926 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general and politician (b. 1848)
  1932 – Agha Petros, Assyrian general and politician (b. 1880)
  1939 – Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (b. 1879)
  1942 – Ado Birk, Estonian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1883)
  1942   – Daniil Kharms, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1905)
  1942   – Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (b. 1876)
  1945 – Alfred Delp, German priest and philosopher (b. 1907)
  1945   – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German economist and politician (b. 1884)
  1945   – Johannes Popitz, German lawyer and politician (b. 1884)
  1948 – Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1870)
  1948   – Bevil Rudd, South African runner and journalist (b. 1894)
  1950 – Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician and academic (b. 1873)
  1952 – Callistratus of Georgia, Georgian patriarch (b. 1866)
  1954 – Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author and politician (b. 1886)
  1956 – Charley Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
  1956   – Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (b. 1878)
  1956   – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
  1957 – Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1890)
  1962 – Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1914)
  1966 – Hacı Ömer Sabancı, Turkish businessman (b. 1906)
  1968 – Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor and director (b. 1878)
  1969 – Boris Karl
caption: Boris Karloff
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