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The day the music died
Woodrow Wilson dies
Cousteau publishes The Silent World
Jeanne de Bourbon wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)
Friedrich Wilhelm baron von Seydlitz Prussian general born in Kalkar Germany l (d. 1773)
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Austria organistcomposer
Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld] German author
John Fane graaf van Westmorland English (opera)composerdiplomat
Antonio Jos de Sucre South American independence leader (d. 1830)
Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel premier Prussia
Samuel Ryan Curtis American politician and Major General (Union Army) born in Champlain New York (d. 1866)
Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse French geologist (d. 1881)
Elisha Kent Kane US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
Spencer F Baird US biologist (Woods Hole Station)
George Thomas Tige Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Nathan George Shanks Evans American Brigadier-General (Confederate States Army) born in Marion County South Carolina (d. 1868)
Ranald MacDonald Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
Walter Bagehot England economistsociologist
Cyrus Ballou Comstock American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Wrentham Massachusetts (d. 1910)
Sidney Clopton Lanier American composerpoet (Hall of Fame)
Ernest von Wildenbruch German playwright (Sedan)
Johannes B van Heutsz lt-gengov-gen Dutch East Indies
Lord Harris cricketer (4 Tests for England MCC big-wig)
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen Copenhagen Danish Botanist and Geneticist who provided evidence for Hugo de Vries mutation theory
Hugo Junkers German aircraft designer (d. 1935)
Martinus Ballings Flemish jesuitauthor (Will Power)
Ada Negri Italian poetauthor (Il Libro di Mara)
Franklin Dyall British actor (Easy Virtue Atlantic) born in Liverpool England (d. 1950)
Lou Criger American baseball player (d. 1934)
Gertrude Stein Penn author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
William Tedmarsh British silent movie actor (Two Beds and No Sleep) born in London England (d. 1937)
Joseph Gordon Coates Prime Minister of New Zealand (1925-28) born in Ruatuna New Zealand (d. 1943)
Charles Follis 1st African American NFLer (Shelby Ohio)
Arnoldus JH Aerts bishop of Neth-Guinea (1920-42)
Trijntje Jansma-Boskma oldest person in the Netherlands
Camille Bombois French circus wrestlerpainter
Feb 03 1377 Mass execution of population (between 2500 and 5000) of Cesena Italy by Breton troops of Giovanni Acuto under the command of Robert Cardinal of Geneva acting as the legate of Pope Gregory XI
Feb 03 1451 Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire
Feb 03 1509 The Battle of Diu naval battle at port of Diu India between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire establishes Portugese trading control