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22,879 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

Roberto Cortés
association football player
1905–1975 · aged 70
February 2 · 1905
Source: worldfootball.net
Ricardo Odnoposoff
violinist, concertmaster
1914–2004 · aged 90
February 24 · 1914
Source: Discogs
Nandita Shah
homeopath
67 years old
February 15 · 1959
Source: wholehealthnow.com
Steven Thicot
association football player
39 years old
February 14 · 1987
Source: As
Jonny Nilsson
politician, speed skater
1943–2022 · aged 79
February 9 · 1943
Source: speedskatinghalloffame.com
Vladimir Hernández
association football player
37 years old
February 8 · 1989
Source: Argentine Soccer Database
Gela Bolkvadze
amateur wrestler
31 years old
February 16 · 1995
No external source identified
Shiu-Ying Hu
botanist, botanical collector
1910–2012 · aged 102
February 22 · 1910
No external source identified
Ali Traoré
basketball player
41 years old
February 28 · 1985
Source: ACB.com
Elias Holl
master builder, architect
1573–1646 · aged 72
February 28 · 1573
Source: RKDartists
Konrad Krzyżanowski
painter
1872–1922 · aged 50
February 15 · 1872
Source: RKDartists
Luis de Madrazo
artist, painter
1825–1897 · aged 71
February 27 · 1825
Source: Artists of the World Online
Julius Falkenstein
film actor, actor
1879–1933 · aged 54
February 25 · 1879
Source: Find a Grave
John Eatton Le Conte*
entomologist, engineer
Date disputed
February 22 · 1784
Source: worldlibrary.org
Yoshiyuki Hasegawa
association football player
57 years old
February 11 · 1969
Source: Transfermarkt
Valentin Yanin
archaeologist, pedagogue
1929–2020 · aged 90
February 6 · 1929
Source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
Aimee Willmott
swimmer
33 years old
February 26 · 1993
No external source identified
Milaim Rama
association football player
50 years old
February 29 · 1976
Source: Transfermarkt
Wilfred Moke
association football player
38 years old
February 12 · 1988
Source: FBref
Aldo Ceccato
conductor, composer
92 years old
February 18 · 1934
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Hassan Wasswa
association football player
38 years old
February 14 · 1988
Source: Transfermarkt
Masuo Ikeda
printer, film director
1934–1997 · aged 63
February 23 · 1934
Source: Ikeda, Masuo
Hans Tikkanen
chess player
41 years old
February 6 · 1985
No external source identified
Aleksander Šeliga
association football player
46 years old
February 1 · 1980
Source: Transfermarkt
Leonora O'Reilly
trade unionist
1870–1927 · aged 57
February 16 · 1870
Source: FemBio database
Béla Katona
engineer, politician
82 years old
February 9 · 1944
No external source identified
Soledad Puértolas
writer
79 years old
February 3 · 1947
Source: Babelio
Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender
director, university teacher
1897–1978 · aged 80
February 19 · 1897
Source: Q123154300
Martin Vries
military engineer, map drawer
1589–1647
February 18 · 1589
No external source identified
Emanuele Birarelli
volleyball player
45 years old
February 8 · 1981
No external source identified
Arthur Ceuleers
association football player, association football coach
1916–1998 · aged 82
February 28 · 1916
Source: FBref
Giorgio de Stefani
tennis player
1904–1992 · aged 88
February 24 · 1904
No external source identified
Arnold Wetl
association football player
56 years old
February 2 · 1970
Source: Transfermarkt
Shūsei Tokuda
novelist, writer
1872–1943 · aged 71
February 1 · 1872
Source: BnF authorities
Sarah Lahti
athletics competitor
31 years old
February 18 · 1995
Source: World Athletics database
Rita Kuti-Kis
tennis player
48 years old
February 13 · 1978
Source: WTA website
Silvio D'Amico
writer, music critic
1887–1955 · aged 68
February 3 · 1887
Source: Croatian Encyclopedia
Maria Antonelli
beach volleyball player, volleyball player
42 years old
February 25 · 1984
No external source identified
Dmitry Livanov
jurist, university teacher
59 years old
February 15 · 1967
No external source identified
Carl Borivoj Presl
mycologist, curator
1794–1852
February 17 · 1794
Source: BnF authorities
Ellen Trane Nørby
art historian, chairperson of the executive board
46 years old
February 1 · 1980
Source: ft.dk
Kenny Anderson
association football player
34 years old
February 14 · 1992
Source: Transfermarkt
Richard Andree
ethnologist, journalist
1835–1912 · aged 76
February 26 · 1835
Source: BnF authorities
Ofer Shelach
politician, opinion journalist
66 years old
February 9 · 1960
Source: SNAC
Tony deBrum
politician
1945–2017 · aged 72
February 25 · 1945
Source: climatechangenews.com
Carlos Campos*
association football coach, association football player
Date disputed
February 14 · 1937
No external source identified
Aldus Manutius the Younger
humanist, publisher
1547–1597 · aged 50
February 23 · 1547
Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
Robert Favart
film actor, actor
1911–2003 · aged 92
February 19 · 1911
Source: BnF authorities
Gioacchino Volpe
politician, historian
1876–1971 · aged 95
February 16 · 1876
Source: Treccani's Enciclopedia on line
Paulino Rivero
school teacher, politician
74 years old
February 11 · 1952
No external source identified
Abdelmunim al-Rifai
politician, diplomat
1917–1985 · aged 68
February 23 · 1917
No external source identified
Sim Var
politician
1906–1989
February 2 · 1906
No external source identified
Kenza Tazi
alpine skier
30 years old
February 6 · 1996
No external source identified
Nico Rienks
rower
64 years old
February 1 · 1962
Source: Sports-Reference.com
Ivan Nikčević
handball player
45 years old
February 11 · 1981
No external source identified
Vladimir Voskoboinikov
association football coach, association football player
43 years old
February 2 · 1983
Source: Biographical lexicon of Estonian sport
Dejan Lazarević
association football player
36 years old
February 15 · 1990
Source: Transfermarkt
Giuseppe Ricciotti
translator, encyclopedist
1890–1964 · aged 73
February 27 · 1890
Source: BeWeB
Bernardo Piñango
boxer
66 years old
February 9 · 1960
No external source identified
Francis Sejersted
historian, professor
1936–2015 · aged 79
February 8 · 1936
Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon
Hugo Brizuela
association football coach, association football player
57 years old
February 8 · 1969
Source: National-Football-Teams.com
Fabien Camus
association football player
41 years old
February 28 · 1985
Source: Transfermarkt
Boris Zaytsev
poet, translator
1881–1972 · aged 90
February 10 · 1881
Source: BnF authorities
Bibiana Aído
United Nations official, politician
49 years old
February 2 · 1977
No external source identified
Soja Jovanović
film director, screenwriter
1922–2002 · aged 80
February 1 · 1922
Source: IMDb
Deimantė Daulytė-Cornette
chess player
37 years old
February 22 · 1989
No external source identified
Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky
writer, journalist
1874–1943
February 20 · 1874
Source: Writers of St. Petersburg. XX century
Carl Paul Caspari
essayist, translator
1814–1892 · aged 78
February 8 · 1814
Source: Norsk biografisk leksikon
Louise Dumont
actor, stage actor
1862–1932 · aged 70
February 22 · 1862
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Raffaele Ametrano
association football coach, association football player
53 years old
February 15 · 1973
Source: FBref
Atsushi Kurokawa
association football player
28 years old
February 4 · 1998
Source: Transfermarkt
Roberto Canella
association football player
38 years old
February 7 · 1988
Source: As
Tadeusz Michalik
amateur wrestler
35 years old
February 16 · 1991
Source: iat.uni-leipzig.de
Jeff Henderson
long jumper
37 years old
February 19 · 1989
Source: World Athletics database
Harry Halbreich
musicologist
1931–2016 · aged 85
February 9 · 1931
Source: BnF authorities
Luís Alonso Pérez
association football coach, association football player
1922–1972 · aged 50
February 22 · 1922
No external source identified
Hande Kodja
actor, film actor
42 years old
February 6 · 1984
Source: IMDb
Marina Eltsova
figure skater
56 years old
February 4 · 1970
No external source identified
Erik Nordgren
composer, film score composer
1913–1992 · aged 79
February 13 · 1913
Source: Musicalics
Kōtō Matsudaira
diplomat
1903–1994 · aged 91
February 5 · 1903
Source: Munzinger Personen
Lauren Doyle
rugby sevens player
35 years old
February 23 · 1991
No external source identified
Theodor Eimer
entomologist, university teacher
1843–1898 · aged 55
February 22 · 1843
No external source identified
Gerhard Rühm
musician, poet
96 years old
February 12 · 1930
Source: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartsliteratur
Otto Liebmann
university teacher, philosopher
1840–1912 · aged 71
February 25 · 1840
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Milan Rešetar
university teacher, medievalist
1860–1942 · aged 81
February 1 · 1860
Source: Integrated Authority File
Oskar Lindberg
music teacher, composer
1887–1955 · aged 68
February 23 · 1887
Source: Swedish church birth records
Kurt Binder
theoretical physicist, university teacher
1944–2022 · aged 78
February 10 · 1944
Source: MAK
Johanna Dohnal
industrial management assistant, politician
1939–2010 · aged 71
February 14 · 1939
Source: Austrian Parliament personal database
Iva Prandzheva
athletics competitor
54 years old
February 15 · 1972
Source: World Athletics database
Johann Friedrich Rochlitz
music journalist, composer
1769–1842 · aged 73
February 12 · 1769
Source: CERL Thesaurus
Helen Hoffmann
cross-country skier, winter sports practitioner
24 years old
February 7 · 2002
Source: lausanne2020.sport
Karl Joseph Simrock*
poet lawyer, jurist
Date disputed
February 28 · 1802
Source: Integrated Authority File
Aivars Gipslis
Grandmaster, correspondence chess player
1937–2000 · aged 63
February 8 · 1937
Source: SNAC
Paolo Ghiglione
association football player
29 years old
February 2 · 1997
Source: Transfermarkt
Felix Platte
association football player
30 years old
February 11 · 1996
Source: As
Tulio Luis Ramírez Padilla
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
1960–2026 · aged 66
February 28 · 1960
No external source identified
Luciano Bodini
association football player
72 years old
February 12 · 1954
Source: Transfermarkt
Erik Bryggman
architect, visual artist
1891–1955 · aged 64
February 7 · 1891
Source: Register of the Artists' Association of Finland
Rudolf Illovszky
association football player, association football coach
1922–2008 · aged 86
February 21 · 1922
Source: Transfermarkt
Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
1820–1898 · aged 78
February 17 · 1820
Source: Find a Grave
Moti Yogev
military officer, politician
70 years old
February 22 · 1956
Source: knesset.gov.il
Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson
handball player
42 years old
February 17 · 1984
No external source identified
Georg Weerth
poet, writer
1822–1856 · aged 34
February 17 · 1822
Source: Integrated Authority File
William Henry Howell
medical author, physician
1860–1945 · aged 84
February 20 · 1860
Source: SNAC
Huang Zhangjiayang
rhythmic gymnast
26 years old
February 15 · 2000
No external source identified
V. A. Urechia
heraldist, diplomat
1834–1901 · aged 67
February 15 · 1834
Source: arheologi.ro
Ryhor Baradulin
writer, literary critic
1935–2014 · aged 79
February 24 · 1935
Source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)
Wally Hardinge
cricketer, association football player
1886–1965 · aged 79
February 25 · 1886
No external source identified
Anna Dogonadze
athlete, trampoline gymnast
53 years old
February 15 · 1973
Source: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia
Jan Skácel
editing staff, writer
1922–1989 · aged 67
February 7 · 1922
Source: Regional personalities of Hodonínsk
Steingrímur Steinþórsson
head of government, politician
1893–1966 · aged 73
February 12 · 1893
No external source identified
Elfi von Dassanowsky
singer, pianist
1924–2007 · aged 83
February 2 · 1924
Source: KALLIOPE Austria
Jamal Ali
association football coach, association football player
70 years old
February 2 · 1956
No external source identified
Fernand Sanz
sport cyclist, boxer
1881–1925
February 28 · 1881
No external source identified
Joseph Anthony Zziwa
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
70 years old
February 16 · 1956
No external source identified
Lito
association football coach, association football player
51 years old
February 3 · 1975
Source: Transfermarkt
Amanuel Gebremichael
association football player
27 years old
February 5 · 1999
No external source identified
Bob Benson
association football player
1883–1916 · aged 33
February 9 · 1883
No external source identified
Zach Wells
association football player
45 years old
February 26 · 1981
No external source identified
Alexander Goldin
chess player
62 years old
February 27 · 1964
No external source identified
Friedrich Christian Delius
writer, poet
1943–2022 · aged 79
February 13 · 1943
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Pedro Luis Jaro
association football coach, association football player
63 years old
February 22 · 1963
Source: Transfermarkt
Peter Arntz
association football player
73 years old
February 5 · 1953
Source: Transfermarkt
Anna-Maria Müller
athlete, luger
1949–2009 · aged 60
February 23 · 1949
Source: Integrated Authority File
Kris Trajanovski
association football player, association football coach
54 years old
February 19 · 1972
Source: Transfermarkt
Juan Burgueño
association football player
1923–1997 · aged 74
February 4 · 1923
No external source identified
Dumitru Diacov
politician, journalist
74 years old
February 10 · 1952
No external source identified
José Ignacio Wert
sociologist, politician
76 years old
February 18 · 1950
No external source identified
Sabjen Lilaj
association football coach, association football player
37 years old
February 18 · 1989
No external source identified
Helmar Lerski
film director, writer
1871–1956 · aged 85
February 18 · 1871
Source: Lerski, Helmar
Geri Çipi
association football player
50 years old
February 28 · 1976
Source: FBref
Anatoli Bashashkin
association football coach, association football player
1924–2002 · aged 78
February 23 · 1924
No external source identified
Milcah Chemos Cheywa
athletics competitor
40 years old
February 24 · 1986
Source: World Athletics database
Allen Woodring
sprinter, athletics competitor
1898–1982 · aged 84
February 15 · 1898
No external source identified
Hervé Giraud
Catholic bishop, Catholic priest
69 years old
February 26 · 1957
Source: BnF authorities
Samuel Rosa Gonçalves
association football player
35 years old
February 25 · 1991
Source: Transfermarkt
Carla Garapedian
film director, director
65 years old
February 27 · 1961
No external source identified
Christoph Janker
association football player
41 years old
February 14 · 1985
Source: Argentine Soccer Database
Daniel Oliver
university teacher, librarian
1830–1916 · aged 86
February 6 · 1830
Source: SNAC
Vasily Molokov
aircraft pilot, politician
1895–1982 · aged 87
February 13 · 1895
No external source identified
Nikola Kovačević
volleyball player, beach volleyball player
43 years old
February 14 · 1983
No external source identified
Ayodele Adetula
association football player
28 years old
February 9 · 1998
Source: Transfermarkt
Hanna Sola
biathlete
30 years old
February 16 · 1996
No external source identified
Frederik Børsting
association football player
31 years old
February 13 · 1995
Source: FBref
Francisco Amoros
military officer, military personnel
1770–1848 · aged 78
February 19 · 1770
Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary
Dorothee Schneider
dressage rider
57 years old
February 17 · 1969
No external source identified
Karine Chemla
historian of mathematics, mathematician
69 years old
February 8 · 1957
Source: AlKindi
Mathieu Giroux
short-track speed skater, speed skater
40 years old
February 3 · 1986
No external source identified
Ronald Petrovický
ice hockey player
49 years old
February 15 · 1977
No external source identified
Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
58 years old
February 6 · 1968
No external source identified

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