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

James Tarjan
librarian, chess player
74 years old
February 22 · 1952
No external source identified
Linsey MacDonald
athletics competitor
62 years old
February 12 · 1964
Source: World Athletics database
Philippe de Girard
engineer, inventor
1775–1845 · aged 70
February 1 · 1775
Source: BnF authorities
Jimmy Murray
association football coach, association football player
1933–2015 · aged 82
February 4 · 1933
Source: Transfermarkt
Iryna Fedyshyn
singer, fashion model
39 years old
February 1 · 1987
No external source identified
Henry Chandler Cowles
botanist, geographer
1869–1939 · aged 70
February 27 · 1869
Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Bhavna Chikhalia
politician
1955–2013 · aged 58
February 14 · 1955
No external source identified
Beverly McDonald
sprinter
56 years old
February 15 · 1970
Source: World Athletics database
Ermin Zec*
association football player
Date disputed
February 18 · 1988
Source: Transfermarkt
Nikita Salogor*
politician
Date disputed
February 8 · 1901
No external source identified
Alberto Chividini
association football player, association football coach
1907–1961 · aged 54
February 23 · 1907
Source: FBref
Birk Risa
association football player
28 years old
February 13 · 1998
Source: Transfermarkt
Bruno Lima
volleyball player
30 years old
February 4 · 1996
Source: cev.eu
Shi Zhiyong
weightlifter
46 years old
February 10 · 1980
No external source identified
Ibrahima Gueye
association football player
48 years old
February 19 · 1978
Source: FBref
Samuel Augustus Barnett
priest
1844–1913 · aged 69
February 8 · 1844
Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Alfonso Caso
lawyer, university teacher
1896–1970 · aged 74
February 1 · 1896
Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Imanol Uribe
film producer, film director
76 years old
February 28 · 1950
Source: spainisculture.com
Paul Althaus
Protestant theologian, New Testament scholar
1888–1966 · aged 78
February 4 · 1888
Source: Munzinger Personen
Marcos Caruso
writer, screenwriter
74 years old
February 22 · 1952
No external source identified
Sone Arasuke
politician, diplomat
1849–1910 · aged 61
February 20 · 1849
No external source identified
Ri Chol-myong
association football player
38 years old
February 18 · 1988
Source: Transfermarkt
Veronica Pivetti
voice actor, stage actor
61 years old
February 19 · 1965
Source: IMDb
Julius Neubronner
director, photographer
1852–1932 · aged 80
February 8 · 1852
Source: filmportal.de
K. V. Rabiya
social worker
1966–2025 · aged 59
February 25 · 1966
No external source identified
Goce Georgievski
handball player
39 years old
February 12 · 1987
No external source identified
Evgeni Gegechkori*
diplomat, politician
Date disputed
February 1 · 1881
Source: Biographical Dictionary of Georgia
Mikhail Gnesin
music educator, professor
1883–1957 · aged 74
February 2 · 1883
Source: Integrated Authority File
Dinesh Nandini Dalmia
poet, writer
1928–2007 · aged 79
February 16 · 1928
No external source identified
Goran Vujević
volleyball player, beach volleyball player
53 years old
February 27 · 1973
No external source identified
Josef Smrkovský
politician
1911–1974 · aged 62
February 26 · 1911
Source: The Fine Art Archive
Marie-Florence Candassamy
fencer
35 years old
February 26 · 1991
Source: the-sports.org
Marino Klinger
association football player
1936–1975 · aged 39
February 7 · 1936
Source: FBref
Sudhir Naik
cricketer
1945–2023 · aged 78
February 21 · 1945
No external source identified
William LeBaron
writer, film producer
1883–1958 · aged 74
February 16 · 1883
Source: International Music Score Library Project
Fellipe Bastos
association football player
36 years old
February 1 · 1990
No external source identified
Arthur Gómez
association football player
42 years old
February 12 · 1984
Source: FBref
Jaak Mae
cross-country skier
54 years old
February 25 · 1972
Source: Biographical lexicon of Estonian sport
Aggie Herring
film actor, actor
1876–1939 · aged 63
February 4 · 1876
Source: IMDb
Anthony Madigan
boxer
1930–2017 · aged 87
February 4 · 1930
No external source identified
Yannis Tafer
association football player
35 years old
February 11 · 1991
Source: FBref
Jan Zwartkruis
association football player, association football coach
1926–2013 · aged 87
February 18 · 1926
No external source identified
Ruwen Filus
table tennis player
38 years old
February 14 · 1988
Source: munzinger.de
Samir Shaker*
association football player, association football coach
Date disputed
February 28 · 1958
Source: Transfermarkt
Charles McLean Andrews
historian, writer
1863–1943 · aged 80
February 22 · 1863
Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Alexander Atabekian
activist, physician
1869–1933
February 2 · 1869
No external source identified
Ruth Gbagbi
taekwondo athlete
32 years old
February 7 · 1994
No external source identified
Mauricio Martínez
association football player
33 years old
February 20 · 1993
Source: FBref
Aron Schmidhuber
association football referee, referee
79 years old
February 28 · 1947
No external source identified
Bruno Touschek
physicist, university teacher
1921–1978
February 3 · 1921
Source: SNAC
Maus Gatsonides
rally driver, racing automobile driver
1911–1998 · aged 87
February 14 · 1911
Source: Nationaal Ontwerp Archief
Ricardo Santos
association football player
39 years old
February 13 · 1987
Source: Transfermarkt
Florence Aubenas
journalist
65 years old
February 6 · 1961
Source: Babelio
Karen Grigoryan
chess player
31 years old
February 25 · 1995
No external source identified
Xie Hui
association football player, association football coach
51 years old
February 14 · 1975
No external source identified
Jakub Sylvestr
association football player
37 years old
February 2 · 1989
Source: Transfermarkt
Roman Wallner
association football player, association football coach
44 years old
February 4 · 1982
Source: Salzburgwiki
Giorgos Arvanitis
cinematographer, actor
85 years old
February 22 · 1941
Source: filmportal.de
Theresa Fitzpatrick
rugby sevens player, rugby union player
31 years old
February 25 · 1995
No external source identified
Ernesto Belis
association football player
117 years old
February 1 · 1909
Source: Transfermarkt
Ole Qvist
police officer, association football coach
76 years old
February 25 · 1950
Source: FBref
Karen Krantzcke*
tennis player
Date disputed
February 1 · 1947
Source: ITF website
Marie de Castellane
salonnière
1840–1915 · aged 75
February 19 · 1840
Source: The Peerage
Claudette Buttigieg
singer, musician
58 years old
February 8 · 1968
Source: Discogs
Rafael Amador
athlete, association football player
1959–2018 · aged 59
February 15 · 1959
Source: Transfermarkt
John Turtle Wood
engineer, anthropologist
1821–1890 · aged 69
February 13 · 1821
Source: Integrated Authority File
Ćiro Truhelka
writer, archaeologist
1865–1942 · aged 77
February 2 · 1865
Source: Croatian Encyclopedia
Markku Aro
singer
76 years old
February 3 · 1950
Source: universalmusic.fr
Vsevolod Kochetov
journalist, prose writer
1912–1973 · aged 61
February 4 · 1912
Source: Writers of St. Petersburg. XX century
Christian Samuel Weiss
university teacher, mineralogist
1780–1856 · aged 76
February 26 · 1780
Source: Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
Tomás Fernández
association football player
111 years old
February 9 · 1915
No external source identified
Davit Khocholava
association football player
33 years old
February 8 · 1993
Source: Transfermarkt
Roy D'Arcy
actor, stage actor
1894–1969 · aged 75
February 10 · 1894
Source: Find a Grave
Kang Tongbi
journalist, poet
1881–1969 · aged 88
February 23 · 1881
No external source identified
Kelly McCormick
competitive diver
66 years old
February 13 · 1960
No external source identified
Raúl García Pierna
sport cyclist
25 years old
February 23 · 2001
Source: uci.org
Jhon Espinoza
association football player
27 years old
February 24 · 1999
Source: FBref
Nenad Maslovar
association football player, association football coach
59 years old
February 20 · 1967
No external source identified
Helge Jordal
television actor, actor
80 years old
February 17 · 1946
Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia
Alina Reyes
journalist, writer
70 years old
February 9 · 1956
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Kudsi Erguner
musician, Sufi
74 years old
February 4 · 1952
Source: SNAC
Ulrich II, Count of Celje
aristocrat, politician
1406–1456 · aged 50
February 16 · 1406
No external source identified
Jüri Tamm
politician, athletics competitor
1957–2021 · aged 64
February 5 · 1957
Source: Biographical lexicon of Estonian sport
Anthony Fainga'a
rugby union player
39 years old
February 2 · 1987
No external source identified
Rudy Haddad
association football player
41 years old
February 5 · 1985
No external source identified
Gabriela Potorac
artistic gymnast
53 years old
February 6 · 1973
No external source identified
Michael Braungart
university teacher, non-fiction writer
68 years old
February 7 · 1958
Source: Integrated Authority File
Grethe Weiser
cabaret performer, singer
1903–1970 · aged 67
February 27 · 1903
Source: BnF authorities
Ken Matsubara
association football player
33 years old
February 16 · 1993
Source: Argentine Soccer Database
Albin Kitzinger
association football player
1912–1970 · aged 58
February 1 · 1912
Source: Transfermarkt
Claudio Caligari
screenwriter, film director
1948–2015 · aged 67
February 7 · 1948
Source: IMDb
Bernardo Soto Alfaro
advocate, politician
1854–1931 · aged 76
February 12 · 1854
No external source identified
Chris Newman
audio engineer, tonmeister
1940–2025 · aged 84
February 17 · 1940
No external source identified
Oscar Linnér
association football player
29 years old
February 23 · 1997
Source: Transfermarkt
Jamila Bio Ibrahim
politician, physician
40 years old
February 7 · 1986
No external source identified
Pierre Durand, Jr.
athlete, equestrian
71 years old
February 16 · 1955
Source: Babelio
Igor Mitreski
association football player
47 years old
February 19 · 1979
Source: Argentine Soccer Database
David Acevedo
association football player
89 years old
February 20 · 1937
Source: FBref
Kit Coleman*
journalist
Date disputed
February 20 · 1856
No external source identified
Liu Tianhua
composer
1895–1932 · aged 37
February 4 · 1895
No external source identified
Gaspar Schott
theologian, scientist
1608–1666 · aged 58
February 5 · 1608
Source: The Fine Art Archive Db
Bernard E. Rollin
university teacher, zoologist
1943–2021 · aged 78
February 18 · 1943
No external source identified
Marcin Możdżonek
volleyball player, beach volleyball player
41 years old
February 9 · 1985
Source: Tauron Liga
Betty Lawford
actor, film actor
1912–1960 · aged 48
February 1 · 1912
Source: Internet Broadway Database
Wolfgang Gröbner
mathematician, university teacher
1899–1980 · aged 81
February 11 · 1899
No external source identified
Jan August Hendrik Leys
visual artist, etcher
1815–1869 · aged 54
February 18 · 1815
Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists
Jay O'Brien
bobsledder
1883–1940 · aged 57
February 22 · 1883
Source: Roglo
Benedikt Gimber
association football player
29 years old
February 19 · 1997
Source: As
Jack Balmer
association football player
1916–1984 · aged 68
February 6 · 1916
No external source identified
Giulio Sanguineti
Catholic priest, Catholic bishop
1932–2025 · aged 93
February 20 · 1932
No external source identified
Émile Meyerson
chemist, philosopher of science
1859–1933
February 12 · 1859
Source: NooSFere
V. Nanammal
teacher, yogi
1920–2019 · aged 99
February 24 · 1920
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Gennady Gladkov
musician, voice actor
1935–2023 · aged 88
February 18 · 1935
Source: Integrated Authority File
Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg
diplomat, politician
1826–1885 · aged 59
February 24 · 1826
Source: Biografisch Portaal
Erol Taş*
actor, film actor
Date disputed
February 28 · 1926
No external source identified
Jaromír Hanzlík
actor, television actor
78 years old
February 16 · 1948
Source: The Fine Art Archive
Salvatore Antibo
long-distance runner, athletics competitor
64 years old
February 7 · 1962
Source: World Athletics database
Gilbert Sinoué
writer
79 years old
February 18 · 1947
Source: Babelio
Jocelyn Rae
tennis player
35 years old
February 20 · 1991
Source: WTA website
Kim Bo-reum
short-track speed skater, speed skater
33 years old
February 6 · 1993
No external source identified
William Dunlap*
theatrical producer, playwright
Date disputed
February 19 · 1766
Source: Internet Broadway Database
Amber Neben
sport cyclist
51 years old
February 18 · 1975
No external source identified
Paul Puhallo von Brlog
military officer
1856–1926 · aged 70
February 21 · 1856
Source: Integrated Authority File
Kamer Genç
politician
1940–2016 · aged 75
February 23 · 1940
Source: pace.coe.int
Nachman Krochmal
writer, philosopher
1785–1840 · aged 55
February 17 · 1785
Source: Krochmal, Nachman Kohen (BLKÖ)
Giovanni Zenatello
opera singer, impresario
1876–1949 · aged 72
February 22 · 1876
Source: Find a Grave
Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine
1539–1582
February 23 · 1539
No external source identified
Josep Tapiró Baró*
watercolorist, painter
Date disputed
February 7 · 1836
Source: BnF authorities
Casimir de Candolle
plant physiologist, botanist
1836–1918 · aged 82
February 20 · 1836
Source: BnF authorities
Ben Street
ice hockey player
39 years old
February 13 · 1987
No external source identified
Verena Bentele
skier, athlete
44 years old
February 28 · 1982
Source: Integrated Authority File
Edwin Barnes
Catholic priest
1935–2019 · aged 84
February 6 · 1935
No external source identified
Rafael Echagüe
politician, military personnel
1815–1887 · aged 72
February 13 · 1815
Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary
A. M. Klein
poet, writer
1909–1972 · aged 63
February 14 · 1909
Source: BnF authorities
Maxim Strauch
film actor, actor
1900–1974 · aged 73
February 23 · 1900
Source: IMDb
Yuki Masuda
seiyū
53 years old
February 9 · 1973
No external source identified
Carlo Molfetta
taekwondo athlete
42 years old
February 15 · 1984
No external source identified
François-Alphonse Forel
physiologist, anatomist
1841–1912
February 2 · 1841
Source: BnF authorities
Nathan Goff Jr.
politician, lawyer
1843–1920 · aged 77
February 9 · 1843
Source: SNAC
Paul Koebe
mathematician, university teacher
1882–1945 · aged 63
February 15 · 1882
Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
Albert VI, Duke of Bavaria
aristocrat, duke
1584–1666 · aged 82
February 26 · 1584
No external source identified
Magomed Kurbanov
amateur wrestler
33 years old
February 8 · 1993
Source: intersportstats.com
Fredrik Stoor
association football player
42 years old
February 28 · 1984
Source: Argentine Soccer Database
Kinza Clodumar
politician
1945–2021 · aged 76
February 8 · 1945
No external source identified
Ola Lindgren
handball player, handball coach
62 years old
February 29 · 1964
No external source identified
Alar Toomre
astronomer, mathematician
89 years old
February 5 · 1937
No external source identified
Wolf Hirth
glider pilot, engineer
1900–1959 · aged 59
February 28 · 1900
Source: Munzinger Personen
Peter Popovic
ice hockey player
58 years old
February 10 · 1968
Source: iihf.com
William Bostock
journalist, politician
1892–1968 · aged 76
February 5 · 1892
Source: oxfordreference.com
Juan José Viamonte
military personnel, politician
1774–1843 · aged 69
February 9 · 1774
Source: Find a Grave

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