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<html> <head> <title>Died on February 8th</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died on February 8th LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/242/000111906/">Tsar Alexis</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1629</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1676</tt></td> <td>Tsar of Russia, 1645-76</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/164/000100861/">William Bateson</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Aug-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1926</tt></td> <td>Founder of genetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/523/000071310/">Walther Bothe</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1957</tt></td> <td>Coincidence method</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/448/000280605/">Phil Bruns</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2012</tt></td> <td>George Shumway on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/086/000055918/">Samuel P. Bush</a></td> <td><center>Relative</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td>Father of Senator Prescott Bush</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000092661/">Cetshwayo</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1826</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1884</tt></td> <td>Zulu king</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/044/000116693/">Oscar L. Chapman</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Oct-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1978</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of the Interior, 1949-53</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/882/000129495/">Silvio O. Conte</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1991</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Massachusetts, 1959-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/458/000071245/">Charles Curtis</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1936</tt></td> <td>US Vice President, 1929-33</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/264/000178727/">William T. Dillard</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2002</tt></td> <td>Founder of Dillard's</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/320/000028236/">Wild Bill Donovan</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1959</tt></td> <td>Founded the OSS</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/343/000166842/">Edward R. Dudley</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2005</tt></td> <td>First Black US Ambassador</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/489/000352430/">William Duncan</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1961</tt></td> <td>Silent film actor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/563/000279723/">Meredith Edwards</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jun-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1999</tt></td> <td>Dunkirk</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/340/000099043/">Dennis Gabor</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jun-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1979</tt></td> <td>Inventor of holography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/847/000118493/">John White Geary</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1819</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1873</tt></td> <td>Governor of Kansas and Pennsylvania</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/632/000165137/">Victor Gollancz</a></td> <td><center>Publisher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1893</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1967</tt></td> <td>Founder of Victor Gollancz, Ltd.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/402/000107081/">Aaron Hill</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1685</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1750</tt></td> <td>The Progress of Wit</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/390/000164895/">Felix Hoffmann</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1946</tt></td> <td>Aspirin and heroin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/301/000102992/">Francis Horner</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1778</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1817</tt></td> <td>Bullion Report</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000137912/">Robert Jastrow</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2008</tt></td> <td>Red Giants and White Dwarfs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/244/000089974/">Keith Knudsen</a></td> <td><center>Drummer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2005</tt></td> <td>Drummer for the Doobie Brothers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000024767/">Peter Kropotkin</a></td> <td><center>Anarchist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1842</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1921</tt></td> <td>Libertarian anarchist revolutionary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/101/000140678/">Halldór Laxness</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1998</tt></td> <td>Iceland's Bell</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/057/000170544/">Morris E. Leeds</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1952</tt></td> <td>Leeds & Northrup Co.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/926/000098632/">Harriet MacGibbon</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1987</tt></td> <td>Mrs. Drysdale on Beverly Hillbillies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/064/000085806/">Connie Mack</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1956</tt></td> <td>Manager of the Philadelphia Athletics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/648/000092372/">Mary I of Scotland</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1542</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1587</tt></td> <td>Mary, Queen of Scots</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/606/000196018/">Wesley L. McDonald</a></td> <td><center>Military</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2008</tt></td> <td>Led 1983 invasion of Grenada</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/365/000350312/">Marvin Miller</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1985</tt></td> <td>Michael Anthony on The Millionaire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/038/000114693/">May Miller</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jan-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1995</tt></td> <td>The Bog Guide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/760/000205145/">Henry S. Morgan</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Oct-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1982</tt></td> <td>Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/439/000104127/">Iris Murdoch</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1999</tt></td> <td>The Sea, the Sea</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/067/000039947/">Jack Murtha</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2010</tt></td> <td>Pennsylvania Congressman, 1974-2010</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/599/000078365/">Peter the Great</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1672</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1725</tt></td> <td>Tsar of Russia, 1689-1725</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/382/000095097/">Enoch Powell</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jun-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1998</tt></td> <td>British demagogue</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/841/000091568/">Louis Renault</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1843</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1918</tt></td> <td>International arbitrator, Nobel recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/432/000100132/">Sir Robert Robinson</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1886</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1975</tt></td> <td>Researcher of alkaloids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/514/000122148/">Vesta Roy</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2002</tt></td> <td>Governor of New Hampshire, 1982-83</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/154/000129764/">Eldon Dean Rudd</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2002</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Arizona, 1977-87</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/380/000058206/">R. J. Rushdoony</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Apr-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2001</tt></td> <td>Institutes of Biblical Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000044703/">Julius Schwartz</a></td> <td><center>Cartoonist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2004</tt></td> <td>Silver Age comics pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/787/000112451/">Raymond Scott</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1994</tt></td> <td>Powerhouse, invented the sequencer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000045518/">Del Shannon</a></td> <td><center>Singer/Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1990</tt></td> <td>1960s songwriter, Runaway</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/512/000023443/">Anna Nicole Smith</a></td> <td><center>Model</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1967</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2007</tt></td> <td>Addled golddigger</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/124/000088857/">Jimmy Smith</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2005</tt></td> <td>Master of the Hammond B3 organ</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/178/000097884/">David Friedrich Strauss</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1808</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1874</tt></td> <td>Leben Jesu</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/740/000202134/">Derrick Thomas</a></td> <td><center>Football</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1967</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-2000</tt></td> <td>Hall of Fame Linebacker, Kansas City Chiefs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/974/000087713/">Fritz Todt</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td>Nazi engineer, finished the Autobahn</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/878/000180338/">Willis Van Devanter</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1941</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1911-37</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/951/000023882/">John von Neumann</a></td> <td><center>Mathematician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1957</tt></td> <td>Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/753/000206135/">Alfred Wallenstein</a></td> <td><center>Cellist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1983</tt></td> <td>Music Director, LA Philharmonic, 1943-56</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/126/000059946/">John Hay Whitney</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Aug-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1982</tt></td> <td>New York Herald Tribune</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/307/000206686/">Fritz Zwicky</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1974</tt></td> <td>Astrophysicist at CalTech</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=106604" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/371/000003362/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/371/3362/s3362.jpg" width=128> gordon smith</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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