Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Deutscher Komponist und Dirigent., geboren
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (192), Filmschaffende/R, geboren
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn (Bartholdy)
composer: Wedding March, Elijah, Fingal’s Cave; died Nov 4, 1847, geboren
1809 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Hamburg Germany, composer (Great Scherzos) , geboren

 1926 - Shelley Berman
comedian, actor: The Best Man, Motorama, Rented Lips, geboren

 1938 - Emile Griffith
International Boxing Hall of Famer: the third fighter in history to hold both the welterweight and middleweight titles, geboren

 1938 - Elijah Pitts
football: Green Bay Packers running back: Super Bowl I, geboren
Armando Palacio Valdés (84), Filmschaffende/R, gestorben
William Howard Gould, Filmschaffende/R, gestorben

 1940 - Fran Tarkenton
football: Minnesota Vikings quarterback: Super Bowl VIII, IX, XI, also NY Giants quarterback: holds individual NFL career records for passing yards gained, completions, attempts and touchdowns thrown, geboren
Angel d'Aleo (Belmonts), geboren
  03 - Feb - 1940   Fran Tarkenton, geboren
 In 1940, Angelo D'Aleo of the '50s and '60s pop group, the Belmonts., geboren

 1945 - Bob Griese
football: Miami Dolphins quarterback: Super Bowl VI, VII, VIII, geboren
The late Johnny Cymbal ("Mr. Bass Man") AKA Derek ("Cinnamon") is born in 1945

 1947 - Joe (Joseph Howard) Coleman
baseball: pitcher: Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers [all-star: 1972], Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, Pittsburgh Pirates, SF Giants, geboren
Ivy Scott, Filmschaffende/R, gestorben
 1947 - Dave Davies
singer, musician: guitar: group: The Kinks: You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night, Tired of Waiting, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, A Well Respected Man, Sunny Afternoon, Dead End Street, Waterloo Sunset, Village Green Preservation Society, Last of the Steam-Powered Trains, Do You Remember Walton, Lola, Celluloid Heroes; solo: Death of a Clown, Susannah’s Still Alive, geboren
Dave Davies, guitar player with the Kinks, is born. (1947)
Dave Davies (Kinks), geboren
  03 - Feb - 1947   Dave Davies, geboren
Melanie
singer, songwriter, 1972 UK No.4 single 'Brand New Key'.
Dave Davies
guitarist, The Kinks, 1967 UK No.2 single 'Waterloo Sunset' plus 19 other UK top 40 singles.
 In 1947, folk singer Melanie (Safka)., geboren

1951 - The Tennessee Williams play, The Rose Tattoo, opened on Broadway in New York.

 1952 - Benny Malone
football: RB: Arizona State Univ. [college all-star: 1974], Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins, geboren

February 3, 1959 was a sad day in rock ’n’ roll history: 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 28-year-old J.P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) and 17-year-old Ritchie Valens died in an airplane crash near Mason City, Iowa. February 3rd has been remembered as “The Day the Music Died” since Don McLean made the line popular in his 1972 hit, American Pie.

Buddy Holly, born Charles Hardin Holly in Lubbock, Texas, recorded That’ll Be the Day, Peggy Sue, Oh, Boy, Maybe Baby, and others, including It Doesn’t Matter Anymore (recorded just before his death, a smash in the U.K., non top-10 in the U.S.). Buddy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. A convincing portrait of the singer was portrayed by Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story, a made for TV movie.

J.P. (Jiles Perry) Richardson was from Sabine Pass, TX. He held the record for longest, continuous broadcasting as a DJ at KTRM Radio in Beaumont, TX in 1956. He was on the air for 122 hours and eight minutes. In addition to his smash hit, Chantilly Lace, Richardson also penned Running Bear (a hit for Johnny Preston) plus White Lightning (a hit for country star, George Jones).

Richard Valenzuela lived in Pacoima, CA (near LA) and had a role in the 1959 film, Go Johnny Go. Ritchie Valens’ two big hits were Donna and La Bamba ... the last, the title of a 1987 film depiction of his life. La Bamba also represented the first fusion of Latin music and American rock.

Of the three young stars who died in that plane crash, the loss of Buddy Holly reverberated the loudest over the years. But, fans of 1950s rock ’n’ roll will agree, all three have been sorely missed.
1959 - Ein Flugzeug mit dem Rock'n'Roll-Star Buddy Holly an Bord stürzt kurz nach dem Start in einem Schneesturm im Bundesstaat Iowa ab. Alle Insassen kommen ums Leben
 1959: Alfred Hitchcocks "Vertigo", mit James Stewart und Kim Novak in den Hauptrollen, kommt unter dem Titel "Aus dem Reich der Toten" in die deutschen Kinos.

"The Day The Music Died"-- Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper die in an Iowa plane crash, 1959
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and Big Bopper die in aircrash after their Beechcraft Bonanza light aircraft takes off from Mason City, Iowa, on its way to Faro, North Carolina., gestorben
The Day the Music Died
Buddy Holly (22 Jahre alt), The Big Bopper(28) und Ritchie Valens (17) kommen bei einem Flugzeugabsturz in der Nähe von Mason City, Iowa ums Leben.
Lol (Laurence) Tolhurst
Schlagzeuger und Keyboarder bei The Cure., geboren
1959: Big Bopper, amerik. Rocksänger (bei Mason City/Ia.), gestorben
1959: Buddy Holly, amerik. Rocksanger (bei Mason City/Ia.), gestorben
1959: Ritchie Valens, amerik. Rockmusiker (bei Mason City/Ia.), "Donna / La Bamba", gestorben
 1959 - Thomas Calabro
actor: Melrose Place, Dream Street, geboren

 1959 - Lol (Laurence) Tolhurst
musician: drums, keyboard: group: The Cure: A Forest, Charlotte Sometimes, Let’s Go to Bed, Love Cats, The Caterpillar, In-Between Days, geboren
Francesco De Robertis (56), Filmschaffende/R, gestorben
Ritchie Valens (17), Filmschaffende/R, gestorben
Buddy Holly (22), Filmschaffende/R, gestorben
Lol Tolhurst (Cure), geboren
1959, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valans, hired a light aircraft to take them on to the next date of a tour, in bad weather the plane crashed in the Iowa countryside, killing all onboard.
 In 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died when their small plane crashed in a cornfield at Ames, Iowa. 

 The aircraft had taken off from Mason City, Iowa on its way to Fargo, North Dakota where the three had a concert booking. At the time of his death, Holly was considered a close rival to Elvis Presley. He was only 20 years old when he died, but his music and style had a tremendous impact on the development of rock 'n roll.

  When the artists failed to arrive in Fargo for the concert, the then-unknown Bobby Vee took Buddy Holly's place, starting his rise to stardom.

  The deaths of Holly, Valens and the Big Bopper became known as "the day the music died," a phrase from Don McLean's 1972 million-selling tribute, "American Pie."

Einen zweihundert Jahre alten Käse aus Tibet hat ein Brite in London für 1 000 Pfund (ca 1200 Euro) ersteigert. Das Käsestück kam beim Auktionshaus Sotheby's unter den Hammer. Käufer war ein TV-Moderator, der bereits mehrere hundert andere Käsesorten in seiner Sammlung hat

 1993: Das weißrussische Parlament hebt das Verbot der Kommunistischen Partei auf.
1993, appearing at The Wheatsheaf, Stoke On Trent, Radiohead, tickets £3.50.

China : Chinese New Year-The Year of the Hare/Rabbit (2011/4709)
Japan : Bean throwing Festival/Setsubun (last day of lunar calendar winter)
Paraguay : Patron's Day/San Blas, patrón
Puerto Rico : Fiesta de San Blas, protector of harvest (316)
US : 4 Chaplains Memorial Day
Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - - - - - ( Sunday )

Religious Observances
Roman Catholic : Memorial of St Blase, bishop of Sebaste, Armenia, martyr (opt)
Christian : Feast of St Laurentius, 2nd archbishop of Canterbury (604-619)
Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran : Memorial of Anskar, Hamburg archbishop, Denmark/Sweden