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, known professionally as Irv Gotti or DJ Irv, was an American record producer and record executive.
Notable Deaths on February 5
2025 — Irv Gotti
American record producer, co-founded Murder Inc Records (born 1970)
February 5 has 87 recorded notable deaths across history, from 523 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
87 source records
523 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on February 5
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- 1985 Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage, meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years. Source
- 1917 The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Source
- 1963 The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law. Source
- 1962 French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence. Source
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George Arliss specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).
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El Santo is the most famous and iconic of the Mexican professional wrestlers, and has been referred to as one of "the greatest legends in Mexican sports".
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After joining the Imperial German Army in 1901, Blaskowitz served throughout World War I, where he earned the Iron Cross for bravery.
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Seuss television specials produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises: Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977), Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?
More major people who died on February 5
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1946
George Arliss
English actor and playwright (born 1868)
George Arliss was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States.
1984
El Santo
Mexican professional wrestler (born 1917)
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, best known by his ring name El Santo, was a Mexican professional wrestler and actor.
1948
Johannes Blaskowitz
German general (born 1883)
Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz was a German Generaloberst during World War II. After joining the Imperial German Army in 1901, Blaskowitz served throughout World War I, where he earned the Iron Cross for bravery.
1989
Joe Raposo
American pianist and composer (born 1937)
Joseph Guilherme Raposo, OIH was an American composer and songwriter.
1927
Inayat Khan
Indian mystic and educator (born 1882)
Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan, was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the sarasvati vina, poet, philosopher, writer, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West.
2010
Brendan Burke
Canadian ice hockey player and activist (born 1988)
Brendan Gilmore Burke was an athlete and student manager at Miami University for the RedHawks men's ice hockey team.
2015
Herman Rosenblat
Polish-American author (born 1929)
Herman A. Rosenblat was a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and American author, known for writing a fictitious Holocaust memoir titled Angel at the Fence, purporting to tell the story of a girl who passed him food through…
1983
Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
American chemist and academic (born 1925)
Margaret Belle (Oakley) Dayhoff was an American biophysicist and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics.
2015
Val Logsdon Fitch
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
Val Logsdon Fitch was an American nuclear physicist who, with co-researcher James Cronin, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment using the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at Brookhaven…
2021
Örs Siklósi
Hungarian singer (born 1991)
AWS is a Hungarian post-hardcore band formed in early November 2006 by Örs Siklósi, Bence Brucker, Dániel Kökényes, Soma Schiszler and Áron Veress.
1982
Neil Aggett
Kenyan-South African physician and union leader (born 1953)
Neil Hudson Aggett was a Kenyan and South African doctor and trade union organiser who died in detention, after being held for 70 days without trial, during which he was tortured by the Security Branch of the apartheid…
1981
Ella Grasso
American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (born 1919)
Ella Rosa Giovianna Oliva Grasso was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 83rd governor of Connecticut from January 8, 1975, to December 31, 1980, after rejecting past offers of…
1915
Ross Barnes
American baseball player and manager (born 1850)
Charles Roscoe Barnes was one of the stars of baseball's National Association (1871–1875) and the early National League (1876–1881), playing second base and shortstop.
1993
Seán Flanagan
Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (born 1922)
Seán Flanagan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and Gaelic footballer who served as Minister for Health from 1966 to 1969, Minister for Lands from 1969 to 1973 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry…
1997
Pamela Harriman
English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (born 1920)
Pamela Beryl Harriman, also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English political activist for the Democratic Party in the United States, diplomat, and socialite.
1661
Shunzhi
Chinese emperor of the Qing Dynasty (born 1638)
The Shunzhi Emperor, personal name Fulin, was the second emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the first Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
2020
Kirk Douglas
American actor (born 1916)
Kirk Douglas was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck.
1933
Josiah Thomas
English-Australian miner and politician (born 1863)
Josiah Thomas was an Australian politician. He was elected to the House of Representatives at the inaugural 1901 federal election, representing the Labor Party.
2000
Claude Autant-Lara
French director and screenwriter (born 1901)
Claude Autant-Lara was a French film director, screenwriter, set designer and costume designer who worked in films for over 50 years.