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3 Deaths

• 1648 - George Abbot, english writer (b. ca. 1603)
• 1769 - Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
• 1922 - William Desmond Taylor, film director
• 1925 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist
• 1948 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete
• 1969 - Boris Karloff, actor (b. 1887)
• 1970 - Bertrand Russell, mathematician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 (b. 1872)
• 1979 - Sid Vicious of Sex Pistols (b. 1957)
• 1992 - Bert Parks , game show host, Miss America host
• 1995 - Donald Pleasence, actor (b. 1919)
• 1996 - Gene Kelly, dancer, actor, director (b. 1912)
• 2003 - Lou Harrison, composer (b. 1917)

4 Holidays and observances

• Catholicism - The Presentation of the Lord
• Catholicism - The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Catholicism - World Day for Consecrated Life (Feb. 2-3 in the U.S)
• Ancient Latvia - Veja Diena observed
• United States and Canada - Groundhog Day
• Catholicism Candlemas - day on which Roman Catholics bring beeswax candles to local churches to be blessed for use in church or home.
• Candlemas is one of the Scottish quarter days in the Christian calendar
• Imbolc - (predates all above festivals) - early Pagan (among other cultures) celebration involving the remembering that Spring will be coming soon.

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