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Events on Monday 2 February 1970 1
1872 – 1970Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)Died 2 February 1970, aged 97Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, mathematician and Nobel laureate, died at his home in Wales. His work in logic and his public activism for peace and nuclear disarmament made him one of the most prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century.