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Bertrand Russell died on this day, February 2, in 1970. Born in the UK in 1872, Russell was a polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, the year after this portrait was made.