Famous Deaths In February - 03

0474  On February - 03 leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies  

0619  Death of Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury on this day in history.  

0699  On February - 03 death of saint Werburgh  

0865  On this day in history ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies  

1014  Death of King Sweyn I of Denmark on February - 03.  

1116  Death of King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070) on this day in history.  

1399  John of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castile & Leon, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

1428  Death of Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386) on February - 03.  

1451  On February - 03 murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies  

1468  Johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies on this day in history.  

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1536  On this day in history garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies  

1558  On this day in history alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies  

1566  On February - 03 death of george Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)  

1602  On February - 03 paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62  

1619  Death of Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564) on February - 03.  

1679  On February - 03 jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast), dies at 53  

1697  On February - 03 sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island  

1715  On February - 03 gottfried Vopelius, composer, dies at 70  

1737  On this day in history death of tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)  

1748  Henri Madin, composer, dies at 49 on February - 03.  

1803  On February - 03 pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at 79  

1814  On this day in history johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75  

1832  On February - 03 george Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77  

1846  Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79 on February - 03.  

1862  On this day in history jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87  

1866  On February - 03 death of françois-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)  

1874  Death of Lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835) on this day in history.  

1875  On February - 03 everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66  

1876  On this day in history gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83  

1882  On February - 03 guglielmo Quarenghi, composer, dies at 55  

1889  Death of Belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40 on this day in history.  

1890  On February - 03 christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72  

1900  On February - 03 ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33  

1902  Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch PM (1866), dies on February - 03.  

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1338  Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378) was born on this day in history.  

1368  On this day in history birth of charles VI, King of France (1380-1422)  

1525  On this day in history birth of giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer  

1648  On this day in history birth of louis Bouteiller, composer  

1655  On this day in history birth of francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized  

1677  On this day in history birth of jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)  

1690  Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755) was born on February - 03.  

1721  On February - 03 birth of friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)