Famous Deaths In February - 03

0474  Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies on February - 03.   

0619  On this day in history death of laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury   

0699  Death of Saint Werburgh on February - 03.   

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 this day in history.   

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 February - 03.   

1428  Death of Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386) on this day in history.   

1451  Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies on February - 03.   

1468  On this day in history johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies   

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

1558  Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies on February - 03.   

1566  Death of George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513) on this day in history.   

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

1619  On this day in history death of henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)   

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

1697  Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island on this day in history.   

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

1737  Death of Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648) on February - 03.   

1748  On this day in history henri Madin, composer, dies at 49   

1803  On this day in history 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  George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77 on February - 03.   

1846  On this day in history joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79   

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 February - 03.   

1875  On this day in history everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66   

1876  Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83 on February - 03.   

1882  Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1889  Death of Belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40 on February - 03.   

1890  Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1900  On this day in history ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33   

1902  Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch PM (1866), dies on this day in history.   

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1338  On this day in history birth of jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)   

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  Louis Bouteiller, composer was born on this day in history.   

1655  Francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized was born on this day in history.   

1677  Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.   

1690  On this day in history birth of richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)   

1721  On this day in history birth of friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)