Famous Deaths In February - 03

0474  Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies on this day in history.  

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

0699  On this day in history death of saint Werburgh  

0865  On February - 03 ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies  

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

1116  On February - 03 death of king Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)  

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 this day in history.  

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

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1536  Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies on February - 03.  

1558  Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies on this day in history.  

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

1602  On this day in history paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62  

1619  On February - 03 death of henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)  

1679  On this day in history 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  Gottfried Vopelius, composer, dies at 70 on February - 03.  

1737  Death of Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648) on this day in history.  

1748  Henri Madin, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

1803  Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at 79 on February - 03.  

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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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  On this day in history christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72  

1900  Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33 on this day in history.  

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  Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422) was born on February - 03.  

1525  Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer was born on February - 03.  

1648  On February - 03 birth of louis Bouteiller, composer  

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

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

1690  On February - 03 birth of richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)  

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