Famous Deaths Happened In February - 25
Friday, 04 July 2025
0779 Walburgis, Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies on February - 25.
1246 On February - 25 death of dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1247 Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies on this day in history.
1495 Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35 on February - 25.
1522 On this day in history death of william Lilye, English classical scholar
1536 On February - 25 death of berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)
1553 On this day in history death of hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)
1558 On February - 25 death of eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
1601 On this day in history death of robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth
1602 Everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51 on this day in history.
1634 On this day in history death of albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50
1643 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.
1655 On February - 25 death of daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
1682 Death of Alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37 on this day in history.
1713 On this day in history frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55
1715 On this day in history death of pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
1719 On February - 25 giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66
1723 Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90 on this day in history.
1756 Death of Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693) on this day in history.
1798 Death of Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716) on this day in history.
1805 On this day in history death of thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
1826 On February - 25 piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60
1850 Death of Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782) on this day in history.
1851 Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.
1852 Thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies on this day in history.
1860 On this day in history death of chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)
1865 On February - 25 otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
1894 On this day in history james Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51
1899 Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies on this day in history.
1901 Jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1902 On this day in history carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77
1906 On this day in history anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44
1912 Death of Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852) on this day in history.
1914 John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93 on February - 25.
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