Famous Deaths Happened In February - 03
Sunday, 15 February 2026
0474 Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies on this day in history. 

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

0699 Death of Saint Werburgh on February - 03. 

0865 Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies on February - 03. 

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 On February - 03 john of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castile & Leon, dies at 58 

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 On February - 03 johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies 

1536 On February - 03 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 Death of George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513) on February - 03. 

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

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

1679 Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast), dies at 53 on this day in history. 

1697 Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island on February - 03. 

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

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

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

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 this day in history. 

1846 Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79 on this day in history. 

1862 On February - 03 jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87 

1866 Death of François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809) on February - 03. 

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

1875 Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66 on February - 03. 

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 February - 03. 

1889 On this day in history death of belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40 

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

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

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

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