Famous Deaths In February - 03

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

0619  Death of Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury on February - 03.   

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  On this day in history death of king Sweyn I of Denmark   

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  On February - 03 death of ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)   

1451  Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies on this day in history.   

1468  Johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies on February - 03.   

1536  Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies on this day in history.   

1558  On February - 03 alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies   

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

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

1619  Death of Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564) on this day in history.   

1679  Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast), dies at 53 on February - 03.   

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

1715  On this day in history gottfried Vopelius, composer, dies at 70   

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

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 February - 03 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  Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

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

1874  On this day in history death of lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)   

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

1876  On February - 03 gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83   

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

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

1890  Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72 on February - 03.   

1900  Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33 on February - 03.   

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  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  Francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized was born on February - 03.   

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

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

1721  Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773) was born on February - 03.