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  Death of Saint Werburgh on this day in history.  

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  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 this day in history.  

1428  Death of Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386) on February - 03.  

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

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 this day in history.  

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  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  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  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  On February - 03 pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at 79  

1814  Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1832  On February - 03 george Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77  

1846  On February - 03 joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79  

1862  Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87 on February - 03.  

1866  On this day in history death of françois-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)  

1874  On February - 03 death of lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)  

1875  On February - 03 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  On February - 03 death of belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40  

1890  On February - 03 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 this day in history.  

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

1648  On this day in history birth of louis Bouteiller, composer  

1655  Francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized was born on February - 03.  

1677  On February - 03 birth of jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)  

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)