Famous Deaths In February - 03

0474  Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies on February - 03.  

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

0699  On February - 03 death of saint Werburgh  

0865  Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies on this day in history.  

1014  On February - 03 death of king Sweyn I of Denmark  

1116  Death of King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070) on this day in history.  

1399  On this day in history 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  

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1536  On this day in history garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies  

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

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

1602  On February - 03 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  Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast), dies at 53 on this day in history.  

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 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 February - 03 johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75  

1832  George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1846  On this day in history joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79  

1862  On this day in history 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  On February - 03 death of lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)  

1875  Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

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  On February - 03 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 February - 03.  

1902  On February - 03 isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch PM (1866), dies  

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1338  On this day in history birth of jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)  

1368  On this day in history birth of charles VI, King of France (1380-1422)  

1525  On this day in history birth of giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer  

1648  Louis Bouteiller, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

1677  Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723) was born on February - 03.  

1690  On this day in history birth of richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)  

1721  Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773) was born on this day in history.