Famous Deaths In February - 07

0590  Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague on February - 07.  

0999  On this day in history death of boleslaus II of Bohemia  

1045  Death of Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009) on this day in history.  

1317  Death of Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256) on this day in history.  

1560  Death of Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493) on February - 07.  

1593  Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79 on February - 07.  

1609  On February - 07 ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies  

1626  On February - 07 death of william V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)  

1642  On February - 07 death of william Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)  

1690  On February - 07 death of william Morice, English royalist statesman  

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1693  Death of Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624) on this day in history.  

1736  On February - 07 death of stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)  

1743  Lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

1749  On February - 07 andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76  

1779  William Boyce, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1799  Death of Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711) on this day in history.  

1801  On February - 07 death of daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)  

1820  Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57 on February - 07.  

1823  Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58 on February - 07.  

1827  Franz Anton Dimmler, composer, dies at 73 on February - 07.  

1830  Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, Portuguese composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1837  On February - 07 death of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)  

1839  On February - 07 death of karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)  

1857  Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65 on February - 07.  

1862  Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61 on February - 07.  

1865  On February - 07 john Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64  

1871  Death of Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797) on this day in history.  

1873  Death of Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814) on this day in history.  

1878  On February - 07 pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85  

1881  On February - 07 fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73  

1897  On this day in history galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49  

1901  On this day in history benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64  

1911  On February - 07 harry Graham, cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies  

1915  Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68 on February - 07.  

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1102  On February - 07 birth of empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)  

1478  On February - 07 birth of thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)  

1478  Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535) was born on this day in history.  

1556  On this day in history birth of maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren  

1589  On this day in history birth of jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician  

1612  Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men) was born on February - 07.  

1655  On this day in history birth of jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)  

1688  Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange was born on February - 07.