Famous Deaths In February - 18

0814  Death of Angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne on this day in history.  

0901  On February - 18 death of thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)  

0999  On this day in history gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies  

1139  Death of Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082) on this day in history.  

1217  Alexander Neckum de Sancto Albano, Engl encyclopedist, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

1294  Death of Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215) on this day in history.  

1379  On this day in history death of albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)  

1397  Enguerrand VII, French master of Coucy/count of Soissons, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

1405  On February - 18 death of tamerlane, Mongol Emperor (b. 1336)  

1455  Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies on February - 18.  

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1478  On February - 18 death of duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel  

1535  Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, dies at 48 on this day in history.  

1546  On February - 18 martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62  

1564  On this day in history michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88  

1583  Death of Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503) on this day in history.  

1587  On this day in history death of mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44 [OS=Feb 8]  

1654  On February - 18 death of jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594)  

1660  Death of Judith Jansdochter Leyster, Dutch painter, buried on this day in history.  

1683  Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, dies at 62 on February - 18.  

1712  Duke of Bourgondie, French king Louis XIV's grandson, dies on this day in history.  

1718  Death of Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663) on this day in history.  

1743  Death of Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667) on this day in history.  

1745  Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67 on February - 18.  

1748  On February - 18 death of otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)  

1772  On February - 18 death of johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)  

1778  Death of Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715) on this day in history.  

1780  On February - 18 death of kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)  

1788  On February - 18 death of john Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)  

1790  Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1799  Maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.  

1803  On February - 18 j W L Gleim, writer, dies  

1807  August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53 on this day in history.  

1817  Giacomo Quarenghi, master builder (Hermitage Theater), dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1829  On February - 18 jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer, dies at 77  

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1374  Saint Jadwiga of Poland, queen of Poland (d. 1399) was born on this day in history.  

1404  On February - 18 birth of leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Della Pittura)  

1486  Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer was born on February - 18.  

1516  On this day in history birth of mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], Greenwich, queen of England (1553-58)  

1530  On this day in history birth of uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)  

1543  On this day in history birth of charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1608)  

1559  On this day in history birth of isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian  

1602  Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier (d. 1680) was born on February - 18.