Famous Deaths In February - 25

0779  Walburgis, Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies on this day in history.  

1246  Death of Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd on February - 25.  

1247  On February - 25 hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies  

1495  On February - 25 djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35  

1522  Death of William Lilye, English classical scholar on February - 25.  

1536  Death of Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492) on February - 25.  

1553  On this day in history death of hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)  

1558  On this day in history death of eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)  

1601  Death of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth on this day in history.  

1602  On February - 25 everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51  

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1634  On this day in history death of albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50  

1643  On this day in history marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60  

1655  On February - 25 death of daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)  

1682  Death of Alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37 on February - 25.  

1713  Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55 on this day in history.  

1715  On this day in history death of pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)  

1719  Giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1723  Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90 on February - 25.  

1756  Death of Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693) on February - 25.  

1798  Death of Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716) on this day in history.  

1805  Death of Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722) on this day in history.  

1826  Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60 on February - 25.  

1850  Death of Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782) on this day in history.  

1851  Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.  

1852  On this day in history thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies  

1860  On this day in history death of chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)  

1865  Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47 on this day in history.  

1894  James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51 on February - 25.  

1899  Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies on this day in history.  

1901  On February - 25 jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71  

1902  On February - 25 carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77  

1906  On February - 25 anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44  

1912  On February - 25 death of guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)  

1914  On February - 25 john Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93  

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1398  Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435) was born on February - 25.  

1591  On this day in history birth of friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)  

1635  On February - 25 birth of walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen  

1643  On February - 25 birth of ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)  

1663  On February - 25 birth of pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)  

1680  On this day in history birth of philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer  

1682  On this day in history birth of giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)  

1692  Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775) was born on February - 25.