Famous Deaths In February - 25

0779  On February - 25 walburgis, Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies  

1246  Death of Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd on this day in history.  

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

1495  On this day in history djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35  

1522  On February - 25 death of william Lilye, English classical scholar  

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  Everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51 on February - 25.  

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1634  Death of Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50 on February - 25.  

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

1655  Death of Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580) on February - 25.  

1682  On February - 25 death of alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37  

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  On this day in history giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66  

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

1756  On February - 25 death of eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)  

1798  On February - 25 death of louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)  

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 this day in history.  

1850  On this day in history death of daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)  

1851  On this day in history ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53  

1852  On February - 25 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 February - 25.  

1894  On February - 25 james Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51  

1899  On this day in history paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies  

1901  Jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71 on February - 25.  

1902  Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1906  Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44 on February - 25.  

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  On February - 25 birth of xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)  

1591  On February - 25 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  Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) was born on February - 25.  

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

1680  On February - 25 birth of philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer  

1682  Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771) was born on February - 25.  

1692  Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775) was born on this day in history.