Famous Deaths Happened In February - 25
Friday, 20 June 2025
0779 Walburgis, Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies on this day in history.
1246 Death of Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd on this day in history.
1247 Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies on this day in history.
1495 Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35 on February - 25.
1522 Death of William Lilye, English classical scholar on February - 25.
1536 Death of Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492) on this day in history.
1553 On February - 25 death of hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)
1558 On February - 25 death of eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
1601 On this day in history death of robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth
1602 On February - 25 everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51
1634 On February - 25 death of albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50
1643 On February - 25 marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60
1655 Death of Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580) on this day in history.
1682 Death of Alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37 on February - 25.
1713 On this day in history frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55
1715 On February - 25 death of pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
1719 On February - 25 giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66
1723 On this day in history christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90
1756 Death of Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693) on this day in history.
1798 Death of Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716) on this day in history.
1805 On this day in history death of thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
1826 On February - 25 piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60
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 February - 25 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 this day in history.
1899 On February - 25 paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies
1901 On this day in history jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71
1902 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77 on February - 25.
1906 Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44 on February - 25.
1912 On this day in history death of guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
1914 On this day in history john Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93
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