Famous Deaths Happened In February - 25

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

1246  On February - 25 death of dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd   

1247  Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies on this day in history.   

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

1522  On this day in history death of william Lilye, English classical scholar   

1536  On February - 25 death of berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)   

1553  Death of Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492) on February - 25.   

1558  Death of Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498) on February - 25.   

1601  On this day in history death of robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth   

1602  Everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51 on this day in history.   

1634  On February - 25 death of albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50   

1643  Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

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

1682  Death of Alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37 on this day in history.   

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

1715  Death of Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640) on this day in history.   

1719  Giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66 on February - 25.   

1723  Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90 on this day in history.   

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 February - 25 death of thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)   

1826  On this day in history piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60   

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

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

1852  Thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies on February - 25.   

1860  Death of Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790) on February - 25.   

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

1912  On this day in history death of guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)   

1914  John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93 on February - 25.   

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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 this day in history birth of walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen   

1643  Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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