Famous Deaths Happened 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  Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35 on February - 25.   

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

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

1553  Death of Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492) on this day in history.   

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

1601  On February - 25 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  On this day in history marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60   

1655  On this day in history death of daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)   

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

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

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

1798  Death of Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716) on February - 25.   

1805  Death of Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722) on February - 25.   

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  Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53 on February - 25.   

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

1860  Death of Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790) on this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77   

1906  Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44 on this day in history.   

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  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  Walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen was born on this day in history.   

1643  Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95) was born on February - 25.   

1663  On this day in history birth of pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718)   

1680  Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

1692  On this day in history birth of karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)