Famous Deaths In November - 02

1083  On November - 02 death of matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031)  

1171  On this day in history baudouin IV, count of Henegouwen (1120-71), dies  

1285  Death of King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239) on this day in history.  

1327  Death of King James II of Aragon (b. 1267) on November - 02.  

1483  Death of Henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of Engl, beheaded at 49 on this day in history.  

1588  On this day in history wilhelmus Damasi, theologist/1st bishop of Roermond, dies at 63  

1610  Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10), dies at 66 on November - 02.  

1618  On November - 02 death of archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)  

1635  Aurelio Signoretti, composer, dies at 68 on November - 02.  

1697  Death of Constantine Huygens Jr, Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried on November - 02.  

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1716  On this day in history death of engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)  

1717  Johann Jacob Walther, composer, dies on November - 02.  

1731  Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer, dies at 26 on this day in history.  

1781  Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78 on November - 02.  

1804  On this day in history armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64  

1807  On November - 02 death of baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)  

1845  Chretien Urhan, composer, dies at 55 on November - 02.  

1852  Death of Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782) on November - 02.  

1863  Death of Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826) on this day in history.  

1875  On this day in history death of jWW Birch, 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered  

1877  On November - 02 death of friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)  

1882  On this day in history cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer, dies at 61  

1884  Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer, dies at 62 on November - 02.  

1887  Jenny Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano, dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1898  On this day in history death of george Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)  

1905  Death of Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817) on November - 02.  

1909  On November - 02 theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist, dies at 81  

1920  On November - 02 andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73  

1925  On November - 02 antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 65  

1931  Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47 on this day in history.  

1935  H B "Jock" Cameron, S Afr cricket capt (v England 1935, age 30), dies on this day in history.  

1937  On November - 02 maude Valerie White, composer, dies at 82  

1944  Death of Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889) on this day in history.  

1945  Death of Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880) on this day in history.  

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1082  On this day in history birth of emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)  

1475  Princess Anne of York (d. 1511) was born on this day in history.  

1528  On November - 02 birth of peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], Neo latin poet (Collected Works)  

1636  Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721) was born on this day in history.  

1667  James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737) was born on this day in history.  

1692  Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766) was born on November - 02.  

1696  On this day in history birth of conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760)  

1699  On November - 02 birth of jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)