Famous Deaths In November - 02

1083  Death of Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031) on this day in history.  

1171  Baudouin IV, count of Henegouwen (1120-71), dies on November - 02.  

1285  On this day in history death of king Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)  

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

1483  On November - 02 death of henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of Engl, beheaded at 49  

1588  Wilhelmus Damasi, theologist/1st bishop of Roermond, dies at 63 on November - 02.  

1610  On November - 02 richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10), dies at 66  

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

1635  On November - 02 aurelio Signoretti, composer, dies at 68  

1697  On November - 02 death of constantine Huygens Jr, Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried  

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1716  On November - 02 death of engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)  

1717  Johann Jacob Walther, composer, dies on this day in history.  

1731  On this day in history johann Matthias Leffloth, composer, dies at 26  

1781  On this day in history jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78  

1804  On November - 02 armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64  

1807  Death of Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730) on this day in history.  

1845  On November - 02 chretien Urhan, composer, dies at 55  

1852  On November - 02 death of pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)  

1863  On this day in history death of theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)  

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

1877  On this day in history death of friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)  

1882  On November - 02 cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer, dies at 61  

1884  On November - 02 auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer, dies at 62  

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

1898  Death of George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826) on this day in history.  

1905  Death of Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817) on this day in history.  

1909  Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist, dies at 81 on November - 02.  

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

1925  On this day in history 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  On this day in history h B "Jock" Cameron, S Afr cricket capt (v England 1935, age 30), dies  

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  On this day in history death of princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)  

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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  Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], Neo latin poet (Collected Works) was born on this day in history.  

1636  Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721) was born on November - 02.  

1667  James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737) was born on November - 02.  

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

1696  Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760) was born on November - 02.  

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