Famous Deaths In November - 02

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

1171  On November - 02 baudouin IV, count of Henegouwen (1120-71), dies  

1285  Death of King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239) on November - 02.  

1327  On this day in history death of king James II of Aragon (b. 1267)  

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

1588  Wilhelmus Damasi, theologist/1st bishop of Roermond, dies at 63 on this day in history.  

1610  On this day in history richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury (1604-10), dies at 66  

1618  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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1716  Death of Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651) on this day in history.  

1717  On this day in history johann Jacob Walther, composer, dies  

1731  On November - 02 johann Matthias Leffloth, composer, dies at 26  

1781  Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78 on this day in history.  

1804  Armand-Gaston Camus, French chairman of Council of 500, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

1807  On this day in history death of baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)  

1845  Chretien Urhan, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.  

1852  Death of Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782) on this day in history.  

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

1882  Cenobio Paniagua y Vasques, composer, dies at 61 on November - 02.  

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

1905  On November - 02 death of albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)  

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

1920  Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1925  Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 65 on November - 02.  

1931  Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47 on November - 02.  

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

1937  Maude Valerie White, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.  

1944  Death of Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889) on November - 02.  

1945  On this day in history death of princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)  

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1082  Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135) was born on November - 02.  

1475  On this day in history birth of princess Anne of York (d. 1511)  

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

1636  On this day in history birth of edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)  

1667  On November - 02 birth of james Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737)  

1692  Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766) was born on this day in history.  

1696  Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760) was born on this day in history.  

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