Famous Deaths In February - 03

0474  On February - 03 leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies   

0619  Death of Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury on February - 03.   

0699  On February - 03 death of saint Werburgh   

0865  On February - 03 ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies   

1014  Death of King Sweyn I of Denmark on February - 03.   

1116  On February - 03 death of king Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)   

1399  John of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castile & Leon, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1428  Death of Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386) on this day in history.   

1451  Murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies on February - 03.   

1468  On February - 03 johann Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer, dies   

1536  On February - 03 garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies   

1558  On this day in history alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies   

1566  Death of George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513) on February - 03.   

1602  On this day in history paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62   

1619  On February - 03 death of henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)   

1679  On this day in history jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast), dies at 53   

1697  On this day in history sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island   

1715  On February - 03 gottfried Vopelius, composer, dies at 70   

1737  Death of Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648) on February - 03.   

1748  On this day in history henri Madin, composer, dies at 49   

1803  Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary, dies at 79 on February - 03.   

1814  Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75 on February - 03.   

1832  George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1846  On this day in history joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79   

1862  On February - 03 jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87   

1866  On February - 03 death of françois-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)   

1874  On this day in history death of lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)   

1875  On this day in history everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe), dies at 66   

1876  On February - 03 gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83   

1882  On February - 03 guglielmo Quarenghi, composer, dies at 55   

1889  On February - 03 death of belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40   

1890  Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72 on February - 03.   

1900  Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33 on February - 03.   

1902  On this day in history isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch PM (1866), dies   

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1338  Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378) was born on February - 03.   

1368  On this day in history birth of charles VI, King of France (1380-1422)   

1525  On February - 03 birth of giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer   

1648  Louis Bouteiller, composer was born on this day in history.   

1655  On February - 03 birth of francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized   

1677  On February - 03 birth of jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)   

1690  Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755) was born on this day in history.   

1721  On this day in history birth of friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)