Famous Deaths In February - 03

0474  Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74), dies on February - 03.   

0619  Death of Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury on this day in history.   

0699  Death of Saint Werburgh on February - 03.   

0865  Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies on this day in history.   

1014  On February - 03 death of king Sweyn I of Denmark   

1116  Death of King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070) on this day in history.   

1399  On February - 03 john of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castile & Leon, dies at 58   

1428  On February - 03 death of ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)   

1451  On February - 03 murad II, sultan of Turkey (1421-51), dies   

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

1536  Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies on this day in history.   

1558  On February - 03 alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente), dies   

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

1602  Paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62 on February - 03.   

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

1679  Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast), dies at 53 on this day in history.   

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

1715  Gottfried Vopelius, composer, dies at 70 on February - 03.   

1737  Death of Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648) on this day in history.   

1748  Henri Madin, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.   

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

1814  On this day in history johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer, dies at 75   

1832  George Crabbe, English vicar/poet (Borough), dies at 77 on February - 03.   

1846  Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1862  Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist/astronomer, dies at 87 on February - 03.   

1866  On this day in history 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  Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

1882  Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1889  On this day in history death of belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered at 40   

1890  On February - 03 christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist, dies at 72   

1900  On this day in history ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer, dies at 33   

1902  Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch PM (1866), dies on this day in history.   

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1338  Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378) was born on this day in history.   

1368  Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422) was born on this day in history.   

1525  On this day in history birth of giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer   

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

1655  On this day in history birth of francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized   

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

1690  On this day in history birth of richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)   

1721  On February - 03 birth of friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)