Famous Deaths In February - 07

0590  Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague on February - 07.   

0999  Death of Boleslaus II of Bohemia on this day in history.   

1045  Death of Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009) on February - 07.   

1317  On February - 07 death of robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)   

1560  Death of Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493) on this day in history.   

1593  Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1609  On February - 07 ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies   

1626  Death of William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548) on this day in history.   

1642  Death of William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571) on this day in history.   

1690  On this day in history death of william Morice, English royalist statesman   

1693  On February - 07 death of paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)   

1736  Death of Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666) on this day in history.   

1743  On February - 07 lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57   

1749  On February - 07 andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76   

1779  William Boyce, composer, dies at 67 on February - 07.   

1799  Death of Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711) on this day in history.   

1801  On February - 07 death of daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)   

1820  On this day in history samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57   

1823  On February - 07 ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58   

1827  On February - 07 franz Anton Dimmler, composer, dies at 73   

1830  Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, Portuguese composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1837  On February - 07 death of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)   

1839  On this day in history death of karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)   

1857  On February - 07 félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65   

1862  Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61 on February - 07.   

1865  John Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64 on February - 07.   

1871  Death of Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797) on this day in history.   

1873  On this day in history death of sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)   

1878  Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85 on this day in history.   

1881  On February - 07 fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73   

1897  Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49 on February - 07.   

1901  On this day in history benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64   

1911  Harry Graham, cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies on this day in history.   

1915  Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

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1102  On February - 07 birth of empress Matilda, Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)   

1478  On this day in history birth of thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)   

1478  On February - 07 birth of sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)   

1556  On this day in history birth of maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren   

1589  On this day in history birth of jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician   

1612  Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men) was born on this day in history.   

1655  On this day in history birth of jean-Francois Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)   

1688  On February - 07 birth of maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange