Famous Deaths Happened In February - 25

0779  On this day in history walburgis, Anglo-Saxon abbess/saint (Walpurgis Night), dies   

1246  Death of Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd on February - 25.   

1247  Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies on February - 25.   

1495  Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35 on February - 25.   

1522  Death of William Lilye, English classical scholar on this day in history.   

1536  Death of Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492) on February - 25.   

1553  Death of Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492) on February - 25.   

1558  Death of Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498) on this day in history.   

1601  Death of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth on February - 25.   

1602  On this day in history everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51   

1634  On February - 25 death of albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50   

1643  Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60 on February - 25.   

1655  Death of Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580) on this day in history.   

1682  Death of Alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37 on this day in history.   

1713  Frederik I, King of Prussia (1701-13), dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1715  On February - 25 death of pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)   

1719  On this day in history giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66   

1723  On February - 25 christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90   

1756  On February - 25 death of eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)   

1798  On February - 25 death of louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)   

1805  Death of Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722) on February - 25.   

1826  Piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60 on February - 25.   

1850  Death of Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782) on this day in history.   

1851  On February - 25 ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53   

1852  Thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies on this day in history.   

1860  Death of Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790) on this day in history.   

1865  Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47 on this day in history.   

1894  James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51 on February - 25.   

1899  Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies on February - 25.   

1901  Jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71 on February - 25.   

1902  Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1906  On February - 25 anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor c t, dies at 44   

1912  Death of Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852) on this day in history.   

1914  On February - 25 john Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93   

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1398  On February - 25 birth of xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435)   

1591  On February - 25 birth of friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)   

1635  Walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen was born on this day in history.   

1643  On this day in history birth of ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)   

1663  Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718) was born on February - 25.   

1680  On this day in history birth of philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer   

1682  On February - 25 birth of giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771)   

1692  On February - 25 birth of karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)