Famous Deaths In February - 25

0779  On February - 25 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 this day in history.   

1495  Djem Sultan, son of Turkish sultan Mehmed II, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1522  On February - 25 death of william Lilye, English classical scholar   

1536  Death of Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492) on this day in history.   

1553  On this day in history death of hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)   

1558  Death of Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498) on February - 25.   

1601  On February - 25 death of robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth   

1602  Everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51 on February - 25.   

1634  Death of Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50 on February - 25.   

1643  On this day in history marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60   

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 this day in history christopher Wren, England, astronomer/architect, dies at 90   

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

1798  Death of Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716) on February - 25.   

1805  Death of Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722) on this day in history.   

1826  On February - 25 piotr A von der Pahlen, military governor of St Petersburg, dies at 60   

1850  On this day in history death of daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)   

1851  Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53 on February - 25.   

1852  On this day in history thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies   

1860  On this day in history death of chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)   

1865  Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47 on February - 25.   

1894  James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51 on this day in history.   

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

1901  On February - 25 jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71   

1902  On this day in history carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77   

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

1912  On February - 25 death of guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)   

1914  John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93 on this day in history.   

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1398  Xuande, Emperor of China (d. 1435) was born on February - 25.   

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

1635  On this day in history birth of walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen   

1643  On February - 25 birth of ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)   

1663  Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (d. 1718) was born on this day in history.   

1680  Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer was born on this day in history.   

1682  Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (d. 1771) was born on this day in history.   

1692  On this day in history birth of karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775)