Famous Birthdays Feb 2 Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (New Church, Amsterdam) Feb 24 Matthias C Sarbiewski [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet Famous Deaths Feb 12 Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553) Feb 20 Ernst, archduke of Austria, dies at 41 Feb 21 Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged 1594 History by Year 1596