Famous Birthdays Feb 16 Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (d. 1817) Feb 25 Armand-Louis Couperin, French composer and organist (Notre Dame) Famous Deaths Feb 13 William Wotton, English theologian and scholar, dies at 58 Feb 22 Francesco Gasparini, composer, dies at 58 1726 History by Year 1728