Historical Events Feb 3 Dutch States-General forbids export of windmills Famous Birthdays Feb 12 Josef Reicha, Czech composer Feb 17 Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr) Feb 20 Charles Broche, French organist and composer, born in Rouen, France (d. 1803) Feb 25 John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (d. 1806) Famous Deaths Feb 9 Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722) 1751 History by Year 1753