Famous People Who Died in February 1903

George Stokes (1819-1903)

Feb 1 Irish physicist and mathematician (Navier-Stokes equations, Stokes' theorem), dies at 83

  • Feb 3 Frederick E Kitziger, composer, dies at 59
  • Feb 11 Henryk Szulc, Polish violinist and composer, dies at 67
  • Feb 12 Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish dramatist and statesman (b. 1834)
  • Feb 15 Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69
  • Feb 17 Joseph Parry, Welsh composer and musician, dies at 61
  • Feb 20 Charles Doolittle, American general (Union volunteer), dies at 70
  • Feb 22 Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903), dies
  • Feb 22 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor), dies at 42
  • Feb 23 Albert Cahen, French composer, dies at 57
  • Feb 23 Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer, dies at 70

Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903)

Feb 26 American inventor famous for the Gatling Gun, the 1st hand-cranked machine gun, dies at 84

  • Feb 28 Girolamo de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku), dies at 88