Death-a-Day

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In 1542, Jane Boleyn and Catherine Howard are both executed.

In 1317, Margaret of France, Queen of England and second wife of Edward I died.

In 1400, Richard II of England died.

In 1779, English Explorer James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Keylakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

In 1929, Seven people, six of them gangster adversaries of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago in what is known as the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.

In 1294, Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, died.

In 1478, George Plantagenet, brother of Edward IV and Richard of England, was executed.

In 1546, Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation.

In 1564, Michelangelo.

In 1973, Frank Costello, Italian-American mob boss.

In 1437, James I of Scotland was assassinated.

In 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.

In 1601, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, was executed.

In 1713, Frederick I of Prussia died.

In 1835, Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor/Francis I Emperor of Austria, died.

In 1855, Nicholas I of Russia.

In 1845, Johnny Appleseed died.

In 1913, King George I of Greece.

In 1413, Henry IV of England died.

In 1549, Thomas Seymour, uncle of Edward VI, brother of Jane Seymour, and fourth husband of Catherine Parr, was executed.

In 1726, Isaac Newton.

On this day in 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died.

In 1584, Ivan the Terrible died.

In 1969, U.S. President and General Dwight D. Eisenhower died.

In 1987, Maria von Trapp, the woman from The Sound of Music died.

In 1547, King Francis I of France, died.

In 1621, King Philip III of Spain.

In 1913, J. P. Morgan.

In 1980, Jesse Owens.

In 1993, Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee, dies in a firearms accident while filming The Crow.

In 1204, Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II of England, died.

In 1199, King Richard I of England dies from a shoulder wound infection caused by an arrow.

In 1590, Francis Walsingham died.

In 1364, King John II of France died.

In 1981, American General Omar Bradley.

In 1483, Edward IV of England dies.

The year after, Edward of Middleham, Richard III's only legitimate child, died.

In 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright.

1912, Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross died.

In 1945, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1953, Lionel Logue.