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Famous People Who Died in February 1837

Gustav IV Adolf (1778-1837)

Feb 7 King of Sweden (1792-1809), dies of a stroke at 58

  • Feb 10 Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and writer (Eugene Onegin), killed in a duel at 37
  • Feb 12 Ludwig Borne [Loeb Baruch], German-Jewish writer, dies at 50
  • Feb 13 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and romantic writer, commits suicide by gunshot at 27
  • Feb 19 Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)