Feb 9 Eduard van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military officer and liberal politician, dies at 63 Feb 20 Henry Drummond, English banker and religious leader, dies at 69 Feb 25 Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790) Feb 29 George Bridgetower, Polish-African violinist (musical prodigy who inspired Beethoven), dies at 81 [1] Jan 1860 Famous Deaths by Year Mar 1860 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide