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Famous People Who Died in February 1865

  • Feb 6 John Pegram, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 33
  • Feb 7 John Henry Winder, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and provost marshal, dies at 64
  • Feb 10 Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
  • Feb 15 Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies at 62
  • Feb 24 Edmund John Armstrong, Irish poet, dies at 23
  • Feb 25 Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47