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 Jan 1865 Famous Deaths by Year Mar 1865 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide