Feb 1 Frederick Willem Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer and railway pioneer (Katwyk), dies at 68 Feb 4 Johan Michiel Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future), dies at 60 Feb 15 Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796) Feb 27 Justus Hiddes Halbertsma, Dutch Frisian writer, poet (Rhymes & Tales), lexicographer and linguist, and minister, dies at 79 Feb 28 Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (Poetical Mediations) and politician (briefly led the Second Republic 1848), dies at 78 Jan 1869 Famous Deaths by Year Mar 1869 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
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Suicide