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Famous People Who Died in February 1882

  • Feb 2 Fabio Campana, Italian composer and opera director, dies at 63
  • Feb 3 Guglielmo Quarenghi, Italian composer and cellist, dies at 55
  • Feb 3 Mary Elizabeth Lange, Cuban-American educator, Catholic nun, and co-founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first African-American Catholic religious order, dies at about 92 [birthdate uncertain, c. 1769]
  • Feb 11 Gustav Schmidt, German composer and conductor, dies at 65
  • Feb 13 Henry Highland Garnet, American minister, abolitionist and diplomat, dies in Monrovia, Liberia at 66
  • Feb 28 John Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist, dies at 89