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Famous People Who Died in February 1890

  • Feb 3 C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist (Buys Ballot's law), dies at 72

Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890)

Feb 17 American newspaper man, politician and inventor of the typewriter, dies of tuberculosis at 71

  • Feb 18 Gyula Andrássy Sr, Prime Minister of Hungary (1867-71), dies at 66
  • Feb 22 Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (art for King's Chapel at Frederiksborg Palace), dies of cancer at 55
  • Feb 22 John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (Astor Estate holdings), dies at 67