Famous people died in February - page 9

Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather was a New England Puritan minister, author, and pamphleteer

AmericanFebruary 12, 1663147 views

Robert Peary

Robert Edwin Peary, Sr

AmericanMay 6, 1856267 views

Mary Edwards Walker

Mary Edwards Walker was an American feminist, an alleged spy, women’s right activist, an abolitionist and a prisoner of war

AmericanNovember 26, 1832172 views

Martha Gellhorn

Martha Gellhorn was a celebrated American novelist and journalist

Cuauhtémoc

Cuauhtemoc was the last Aztec Emperor who ruled from 1520 and 1521

Mexican1495184 views

Léon Foucault

Leon Foucault was a famous French scientist who explained rotation of earth about its own axis using a pendulum

FrenchSeptember 18, 1819162 views

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg was a famous German who invented the movable type printing machine thus making mass printing a reality

German1398142 views

Ernst Mayr

Ernst Mayr was a renowned biologist who authored the pioneering book on evolutionary biology titled ‘Systematics and the Origin of Species’

AmericanJuly 5, 1904170 views

Charles Curtis

Charles Curtis was an American politician who served as the 31st Vice President of the United States

AmericanJanuary 25, 1860176 views

Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and navigator after whom the Americas were named

ItalianMarch 9, 1454183 views