Famous Deaths In December - 05

0749  On December - 05 death of saint John of Damascus, theologian   

1082  On this day in history death of ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona   

1212  Derek II of Are, Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies on December - 05.   

1244  On this day in history johanna of Constantinople, countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies   

1355  Jan III, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies on this day in history.   

1560  Francois II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16 on this day in history.   

1570  On December - 05 death of johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494)   

1594  Gerardus Mercator, Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82 on December - 05.   

1624  On this day in history death of gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)   

1654  On December - 05 death of jean François Sarrazin, French writer   

1663  On December - 05 severo Bonini, composer, dies at 80   

1675  On December - 05 john Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73   

1745  Christoph Forster, composer, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1749  Death of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, New French explorer and trader (b. 1685) on December - 05.   

1758  On December - 05 johann Friedrich Fasch, composer, dies at 70   

1770  On this day in history james Stirling, Scot mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78   

1784  Phillis Wheatley, 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston on December - 05.   

1791  On this day in history wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria at 35   

1799  On December - 05 robert Kimmerling, composer, dies at 61   

1818  Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60 on December - 05.   

1819  On December - 05 death of friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)   

1835  August v Platen, writer, dies at 39 on December - 05.   

1842  On this day in history mJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers, dies at 82   

1853  On December - 05 johann Peter Heuschkel, composer, dies at 80   

1859  Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82 on December - 05.   

1870  A Dumas Da, writer, dies at 68 on December - 05.   

1886  On this day in history peter Hofstede de Groot, Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84   

1887  On December - 05 death of eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)   

1891  On December - 05 jKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies   

1895  Death of Chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840) on December - 05.   

1902  Henry Stephen Cutler, composer, dies at 78 on December - 05.   

1916  Hans Richter, composer, dies at 73 on December - 05.   

1922  On December - 05 samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies   

1925  Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist, dies at 78 on December - 05.   

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1377  Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402) was born on December - 05.   

1443  Pope Julius II (d. 1513) was born on December - 05.   

1495  Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542) was born on December - 05.   

1537  Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1597) was born on this day in history.   

1539  Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604) was born on this day in history.   

1545  On December - 05 birth of janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], Dutch politician/poet   

1547  On this day in history birth of ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Dutch-Frisian humanist/historian   

1661  On December - 05 birth of robert Haley, earl of Oxford/English premier (Whig, 1710-14)