Famous Deaths Happened In December - 23

0558  Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 on this day in history.   

0679  On this day in history death of dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered   

0910  On December - 23 death of naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar   

0913  On December - 23 death of conrad of Franconia   

0918  On this day in history conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies   

1116  Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies on this day in history.   

1230  On December - 23 death of berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England   

1236  Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies on this day in history.   

1502  On December - 23 margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57   

1556  On December - 23 death of nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)   

1568  Death of Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England on this day in history.   

1569  On December - 23 death of st Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible   

1575  On December - 23 death of akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)   

1588  Death of Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 on this day in history.   

1619  Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 on this day in history.   

1631  On this day in history death of michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)   

1646  Death of François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582) on this day in history.   

1652  On December - 23 john Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68   

1675  Death of Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602) on this day in history.   

1688  On December - 23 jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21   

1696  On December - 23 johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60   

1722  Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) on December - 23.   

1761  Death of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy on December - 23.   

1771  Death of Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701) on this day in history.   

1779  Death of Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724) on this day in history.   

1789  Death of Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712) on December - 23.   

1793  On this day in history death of johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)   

1795  On December - 23 death of henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)   

1805  Death of Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723) on this day in history.   

1812  Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73 on December - 23.   

1834  Death of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766) on this day in history.   

1846  Death of Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780) on this day in history.   

1891  On December - 23 holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81   

1908  Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72 on December - 23.   

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1173  On this day in history birth of louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)   

1174  Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach was born on this day in history.   

1513  Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577) was born on December - 23.   

1537  King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) was born on December - 23.   

1544  Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71) was born on this day in history.   

1548  On December - 23 birth of pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)   

1582  On December - 23 birth of severo Bonini, composer   

1597  On this day in history birth of martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"