Famous Deaths In December - 23

0558  On December - 23 childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62  

0679  Death of Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered on December - 23.  

0910  On this day in history death of naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar  

0913  On December - 23 death of conrad of Franconia  

0918  Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies on December - 23.  

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

1230  Death of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England on December - 23.  

1236  On December - 23 philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies  

1502  On this day in history margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57  

1556  Death of Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504) on December - 23.  

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

1569  Death of St Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible on this day in history.  

1575  Death of Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531) on December - 23.  

1588  On this day in history death of hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37  

1619  Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 on December - 23.  

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

1646  Death of François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582) on December - 23.  

1652  John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68 on December - 23.  

1675  On December - 23 death of caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)  

1688  Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21 on this day in history.  

1696  Johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

1722  On this day in history death of pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)  

1761  On December - 23 death of alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy  

1771  Death of Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701) on December - 23.  

1779  Death of Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724) on December - 23.  

1789  On December - 23 death of charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)  

1793  Death of Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) on December - 23.  

1795  On this day in history death of henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)  

1805  Death of Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723) on December - 23.  

1812  Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1834  On December - 23 death of thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)  

1846  On this day in history death of jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)  

1891  Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

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

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1173  On December - 23 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 this day in history.  

1537  On December - 23 birth of king John III of Sweden (d. 1592)  

1544  On December - 23 birth of anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)  

1548  On this day in history birth of pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)  

1582  Severo Bonini, composer was born on December - 23.  

1597  Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" was born on this day in history.