Famous Deaths In December - 23

0558  On this day in history 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  Death of Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar on this day in history.  

0913  Death of Conrad of Franconia on this day in history.  

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

1116  On this day in history ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies  

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 December - 23.  

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

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

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

1569  On this day in history death of st Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible  

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

1588  Death of Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 on December - 23.  

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

1631  On December - 23 death of michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)  

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

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

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

1688  On this day in history jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21  

1696  On this day in history johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60  

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

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  Death of Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712) on this day in history.  

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

1795  Death of Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730) on December - 23.  

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

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 December - 23.  

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

1908  On December - 23 eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72  

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1173  Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231) was born on December - 23.  

1174  On December - 23 birth of louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach  

1513  On December - 23 birth of thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)  

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

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

1548  Pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae) was born on this day in history.  

1582  Severo Bonini, composer was born on this day in history.  

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