Famous Deaths In December - 23

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

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

0910  Death of Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar on December - 23.  

0913  Death of Conrad of Franconia on December - 23.  

0918  On December - 23 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  Death of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England on this day in history.  

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

1502  Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57 on December - 23.  

1556  Death of Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504) on this day in history.  

1568  On December - 23 death of roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England  

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  On December - 23 death of hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37  

1619  On this day in history johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47  

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

1646  On December - 23 death of françois Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)  

1652  On this day in history john Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68  

1675  Death of Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602) on December - 23.  

1688  Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21 on December - 23.  

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

1722  Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) on this day in history.  

1761  Death of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy on this day in history.  

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 December - 23.  

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

1793  Death of Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) on this day in history.  

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

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

1812  On December - 23 michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73  

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 December - 23.  

1908  Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

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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 this day in history birth of thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)  

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 December - 23.  

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 December - 23 birth of martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"