Famous Deaths In December - 23

0558  Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 on December - 23.  

0679  Death of Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered on this day in history.  

0910  Death of Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar on this day in history.  

0913  On this day in history death of conrad of Franconia  

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

1116  On December - 23 ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies  

1230  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history 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  Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 on December - 23.  

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

1646  On this day in history death of françois Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)  

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

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

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

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  On this day in history death of alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy  

1771  On December - 23 death of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)  

1779  On December - 23 death of augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)  

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 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 this day in history.  

1812  On this day in history michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73  

1834  Death of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766) on December - 23.  

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

1891  Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81 on December - 23.  

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

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

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

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  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 this day in history.  

1597  Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" was born on December - 23.