Famous Deaths Happened 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 this day in history.   

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

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

0918  Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies   

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  Death of St Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible on December - 23.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

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

1722  On December - 23 death of pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)   

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 this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1812  On December - 23 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  On December - 23 holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81   

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

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1173  On December - 23 birth of louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)   

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 this day in history birth of king John III of Sweden (d. 1592)   

1544  On this day in history birth of anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)   

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

1582  On December - 23 birth of severo Bonini, composer   

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