Famous Deaths In December - 23

0558  Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 on this day in history.  

0679  On December - 23 death of dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered  

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

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

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

1116  Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies on December - 23.  

1230  On this day in history 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  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 December - 23.  

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

1652  On December - 23 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  On December - 23 jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21  

1696  On December - 23 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  On this day in history death of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)  

1779  On this day in history death of augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)  

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 December - 23.  

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

1805  On December - 23 death of pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)  

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

1834  Death of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766) on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72  

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1173  Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231) was born on this day in history.  

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 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 December - 23.  

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

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