Famous Deaths In May - 14

0347  On May - 14 pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies  

0649  Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies on May - 14.  

0964  On this day in history john XII, [Octavianus], Pope (955-64), dies  

1470  Death of Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409) on May - 14.  

1565  On May - 14 nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies  

1574  On this day in history death of guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)  

1608  On this day in history death of charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)  

1610  Death of Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56 on this day in history.  

1643  Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43), dies at 41 on this day in history.  

1649  On this day in history death of friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)  

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1669  Death of Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601) on this day in history.  

1688  Death of Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619) on May - 14.  

1726  John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies on this day in history.  

1742  On May - 14 dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop, dies at 64  

1754  On this day in history death of pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)  

1761  Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50 on this day in history.  

1801  Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1818  Death of Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775) on this day in history.  

1820  On this day in history paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43  

1832  Death of John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried on this day in history.  

1833  On May - 14 johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88  

1847  Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer, dies at 41 on May - 14.  

1860  Death of Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801) on May - 14.  

1863  On this day in history emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer, dies at 46  

1864  William N Green Jr, Union brig-general, dies on this day in history.  

1870  On May - 14 ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69  

1873  On this day in history death of gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)  

1877  On May - 14 john Roberts, composer, dies at 54  

1878  Death of Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830) on May - 14.  

1887  Death of Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808) on this day in history.  

1889  On this day in history death of volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)  

1893  Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83 on this day in history.  

1904  On May - 14 richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor, dies at 78  

1906  Death of Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829) on May - 14.  

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1316  Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78)/emperor (1355-78) was born on this day in history.  

1316  Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378) was born on May - 14.  

1553  Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615) was born on this day in history.  

1652  On May - 14 birth of johann Philipp Fortsch, composer  

1666  Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732) was born on this day in history.  

1679  On May - 14 birth of peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer  

1686  On this day in history birth of daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor (thermometer) [NS=5/24]  

1699  Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786) was born on May - 14.