Famous Birthdays In December - 06

0846  On this day in history birth of hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)  

1285  On December - 06 birth of king Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)  

1421  On December - 06 birth of henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)  

1478  Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529) was born on December - 06.  

1550  On this day in history birth of orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer  

1586  Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670) was born on this day in history.  

1608  On December - 06 birth of george Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland  

1637  Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714) was born on December - 06.  

1640  Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.  

1642  On December - 06 birth of johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)  

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1685  On December - 06 birth of marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France (d. 1712)  

1721  On December - 06 birth of james Elphinston, British philologist (d. 1809)  

1721  On December - 06 birth of guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (d. 1794)  

1731  On this day in history birth of s von Laroche, writer  

1732  On this day in history birth of warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India (1773-84)  

1743  Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer was born on December - 06.  

1752  On this day in history birth of gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844)  

1768  On December - 06 birth of johann Baptist Henneberg, composer  

1775  Nicolas Isouard, composer was born on this day in history.  

1776  On December - 06 birth of paul Friedrich Struck, composer  

1778  On this day in history birth of joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)  

1792  Abraham J van de Aa, lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary) was born on this day in history.  

1792  On this day in history birth of willem II Frederik GL, King of Neth (1840-49)  

1792  King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849) was born on this day in history.  

1805  Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875) was born on this day in history.  

1805  Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861) was born on December - 06.  

1806  Louis-Gilbert Duprez, composer was born on this day in history.  

1808  On December - 06 birth of johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future)  

1808  On this day in history birth of johann Christian Gebauer, composer  

1809  Stephen Thomas, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1903 was born on this day in history.  

1812  Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (d. 1884) was born on this day in history.  

1816  On December - 06 birth of henry Eustace McCulloch, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895  

1822  John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US was born on December - 06.  

1823  On this day in history birth of friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist (d. 1900)  

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0343  On this day in history death of saint Nicholas  

1185  On December - 06 afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76  

1352  On December - 06 clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies  

1531  Death of John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded on December - 06.  

1550  On December - 06 pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48  

1562  On December - 06 jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies  

1598  Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78 on this day in history.  

1618  Death of Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556) on this day in history.