Famous Deaths In April - 04

0397  Ambrosius, gov of Liguria/bishop of Milan (374-97)/saint, dies on April - 04.  

0636  On this day in history death of saint Isidore of Seville, Church Father and the proposed patron of Internet (b. cira 560)  

0896  Formosus, Pope (891-96), dies on this day in history.  

1229  On April - 04 hugo van Pierrepont, bishop of Liege, dies  

1284  On April - 04 alfonso X, "El Sabio" King of Castile/Leon (1252-84), dies at 62  

1292  Nicholas IV, [Girolamo Masci], Pope (1288-92), dies on this day in history.  

1305  Death of Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (b. circa 1217) on this day in history.  

1393  Floris van Wevelinkhoven, bishop of Utrecht, dies on this day in history.  

1406  Robert III, King of Scotland (1390-1406), dies on this day in history.  

1417  John van Touraine, 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies on April - 04.  

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1536  Death of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460) on April - 04.  

1585  On this day in history caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57  

1588  On this day in history frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53  

1604  Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies on this day in history.  

1609  Death of Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526) on April - 04.  

1617  On this day in history john Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies  

1643  Simon Episcopius, [Bisschop], Dutch theologist, dies at 60 on April - 04.  

1661  Death of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (b. circa 1580) on April - 04.  

1662  Davis Mell, composer, dies at 57 on April - 04.  

1664  Adam Willaerts, Dutch seascape painter, dies on April - 04.  

1701  On April - 04 death of joseph Haines, entertainer and author  

1714  Karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies on this day in history.  

1734  Johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79 on this day in history.  

1743  On this day in history death of daniel Neal, English historian (b. 1678)  

1761  Death of Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722) on April - 04.  

1766  Death of John Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704) on this day in history.  

1774  Oliver Goldsmith, Irish poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies at 17 on this day in history.  

1784  Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies on this day in history.  

1792  On this day in history death of james Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)  

1806  On April - 04 friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84  

1807  Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies on this day in history.  

1817  Prince d'Essing, dies on April - 04.  

1841  Death of William Henry Harrison, becomes 1st pres to die in office, at 68 on this day in history.  

1844  On this day in history charles Bulfinch, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80  

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0186  Caracalla, Roman emperor (d. 217) was born on April - 04.  

1492  On April - 04 birth of ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564)  

1527  On April - 04 birth of abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer  

1572  William Strachey, English writer (d. 1621) was born on this day in history.  

1593  Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669) was born on this day in history.  

1646  Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715) was born on April - 04.  

1648  On this day in history birth of grinling Gibbons, sculptor/woodcarver  

1688  On this day in history birth of joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)