Famous Deaths In April - 04

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

0636  Death of Saint Isidore of Seville, Church Father and the proposed patron of Internet (b. cira 560) on this day in history.  

0896  Formosus, Pope (891-96), dies on April - 04.  

1229  Hugo van Pierrepont, bishop of Liege, dies on April - 04.  

1284  On this day in history alfonso X, "El Sabio" King of Castile/Leon (1252-84), dies at 62  

1292  Nicholas IV, [Girolamo Masci], Pope (1288-92), dies on April - 04.  

1305  On this day in history death of jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (b. circa 1217)  

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

1406  On April - 04 robert III, King of Scotland (1390-1406), dies  

1417  John van Touraine, 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies on this day in history.  

1536  Death of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460) on this day in history.  

1585  Caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57 on this day in history.  

1588  Frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53 on April - 04.  

1604  Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies on April - 04.  

1609  On April - 04 death of charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)  

1617  John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies on April - 04.  

1643  On this day in history simon Episcopius, [Bisschop], Dutch theologist, dies at 60  

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

1662  On this day in history davis Mell, composer, dies at 57  

1664  On April - 04 adam Willaerts, Dutch seascape painter, dies  

1701  On this day in history death of joseph Haines, entertainer and author  

1714  Karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies on April - 04.  

1734  Johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79 on April - 04.  

1743  Death of Daniel Neal, English historian (b. 1678) on April - 04.  

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 April - 04.  

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

1806  Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

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

1817  On April - 04 prince d'Essing, dies  

1841  On April - 04 death of william Henry Harrison, becomes 1st pres to die in office, at 68  

1844  Charles Bulfinch, 1st US pro architect (Mass State House), dies at 80 on April - 04.  

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0186  Caracalla, Roman emperor (d. 217) was born on this day in history.  

1492  On this day in history birth of ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564)  

1527  On this day in history birth of abraham Ortelius, [Ortels/Hortels], South Neth geographer  

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

1593  On April - 04 birth of edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)  

1646  On this day in history birth of antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715)  

1648  Grinling Gibbons, sculptor/woodcarver was born on this day in history.  

1688  Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768) was born on April - 04.