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 April - 04.  

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

1229  Hugo van Pierrepont, bishop of Liege, dies on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1393  On this day in history floris van Wevelinkhoven, bishop of Utrecht, dies  

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

1417  On April - 04 john van Touraine, 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies  

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1536  On this day in history death of frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)  

1585  Caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57 on April - 04.  

1588  On April - 04 frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88), dies at 53  

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

1609  Death of Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526) on this day in history.  

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

1643  On April - 04 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 April - 04 davis Mell, composer, dies at 57  

1664  Adam Willaerts, Dutch seascape painter, dies on this day in history.  

1701  Death of Joseph Haines, entertainer and author on April - 04.  

1714  On April - 04 karel, duke of Berry/French heir to the throne, dies  

1734  On April - 04 johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79  

1743  Death of Daniel Neal, English historian (b. 1678) on this day in history.  

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

1766  On this day in history death of john Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704)  

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

1784  On April - 04 mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies  

1792  Death of James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725) on this day in history.  

1806  On this day in history friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer, dies at 84  

1807  On this day in history joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies  

1817  On this day in history prince d'Essing, dies  

1841  On this day in history death of william Henry Harrison, becomes 1st pres to die in office, at 68  

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  Ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564) was born on April - 04.  

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

1572  On April - 04 birth of william Strachey, English writer (d. 1621)  

1593  Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669) was born on April - 04.  

1646  Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715) was born on this day in history.  

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

1688  On April - 04 birth of joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)