Famous Deaths In December - 04

0765  Death of Jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702) on this day in history.  

0771  On this day in history karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20  

0811  On December - 04 charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39  

1075  Death of Archbishop Anno II of Cologne on December - 04.  

1123  Death of Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048) on this day in history.  

1137  Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67 on December - 04.  

1182  Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies on this day in history.  

1214  On this day in history death of william I of Scotland  

1270  On this day in history death of theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre  

1334  On this day in history death of pope John XXII (b. 1249)  

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1340  On this day in history death of henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292)  

1371  On this day in history reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38  

1459  Death of Adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401) on this day in history.  

1514  Death of Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?) on December - 04.  

1576  Rheticus, mathematician, dies on December - 04.  

1585  Death of John Willock, Scottish reformer on December - 04.  

1603  Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71 on this day in history.  

1609  Death of Alexander Hume, Scottish poet on this day in history.  

1642  On this day in history armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lucon, dies at about 57  

1649  On this day in history outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73  

1676  Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39 on December - 04.  

1679  On this day in history death of thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)  

1680  On this day in history death of thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)  

1696  Death of Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624) on December - 04.  

1732  On this day in history john Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47  

1798  On December - 04 luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61  

1807  On this day in history prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston  

1828  On December - 04 death of robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)  

1836  Daniel Read, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

1884  Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45 on December - 04.  

1890  On this day in history death of willem III, Dutch king, buried  

1902  Death of Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company on December - 04.  

1909  On this day in history paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60  

1915  Gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

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1443  Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael was born on this day in history.  

1555  On December - 04 birth of heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)  

1580  Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626) was born on December - 04.  

1584  On December - 04 birth of john Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony  

1595  On December - 04 birth of jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674)  

1646  On December - 04 birth of alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730)  

1660  Andre Campra, composer was born on December - 04.  

1667  On December - 04 birth of michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer