Famous Deaths In December - 04

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

0771  Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20 on December - 04.  

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

1075  On December - 04 death of archbishop Anno II of Cologne  

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 this day in history.  

1182  On December - 04 henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies  

1214  Death of William I of Scotland on December - 04.  

1270  Death of Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre on this day in history.  

1334  Death of Pope John XXII (b. 1249) on December - 04.  

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1340  On December - 04 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  On December - 04 death of richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?)  

1576  On this day in history rheticus, mathematician, dies  

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

1603  On this day in history maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71  

1609  On December - 04 death of alexander Hume, Scottish poet  

1642  On December - 04 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 this day in history.  

1679  On December - 04 death of thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)  

1680  On December - 04 death of thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)  

1696  On December - 04 death of empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)  

1732  John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47 on this day in history.  

1798  Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61 on this day in history.  

1807  Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston on December - 04.  

1828  Death of Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770) on this day in history.  

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

1884  Alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45 on this day in history.  

1890  On December - 04 death of willem III, Dutch king, buried  

1902  Death of Charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company on this day in history.  

1909  On December - 04 paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60  

1915  On this day in history gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60  

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1443  On December - 04 birth of pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael  

1555  Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625) was born on this day in history.  

1580  On December - 04 birth of samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)  

1584  John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony was born on December - 04.  

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

1646  Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730) was born on this day in history.  

1660  Andre Campra, composer was born on this day in history.  

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