Famous Deaths In December - 04

0765  On this day in history death of jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)  

0771  On December - 04 karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20  

0811  On this day in history charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39  

1075  Death of Archbishop Anno II of Cologne on this day in history.  

1123  Death of Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048) on December - 04.  

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

1182  On this day in history 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  Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38 on this day in history.  

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  Rheticus, mathematician, dies on December - 04.  

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

1603  On December - 04 maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71  

1609  On this day in history death of alexander Hume, Scottish poet  

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

1649  Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73 on December - 04.  

1676  On December - 04 johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39  

1679  Death of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588) on this day in history.  

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

1696  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 December - 04.  

1884  On this day in history alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45  

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 December - 04 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  On this day in history birth of heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)  

1580  On this day in history birth of samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)  

1584  John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony was born on this day in history.  

1595  On this day in history 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  Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer was born on this day in history.