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 this day in history.  

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

1075  On this day in history death of archbishop Anno II of Cologne  

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 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 this day in history.  

1270  Death of Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre on December - 04.  

1334  Death of Pope John XXII (b. 1249) on this day in history.  

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1340  Death of Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history death of richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?)  

1576  On December - 04 rheticus, mathematician, dies  

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  Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lucon, dies at about 57 on this day in history.  

1649  Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73 on this day in history.  

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

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

1680  Death of Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616) on December - 04.  

1696  On this day in history death of empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)  

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

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

1836  On this day in history daniel Read, composer, dies at 79  

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

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 December - 04.  

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

1555  Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625) was born on December - 04.  

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

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

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

1667  On this day in history birth of michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer