Famous Deaths In December - 04

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

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

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

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 December - 04.  

1137  On December - 04 lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67  

1182  On this day in history henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies  

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

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

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

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

1371  On December - 04 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 December - 04.  

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

1609  Death of Alexander Hume, Scottish poet on December - 04.  

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

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

1680  On this day in history 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  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 this day in history death of robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)  

1836  On December - 04 daniel Read, composer, dies at 79  

1884  On December - 04 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  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 this day in history birth of heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)  

1580  Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626) was born on this day in history.  

1584  On this day in history birth of john Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony  

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

1646  On this day in history 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 December - 04.