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

1123  On this day in history death of omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048)  

1137  On this day in history lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67  

1182  Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies on December - 04.  

1214  Death of William I of Scotland on this day in history.  

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

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

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1340  Death of Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292) on December - 04.  

1371  Reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38 on December - 04.  

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  On this day in history death of john Willock, Scottish reformer  

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

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

1642  Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lucon, dies at about 57 on December - 04.  

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  Death of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588) on December - 04.  

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

1696  Death of Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624) on this day in history.  

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

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 December - 04.  

1909  Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60 on December - 04.  

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

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1443  Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael was born on December - 04.  

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

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  Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674) was born on December - 04.  

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

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

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