Famous Deaths In December - 04

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

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

1214  On December - 04 death of william I of Scotland  

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

1334  On December - 04 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 December - 04.  

1514  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of alexander Hume, Scottish poet  

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 this day in history.  

1679  Death of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588) on December - 04.  

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  On December - 04 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 this day in history.  

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  Death of Willem III, Dutch king, buried on December - 04.  

1902  On this day in history death of charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company  

1909  Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60 on this day in history.  

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

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1443  On this day in history birth of pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael  

1555  On December - 04 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  On this day in history birth of john Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony  

1595  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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