Famous Deaths In December - 05

0749  Death of Saint John of Damascus, theologian on this day in history.  

1082  Death of Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona on December - 05.  

1212  Derek II of Are, Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies on December - 05.  

1244  Johanna of Constantinople, countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies on December - 05.  

1355  On this day in history jan III, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies  

1560  On December - 05 francois II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16  

1570  Death of Johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494) on this day in history.  

1594  Gerardus Mercator, Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82 on this day in history.  

1624  On December - 05 death of gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)  

1654  On this day in history death of jean François Sarrazin, French writer  

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1663  On this day in history severo Bonini, composer, dies at 80  

1675  John Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73 on December - 05.  

1745  Christoph Forster, composer, dies at 52 on December - 05.  

1749  Death of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, New French explorer and trader (b. 1685) on this day in history.  

1758  On this day in history johann Friedrich Fasch, composer, dies at 70  

1770  James Stirling, Scot mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78 on December - 05.  

1784  Phillis Wheatley, 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston on December - 05.  

1791  On this day in history wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria at 35  

1799  Robert Kimmerling, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.  

1818  Bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

1819  On this day in history death of friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)  

1835  On this day in history august v Platen, writer, dies at 39  

1842  MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers, dies at 82 on this day in history.  

1853  Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer, dies at 80 on December - 05.  

1859  On December - 05 louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82  

1870  A Dumas Da, writer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1886  On this day in history peter Hofstede de Groot, Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84  

1887  Death of Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804) on December - 05.  

1891  JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies on this day in history.  

1895  On this day in history death of chief Gall, Sioux chief (b. 1840)  

1902  Henry Stephen Cutler, composer, dies at 78 on December - 05.  

1916  Hans Richter, composer, dies at 73 on December - 05.  

1922  On December - 05 samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies  

1925  Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist, dies at 78 on this day in history.  

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1377  On December - 05 birth of jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)  

1443  On December - 05 birth of pope Julius II (d. 1513)  

1495  Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542) was born on this day in history.  

1537  Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1597) was born on December - 05.  

1539  On December - 05 birth of fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604)  

1545  On this day in history birth of janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], Dutch politician/poet  

1547  Ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Dutch-Frisian humanist/historian was born on December - 05.  

1661  On this day in history birth of robert Haley, earl of Oxford/English premier (Whig, 1710-14)