Famous Deaths In December - 05

0749  Death of Saint John of Damascus, theologian on December - 05.  

1082  On December - 05 death of ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona  

1212  On December - 05 derek II of Are, Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies  

1244  Johanna of Constantinople, countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies on this day in history.  

1355  On December - 05 jan III, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies  

1560  Francois II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16 on this day in history.  

1570  On this day in history death of johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494)  

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  Death of Jean François Sarrazin, French writer on this day in history.  

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1663  On December - 05 severo Bonini, composer, dies at 80  

1675  John Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73 on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history phillis Wheatley, 1st important black poet in America, dies in Boston  

1791  On December - 05 wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria at 35  

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

1818  On this day in history bruno Daalberg/Anonymus Belga, sect of High Council Adel, dies at 60  

1819  Death of Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750) on this day in history.  

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

1842  On December - 05 mJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers, dies at 82  

1853  Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

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

1870  A Dumas Da, writer, dies at 68 on December - 05.  

1886  On December - 05 peter Hofstede de Groot, Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84  

1887  Death of Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804) on this day in history.  

1891  On this day in history jKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies  

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

1902  On December - 05 henry Stephen Cutler, composer, dies at 78  

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

1922  On this day in history samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies  

1925  On December - 05 wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist, dies at 78  

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1377  Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402) was born on December - 05.  

1443  On this day in history birth of pope Julius II (d. 1513)  

1495  Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542) was born on December - 05.  

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

1539  Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (d. 1604) was born on December - 05.  

1545  On December - 05 birth of janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], Dutch politician/poet  

1547  On this day in history birth of ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Dutch-Frisian humanist/historian  

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