Famous Deaths In December - 05

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

1082  On this day in history death of ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona  

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

1244  On this day in history johanna of Constantinople, countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies  

1355  Jan III, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies on December - 05.  

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

1570  On December - 05 death of johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494)  

1594  On this day in history gerardus Mercator, Flemish philosopher/cartographer, dies at 82  

1624  On this day in history death of gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (b. 1560)  

1654  On December - 05 death of jean François Sarrazin, French writer  

1663  Severo Bonini, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

1675  On December - 05 john Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73  

1745  On this day in history christoph Forster, composer, dies at 52  

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

1758  Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer, dies at 70 on December - 05.  

1770  James Stirling, Scot mathematician (Formula of Stirling), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

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

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

1799  On December - 05 robert Kimmerling, composer, dies at 61  

1818  On December - 05 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  August v Platen, writer, dies at 39 on December - 05.  

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

1853  On this day in history johann Peter Heuschkel, composer, dies at 80  

1859  Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82 on December - 05.  

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

1886  Peter Hofstede de Groot, Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84 on December - 05.  

1887  On this day in history death of eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)  

1891  JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II of Alcantara, emp of Brazil (1831-89), dies on December - 05.  

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 this day in history.  

1922  Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies on this day in history.  

1925  Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist, dies at 78 on December - 05.  

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1377  Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402) was born on this day in history.  

1443  Pope Julius II (d. 1513) was born on this day in history.  

1495  On December - 05 birth of nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish grammarian (d. 1542)  

1537  Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1597) was born on this day in history.  

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

1545  Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], Dutch politician/poet was born on this day in history.  

1547  Ubbo Emmius, [van Embden], Dutch-Frisian humanist/historian was born on this day in history.  

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