Famous Deaths In December - 06

0343  Death of Saint Nicholas on this day in history.  

1185  On December - 06 afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76  

1352  On December - 06 clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies  

1531  On December - 06 death of john Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded  

1550  Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48 on December - 06.  

1562  Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies on December - 06.  

1598  Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78 on December - 06.  

1618  On this day in history death of jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)  

1640  On December - 06 matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75  

1651  Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1658  On December - 06 gracian, writer, dies  

1716  On December - 06 death of benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)  

1718  Death of Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674) on December - 06.  

1746  Death of Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665) on this day in history.  

1771  Death of Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682) on this day in history.  

1779  Death of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699) on this day in history.  

1788  Death of Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714) on December - 06.  

1793  On December - 06 death of marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded  

1799  On this day in history joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71  

1834  On this day in history jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54  

1855  Death of William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789) on this day in history.  

1865  Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56 on this day in history.  

1867  On December - 06 giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71  

1868  Death of August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821) on this day in history.  

1869  Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54 on December - 06.  

1873  On this day in history manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24  

1879  Death of Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814) on this day in history.  

1882  On this day in history a Trollope, writer, dies  

1889  On December - 06 jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States (1861-5), dies at 81  

1892  E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1903  Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54 on December - 06.  

1914  Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47 on this day in history.  

1920  Karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.  

1924  Death of Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863) on this day in history.  

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0846  On this day in history birth of hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)  

1285  King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312) was born on December - 06.  

1421  Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71) was born on December - 06.  

1478  On this day in history birth of baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)  

1550  On December - 06 birth of orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer  

1586  Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670) was born on December - 06.  

1608  George Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland was born on this day in history.  

1637  On December - 06 birth of sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)