Famous Deaths Happened In December - 06

0343  Death of Saint Nicholas on this day in history.   

1185  Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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  On December - 06 pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48   

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

1598  On December - 06 elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78   

1618  On December - 06 death of jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)   

1640  Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1651  Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess, dies at 68 on December - 06.   

1658  On December - 06 gracian, writer, dies   

1716  On this day in history death of benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)   

1718  Death of Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674) on this day in history.   

1746  On December - 06 death of lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)   

1771  Death of Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682) on December - 06.   

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

1788  On December - 06 death of jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)   

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

1799  Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71 on December - 06.   

1834  Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54 on December - 06.   

1855  Death of William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789) on December - 06.   

1865  On December - 06 sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56   

1867  Giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71 on December - 06.   

1868  On December - 06 death of august Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)   

1869  On this day in history jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54   

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

1879  On this day in history death of erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814)   

1882  A Trollope, writer, dies on this day in history.   

1889  Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States (1861-5), dies at 81 on December - 06.   

1892  On December - 06 e Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75   

1903  Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

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

1920  Karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57 on December - 06.   

1924  Death of Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863) on December - 06.   

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0846  On December - 06 birth of hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)   

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

1421  On December - 06 birth of henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)   

1478  On December - 06 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  On December - 06 birth of george Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland   

1637  Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714) was born on December - 06.