Famous Deaths Happened In December - 06

0343  Death of Saint Nicholas on December - 06.   

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

1352  Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies on December - 06.   

1531  On this day in history death of john Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded   

1550  On December - 06 pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48   

1562  On December - 06 jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies   

1598  Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78 on this day in history.   

1618  Death of Jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556) on December - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

1658  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)   

1771  On this day in history death of giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)   

1779  On this day in history death of jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)   

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  Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

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

1865  On this day in history sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56   

1867  On this day in history giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71   

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

1869  On December - 06 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  Death of Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814) on December - 06.   

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

1889  On this day in history 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  On this day in history frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54   

1914  Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47 on December - 06.   

1920  On December - 06 karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57   

1924  On December - 06 death of gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863)   

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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 this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670)   

1608  George Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland was born on December - 06.   

1637  On this day in history birth of sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)