Famous Deaths In December - 08

0644  On this day in history death of omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered  

0899  On December - 08 arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies  

1292  On December - 08 john Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62  

1587  On December - 08 death of mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed  

1596  On this day in history death of luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico  

1626  Death of John Davies, English poet (b. 1569) on December - 08.  

1632  Death of Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561) on December - 08.  

1643  John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59 on December - 08.  

1649  Death of Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613) on this day in history.  

1652  Death of Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary, murdered at 35 on December - 08.  

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1680  Death of Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606) on December - 08.  

1681  On December - 08 gerard Terborch, the Younger, Dutch painter/etcher, dies  

1691  Death of Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615) on December - 08.  

1695  On this day in history death of barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)  

1709  Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

1722  Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70 on December - 08.  

1744  On December - 08 death of marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1717)  

1745  Death of Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683) on this day in history.  

1746  Death of Charles Radclyffe, British politician (b. 1693) on this day in history.  

1756  Death of William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat on December - 08.  

1768  Death of Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702) on December - 08.  

1779  On December - 08 death of nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)  

1785  On December - 08 antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer, dies at 68  

1811  Death of Eliza Poe, English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe(b. 1787) on this day in history.  

1830  H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63 on this day in history.  

1831  On this day in history james Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies  

1859  Death of Thomas de Quincey, English author (b. 1785) on this day in history.  

1864  On this day in history death of george Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815)  

1885  Death of William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1821) on December - 08.  

1894  On December - 08 willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian, dies at 71  

1896  On December - 08 earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75  

1900  On this day in history henry Russell, composer, dies at 87  

1903  On this day in history herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83  

1907  On this day in history oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies  

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1508  Gemma Frisius, [Jemme Reinersz], Frisian geographer/astronomer was born on this day in history.  

1574  On this day in history birth of maria Anna of Bavaria, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1616)  

1626  On December - 08 birth of christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic  

1678  Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757) was born on December - 08.  

1699  On December - 08 birth of maria Josepha of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1757)  

1704  On December - 08 birth of anton de Haen, medical expert (Ratio Medendi)  

1708  Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765) was born on this day in history.  

1715  On December - 08 birth of john Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet (Frisianche rymlery)