Famous Deaths In December - 12
Thursday, 25 April 2024
0884 On this day in history carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies
1112 On this day in history tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies
1204 Maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69 on December - 12.
1212 On December - 12 death of geoffrey, Archbishop of York
1263 Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies on December - 12.
1574 On this day in history death of selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524)
1586 On this day in history death of stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533)
1600 On December - 12 john Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1677 Jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch admiral (Chatham), dies in battle on December - 12.
1685 On this day in history death of john Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)
1751 On December - 12 death of henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
1754 On December - 12 death of wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
1766 Death of Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700) on this day in history.
1772 On December - 12 johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41
1777 On December - 12 albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69
1788 Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88 on December - 12.
1789 On December - 12 death of john Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713)
1790 Death of Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733) on this day in history.
1812 John Malchair, composer, dies at 82 on December - 12.
1817 Death of Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751) on December - 12.
1836 On this day in history giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67
1843 Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71 on this day in history.
1858 Death of Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787) on December - 12.
1872 On this day in history willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72
1877 On this day in history jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice, dies at 48
1880 Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies at 83 on December - 12.
1889 On December - 12 robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77
1894 Death of Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845) on December - 12.
1912 On December - 12 luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91
1913 On this day in history death of emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844)
1914 On December - 12 death of watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La
1920 On this day in history olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
1921 On this day in history henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
1923 On this day in history raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20
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