Famous Deaths In December - 12

0884  On December - 12 carloman, co-king of France (879, 882-884), dies  

1112  On December - 12 tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies  

1204  On December - 12 maimonides, [Moses Ben Maimon], Span/Egyptian rabbi, dies at 69  

1212  Death of Geoffrey, Archbishop of York on December - 12.  

1263  On December - 12 hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies  

1574  Death of Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1524) on December - 12.  

1586  Death of Stefan Batory, King of Poland (b. 1533) on December - 12.  

1600  On December - 12 john Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies  

1677  On December - 12 jacob Binckes/Benckes, Dutch admiral (Chatham), dies in battle  

1685  On December - 12 death of john Pell, English mathematician (b. 1610)  

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1751  Death of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678) on December - 12.  

1754  Death of Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701) on this day in history.  

1766  Death of Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700) on this day in history.  

1772  Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer, dies at 41 on December - 12.  

1777  On December - 12 albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69  

1788  On this day in history joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88  

1789  Death of John Ponsonby, Irish politician (b. 1713) on this day in history.  

1790  On December - 12 death of mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (b. 1733)  

1812  On December - 12 john Malchair, composer, dies at 82  

1817  On December - 12 death of emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)  

1836  On December - 12 giuseppe Farinelli, composer, dies at 67  

1843  Willem I Frederik, King of Netherlands (1814-40), dies at 71 on December - 12.  

1858  Death of Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (b. 1787) on this day in history.  

1872  Willem A Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Dutch politician, dies at 72 on December - 12.  

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  On December - 12 death of sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)  

1912  Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies at 91 on this day in history.  

1913  Death of Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (b. 1844) on December - 12.  

1914  On December - 12 death of watkins Lewis, black man, lynched in Shrevport La  

1920  Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1921  Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies on December - 12.  

1923  Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Ball du Comte), dies at 20 on this day in history.  

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1298  Albert II of Austria (d. 1358) was born on December - 12.  

1418  On this day in history birth of albert VI of Austria (d. 1463)  

1574  On this day in history birth of anne van Denemarken, daughter of Danish King Frederik II  

1574  Anne of Denmark, queen consort of James I of England (d. 1619) was born on December - 12.  

1579  Heinrich Steuccius, composer was born on December - 12.  

1610  Saint Vasilije (d. 1671) was born on December - 12.  

1630  Olof Rudbeck, composer was born on December - 12.  

1659  Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739) was born on this day in history.