Famous Deaths In December - 13

0838  Pippijn I, King of Aquitania, dies on December - 13.  

1048  On December - 13 al-Biruni, Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74  

1124  On December - 13 callistus II, [Guido di Borgogna], Italian Pope (1119-24), dies  

1126  Hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies on this day in history.  

1204  On December - 13 maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69  

1250  On this day in history frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55  

1404  On December - 13 albrecht, duke of Bavaria, dies at 74  

1466  Death of Donatello, Florentine artist and sculptor (b. 1386) on December - 13.  

1516  Death of Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462) on this day in history.  

1521  Manoel I "the Great", King of Portugal (1495-1521), dies at 52 on December - 13.  

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1557  On December - 13 niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies  

1565  Konrad von Gesner, naturalist, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

1574  On this day in history selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies at 50  

1603  Franciscus Vieta, mathematician, dies in Paris at 63 on December - 13.  

1621  On December - 13 death of katarina Stenbock, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)  

1622  On this day in history jan Campanus, composer, dies at 50  

1672  Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 on this day in history.  

1693  On December - 13 dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies  

1716  On this day in history death of charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)  

1721  Death of Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676) on December - 13.  

1729  On this day in history anthony Collins, Engl philosopher (On Liberty & Necessity), dies at 53  

1738  On this day in history gotthard Wagner, composer, dies at 59  

1769  C F Gellert, writer, dies at 54 on December - 13.  

1774  Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50 on December - 13.  

1783  Death of Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (b. 1717) on this day in history.  

1784  On December - 13 death of samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)  

1793  Johann Joachim Christoph Bode, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.  

1812  Marianne von Martinez, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1814  On this day in history charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belg fieldmarshal/author, dies at 79  

1835  On this day in history death of john Storm, American Revolutionary soldier (b. 1760)  

1837  On this day in history death of herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)  

1862  On December - 13 conrad Feger Jackson, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 49  

1863  On this day in history friedrich Hebbel, writer, dies at 50  

1868  On December - 13 death of carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)  

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1521  Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], bishop of Fermo/Pope (1585-90) was born on December - 13.  

1533  On this day in history birth of erik XIV Wasa, king of Sweden (1560-69)  

1553  On December - 13 birth of henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610)  

1585  On December - 13 birth of william Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)  

1640  On this day in history birth of robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)  

1662  On December - 13 birth of francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (d. 1729)  

1678  Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735) was born on December - 13.  

1720  Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804) was born on December - 13.