Famous Deaths In December - 14

0872  On December - 14 adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80  

1077  On this day in history agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies  

1136  On this day in history death of harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered  

1417  On December - 14 death of john Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned  

1460  On December - 14 death of guarino da Verona (b. 1370)  

1476  On December - 14 death of vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)  

1510  On this day in history death of friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)  

1542  On this day in history james, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30  

1553  On December - 14 death of hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)  

1591  On this day in history juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies  

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1624  Death of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536) on this day in history.  

1651  Death of Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582) on December - 14.  

1713  On December - 14 death of thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)  

1715  On this day in history death of thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)  

1732  Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.  

1734  Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44 on December - 14.  

1735  Death of Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674) on December - 14.  

1741  On December - 14 death of charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)  

1754  Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58 on December - 14.  

1760  On December - 14 kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies  

1788  On December - 14 carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74  

1799  On December - 14 george Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66  

1823  On this day in history vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53  

1829  On this day in history luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74  

1838  On this day in history death of jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)  

1849  On December - 14 conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69  

1861  On December - 14 albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42  

1862  George Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27 on this day in history.  

1865  Death of Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794) on December - 14.  

1873  J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies on this day in history.  

1886  On December - 14 antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27  

1893  Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86 on this day in history.  

1900  Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46 on this day in history.  

1903  Death of William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair on December - 14.  

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1009  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)  

1363  John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist was born on December - 14.  

1503  On this day in history birth of nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet  

1546  Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose) was born on December - 14.  

1553  On this day in history birth of henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra (Henri III)/France  

1625  On December - 14 birth of barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)  

1631  On this day in history birth of anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)  

1640  (baptism date) was born on this day in history.