Famous Deaths In December - 14

0872  On this day in history 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  Death of Guarino da Verona (b. 1370) on this day in history.  

1476  Death of Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431) on this day in history.  

1510  On December - 14 death of friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)  

1542  James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30 on December - 14.  

1553  Death of Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485) on this day in history.  

1591  On December - 14 juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies  

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1624  On this day in history death of charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)  

1651  Death of Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582) on this day in history.  

1713  On this day in history death of thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)  

1715  On December - 14 death of thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)  

1732  On this day in history johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80  

1734  On this day in history noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44  

1735  On this day in history death of thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)  

1741  Death of Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661) on December - 14.  

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

1760  Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies on December - 14.  

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

1799  George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1823  On December - 14 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  Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42 on this day in history.  

1862  On this day in history george Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27  

1865  On December - 14 death of johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)  

1873  J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies on December - 14.  

1886  Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27 on this day in history.  

1893  Karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86 on December - 14.  

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

1903  On December - 14 death of william Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair  

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1009  Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045) was born on December - 14.  

1363  On this day in history birth of john Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist  

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 this day in history.  

1553  Henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra (Henri III)/France was born on this day in history.  

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

1631  On December - 14 birth of anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)  

1640  On this day in history birth of (baptism date)