Famous Deaths In December - 14

0872  Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80 on this day in history.  

1077  Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies on this day in history.  

1136  Death of Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered on this day in history.  

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 this day in history death of vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)  

1510  Death of Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473) on this day in history.  

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

1553  Death of Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485) on December - 14.  

1591  Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies on this day in history.  

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1624  On December - 14 death of charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)  

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

1713  Death of Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1741  Death of Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661) on this day in history.  

1754  Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

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 December - 14 vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53  

1829  Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74 on December - 14.  

1838  Death of Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806) on this day in history.  

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

1861  Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42 on December - 14.  

1862  George Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27 on December - 14.  

1865  On this day in history death of johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)  

1873  On this day in history j Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies  

1886  On this day in history antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27  

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

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

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  Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet was born on this day in history.  

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  Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679) was born on this day in history.  

1640  (baptism date) was born on December - 14.