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 December - 14.  

1136  Death of Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered on December - 14.  

1417  Death of John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned on December - 14.  

1460  On this day in history 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  James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30 on this day in history.  

1553  On this day in history death of hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)  

1591  Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies on December - 14.  

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

1651  On this day in history death of pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)  

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  On December - 14 johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80  

1734  Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44 on this day in history.  

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

1741  On this day in history death of charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)  

1754  On this day in history mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58  

1760  On this day in history kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies  

1788  Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

1799  George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66 on December - 14.  

1823  On December - 14 vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53  

1829  Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

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

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

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 December - 14.  

1900  On December - 14 jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46  

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

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

1363  John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist was born on this day in history.  

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

1640  On December - 14 birth of (baptism date)