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

1136  On December - 14 death of harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered  

1417  On this day in history death of john Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned  

1460  Death of Guarino da Verona (b. 1370) on December - 14.  

1476  Death of Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431) on December - 14.  

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

1542  On December - 14 james, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30  

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

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

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1624  Death of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536) on December - 14.  

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

1713  Death of Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641) on December - 14.  

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  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 this day in history.  

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

1788  On this day in history carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74  

1799  On this day in history 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  Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74 on December - 14.  

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

1849  Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1861  On this day in history albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42  

1862  On December - 14 george Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27  

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

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

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

1903  On this day in history death of william Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair  

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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 this day in history.  

1503  Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet was born on December - 14.  

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  Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695) was born on this day in history.  

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

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