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

1417  Death of John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned on this day in history.  

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

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

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

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

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

1715  Death of Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636) on December - 14.  

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

1734  On December - 14 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 this day in history.  

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

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

1788  Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74 on December - 14.  

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

1823  Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53 on this day in history.  

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  Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42 on this day in history.  

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

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

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  On December - 14 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  On this day in history birth of john Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist  

1503  On December - 14 birth of nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet  

1546  On December - 14 birth of tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose)  

1553  On December - 14 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 December - 14.  

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