Famous Deaths In December - 18

0468  On December - 18 death of huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita  

0821  On December - 18 death of theodulf, Bishop of Orléans  

1133  On this day in history death of hildebert, French writer  

1290  Death of King Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240) on this day in history.  

1442  Death of Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371) on December - 18.  

1495  Death of King Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448) on December - 18.  

1505  On December - 18 death of john IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed  

1565  Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62 on December - 18.  

1577  On December - 18 anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32  

1597  Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67 on December - 18.  

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1633  On December - 18 death of theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62  

1638  On December - 18 le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies  

1651  Francisco the Melo, Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54 on December - 18.  

1692  Death of Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626) on this day in history.  

1710  On December - 18 peter Codde, apostile vicar (1688-1704), dies at 62  

1732  Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

1737  On this day in history antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in Cremona Italy at 93  

1751  Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62 on this day in history.  

1779  Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1787  On this day in history death of soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)  

1799  On December - 18 death of jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725)  

1803  Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59 on December - 18.  

1829  On December - 18 jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85  

1831  Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75 on December - 18.  

1835  On this day in history johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer, dies at 82  

1839  Charles-Henri Plantade, composer, dies at 75 on December - 18.  

1841  Felice Blangini, composer, dies at 60 on December - 18.  

1843  On December - 18 death of thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748)  

1848  Death of Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781) on this day in history.  

1858  On this day in history joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer, dies at 81  

1862  Johnson Kelly Duncan, architect/Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 35 on December - 18.  

1865  On this day in history francisco Manuel da Silva, composer, dies at 70  

1869  On this day in history louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40  

1892  Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88 on December - 18.  

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1507  On December - 18 birth of Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)  

1562  Philipp Dulichius, composer was born on December - 18.  

1569  On December - 18 birth of jakob Hassler, composer  

1602  Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650) was born on this day in history.  

1610  On December - 18 birth of charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist  

1620  On December - 18 birth of heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)  

1633  On this day in history birth of adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, baptised  

1633  Willem van de Velde the Young, Dutch seascape painter, baptised was born on this day in history.