Famous Deaths Happened In December - 23

0558  Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 on December - 23.   

0679  On this day in history death of dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered   

0910  Death of Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar on this day in history.   

0913  On this day in history death of conrad of Franconia   

0918  Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies on this day in history.   

1116  On December - 23 ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies   

1230  On December - 23 death of berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England   

1236  Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies on December - 23.   

1502  On December - 23 margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57   

1556  Death of Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504) on this day in history.   

1568  Death of Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England on this day in history.   

1569  Death of St Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible on December - 23.   

1575  Death of Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531) on this day in history.   

1588  Death of Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 on this day in history.   

1619  On December - 23 johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47   

1631  On December - 23 death of michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)   

1646  Death of François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582) on this day in history.   

1652  On December - 23 john Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68   

1675  On this day in history death of caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)   

1688  Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21 on this day in history.   

1696  Johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1722  On this day in history death of pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)   

1761  Death of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy on this day in history.   

1771  On this day in history death of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)   

1779  On December - 23 death of augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)   

1789  Death of Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712) on December - 23.   

1793  Death of Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) on December - 23.   

1795  On December - 23 death of henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)   

1805  Death of Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723) on December - 23.   

1812  On this day in history michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73   

1834  On this day in history death of thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)   

1846  On December - 23 death of jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)   

1891  Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81 on December - 23.   

1908  On this day in history eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72   

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1173  Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231) was born on this day in history.   

1174  On December - 23 birth of louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach   

1513  On this day in history birth of thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)   

1537  On December - 23 birth of king John III of Sweden (d. 1592)   

1544  On December - 23 birth of anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)   

1548  On this day in history birth of pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)   

1582  Severo Bonini, composer was born on this day in history.   

1597  On this day in history birth of martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"