Famous Deaths In December - 23

0558  On this day in history childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62  

0679  Death of Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered on December - 23.  

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  On December - 23 conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies  

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

1230  On this day in history 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  Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57 on December - 23.  

1556  Death of Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504) on December - 23.  

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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 this day in history.  

1575  Death of Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531) on December - 23.  

1588  On December - 23 death of hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37  

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

1631  Death of Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563) on December - 23.  

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  Death of Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602) on this day in history.  

1688  Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21 on December - 23.  

1696  On this day in history johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60  

1722  On December - 23 death of pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)  

1761  On December - 23 death of alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy  

1771  On December - 23 death of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)  

1779  Death of Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724) on December - 23.  

1789  On December - 23 death of charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)  

1793  Death of Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) on this day in history.  

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

1805  On this day in history death of pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)  

1812  Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73 on December - 23.  

1834  On December - 23 death of thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)  

1846  Death of Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780) on this day in history.  

1891  On December - 23 holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81  

1908  Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72 on December - 23.  

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1173  On this day in history birth of louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)  

1174  Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach was born on this day in history.  

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

1537  King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) was born on this day in history.  

1544  Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71) was born on this day in history.  

1548  Pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae) was born on this day in history.  

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"