Famous Deaths Happened In December - 23

0558  Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 on this day in history.   

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

0910  On December - 23 death of naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar   

0913  Death of Conrad of Franconia on December - 23.   

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  Death of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England on December - 23.   

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

1502  Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1556  On this day in history death of nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)   

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  On December - 23 death of akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)   

1588  Death of Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 on December - 23.   

1619  Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 on December - 23.   

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 this day in history john Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68   

1675  Death of Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602) on December - 23.   

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  Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) on this day in history.   

1761  On this day in history death of alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy   

1771  Death of Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701) on December - 23.   

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

1789  On this day in history death of charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)   

1793  On December - 23 death of johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)   

1795  Death of Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730) on this day in history.   

1805  On December - 23 death of pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)   

1812  Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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

1846  On this day in history death of jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)   

1891  On this day in history holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81   

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

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

1174  On this day in history birth of louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach   

1513  Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577) was born on December - 23.   

1537  On this day in history birth of king John III of Sweden (d. 1592)   

1544  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of severo Bonini, composer   

1597  Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" was born on this day in history.