Famous Deaths Happened In December - 23
Friday, 18 July 2025
0558 On this day in history childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62
0679 On December - 23 death of dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered
0910 On December - 23 death of naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar
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 this day in history 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 this day in history.
1502 Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57 on December - 23.
1556 Death of Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504) on December - 23.
1568 Death of Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England on this day in history.
1569 On December - 23 death of st Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1575 On this day in history death of akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)
1588 Death of Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
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 this day in history.
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 Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) on December - 23.
1761 Death of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy on December - 23.
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 December - 23 death of charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)
1793 Death of Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) on December - 23.
1795 On this day in history death of henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
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 December - 23 eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72
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