Famous Deaths In December - 23

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  Death of Conrad of Franconia on this day in history.  

0918  On this day in history conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies  

1116  Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies on December - 23.  

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

1236  On this day in history philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies  

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

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

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1568  On December - 23 death of roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England  

1569  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37  

1619  Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 on this day in history.  

1631  On this day in history death of michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)  

1646  On this day in history death of françois Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)  

1652  John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1675  On December - 23 death of caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)  

1688  On December - 23 jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21  

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

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

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

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

1793  On this day in history death of johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)  

1795  Death of Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730) on December - 23.  

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  Death of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766) on December - 23.  

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  On December - 23 eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72  

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1173  On December - 23 birth of louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)  

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

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

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

1544  On this day in history birth of anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)  

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

1582  Severo Bonini, composer was born on December - 23.  

1597  Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" was born on December - 23.