Famous Deaths In December - 23

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

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

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

0913  On December - 23 death of conrad of Franconia  

0918  On December - 23 conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies  

1116  On this day in history ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies  

1230  Death of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England on this day in history.  

1236  On December - 23 philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies  

1502  On this day in history margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57  

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

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

1619  On this day in history johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47  

1631  Death of Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563) on this day in history.  

1646  On December - 23 death of françois Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)  

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

1675  Death of Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602) on this day in history.  

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  Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) on December - 23.  

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

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

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

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  Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.  

1908  Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

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

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  On December - 23 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  Pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae) was born on December - 23.  

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

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