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 this day in history.  

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

0913  On December - 23 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  Death of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England on this day in history.  

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

1502  On December - 23 margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57  

1556  On December - 23 death of nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)  

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

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 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 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  John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68 on December - 23.  

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

1722  Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) on this day in history.  

1761  Death of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy on December - 23.  

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

1779  On this day in history death of augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)  

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

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

1795  On this day in history death of henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)  

1805  Death of Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723) on this day in history.  

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  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  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  Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71) was born on December - 23.  

1548  On this day in history birth of pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)  

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"