Famous Deaths In December - 23

0558  Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 on December - 23.   

0679  Death of Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered on this day in history.   

0910  Death of Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar on December - 23.   

0913  On December - 23 death of conrad of Franconia   

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

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

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

1568  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1588  On this day in history death of hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37   

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

1631  On December - 23 death of michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)   

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 this day in history.   

1675  On this day in history death of caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)   

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  On December - 23 death of pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)   

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

1771  Death of Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701) on this day in history.   

1779  Death of Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724) on this day in history.   

1789  On this day in history 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  Death of Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730) on this day in history.   

1805  Death of Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723) on December - 23.   

1812  Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73 on December - 23.   

1834  Death of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766) on December - 23.   

1846  On December - 23 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  Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach was born on this day in history.   

1513  Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577) was born on this day in history.   

1537  On December - 23 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 December - 23 birth of pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)   

1582  On this day in history birth of severo Bonini, composer   

1597  On December - 23 birth of martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"