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 December - 23.  

0910  Death of Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar on this day in history.  

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 December - 23 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  On December - 23 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  Death of Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England on December - 23.  

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

1619  Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 on December - 23.  

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

1646  Death of François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582) on December - 23.  

1652  John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68 on December - 23.  

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

1688  Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21 on December - 23.  

1696  On this day in history johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60  

1722  On this day in history death of pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)  

1761  On this day in history death of alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy  

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

1779  On December - 23 death of augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)  

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 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 December - 23.  

1834  On this day in history death of thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)  

1846  On December - 23 death of jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)  

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 this day in history.  

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

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