Famous Deaths In December - 23

0558  On December - 23 childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62  

0679  Death of Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered on December - 23.  

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

0913  Death of Conrad of Franconia on December - 23.  

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 December - 23.  

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

1502  Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57 on December - 23.  

1556  Death of Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504) on December - 23.  

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 December - 23.  

1575  Death of Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531) on this day in history.  

1588  On December - 23 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  On this day in history death of michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)  

1646  Death of François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582) on this day in history.  

1652  On this day in history john Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68  

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  On December - 23 johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60  

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

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

1771  On this day in history death of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)  

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

1789  On December - 23 death of charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)  

1793  On December - 23 death of johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)  

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  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  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  On this day in history birth of louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach  

1513  On December - 23 birth of thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)  

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

1544  On December - 23 birth of anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)  

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

1582  On December - 23 birth of severo Bonini, composer  

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