Famous Deaths Happened In December - 24

0427  On December - 24 death of archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople   

1069  Godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies on this day in history.   

1257  Death of John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218) on this day in history.   

1380  John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies on this day in history.   

1453  On December - 24 john Dunstable, English composer, dies   

1524  On December - 24 vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55   

1541  On this day in history andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61   

1548  On December - 24 maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies   

1660  On December - 24 mary I Henriette Stuart, queen of England, dies at 29   

1707  Noel Coypel, French painter, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1813  Death of Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740) on this day in history.   

1823  On this day in history philipp Christoph Kayser, composer, dies at 68   

1862  On December - 24 joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84   

1863  On this day in history w M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52   

1865  On this day in history death of sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793)   

1868  Death of Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802) on December - 24.   

1869  On December - 24 edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55   

1872  Death of William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820) on December - 24.   

1873  Death of Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (b. 1795) on December - 24.   

1885  On this day in history louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85   

1889  On this day in history death of jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819)   

1898  Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41 on December - 24.   

1904  On this day in history juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55   

1907  Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies on December - 24.   

1908  Francois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80 on December - 24.   

1909  On December - 24 nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80   

1914  Death of John Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838) on December - 24.   

1930  On December - 24 eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67   

1932  Eyvind Alnaes, composer, dies at 60 on December - 24.   

1935  Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

1938  On this day in history death of bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)   

1941  Death of Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858) on December - 24.   

1942  Friedrich Klose, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1944  On December - 24 joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66   

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0003  Galba, Roman Emperor (d. 69) was born on this day in history.   

1167  On this day in history birth of john "without a land", king of England (1199-1216)   

1389  On December - 24 birth of john VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)   

1475  Thomas Murner, German writer (d.c. 1537) was born on December - 24.   

1491  On this day in history birth of ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1556)   

1508  On this day in history birth of pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567)   

1564  On December - 24 birth of abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver   

1588  Constance of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1631) was born on this day in history.