Famous Deaths In December - 25

0795  On this day in history adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies  

0820  Death of Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered on this day in history.  

1156  On December - 25 peter Venerabilis, Fr theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at about 61  

1249  On December - 25 peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies  

1513  Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70 on this day in history.  

1530  On December - 25 babur, emperor of Delhi, dies  

1635  On December - 25 death of samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City (b. 1567)  

1676  Death of Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1609) on December - 25.  

1683  On this day in history death of kara Mustapha, Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed  

1758  Death of James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714) on this day in history.  

1761  On this day in history elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about 51  

1765  On this day in history antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79  

1784  Death of Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716) on this day in history.  

1788  On December - 25 john Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40  

1824  Barbara Krudener, mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

1842  On December - 25 bedrich Divis Weber, composer, dies at 76  

1848  On this day in history johann Erik Nordblom, composer, dies at 60  

1868  On December - 25 linus Yale, developer of cylinder lock, dies  

1875  Death of Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851) on December - 25.  

1878  On this day in history anna Claypoole Peale, US painter of miniatures, dies  

1880  Death of Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor (b. 1828) on this day in history.  

1883  Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer, dies at 65 on December - 25.  

1895  Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies at 32 on December - 25.  

1904  Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.  

1916  On December - 25 death of st. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)  

1921  Hans Huber, composer, dies at 69 on December - 25.  

1922  On this day in history alphonse Goovaerts, composer, dies at 75  

1925  On December - 25 sergei Jessenin, writer, dies at 30  

1926  Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47 on December - 25.  

1927  Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1930  On this day in history harvey Worthington Loomis, composer, dies at 65  

1933  Death of Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859) on December - 25.  

1935  Death of Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (b. 1852) on December - 25.  

1936  On December - 25 pierre Maurice, composer, dies at 68  

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1250  On December - 25 birth of john IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (d. circa 1305)  

1461  On this day in history birth of christina of Saxony, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1521)  

1583  On this day in history birth of orlando Gibbons, English composer (O Clap Your Hands), baptized  

1587  On December - 25 birth of margarita of Austria, queen of Philip III of Spain (d. 1611)  

1601  On December - 25 birth of jose Ximenez, composer  

1624  Angelus Silesius, [Johann Scheffler], German mystic (St Seelenlust) was born on this day in history.  

1628  On this day in history birth of noel Coypel, French painter  

1646  On this day in history birth of harald Vallerius, composer