Famous Deaths In December - 31

0192  Death of Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31 on December - 31.  

0335  On this day in history death of st. Silvester, Pope  

0406  On this day in history godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle  

0439  On this day in history melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56  

1164  On this day in history death of margrave Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)  

1194  On December - 31 death of duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157)  

1297  On this day in history death of humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)  

1302  On December - 31 death of frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)  

1382  On December - 31 daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan  

1384  John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies on this day in history.  

1424  On this day in history death of thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader  

1460  On this day in history death of edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1443)  

1510  On this day in history death of bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472)  

1535  Death of William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465) on December - 31.  

1568  Death of Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493) on this day in history.  

1575  On this day in history death of pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502)  

1583  Thomas Erastus, Switz, theologist, dies on December - 31.  

1610  Death of Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540) on December - 31.  

1616  Jacques Le Maire, pirate/explorer (Lemaire Strait), dies at 31 on this day in history.  

1647  On this day in history giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer, dies  

1650  On December - 31 death of dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612)  

1652  On this day in history frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies  

1673  Death of Oliver St John, English statesman and judge on this day in history.  

1679  On December - 31 death of giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)  

1691  On this day in history death of dudley North, English economist (b. 1641)  

1719  On December - 31 john Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73  

1733  On this day in history hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44  

1742  Death of Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661) on December - 31.  

1775  Richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British on December - 31.  

1799  Death of Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b. 1723) on this day in history.  

1802  Francis Lewis, Welsh/US merchant/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 89 on this day in history.  

1809  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75 on December - 31.  

1818  On this day in history jean-Pierre Duport, composer, dies at 77  

1848  On December - 31 oliver Shaw, composer, dies at 69  

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0695  Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715) was born on December - 31.  

1378  Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58) was born on December - 31.  

1378  Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458) was born on this day in history.  

1491  On December - 31 birth of jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)  

1514  Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist (Fabrica) was born on this day in history.  

1540  On December - 31 birth of silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri)  

1572  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (d. 1617)  

1668  Hermannus Boerhaave, Dutch medical/botanist was born on this day in history.