Famous Deaths Happened In December - 31

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

0335  On December - 31 death of st. Silvester, Pope   

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

0439  On December - 31 melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56   

1164  On December - 31 death of margrave Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)   

1194  Death of Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157) on December - 31.   

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

1302  Death of Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238) on this day in history.   

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 December - 31.   

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

1460  Death of Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1443) on this day in history.   

1510  On December - 31 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  On December - 31 death of shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493)   

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

1583  Thomas Erastus, Switz, theologist, dies on this day in history.   

1610  On December - 31 death of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)   

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

1647  On December - 31 giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer, dies   

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

1652  Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies on December - 31.   

1673  On this day in history death of oliver St John, English statesman and judge   

1679  Death of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608) on December - 31.   

1691  Death of Dudley North, English economist (b. 1641) on this day in history.   

1719  John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73 on December - 31.   

1733  Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44 on December - 31.   

1742  On this day in history death of karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)   

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

1799  On December - 31 death of jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b. 1723)   

1802  On December - 31 francis Lewis, Welsh/US merchant/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 89   

1809  Franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

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  On December - 31 birth of muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715)   

1378  On December - 31 birth of callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58)   

1378  On December - 31 birth of pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)   

1491  Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557) was born on December - 31.   

1514  Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist (Fabrica) was born on December - 31.   

1540  Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri) was born on this day in history.   

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

1668  On December - 31 birth of hermannus Boerhaave, Dutch medical/botanist