Famous Deaths In May - 06

0523  Death of Thrasamunde, king of Vandalen on May - 06.  

0680  Death of Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602) on May - 06.  

0988  On this day in history death of dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland  

1085  King Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies on this day in history.  

1124  Death of Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered on May - 06.  

1475  On May - 06 dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64  

1502  Death of James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) on this day in history.  

1527  Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37 on this day in history.  

1540  Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 on May - 06.  

1596  Death of Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535) on May - 06.  

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1620  On May - 06 death of hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)  

1631  Death of Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician on this day in history.  

1638  Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies on this day in history.  

1642  Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday on May - 06.  

1666  Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79 on May - 06.  

1667  Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50 on May - 06.  

1678  Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44 on May - 06.  

1708  Death of François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623) on May - 06.  

1727  On this day in history catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42  

1739  Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63 on May - 06.  

1757  Death of Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) on this day in history.  

1776  James Kent, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1794  On this day in history jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59  

1814  George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64 on May - 06.  

1836  On May - 06 christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78  

1840  Death of Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792) on May - 06.  

1841  On May - 06 john Thomson, composer, dies at 35  

1852  On this day in history charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75  

1856  On May - 06 william Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies  

1859  On this day in history friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies  

1862  On this day in history henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44  

1864  Henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle on this day in history.  

1877  On this day in history death of johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)  

1882  Death of Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin on this day in history.  

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1397  Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450) was born on May - 06.  

1501  Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days) was born on May - 06.  

1581  On May - 06 birth of frans Francken, the Younger, painter  

1606  Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter was born on May - 06.  

1638  On this day in history birth of henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696)  

1713  Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780) was born on this day in history.  

1758  On May - 06 birth of maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)  

1759  Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician was born on this day in history.