Famous Deaths In May - 06

0523  Death of Thrasamunde, king of Vandalen on this day in history.  

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

0988  Death of Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland on this day in history.  

1085  King Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies on May - 06.  

1124  On May - 06 death of balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered  

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 May - 06.  

1540  On May - 06 jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48  

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

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1620  Death of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543) on this day in history.  

1631  On May - 06 death of robert Bruce Cotton, English politician  

1638  On May - 06 cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies  

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  On this day in history johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50  

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

1708  On this day in history death of françois de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)  

1727  On May - 06 catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42  

1739  On this day in history bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63  

1757  On May - 06 death of maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)  

1776  James Kent, composer, dies at 76 on May - 06.  

1794  On May - 06 jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59  

1814  On May - 06 george Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64  

1836  Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.  

1840  On May - 06 death of francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792)  

1841  John Thomson, composer, dies at 35 on this day in history.  

1852  Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1856  On this day in history william Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies  

1859  Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies on this day in history.  

1862  Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44 on May - 06.  

1864  Henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle on May - 06.  

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  On this day in history birth of sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450)  

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

1581  Frans Francken, the Younger, painter was born on this day in history.  

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

1638  On May - 06 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 May - 06.  

1758  Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781) was born on this day in history.  

1759  On May - 06 birth of francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician