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  On May - 06 king Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies  

1124  On this day in history death of balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered  

1475  Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64 on this day in history.  

1502  On this day in history death of james Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)  

1527  On this day in history karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37  

1540  On this day in history 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  Death of Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician on this day in history.  

1638  On this day in history cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies  

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

1666  On this day in history paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79  

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 this day in history.  

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

1727  Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42 on this day in history.  

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

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

1776  On this day in history james Kent, composer, dies at 76  

1794  Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

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

1836  Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78 on May - 06.  

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  On May - 06 charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75  

1856  William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies on May - 06.  

1859  On May - 06 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  Death of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804) on this day in history.  

1882  On May - 06 death of frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin  

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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 this day in history birth of frans Francken, the Younger, painter  

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

1638  Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696) was born on this day in history.  

1713  On this day in history birth of charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)  

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

1759  On this day in history birth of francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician