Famous Deaths In May - 06

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

0680  Death of Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602) on this day in history.  

0988  Death of Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland on May - 06.  

1085  On this day in history king Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies  

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

1475  On this day in history dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64  

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

1527  Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37 on May - 06.  

1540  On this day in history jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48  

1596  On May - 06 death of giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)  

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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 May - 06.  

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

1642  Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday on this day in history.  

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

1667  Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.  

1678  On this day in history joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44  

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  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 May - 06.  

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

1814  George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

1836  On this day in history christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78  

1840  On this day in history death of francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792)  

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

1852  Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75 on May - 06.  

1856  William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies on this day in history.  

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 May - 06.  

1877  On May - 06 death of johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)  

1882  Death of Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin on May - 06.  

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1397  On this day in history birth of sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450)  

1501  On May - 06 birth of marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)  

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

1606  On this day in history birth of lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter  

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 this day in history birth of maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)  

1759  Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician was born on May - 06.