Famous Deaths In May - 06
Sunday, 24 September 2023
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 Death of Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered on this day in history.
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 May - 06 karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37
1540 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 on this day in history.
1596 On May - 06 death of giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
1620 Death of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543) on May - 06.
1631 On this day in history death of robert Bruce Cotton, English politician
1638 On this day in history cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies
1642 Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday on this day in history.
1666 Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.
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 May - 06 death of françois de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)
1727 Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42 on May - 06.
1739 Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63 on May - 06.
1757 On this day in history death of maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
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 this day in history.
1836 Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78 on May - 06.
1840 Death of Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792) on May - 06.
1841 On this day in history john Thomson, composer, dies at 35
1852 On May - 06 charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75
1856 William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies on this day in history.
1859 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies on May - 06.
1862 On this day in history henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44
1864 On this day in history henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
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 May - 06.
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