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 this day in history.  

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

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

1475  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 May - 06.  

1631  On May - 06 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  On this day in history paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79  

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

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

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

1776  On May - 06 james Kent, composer, dies at 76  

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

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

1856  On May - 06 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 this day in history.  

1864  On May - 06 henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle  

1877  Death of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804) on this day in history.  

1882  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1501  On this day in history birth of marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)  

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  Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780) was born on May - 06.  

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

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