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 May - 06 death of dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland  

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

1124  Death of Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered on this day in history.  

1475  On May - 06 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  On May - 06 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 this day in history.  

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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  On this day in history frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday  

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 May - 06.  

1708  Death of François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623) on May - 06.  

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  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 May - 06.  

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

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

1840  Death of Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792) on this day in history.  

1841  On this day in history john Thomson, composer, dies at 35  

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

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 May - 06.  

1882  On this day in history death of frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin  

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1397  On May - 06 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 this day in history birth of frans Francken, the Younger, painter  

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 this day in history.  

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