Famous Deaths In May - 06

0523  On May - 06 death of thrasamunde, king of Vandalen  

0680  On May - 06 death of muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602)  

0988  Death of Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland on this day in history.  

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  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 May - 06.  

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

1540  On May - 06 jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48  

1596  On this day in history death of giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)  

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1620  On this day in history death of hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)  

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 May - 06.  

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  On May - 06 joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44  

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 this day in history.  

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 May - 06.  

1794  Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59 on May - 06.  

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

1836  Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78 on this day in history.  

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

1856  On this day in history 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 May - 06.  

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 May - 06.  

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

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1397  Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

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