Famous Deaths In May - 06

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

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

0988  On this day in history death of dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland  

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  Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64 on May - 06.  

1502  On May - 06 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  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 this day in history.  

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

1678  Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.  

1708  Death of François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623) on this day in history.  

1727  On this day in history catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42  

1739  Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63 on May - 06.  

1757  On May - 06 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 May - 06 jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59  

1814  George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64 on May - 06.  

1836  Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78 on May - 06.  

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 this day in history.  

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  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  Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450) was born on May - 06.  

1501  Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days) was born on this day in history.  

1581  Frans Francken, the Younger, painter was born on this day in history.  

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

1638  Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696) was born on this day in history.  

1713  On May - 06 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  Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician was born on May - 06.