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

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

1581  On May - 06 birth of frans Francken, the Younger, painter  

1606  On May - 06 birth of lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter  

1638  On this day in history 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