Famous Deaths Happened 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  Death of Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland on May - 06.   

1085  King Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies on May - 06.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1540  Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 on May - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

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 May - 06.   

1666  Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79 on May - 06.   

1667  On May - 06 johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50   

1678  On May - 06 joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44   

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 May - 06.   

1739  On May - 06 bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63   

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 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  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  John Thomson, composer, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

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 May - 06.   

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

1877  On May - 06 death of johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)   

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  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  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 May - 06.   

1758  Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781) was born on May - 06.   

1759  Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician was born on this day in history.