Famous Deaths Happened In May - 06

0523  On this day in history death of thrasamunde, king of Vandalen   

0680  Death of Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602) on this day in history.   

0988  On May - 06 death of dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland   

1085  On May - 06 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 May - 06.   

1620  Death of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543) on May - 06.   

1631  Death of Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician on May - 06.   

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 May - 06.   

1667  Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

1678  On this day in history joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44   

1708  On this day in history death of françois de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)   

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 this day in history.   

1757  Death of Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) on this day in history.   

1776  James Kent, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

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

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

1836  On May - 06 christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78   

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 this day in history.   

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  Death of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804) on May - 06.   

1882  Death of Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin on this day in history.   

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1397  On this day in history birth of sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450)   

1501  On this day in history birth of marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)   

1581  Frans Francken, the Younger, painter was born on May - 06.   

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 May - 06.   

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  On May - 06 birth of francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician