Famous Deaths Happened 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  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 May - 06 death of balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered   

1475  Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64 on May - 06.   

1502  Death of James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) on May - 06.   

1527  On May - 06 karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 May - 06.   

1666  On May - 06 paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79   

1667  Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50 on May - 06.   

1678  Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44 on May - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

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 May - 06.   

1776  James Kent, composer, dies at 76 on May - 06.   

1794  Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

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

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  John Thomson, composer, dies at 35 on May - 06.   

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 May - 06.   

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  On May - 06 birth of sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450)   

1501  Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days) was born on May - 06.   

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 May - 06.   

1713  On this day in history birth of charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)   

1758  On May - 06 birth of maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)   

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