Famous Deaths Happened In May - 07

0685  Marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies on this day in history.   

0973  Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (962-973), dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1092  Death of Remigius de Fécamp, first bishop of Lincoln (b. unknown) on this day in history.   

1166  On this day in history death of willem I, the Bad, king of Sicily (1154-66)   

1205  Ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies at 5 or 6 on this day in history.   

1427  Death of Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English churchman on this day in history.   

1523  Franz von Sickingen, Germ knight/protect of poor, dies of wounds at 42 on this day in history.   

1539  On this day in history death of guru Nanak Dev, Founder of Sikhism (b. 1469)   

1617  David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53 on May - 07.   

1667  Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist/singer/composer, dies at 50 on May - 07.   

1671  On this day in history edward Montagu, English baron Kimbolton, dies at about 68   

1673  On this day in history johannes Teellinck, Dutch vicar, dies at about 58   

1682  On this day in history death of tsar Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)   

1718  On this day in history death of mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (b. 1658)   

1736  John Weldon, composer, dies at 60 on May - 07.   

1792  Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82 on May - 07.   

1793  On May - 07 johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt admiral (battle of Doggersbank), dies at 68   

1800  Laurens P van Spiegel, regent/pension advisor (1787-95), dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1805  Death of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737) on this day in history.   

1814  Franz Volrath Buttstett, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1818  On this day in history leopold Jan Antonin Kozeluh, composer, dies at 70   

1825  On this day in history antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74   

1836  Norbert Burgmuller, composer, dies at 26 on this day in history.   

1840  On this day in history death of caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)   

1863  On this day in history amiel Weeks Whipple, US Union gen-major, dies of injuries at 46   

1868  Death of Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778) on May - 07.   

1871  Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies on this day in history.   

1876  On this day in history franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69   

1884  Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies at 72 on May - 07.   

1887  On May - 07 death of c. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)   

1896  Death of H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) , American serial killer (b. 1860) on this day in history.   

1900  Richard Storrs Willis, composer, dies at 81 on May - 07.   

1904  On May - 07 peter Hille, writer, dies   

1914  Edward Mollenhauer, composer, dies at 87 on May - 07.   

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1328  On this day in history birth of louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1365)   

1530  On May - 07 birth of louis I Condé, French prince/leader of hugenots   

1574  On this day in history birth of innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55)   

1643  Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700) was born on this day in history.   

1700  On May - 07 birth of gerard van Swieten, Dutch botanist   

1704  Carl Heinrich Graun, composer was born on this day in history.   

1724  Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797) was born on this day in history.   

1740  On this day in history birth of nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)