Famous Deaths Happened In May - 31

0455  On this day in history death of petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched   

1091  Hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91), dies on this day in history.   

1198  Moses ben Solomon Ha-Cohen, rabbi of Mainz, dies on May - 31.   

1246  On this day in history death of isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England   

1349  Death of Thomas Wake, English politician (b. 1297) on May - 31.   

1408  On May - 31 death of ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)   

1410  On May - 31 death of king Martin I of Aragon (b. 1356)   

1495  Death of Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, (b. 1415) on this day in history.   

1504  On this day in history engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies   

1551  Aristotele "Basiano" da Sangallo, Italian set designer, dies on this day in history.   

1558  On May - 31 death of philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505)   

1567  Pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies on May - 31.   

1594  Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1620  On this day in history willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59   

1665  On May - 31 pieter J Saenredam, Dutch architectural painter, dies at 67   

1680  Death of Joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650) on May - 31.   

1696  Heinrich Schwemmer, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1740  Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1747  On May - 31 death of andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)   

1799  On this day in history death of pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)   

1809  On this day in history ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer/rebel, dies in battle at 33   

1831  On this day in history death of samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757)   

1832  Death of Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811) on this day in history.   

1837  Joseph Grimaldi, greatest clown (king of pantomime), dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1846  On this day in history death of philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780)   

1847  Death of Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780) on this day in history.   

1848  On May - 31 death of eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805)   

1849  On May - 31 leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 69   

1854  On May - 31 vatroslav Lisinski, composer, dies at 34   

1862  On this day in history robert Hatton, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 34   

1900  James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1871-75), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1906  Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56 on May - 31.   

1908  C L "Boy" Johnson, cricketer (Test for S Africa 1895-96), dies on May - 31.   

1910  On this day in history elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89   

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1443  On this day in history birth of lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)   

1469  On this day in history birth of manuel I, King of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration   

1472  Erardus van der Mark, prince-bishop of Luik/cardinal was born on this day in history.   

1557  On May - 31 birth of theodorus I (Fedor Ivanovitsj), czar of Russia (1584-98)   

1557  Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598) was born on this day in history.   

1613  On May - 31 birth of john George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)   

1640  MichaÅ‚ WiÅ›niowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673) was born on this day in history.   

1656  Marin Marias, composer was born on May - 31.