Famous Deaths Happened In May - 31

0455  On May - 31 death of petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched   

1091  On May - 31 hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91), dies   

1198  Moses ben Solomon Ha-Cohen, rabbi of Mainz, dies on this day in history.   

1246  On May - 31 death of isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England   

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

1408  On this day in history death of ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1358)   

1410  On this day in history death of king Martin I of Aragon (b. 1356)   

1495  On May - 31 death of cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, (b. 1415)   

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

1551  On May - 31 aristotele "Basiano" da Sangallo, Italian set designer, dies   

1558  Death of Philip Hoby, English politician (b. 1505) on May - 31.   

1567  On May - 31 pereguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies   

1594  Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75 on May - 31.   

1620  Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59 on May - 31.   

1665  Pieter J Saenredam, Dutch architectural painter, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1680  On May - 31 death of joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650)   

1696  On this day in history heinrich Schwemmer, composer, dies at 75   

1740  On May - 31 frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51   

1747  Death of Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686) on this day in history.   

1799  Death of Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715) on this day in history.   

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

1831  Death of Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757) on this day in history.   

1832  Death of Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811) on May - 31.   

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

1846  Death of Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780) on May - 31.   

1847  On this day in history death of thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (b. 1780)   

1848  Death of Eugénie de Guérin, French writer (b. 1805) on May - 31.   

1849  Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-gen of Neth-Indies, dies at 69 on May - 31.   

1854  Vatroslav Lisinski, composer, dies at 34 on this day in history.   

1862  On May - 31 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 May - 31.   

1906  On this day in history hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56   

1908  C L "Boy" Johnson, cricketer (Test for S Africa 1895-96), dies on this day in history.   

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 May - 31 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 May - 31.   

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

1557  On May - 31 birth of feodor I of Russia (d. 1598)   

1613  John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680) was born on this day in history.   

1640  MichaÅ‚ WiÅ›niowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673) was born on May - 31.   

1656  On this day in history birth of marin Marias, composer