Famous Deaths In November - 07

0644  Death of Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam on November - 07.  

0739  On November - 07 willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81  

1225  On this day in history death of engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40  

1550  Death of Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484) on November - 07.  

1560  On this day in history peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies  

1573  Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies on November - 07.  

1581  On this day in history death of richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar  

1599  On November - 07 death of gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)  

1608  Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle on November - 07.  

1620  Death of Hetman Stanisław Żólkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547) on this day in history.  

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1633  On this day in history cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies  

1639  On this day in history william Cobbold, composer, dies at 79  

1642  On November - 07 death of henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician  

1678  On November - 07 erasmus Quellinus II [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 70  

1708  Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1713  On this day in history death of elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)  

1723  On November - 07 godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies  

1796  Catharina II, "the Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67 on November - 07.  

1802  On November - 07 johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer, dies at 50  

1817  Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

1827  On November - 07 bartolomeo Campagnoli, Ital violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 76  

1837  On November - 07 death of elijah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered by pro-slavery mob at 34  

1857  Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

1859  On this day in history carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61  

1872  On November - 07 death of alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)  

1876  Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65 on this day in history.  

1880  Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72 on November - 07.  

1881  Death of John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791) on November - 07.  

1893  On November - 07 constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, dies at 37  

1901  On November - 07 li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies  

1910  On November - 07 leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS]  

1913  On November - 07 death of alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)  

1919  Death of Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 on this day in history.  

1922  Death of Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860) on November - 07.  

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0630  On this day in history birth of constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)  

1598  Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664) was born on this day in history.  

1619  On this day in history birth of gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)  

1650  On November - 07 birth of john Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)  

1656  On November - 07 birth of walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen  

1687  On this day in history birth of william Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)  

1692  On this day in history birth of johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)  

1706  Carlo Cecere, composer was born on this day in history.