Famous Deaths In November - 07

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

0739  On this day in history willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81  

1225  Death of Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40 on November - 07.  

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  On this day in history solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies  

1581  Death of Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar on this day in history.  

1599  On this day in history death of gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)  

1608  On November - 07 adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle  

1620  On November - 07 death of hetman Stanisław Żólkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)  

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1633  Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies on November - 07.  

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

1642  Death of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician on this day in history.  

1678  Erasmus Quellinus II [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1708  Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76 on November - 07.  

1713  Death of Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658) on this day in history.  

1723  Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies on November - 07.  

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

1802  On this day in history johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer, dies at 50  

1817  On this day in history francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer, dies at 85  

1827  Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Ital violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1837  Death of Elijah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered by pro-slavery mob at 34 on this day in history.  

1857  On November - 07 charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer, dies at 62  

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  On November - 07 albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65  

1880  On November - 07 carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72  

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

1893  Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, dies at 37 on November - 07.  

1901  Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies on this day in history.  

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

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

1919  On this day in history death of hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56  

1922  Death of Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860) on this day in history.  

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0630  Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668) was born on this day in history.  

1598  On November - 07 birth of francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)  

1619  Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692) was born on November - 07.  

1650  John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.  

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

1687  On November - 07 birth of william Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)  

1692  On November - 07 birth of johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)  

1706  On November - 07 birth of carlo Cecere, composer