Famous Deaths In November - 07

0644  On November - 07 death of umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam  

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  Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies on this day in history.  

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

1599  Death of Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546) on November - 07.  

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

1620  Death of Hetman StanisÅ‚aw Żólkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Å¢uÅ£ora (1620) (b. 1547) on this day in history.  

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

1639  On November - 07 william Cobbold, composer, dies at 79  

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

1678  On this day in history erasmus Quellinus II [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 70  

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

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

1723  Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies on this day in history.  

1796  Catharina II, "the Great", tsarina of Russia (1762-96), dies at 67 on this day in history.  

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

1817  On November - 07 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  Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer, dies at 62 on November - 07.  

1859  Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.  

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

1876  On this day in history albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65  

1880  On this day in history carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72  

1881  Death of John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791) on this day in history.  

1893  Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, dies at 37 on this day in history.  

1901  Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies on November - 07.  

1910  Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS] on this day in history.  

1913  Death of Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823) on this day in history.  

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

1922  On November - 07 death of sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)  

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

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 this day in history birth of john Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)  

1656  Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen was born on November - 07.  

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