Famous Deaths In October - 12

0632  Death of Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda on October - 12.  

0638  On October - 12 honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies  

0642  On October - 12 johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies  

1093  Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62 on October - 12.  

1095  Death of Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050) on this day in history.  

1176  Death of William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician on this day in history.  

1320  Michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies on this day in history.  

1343  Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies on this day in history.  

1491  On this day in history death of fritz Herlen, German artist  

1492  On this day in history death of piero della Francesca, Italian painter  

1565  On this day in history death of jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)  

1576  On October - 12 maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies  

1590  Death of Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543) on this day in history.  

1600  Death of Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535) on October - 12.  

1632  On this day in history death of kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)  

1646  On this day in history francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies  

1654  Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch copurt clerk of States-General, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1672  Death of Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle on this day in history.  

1678  On this day in history death of edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)  

1679  On this day in history death of william Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)  

1685  Geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

1692  Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60 on October - 12.  

1694  On October - 12 matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies  

1730  Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies on October - 12.  

1758  On October - 12 death of richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)  

1791  On October - 12 a L Karschin, writer, dies at 68  

1794  On October - 12 james Lyon, composer, dies at 59  

1797  On October - 12 pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84  

1817  Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66 on October - 12.  

1820  On October - 12 elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36  

1829  Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73 on this day in history.  

1837  Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62 on this day in history.  

1844  Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies on this day in history.  

1845  On October - 12 death of elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)  

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1008  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)  

1350  On this day in history birth of dimitri "Donskoi" Ivanovitch, great monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal  

1350  Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389) was born on this day in history.  

1490  Bernardo Pisano, composer was born on October - 12.  

1537  Edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53) was born on October - 12.  

1558  On October - 12 birth of archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)  

1558  On this day in history birth of jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651)  

1576  Thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653) was born on this day in history.