Famous Deaths In October - 12

0632  On this day in history death of edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda  

0638  On this day in history honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies  

0642  Johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies on this day in history.  

1093  Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62 on this day in history.  

1095  On October - 12 death of margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)  

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  On this day in history reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies  

1491  On October - 12 death of fritz Herlen, German artist  

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

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1565  Death of Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520) on October - 12.  

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

1590  On this day in history death of kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)  

1600  On this day in history death of luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)  

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 October - 12.  

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

1678  Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621) on this day in history.  

1679  Death of William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617) on October - 12.  

1685  On October - 12 geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59  

1692  On October - 12 giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60  

1694  Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies on October - 12.  

1730  On this day in history frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies  

1758  Death of Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680) on this day in history.  

1791  A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1794  James Lyon, composer, dies at 59 on October - 12.  

1797  Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

1817  Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

1820  Elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36 on this day in history.  

1829  On this day in history jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73  

1837  On October - 12 frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62  

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

1845  Death of Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780) on this day in history.  

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

1350  Dimitri "Donskoi" Ivanovitch, great monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal was born on this day in history.  

1350  Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389) was born on October - 12.  

1490  On this day in history birth of bernardo Pisano, composer  

1537  On this day in history birth of edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53)  

1558  Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618) was born on October - 12.  

1558  Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651) was born on October - 12.  

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