Famous Deaths In October - 12

0632  On October - 12 death of edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda  

0638  Honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies on October - 12.  

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 October - 12.  

1095  Death of Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050) on October - 12.  

1176  On October - 12 death of william d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician  

1320  On this day in history michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies  

1343  On this day in history reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies  

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

1492  Death of Piero della Francesca, Italian painter on this day in history.  

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1565  Death of Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520) on this day in history.  

1576  Maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies on this day in history.  

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

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

1632  On October - 12 death of kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)  

1646  Francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies on this day in history.  

1654  On this day in history dirck Graswinckel, Dutch copurt clerk of States-General, dies at 66  

1672  Death of Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle on October - 12.  

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

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

1685  Geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59 on October - 12.  

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

1694  Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies on this day in history.  

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

1758  Death of Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680) on October - 12.  

1791  A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68 on October - 12.  

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

1797  Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84 on October - 12.  

1817  On this day in history johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66  

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  On this day in history frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62  

1844  Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies on October - 12.  

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

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1008  On October - 12 birth of emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)  

1350  Dimitri "Donskoi" Ivanovitch, great monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal was born on October - 12.  

1350  On October - 12 birth of dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389)  

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 October - 12.