Famous Deaths In October - 12

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

0638  Honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history death of margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050)  

1176  Death of William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician on October - 12.  

1320  Michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies on October - 12.  

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

1491  Death of Fritz Herlen, German artist on this day in history.  

1492  On October - 12 death of piero della Francesca, Italian painter  

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

1576  On this day in history maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies  

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

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 October - 12 francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies  

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

1672  On October - 12 death of frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle  

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

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

1685  On this day in history geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59  

1692  Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

1694  On this day in history matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies  

1730  On October - 12 frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies  

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 this day in history james Lyon, composer, dies at 59  

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

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

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

1829  Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73 on October - 12.  

1837  Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62 on October - 12.  

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

1845  On this day in history 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  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  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 this day in history.  

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

1576  On this day in history birth of thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653)