Famous Deaths In October - 12

0632  Death of Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda on this day in history.  

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

1176  On this day in history death of william d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician  

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  Death of Piero della Francesca, Italian painter on October - 12.  

1565  On October - 12 death of jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)  

1576  Maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies on October - 12.  

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  Death of Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549) on this day in history.  

1646  Francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies on October - 12.  

1654  Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch copurt clerk of States-General, dies at 66 on October - 12.  

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 October - 12.  

1679  Death of William Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617) on this day in history.  

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

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

1794  On October - 12 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 October - 12.  

1829  On October - 12 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  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  On this day in history birth of bernardo Pisano, composer  

1537  Edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53) was born on this day in history.  

1558  Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618) was born on this day in history.  

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

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