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

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

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

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 October - 12.  

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

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

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 October - 12.  

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

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 this day in history.  

1654  On October - 12 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 October - 12.  

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

1730  On this day in history 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  A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1794  James Lyon, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.  

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

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 October - 12.  

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

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

1844  On this day in history claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies  

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

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

1490  On October - 12 birth of bernardo Pisano, composer  

1537  On October - 12 birth of edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53)  

1558  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653)