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 October - 12.   

0642  On this day in history johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies   

1093  On October - 12 robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62   

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  Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies on October - 12.   

1491  Death of Fritz Herlen, German artist on October - 12.   

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

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  On October - 12 death of luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535)   

1632  Death of Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549) on October - 12.   

1646  On October - 12 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  On October - 12 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  On this day in history giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60   

1694  On October - 12 matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies   

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 this day in history.   

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

1794  On October - 12 james Lyon, composer, dies at 59   

1797  On this day in history pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84   

1817  On October - 12 johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66   

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 this day in history.   

1837  On this day in history frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62   

1844  On October - 12 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  Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036) was born on October - 12.   

1350  On October - 12 birth of dimitri "Donskoi" Ivanovitch, great monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal   

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

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

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  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)