Famous Deaths In October - 12

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

0638  On October - 12 honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies  

0642  Johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies on October - 12.  

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  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 this day in history.  

1343  Reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies on this day in history.  

1491  On this day in history 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 October - 12.  

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  Death of Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535) on this day in history.  

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

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

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 this day in history.  

1678  On October - 12 death of edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)  

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  On October - 12 giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60  

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

1730  Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies on this day in history.  

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 October - 12.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1837  On October - 12 frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62  

1844  On October - 12 claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies  

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 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 this day in history.  

1558  Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618) was born on October - 12.  

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

1576  On October - 12 birth of thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653)