Famous Deaths In April - 23

0034  On this day in history death of christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton   

0303  On this day in history death of george, knight/saint/patron of England, beheaded   

0725  On April - 23 death of wihtred, King of Kent   

0871  Ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies on this day in history.   

0990  On this day in history ekkehart II, [Palatinus], monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies   

0997  Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40 on this day in history.   

1014  Brian Boru, king of Ireland, dies in battle at 87 on April - 23.   

1016  On this day in history aethelbred II "the Unready", king of England (979-1016), dies   

1151  Death of Queen Adeliza of England (b. 1103) on April - 23.   

1217  On April - 23 death of king Inge II of Norway (b. 1185)   

1407  Death of Olivier de Clisson, French soldier (b. 1326) on this day in history.   

1416  On April - 23 blaise/Blasius of Parma, Ital astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies   

1616  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69 on April - 23.   

1625  Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1670  Loreto Vittori, composer, dies at 69 on April - 23.   

1691  On April - 23 jean-Henri D'Anglebert, composer, dies   

1695  On April - 23 henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72   

1702  On this day in history death of margaret Fell, English Quaker leader (b. 1614)   

1728  On April - 23 tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83   

1732  Cajetan Kolberer, composer, dies at 63 on April - 23.   

1740  Thomas Tickell, poet, dies on this day in history.   

1742  On April - 23 mihael Omerza, composer, dies at 62   

1762  Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1774  Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies on this day in history.   

1781  On this day in history death of james Abercrombie, British general (b. 1706)   

1786  On April - 23 alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68   

1792  Death of Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741) on April - 23.   

1794  On this day in history death of guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)   

1812  Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

1827  On this day in history johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at 65   

1838  John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1839  Death of Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (b. 1768) on this day in history.   

1847  Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1850  On this day in history william Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80   

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1170  On April - 23 birth of isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190)   

1185  On April - 23 birth of king Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)   

1464  Johanna van Valois, Queen of France was born on April - 23.   

1464  On this day in history birth of robert Fayrfax, composer   

1484  On this day in history birth of julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)   

1500  On April - 23 birth of alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician   

1500  Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565) was born on April - 23.   

1516  Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571) was born on this day in history.