Famous Deaths In December - 14

0872  On December - 14 adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80   

1077  On this day in history agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies   

1136  On this day in history death of harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered   

1417  Death of John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned on this day in history.   

1460  On this day in history death of guarino da Verona (b. 1370)   

1476  Death of Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431) on December - 14.   

1510  On December - 14 death of friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)   

1542  On December - 14 james, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30   

1553  Death of Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485) on December - 14.   

1591  On December - 14 juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies   

1624  On this day in history death of charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)   

1651  Death of Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582) on December - 14.   

1713  On this day in history death of thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)   

1715  Death of Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636) on this day in history.   

1732  On this day in history johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80   

1734  On this day in history noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44   

1735  Death of Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674) on this day in history.   

1741  Death of Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661) on this day in history.   

1754  Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1760  Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies on December - 14.   

1788  On this day in history carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74   

1799  On December - 14 george Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66   

1823  On December - 14 vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53   

1829  On this day in history luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74   

1838  Death of Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806) on December - 14.   

1849  On December - 14 conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69   

1861  Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42 on December - 14.   

1862  On December - 14 george Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27   

1865  On this day in history death of johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)   

1873  On December - 14 j Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies   

1886  Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27 on December - 14.   

1893  On December - 14 karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86   

1900  On this day in history jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46   

1903  On December - 14 death of william Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair   

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1009  Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045) was born on this day in history.   

1363  John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist was born on December - 14.   

1503  On December - 14 birth of nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet   

1546  Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose) was born on December - 14.   

1553  On December - 14 birth of henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra (Henri III)/France   

1625  On this day in history birth of barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)   

1631  Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679) was born on December - 14.   

1640  (baptism date) was born on December - 14.