Famous Deaths In December - 23

0558  Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 on December - 23.   

0679  On December - 23 death of dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered   

0910  On this day in history death of naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar   

0913  Death of Conrad of Franconia on December - 23.   

0918  Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies on December - 23.   

1116  Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies on this day in history.   

1230  On December - 23 death of berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England   

1236  Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies on this day in history.   

1502  Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57 on December - 23.   

1556  On this day in history death of nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)   

1568  Death of Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England on December - 23.   

1569  Death of St Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible on this day in history.   

1575  On December - 23 death of akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)   

1588  On this day in history death of hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37   

1619  On December - 23 johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47   

1631  Death of Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563) on this day in history.   

1646  On December - 23 death of françois Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)   

1652  On this day in history john Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68   

1675  Death of Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602) on December - 23.   

1688  On December - 23 jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21   

1696  On this day in history johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60   

1722  Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) on December - 23.   

1761  On this day in history death of alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy   

1771  Death of Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701) on this day in history.   

1779  Death of Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724) on December - 23.   

1789  Death of Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712) on December - 23.   

1793  Death of Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) on December - 23.   

1795  On December - 23 death of henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)   

1805  On December - 23 death of pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)   

1812  Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73 on December - 23.   

1834  On December - 23 death of thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)   

1846  On this day in history death of jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)   

1891  Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1908  Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

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1173  Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231) was born on this day in history.   

1174  Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach was born on this day in history.   

1513  On this day in history birth of thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)   

1537  On this day in history birth of king John III of Sweden (d. 1592)   

1544  Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71) was born on December - 23.   

1548  On this day in history birth of pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)   

1582  On December - 23 birth of severo Bonini, composer   

1597  Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" was born on this day in history.