Famous Deaths Happened In December - 23

0558  On this day in history childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62   

0679  On this day in history 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  On December - 23 conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies   

1116  On December - 23 ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies   

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 December - 23.   

1502  On December - 23 margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57   

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 December - 23.   

1575  Death of Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531) on this day in history.   

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

1619  Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 on this day in history.   

1631  On this day in history death of michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)   

1646  Death of François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582) on this day in history.   

1652  On December - 23 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  Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21 on this day in history.   

1696  On December - 23 johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60   

1722  Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) on this day in history.   

1761  Death of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy on December - 23.   

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

1779  On December - 23 death of augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)   

1789  On December - 23 death of charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712)   

1793  Death of Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) on this day in history.   

1795  Death of Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730) on this day in history.   

1805  Death of Pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723) on this day in history.   

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  Death of Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780) on December - 23.   

1891  Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81 on December - 23.   

1908  Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72 on December - 23.   

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1173  On this day in history birth of louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)   

1174  On this day in history birth of louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach   

1513  Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577) was born on December - 23.   

1537  King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) was born on this day in history.   

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

1548  Pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae) was born on December - 23.   

1582  On December - 23 birth of severo Bonini, composer   

1597  Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" was born on December - 23.