Famous Deaths Happened In December - 31

0192  Death of Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31 on December - 31.   

0335  On this day in history death of st. Silvester, Pope   

0406  On December - 31 godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle   

0439  Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56 on this day in history.   

1164  On this day in history death of margrave Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)   

1194  Death of Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157) on December - 31.   

1297  On this day in history death of humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)   

1302  Death of Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238) on this day in history.   

1382  Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan on December - 31.   

1384  On December - 31 john Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies   

1424  On December - 31 death of thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader   

1460  Death of Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1443) on this day in history.   

1510  Death of Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472) on this day in history.   

1535  On this day in history death of william Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)   

1568  Death of Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493) on December - 31.   

1575  Death of Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502) on this day in history.   

1583  On this day in history thomas Erastus, Switz, theologist, dies   

1610  On December - 31 death of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)   

1616  On this day in history jacques Le Maire, pirate/explorer (Lemaire Strait), dies at 31   

1647  Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer, dies on this day in history.   

1650  On December - 31 death of dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612)   

1652  Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies on December - 31.   

1673  Death of Oliver St John, English statesman and judge on this day in history.   

1679  On December - 31 death of giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)   

1691  Death of Dudley North, English economist (b. 1641) on this day in history.   

1719  John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1733  Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1742  Death of Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661) on this day in history.   

1775  On this day in history richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British   

1799  Death of Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b. 1723) on this day in history.   

1802  Francis Lewis, Welsh/US merchant/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 89 on this day in history.   

1809  On December - 31 franz Ignaz Beck, composer, dies at 75   

1818  Jean-Pierre Duport, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1848  Oliver Shaw, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

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0695  Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715) was born on this day in history.   

1378  On this day in history birth of callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58)   

1378  On December - 31 birth of pope Callixtus III (d. 1458)   

1491  On December - 31 birth of jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)   

1514  Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist (Fabrica) was born on this day in history.   

1540  On December - 31 birth of silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri)   

1572  Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (d. 1617) was born on this day in history.   

1668  On this day in history birth of hermannus Boerhaave, Dutch medical/botanist