Famous Deaths In May - 06
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
0523 On this day in history death of thrasamunde, king of Vandalen
0680 Death of Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602) on this day in history.
0988 On this day in history death of dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland
1085 On May - 06 king Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies
1124 Death of Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered on May - 06.
1475 Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64 on May - 06.
1502 Death of James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) on May - 06.
1527 Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37 on this day in history.
1540 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 on May - 06.
1596 On May - 06 death of giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
1620 On this day in history death of hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)
1631 Death of Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician on this day in history.
1638 On May - 06 cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies
1642 On this day in history frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday
1666 Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79 on May - 06.
1667 Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50 on May - 06.
1678 On this day in history joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44
1708 On this day in history death of françois de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)
1727 Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42 on May - 06.
1739 Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63 on May - 06.
1757 Death of Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) on this day in history.
1776 On May - 06 james Kent, composer, dies at 76
1794 Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.
1814 George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.
1836 On this day in history christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78
1840 On this day in history death of francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792)
1841 John Thomson, composer, dies at 35 on May - 06.
1852 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.
1856 William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies on this day in history.
1859 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies on this day in history.
1862 Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44 on May - 06.
1864 On May - 06 henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle
1877 On this day in history death of johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
1882 Death of Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin on May - 06.
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