Famous Deaths Happened In May - 06

0523  Death of Thrasamunde, king of Vandalen on this day in history.   

0680  On May - 06 death of muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602)   

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  On May - 06 death of balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered   

1475  On May - 06 dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64   

1502  Death of James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) on May - 06.   

1527  On this day in history karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37   

1540  Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 on this day in history.   

1596  On May - 06 death of giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)   

1620  Death of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543) on May - 06.   

1631  On this day in history death of robert Bruce Cotton, English politician   

1638  On this day in history cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies   

1642  On May - 06 frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday   

1666  Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1667  Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

1678  On this day in history joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44   

1708  Death of François de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623) on May - 06.   

1727  Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42 on May - 06.   

1739  Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1757  Death of Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) on this day in history.   

1776  James Kent, composer, dies at 76 on May - 06.   

1794  On this day in history jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59   

1814  George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64 on May - 06.   

1836  On May - 06 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 this day in history.   

1852  Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75 on May - 06.   

1856  On this day in history william Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies   

1859  On May - 06 friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies   

1862  On this day in history henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44   

1864  On this day in history henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle   

1877  Death of Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804) on this day in history.   

1882  Death of Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin on May - 06.   

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1397  Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450) was born on May - 06.   

1501  Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days) was born on this day in history.   

1581  Frans Francken, the Younger, painter was born on this day in history.   

1606  On this day in history birth of lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter   

1638  On this day in history birth of henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696)   

1713  Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780) was born on this day in history.   

1758  On May - 06 birth of maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)   

1759  On this day in history birth of francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician