Famous Deaths Happened In May - 06

0523  On this day in history death of thrasamunde, king of Vandalen   

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

0988  Death of Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland on May - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

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 May - 06.   

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  On May - 06 death of hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)   

1631  Death of Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician on May - 06.   

1638  Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies on May - 06.   

1642  Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday on this day in history.   

1666  On this day in history paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79   

1667  On May - 06 johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50   

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 this day in history.   

1727  Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history james Kent, composer, dies at 76   

1794  On May - 06 jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59   

1814  On this day in history george Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64   

1836  On May - 06 christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78   

1840  Death of Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792) on this day in history.   

1841  John Thomson, composer, dies at 35 on May - 06.   

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

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

1859  On this day in history friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies   

1862  On May - 06 henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44   

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 this day in history.   

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

1501  On May - 06 birth of marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)   

1581  On May - 06 birth of frans Francken, the Younger, painter   

1606  On May - 06 birth of lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter   

1638  Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696) was born on this day in history.   

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

1758  Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781) was born on May - 06.   

1759  Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician was born on May - 06.