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 May - 06 death of dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland   

1085  King Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies on this day in history.   

1124  On May - 06 death of balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered   

1475  Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64 on this day in history.   

1502  On this day in history death of james Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)   

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 May - 06.   

1596  Death of Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535) on May - 06.   

1620  Death of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543) on this day in history.   

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

1638  Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies on this day in history.   

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

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  Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.   

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

1727  On May - 06 catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42   

1739  On this day in history bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63   

1757  On May - 06 death of maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)   

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

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

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

1836  Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78 on May - 06.   

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

1841  On this day in history john Thomson, composer, dies at 35   

1852  Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1856  William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies on May - 06.   

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 this day in history.   

1864  Henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle on May - 06.   

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

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

1606  Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter was born on this day in history.   

1638  Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696) was born on May - 06.   

1713  On this day in history birth of charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)   

1758  On this day in history birth of maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)   

1759  On May - 06 birth of francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician