Famous Deaths In October - 12

0632  Death of Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda on October - 12.   

0638  On this day in history honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies   

0642  Johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies on this day in history.   

1093  On October - 12 robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62   

1095  Death of Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050) on October - 12.   

1176  Death of William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician on October - 12.   

1320  Michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies on October - 12.   

1343  On this day in history reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies   

1491  Death of Fritz Herlen, German artist on this day in history.   

1492  Death of Piero della Francesca, Italian painter on this day in history.   

1565  On October - 12 death of jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520)   

1576  On this day in history maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies   

1590  On October - 12 death of kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)   

1600  Death of Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535) on October - 12.   

1632  Death of Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549) on this day in history.   

1646  Francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies on October - 12.   

1654  Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch copurt clerk of States-General, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1672  On October - 12 death of frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle   

1678  Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621) on October - 12.   

1679  On October - 12 death of william Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)   

1685  On October - 12 geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59   

1692  On this day in history giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60   

1694  On October - 12 matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies   

1730  On this day in history frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies   

1758  Death of Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680) on this day in history.   

1791  A L Karschin, writer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1794  On October - 12 james Lyon, composer, dies at 59   

1797  On October - 12 pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84   

1817  Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66 on October - 12.   

1820  On October - 12 elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36   

1829  Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73 on October - 12.   

1837  On this day in history frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62   

1844  On October - 12 claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies   

1845  Death of Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780) on this day in history.   

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1008  Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036) was born on October - 12.   

1350  On October - 12 birth of dimitri "Donskoi" Ivanovitch, great monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal   

1350  On this day in history birth of dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389)   

1490  Bernardo Pisano, composer was born on October - 12.   

1537  Edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53) was born on October - 12.   

1558  Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618) was born on this day in history.   

1558  Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651) was born on October - 12.   

1576  On this day in history birth of thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653)