Famous Deaths In December - 04

0765  On this day in history death of jafar Sadiq, Shia Imam (b. 702)   

0771  Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20 on December - 04.   

0811  On December - 04 charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39   

1075  On December - 04 death of archbishop Anno II of Cologne   

1123  Death of Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048) on December - 04.   

1137  Lotharius III of Supplinburg, emperor (1125, 33-37), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1182  Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies on this day in history.   

1214  Death of William I of Scotland on this day in history.   

1270  Death of Theobald V of Champagne, King of Navarre on December - 04.   

1334  Death of Pope John XXII (b. 1249) on December - 04.   

1340  Death of Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292) on this day in history.   

1371  On this day in history reinald III, the Fat Duke, duke of Gelre (1343-61), dies at 38   

1459  On December - 04 death of adolf VIII, Duke of Southern Jutland (b. 1401)   

1514  Death of Richard Hunne, English "heretic", commits suicide(?) on this day in history.   

1576  Rheticus, mathematician, dies on December - 04.   

1585  Death of John Willock, Scottish reformer on this day in history.   

1603  Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71 on December - 04.   

1609  On December - 04 death of alexander Hume, Scottish poet   

1642  Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lucon, dies at about 57 on this day in history.   

1649  Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73 on this day in history.   

1676  Johann Georg Ebeling, composer, dies at 39 on December - 04.   

1679  Death of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588) on this day in history.   

1680  On December - 04 death of thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616)   

1696  On December - 04 death of empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)   

1732  John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47 on December - 04.   

1798  Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1807  On this day in history prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston   

1828  Death of Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770) on December - 04.   

1836  Daniel Read, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1884  On this day in history alice Mary Smith, composer, dies at 45   

1890  On this day in history death of willem III, Dutch king, buried   

1902  On December - 04 death of charles Dow, American journalist (Dow Jones & Company   

1909  On December - 04 paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60   

1915  On December - 04 gustav Hollaender, composer, dies at 60   

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1443  Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael was born on December - 04.   

1555  On this day in history birth of heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)   

1580  Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626) was born on this day in history.   

1584  On this day in history birth of john Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony   

1595  On this day in history birth of jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674)   

1646  On this day in history birth of alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730)   

1660  Andre Campra, composer was born on December - 04.   

1667  On December - 04 birth of michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer