Famous Deaths In December - 06

0343  Death of Saint Nicholas on December - 06.   

1185  On December - 06 afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76   

1352  Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies on this day in history.   

1531  On this day in history death of john Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded   

1550  On December - 06 pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies at 48   

1562  Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter/architect, dies on December - 06.   

1598  On December - 06 elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78   

1618  On December - 06 death of jacques-Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)   

1640  On December - 06 matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75   

1651  Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess, dies at 68 on December - 06.   

1658  Gracian, writer, dies on this day in history.   

1716  On December - 06 death of benedictus Buns, Dutch Carmelite and composer (b. 1642)   

1718  Death of Nicholas Rowe, English poet and dramatist (b. 1674) on December - 06.   

1746  On this day in history death of lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)   

1771  On December - 06 death of giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)   

1779  Death of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699) on this day in history.   

1788  On December - 06 death of jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)   

1793  Death of Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, beheaded on this day in history.   

1799  On December - 06 joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71   

1834  Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer, dies at 54 on December - 06.   

1855  Death of William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (b. 1789) on December - 06.   

1865  Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1867  Giovanni Pacini, composer, dies at 71 on December - 06.   

1868  On this day in history death of august Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)   

1869  Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

1873  Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Ante un Cadaver), dies at 24 on December - 06.   

1879  Death of Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American industrialist (b. 1814) on this day in history.   

1882  On this day in history a Trollope, writer, dies   

1889  On December - 06 jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States (1861-5), dies at 81   

1892  E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75 on December - 06.   

1903  Frederick Grant Gleason, composer, dies at 54 on December - 06.   

1914  On December - 06 eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47   

1920  Karel Kovarovic, composer, dies at 57 on this day in history.   

1924  Death of Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863) on this day in history.   

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0846  On December - 06 birth of hasan al-Askari, Shia Imam (d. 874)   

1285  King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312) was born on December - 06.   

1421  On this day in history birth of henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)   

1478  Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529) was born on December - 06.   

1550  Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, composer was born on this day in history.   

1586  Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670) was born on December - 06.   

1608  On this day in history birth of george Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland   

1637  On this day in history birth of sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)