Famous Deaths In December - 14

0872  Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80 on December - 14.   

1077  Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies on December - 14.   

1136  Death of Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered on this day in history.   

1417  Death of John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned on this day in history.   

1460  On December - 14 death of guarino da Verona (b. 1370)   

1476  On this day in history death of vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)   

1510  On December - 14 death of friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)   

1542  James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30 on this day in history.   

1553  On December - 14 death of hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)   

1591  On this day in history juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies   

1624  On December - 14 death of charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)   

1651  Death of Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582) on December - 14.   

1713  On December - 14 death of thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)   

1715  On December - 14 death of thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)   

1732  Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80 on December - 14.   

1734  Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44 on December - 14.   

1735  On this day in history death of thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)   

1741  Death of Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661) on this day in history.   

1754  Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58 on December - 14.   

1760  Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies on this day in history.   

1788  Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1799  On this day in history george Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66   

1823  Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53 on this day in history.   

1829  Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74 on December - 14.   

1838  On December - 14 death of jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)   

1849  Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69 on December - 14.   

1861  Albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42 on this day in history.   

1862  On this day in history george Dashiell Bayard, Union brig general, dies at 27   

1865  Death of Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794) on this day in history.   

1873  On December - 14 j Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies   

1886  On December - 14 antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27   

1893  On this day in history karolina Pawlowa, writer, dies at 86   

1900  Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46 on December - 14.   

1903  On this day in history death of william Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair   

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1009  On December - 14 birth of emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045)   

1363  On this day in history birth of john Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist   

1503  Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet was born on this day in history.   

1546  On this day in history birth of tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose)   

1553  Henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra (Henri III)/France was born on this day in history.   

1625  On this day in history birth of barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695)   

1631  Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679) was born on December - 14.   

1640  (baptism date) was born on December - 14.