Famous Deaths In December - 14

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

1077  On December - 14 agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies   

1136  Death of Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered on December - 14.   

1417  On December - 14 death of john Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged & burned   

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

1476  Death of Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431) on this day in history.   

1510  Death of Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473) on this day in history.   

1542  James, king of Scotland (1513-42), dies at 30 on December - 14.   

1553  Death of Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485) on December - 14.   

1591  Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies on December - 14.   

1624  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)   

1732  On this day in history johann Philipp Fortsch, composer, dies at 80   

1734  On December - 14 noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44   

1735  Death of Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674) on this day in history.   

1741  On this day in history death of charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)   

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

1760  Kacic Miosic, Croatian poet (Razgovar Ugodni Naroda Slovinskoga), dies on December - 14.   

1788  On this day in history carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74   

1799  George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history death of jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (b. 1806)   

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

1861  On December - 14 albert, prince consort of Engld/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42   

1862  On December - 14 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  J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies on this day in history.   

1886  On this day in history antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer, dies at 27   

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

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

1903  Death of William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair on December - 14.   

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1009  Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045) was born on this day in history.   

1363  John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist was born on this day in history.   

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

1546  On December - 14 birth of tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose)   

1553  On December - 14 birth of henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra (Henri III)/France   

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

1631  On this day in history birth of anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679)   

1640  (baptism date) was born on this day in history.