Famous Deaths In December - 18

0468  Death of Huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita on December - 18.   

0821  On December - 18 death of theodulf, Bishop of Orléans   

1133  On this day in history death of hildebert, French writer   

1290  On this day in history death of king Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240)   

1442  Death of Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371) on December - 18.   

1495  On December - 18 death of king Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)   

1505  Death of John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed on December - 18.   

1565  Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1577  Anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32 on this day in history.   

1597  Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67 on December - 18.   

1633  Death of Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62 on this day in history.   

1638  Le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies on this day in history.   

1651  On December - 18 francisco the Melo, Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54   

1692  Death of Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626) on this day in history.   

1710  Peter Codde, apostile vicar (1688-1704), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1732  Johann Valentin Eckelt, composer, dies at 59 on December - 18.   

1737  On December - 18 antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in Cremona Italy at 93   

1751  Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62 on December - 18.   

1779  On December - 18 jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68   

1787  Death of Soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704) on December - 18.   

1799  Death of Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725) on this day in history.   

1803  On December - 18 johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59   

1829  On this day in history jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85   

1831  On December - 18 willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75   

1835  Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer, dies at 82 on December - 18.   

1839  On December - 18 charles-Henri Plantade, composer, dies at 75   

1841  On this day in history felice Blangini, composer, dies at 60   

1843  On December - 18 death of thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748)   

1848  Death of Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781) on December - 18.   

1858  On this day in history joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer, dies at 81   

1862  Johnson Kelly Duncan, architect/Confederate brig-generaal, dies at 35 on this day in history.   

1865  On this day in history francisco Manuel da Silva, composer, dies at 70   

1869  Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40 on this day in history.   

1892  On this day in history richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88   

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1507  On December - 18 birth of ÅŒuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (d. 1551)   

1562  Philipp Dulichius, composer was born on December - 18.   

1569  On December - 18 birth of jakob Hassler, composer   

1602  Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian and politician (d. 1650) was born on December - 18.   

1610  On December - 18 birth of charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist   

1620  On this day in history birth of heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)   

1633  Adriaen Melar, Flemish engraver, baptised was born on December - 18.   

1633  On December - 18 birth of willem van de Velde the Young, Dutch seascape painter, baptised