Famous Deaths In December - 23

0558  On this day in history childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62   

0679  On December - 23 death of dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered   

0910  Death of Naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar on December - 23.   

0913  On December - 23 death of conrad of Franconia   

0918  On December - 23 conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies   

1116  Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies on this day in history.   

1230  On this day in history death of berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England   

1236  Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies on December - 23.   

1502  On this day in history margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57   

1556  On this day in history death of nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)   

1568  On this day in history death of roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England   

1569  Death of St Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible on December - 23.   

1575  On this day in history death of akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)   

1588  Death of Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 on December - 23.   

1619  Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 on this day in history.   

1631  On this day in history death of michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)   

1646  On this day in history death of françois Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)   

1652  John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1675  On December - 23 death of caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602)   

1688  On this day in history jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21   

1696  Johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60 on December - 23.   

1722  Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) on this day in history.   

1761  On December - 23 death of alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy   

1771  On December - 23 death of marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701)   

1779  On this day in history death of augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)   

1789  Death of Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist (b. 1712) on this day in history.   

1793  On December - 23 death of johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)   

1795  On December - 23 death of henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)   

1805  On December - 23 death of pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)   

1812  Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73 on December - 23.   

1834  Death of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766) on December - 23.   

1846  On this day in history death of jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780)   

1891  Holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81 on December - 23.   

1908  Eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

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1173  On this day in history birth of louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231)   

1174  Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach was born on December - 23.   

1513  Thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577) was born on December - 23.   

1537  King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) was born on this day in history.   

1544  Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71) was born on this day in history.   

1548  Pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae) was born on this day in history.   

1582  Severo Bonini, composer was born on this day in history.   

1597  On this day in history birth of martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"