Famous Deaths In May - 06

0523  On May - 06 death of thrasamunde, king of Vandalen   

0680  Death of Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602) on May - 06.   

0988  On May - 06 death of dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland   

1085  King Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies on May - 06.   

1124  Death of Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered on this day in history.   

1475  Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64 on May - 06.   

1502  Death of James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed) on May - 06.   

1527  On May - 06 karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37   

1540  Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48 on May - 06.   

1596  On May - 06 death of giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)   

1620  On this day in history death of hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)   

1631  Death of Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician on this day in history.   

1638  Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies on this day in history.   

1642  Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday on this day in history.   

1666  Paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1667  On May - 06 johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50   

1678  Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1708  On this day in history death of françois de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)   

1727  Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42 on this day in history.   

1739  On May - 06 bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63   

1757  Death of Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) on this day in history.   

1776  James Kent, composer, dies at 76 on May - 06.   

1794  On May - 06 jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59   

1814  George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.   

1836  On May - 06 christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78   

1840  Death of Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792) on May - 06.   

1841  John Thomson, composer, dies at 35 on May - 06.   

1852  On May - 06 charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75   

1856  On May - 06 william Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies   

1859  Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies on this day in history.   

1862  On May - 06 henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44   

1864  On this day in history henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle   

1877  On this day in history death of johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)   

1882  Death of Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin on May - 06.   

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1397  Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450) was born on May - 06.   

1501  On May - 06 birth of marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)   

1581  On this day in history birth of frans Francken, the Younger, painter   

1606  Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter was born on May - 06.   

1638  Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696) was born on this day in history.   

1713  Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780) was born on this day in history.   

1758  On this day in history birth of maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)   

1759  Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician was born on this day in history.