Famous Deaths In October - 12

0632  Death of Edwin of Deira, King of Northumbria and Bretwalda on this day in history.   

0638  On this day in history honorius I, [dux plebis], Italian Pope, dies   

0642  On October - 12 johannes IV, Dalmatisch Pope (640-42), dies   

1093  On October - 12 robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62   

1095  Death of Margrave Leopold II of Austria (b. 1050) on October - 12.   

1176  On October - 12 death of william d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician   

1320  On October - 12 michael IX Paleologi, emperor of Byzantine (1295-1320), dies   

1343  On this day in history reinald II, duke of Gelre, dies   

1491  Death of Fritz Herlen, German artist on October - 12.   

1492  On October - 12 death of piero della Francesca, Italian painter   

1565  Death of Jean Ribault, French explorer and colonizer (b. 1520) on October - 12.   

1576  On this day in history maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies   

1590  On this day in history death of kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)   

1600  Death of Luis Molina, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1535) on October - 12.   

1632  On October - 12 death of kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)   

1646  On this day in history francois De Bassompierre, marshal of France, dies   

1654  Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch copurt clerk of States-General, dies at 66 on October - 12.   

1672  Death of Frederik of Nassau, count of Buren, slain in battle on October - 12.   

1678  On October - 12 death of edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (b. 1621)   

1679  On October - 12 death of william Gurnall, English writer (b. 1617)   

1685  Geeraerdt Burns, theologist/poet/historian, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1692  Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer, dies at 60 on October - 12.   

1694  Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies on October - 12.   

1730  Frederik IV, king of Denmark/Norway (1699-1730), dies on October - 12.   

1758  On this day in history death of richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, British field marshal (b. 1680)   

1791  On this day in history a L Karschin, writer, dies at 68   

1794  James Lyon, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1797  On this day in history pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84   

1817  Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer, dies at 66 on October - 12.   

1820  On October - 12 elias Annes Borger, theologist/poet (Ode on the Rhine), dies at 36   

1829  Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73 on this day in history.   

1837  On this day in history frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62   

1844  Claude Tillier, French journalist/writer (My Uncle Benjamin), dies on this day in history.   

1845  Death of Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780) on this day in history.   

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1008  On this day in history birth of emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)   

1350  Dimitri "Donskoi" Ivanovitch, great monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal was born on this day in history.   

1350  Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Moscovy (d. 1389) was born on October - 12.   

1490  On October - 12 birth of bernardo Pisano, composer   

1537  On October - 12 birth of edward VI, Tudor, King of England (1547-53)   

1558  On this day in history birth of archduke Maximilian III of Austria (d. 1618)   

1558  Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651) was born on October - 12.   

1576  Thomas Dudley, English-born American colonial magistrate (d. 1653) was born on October - 12.