Famous Deaths Happened In December - 18

0468  On this day in history death of huna Mari bar Mar Zutra, rabbi, executed in Pumpedita   

0821  On this day in history death of theodulf, Bishop of Orléans   

1133  On December - 18 death of hildebert, French writer   

1290  On December - 18 death of king Magnus I of Sweden (b. 1240)   

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

1495  On this day in history death of king Alphonso II of Naples (b. 1448)   

1505  On December - 18 death of john IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed   

1565  Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62 on December - 18.   

1577  On December - 18 anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32   

1597  On December - 18 barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67   

1633  On December - 18 death of theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, buried at 62   

1638  On December - 18 le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies   

1651  On this day in history francisco the Melo, Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54   

1692  On this day in history death of veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626)   

1710  Peter Codde, apostile vicar (1688-1704), dies at 62 on December - 18.   

1732  On December - 18 johann Valentin Eckelt, composer, dies at 59   

1737  On this day in history antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in Cremona Italy at 93   

1751  On December - 18 kilian I von Dientzenhofer, builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62   

1779  Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1787  On this day in history death of soame Jenyns, English writer (b. 1704)   

1799  Death of Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (b. 1725) on December - 18.   

1803  Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1829  Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85 on this day in history.   

1831  Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literary (My Relief), dies at 75 on December - 18.   

1835  Johann Georg Anton Mederitsch-Gallus, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1839  Charles-Henri Plantade, composer, dies at 75 on December - 18.   

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

1843  On this day in history death of thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748)   

1848  Death of Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1781) on this day in history.   

1858  Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer, dies at 81 on December - 18.   

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  On this day in history louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer, dies at 40   

1892  On December - 18 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  On this day in history birth of philipp Dulichius, composer   

1569  On this day in history birth of jakob Hassler, composer   

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

1610  On this day in history birth of charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist   

1620  Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668) was born on this day in history.   

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