Famous Deaths Happened In December - 23

0558  Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62 on this day in history.   

0679  Death of Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered on December - 23.   

0910  On December - 23 death of naum of Preslav, Bulgarian scholar   

0913  On December - 23 death of conrad of Franconia   

0918  Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies on this day in history.   

1116  Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies on December - 23.   

1230  Death of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England on this day in history.   

1236  On December - 23 philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies   

1502  On December - 23 margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57   

1556  On December - 23 death of nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504)   

1568  Death of Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England on December - 23.   

1569  On this day in history death of st Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible   

1575  On December - 23 death of akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)   

1588  On this day in history death of hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37   

1619  Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47 on December - 23.   

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

1646  Death of François Maynard, French poet (b. 1582) on December - 23.   

1652  On this day in history john Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68   

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

1688  Jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21 on this day in history.   

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

1722  On this day in history death of pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654)   

1761  Death of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy on December - 23.   

1771  Death of Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian saint (b. 1701) on this day in history.   

1779  Death of Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724) on December - 23.   

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

1793  On this day in history death of johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)   

1795  Death of Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730) on December - 23.   

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  On this day in history death of thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)   

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 this day in history.   

1908  On this day in history eduard Wachmann, composer, dies at 72   

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1173  Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231) was born on this day in history.   

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

1513  On December - 23 birth of thomas Smith, English diplomat and scholar (d. 1577)   

1537  King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) was born on December - 23.   

1544  On this day in history birth of anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)   

1548  On December - 23 birth of pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)   

1582  Severo Bonini, composer was born on December - 23.   

1597  Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" was born on December - 23.