Famous Deaths Happened In December - 23

0558  On December - 23 childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62   

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  Death of Conrad of Franconia on this day in history.   

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

1116  On December - 23 ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies   

1230  On December - 23 death of berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard I of England   

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

1502  Margaretha, English princess of Burgundy, dies at 57 on December - 23.   

1556  Death of Nicholas Udall, English playwright (b. 1504) on this day in history.   

1568  On December - 23 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  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  Death of Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563) on this day in history.   

1646  On December - 23 death of françois Maynard, French poet (b. 1582)   

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

1675  Death of Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat (b. 1602) on December - 23.   

1688  On December - 23 jean-Louis Lully, composer, dies at 21   

1696  Johann David Mayer, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1722  Death of Pierre Varignon, French mathematician (b. 1654) on December - 23.   

1761  Death of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, Scottish Jacobite spy on this day in history.   

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 December - 23.   

1793  Death of Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) on December - 23.   

1795  On this day in history death of henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)   

1805  On this day in history death of pehr Osbeck, Swedish explorer and naturalist (b. 1723)   

1812  Michel Delalande, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1834  Death of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766) on this day in history.   

1846  Death of Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, French naturalist (b. 1780) on December - 23.   

1891  On December - 23 holger Simon Paulli, composer, dies at 81   

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

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1173  Louis I, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1231) was born on December - 23.   

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 December - 23.   

1544  Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71) was born on December - 23.   

1548  On this day in history birth of pieter C Bockenberg, historian (Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae)   

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"