Famous Deaths In December - 24

0427  On December - 24 death of archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople   

1069  Godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies on December - 24.   

1257  On December - 24 death of john I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218)   

1380  John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies on this day in history.   

1453  On December - 24 john Dunstable, English composer, dies   

1524  On this day in history vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55   

1541  On this day in history andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61   

1548  Maximilian of Egmond, Dutch count/stadholder of Frisia, dies on this day in history.   

1660  Mary I Henriette Stuart, queen of England, dies at 29 on December - 24.   

1707  On this day in history noel Coypel, French painter, dies at 78   

1813  Death of Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740) on December - 24.   

1823  Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1862  Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1863  W M Thackeray, writer, dies at 52 on this day in history.   

1865  On December - 24 death of sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793)   

1868  On December - 24 death of adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)   

1869  Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, US Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55 on December - 24.   

1872  On December - 24 death of william John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820)   

1873  Death of Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (b. 1795) on this day in history.   

1885  Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85 on this day in history.   

1889  Death of Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819) on this day in history.   

1898  Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer, dies at 41 on this day in history.   

1904  On December - 24 juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor, dies at 55   

1907  Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies on December - 24.   

1908  On December - 24 francois-Auguste Gevaert, Belgian musicologist/composer, dies at 80   

1909  Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80 on December - 24.   

1914  Death of John Muir, British naturalist (b. 1838) on this day in history.   

1930  Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1932  On this day in history eyvind Alnaes, composer, dies at 60   

1935  Alban Maria Johannes Berg, composer, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

1938  Death of Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880) on this day in history.   

1941  Death of Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858) on this day in history.   

1942  On December - 24 friedrich Klose, composer, dies at 80   

1944  Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66 on December - 24.   

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0003  Galba, Roman Emperor (d. 69) was born on December - 24.   

1167  On this day in history birth of john "without a land", king of England (1199-1216)   

1389  On December - 24 birth of john VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)   

1475  On this day in history birth of thomas Murner, German writer (d.c. 1537)   

1491  On December - 24 birth of ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1556)   

1508  Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567) was born on December - 24.   

1564  Abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver was born on December - 24.   

1588  Constance of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1631) was born on this day in history.