Famous Deaths Happened In May - 06

0523  Death of Thrasamunde, king of Vandalen on this day in history.   

0680  Death of Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602) on this day in history.   

0988  On this day in history death of dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland   

1085  On May - 06 king Alfonso VI, of Leon conquered Toledo, dies   

1124  On May - 06 death of balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered   

1475  Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64 on May - 06.   

1502  On May - 06 death of james Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)   

1527  Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37 on May - 06.   

1540  On this day in history jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48   

1596  Death of Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535) on this day in history.   

1620  On May - 06 death of hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist (b. 1543)   

1631  On May - 06 death of robert Bruce Cotton, English politician   

1638  Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies on this day in history.   

1642  On May - 06 frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday   

1666  On this day in history paul Siefert, composer, dies at 79   

1667  On May - 06 johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer, dies at 50   

1678  On May - 06 joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44   

1708  On May - 06 death of françois de Laval, first bishop of New France (b. 1623)   

1727  Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42 on May - 06.   

1739  On May - 06 bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63   

1757  Death of Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705) on this day in history.   

1776  James Kent, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.   

1794  Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer, dies at 59 on May - 06.   

1814  On May - 06 george Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64   

1836  Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer, dies at 78 on May - 06.   

1840  On this day in history death of francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader (b. 1792)   

1841  On this day in history john Thomson, composer, dies at 35   

1852  Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer, dies at 75 on May - 06.   

1856  William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies on this day in history.   

1859  On May - 06 friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies   

1862  On May - 06 henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44   

1864  On May - 06 henry Livermore Abbott, US Union brig-general, dies in battle   

1877  On May - 06 death of johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)   

1882  On this day in history death of frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin   

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1397  Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (d. 1450) was born on May - 06.   

1501  On this day in history birth of marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)   

1581  Frans Francken, the Younger, painter was born on May - 06.   

1606  Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter was born on this day in history.   

1638  On this day in history birth of henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696)   

1713  Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780) was born on this day in history.   

1758  On May - 06 birth of maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)   

1759  Francois GJS Andrieux, French writer/politician was born on this day in history.