TDIH - February 6 This Day in (Medieval) History: February 6 743 – Death of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, leader of Umayyad Caliphate. 797 – Death of Donnchad mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland. 891 – Death of Saint Photios I of Constantinople (Photius the Great), ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople from 858 - 867 and 877 - 886. 1140 – Death of Turstin of Bayeux, Archbishop of York. 1155 – Death of King Sigurd II of Norway. 1378 – Death of Joanna of Bourbon, wife of King Charles V of France. 1402 – Birth of Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse. 1411 – Death of Esau de' Buondelmonti, Byzantine Despot (an official title) of Ioannina in Greece. 1452 – Birth of Saint Joanna of Portugal, daughter of King Afonso V of Portugal. 1453 – Birth of Girolamo Benivieni, poet from Florence, Italy. 1465 – Birth of Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician. 1497 – Death of Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer. 1515 – Death of Aldus Pius Manutius, who invented a form of printing for the Greek alphabet and printed many Greek texts as well as inventing a small, compact book form which made personal reading easier.