Famous Deaths Happened In January - 08
Thursday, 18 September 2025
0482 On January - 08 severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies
0624 Abu Sufjan ibn Harb, Kurashite chief, dies in battle on this day in history.
1100 On this day in history death of antipope Clement III (bc. 1029)
1107 Death of Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074) on January - 08.
1198 On January - 08 coelestinus III, [Giacinto Bobo], pope (1191-98), dies
1324 Marco Polo, Venetian explorer/gov of Nanking, dies on January - 08.
1336 Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71 on this day in history.
1455 On this day in history laurentius Justitianus, [Lorenzo Giustiniani], saint, dies at 73
1456 Death of St Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (b. 1381) on this day in history.
1464 Death of Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385) on this day in history.
1557 On January - 08 death of albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
1567 On this day in history jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37
1570 Death of Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510) on this day in history.
1598 Johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91), dies at 72 on this day in history.
1642 Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy on this day in history.
1651 On this day in history giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer, dies at 56
1696 On January - 08 michael de Ronghe, composer, dies at 75
1707 On this day in history death of john Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
1711 On this day in history philips van Almonde, Zealand lt admiral, dies at 66
1713 Arcangelo Corelli, composer/violinist (Concerti Grossi), dies at 59 on this day in history.
1775 John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68 on January - 08.
1789 On this day in history death of jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703)
1790 On January - 08 john Stinstra, Dutch baptist vicar, dies at 81
1794 Death of Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720) on January - 08.
1796 On January - 08 jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Fren Nat Convention chairman, dies at 46
1808 On this day in history messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies
1811 Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies on this day in history.
1815 On this day in history edward Pakenham, Engl general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle
1819 On this day in history christian Gottlob Saupe, composer, dies at 55
1825 On January - 08 death of eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
1831 Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer, dies at 71 on January - 08.
1842 Pierre, earl the Cambronne, Fren general (Waterloo, Elba), dies at 71 on January - 08.
1854 Death of William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768) on this day in history.
1858 On this day in history friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer, dies at 48