Famous Deaths In August - 04

1060  Henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52 on August - 04.  

1113  On this day in history death of gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)  

1204  Death of Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered on August - 04.  

1265  On this day in history simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle  

1306  Death of Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289) on this day in history.  

1338  Death of Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300) on this day in history.  

1430  Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26 on August - 04.  

1476  Death of Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded on August - 04.  

1526  On August - 04 juan Sebastian Cano, Spanish explorer, dies  

1566  Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies on August - 04.  

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1578  2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle on this day in history.  

1584  On August - 04 john van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71  

1598  On August - 04 william Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77  

1612  Death of Hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549) on August - 04.  

1633  George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60 on August - 04.  

1639  Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58 on this day in history.  

1666  On this day in history death of johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle  

1708  Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1712  On this day in history johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27  

1718  Death of René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656) on August - 04.  

1727  On August - 04 death of victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)  

1741  Death of Andrew Hamilton, American lawyer on August - 04.  

1778  On August - 04 death of pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698)  

1795  Death of Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711) on this day in history.  

1821  William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86 on this day in history.  

1844  On August - 04 death of jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)  

1850  On August - 04 frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68  

1856  On August - 04 johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59  

1859  Death of Jean Vianney, French parish priest (b. 1786) on this day in history.  

1873  On August - 04 death of viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)  

1875  Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1889  Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1891  George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41 on this day in history.  

1900  Death of Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860) on August - 04.  

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1222  On this day in history birth of richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)  

1290  On August - 04 birth of duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)  

1502  On this day in history birth of pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer  

1521  Pope Urban VII (d. 1590) was born on this day in history.  

1604  On this day in history birth of françois Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)  

1664  On August - 04 birth of louis Lully, composer  

1687  On this day in history birth of johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS]  

1701  On August - 04 birth of thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757)