Famous Deaths In August - 07

0461  Death of Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420) on this day in history.  

0479  On August - 07 death of emperor Yūryaku of Japan  

1033  Death of Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine on August - 07.  

1106  On this day in history henry IV, Roman German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies at 54  

1485  On this day in history death of alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince  

1547  Cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies on this day in history.  

1609  On August - 07 eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60  

1613  On August - 07 death of thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)  

1616  Vincenzo Scamozzi, Ital architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies on this day in history.  

1635  Death of Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591) on this day in history.  

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1639  On August - 07 death of martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)  

1657  On this day in history robert Blake, English admiral (Dover, Dungeness), dies at about 57  

1661  Death of Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608) on August - 07.  

1712  On this day in history friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer, dies at 48  

1786  Friedrich Schwindl, composer, dies at 49 on August - 07.  

1798  Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65 on August - 07.  

1799  On August - 07 john Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58  

1816  Dionysius G van der Keessel, Dut lawyer (Theses selectae), dies at 77 on August - 07.  

1817  Death of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739) on August - 07.  

1834  Death of Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752) on this day in history.  

1846  On August - 07 johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer, dies at 76  

1848  Death of Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779) on this day in history.  

1855  Death of Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802) on August - 07.  

1864  Death of Li Xiucheng, late Taiping‘s Field Marshal and soul person.(b. 1823) on August - 07.  

1867  On August - 07 ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63  

1885  On this day in history antony EJ Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83), dies at 46  

1893  Alfredo Catalani, composer, dies at 39 on August - 07.  

1912  Death of François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841) on this day in history.  

1913  David Popper, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.  

1914  B B (Bransby) Cooper, cricketer (Test for Australia), dies on this day in history.  

1916  On August - 07 charles E Manning, Australian judge/major, dies in battle at 36  

1917  On August - 07 death of squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)  

1921  On this day in history alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), dies at 40  

1923  Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (H Pierson Foundation), dies at 89 on August - 07.  

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1282  Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316) was born on August - 07.  

1533  Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595) was born on this day in history.  

1560  Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614) was born on this day in history.  

1574  Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649) was born on August - 07.  

1598  Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules) was born on August - 07.  

1726  James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790) was born on this day in history.  

1742  On August - 07 birth of nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General  

1746  On August - 07 birth of daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian