Famous Deaths In August - 07

0461  Death of Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420) on August - 07.  

0479  Death of Emperor YÅ«ryaku of Japan on this day in history.  

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

1106  Henry IV, Roman German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies at 54 on August - 07.  

1485  Death of Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince on August - 07.  

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

1609  Eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60 on August - 07.  

1613  Death of Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544) on August - 07.  

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 this day in history 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  On this day in history death of jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)  

1712  Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer, dies at 48 on August - 07.  

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

1798  On this day in history johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65  

1799  John Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58 on August - 07.  

1816  On this day in history dionysius G van der Keessel, Dut lawyer (Theses selectae), dies at 77  

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  Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer, dies at 76 on August - 07.  

1848  On this day in history death of jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)  

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 this day in history.  

1867  Ira F Aldridge, US actor (Othello/Shylock), dies in Lodes Poland at 63 on this day in history.  

1885  On August - 07 antony EJ Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83), dies at 46  

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

1912  On this day in history death of françois-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)  

1913  David Popper, composer, dies at 70 on August - 07.  

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

1916  On this day in history charles E Manning, Australian judge/major, dies in battle at 36  

1917  Death of Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891) on this day in history.  

1921  Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), dies at 40 on this day in history.  

1923  Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (H Pierson Foundation), dies at 89 on this day in history.  

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1282  Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316) was born on this day in history.  

1533  On August - 07 birth of alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet (d. 1595)  

1560  On August - 07 birth of elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian countess and serial killer (d. 1614)  

1574  On August - 07 birth of robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649)  

1598  On August - 07 birth of georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules)  

1726  On this day in history birth of james Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790)  

1742  On this day in history birth of nathanael Greene, American Revoluntionary War General  

1746  On this day in history birth of daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian