Famous Deaths In August - 07

0461  On August - 07 death of majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)  

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

1033  On August - 07 death of frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine  

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

1485  On August - 07 death of alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince  

1547  On this day in history cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies  

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

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 August - 07.  

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

1657  Robert Blake, English admiral (Dover, Dungeness), dies at about 57 on this day in history.  

1661  On this day in history death of jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)  

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

1786  On this day in history friedrich Schwindl, composer, dies at 49  

1798  On August - 07 johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65  

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

1816  Dionysius G van der Keessel, Dut lawyer (Theses selectae), dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1817  On this day in history death of pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)  

1834  Death of Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752) on August - 07.  

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 this day in history.  

1864  Death of Li Xiucheng, late Taiping‘s Field Marshal and soul person.(b. 1823) on this day in history.  

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

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

1893  On this day in history alfredo Catalani, composer, dies at 39  

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

1913  On this day in history david Popper, composer, dies at 70  

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

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

1917  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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1282  On this day in history birth of princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)  

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  Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649) was born on this day in history.  

1598  Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules) was born on this day in history.  

1726  James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (d. 1790) was born on August - 07.  

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

1746  Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian was born on this day in history.