Famous Deaths In August - 08

0117  Mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies on this day in history.  

0869  Lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies on August - 08.  

1445  On August - 08 death of oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer  

1506  Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86 on August - 08.  

1553  On August - 08 death of girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)  

1555  Death of Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494) on August - 08.  

1588  Death of Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter on this day in history.  

1604  On this day in history death of horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)  

1616  Death of Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68 on August - 08.  

1631  Death of Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579) on this day in history.  

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1684  Death of George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622) on this day in history.  

1685  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75 on August - 08.  

1694  On August - 08 antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82  

1700  On August - 08 matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40  

1705  On August - 08 death of willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded  

1747  On this day in history death of madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)  

1759  Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55 on August - 08.  

1788  On this day in history louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92  

1816  Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.  

1827  George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 on August - 08.  

1828  On this day in history death of carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)  

1834  Silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80 on August - 08.  

1863  On this day in history death of angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825)  

1879  On August - 08 death of immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)  

1887  Death of Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808) on August - 08.  

1888  On this day in history friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79  

1897  Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79 on August - 08.  

1898  Death of Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824) on August - 08.  

1902  On August - 08 jean Y Y Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies  

1908  On this day in history joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40  

1911  Death of William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830) on August - 08.  

1918  Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38 on August - 08.  

1921  On August - 08 juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59  

1928  Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies on August - 08.  

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1079  On August - 08 birth of emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)  

1518  Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561) was born on this day in history.  

1571  John Ward, composer was born on August - 08.  

1586  Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen was born on this day in history.  

1605  Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675) was born on this day in history.  

1617  On this day in history birth of adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary (Bantu Dictionary)  

1646  Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723) was born on August - 08.  

1653  On August - 08 birth of jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar