Famous Deaths Happened In August - 08

0117  On August - 08 mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies   

0869  On August - 08 lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies   

1445  On this day in history death of oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer   

1506  Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86 on this day in history.   

1553  Death of Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) on August - 08.   

1555  Death of Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494) on this day in history.   

1588  On this day in history death of alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter   

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  On this day in history death of konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)   

1684  On this day in history death of george Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)   

1685  On this day in history sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75   

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

1700  Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40 on August - 08.   

1705  On this day in history death of willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded   

1747  Death of Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678) on this day in history.   

1759  Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1788  Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92 on August - 08.   

1816  On August - 08 blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65   

1827  On this day in history george Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57   

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

1834  Silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1863  On August - 08 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  On August - 08 death of alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)   

1888  On August - 08 friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79   

1897  On August - 08 jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79   

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

1902  Jean Y Y Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies on this day in history.   

1908  Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1921  Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1928  Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies on this day in history.   

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1079  Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107) was born on this day in history.   

1518  Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561) was born on August - 08.   

1571  On this day in history birth of john Ward, composer   

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 August - 08.   

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 this day in history birth of jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar