Famous Deaths Happened In August - 08
Thursday, 15 May 2025
0117 On this day in history mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies
0869 Lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies on this day in history.
1445 On August - 08 death of oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
1506 On August - 08 sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86
1553 On this day in history death of girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
1555 On this day in history death of oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
1588 Death of Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter on this day in history.
1604 Death of Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578) on August - 08.
1616 Death of Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68 on this day in history.
1631 Death of Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579) on this day in history.
1684 Death of George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622) on August - 08.
1685 On this day in history sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75
1694 Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82 on this day in history.
1700 On this day in history matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40
1705 Death of Willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1788 Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92 on August - 08.
1816 On this day in history blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65
1827 George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 on August - 08.
1828 On August - 08 death of carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
1834 Silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80 on August - 08.
1863 Death of Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825) on August - 08.
1879 On this day in history death of immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
1887 Death of Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808) on this day in history.
1888 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79 on August - 08.
1897 On this day in history jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79
1898 On this day in history death of eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
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 On this day in history death of william P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
1918 On this day in history gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38
1921 On August - 08 juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59
1928 On August - 08 stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies
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