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

1506  On this day in history sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86  

1553  Death of Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) on this day in history.  

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

1588  Death of Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter on August - 08.  

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 August - 08.  

1631  On this day in history death of konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)  

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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 this day in history.  

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  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  On this day in history karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55  

1788  Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92 on this day in history.  

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

1827  On August - 08 george Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57  

1828  Death of Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743) on this day in history.  

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

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

1879  Death of Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797) on August - 08.  

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  Death of Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824) on this day in history.  

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

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

1911  On August - 08 death of william P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)  

1918  On August - 08 gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38  

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  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1586  On this day in history birth of adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen  

1605  On this day in history birth of cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)  

1617  On August - 08 birth of adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary (Bantu Dictionary)  

1646  Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.  

1653  Jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar was born on August - 08.