Famous Deaths In August - 08

0117  On August - 08 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  Death of Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) on this day in history.  

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

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

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 this day in history.  

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  On August - 08 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 August - 08.  

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

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

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

1828  Death of Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743) on August - 08.  

1834  On this day in history silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80  

1863  On August - 08 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 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 this day in history.  

1898  On this day in history death of eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)  

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 this day in history.  

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1079  Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107) was born on August - 08.  

1518  On August - 08 birth of conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)  

1571  On August - 08 birth of john Ward, composer  

1586  Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen was born on August - 08.  

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

1617  Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary (Bantu Dictionary) was born on this day in history.  

1646  On August - 08 birth of godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)  

1653  On this day in history birth of jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar