Famous Deaths In August - 08

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

0869  On this day in history 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  On this day in history death of girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)   

1555  On August - 08 death of oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)   

1588  On August - 08 death of alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter   

1604  On August - 08 death of horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)   

1616  On August - 08 death of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68   

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  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1694  Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82 on August - 08.   

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  Death of Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678) on August - 08.   

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 this day in history.   

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  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  Death of Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825) on this day in history.   

1879  Death of Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797) on this day in history.   

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

1888  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79 on August - 08.   

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

1898  On August - 08 death of eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)   

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

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

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  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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1079  On this day in history birth of emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)   

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

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

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