Famous Deaths In August - 08

0117  Mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies on August - 08.  

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  Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86 on August - 08.  

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

1616  Death of Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68 on August - 08.  

1631  Death of Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579) on August - 08.  

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

1700  Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40 on this day in history.  

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 August - 08 karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55  

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

1816  Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65 on August - 08.  

1827  On this day in history 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 August - 08.  

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 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 this day in history.  

1897  On this day in history jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79  

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

1902  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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 this day in history stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies  

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

1518  On this day in history birth of conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)  

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  Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675) was born on August - 08.  

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