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 August - 08 death of oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer   

1506  Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86 on August - 08.   

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  Death of Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter on this day in history.   

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  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  On this day in history antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82   

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 August - 08 death of madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)   

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  On August - 08 death of carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)   

1834  On August - 08 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 this day in history.   

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 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 August - 08 joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40   

1911  On August - 08 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 this day in history 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 August - 08 birth of emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)   

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 August - 08.   

1586  On August - 08 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  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 August - 08.   

1653  Jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar was born on this day in history.