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 August - 08 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  Death of Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) on August - 08.  

1555  On this day in history death of oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)  

1588  On this day in history death of alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter  

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 August - 08.  

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 August - 08.  

1685  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75 on August - 08.  

1694  Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82 on this day in history.  

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

1759  Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55 on August - 08.  

1788  On August - 08 louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92  

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 this day in history.  

1828  On August - 08 death of carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)  

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

1863  On August - 08 death of angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825)  

1879  On this day in history death of immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)  

1887  On this day in history death of alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)  

1888  On August - 08 friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79  

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

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  On this day in history 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 August - 08.  

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  Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561) was born on this day in history.  

1571  On this day in history birth of john Ward, composer  

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

1605  Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675) was born on this day in history.  

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