Famous Deaths Happened 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 August - 08.   

1445  On this day in history death of oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer   

1506  On August - 08 sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86   

1553  On August - 08 death of girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)   

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

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

1604  Death of Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578) on August - 08.   

1616  On this day in history death of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68   

1631  On August - 08 death of konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)   

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  On August - 08 antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82   

1700  On August - 08 matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40   

1705  Death of Willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded on August - 08.   

1747  On August - 08 death of madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)   

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  On this day in history blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65   

1827  On August - 08 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  On this day in history silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80   

1863  On this day in history 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 August - 08 death of alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)   

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  Death of Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824) on this day in history.   

1902  Jean Y Y Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies on this day in history.   

1908  Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40 on August - 08.   

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 this day in history 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  Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561) was born on August - 08.   

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  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  Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723) was born on August - 08.   

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