Famous Deaths 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  Death of Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer on this day in history.  

1506  On this day in history sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86  

1553  Death of Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) on this day in history.  

1555  Death of Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494) on this day in history.  

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

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 August - 08.  

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 August - 08.  

1705  On August - 08 death of willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded  

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  On this day in history george Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57  

1828  On this day in history death of carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)  

1834  On August - 08 silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80  

1863  Death of Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825) on August - 08.  

1879  On August - 08 death of immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)  

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 this day in history death of eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)  

1902  Jean Y Y Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies on August - 08.  

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

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  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  Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen was born on this day in history.  

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 August - 08.  

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