Famous Deaths Happened In August - 08

0117  On August - 08 mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies   

0869  On August - 08 lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies   

1445  On August - 08 death of oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer   

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

1553  On August - 08 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 August - 08.   

1604  Death of Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578) on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history death of george Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)   

1685  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1694  On August - 08 antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82   

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

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  On this day in history 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  On this day in history 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 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 August - 08 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  Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79 on August - 08.   

1898  On this day in history death of eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)   

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

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 August - 08.   

1918  On August - 08 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 this day in history birth of emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)   

1518  On August - 08 birth of conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)   

1571  John Ward, composer was born on this day in history.   

1586  Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen was born on this day in history.   

1605  On August - 08 birth of cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)   

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 this day in history.   

1653  Jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar was born on August - 08.