Famous Deaths In August - 14

0582  On August - 14 death of tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor  

1167  On August - 14 raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies  

1204  On this day in history death of minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)  

1390  Death of John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364) on August - 14.  

1433  Johan I, king of Portugal (1383-1433), dies at 76 on this day in history.  

1573  Death of Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548) on this day in history.  

1587  Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer, dies at 49 on this day in history.  

1652  On this day in history abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60  

1691  Death of Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630) on this day in history.  

1704  On August - 14 death of roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)  

1727  On August - 14 william Croft, composer, dies at 48  

1763  Giovanni Battista Somis, composer, dies at 76 on August - 14.  

1774  Death of Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716) on August - 14.  

1778  On August - 14 augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies  

1784  Death of Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718) on this day in history.  

1785  John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies on August - 14.  

1788  On August - 14 thomas Sheridan, actor/biographer/lexicographer (Intelligencer), dies  

1794  On August - 14 george Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies  

1833  On this day in history luigi Cagnola, architect, dies  

1834  On August - 14 friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer, dies at 63  

1844  Henry Francis Cary, translator (Dante), dies on August - 14.  

1856  William Buckland, dean (Westminister)/geologist, dies on August - 14.  

1858  On August - 14 george Combe, phrenologist, dies  

1860  Death of André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774) on August - 14.  

1863  Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70 on August - 14.  

1867  Niccola Benvenuti, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.  

1870  On August - 14 david [James] Glasgow Farragut, admiral, dies  

1874  On August - 14 death of jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)  

1884  On August - 14 arnoldus Pannevis, South African shipping agent/linguist, dies at 46  

1887  On August - 14 richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies  

1891  On this day in history johnny Mullagh, cricketer (Aboriginal tourist 1868), dies  

1905  Mohammed Abdoe, Egyptian writing expert (Al'Oerwah al-Woethka), dies on August - 14.  

1922  On August - 14 alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies  

1923  On August - 14 jacob T Cremer, pres (Dutch Handel-Mij), dies at 76  

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1297  On August - 14 birth of emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348)  

1473  On August - 14 birth of margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (d. 1541)  

1479  Princess Catherine of York (d. 1527) was born on this day in history.  

1552  On this day in history birth of fra Paolo Sarpi, [Paulus Venetus], expert/philosopher  

1575  Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629) was born on this day in history.  

1586  On August - 14 birth of william Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist (d. 1642)  

1599  On this day in history birth of méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (d. 1671)  

1625  On this day in history birth of françois de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695)