Famous Deaths In August - 15

0069  On this day in history death of servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered  

0423  On August - 15 flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies  

0778  On this day in history death of roland, Frankish commander  

1038  On August - 15 stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies  

1040  Death of King Duncan I of Scotland on August - 15.  

1057  Death of Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan on August - 15.  

1118  Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies on this day in history.  

1196  Death of Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1173) on August - 15.  

1274  Death of Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (b. 1201) on this day in history.  

1369  On this day in history death of philippa of Hainault, Queen consort of Edward III of England  

1464  On this day in history pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58  

1528  On August - 15 death of odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, French military leader (b. 1485)  

1552  Death of Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477) on this day in history.  

1576  Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies on this day in history.  

1600  On August - 15 johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60  

1615  Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies on August - 15.  

1619  On August - 15 miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies  

1621  Death of John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582) on this day in history.  

1666  Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies on August - 15.  

1714  Death of Constantin Brâncoveanu, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1654) on August - 15.  

1725  On August - 15 gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77  

1728  Marin Marias, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1729  On August - 15 benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64  

1758  On August - 15 pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60  

1798  On this day in history felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50  

1799  Death of Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet (b. 1729) on August - 15.  

1807  Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 on August - 15.  

1848  On August - 15 timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88  

1852  Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92 on this day in history.  

1853  Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1864  Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies on this day in history.  

1880  On August - 15 death of adelaide Neilson, English Actress (b. 1848)  

1901  On this day in history karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77  

1907  Joseph Joachim, German violinist/composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.  

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1171  King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230) was born on August - 15.  

1195  On this day in history birth of anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)  

1432  On August - 15 birth of luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante)  

1575  On this day in history birth of bartol Kašić, Croatian writer and linguist (d. 1650)  

1613  Gilles Ménage, French scholar (d. 1692) was born on August - 15.  

1619  On this day in history birth of hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate  

1688  On August - 15 birth of frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)  

1702  On this day in history birth of francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher