Famous Deaths In January - 08
Wednesday, 08 February 2023
0482 Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies on this day in history.
0624 Abu Sufjan ibn Harb, Kurashite chief, dies in battle on January - 08.
1100 Death of Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029) on January - 08.
1107 Death of Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074) on this day in history.
1198 Coelestinus III, [Giacinto Bobo], pope (1191-98), dies on this day in history.
1324 On January - 08 marco Polo, Venetian explorer/gov of Nanking, dies
1336 Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71 on this day in history.
1455 Laurentius Justitianus, [Lorenzo Giustiniani], saint, dies at 73 on January - 08.
1456 Death of St Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (b. 1381) on this day in history.
1464 On this day in history death of thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
1557 Death of Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522) on January - 08.
1567 On this day in history jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37
1570 On January - 08 death of philibert de l'Orme, French architect (bc. 1510)
1598 On this day in history johan Georg, elector of Brandenburg (1571-91), dies at 72
1642 Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy on January - 08.
1651 Giovanni Battista Gagliano, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.
1696 Michael de Ronghe, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.
1707 On January - 08 death of john Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
1711 On January - 08 philips van Almonde, Zealand lt admiral, dies at 66
1713 On this day in history arcangelo Corelli, composer/violinist (Concerti Grossi), dies at 59
1775 John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68 on January - 08.
1789 Death of Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703) on this day in history.
1790 John Stinstra, Dutch baptist vicar, dies at 81 on this day in history.
1794 On January - 08 death of justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
1796 Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, Fren Nat Convention chairman, dies at 46 on January - 08.
1808 Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies on January - 08.
1811 Friedrich Nicolai, writer, dies on this day in history.
1815 Edward Pakenham, Engl general (Battle of New Orleans), dies in battle on January - 08.
1819 Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.
1825 Death of Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765) on this day in history.
1831 Franz Vinzenz Krommer, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1842 On January - 08 pierre, earl the Cambronne, Fren general (Waterloo, Elba), dies at 71
1854 Death of William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768) on this day in history.
1858 Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt, composer, dies at 48 on this day in history.
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