Famous Deaths In March - 08

0883  On this day in history albumasar, [Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi], Arabic astronomer, dies  

1126  On March - 08 death of urraca of Castile (b. 1082)  

1144  Celestine II, [Guido], Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle on March - 08.  

1202  On March - 08 death of sverre of Norway  

1223  Death of Wincenty KadÅ‚ubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161) on March - 08.  

1403  On this day in history bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42  

1466  On this day in history francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64  

1550  Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint (Brothers of Mercy), dies at 55 on this day in history.  

1638  Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73 on this day in history.  

1640  On March - 08 guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50  

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1641  Death of Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587) on this day in history.  

1661  On this day in history jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58  

1674  Death of Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597) on this day in history.  

1702  On March - 08 death of john de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69  

1709  William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62 on this day in history.  

1716  Harald Vallerius, composer, dies at 69 on March - 08.  

1720  Georg Bronner, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.  

1724  On this day in history enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81  

1728  On March - 08 gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64  

1731  Death of Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688) on March - 08.  

1734  On this day in history carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer, dies at 33  

1754  On March - 08 don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Sp min of Foreign affairs, dies  

1757  Death of Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701) on March - 08.  

1771  Death of Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688) on this day in history.  

1819  On March - 08 death of benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (b. 1739)  

1828  Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.  

1844  On this day in history death of charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)  

1855  Death of William Poole, Infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821) on this day in history.  

1862  Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

1869  Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65 on March - 08.  

1874  Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74 on this day in history.  

1887  On March - 08 pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73  

1889  On this day in history jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85  

1901  On March - 08 karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64  

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1075  On this day in history birth of abu 'l-Kasim Mahmud ibn Omar al-Zamachshari, Arab theologist  

1286  On this day in history birth of john III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)  

1293  On this day in history birth of beatrice of Castile, queen of Portugal (d. 1359)  

1495  Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint/founder (Brothers of Mercy) was born on March - 08.  

1495  John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (d. 1550) was born on this day in history.  

1514  Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562) was born on this day in history.  

1560  On this day in history birth of don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)  

1607  On March - 08 birth of johann Rist, composer