Famous Deaths Happened In May - 08

0535  John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies on May - 08.   

0685  Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies on May - 08.   

1192  On May - 08 death of duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163)   

1278  Death of Emperor Duanzong of China (b. 1268) on this day in history.   

1319  Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies on this day in history.   

1473  Death of John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420) on May - 08.   

1538  On May - 08 death of edward Fox, English bishop   

1577  Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies on this day in history.   

1672  On this day in history death of jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)   

1684  Henri Dumont, composer, dies on this day in history.   

1725  John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle on this day in history.   

1766  On May - 08 death of samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693)   

1773  On May - 08 ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies   

1781  On May - 08 death of richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715)   

1785  On May - 08 pietro Longhi, painter, dies   

1788  Death of Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723) on this day in history.   

1794  On this day in history death of antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined   

1809  Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78 on May - 08.   

1818  Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78 on May - 08.   

1819  Death of Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii on this day in history.   

1829  Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47 on this day in history.   

1837  Death of Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770) on this day in history.   

1842  Death of Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790) on this day in history.   

1844  On May - 08 charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies   

1846  Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59 on May - 08.   

1853  On this day in history joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch lt col-gen of Jesuits, dies at 67   

1864  On May - 08 james Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56   

1873  On May - 08 john Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66   

1876  Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies on this day in history.   

1880  Death of Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821) on May - 08.   

1885  On this day in history pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65   

1887  Death of Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar on this day in history.   

1891  Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies on this day in history.   

1894  Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79 on this day in history.   

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1326  On this day in history birth of joanna I of Auvergne, queen of France (d. 1360)   

1460  On May - 08 birth of frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536)   

1492  On this day in history birth of andreas Alciatus, [Giovanni Andrea-Alciato], Italian lawyer   

1521  On May - 08 birth of peter Canisius, [Pieter de Hondt/Kanijs], jesuit/saint   

1527  On May - 08 birth of johann Walter, composer   

1587  On this day in history birth of victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637)   

1592  Francis Quarles, English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems) was born on May - 08.   

1622  On this day in history birth of claes RÃ¥lamb, Swedish statesman (d. 1698)