Famous Deaths In May - 08
Friday, 19 August 2022
0535 John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies on this day in history.
0685 On this day in history benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies
1192 Death of Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163) on this day in history.
1278 On this day in history death of emperor Duanzong of China (b. 1268)
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 this day in history.
1538 Death of Edward Fox, English bishop on this day in history.
1577 On this day in history viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies
1672 Death of Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598) on this day in history.
1684 Henri Dumont, composer, dies on this day in history.
1725 John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle on May - 08.
1766 On this day in history death of samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693)
1773 On May - 08 ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies
1781 Death of Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715) on this day in history.
1785 On May - 08 pietro Longhi, painter, dies
1788 Death of Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723) on May - 08.
1794 On May - 08 death of antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined
1809 Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78 on this day in history.
1818 On May - 08 franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78
1819 Death of Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii on this day in history.
1829 On this day in history mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47
1837 Death of Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770) on this day in history.
1842 On this day in history death of jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790)
1844 Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies on May - 08.
1846 On this day in history giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59
1853 Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch lt col-gen of Jesuits, dies at 67 on May - 08.
1864 On May - 08 james Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56
1873 On this day in history john Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
1876 Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies on this day in history.
1880 On this day in history death of gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
1885 Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.
1887 Death of Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar on May - 08.
1891 On this day in history helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
1894 Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79 on this day in history.
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