Famous Deaths In May - 08
Tuesday, 26 January 2021
0535 John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies on May - 08.
0685 Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies on May - 08.
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 May - 08.
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 May - 08.
1672 On May - 08 death of jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)
1684 On this day in history henri Dumont, composer, dies
1725 John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle on this day in history.
1766 Death of Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693) on May - 08.
1773 On May - 08 ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies
1781 On this day in history death of richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715)
1785 Pietro Longhi, painter, dies on May - 08.
1788 On this day in history death of giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723)
1794 Death of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined on this day in history.
1809 On this day in history augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78
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 Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47 on this day in history.
1837 On May - 08 death of alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770)
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 this day in history.
1846 On May - 08 giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59
1853 Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch lt col-gen of Jesuits, dies at 67 on this day in history.
1864 James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56 on this day in history.
1873 On this day in history john Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
1876 On this day in history truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies
1880 Death of Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821) on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1891 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies on May - 08.
1894 Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79 on this day in history.
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