Famous Deaths In August - 08

0117  Mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies on August - 08.   

0869  On August - 08 lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies   

1445  On this day in history death of oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer   

1506  On August - 08 sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86   

1553  On August - 08 death of girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)   

1555  Death of Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494) on this day in history.   

1588  On August - 08 death of alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter   

1604  Death of Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578) on August - 08.   

1616  On August - 08 death of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68   

1631  Death of Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579) on this day in history.   

1684  On this day in history death of george Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)   

1685  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1694  On August - 08 antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82   

1700  Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40 on this day in history.   

1705  On this day in history death of willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded   

1747  On August - 08 death of madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)   

1759  On August - 08 karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55   

1788  On this day in history louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92   

1816  On this day in history blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65   

1827  On this day in history george Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57   

1828  On August - 08 death of carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)   

1834  On August - 08 silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80   

1863  Death of Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825) on August - 08.   

1879  On August - 08 death of immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)   

1887  Death of Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808) on this day in history.   

1888  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1897  Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79 on August - 08.   

1898  On this day in history death of eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)   

1902  On this day in history jean Y Y Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies   

1908  Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40 on this day in history.   

1911  Death of William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830) on this day in history.   

1918  On this day in history gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38   

1921  On August - 08 juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59   

1928  On August - 08 stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies   

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1079  On August - 08 birth of emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)   

1518  On this day in history birth of conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)   

1571  On August - 08 birth of john Ward, composer   

1586  Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen was born on this day in history.   

1605  On this day in history birth of cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)   

1617  Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary (Bantu Dictionary) was born on this day in history.   

1646  On August - 08 birth of godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)   

1653  Jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar was born on this day in history.