Famous Deaths Happened In August - 08

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

0869  On this day in history lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies   

1445  On August - 08 death of oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer   

1506  Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86 on this day in history.   

1553  On this day in history death of girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)   

1555  Death of Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494) on August - 08.   

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 this day in history death of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68   

1631  On August - 08 death of konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)   

1684  Death of George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622) on August - 08.   

1685  Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75 on August - 08.   

1694  Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1700  On August - 08 matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40   

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

1747  Death of Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678) on this day in history.   

1759  Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55 on August - 08.   

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  George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 on August - 08.   

1828  Death of Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743) on this day in history.   

1834  Silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80 on August - 08.   

1863  On August - 08 death of angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825)   

1879  Death of Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797) on August - 08.   

1887  On August - 08 death of alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)   

1888  On this day in history friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79   

1897  On this day in history jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79   

1898  Death of Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824) on August - 08.   

1902  On August - 08 jean Y Y Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies   

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

1911  On August - 08 death of william P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)   

1918  Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38 on this day in history.   

1921  On this day in history juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59   

1928  Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies on this day in history.   

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1079  Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107) was born on August - 08.   

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

1571  John Ward, composer was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary (Bantu Dictionary)   

1646  Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723) was born on August - 08.   

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