Famous Deaths Happened In August - 08

0117  Mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies on this day in history.   

0869  Lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies on August - 08.   

1445  Death of Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer on this day in history.   

1506  Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86 on August - 08.   

1553  Death of Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478) on this day in history.   

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

1588  Death of Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter on this day in history.   

1604  On August - 08 death of horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)   

1616  Death of Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68 on this day in history.   

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

1684  Death of George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622) on this day in history.   

1685  On August - 08 sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75   

1694  On this day in history antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82   

1700  On this day in history matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40   

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

1747  On this day in history death of madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)   

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

1788  On August - 08 louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92   

1816  On August - 08 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 this day in history.   

1863  On this day in history death of angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825)   

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 August - 08.   

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

1908  On this day in history joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40   

1911  Death of William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830) on August - 08.   

1918  On August - 08 gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright, dies at 38   

1921  Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

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  Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561) was born on August - 08.   

1571  On this day in history birth of john Ward, composer   

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

1605  Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675) was born on August - 08.   

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  On this day in history birth of jacques Basnage, French/Neth historian/vicar