Famous Deaths In August - 08

0117  On August - 08 mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies   

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

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 this day in history death of alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter   

1604  Death of Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578) on this day in history.   

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

1631  On this day in history death of konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)   

1684  On August - 08 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  On this day in history matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40   

1705  On August - 08 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  Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92 on this day in history.   

1816  Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80   

1863  Death of Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825) on this day in history.   

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

1887  On this day in history death of alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)   

1888  Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79 on August - 08.   

1897  Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79 on this day in history.   

1898  On August - 08 death of eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)   

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

1908  On August - 08 joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40   

1911  On this day in history death of william P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)   

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 this day in history 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  John Ward, composer was born on August - 08.   

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

1605  On August - 08 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.