Famous Deaths Happened In August - 04

1060  On this day in history henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52   

1113  On August - 04 death of gertrude of Saxony (b. 1030)   

1204  On August - 04 death of boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered   

1265  On this day in history simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle   

1306  Death of Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289) on August - 04.   

1338  On this day in history death of thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)   

1430  On August - 04 philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26   

1476  On August - 04 death of jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded   

1526  Juan Sebastian Cano, Spanish explorer, dies on August - 04.   

1566  Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies on this day in history.   

1578  On August - 04 2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle   

1584  John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71 on August - 04.   

1598  William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77 on August - 04.   

1612  On August - 04 death of hugh Broughton, English scholar (b. 1549)   

1633  George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1639  On this day in history juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58   

1666  Death of Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle on August - 04.   

1708  On this day in history vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77   

1712  On August - 04 johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27   

1718  Death of René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France (b. 1656) on this day in history.   

1727  Death of Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647) on this day in history.   

1741  On this day in history death of andrew Hamilton, American lawyer   

1778  Death of Pierre de Rigaud, French colonial governor in North America (b. 1698) on August - 04.   

1795  Death of Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (b. 1711) on this day in history.   

1821  William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86 on this day in history.   

1844  On August - 04 death of jakob Aall, Norwegian journalist and statesman (b. 1773)   

1850  Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.   

1856  On this day in history johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59   

1859  On August - 04 death of jean Vianney, French parish priest (b. 1786)   

1873  On this day in history death of viktor Hartmann, Russian painter (b. 1834)   

1875  Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70 on August - 04.   

1889  Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75 on August - 04.   

1891  On August - 04 george Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41   

1900  Death of Isaac Levitan, Russian painter (b. 1860) on this day in history.   

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1222  Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262) was born on August - 04.   

1290  On this day in history birth of duke Leopold I of Austria (d. 1326)   

1502  On this day in history birth of pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter/carpet designer   

1521  On this day in history birth of pope Urban VII (d. 1590)   

1604  On this day in history birth of françois Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French writer (d. 1676)   

1664  On this day in history birth of louis Lully, composer   

1687  On August - 04 birth of johan Willem Friso, prince of Orange/monarch of Nassau-Dietz [OS]   

1701  Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757) was born on this day in history.