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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

1555  On this day in history death of oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)   

1588  On this day in history 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 this day in history death of konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)   

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

1685  On this day in history sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75   

1694  Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82 on August - 08.   

1700  Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40 on August - 08.   

1705  On August - 08 death of willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded   

1747  Death of Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678) on August - 08.   

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  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 this day in history 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 August - 08.   

1879  Death of Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797) on this day in history.   

1887  Death of Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808) on August - 08.   

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

1897  On August - 08 jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79   

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  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 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  Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies on August - 08.   

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

1518  Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561) was born on August - 08.   

1571  On August - 08 birth of john Ward, composer   

1586  On August - 08 birth of adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen   

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 this day in history.   

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