Famous Deaths Happened In August - 08

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

0869  On August - 08 lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies   

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

1506  On this day in history sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86   

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

1555  On August - 08 death of oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)   

1588  Death of Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter on August - 08.   

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

1616  Death of Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68 on August - 08.   

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

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

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

1759  Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

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

1828  Death of Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743) on August - 08.   

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  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 this day in history.   

1888  On August - 08 friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79   

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

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

1902  Jean Y Y Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies on August - 08.   

1908  Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40 on August - 08.   

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  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 August - 08 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  Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary (Bantu Dictionary) was born on this day in history.   

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