Famous Deaths Happened In August - 08
Sunday, 16 February 2025
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 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 On August - 08 death of oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
1588 On this day in history death of alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter
1604 On this day in history death of horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
1616 On August - 08 death of cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter/poet, buried at 68
1631 Death of Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579) on this day in history.
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 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 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 August - 08.
1879 On this day in history death of immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
1887 On August - 08 death of alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
1888 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.
1897 Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79 on August - 08.
1898 On August - 08 death of eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
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 Juhani Aho, Fins journalist/writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59 on this day in history.
1928 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies on August - 08.
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