Famous Deaths Happened In May - 08

0535  John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies on this day in history.   

0685  Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies on May - 08.   

1192  Death of Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163) on May - 08.   

1278  Death of Emperor Duanzong of China (b. 1268) on this day in history.   

1319  Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies on this day in history.   

1473  On May - 08 death of john Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)   

1538  Death of Edward Fox, English bishop on this day in history.   

1577  Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies on this day in history.   

1672  On May - 08 death of jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)   

1684  Henri Dumont, composer, dies on this day in history.   

1725  John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle on this day in history.   

1766  Death of Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693) on this day in history.   

1773  On May - 08 ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies   

1781  On May - 08 death of richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715)   

1785  On May - 08 pietro Longhi, painter, dies   

1788  Death of Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723) on May - 08.   

1794  Death of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined on this day in history.   

1809  On this day in history augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78   

1818  On May - 08 franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78   

1819  Death of Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii on May - 08.   

1829  Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47 on this day in history.   

1837  On May - 08 death of alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770)   

1842  Death of Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790) on May - 08.   

1844  On May - 08 charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies   

1846  On this day in history giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59   

1853  On May - 08 joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch lt col-gen of Jesuits, dies at 67   

1864  On this day in history james Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56   

1873  John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

1876  Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies on this day in history.   

1880  On this day in history death of gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)   

1885  On this day in history pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65   

1887  On May - 08 death of alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar   

1891  On May - 08 helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies   

1894  On May - 08 klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79   

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1326  On May - 08 birth of joanna I of Auvergne, queen of France (d. 1360)   

1460  On May - 08 birth of frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1536)   

1492  On this day in history birth of andreas Alciatus, [Giovanni Andrea-Alciato], Italian lawyer   

1521  On this day in history birth of peter Canisius, [Pieter de Hondt/Kanijs], jesuit/saint   

1527  Johann Walter, composer was born on May - 08.   

1587  Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1637) was born on this day in history.   

1592  On May - 08 birth of francis Quarles, English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems)   

1622  On this day in history birth of claes RÃ¥lamb, Swedish statesman (d. 1698)