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Famous People Who Died in August 1908

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  • Aug 8 Joseph Maria Olbrich, Austrian architect (Vienna Secession movement), dies of leukemia at 40
  • Aug 11 Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)
  • Aug 13 Ira D. Sankey, American evangelist, singer, composer and publisher (Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs), dies at 67
  • Aug 20 Louis Varney, French composer, dies at 64
  • Aug 25 Eyre Massey Shaw, British first chief of London Fire Brigade, dies at 78

Henri Becquerel (1852-1908)

Aug 25 French physicist who discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), dies at 55

Henri Becquerel
  • Aug 26 Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer, dies at 71
  • Aug 30 Alexander P. Stewart, American Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), dies at 86


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