Aug 8 Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies 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 Henri Becquerel Aug 25 Henri Becquerel, French physicist who discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), dies at 55 Physicist and Nobel Laureate Henri Becquerel Aug 25 Eyre Massey Shaw, British first chief of London Fire Brigade, dies at 78 Aug 26 Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer, dies at 71 Aug 30 Alexander P. Stewart, American Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), dies at 86 1907 Famous Deaths by Year 1909
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