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 Aug 26 Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer, dies at 71 Aug 30 Alexander P. Stewart, American Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), dies at 86 Jul 1908 Famous Deaths by Year Sep 1908 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide