Historical Events
Event of Interest
Aug 1 Assassination of French King Henry III by friar Jacques Clément
Famous Birthdays
- Aug 10 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, Italian composer (Missa defunctorum), and percussionist, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy (d. 1635)
Famous Deaths
- Aug 1 Jacques Clément, French assassin of Henry III of France (b. 1567)
Henry III of France (1551-1589)
Aug 2 King of France (1574-89) and Poland (1573-75), assassinated by Dominican friar Jacques Clément at 37
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