Aug 3 Joshua Barnes, English scholar (b. 1654) Aug 4 Johann Jacob de Neufville, German composer, dies at 27 Aug 7 Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician composer (Georg Frideric Handel's master), dies at 48 Aug 18 Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier Aug 24 Thomas Bullis, Jr. English organist and composer, dies at 54 (burial date) Aug 26 Sebastian Anton Scherer, German composer, dies at 80 Aug 29 Gregory King, English statistician (law of King), dies at 63 Jul 1712 Famous Deaths by Year Sep 1712 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
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