Aug 6 Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman, dies of a fever at 43 Aug 8 Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist, dies at 84 Aug 9 Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher and critic, dies at 62 Aug 22 Franz Joseph Gall, German-French physician (phrenology), dies at 70 Aug 27 Eise J Eisinga, constructed planetarium at Franeker, dies at 84 Jul 1828 Famous Deaths by Year Sep 1828 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide