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Famous People Who Died in August 1876

Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876)

Aug 2 American cowboy and scout, shot dead from behind at 39 by Jack McCall while playing poker (he held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's)

  • Aug 10 Edward William Lane, British lexicographer and translator (One Thousand & One Nights), dies at 74
  • Aug 19 George Smith, English archaeologist and assyriologist (cuneiform script), dies of fever at 36
  • Aug 21 Harry T. Hays, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 56