August 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 869 – Lothair II, Italian son of Lothair I (b. 825)
• 1445 – Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer (b. 1377)
• 1553 – Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
• 1555 – Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)
• 1588 – Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter (b. 1532)
• 1604 – Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
• 1631 – Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
• 1684 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)
• 1719 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)
• 1747 – Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian raid leader (b. 1678)
• 1759 – Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
• 1827 – George Canning, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
• 1828 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
• 1863 – Angus MacAskill, Scottish giant (b. 1825)
• 1879 – Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
• 1887 – Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
• 1897 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian (b. 1818)
• 1898 – Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
• 1902 – James Tissot, French painter (b. 1836)
• 1909 – Mary MacKillop, Australian nun, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (b. 1842)
• 1911 – William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
• 1921 – Juhani Aho, Finnish author and journalist (b. 1861)
• 1928 – Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
• 1930 – Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter (b. 1874)
• 1934 – Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1863)
• 1940 – Johnny Dodds, American clarinetist and saxophonist (b. 1892)
• 1944 – Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
• 1944 – Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1944 – Michael Wittmann, German commander (b. 1914)
• 1947 – Anton Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)
• 1950 – Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman, founded Qantas (b. 1879)
• 1961 – Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera singer (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)
• 1969 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and nazi physician (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Freddie Spencer Chapman, English army officer (b. 1907)
• 1972 – Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)
• 1973 – Dean Corll, American serial killer (b. 1939)
• 1973 – Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)
• 1973 – Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician (b. 1903)
• 1974 – Baldur von Schirach, German nazi youth leader (b. 1907)
• 1975 – Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (b. 1928)
• 1977 – Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1979 – Nicholas Monsarrat, English novelist (b. 1910)
• 1980 – Paul Triquet, Canadian army officer (b. 1910)
• 1981 – Thomas McElwee, Irish hunger striker (b. 1957)
• 1982 – Eric Brandon, English race car driver (b. 1920)
• 1984 – Ellen Raskin, American author (b. 1928)
• 1985 – Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
• 1988 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1991 – Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
• 1991 – James Irwin, American astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian spiritual leader and scholar (b. 1899)
• 1992 – John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)
• 1992 – Bertalan Papp, Hungarian fencer (b. 1913)
• 1995 – John Adams, American football player (b. 1937)
• 1996 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1998 – Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (b. 1968)
• 2003 – Falaba Issa Traoré, Malian playwright (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Ahmed Deedat, South African missionary and writer (b. 1918)
• 2005 – John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Gene Mauch, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2005 – Dean Rockwell, American wrestling and football coach (b. 1912)
• 2005 – Monica Sjöö, Swedish painter and writer (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Joybubbles, American phone phreak (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)
• 2007 – Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Orville Moody, American golfer (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Leonard Pagliero, English pilot and dog breeder (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Abdullah al-Asiri, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1986)
• 2009 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
• 2010 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Sancho Gracia, Spanish actor (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Surya Lesmana, Indonesian footballer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Kurt Maetzig, German director (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Hans R. Camenzind, Swiss engineer (b. 1934)