August 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 461 – Majorian, Roman Emperor (assassinated) (b. 420)
• 479 – Emperor Yūryaku of Japan
• 1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
• 1485 – Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, Scottish prince
• 1613 – Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
• 1616 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (b. 1548)
• 1635 – Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
• 1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
• 1661 – Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
• 1817 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French industrialist (b. 1739)
• 1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
• 1848 – Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
• 1855 – Mariano Arista, President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 – Li Xiucheng, late Taiping‘s Field Marshal and soul person.(b. 1823)
• 1893 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian musician (b. 1854)
• 1912 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
• 1917 – Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. (b. 1891)
• 1938 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian/Soviet theatre practitioner (b. 1863)
• 1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1861)
• 1953 – Abner Powell, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1957 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
• 1960 – Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine Boxer (b. 1894)
• 1969 – Joseph Kosma, French composer (Autumn Leaves) (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Harold Haley, American judge (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Jonathan Jackson, instigator of the Marin County Civic Center shootout and brother of Black Panther George Jackson (b. 1953)
• 1972 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress (b. 1929)
• 1972 – Aspasia Manos, wife of king Alexander of Greece (b. 1896)
• 1973 – Jack Gregory, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
• 1974 – Sylvio Mantha, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1984 – Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
• 1985 – Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Camille Chamoun, Lebanese President (b. 1900)
• 1989 – Mickey Leland, American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (b. 1944)
• 1991 – Billy T. James, New Zealand comedian, (b. 1944)
• 1992 – John Anderson, American actor (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Larry Martyn, comedy actor (b. 1934)
• 1995 – Brigid Brophy, British author (b. 1929)
• 1999 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2003 – Mickey McDermott, baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Red Adair, American oil field firefighter (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Mary Anderson Bain, American New Deal politician (b. 1911)
• 2007 – Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer. (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Angus Tait, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent/manager and producer (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Andrea Pininfarina, CEO of Pininfarina S.p.A. (b. 1957)
• 2009 – Louis E. Saavedra, American Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Mike Seeger, American folk musician (b. 1933)