July 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 810 – King Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne (b. 773)
• 901 – Grimbald, Benedectine monk and Saint (b. 827)
• 975 – Edgar the Peaceful, King of England (b. 943)
• 1153 – Pope Eugene III (b. c. 1087)
• 1538 – Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
• 1623 – Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
• 1689 – Edward Wooster, English-born Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
• 1695 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist and horologist (b. 1629)
• 1716 – Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
• 1721 – Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
• 1726 – John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
• 1784 – Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
• 1822 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
• 1826 – Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
• 1850 – Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
• 1855 – Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
• 1859 – King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799)
• 1887 – Ben Holladay, American businessman and founder of the Overland Stagecoach Company (b. 1819)
• 1895 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)
• 1898 – Soapy Smith, American con artist and gangster (b. 1860)
• 1905 – Walter Kittredge, American violinist and abolitionist (b. 1834)
• 1913 – Louis Hémon, French-born Canadian writer (b. 1880)
• 1917 – Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
• 1930 – Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
• 1933 – Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
• 1934 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1939 – Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859)
• 1941 – Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
• 1943 – Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
• 1950 – Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1956 – Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879)
• 1961 – Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Greek medical doctor and politician, the 2nd Prime Minister of the collaborationist Hellenic State(b. 1878)
• 1962 – Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)
• 1967 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political figure (b. 1893)
• 1971 – Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
• 1973 – Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (b. 1884)
• 1973 – Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1979 – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
• 1979 – Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
• 1979 – Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
• 1981 – Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
• 1987 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
• 1987 – Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
• 1988 – Ray Barbuti, American middle distance runner and football player (b. 1905)
• 1990 – Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1991 – James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1994 – Christian-Jaque, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1994 – Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912)
• 1994 – Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-born American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
• 1994 – Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
• 1999 – Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
• 2001 – John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
• 2004 – Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
• 2006 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Peter Hawkins, British actor and voice actor (b. 1924)
• 2008 – John Templeton, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1912)