Famous Deaths on 8 Jul

Famous Deaths on 8 Jul

1153 - Pope Eugene III
1538 - Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1623 - Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1689 - Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1695 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (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)
1895 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
1898 - Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1913 - Louis Hémon, French-born 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)
1962 - Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)
1967 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
1967 - Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political figure (b. 1893)
1971 - Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1979 - Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
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 athlete (b. 1905)
1990 - Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
1991 - James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
1994 - Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912)
1994 - Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
1994 - Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
1994 - Christian-Jaque, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
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/voice actor (b. 1924)
810 - Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773)
975 - King Edgar of England