August 08 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 869 - Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)


• 1445 - Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer


• 1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)


• 1555 - Oronce Finé, French mathematician (b. 1494)


• 1588 - Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter


• 1604 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)


• 1631 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)


• 1684 - George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (b. 1622)


• 1747 - Madeleine de Verchères, New France heroine (b. 1678)


• 1759 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)


• 1827 - George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)


• 1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)


• 1863 - Angus MacAskill known as 'Giant MacAskill', circus performer (b.1825)


• 1879 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)


• 1887 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)


• 1897 - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)


• 1898 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)


• 1902 - James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)


• 1911 - William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)


• 1928 - Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (b. 1871)


• 1933 - Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (b. 1870)


• 1934 - Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player and hall-of-famer (b. 1863)


• 1940 - Johnny Dodds, American musician (b. 1892)


• 1944 - Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)


• 1944 - Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (b. 1881)


• 1944 - Michael Wittmann, German Tank ace and Knight's Cross holder, killed in action, Normandy. (b. 1914)


• 1947 - Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (b. 1872)


• 1950 - Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (b. 1879)


• 1961 - Méi Lánfāng, Chinese opera performer (b. 1894)


• 1965 - Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916)


• 1969 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (b. 1896)


• 1972 - Andrea Feldman, American actor (b. 1948)


• 1973 - Dean Corll, American serial killer (b. 1939)


• 1973 - Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898)


• 1974 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader (b. 1907)


• 1975 - Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)


• 1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1889)


• 1979 - Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (b. 1910)


• 1980 - Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (b. 1910)


• 1982 - Eric Brandon, British racing 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, Quebec singer and songwriter (b. 1914)


• 1988 - Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)


• 1988 - Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor (b. 1923)


• 1991 - James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)


• 1992 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei, considered to be the Supreme Shi'ite authority at the time of his death


• 1992 - John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1965)


• 1996 - Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1905)


• 1998 - Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist


• 2004 - Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)


• 2004 - Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (b. 1934)


• 2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)


• 2005 - Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (b. 1918)


• 2005 - John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (b. 1918)


• 2005 - Gene Mauch, American baseball player (b. 1925)


• 2005 - Monica Sjöö, Swedish artist (b. 1938)


• 2005 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)


• 2007 - Joybubbles, A notable phone phreak. (b. 1949)


• 2007 - Ma Lik, Chinese politician (b. 1952)


• 2007 - Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)


• 2008 - Orville Moody, American golfer (b. 1933)