History Deaths on July 08

Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Education Minister of Israel (b. 1884)

#Ben-Zion_Dinur

Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)

#Plínio_de_Arruda_Sampaio

August Alle, Estonian lawyer, author, and poet (b. 1890)

#August_Alle

Phil Foster, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1913)

#Phil_Foster

Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)

#Anthony_Hope

Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1629)

#Christiaan_Huygens

Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)

#Benjamin_Baillaud

June Allyson, American actress and singer (b. 1917)

#June_Allyson

Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian writer and politician (b. 1936)

#Ghassan_Kanafani

Richard Mique, French architect (b. 1728)

#Richard_Mique

Refik Saydam, Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)

#Refik_Saydam

Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)

#Prince_Adolphus,_Duke_of_Cambridge

Jean Moulin, French soldier (b. 1899)

#Jean_Moulin

Adolf IV of Holstein, Count of Schauenburg

#Adolf_IV_of_Holstein

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (b. 1792)

#Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

Kurt Reidemeister, German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (b. 1893)

#Kurt_Reidemeister

Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and author (b. 1896)

#Gerardo_Diego

Robert South, English preacher and theologian (b. 1634)

#Robert_South

Ray Barbuti, American runner and football player (b. 1905)

#Ray_Barbuti

Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (b. 1880)

#Louis_Hémon

Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (b. 1874)

#Moses_Schorr

Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne (b. 773)

#Pepin_of_Italy

Kim Il-sung, North Korean commander and politician, President of North Korea (b. 1912)

#Kim_Il-sung

Edgar the Peaceful, English king (b. 943)

#Edgar_the_Peaceful

Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter and lithographer (b. 1805)

#Franz_Xaver_Winterhalter

Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)

#Pope_Gregory_XV

Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)

#Bill_Hallahan

Tom Veryzer, American baseball player (b. 1953)

#Tom_Veryzer

Maurice Baquet, French actor and cellist (b. 1911)

#Maurice_Baquet

Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1903)

#Lionel_Chevrier

Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (b. 1859)

#Havelock_Ellis

Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)

#Robert_Burns_Woodward

Giovanni Papini, Italian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1881)

#Giovanni_Papini

Sundri Uttamchandani, Indian author (b. 1924)

#Sundri_Uttamchandani

Chandra Shekhar, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1927)

#Chandra_Shekhar

Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)

#Joseph_Ward

Ken Stabler, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1945)

#Ken_Stabler

Kilian, Irish bishop

#Saint_Kilian

Ernest Borgnine, American actor (b. 1917)

#Ernest_Borgnine

Tab Hunter, American actor, pop singer, film producer and author (b. 1931)

#Tab_Hunter

Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (b. 1928)

#Abdul_Sattar_Edhi

Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1934)

#Muhammed_bin_Saud_Al_Saud

Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (b. 1918)

#Betty_Ford

Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)

#Tom_Thomson

Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877)

#Wilfred_Rhodes

Oscar I of Sweden (b. 1799)

#Oscar_I_of_Sweden

Diego de Almagro, Spanish general and explorer (b. 1475)

#Diego_de_Almagro

Theobald I of Navarre (b. 1201)

#Theobald_I_of_Navarre

James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)

#James_Franciscus

Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)

#Dick_Sargent

James Tate, American poet (b. 1943)

#James_Tate_(writer)

Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (b. 1735)

#Torbern_Bergman

Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)

#Howard_Duff

Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (b. 1905)

#Lilí_Álvarez

Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (b. 1821)

#Johann_Josef_Loschmidt

Ben Holladay, American businessman (b. 1819)

#Ben_Holladay

Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (b. 1649)

#Elihu_Yale

Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Algerian-French general (b. 1856)

#Louis_Franchet_d'Espèrey

Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)

#Pete_Conrad

Walter Kittredge, American violinist and composer (b. 1834)

#Walter_Kittredge

Howard Siler, American bobsledder and coach (b. 1945)

Ben Pangelinan, Guamanian businessman and politician (b. 1956)

John V. Evans, American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (b. 1925)

Brett Walker, American songwriter and producer (b. 1961)

Rubby Sherr, American physicist and academic (b. 1913)

Claudiney Ramos, Brazilian footballer (b. 1980)

Edmund Morgan, American historian and author (b. 1916)

Dick Gray, American baseball player (b. 1931)

Martin Pakledinaz, American costume designer (b. 1953)

Gyang Dalyop Datong, Nigerian physician and politician (b. 1959)

Roberts Blossom, American actor and poet (b. 1924)

Midnight, American singer-songwriter (b. 1962)

John Templeton, American-born British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1912)

Jack B. Sowards, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1929)

Paula Danziger, American author and educator (b. 1944)

Ward Kimball, American animator and trombonist (b. 1914)

John O'Shea, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)

Irene Prador, Austrian-born actress and writer (b. 1911)

Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer (b. 1927)

Christian-Jaque, French director and screenwriter (b. 1904)

Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)

Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1909)

Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

Gene L. Coon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)

Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (b. 1882)

Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (b. 1881)

Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher (b. 1878)

Octavia Taylor, daughter of Zachary Taylor (b. 1816)

Edward Wooster, English-American settler (b. 1622)

Albert of Saxony, Bishop of Halberstadt and German philosopher (b. circa 1320)

Pope Eugene III (b. 1087)

Grimbald, French-English monk and saint (b. 827)

Qatr al-Nada, wife of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid

Gunther, archbishop of Cologne