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Issa Hayatou was a Cameroonian sports executive, athlete, and football administrator best known for serving as the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) between 1988 and 2017.
Notable Deaths on August 8
2024 — Issa Hayatou
Cameroonian basketball player and football executive (born 1946)
August 8 has 104 recorded notable deaths across history, from 117 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
104 source records
117 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on August 8
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- -685 Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the new Duke of Qi – but is defeated at Qianshi by Jiu's brother and rival claimant, the newly inaugurated Duke Huan of Qi. Source
- 2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. Source
- 1863 American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt). Source
- 1863 Tennessee Military Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves in Greeneville, Tennessee despite them being exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation, now commemorated as Emancipation Day in the state. Source
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Patricia Neal also featured as the matriarch in the television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971); her role as Olivia Walton was re-cast for the series it inspired, The Waltons.
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Karen Black rose to prominence for her work in studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood.
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Bel Geddes was best known for her starring role as Miss Ellie Ewing in the television series Dallas, while her notable films included I Remember Mama (1948) and Vertigo (1958).
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Jacob Burckhardt's best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).
More major people who died on August 8
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2010
Patricia Neal
American actress (born 1926)
Patricia Neal was an American actress of stage and screen. She is well known for, among other roles, playing World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), radio journalist Marcia Jeffries in A…
2013
Karen Black
American actress (born 1939)
Karen Blanche Black was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter.
2005
Barbara Bel Geddes
American actress (born 1922)
Barbara Bel Geddes was an American stage and screen actress, artist, and children's author whose career spanned almost five decades.
1897
Jacob Burckhardt
Swiss historian and academic (born 1818)
Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields. His best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).
1902
James Tissot
French painter and illustrator (born 1836)
Jacques Joseph Tissot, better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist.
869
Lothair II
Frankish king (born 835)
Lothair II was the king of Lotharingia from 855 until his death. He is known for his over ten-year-long divorce case with his wife Teutberga so that he could remarry his long-standing lover Waldrada.
1746
Francis Hutcheson
Irish philosopher (born 1694)
Francis Hutcheson was an Irish philosopher widely regarded as one of the key figures of the early Scottish Enlightenment.
2014
Peter Sculthorpe
Australian composer and conductor (born 1929)
Peter Joshua Sculthorpe FAHA was a distinguished Australian composer and music educator.
1911
William P. Frye
American lawyer and politician (born 1830)
William Pierce Frye was an American politician from Maine. A member of the Republican Party, Frye spent most of his political career as a legislator, serving in the Maine House of Representatives and then U.S.
1887
Alexander William Doniphan
American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1808)
Alexander William Doniphan was a 19th-century American attorney, soldier and politician from Missouri who is best known today as the man who prevented the summary execution of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of…
1631
Konstantinas Sirvydas
Lithuanian priest, lexicographer, and academic (born 1579)
Konstantinas Sirvydas was a Lithuanian religious preacher, lexicographer, and one of the pioneers of Lithuanian literature from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, at the time a confederal part of the Polish-Lithuanian…
1828
Carl Peter Thunberg
Swedish botanist and psychologist (born 1743)
Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg, was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus.
1863
Angus MacAskill
Scottish-Canadian giant (born 1825)
Angus MacAskill was a Scottish man. In its 1981 edition, the Guinness Book of World Records stated he was the strongest man, the tallest non-pathological giant and the largest true giant in recorded history at 7 feet 9…
2017
Glen Campbell
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1936)
Glen Travis Campbell was an American country musician and actor.
1902
John Henry Twachtman
American painter and academic (born 1853)
John Henry Twachtman was an American painter best known for his impressionist landscapes, though his painting style varied widely through his career.
2013
Regina Resnik
American soprano and actress (born 1922)
Regina Resnik was an American opera singer who had an active international career that spanned five decades.
1944
Erwin von Witzleben
German field marshal (born 1881)
Job Wilhelm Georg Erwin Erdmann von Witzleben was a German Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht and Oberbefehlshaber West, during the Second World War.
1996
Nevill Francis Mott
English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
Sir Nevill Francis Mott was a British theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors.
1909
Mary MacKillop
Australian nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (born 1842)
Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ was an Australian religious sister. She was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia.