Notable Deaths on July 8

July 8 has 98 recorded notable deaths across history, from 689 to 2026. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.

Kim Il Sung

1994 — Kim Il Sung

North Korean commander and politician, President of North Korea (born 1912)

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Notable Deaths 98 source records 689 – 2026

Major events on July 8

See what else happened on this day in history.

  1. 1776 John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. Source
  2. 1167 The Byzantines defeat the Hungarian army decisively at Sirmium, forcing the Hungarians to sue for peace. Source

Did you know about Kim Il Sung

Kim Il Sung was a North Korean communist revolutionary, military officer, politician, and dictator who founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North Korea, in 1948, and led it until his death in 1994.

Did you know about Naya Rivera

Naya Rivera began her career as a child actress and model, first appearing in national television commercials.

Did you know about Vivien Leigh

For the latter role, she also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and later won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963).

Did you know about Percy Bysshe Shelley

American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."

Did you know about Bonnie Tyler

Known for her distinctive husky voice, she came to prominence with the release of her debut studio album The World Starts Tonight (1977) and its singles "Lost in France" and "More Than a Lover".

More major people who died on July 8

Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.

2020 Naya Rivera

Naya Rivera

American actress, model and singer (born 1987)
Naya Marie Rivera was an American actress, singer, and model recognized for her work on the popular musical comedy-drama series Glee. She began her career as a child actress and model, first appearing in national television commercials. At the age of four, she landed the role of Hillary Winston on the short-lived CBS sitcom The Royal Family (1991–1992), earning a nomination for a Young Artist Award at age five. After a series of recurring television roles and then guest spots as a teenager, she got her breakthrough role in 2009 as Santana Lopez on the Fox television series Glee. For the role, she received critical acclaim and various awards, including a SAG Award and ALMA Award, as well as earning nominations with the rest of the cast for a Grammy Award and a Brit Award.
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1967 Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh

British actress (born 1913)
Vivian Mary Olivier, known professionally as Vivien Leigh and styled as Lady Olivier after 1947, was a British actress. After completing her drama school education, Leigh performed on stage before receiving small roles in four films in 1935, eventually progressing to the role of heroine in Fire Over England (1937). She went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for her performances as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in the film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), a role she had played on stage in London's West End in 1949. For the latter role, she also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and later won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963).
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1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet and playwright (born 1792)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English writer who is considered one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death, and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets, including Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and W. B. Yeats. American literary critic Harold Bloom describes him as "a superb craftsman, a lyric poet without rival, and surely one of the most advanced sceptical intellects ever to write a poem."
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2026 Bonnie Tyler

Bonnie Tyler

Welsh singer (born 1951)
Gaynor Sullivan, known professionally as Bonnie Tyler, was a Welsh singer. Known for her distinctive husky voice, she came to prominence with the release of her debut studio album The World Starts Tonight (1977) and its singles "Lost in France" and "More Than a Lover". Her 1977 single "It's a Heartache" reached number four on the UK singles chart and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100.
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2022 Shinzo Abe

Shinzo Abe

Japanese politician (born 1954)
Shinzo Abe was a Japanese statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020. He was the longest-serving prime minister in Japanese history, serving for nearly nine years in total.
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2018 Tab Hunter

Tab Hunter

American actor, pop singer, film producer and author (born 1931)
Tab Hunter was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond hair and clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. During the 1950s and 1960s, Hunter was a Hollywood heartthrob, acting in numerous roles and appearing on the covers of hundreds of magazines. His notable screen credits include Battle Cry (1955), The Girl He Left Behind (1956), Gunman's Walk (1958), Damn Yankees (1958), Polyester (1981), and Lust in the Dust (1985). Hunter also had a music career in the late 1950s; in 1957, he released the no. 1 hit single "Young Love". Hunter's 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, was a New York Times bestseller.
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2012 Ernest Borgnine

Ernest Borgnine

American actor (born 1917)
Ernest Borgnine was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular performer, he appeared as a guest on numerous talk shows and as a panelist on several game shows.
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1994 Dick Sargent

Dick Sargent

American actor (born 1930)
Richard Stanford Cox, known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor. He is best known for being the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on ABC's fantasy sitcom Bewitched. He took the name Dick Sargent from a Saturday Evening Post illustrator/artist of the same name.
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2007 Chandra Shekhar

Chandra Shekhar

Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (born 1927)
Chandra Shekhar was an Indian politician and the prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991. He headed a minority government of a breakaway faction of the Janata Dal with outside support from the Indian National Congress. He was the second Indian Prime Minister who had never held any prior government office.
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1979 Michael Wilding

Michael Wilding

English actor (born 1912)
Michael Charles Gauntlet Wilding was an English stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for a series of films he made with Anna Neagle; he also made two films with Alfred Hitchcock, Under Capricorn (1949) and Stage Fright (1950); and he guest starred on Hitchcock's TV show in 1963. He was married four times, including to Elizabeth Taylor, with whom he had two sons.
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1943 Jean Moulin

Jean Moulin

French soldier and leader of the French Resistance (born 1899)
Jean Pierre Moulin was a French civil servant and French Resistance leader who succeeded in unifying the main networks of the Resistance in World War II. He served as the first president of the National Council of the Resistance (CNR) from 27 May 1943 until he was killed less than two months later.
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975 Edgar the Peaceful

Edgar the Peaceful

English king (born 943)
Edgar, also known as Edgar the Peaceful, the Peacemaker and the Peaceable, was King of the English from 959 until his death in 975. He became king of all England on his brother Eadwig's death. He was the younger son of King Edmund I and his first wife, Ælfgifu. A detailed account of Edgar's reign is not possible, because only a few events were recorded by chroniclers and monastic writers, who were more interested in recording the activities of the leaders of the church.
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2011 Roberts Blossom

Roberts Blossom

American actor and poet (born 1924)
Roberts Scott Blossom was an American poet and character actor of theater, film, and television. He is best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in Home Alone (1990) and as Ezra Cobb in the horror film Deranged (1974). Blossom is also remembered for his supporting roles in films such as The Great Gatsby (1974), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Christine (1983), and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).
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2011 Betty Ford

Betty Ford

38th First Lady of the United States (born 1918)
Elizabeth Anne Ford was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of President Gerald Ford. As first lady, she was active in social policy, and set a precedent as a politically active presidential spouse. She was also Second Lady of the United States from 1973 to 1974, when her husband was vice president.
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1695 Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens

Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (born 1629)
Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. In physics, Huygens made seminal contributions to optics and mechanics, while as an astronomer he studied the rings of Saturn and discovered its largest moon, Titan. As an engineer and inventor, he improved the design of telescopes and invented the pendulum clock, the most accurate timekeeper for almost 300 years. A talented mathematician and physicist, Huygens authored the first modern treatise where a physical problem was idealized using mathematical parameters, while his work on light contains the first mathematical and mechanistic explanation of an unobservable physical phenomenon.
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1972 Ghassan Kanafani

Ghassan Kanafani

Palestinian writer and politician (born 1936)
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was a prominent Palestinian author and militant, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading writers. Kanafani's works have been translated into more than 17 languages.
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1991 James Franciscus

James Franciscus

American actor (born 1934)
James Grover Franciscus was an American actor, known for his roles in feature films and in six television series: Mr. Novak, Naked City, The Investigators, Longstreet, Doc Elliot, and Hunter.
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1990 Howard Duff

Howard Duff

American actor (born 1913)
Howard Green Duff was an American actor. He started in radio during World War II before appearing in many Hollywood features and television programs from 1947 to 1990. He also directed for television. His career was marked by accusations of disloyalty during the red scare of the 1950s.
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1850 Prince Adolphus

Prince Adolphus

Duke of Cambridge (born 1774)
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge was the tenth child and seventh son of King George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte. He held the title of Duke of Cambridge from 1801 until his death. From 1816 to 1837, he served as Viceroy of the Kingdom of Hanover on behalf of his elder brothers King George IV and King William IV.
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2022 Larry Storch

Larry Storch

American actor and comedian (born 1923)
Lawrence Samuel Storch was an American actor and comedian known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for cartoon shows such as Mr. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales. For his portrayal of the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop he was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1967.
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1859 Oscar I of Sweden (born 1799)

Oscar I of Sweden (born 1799)

Oscar I was King of Sweden and Norway from 8 March 1844 until his death in 1859. He was the second monarch of the House of Bernadotte.
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1721 Elihu Yale

Elihu Yale

American-English merchant and philanthropist (born 1649)
Elihu Yale was a British colonial administrator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Yale lived in America only as a child, and spent the rest of his life in England, Wales, and India. He became a clerk for the East India Company at Fort St. George, later Madras, and eventually rose to the Presidency of the settlement. He was later removed from the post under charges of corruption for self-dealing, and required to pay a fine. In 1699, he returned to Britain with a considerable fortune, around £200,000, mostly made by selling diamonds, and spent his time and wealth in philanthropy and art collecting.
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1999 Pete Conrad

Pete Conrad

American captain, pilot, and astronaut. Third man to walk on the moon. (born 1930)
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 12 mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected for NASA's second astronaut class in 1962.
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810 Pepin of Italy

Pepin of Italy

son of Charlemagne (born 773)
Pepin or Pippin, was King of Italy from 781 until his death in 810. He was the third son of Charlemagne. Upon his baptism in 781, Carloman was renamed Pepin, where he was also crowned as king of the Lombard Kingdom his father had conquered. Pepin ruled the kingdom from a young age under Charlemagne, but predeceased his father. His son Bernard was named king of Italy after him, and his descendants were the longest-surviving direct male line of the Carolingian dynasty.
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1917 Tom Thomson

Tom Thomson

Canadian painter (born 1877)
Thomas John Thomson was a Canadian artist active in the early 20th century. During his short career, he produced roughly 400 oil sketches on small wood panels and approximately 50 larger works on canvas. His works consist almost entirely of landscapes, depicting trees, skies, lakes, and rivers. He used broad brush strokes and a liberal application of paint to capture the beauty and colour of the Ontario landscape.
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1939 Havelock Ellis

Havelock Ellis

English psychologist and author (born 1859)
Henry Havelock Ellis was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He developed the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis.
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2022 Luis Echeverría

Luis Echeverría

Mexican lawyer and politician (born 1922)
Luis Echeverría Álvarez was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 57th president of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Previously, Echeverría was Secretary of the Interior from 1963 to 1969. He was the longest-lived president in Mexican history and the first to reach the age of 100.
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1538 Diego de Almagro

Diego de Almagro

Spanish general and explorer (born 1475)
Diego de Almagro, also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish conquistador known for his exploits and killings in western South America. He participated with Francisco Pizarro in the Spanish conquest of Peru. While subduing the Inca Empire he laid the foundation for Quito and Trujillo as Spanish cities in present-day Ecuador and Peru, respectively. From Peru, Almagro led the first Spanish military expedition to central Chile. Back in Peru, a longstanding conflict with Pizarro over the control of the former Inca capital of Cuzco erupted into a civil war between the two bands of conquistadores. In the battle of Las Salinas in 1538, Almagro was defeated by the Pizarro brothers and months later he was executed.
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1873 Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

German painter and lithographer (born 1805)
Franz Xaver Winterhalter was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture. Among his best known works are Empress Eugénie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting (1855) and the portraits he made of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1865).
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2016 Abdul Sattar Edhi

Abdul Sattar Edhi

Pakistani philanthropist (born 1928)
Abdul Sattar Edhi was a Pakistani humanitarian, philanthropist and ascetic who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest volunteer ambulance network, along with homeless shelters, animal shelters, rehabilitation centres, and orphanages across Pakistan.
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1973 Gene L. Coon

Gene L. Coon

American screenwriter and producer (born 1924)
Eugene Lee Coon was an American screenwriter, television producer, and novelist. He is best remembered for his work on the original Star Trek as a screenwriter, story editor, and showrunner from the middle of the series' first season to the middle of the second. Along with series creator Gene Roddenberry, Coon is given credit for the show's idealistic tone and for creating several key story and world-building elements that would become important parts of the ongoing franchise.
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2020 Alex Pullin

Alex Pullin

Australian snowboarder (born 1987)
Alex Pullin, nicknamed Chumpy, was an Australian snowboarder who competed at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics. He was a two-time snowboard cross (boardercross) world champion.
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1956 Giovanni Papini

Giovanni Papini

Italian journalist, author, and critic (born 1881)
Giovanni Papini was an Italian journalist, essayist, novelist, short story writer, poet, literary critic, and philosopher. A controversial literary figure of the early and mid-twentieth century, he was the earliest and most enthusiastic representative and promoter of Italian pragmatism. Papini was admired for his writing style and engaged in heated polemics. Involved with avant-garde movements such as futurism and post-decadentism, he moved from one political and philosophical position to another, always dissatisfied and uneasy: he converted from anti-clericalism and atheism to Catholicism, and went from convinced interventionism – before 1915 – to an aversion to war. In the 1930s, after moving from individualism to conservatism, he finally became a fascist, while maintaining an aversion to Nazism.
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1973 Wilfred Rhodes

Wilfred Rhodes

English cricketer and coach (born 1877)
Wilfred Rhodes was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127 wickets and scored 2,325 runs, becoming the first Englishman to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in Test matches. He holds the world records both for the most appearances made in first-class cricket and the most wickets taken. He completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in an English cricket season a record 16 times. Rhodes played for Yorkshire and England into his fifties, and in his final Test in 1930 was, at 52 years and 165 days, the oldest player who has appeared in a Test match.
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2002 Ward Kimball

Ward Kimball

American animator and trombonist (born 1914)
Ward Walrath Kimball was an American animator employed by Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was part of Walt Disney's main team of animators, known collectively as Disney's Nine Old Men. His films have been honored with two Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film.
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2008

John Templeton

American-born British businessman and philanthropist (born 1912)
Sir John Marks Templeton was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years. A pioneer of emerging market investing in the 1960s, Money magazine named him "arguably the greatest global stock picker of the century" in 1999.
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1979 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
Shinichiro Tomonaga , usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles".
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1623 Pope Gregory XV (born 1554)

Pope Gregory XV (born 1554)

Pope Gregory XV, born Alessandro Ludovisi, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 February 1621 until his death in 1623. He is notable for founding the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, an organization tasked with overseeing the spread of Catholicism and missionary work. Gregory XV was also responsible for the canonization of Saints Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, Teresa of Ávila, and Philip Neri, which solidified his commitment to the Counter-Reformation.
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1253 Theobald I of Navarre (born 1201)

Theobald I of Navarre (born 1201)

Theobald I, also called the Troubadour and the Posthumous, was Count of Champagne from birth and King of Navarre from 1234. He initiated the Barons' Crusade, was famous as a trouvère, and was the first Frenchman to rule Navarre.
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689 Kilian

Kilian

Irish bishop
Kilian, also spelled Cillian or Killian, was an Irish missionary bishop and the Apostle of Franconia, where he began his labours in the latter half of the 7th century. His feast day is 8 July.
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1942 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey

Louis Franchet d'Espèrey

Algerian-French general (born 1856)
Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espèrey was a French general during World War I. In September 1914, as the new commander of the French 5th Army, he played a notable role in organising the allied response that led to the First Battle of the Marne. As commander of the large Allied army based at Salonika, he conducted the successful Macedonian campaign, which caused the collapse of the Southern Front and contributed to the armistice.
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1988 Ray Barbuti

Ray Barbuti

American runner and football player (born 1905)
Raymond James Barbuti was an American football player and sprint runner who won two gold medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Barbuti traveled to Amsterdam to initially only compete for the 400 meter sprint however the US medal position was meek and then US Olympic committee president, Major General Douglas MacArthur insisted after Barbuti won the 400 meter gold that he run in the 4 × 400 meter relay the next day. Barbuti was interrupted by MacArthur during his celebratory evening to start preparing to run the anchor for the event the next day. Barbuti initially, vehemently refused, claiming he would not displace a fellow US runner in search for further medals. However MacArthur was relentless and finally prevailed and history commenced with the team winning the gold.
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1933 Anthony Hope

Anthony Hope

English author and playwright (born 1863)
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898).
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1965 Thomas Sigismund Stribling

Thomas Sigismund Stribling

American lawyer and author (born 1881)
Thomas Sigismund Stribling was an American writer. Although he acquired a law degree and practiced law for a few years, his career was mainly that of an author of fiction. Known first for adventure stories published in fiction magazines, he later published novels of social satire set mainly in the southern USA. His best-known work is the Vaiden trilogy, set in Florence, Alabama. The first volume is The Forge (1931). He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1933 for the second novel of this series, The Store. The last, set during the 1920s, is The Unfinished Cathedral (1934). Both the second and third novels were chosen as selections by the Literary Guild.
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1153 Pope Eugene III (born 1087)

Pope Eugene III (born 1087)

Pope Eugene III, born Bernardo, called Bernardo da Pisa, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 February 1145 to his death in 1153. He was the first Cistercian to become pope. In response to the fall of Edessa to the Muslims in 1144, Eugene proclaimed the Second Crusade. He was beatified in 1872 by Pope Pius IX.
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2012 Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud

Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud

Saudi Arabian politician (born 1934)
Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud was a Saudi royal and politician. He was a son of King Saud and one of the grandsons of Saudi Arabia's founder King Abdulaziz. He served as the Saudi Arabian minister of defense from 1960 to 1962, during his father's reign. Later, Prince Muhammed was the governor of Al Bahah Province from 1987 to 2010.
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1941 Moses Schorr

Moses Schorr

Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (born 1874)
Moses Schorr, Polish: Mojżesz Schorr was a rabbi, Polish historian, politician, Bible scholar, assyriologist and orientalist. Schorr was an expert on the history of the Jews in Poland. He was the first Jewish researcher of Polish archives, historical sources, and pinkasim. The president of the 13th district B'nai B'rith Poland, he was a humanist and modern rabbi who ministered the central synagogue of Poland during its last years before the Holocaust.
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2014 Ben Pangelinan

Ben Pangelinan

Guamanian businessman and politician (born 1956)
Vicente Cabrera "Ben" Pangelinan was a Guamanian politician and businessman who served as the speaker of the Guam Legislature from 2003 to 2005, representing from Barrigada, as a Democrat from 1993 to his death in 2014. Pangelinan was the former sitting chairperson of the Committee on Appropriations, Taxation, Banking, Insurance, Retirement, and Land in the 32nd Guam Legislature.
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1973 Ben-Zion Dinur

Ben-Zion Dinur

Russian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Education Minister of Israel (born 1884)
Ben-Zion Dinur was a Ukrainian-born Israeli historian, educator, and politician. He held the position of professor of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and represented Mapai in the first Knesset, serving as Minister of Education. Dinur was one of the founders of Yad Vashem and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences.
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1794 Richard Mique

Richard Mique

French architect (born 1728)
Richard Mique was a Neoclassical French architect born in Lorraine. He is most remembered for his picturesque hamlet, the hameau de la Reine — not particularly characteristic of his working style — built for Queen Marie Antoinette in the Petit Trianon gardens within the estate of the Palace of Versailles.
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1930 Joseph Ward

Joseph Ward

Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1856)
Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Baronet, was a New Zealand politician who served as the 17th prime minister of New Zealand from 1906 to 1912 and from 1928 to 1930. He was a dominant figure in the Liberal and United ministries of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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1950 Othmar Spann

Othmar Spann

Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher (born 1878)
Othmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist. His radical anti-liberal and anti-socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expressed by Adam Müller et al. and popularized in his books and lecture courses, helped antagonise political factions in Austria during the interwar years.
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1784 Torbern Bergman

Torbern Bergman

Swedish chemist and mineralogist (born 1735)
Torbern Olof Bergman (KVO) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published. Bergman was the first chemist to use the A, B, C, etc., system of notation for chemical species.
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2025 Edward D. DiPrete

Edward D. DiPrete

American politician, 70th Governor of Rhode Island
Edward Daniel DiPrete was an American politician. He served as the 70th governor of Rhode Island for three two-year terms, serving from 1985 to 1991. Convicted of numerous corruption charges, he was the only Rhode Island governor to have gone to prison.
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1994 Christian-Jaque

Christian-Jaque

French director and screenwriter (born 1904)
Christian-Jaque was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including Lucrèce Borgia (1953), Madame du Barry (1954), and Nana (1955). In 1961 he married Laurence Christol
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1887 Ben Holladay

Ben Holladay

American businessman (born 1819)
Benjamin Holladay was an American transportation businessman responsible for creating the Overland Stage to California during the height of the 1849 California Gold Rush. He created a stagecoach empire and is known in history as the "Stagecoach King".
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2014 Plínio de Arruda Sampaio

Plínio de Arruda Sampaio

Brazilian lawyer and politician (born 1930)
Plínio Soares de Arruda Sampaio was a Brazilian intellectual and political activist, who was affiliated with the Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (PSOL). He ran as a candidate for the presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil in 2010.
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1986 Skeeter Webb

Skeeter Webb

American baseball player and manager (born 1909)
James Laverne "Skeeter" Webb was an American professional baseball infielder in Major League Baseball from 1932 to 1949. He played 12 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Philadelphia Athletics.
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2014 John V. Evans

John V. Evans

American soldier and politician, 27th Governor of Idaho (born 1925)
John Victor Evans Sr. was an American politician from Idaho. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the state's 27th governor and was in office for 10 years, from 1977 to 1987.
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1921 Ellen Oliver (suffragette)

Ellen Oliver (suffragette)

British suffragette and purity activist (born 1870)
Ellen Frederica Oliver was a British suffragette, purity activist and a follower of the Panacea Society, who was the first person to recognise Mabel Barltrop as a prophet in the movement.
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2012

Gyang Dalyop Datong

Nigerian physician and politician (born 1959)
Gyang Dalyop Datong was a Nigerian senator who represented the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State. He became a member of the Nigerian Senate in 2007. On 12 April 2003, he was elected to the 5th House of Representatives on the platform of the ANPP defeating his closest rival James Vwi of the PDP. He represented Barkin Ladi/Riyom Federal Constituency from 2003 to 2007. Datong died on 8 July 2012 while attending a mass funeral of people who had been killed by Fulani herdsmen in Maase area of Riyom local government in Plateau State. The people at the funeral were attacked by gunmen thought to also be Fulani.
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1942 Refik Saydam

Refik Saydam

Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1881)
İbrahim Refik Saydam was a Turkish physician, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Turkey, serving from 25 January 1939 until his death on 8 July 1942.
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1998 Lilí Álvarez

Lilí Álvarez

Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (born 1905)
Elia Maria González-Álvarez y López-Chicheri, also known as Lilí de Álvarez, was a Spanish multi-sport competitor, an international tennis champion, an author, feminist and a journalist.
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2013

Edmund Morgan

American historian and author (born 1916)
Edmund Sears Morgan was an American historian and an authority on early American history. He was the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. He specialized in American colonial history, with some attention to English history. Thomas S. Kidd says he was noted for his incisive writing style, "simply one of the best academic prose stylists America has ever produced." He covered many topics, including Puritanism, political ideas, the American Revolution, slavery, historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as Benjamin Franklin.
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1905 Walter Kittredge

Walter Kittredge

American violinist and composer (born 1834)
Walter Kittredge, was a famous American minstrel and songwriter. Over his career he wrote over 500 songs, many of them dealing with themes of abolitionism and the American Civil War, the most famous of which was Tenting on the Old Camp Ground.
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1994

Lars-Eric Lindblad

Swedish-American businessman and explorer (born 1927)
Lars-Eric Lindblad was a Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer, who pioneered tourism to many remote and exotic parts of the world. He led the first tourist expedition to Antarctica in 1966 in a chartered Argentine navy ship, and for many years operated his own vessel, the MS Lindblad Explorer, in the region. Observers point to the Lindblad Explorer’s 1969 expeditionary cruise to Antarctica as the forerunner to today's sea-based tourism there.
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2004

Paula Danziger

American author and educator (born 1944)
Paula Danziger was an American children's author who wrote more than 30 books, including her 1974 debut The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, for children's and young adult audiences. At the time of her death, all her books were still in print; they had been published in 53 countries and translated into 14 languages.
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2013

Claudiney Ramos

Brazilian footballer (born 1980)
Claudiney Ramos was a professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He was nicknamed Rincón, because of his physical resemblance to former Corinthians player, Colombian Freddy Rincón. Born in Brazil, he capped for the Equatorial Guinea national team.
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1261

Adolf IV of Holstein

Count of Schauenburg
Adolf IV was a Count of Schauenburg (1225–1238) and of Holstein (1227–1238), of the House of Schaumburg. Adolf was the eldest son of Adolf III of Schauenburg and Holstein by his second wife, Adelheid of Querfurt.
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1985

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1909)
Jean-Paul Étienne Dreyfus, better known as Jean-Paul Le Chanois, was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. His film ...Sans laisser d'adresse won the Golden Bear (Comedies) award at the 1st Berlin International Film Festival.
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2001

John O'Shea

New Zealand independent filmmaker (born 1920)
John Dempsey O'Shea was a New Zealand independent filmmaker; he was a director, producer, writer and actor. He produced the only three feature films that were made in New Zealand between 1940 and 1970.
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900

Qatr al-Nada

wife of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tadid
Asma bint Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, better known as Qatr al-Nada, was a daughter of Tulunid vassal ruler Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad and the principal wife of the sixteenth Abbasid caliph, al-Mu'tadid.
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1993

Abul Hasan Jashori

Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and freedom fighter (born 1918)
Abul Hasan Jashori was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician, author, teacher and freedom fighter. He was the founding principal and Shaykh al-Hadith of the Jamia Ezazia Darul Uloom Jessore institution.
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1968

Désiré Mérchez

French swimmer and water polo player (born 1882)
Désiré Alfred Mérchez was a male French swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was born in Lille and died in Nice.
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1390

Albert of Saxony

Bishop of Halberstadt and German philosopher (born circa 1320)
Albert of Saxony was a German philosopher and mathematician known for his contributions to logic and physics. He was bishop of Halberstadt from 1366 until his death.
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873

Gunther

archbishop of Cologne
Gunther or Gunthar was Archbishop of Cologne in Germany from 850 until he was excommunicated and deposed in 863.
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901

Grimbald

French-English monk and saint (born 827)
Saint Grimbald was a 9th-century Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Bertin near Saint-Omer, France.
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1689

Edward Wooster

English-American settler (born 1622)
Edward Wooster was an English early settler of Colonial America, and "the first permanent settler in Derby", Connecticut.
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1716 Robert South

Robert South

English preacher and theologian (born 1634)
Robert South was an English churchman who was known for his combative preaching and Latin poetry.
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1823 Henry Raeburn

Henry Raeburn

Scottish portrait painter (born 1756)
Sir Henry Raeburn was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland.
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1895 Johann Josef Loschmidt

Johann Josef Loschmidt

Austrian chemist and physicist (born 1821)
Johann Josef Loschmidt, better known as Josef Loschmidt, was an Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics, and crystal forms.
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1913 Louis Hémon

Louis Hémon

French-Canadian author (born 1880)
Louis Hémon, was a French writer, best known for his novel Maria Chapdelaine.
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1934 Benjamin Baillaud

Benjamin Baillaud

French astronomer and academic (born 1848)
Édouard Benjamin Baillaud was a French astronomer.
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1952 August Alle

August Alle

Estonian lawyer, author, and poet (born 1890)
August Alle was an Estonian writer.
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1971 Kurt Reidemeister

Kurt Reidemeister

German mathematician connected to the Vienna Circle (born 1893)
Kurt Werner Friedrich Reidemeister was a mathematician born in Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany.
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1979 Robert Burns Woodward

Robert Burns Woodward

American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
Robert Burns Woodward was an American organic chemist, who is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century.
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1981 Joe McDonnell

Joe McDonnell

Irish Republican Army member, died on hunger strike (born 1951)
Joseph McDonnell was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
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1985 Phil Foster

Phil Foster

American actor and screenwriter (born 1913)
Phil Foster was an American actor and performer, best known for his portrayal of Frank DeFazio in Laverne & Shirley.
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1987 Gerardo Diego

Gerardo Diego

Spanish poet and author (born 1896)
Gerardo Diego Cendoya was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.
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1987 Lionel Chevrier

Lionel Chevrier

Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Justice (born 1903)
Lionel Chevrier was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Parliament and cabinet minister.
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1996 Irene Prador

Irene Prador

Austrian-born actress and writer (born 1911)
Irene Prador was a German-born actress and writer.
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2005 Maurice Baquet

Maurice Baquet

French actor and cellist (born 1911)
Maurice Louis Baquet was a French actor and cellist.
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2006 June Allyson

June Allyson

American actress and singer (born 1917)
June Allyson was an American stage, film, and television actress.
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2013 Sundri Uttamchandani

Sundri Uttamchandani

Indian author (born 1924)
Sundri Uttamchandani was a noted Indian writer. She wrote mostly in Sindhi language. She was married to progressive writer A. J. Uttam.
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2014

Howard Siler

American bobsledder and coach (born 1945)
Howard Banford Siler Jr. was an American bobsledder who competed from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.
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2022 Tony Sirico

Tony Sirico

American actor (born 1942)
Genaro Anthony Sirico Jr. was an American actor. Often cast as a mobster, he is known for portraying Paulie Gualtieri in The Sopranos.
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2025 Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles

American writer (born 1943)
Paulette Kay Jiles was an American poet, memoirist and novelist.
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