Deaths on 8 August
2000s
Issa Hayatou
2024
Cameroonian basketball player and football executive (1946–2024)
Mitzi McCall
2024
American actress (1930–2024)
Chi-Chi Rodríguez
2024
Puerto Rican professional golfer (1935–2024)
Steve Symms
2024
American politician and lobbyist (1938–2024)
Sixto Rodriguez
2023
American musician (1942–2023)
Olivia Newton-John
2022
British and Australian singer and actress (1948–2022)
Bill Davis
2021
18th premier of Ontario (1929–2021)
Gabriel Ochoa Uribe
2020
Colombian footballer and manager (1929–2020)
Alfredo Lim
2020
Filipino politician (1929–2020)
Nicholas Bett
2018
Kenyan hurdler (1990–2018)
Glen Campbell
2017
American musician (1936–2017)
Sean Price
2015
American rapper (1972–2015)
Gus Mortson
2015
Ice hockey player
Menahem Golan
2014
Israeli film director and producer (1929–2014)
Charles Keating (actor)
2014
English actor (1941–2014)
Leonardo Legaspi
2014
Filipino archbishop
Peter Sculthorpe
2014
Australian composer (1929–2014)
Red Wilson (baseball)
2014
American baseball and football player (1929–2014)
Karen Black
2013
American actress, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter (1939–2013)
Johannes Bluyssen
2013
20th and 21st-century Dutch Catholic bishop
Fernando Castro Pacheco
2013
Mexican artist (1918–2013)
Igor Kurnosov
2013
Russian chess grandmaster (1985–2013)
Regina Resnik
2013
American opera singer (1922–2013)
Fay Ajzenberg-Selove
2012
American nuclear physicist
Ruth Etchells
2012
English poet, literary scholar and churchwoman
Surya Lesmana
2012
Indonesian footballer and manager (1944–2012)
Kurt Maetzig
2012
German film director
Patricia Neal
2010
American stage and film actress (1926–2010)
Daniel Jarque
2009
Spanish footballer (1983–2009)
Orville Moody
2008
American professional golfer (1933–2008)
Ma Lik
2007
Hong Kong politician (1952–2007)
Melville Shavelson
2007
American screenwriter
Barbara Bel Geddes
2005
American actress (1922–2005)
Ahmed Deedat
2005
South African–Indian Islamic orator and author (1918–2005)
John H. Johnson
2005
American businessman and publisher (1918–2005)
Gene Mauch
2005
American baseball player and manager (1925–2005)
Dean Rockwell
2005
American wrestler and coach
Monica Sjöö
2005
Swedish painter, writer and anarcho/eco-feminist
Leon Golub
2004
American painter (1922–2004)
Fay Wray
2004
American actress (1907–2004)
Dirk Hoogendam
2003
Dutch war criminal (1922–2003)
Falaba Issa Traoré
2003
1900s
Mahmoud Saremi
1998
Iranian reporter killed by the Taliban in 1998
Nevill Mott
1996
British theoretical physicist (1905–1996)
Jüri Randviir
1996
Estonian chess player and journalist
Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei
1992
Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' (1899–1992)
James Irwin
1991
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1991)
Félix Leclerc
1988
Quebecer singer-songwriter
Alan Napier
1988
English actor (1903–1988)
Danilo Blanuša
1987
Croatian Serb mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1903–1987)
Louise Brooks
1985
American actress (1906–1985)
Richard Deacon (actor)
1984
American actor (1922–1984)
Ellen Raskin
1984
American writer and illustrator (1928–1984)
Eric Brandon
1982
British racing driver (1920–1982)
Thomas McElwee
1981
Provisional IRA member
Paul Triquet
1980
Canadian Army general (1910–1980)
Nicholas Monsarrat
1979
English writer (1910–1979)
Cannonball Adderley
1975
American jazz saxophonist (1928–1975)
Elisabeth Abegg
1974
German educator and Righteous Among the Nations recipient
Vilhelm Moberg
1973
Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater
Freddie Spencer Chapman
1971
British Army officer and World War II veteran
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer
1969
German biologist, National Socialist, and geneticist (1896–1969)
Shirley Jackson
1965
American novelist, short-story writer (1916–1965)
Albert Namatjira
1959
Australian painter (1902–1959)
Fergus McMaster
1950
Australian businessman and aviator (1879–1950)
Erwin von Witzleben
1944
Field Marshal of Nazi Germany (1881–1944)
Michael Wittmann
1944
German tank commander (1914–1944)
Johnny Dodds
1940
American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist (1892–1940)
Jimmie Guthrie
1937
Scottish motorcycle racer
Wilbert Robinson
1934
American baseball player and manager (1864–1934)
Launceston Elliot
1930
Scottish weightlifter
Stjepan Radić
1928
Croatian politician (1871–1928)
Juhani Aho
1921
Finnish author and journalist (1861–1921)
Eduard Birnbaum
1920
Polish-born German cantor
William P. Frye
1911
American politician from Maine (1830–1911)
Mary MacKillop
1909
Australian religious sister and saint (1842–1909)
James Tissot
1902
French painter and illustrator (1836–1902)
John Henry Twachtman
1902
American impressionist painter (1853–1902)
1800s
Eugène Boudin
1898
French painter
Jacob Burckhardt
1897
Swiss historian (1818–1897)
Alexander William Doniphan
1887
American attorney, soldier and politician (1808–1887)
Immanuel Hermann Fichte
1879
German philosopher (1796–1879)
Angus MacAskill
1863
Strongman champion (1825–1863)
Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité
1858
Haitian empress
Carl Peter Thunberg
1828
Swedish naturalist (1743–1828)
George Canning
1827
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1827
Before 1800
Carl Heinrich Graun
1759
German composer and tenor (1704–1759)
Madeleine de Verchères
1747
Canadian battle hero
Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
1746
Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)
Christoph Ludwig Agricola
1724
German landscape painter (1667–1719)
George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer
1684
17th-century English parliamentarian
Konstantinas Sirvydas
1631
Lithuanian lexicographer (d. 1631)
Cornelis Ketel
1616
Dutch painter (1548–1616)
Horio Tadauji
1604
Alonso Sánchez Coello
1588
Spanish painter (1531/1532���1588)
Oronce Fine
1555
French mathematician and cartographer
Lucas van Leyden
1533
Dutch painter (1494–1534)
Henry of Castile the Senator
1303
Castilian infante
Henry of Blois
1171
English bishop (c. 1096–1171)
Almanzor
1002
Andalusian military leader and statesman (c. 938–1002)
Sŏ Hŭi
998
Korean politician and diplomat (942–998)
Lothair II
869
King of Lotharingia from 855 to 869
Hildegar (bishop of Cologne)
753
AD 117
117
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