Deaths on 8 July
2000s
Edward D. DiPrete
2025
American politician (1934–2025)
Paulette Jiles
2025
American writer (1943–2025)
Shinzo Abe
2022
Prime Minister of Japan (2006–2007; 2012–2020)
Larry Storch
2022
American actor (1923–2022)
Luis Echeverría
2022
President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976
Tony Sirico
2022
American actor (1942–2022)
Naya Rivera
2020
American actress and singer (1987–2020)
Alex Pullin
2020
Australian snowboarder (1987–2020)
Tab Hunter
2018
American actor, singer, film producer, and author (1931–2018)
Abdul Sattar Edhi
2016
Pakistani philanthropist (1928-2016)
Ken Stabler
2015
American football player (1945–2015)
James Tate (writer)
2015
American poet
Plínio de Arruda Sampaio
2014
Brazilian politician
John Evans (Idaho politician)
2014
American politician
Ben Pangelinan
2014
American politician
Howard Siler
2014
American bobsledder
Tom Veryzer
2014
American baseball player (1953–2014)
Dick Gray
2013
American baseball player (1931–2013)
Edmund Morgan (historian)
2013
American historian (1916–2013)
Rincón (footballer, born 1980)
2013
Footballer (1980–2013)
Rubby Sherr
2013
American nuclear physicist (1913–2013)
Sundri Uttamchandani
2013
Indian writer of Sindhi language
Brett Walker
2013
American singer-songwriter
Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud
2012
Saudi royal and politician (1934–2012)
Ernest Borgnine
2012
American actor (1917–2012)
Gyang Dalyop Datong
2012
Nigerian physician and politician
Martin Pakledinaz
2012
American costume designer
Roberts Blossom
2011
American actor and poet (1924–2011)
Betty Ford
2011
First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Midnight (musician)
2009
American singer (1962–2009)
John Templeton
2008
American-British financial manager and philanthropist (1912–2008)
Chandra Shekhar
2007
Prime Minister of India from 1990 to 1991
Jack B. Sowards
2007
TV and Screenwriter (1929–2007)
June Allyson
2006
American actress (1917–2006)
Maurice Baquet
2005
French actor and cellist (1911–2005)
Paula Danziger
2004
American children's book author
Ward Kimball
2002
American animator and jazz trombonist (1914–2002)
John O'Shea (director)
2001
New Zealand filmmaker
1900s
Pete Conrad
1999
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1999)
Lilí Álvarez
1998
Spanish tennis player
Irene Prador
1996
Austrian actress and writer (1911–1996)
Christian-Jaque
1994
French filmmaker (1904–1994)
Kim Il Sung
1994
Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994
Lars-Eric Lindblad
1994
Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (1927–1994)
Dick Sargent
1994
American actor (1930–1994)
Abul Hasan Jashori
1993
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (1918–1993)
James Franciscus
1991
American actor (1934–1991)
Howard Duff
1990
American actor (1913–1990)
Ray Barbuti
1988
American football player and sprint runner (1905–1988)
Lionel Chevrier
1987
Canadian Member of Parliament
Gerardo Diego
1987
Spanish poet (1896–1987)
Skeeter Webb
1986
American baseball player (1909–1986)
Phil Foster
1985
American actor (1913–1985)
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
1985
French film director
Joe McDonnell (hunger striker)
1981
Irish hunger striker and IRA volunteer
Bill Hallahan
1981
American baseball player (1902–1981)
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
1979
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
Michael Wilding
1979
English actor (1912–1979)
Robert Burns Woodward
1979
American chemist (1917–1979)
Gene L. Coon
1973
American screenwriter, TV producer and novelist, best known for his work on Star Trek
Ben-Zion Dinur
1973
Israeli politician and historian (1884–1973)
Wilfred Rhodes
1973
English cricketer (1877–1973)
Ghassan Kanafani
1972
Palestinian author and militant (1936–1972)
Kurt Reidemeister
1971
German mathematician (1893–1971)
Désiré Mérchez
1968
French swimmer (1882–1968)
Vivien Leigh
1967
British actress (1913–1967)
T. S. Stribling
1965
American novelist (1881–1965)
Giovanni Papini
1956
Italian writer (1881–1956)
August Alle
1952
Estonian writer and poet
Othmar Spann
1950
Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist (1878–1950)
Jean Moulin
1943
French Resistance hero (1899–1943)
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey
1942
French general during World War I (1856–1942)
Refik Saydam
1942
4th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from 1939 to 1942
Moses Schorr
1941
Polish historian and rabbi (1874–1941)
Havelock Ellis
1939
British physician, eugenicist, writer, and social reformer (1859–1939)
Benjamin Baillaud
1934
French astronomer (1848–1934)
Anthony Hope
1933
English novelist (1863-1933)
Joseph Ward
1930
Prime Minister of New Zealand (1906–1912, 1928–1930)
Ellen Oliver (suffragette)
1921
Purity activist and Southcottian from Guernsey
Tom Thomson
1917
Canadian painter (1877–1917)
Louis Hémon
1913
French writer (1880–1913)
Walter Kittredge
1905
1800s
Johann Josef Loschmidt
1895
Austrian scientist (1821–1895)
Ben Holladay
1887
American businessman (1819–1887)
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
1873
German painter and lithographer (1805–1873)
Oscar I of Sweden
1859
King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to 1859
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
1850
British prince (1774–1850)
Henry Raeburn
1823
Scottish portrait painter (1756–1823)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1822
English poet (1792–1822)
Before 1800
Richard Mique
1794
French architect (1728–1794)
Torbern Bergman
1784
Swedish chemist and mineralogist
Elihu Yale
1721
British colonial administrator and namesake of Yale College
Robert South
1716
English churchman
Christiaan Huygens
1695
Dutch mathematician and physicist (1629–1695)
Edward Wooster
1689
Pope Gregory XV
1623
Head of the Catholic Church from 1621 to 1623
Diego de Almagro
1538
Spanish conquistador (1475–1538)
Albert of Saxony (philosopher)
1390
German theologian and philosopher (c.1320-1390)
Adolf IV of Holstein
1261
Count of Holstein
Theobald I of Navarre
1253
King of Navarre from 1234 to 1253
Pope Eugene III
1153
Head of the Catholic Church from 1145 to 1153
Edgar, King of England
975
King of the English from 959 to 975
Grimbald of Saint-Bertin
901
9th-century Benedictine monk
Qatr al-Nada
900
Wife of Abbasid caliph Al-Mu'tadid (died 900)
Gunther (archbishop of Cologne)
873
Archbishop of Cologne from 850 to 863
Pepin of Italy
810
King of Italy, son of Charlemagne (777–810)
Saint Kilian
689
German-Irish saint