Died on Friday, 8th August – Famous Deaths

08/08/2024

Issa Hayatou, Cameroonian basketball player and football executive (born 1946)

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. He served as the acting FIFA president until 26 February 2016 as the previous president Sepp Blatter was banned from all football-related activities in 2015 as a part of the that year's FIFA corruption investigation. In 2002, he ran for president of FIFA but was defeated by Blatter. He was also a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

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Mitzi McCall, American actress (born 1930)

Mitzi McCall was an American comedian and actress. She was known for her work with her husband, Charlie Brill, and their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, the same episode that featured the first appearance of The Beatles on the show.

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Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Puerto Rican professional golfer (born 1935)

Juan Antonio "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez was a Puerto Rican professional golfer. The winner of eight PGA Tour events, he was the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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Steve Symms, American politician and lobbyist (born 1938)

Steven Douglas Symms was an American politician and lobbyist who served as a four-term congressman (1973–1981) and two-term U.S. senator (1981–1993), representing Idaho. He later became a partner at Parry, Romani, DeConcini & Symms, a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.

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08/08/2023

Rodriguez, American singer and songwriter (born 1942)

Sixto Diaz Rodríguez, mononymously known as Rodríguez, was an American musician from Detroit, Michigan.

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08/08/2022

Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress (born 1948)

Dame Olivia Newton-John was a British and Australian singer, songwriter and actress. With over 100 million records sold, Newton-John is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the highest-selling female Australian recording artist of all time.

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08/08/2021

Bill Davis, Canadian politician, 18th premier of Ontario (born 1929)

William Grenville Davis was a Canadian politician who served as the 18th premier of Ontario from 1971 to 1985. Behind Oliver Mowat, Davis was the second-longest serving premier of Ontario.

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08/08/2020

Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian football player and manager (born 1929)

Gabriel Ochoa Uribe was a Colombian football player and manager. He won four league titles and the Copa Colombia with Millonarios as a player and fourteen league titles as a manager, making him the most successful Colombian coach of all time.

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Alfredo Lim, former Philippine senator and Mayor of Manila (born 1929)

Alfredo "Fred" Siojo Lim was a Filipino politician, police officer and lawyer who served as a Senator of the Philippines from 2004 to 2007, He also served as the 23rd and 25th Mayor of Manila twice: first from 1992 to 1998, and again from 2007 to 2013.

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08/08/2018

Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field athlete (born 1990)

Nicholas Kiplagat Bett was a Kenyan track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metres hurdles. His personal best for the event is 47.79 seconds. He was a world champion in the event, having won in 2015, and a two-time bronze medallist at the African Championships in Athletics. He died in a road accident in Kenya at the age of 28.

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08/08/2017

Glen Campbell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1936)

Glen Travis Campbell was an American country musician and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from 1969 until 1972. A revered session guitarist before breaking through as a solo performer, Campbell released 64 albums in a career that spanned five decades, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album.

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08/08/2015

Sean Price, American rapper (born 1972)

Sean Duval Price was an American rapper and member of the hip-hop collective Boot Camp Clik. He was one half of the duo Heltah Skeltah, performing under the name Ruck, along with partner Rock.

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Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1925)

James Angus Gerald "Old Hardrock" Mortson was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks, and Detroit Red Wings, winning four Stanley Cups with Toronto. He also played in eight NHL All-Star Games.

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08/08/2014

Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (born 1929)

Menahem Golan was an Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director. He co-owned The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. Cannon specialized in producing low-to-mid-budget American films, primarily genre films, during the 1980s after Golan and Globus had achieved significant filmmaking success in Israel during the 1970s.

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Charles Keating, English-American actor (born 1941)

Charles Keating was an English actor.

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Leonardo Legaspi, Filipino archbishop (born 1935)

Leonardo Zamora Legaspi, OP was a Filipino prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. He was best known for his tenure as the third archbishop of Caceres from 1984 to 2012 and being the first Filipino appointed as Rector Magnificus of the University of Santo Tomas in 1970.

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Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (born 1929)

Peter Joshua Sculthorpe FAHA was a distinguished Australian composer and music educator. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries neighbouring Australia, as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of Aboriginal Australian music with that of the heritage of the West. He was known primarily for his orchestral and chamber music, such as Kakadu (1988) and Earth Cry (1986), which evoke the sounds and feeling of the Australian bushland and outback. He also wrote 18 string quartets, using unusual timbral effects, works for piano, and two operas. He stated that he wanted his music to make people feel better and happier for having listened to it. He typically avoided the dense, atonal techniques of many of his contemporary composers. His work was often characterised by its distinctive use of percussion. As one of the compositional pioneers of a distinctively Australian sound, Sculthorpe and his music have been likened to the role played by Aaron Copland in America's musical coming of age.

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Red Wilson, American football and baseball player (born 1929)

Robert James "Red" Wilson was an American professional baseball and college baseball and football player. He played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox (1951–1954), Detroit Tigers (1954–1960), and Cleveland Indians (1960), primarily as a catcher.

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08/08/2013

Karen Black, American actress (born 1939)

Karen Blanche Black was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She 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. Her career spanned 50 years and includes nearly 200 credits in both independent and mainstream films. Black received numerous accolades throughout her career, including two Golden Globe Awards, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

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Johannes Bluyssen, Dutch bishop (born 1926)

Johannes Willem Maria Bluyssen or Bluijssen was a Dutch Catholic bishop.

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Fernando Castro Pacheco, Mexican painter, engraver, and illustrator (born 1918)

Fernando Castro Pacheco was a Mexican painter, engraver, illustrator, printmaker and teacher. As well as being known for traditional artistic forms, Castro Pacheco illustrated several children’s books and produced works in sculpture. He is more popularly known for his murals that invoke the spirit and history of the Mexican people. His works evoke a unique use of color and form.

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Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (born 1985)

Igor Kurnosov was a Russian chess grandmaster.

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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. She began her career as a soprano in 1942 and soon after began a lengthy and fruitful relationship with the Metropolitan Opera that spanned from 1944 until 1983. Under the advice of conductor Clemens Krauss, she began retraining her voice in the mezzo-soprano repertoire in 1953 and by 1956 had completely removed soprano literature from her performance repertoire.

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08/08/2012

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, German-American physicist and academic (born 1926)

Fay Ajzenberg-Selove was an American nuclear physicist. She was known for her experimental work in nuclear spectroscopy of light elements, and for her annual reviews of the energy levels of light atomic nuclei. She was a recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Science.

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Ruth Etchells, English poet and academic (born 1931)

Dorothea Ruth Etchells was an English poet and college principal who spent most of her working life in the University of Durham.

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Surya Lesmana, Indonesian footballer and manager (born 1944)

Liem Soei Liang, also known as Surya Lesmana was an Indonesian association football player and manager. Lesmana played midfielder for Persija Jakarta and the Indonesia national team, He also played for Mackinnons in Hong Kong.

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Kurt Maetzig, German director and screenwriter (born 1911)

Kurt Maetzig was a German film director who had a significant effect on the film industry in East Germany. He was one of the most respected filmmakers of the GDR. After his retirement he lived in Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg, and had three children.

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08/08/2010

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 Face in the Crowd (1957), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and the worn-out housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963). She 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. A major star of the 1950s and 1960s, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and two British Academy Film Awards, and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards.

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08/08/2009

Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (born 1983)

Daniel Jarque González was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a central defender and spent his entire career with Espanyol. He was named team captain one month before his death from a heart attack at the age of 26.

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08/08/2008

Orville Moody, American golfer (born 1933)

Orville James Moody was an American professional golfer who won numerous tournaments in his career. He won the U.S. Open in 1969, the last champion in the 20th century to win through local and sectional qualifying.

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08/08/2007

Ma Lik, Chinese journalist and politician (born 1952)

Ma Lik, GBS, JP, was a Legislative Councillor, and was the Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong.

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Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1917)

Melville Shavelson was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author. He was President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw) from 1969 to 1971, 1979 to 1981, and 1985 to 1987.

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08/08/2005

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. She received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two Tony Awards. 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). In theatre, she is best remembered as Maggie in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955.

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Ahmed Deedat, South African missionary and author (born 1918)

Ahmed Husein Deedat was a South African-Indian Islamic author, intellectual, and orator on comparative religion. He was best known as a Muslim missionary, who held numerous inter-religious public debates with evangelical Christians, as well as video lectures on Islam, Christianity, and the Bible.

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John H. Johnson, American publisher, founded the Johnson Publishing Company (born 1918)

John Harold Johnson was an American business executive and publisher. He was the founder in 1942 of the Johnson Publishing Company, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson's company, with its creation of Ebony (1945) and Jet (1951) magazines, was among the most influential African-American business in media in the second half of the twentieth century, peaking at 9 million subscribers.

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Gene Mauch, American baseball player and manager (born 1925)

Gene William Mauch was an American professional baseball player and manager who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates (1947), Chicago Cubs (1948–1949), Boston Braves (1950–1951), St. Louis Cardinals (1952) and Boston Red Sox (1956–1957).

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Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler, and coach (born 1912)

Dean Ladrath Rockwell ) was a decorated World War II group commander in the D-Day invasion, an Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling coach, and a college football coach.

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Monica Sjöö, Swedish-English painter (born 1938)

Monica Sjöö was a Swedish-born British-based painter, writer and radical anarcho/ eco-feminist and peace activist who was an early exponent of the Goddess movement. Her books and paintings were foundational to the development of feminist art in Britain, beginning at the time of the founding of the women's liberation movement around 1970.

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08/08/2004

Leon Golub, American painter and academic (born 1922)

Leon Golub was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, and his BFA and MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively.

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Fay Wray, Canadian-American actress (born 1907)

Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress best known for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attained international recognition as an actress in horror films. She has been dubbed the first "scream queen".

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08/08/2003

Dirk Hoogendam, Dutch-German SS officer and war criminal (born 1922)

Dirk Hoogendam, a.k.a. Dieter Hohendamm, alias The Boxer, was a Dutch war criminal.

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Falaba Issa Traoré, Malian director and playwright (born 1930)

Falaba Issa Traoré was a Malian writer, comedian, playwright, and theatre and film director.

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08/08/1998

Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist (born 1968)

Mahmoud Saremi was an Iranian reporter, working for IRNA, as the news agency's head of office in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. He was killed by the Taliban when they occupied the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, together with eight Iranian diplomats.

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08/08/1996

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. The Prize was shared with Philip W. Anderson and John Van Vleck. The three had conducted loosely related research. Mott and Anderson clarified the reasons why magnetic or amorphous materials can sometimes be metallic and sometimes insulating.

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Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (born 1927)

Jüri Randviir was an Estonian chess player and journalist, who four times won the Estonian Chess Championship.

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08/08/1992

Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (born 1899)

Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khoei was a major Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja and Dean of the Hawza of Najaf. Khoei was widely considered the most influential Twelver Shia Muslim scholar of his time.

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08/08/1991

James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut, eighth man to walk on the moon (born 1930)

James Benson Irwin was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. He served as Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landing. He was the eighth person to walk on the Moon.

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08/08/1988

Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)

Félix Leclerc was a Quebecer singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968. Leclerc was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame for his songs "Moi, mes souliers", "Le P'tit Bonheur" and "Le Tour de l'île" in 2006.

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Alan Napier, English actor (born 1903)

Alan William Napier-Clavering, better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor. After a decade in West End theatre, he had a long film career in Britain and later on in Hollywood. Napier is best remembered for portraying Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler in the 1960s live-action Batman television series.

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08/08/1987

Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (born 1903)

Danilo Blanuša was a Croatian mathematician, physicist, engineer and a professor at the University of Zagreb.

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08/08/1985

Louise Brooks, American actress (born 1906)

Mary Louise Brooks was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career.

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08/08/1984

Richard Deacon, American actor (born 1921)

Richard Lewis Deacon was an American television and motion picture actor, best known for playing supporting roles in television shows such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave It to Beaver, and The Jack Benny Program, along with minor roles in films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).

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Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (born 1928)

Ellen Raskin was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975.

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08/08/1982

Eric Brandon, English racing driver and businessman (born 1920)

Eric Brandon was a motor racing driver and businessman. He was closely associated with the Cooper Car Company, and was instrumental in the early development of the company.

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08/08/1981

Thomas McElwee, Irish republican, PIRA volunteer and Hunger Striker (born 1957)

Thomas McElwee was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer who participated in the 1981 hunger strike. From Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, he died at the age of 23 after 62 days on hunger strike.

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08/08/1980

Paul Triquet, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1910)

Brigadier-General Paul Triquet was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for valour in the presence of the enemy that can be awarded to British and other Commonwealth forces. Triquet held the rank of captain at the time of his VC award and went on to achieve the rank of brigadier-general.

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08/08/1979

Nicholas Monsarrat, English lieutenant and author (born 1910)

Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea (1951) and Three Corvettes (1942–1945), but perhaps known best internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.

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08/08/1975

Cannonball Adderley, American saxophonist (born 1928)

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.

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08/08/1974

Elisabeth Abegg, German anti-Nazi resistance fighter (born 1882)

Luise Wilhelmine Elisabeth Abegg was a German educator and resistance fighter against Nazism. She provided shelter to around 80 Jews during the Holocaust and was consequently recognised as Righteous Among the Nations.

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08/08/1973

Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish historian and author (born 1898)

Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg was a Swedish journalist, author, playwright, historian, and debater. His literary career, spanning more than 45 years, is associated with his four‑volume series The Emigrants. The novels, published between 1949 and 1959, deal with the Swedish emigration to the United States in the 19th century. They have been adapted for a total of three movies, and a musical.

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08/08/1971

Freddie Spencer Chapman, English lieutenant (born 1907)

Frederick Spencer Chapman, was a British Army officer and World War II veteran, most famous for his exploits behind enemy lines in Japanese occupied Malaya. His medals include the Distinguished Service Order and Bar, and the Polar Medal. He also received several unofficial awards: the Gill Memorial Medal, Mungo Park Medal, and the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal.

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08/08/1969

Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (born 1896)

Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer was a German human biologist and geneticist, who was the Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Münster until he retired in 1965. A member of the Verschuer family, his title Freiherr is often translated as baron.

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08/08/1965

Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer (born 1916)

Shirley Hardie Jackson was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Her writing career spanned over two decades, during which she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories.

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08/08/1959

Albert Namatjira, Australian painter (born 1902)

Albert Namatjira was an Arrernte painter from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, widely considered one of the most notable Australian artists. As a pioneer of contemporary Indigenous Australian art, he was arguably one of the most famous Indigenous Australians of his generation. He was the first Aboriginal artist to receive popularity from a wide Australian audience.

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08/08/1950

Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman, founded Qantas (born 1879)

Sir Fergus McMaster was an Australian businessman and aviation pioneer. He was one of the three founders of the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited, the airline company that became commonly known by its acronym, Qantas.

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08/08/1944

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. A leading conspirator in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was designated to become commander in chief of the Wehrmacht in a post-Nazi regime, had the plot succeeded. After being dishonourably discharged by the Ehrenhof, he was murdered, after a show trial from the Volksgerichtshof.

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Michael Wittmann, German commander (born 1914)

Michael Wittmann was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World War. He is known for his ambush of elements of the British 7th Armoured Division during the Battle of Villers-Bocage on 13 June 1944. While in command of a Tiger I tank, Wittmann destroyed up to 14 tanks, 15 personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns within 15 minutes before the loss of his own tank.

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08/08/1940

Johnny Dodds, American clarinet player and saxophonist (born 1892)

Johnny Dodds was an American jazz clarinetist and alto saxophonist based in New Orleans, best known for his recordings under his own name and with bands such as those of Joe "King" Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Lovie Austin and Louis Armstrong. Dodds was the older brother of drummer Warren "Baby" Dodds, one of the first important jazz drummers. They worked together in the New Orleans Bootblacks in 1926. Dodds is an important figure in jazz history. He was the premier clarinetist of his era and, in recognition of his artistic contributions, he was posthumously inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame. He has been described as "a prime architect in the creation of the Jazz Age."

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08/08/1937

Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer (born 1897)

James Guthrie was a Scottish motorcycle racer.

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08/08/1934

Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1863)

Wilbert Robinson, nicknamed "Uncle Robbie", was an American catcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Philadelphia Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, and St. Louis Cardinals. He managed the Orioles and Brooklyn Robins. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945.

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08/08/1930

Launceston Elliot, Scottish wrestler and weightlifter (born 1874)

Launceston Elliot was a British weightlifter, and the first athlete representing the United Kingdom to become an Olympic champion.

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08/08/1928

Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician (born 1871)

Stjepan Radić was a Croat politician and the co-founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (HPSS), active in Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

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08/08/1921

Juhani Aho, Finnish journalist and author (born 1861)

Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt, was a Finnish author and journalist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times.

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08/08/1920

Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (born 1855)

Eduard Birnbaum (1855–1920) was a Polish-born German hazzan (cantor) and one of the first explorers of Jewish music.

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08/08/1911

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. House of Representatives, before being elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served for 30 years before dying in office. Frye was a member of the Frye political family, and was the grandfather of Wallace H. White Jr., and the son of John March Frye. He was also a prominent member of the Peucinian Society tradition. To date, Frye is the longest serving Senator in Maine's history.

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08/08/1909

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. Together with Fr Julian Tenison-Woods, she founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, a congregation of religious sisters that established a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, with an emphasis on education for the rural poor.

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08/08/1902

James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (born 1836)

Jacques Joseph Tissot, better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a young age, coming to incorporate elements of realism, early Impressionism, and academic art into his work. He is best known for a variety of genre paintings of contemporary European high society produced during the peak of his career, which focused on the people and women's fashion of the Belle Époque and Victorian England, but he would also explore many medieval, biblical, and Japoniste subjects throughout his life. His career included work as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair under the pseudonym of Coïdé.

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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. Art historians consider Twachtman's style of American Impressionism to be among the more personal and experimental of his generation. He was a member of "The Ten," a loosely-allied group of American artists dissatisfied with professional art organizations, who banded together in 1898 to exhibit their works as a stylistically unified group.

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08/08/1898

Eugène Boudin, French painter (born 1824)

Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "King of the skies".

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08/08/1897

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). He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Sigfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well."

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08/08/1887

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 Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the close of the 1838 Mormon War in that state. He also achieved renown as a leader of American troops during the Mexican–American War, as the author of a legal code that still forms the basis of New Mexico's Bill of Rights, and as a successful defense attorney in the Missouri towns of Liberty, Richmond and Independence.

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08/08/1879

Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (born 1797)

Immanuel Hermann Fichte was a German philosopher and son of Johann Gottlieb Fichte. In his philosophy, he was a theist and strongly opposed to the Hegelian school.

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08/08/1863

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 inches (2.36 m), now equal largest after Olivier Rioux matched his height in 2024. He also had the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man at 80 inches (203 cm). He is the second tallest verified man from the United Kingdom.

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08/08/1858

Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Haitian Empress (born 1758)

Empress Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Empress of Haiti was the Empress of Haiti (1804–1806) as the wife of Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

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08/08/1828

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. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala University, he spent seven years travelling in southern Africa and Asia, collecting and describing many plants and animals new to European science, and observing local cultures. He has been called "the father of South African botany", "pioneer of Occidental Medicine in Japan", and the "Japanese Linnaeus".

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08/08/1827

George Canning, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1770)

George Canning was a British Tory statesman. He held various senior cabinet positions under numerous prime ministers, including two important terms as foreign secretary, finally becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the last 119 days of his life, from April to August 1827.

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08/08/1759

Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (born 1704)

Carl Heinrich Graun was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.

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08/08/1747

Madeleine de Verchères, Canadian raid leader (born 1678)

Marie-Madeleine Jarret, known as Madeleine de Verchères was a woman of New France credited with repelling a raid on Fort Verchères when she was 14 years old.

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08/08/1746

Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (born 1694)

Francis Hutcheson was an Irish philosopher of Scottish descent widely regarded as one of the key figures of the early Scottish Enlightenment. He served as Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and was a major advocate of moral sense theory, which holds that humans possess an innate sense that guides moral judgments. Hutcheson is best known for his ethical writings, in which he defends benevolence as the primary source of moral virtue and anticipates later utilitarian theories with his formulation of "the greatest happiness for the greatest number".

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08/08/1724

Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (born 1665)

Christoph Ludwig Agricola was a German landscape painter and etcher. He was born and died in Regensburg (Ratisbon).

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08/08/1684

George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, English politician (born 1622)

George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, was an English landowner and politician from Cheshire, who served as an MP from 1646 to 1661, when he was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Delamer.

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08/08/1631

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 Commonwealth. He was a Jesuit priest, a professor at the Academia Vilnensis, and the author of, among other works, the first grammar of the Lithuanian language and the first trilingual dictionary in Lithuanian, Latin, and Polish (1619). Famous for his eloquence, Sirvydas spent 10 years of his life preaching sermons at St. Johns' Church in Vilnius.

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08/08/1616

Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (born 1548)

Cornelis or Cornelius Ketel was a Dutch Mannerist painter, active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581, and in Amsterdam till his death. Ketel, known essentially as a portrait-painter, was also a poet and orator, and from 1595 a sculptor as well.

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08/08/1604

Horio Tadauji, Japanese daimyō (born 1578)

Horio Tadauji was a tozama daimyō in the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo period. His father was Horio Yoshiharu. He was the second leader of the Matsue clan.

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08/08/1588

Alonso Sánchez Coello, Spanish painter (born 1532)

Alonso Sánchez Coello was an Iberian portrait painter of the Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance. He is mainly known for his portrait paintings executed in a style which combines the objectivity of the Flemish tradition with the sensuality of Venetian painting. He was court painter to Philip II.

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08/08/1555

Oronce Finé, French mathematician and cartographer (born 1494)

Oronce Fine was a French mathematician, cartographer, editor and book illustrator.

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08/08/1533

Lucas van Leyden, Dutch artist (born 1494)

Lucas van Leyden, also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and was a very accomplished engraver.

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08/08/1303

Henry of Castile the Senator, Spanish nobleman (born 1230)

Henry of Castile, called the Senator, was a Castilian infante, the fourth son of Ferdinand III of Castile by his first wife, Beatrice of Swabia.

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08/08/1171

Henry of Blois, bishop of Winchester (born 1111)

Henry of Blois, often known as Henry of Winchester, was Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey from 1126, and Bishop of Winchester from 1129 to his death.

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08/08/1002

Almanzor, chief minister and de facto ruler of Córdoba

Abu ʿAmer Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Abi ʿAmer al-Maʿafiri, nicknamed al-Manṣūr, which is often Latinized as Almanzor in Spanish, Almansor in Catalan and Almançor in Portuguese, was a Muslim Arab Andalusi military leader and statesman. As the chancellor of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba and hajib (chamberlain) for Caliph Hisham II, Almanzor was effectively ruler of Islamic Iberia.

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08/08/0998

Sŏ Hŭi, Korean politician and diplomat (born 942)

Sŏ Hŭi was a Korean politician and diplomat during the early days of the Goryeo period. His art name was Yŏmyun and his posthumous name was Changwi. Sŏ is best remembered for his diplomatic skills that led 60,000 Khitan troops to withdraw from Goryeo.

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08/08/0869

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. Lothair began a relationship with Waldrada in his adolescence. By the time of his accession in September 855, he seems to have still loved her. However, the king was forced to marry Teutberga of the Bosonids and ally with her brother Hucbert to maintain his position. Lothair put away Teutberga as Hucbert's importance waned, but after she passed a trial by ordeal he was forced to take her back. Hucbert died in revolt in 864 after being replaced in Lothair's court.

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08/08/0753

Hildegar, bishop of Cologne

Hildegar was the bishop of Cologne from 750. Probably of noble birth, he was a supporter of the Carolingians, who displaced the Merovingians in 751.

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08/08/0117

Trajan, Roman emperor (born 53)

Year 117 (CXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Niger and Apronianus. The denomination 117 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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