August 8 Deaths |
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| August 8th, 2007 (August 08 2007) | Death | Joybubbles, A notable phone phreak. (born in 1949) | |
| August 8th, 2007 (August 08 2007) | Death | Ma Lik, Chinese politician (born in 1952) | |
| August 8th, 2007 (August 08 2007) | Death | Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer, and screenwriter (born in 1917) | |
| August 8th, 2005 (August 08 2005) | Death | Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (born in 1922) | |
| August 8th, 2005 (August 08 2005) | Death | Ahmed Deedat, Islamic scholar (born in 1918) | |
| August 8th, 2005 (August 08 2005) | Death | John H. Johnson, African-American publisher (born in 1918) | |
| August 8th, 2005 (August 08 2005) | Death | Gene Mauch, American athlete (born in 1925) | |
| August 8th, 2005 (August 08 2005) | Death | Monica Sjoo, Swedish artist (born in 1938) | |
| August 8th, 2005 (August 08 2005) | Death | Ilse Werner, German actress (born in 1921) | |
| August 8th, 2004 (August 08 2004) | Death | Fay Wray, American actress (born in 1907) | |
| August 8th, 2004 (August 08 2004) | Death | Dimitris Papamichael, Greek actor (born in 1934) | |
| August 8th, 1998 (August 08 1998) | Death | Mahmoud Saremi, Iranian journalist | |
| August 8th, 1996 (August 08 1996) | Death | Nevill Mott, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1905) | |
| August 8th, 1992 (August 08 1992) | Death | Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qasim Khoei, considered to be the Supreme Shi ite authority at the time of his death | |
| August 8th, 1992 (August 08 1992) | Death | John Kordic, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1965) | |
| August 8th, 1991 (August 08 1991) | Death | James Irwin, astronaut (born in 1930) | |
| August 8th, 1988 (August 08 1988) | Death | Felix Leclerc, Quebec singer and songwriter (born in 1914) | |
| August 8th, 1988 (August 08 1988) | Death | Alan Napier, English actor (born in 1903) | |
| August 8th, 1988 (August 08 1988) | Death | Ramon Valdes, Mexican actor (born in 1923) | |
| August 8th, 1987 (August 08 1987) | Death | Danilo Blanusa, Croatian mathematician (born in 1903) | |
| August 8th, 1985 (August 08 1985) | Death | Louise Brooks, American actress (born in 1906) | |
| August 8th, 1984 (August 08 1984) | Death | Ellen Raskin, American author(b.1928) | |
| August 8th, 1982 (August 08 1982) | Death | Eric Brandon, British racing driver (born in 1920) | |
| August 8th, 1980 (August 08 1980) | Death | Paul Triquet, French Canadian army officer (born in 1910) | |
| August 8th, 1979 (August 08 1979) | Death | Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (born in 1910) | |
| August 8th, 1977 (August 08 1977) | Death | Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1889) | |
| August 8th, 1975 (August 08 1975) | Death | Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (born in 1928) | Julian Quotes |
| August 8th, 1974 (August 08 1974) | Death | Baldur von Schirach, Nazi youth leader (born in 1907) | Baldur von Schirach Quotes |
| August 8th, 1973 (August 08 1973) | Death | Dean Corll, American serial killer (born in 1939) | |
| August 8th, 1973 (August 08 1973) | Death | Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (born in 1898) | |
| August 8th, 1972 (August 08 1972) | Death | Andrea Feldman, American actor (born in 1948) | |
| August 8th, 1969 (August 08 1969) | Death | Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (born in 1896) | |
| August 8th, 1965 (August 08 1965) | Death | Shirley Jackson, American author (born in 1916) | Shirley Jackson Quotes |
| August 8th, 1961 (August 08 1961) | Death | Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera performer (born in 1894) | |
| August 8th, 1950 (August 08 1950) | Death | Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (born in 1879) | |
| August 8th, 1947 (August 08 1947) | Death | Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (born in 1872) | |
| August 8th, 1944 (August 08 1944) | Death | Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (born in 1894) | |
| August 8th, 1944 (August 08 1944) | Death | Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (born in 1881) | |
| August 8th, 1944 (August 08 1944) | Death | Michael Wittmann, German Tank ace and Knight s Cross holder, killed in action, Normandy. (born in 1914) | |
| August 8th, 1940 (August 08 1940) | Death | Johnny Dodds, American musician (born in 1892) | |
| August 8th, 1933 (August 08 1933) | Death | Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (born in 1870) | |
| August 8th, 1928 (August 08 1928) | Death | Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (born in 1871) | |
| August 8th, 1911 (August 08 1911) | Death | William P. Frye, American politician (born in 1830) | |
| August 8th, 1902 (August 08 1902) | Death | James Tissot, French artist (born in 1836) | |
| August 8th, 1898 (August 08 1898) | Death | Eugene Boudin, French painter (born in 1824) | |
| August 8th, 1897 (August 08 1897) | Death | Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (born in 1818) | |
| August 8th, 1887 (August 08 1887) | Death | Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (born in 1808) | William Alexander Quotes |
| August 8th, 1879 (August 08 1879) | Death | Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (born in 1797) | Philo Quotes |
| August 8th, 1863 (August 08 1863) | Death | Angus MacAskill known as Giant MacAskill , circus performer (b.1825) | |
| August 8th, 1828 (August 08 1828) | Death | Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (born in 1743) | |
| August 8th, 1827 (August 08 1827) | Death | George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1770) | George Canning Quotes |
| August 8th, 1759 (August 08 1759) | Death | Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (born in 1704) | |
| August 8th, 1747 (August 08 1747) | Death | Madeleine de Vercheres, New France heroine (born in 1678) | |
| August 8th, 1684 (August 08 1684) | Death | George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer (born in 1622) | |
| August 8th, 1631 (August 08 1631) | Death | Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (born in 1579) | |
| August 8th, 1604 (August 08 1604) | Death | Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (born in 1578) | |
| August 8th, 1588 (August 08 1588) | Death | Alonso Sanchez Coello, Spanish painter | |
| August 8th, 1555 (August 08 1555) | Death | Oronce Fine, French mathematician (born in 1494) | |
| August 8th, 1553 (August 08 1553) | Death | Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (born in 1478) | |
| August 8th, 1445 (August 08 1445) | Death | Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer | |
| August 8th, 0869 (August 08 0869) | Death | Lothair II of Lotharingia (born in 825) | |
