August 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 461 – Majorian, Roman emperor (b. 420)
• 479 – Emperor Yūryaku of Japan
• 1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
• 1485 – Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany (b. 1454)
• 1613 – Thomas Fleming, English judge (b. 1544)
• 1616 – Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548)
• 1635 – Friedrich Spee, German writer (b. 1591)
• 1639 – Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist (b. 1605)
• 1661 – Jin Shengtan, Chinese writer, editor, and critic (b. 1608)
• 1817 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
• 1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
• 1848 – Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (b. 1779)
• 1855 – Mariano Arista, Mexican politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
• 1864 – Li Xiucheng, Chinese general (b. 1823)
• 1893 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (b. 1854)
• 1899 – Jacob Maris, Dutch painter (b. 1837)
• 1904 – Louis Dutfoy, French target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1912 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss scientist (b. 1841)
• 1917 – Edwin Harris Dunning, English pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1946 – George Wilkinson, English water polo player (b. 1879)
• 1948 – Charles Bryant, English actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 – Abner Powell, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1957 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
• 1960 – Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine Boxer (b. 1894)
• 1969 – Joseph Kosma, French composer (b. 1905)
• 1970 – Harold Haley, American judge (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Jonathan P. Jackson, bodyguard and negotiator of the Marin County Civic Center shootout (b. 1953)
• 1972 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress (b. 1929)
• 1972 – Aspasia Manos, Greek wife of king Alexander of Greece (b. 1896)
• 1973 – Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1974 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet (b. 1925)
• 1974 – Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1984 – Esther Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
• 1985 – Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1987 – Camille Chamoun, Lebanese politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
• 1989 – Mickey Leland, American politician (b. 1944)
• 1991 – Billy T. James, New Zealand comedian and actor (b. 1944)
• 1992 – John Anderson, American actor (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)
• 1995 – Brigid Brophy, English author (b. 1929)
• 1999 – Brion James, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2003 – Mickey McDermott, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Colin Bibby, English ornithologist (b. 1948)
• 2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Mary Anderson Bain, American politician (b. 1911)
• 2007 – Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Hal Fishman, American journalist (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Angus Tait, New Zealand businessman, founded Tait Communications (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer (b. 1957)
• 2009 – Louis E. Saavedra, American politician, 48th Mayor of Albuquerque (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Mike Seeger, American singer-songwriter and musician (New Lost City Ramblers) (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Roberto Cantoral, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
• 2011 – Mark Hatfield, American politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (b. 1922)
• 2011 – Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English war agent (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer and actor (Flower Travellin' Band and The Wailers Band) (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani politician (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Judith Crist, American critic (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Vladimir Vasilyevich Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Anna Piaggi, Italian writer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Veljko Rogošić, Croatian swimmer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Hans Hammond Rossbach, Norwegian politician (b. 1931)
• 2012 – John Joseph Swaine, Hong Kong politician (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Marvin Lee Wilson, American convicted murderer (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Mayer Zald, American sociologist
• 2012 – Dušan Zbavitel, Czech indologist and author (b. 1925)