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August 8, 2005 John H. Johnson, American Businessman August 8, 2004 Fay Wray, actress, the original King Kong, dies at 96 August 8, 2004 "Robert ""Gypsy Boots"" Bootzin", actor/gadfly, The Gypsy in Me, dies at 89 August 8, 1999 Harry Walker, American Athlete August 8, 1997 Duncan Swift, jazz pianist, dies at 54 August 8, 1996 Didi Duprat, French guitarist, dies at 69 August 8, 1996 Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89 August 8, 1996 George Richard Samways, children's writer, dies at 101 August 8, 1996 Herbert Huncke, writer, dies at 80 August 8, 1996 Julian Stryjkowski, writer, dies at 91 August 8, 1996 Nevill Francis Mott, physicist, dies at 90 August 8, 1995 David Begelman, film producer, dies at 73 August 8, 1994 Henriette Santer, clinical psychologist, dies at 62 August 8, 1994 Leonid Leonov, Russian playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95 August 8, 1994 Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/Playwright, dies at 94 August 8, 1994 Robin Cavendish, disabled Campaigner, dies at 64 August 8, 1993 Harry Bellaver, actor (Blue Collar, Old Man and the Sea), dies at 88 August 8, 1993 Lou van Raised, impresario, dies at 77 August 8, 1993 Roy London, U.S. actor and director (Tiger Warsaw), dies of lymphoma at 50 August 8, 1993 Marian Anderson, American Musician August 8, 1992 Abul Qassim Khoei, Iraqi great-ayatollah/leader of Sjiieten, dies August 8, 1992 Alison L Gertz, U.S. aids-activist/Esquire women of year, dies of aids August 8, 1992 Arthur Lang, U.S. boxer/businessman, dies at 115 August 8, 1992 Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies August 8, 1992 Lou Krugman, actor (I Want to Live), dies of cancer at 78 August 8, 1992 Thomas J McIntyre, U.S., senator/writer (Fear Brokers), dies August 8, 1991 Brad Davis, actor (Sybil, Midnight Express), dies of AIDS at 41 August 8, 1991 James B Irwin, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15), dies at 61 August 8, 1991 John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies August 8, 1991 Magdalena G Schenk, historical (Vorstenhuizen of our time), dies August 8, 1991 James Irwin, American Astronaut August 8, 1988 Alan Napier, actor (Alfred-Batman), dies at 85 August 8, 1985 Louise Brooks, actress (Pandora's Box), dies of a heart attack at 78 August 8, 1984 Richard Deacon, actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 62 August 8, 1984 Denis Johnston, Irish Dramatist August 8, 1982 Ferre Grignard, Belgian pop singer/painter (Crucified Jesus), dies August 8, 1982 Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80 August 8, 1982 Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, dies at 62 August 8, 1982 Valeer van Kerkhove, Flemish writer/producer (De Weerlozen), dies August 8, 1980 Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician, dies at 63 August 8, 1980 Jacqueline Cochrane, U.S. pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70 August 8, 1976 John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered August 8, 1975 Julian "Cannonball" Alderly, sax player, dies of a stroke at 46 August 8, 1974 Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67 August 8, 1969 Sharon Tate, murdered by the Manson family at 26 August 8, 1967 Jaromir Weinberger, Czech/US composer (Czech Rhapsody), dies at 71 August 8, 1966 Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer, dies at 63 August 8, 1965 Shirley Hardie Jackson, U.S. author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45 August 8, 1963 Sandor Jemnitz, composer, dies at 72 August 8, 1961 Charlie Gemora, actor (who portrayed King Kong), dies at 58 August 8, 1961 Franc N D Buchman, U.S. theology (Moral Rearms), dies at 83 August 8, 1960 Danton Walker, columnist (Broadway Spotlight), dies at 61 August 8, 1954 Gino Tagliapietra, composer, dies at 67 August 8, 1950 Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies August 8, 1950 Nicolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky, composer, dies at 69 August 8, 1944 Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal, hanged August 8, 1934 Wilbert Robinson, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies August 8, 1928 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies August 8, 1921 Juhani Aho, Fins journalist and writer (Panu, Tuomio), dies at 59 August 8, 1918 Gertrude E Durden Rush, U.S. composer/playwright, dies at 38 August 8, 1908 Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40 August 8, 1902 Jean Y. Y. Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies August 8, 1897 Antonio Canovas del Castillo, PM of Spain, murdered at 69 August 8, 1897 Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79 August 8, 1888 Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79 August 8, 1834 Silvestro Palma, composer, dies at 80 August 8, 1827 George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57 August 8, 1816 Blas de Laserna, composer, dies at 65 August 8, 1788 Louis FAD Duke the Richelieu, French marshal, dies at 92 August 8, 1759 Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55 August 8, 1705 Willem Roukens, mayor (Nimegen ort Nimeguen), beheaded August 8, 1700 Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer, dies at 40 August 8, 1694 Antoine Arnauld [le grand Arnauld], French lawyer/theology, dies at 82 August 8, 1685 Sassoferrato, [Giovanni B Salvi], Ital painter (Madonna), dies at 75 August 8, 1616 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet, buried at 68 August 8, 1506 Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86 August 8, 1471 Thomas Kempis, [Thomas Hammerken von Kempen], monk, dies at 91 August 8, 869 Lotharius II, King of Middle-France (Lotharingen) (855-869), dies August 8, 117 Mark Ulpius Trajanus, adopted son of emperor Nerva/emperor, dies |