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Deaths on August 07

1129 : Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (1072-86)/budhist monk, dies at 76
1304 : Benedict XI, [Niccol• Boccasini], Pope (1303-04), dies [poisoned?]
1307 : Edward I, King of England (1272-1307), dies at 68
1348 : John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies
1572 : Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51
1647 : Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies
1656 : Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55
1694 : Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies
1771 : Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54
1773 : Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60
1774 : Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer, dies at 83
1783 : Magnus G Lichtwer, German writer (Žsopischer Fabeln), dies at 64
1790 : Franciscus "Frans" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher, dies at 68
1794 : Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51
1799 : William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53
1814 : Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71
1826 : Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer, dies at 56
1861 : John Willis Ellis, US governor of NC (1858-61), dies
1865 : Mary Surratt, & 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged
1885 : Nicola De Giosa, composer, dies at 66
1889 : Giovanni Bottesini, composer, dies at 67
1893 : Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42
1898 : Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies
1903 : Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer, dies at 64
1903 : Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer, dies at 64
1907 : James McGranahan, composer, dies at 67
1919 : Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
1930 : Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
1931 : Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, cricketer (S Africa 1902-07), dies
1933 : John M Acket, literary (New Friends), dies at 70
1934 : Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23), dies
1939 : James Deacon White, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi), dies at 91
1944 : Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies
1944 : Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French foreign min (-1940), dies
1945 : Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet, dies at 40
1955 : Franco Casavola, composer, dies at 63
1956 : Gottfried Benn, writer, dies at 70
1958 : Raymond Hackett, dies at 55
1965 : Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies
1966 : Carmelita Geraghty, dies of heart attack at 65
1967 : Vivian Leigh, actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), dies at 53
1968 : Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73
1969 : Erskine Sanford, dies at 83
1969 : Gladys Swarthout, US mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), dies at 69
1970 : Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67
1970 : Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies
1970 : Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80
1970 : Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60
1972 : Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1973 : Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78
1973 : Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (Ramrod), dies at 58
1975 : Barbara Brown,
1975 : Vito Frazzi, composer, dies at 86
1976 : Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76
1976 : Norman Foster, dies at 75
1979 : D P Conyngham, cricketer (one Test for S Africa), dies
1980 : Reginald Gardiner, actor (Great Dictator), dies at 77
1981 : Keefe Brasselle, actor (Be Our Guest), dies at 58
1982 : Bep [Elisa H] Bakhuis, soccer star/writer, dies at 76
1982 : Fred Stuthman, actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry), dies at 63
1983 : George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday
1983 : Herman Kahn, US futurist/nuclear strategist, dies at 71
1983 : Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30
1984 : Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82
1985 : Patti McCarty, actress (Gangster of the Frontier), dies at 64
1988 : Jimmy Edwards, actor (Plank, Bottoms Up, Late Mr H), dies at 68
1990 : Bill Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
1990 : Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher, dies at 92
1992 : Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79
1994 : Anita Garvin, US actress (Sailors Beware), dies at 80
1994 : Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96
1995 : Gabor Ormai, viola Player, dies at 40
1995 : Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer, dies at 73
1996 : Albrecht Luitpold Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria, dies at 91
1997 : Jerry Doggett, sportscaster (Bkln/LA Dodgers), dies at 80
1957 : Oliver Hardy
1937 : Konstantin Stanislavsky
1931 : Bix Beiderbecke
1657 : Admiral Blake

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