General Events and Observations of July 8

810: Pepin, King of Italy (b. 773)
975: King Edgar of England
1153: Pope Eugene III
1538: Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (b. 1475)
1623: Pope Gregory XV (b. 1554)
1689: Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622)
1695: Christiaan Huygens, Dutch scientist (b. 1629)
1716: Robert South, English churchman (b. 1634)
1721: Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649)
1726: John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
1784: Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (b. 1735)
1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
1826: Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748)
1850: Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)
1855: Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (b. 1790)
1859: King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799)
1895: Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (b. 1821)
1898: Soapy Smith, American con artist (b. 1860)
1905: Walter Kittredge, American musician (b. 1834)
1913: Louis Hémon, French-born writer (b. 1880)
1917: Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)
1930: Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
1933: Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)
1934: Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)
1939: Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859)
1941: Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (b. 1874)
1943: Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
1950: Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (b. 1878)
1956: Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (b. 1881)
1957: Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879)
1962: Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (b. 1897)
1967: Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political figure (b. 1893)
1967: Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
1971: Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1920)
1973: Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1979: Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
1979: Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1979: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1981: Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1986: Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1987: Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)
1987: Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (b. 1903)
1988: Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
1990: Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
1991: James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
1994: Dick Sargent, American actor (b. 1930)
1994: Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912)
1994: Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (b. 1927)
1999: Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
2001: John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920)
2002: Ward Kimball, American animator (b. 1914)
2004: Jean Lefebvre, French actor (b. 1922)
2004: Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)
2006: June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
2006: Peter Hawkins, British actor/voice actor (b. 1924)

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