July 8th
167 Notable deaths
Lennart Skoglund
Swedish association football player (1929-1975).
Born December 24th, 1929 in Stockholm. [ref]
Died July 8th, 1975 at 45 years old in Stockholm. [ref]
Thomas Meighan
American actor.
Born April 9th, 1879 in Pittsburgh. [ref]
Died July 8th, 1936 at 57 years old in Great Neck (cancer). [ref]
Philippe Gaubert
French musician.
Born July 3rd, 1879 in Cahors.
Died July 8th, 1941 at 62 years old in Paris (stroke). [ref]
Robert Freitag
Swiss-austrian actor (1916-2010).
Born April 7th, 1916 in Vienna.
Died July 8th, 2010 at 94 years old in Munich. [ref]
Charlie Shavers
Jazz trumpeter.
Born August 3rd, 1920 in New York City.
Died July 8th, 1971 at 50 years old in New York City (cancer). [ref]
Christian-Jaque
French filmmaker.
Born September 4th, 1904 in 19th arrondissement of Paris.
Died July 8th, 1994 at 89 years old in Boulogne-Billancourt (myocardial infarction).
Carlo Vanzina
Italian film director, producer and screenwriter (1951–2018).
Born March 13th, 1951 in Rome.
Died July 8th, 2018 at 67 years old in Rome (melanoma). [ref]
Felipe Calderón
Filipino lawyer and politician (1868-1908).
Born April 4th, 1868 in Tanza.
Died July 8th, 1908 at 40 years old in Manila.
Józef Mehoffer
Polish artist (1869-1946).
Born March 19th, 1869 in Ropczyce. [ref]
Died July 8th, 1946 at 77 years old in Kraków, Wadowice. [ref]
Carl Friedrich von Siemens
German businessman (1872-1941).
Born September 5th, 1872 in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
Died July 8th, 1941 at 68 years old in Neu Fahrland.
Deaths 81 to 90 of 167
It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks