Died on This Day (07-Aug)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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David Berman | David Cloud Berman was an American musician, singer and poet. | American musician | 52 | 1 | |
Haruo Nakajima | Haruo Nakajima was a Japanese actor best known for playing Godzilla in 12 consecutive films, starting from the original Godzilla until Godzilla vs. | Japanese actor | 88 | 3 | |
Almir Kayumov | Almir Izmailovich Kayumov was a Russian football player and referee. | Russian footballer | 48 | 7 | |
Harri Holkeri | Harri Hermanni Holkeri was a Finnish statesman representing the National Coalition Party of Finland . | Prime Minister of Finland | 74 | 9 | |
Peter Jennings | Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM was a Canadian-born American television journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. | Canadian-American journalist | 67 | 15 | |
Mickey McDermott | Maurice Joseph "Mickey" McDermott Jr. was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. | American baseball player and coach | 74 | 17 | |
George C. Thomson | George Campbell "Bottles" Thomson was an American football player, lawyer and banker. | American football player | 87 | 45 | |
Jack Marshall | John Calder "Jack" Marshall was a Canadian ice hockey player. | Canadian ice hockey defenceman | 88 | 55 | |
Alexander Stirling MacMillan | Alexander S. MacMillan was a Nova Scotia politician and businessman, the 13th premier of Nova Scotia, from 1940 to 1945. | Canadian politician | 83 | 65 | |
Louis Palander | Adolf Arnold Louis Palander af Vega was a Swedish naval officer, mostly remembered as the captain on Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's Vega expedition, the first successful attempt to navigate the Northeast Passage. | Swedish admiral | 77 | 100 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Stan Mikita | Stanley Mikita was a Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, generally regarded as the best centre of the 1960s. | Slovak/Canadian ice hockey player | 78 | 2 | |
Frances Oldham Kelsey | Frances Kathleen Kelsey CM was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician. | Canadian pharmacologist and physician | 101 | 5 | |
Anna Piaggi | Anna Maria Piaggi was an Italian fashion writer. She was known for her bright blue hair, liberal use of make-up, and her sense of style that mixed vintage and contemporary fashion. | Italian fashion writer | 81 | 8 | |
Alex Johns | Alex Johns was an American film and television producer. | American producer | 43 | 10 | |
Red Adair | Paul Neal "Red" Adair was an American oil well firefighter. | American oil well firefighter | 89 | 16 | |
Stan Keller | Stan Keller was an American bandleader, composer, arranger, and woodwind player who led his own orchestra — Stan Keller and His Orchestra. | American musician | 83 | 30 | |
B. F. Zeidman | B. F. Zeidman was a Hollywood film producer whose long film career began while he was still in his teens during the era of silent film. | American film producer | 73 | 50 | |
Luis Ángel Firpo | Luis Ángel Firpo was an Argentine boxer. Born in Junín, Argentina, he was nicknamed The Wild Bull of the Pampas. | Argentine boxer | 65 | 60 | |
Bobby Veach | Robert Hayes Veach was an American baseball player from 1910 to 1930 including 14 seasons in the major leagues. | American baseball player | 57 | 75 | |
Elisa Bonaparte | Maria Anna Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Levoy , better known as Elisa Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess and sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. | Italian noble | 43 | 200 |