What happened on July 8 ?

Deaths

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 and mineralogist (b. 1735)

1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)

1826 - Luther Martin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States (b. 1748)

1850 - Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (b. 1774)

1855 - Sir William Edward Parry, British admiral and Arctic explorer (b. 1790)

1859 - King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (b. 1799)

1898 - Soapy Smith, Shooting death of Jefferson R. Smith. Skagway, Alaska (b. 1860)

1905 - Walter Kittredge, American musician and composer (b. 1834)

1917 - Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (b. 1877)

1933 - Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863)

1934 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (b. 1848)

1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician and psychologist (b. 1859)

1943 - Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)

1950 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (b. 1878)

1956 - Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist, novelist, and poet (b. 1881)

1957 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879)

1967 - Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)

1973 - Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)

1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

1979 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)

1986 - Skeeter Webb, baseball player (b. 1909)

1987 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896)

1988 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)

1990 - Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)

1991 - Thomas Lynch, English Artist.

1994 - Kim Il Sung, North Korean leader (b. 1912)

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 - Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944)