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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of July 1099 | EVENT | First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on. |
| 8th of July 1283 | EVENT | War of the Sicilian Vespers: the naval Battle of Malta between the Aragonese and the Neapolitan fleets is fought. |
| 8th of July 1497 | EVENT | Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India. |
| 8th of July 1579 | EVENT | Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan. |
| 8th of July 1663 | EVENT | Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal Charter to Rhode Island. |
| 8th of July 1680 | EVENT | The first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 8th of July 1709 | EVENT | Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava : Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe. |
| 8th of July 1716 | EVENT | Great Northern War: the naval Battle of Dynekilen takes place. |
| 8th of July 1758 | EVENT | French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York. |
| 8th of July 1760 | EVENT | French and Indian War: Battle of Restigouche : British forces defeat French forces in last naval battle in New France. |
| 8th of July 1775 | EVENT | The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies. |
| 8th of July 1776 | EVENT | The Declaration of Independence is read aloud in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Liberty Bell is rung. |
| 8th of July 1822 | EVENT | Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom. |
| 8th of July 1853 | EVENT | Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay. |
| 8th of July 1859 | EVENT | King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway. |
| 8th of July 1864 | EVENT | Ikedaya Jiken: the Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya. |
| 8th of July 1874 | EVENT | The Mounties begin their March West. |
| 8th of July 1876 | EVENT | White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, SC. |
| 8th of July 1879 | EVENT | Sailing ship USS Jeannette (1878) departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole. |
| 8th of July 1889 | EVENT | The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published. |
| 8th of July 1892 | EVENT | St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892. |
| 8th of July 1896 | EVENT | William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetalism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. |
| 8th of July 1898 | EVENT | The death of crime boss Soapy Smith (who is shot) releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip. |
| 8th of July 1907 | EVENT | Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. |
| 8th of July 1932 | EVENT | The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22. |
| 8th of July 1947 | EVENT | Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico. |
| 8th of July 1948 | EVENT | The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF). |
| 8th of July 1960 | EVENT | Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union. |
| 8th of July 1962 | EVENT | Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crash the Student Movement. |
| 8th of July 1965 | EVENT | Train robber Ronald Biggs escapes from Wandsworth Prison, London. |
| 8th of July 1966 | EVENT | King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. |
| 8th of July 1968 | EVENT | The Municipality of General Santos is converted into a City status, named General Santos City. |
| 8th of July 1969 | EVENT | IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer. |
| 8th of July 1970 | EVENT | Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American Self-Determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination Act. |
| 8th of July 1982 | EVENT | Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail. |
| 8th of July 1982 | EVENT | The Senegalese Trotskyist political party LCT is legally recognized. |
| 8th of July 1992 | EVENT | The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities. |
| 8th of July 1994 | EVENT | Kim Jong-il assumes office as Supreme Leader of North Korea after the death of his father, Kim Il-sung. |
| 8th of July 1996 | EVENT | A schizophrenic man armed with a machete wounds three children and four adults at a primary school in Wolverhampton, England. Teacher Lisa Potts received the George Medal for protecting her pupils, despite being severely injured. |
| 8th of July 1997 | EVENT | NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999. |
| 8th of July 1999 | EVENT | Allen Lee Davis is executed by electric chair by the state of Florida, the last use of the electric chair for capital punishment in Florida. |
| 8th of July 2007 | EVENT | Boeing unveiled its first 787 in a roll-out ceremony at its Everett assembly factory. |
| 8th of July 1528 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (d. 1580) |
| 8th of July 1545 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos, Prince of Asturias (d. 1568) |
| 8th of July 1593 | BIRTHDAY | Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653) |
| 8th of July 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695) |
| 8th of July 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Kramp, French mathematician (d. 1826) |
| 8th of July 1766 | BIRTHDAY | Dominique Jean Larrey, French surgeon (d. 1842) |
| 8th of July 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Queen of Bavaria (d. 1854) |
| 8th of July 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907) |
| 8th of July 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick William Seward, 6th and 11th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915) |
| 8th of July 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg, German-born wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia (d. 1911) |
| 8th of July 1831 | BIRTHDAY | John Stith Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (d. 1888) |
| 8th of July 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (d. 1914) |
| 8th of July 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German inventor (d. 1917) |
| 8th of July 1839 | BIRTHDAY | John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1937) |
| 8th of July 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (d. 1941) |
| 8th of July 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911) |
| 8th of July 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Kathe Kollwitz, German painter, printmaker and sculptor (d. 1945) |
| 8th of July 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (d. 1945) |
| 8th of July 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961) |
| 8th of July 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977) |
| 8th of July 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962) |
| 8th of July 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Korin, Russian painter (d. 1967) |
| 8th of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971) |
| 8th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Melville Ruick, American actor (d. 1972) |
| 8th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Cartan, French mathematician (d. 2008) |
| 8th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997) |
| 8th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005) |
| 8th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | George W. Romney, American businessman and politician (d. 1995) |
| 8th of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1975) |
| 8th of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979) |
| 8th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (d. 1993) |
| 8th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (d. 2010) |
| 8th of July 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Faye Emerson, American actress (d. 1983) |
| 8th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Stevens, American actor (d. 2000) |
| 8th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Paul B. Fay, American businessman and cabinet member in the Kennedy administration (d. 2009) |
| 8th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Scheel, German politician |
| 8th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish industrialist (Lego Group) (d. 1995) |
| 8th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Harrison Dillard, American sprinter and hurdler |
| 8th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Johnnie Johnson, American blues pianist (d. 2005) |
| 8th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (d. 2004) |
| 8th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Hayes, Irish politician |
| 8th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Roone Arledge, American sports broadcaster |
| 8th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Vale, American singer |
| 8th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Lamer, French Canadian lawyer and chief justice (d. 2007) |
| 8th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and politician |
| 8th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Feldman, English comedian and actor (d. 1982) |
| 8th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer |
| 8th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Vitali Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut |
| 8th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Chapman, English politician and civil servant |
| 8th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dario Gradi, Italian-born English football manager |
| 8th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Gramm, American politician |
| 8th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Janice Pennington, American game show model |
| 8th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jai Johanny Johanson, American drummer and percussionist (The Allman Brothers Band) |
| 8th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Tambor, American actor |
| 8th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician |
| 8th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Darby, American actress |
| 8th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae |
| 8th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Raffi, Egyptian born Canadian children's entertainer |
| 8th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Indian politician, the 14th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (d. 2009) |
| 8th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Delima, American comedian |
| 8th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Hoganson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef |
| 8th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Anjelica Huston, American actress |
| 8th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Lambert, American football player |
| 8th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Marianne Williamson, American spiritual activist and founder of the Peace Alliance |
| 8th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Quindlen, American newspaper columnist |
| 8th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Monty Don, TV presenter, gardener |
| 8th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Fraser, American actress |
| 8th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress (d. 2008) |
| 8th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Puhl, Canadian baseball player |
| 8th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Gurnov, Russian television personality |
| 8th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Cavazo, Mexican-born American guitarist (Quiet Riot, Ratt) |
| 8th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Bacon, American actor |
| 8th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tzipi Livni, Israeli politician |
| 8th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Neetu Singh, Indian actress |
| 8th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Carlgren, Swedish politician |
| 8th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Knepper, American actor |
| 8th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Pauline Quirke, British actress |
| 8th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mal Meninga, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 8th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Fletcher, English vocalist and synth and bass player (Depeche Mode) |
| 8th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Keith, American country music singer-songwriter |
| 8th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter |
| 8th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Nicole Moelders American atmospheric scientist |
| 8th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Christopher, American film director |
| 8th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Alexei Gusarov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 8th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Linda de Mol, Dutch actress and host |
| 8th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Tergesen, American actor |
| 8th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ralf Altmeyer, German virologist |
| 8th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician |
| 8th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer |
| 8th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Akio Suyama, Japanese seiyu |
| 8th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Thom Fitzgerald, American-Canadian film director |
| 8th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Howarth, New Zealand rugby player (also capped by Wales) |
| 8th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Crudup, American actor |
| 8th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Weatherly, American actor |
| 8th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Sugizo Japanese guitarist and singer (Luna Sea) |
| 8th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Beck, American singer |
| 8th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Peterson, American actress |
| 8th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Jenkins, Welsh rugby player |
| 8th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | John Juanda, Indonesian poker player |
| 8th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Dykhuis, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shosuke Tanihara, Japanese actor |
| 8th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer |
| 8th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress |
| 8th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tami Erin, American actress and model |
| 8th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Zhanna Friske, Russian actress and singer |
| 8th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Elias Viljanen, Finnish guitarist (Sonata Arctica) |
| 8th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | David Kennedy, American guitarist (Angels & Airwaves) |
| 8th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Talal El Karkouri, Moroccan footballer |
| 8th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player |
| 8th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Milo Ventimiglia, American actor |
| 8th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Paolo Tiralongo, Italian cyclist |
| 8th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Rachael Lillis, American actress |
| 8th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Eve Myles, Welsh actress |
| 8th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mat McBriar, American football player |
| 8th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andre, Armenian singer |
| 8th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Keane, Irish footballer |
| 8th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player |
| 8th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hakim Warrick, American basketball player |
| 8th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia Bush, American actress |
| 8th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Alba, American actor |
| 8th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | John Bowker, American baseball player |
| 8th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jaroslav Janis, Czech racing car driver |
| 8th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Navarro Garcia, Spanish cyclist |
| 8th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Dziena, American actress |
| 8th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Cook, British guitarist (Arctic Monkeys) |
| 8th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jake McDorman, American actor |
| 8th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Renata Costa (Koki), Brazilian footballer |
| 8th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model |
| 8th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Sergent, New Zealand cyclist |
| 8th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Taylor, Australian rugby league player |
| 8th of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Sky Ferreira, American singer |
| 8th of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Grosvenor, British pianist |
| 8th of July 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Jaden Smith, American actor |
| 8th of July 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Nyweide, American actress |
| 8th of July 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Yang Peiyi, Chinese singer |
| 8th of July 0810 | DEATH | King Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne (Born 773) |
| 8th of July 0901 | DEATH | Grimbald, Benedectine monk and Saint (Born 827) |
| 8th of July 0975 | DEATH | Edgar the Peaceful, King of England (Born 943) |
| 8th of July 1153 | DEATH | Pope Eugene III (Born c. 1087) |
| 8th of July 1538 | DEATH | Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer (Born 1475) |
| 8th of July 1623 | DEATH | Pope Gregory XV (Born 1554) |
| 8th of July 1689 | DEATH | Edward Wooster, English-born Connecticut pioneer (Born 1622) |
| 8th of July 1695 | DEATH | Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist and horologist (Born 1629) |
| 8th of July 1716 | DEATH | Robert South, English churchman (Born 1634) |
| 8th of July 1721 | DEATH | Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (Born 1649) |
| 8th of July 1726 | DEATH | John Ker, Scottish spy (Born 1673) |
| 8th of July 1784 | DEATH | Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (Born 1735) |
| 8th of July 1822 | DEATH | Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Born 1792) |
| 8th of July 1826 | DEATH | Luther Martin, American statesman (Born 1748) |
| 8th of July 1850 | DEATH | Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge (Born 1774) |
| 8th of July 1855 | DEATH | Sir William Edward Parry, English Arctic explorer (Born 1790) |
| 8th of July 1859 | DEATH | King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (Born 1799) |
| 8th of July 1887 | DEATH | Ben Holladay, American businessman and founder of the Overland Stagecoach Company (Born 1819) |
| 8th of July 1895 | DEATH | Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian chemist and physicist (Born 1821) |
| 8th of July 1898 | DEATH | Soapy Smith, American con artist and gangster (Born 1860) |
| 8th of July 1905 | DEATH | Walter Kittredge, American violinist and abolitionist (Born 1834) |
| 8th of July 1913 | DEATH | Louis Hemon, French-born Canadian writer (Born 1880) |
| 8th of July 1917 | DEATH | Tom Thomson, Canadian painter (Born 1877) |
| 8th of July 1930 | DEATH | Sir Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (Born 1856) |
| 8th of July 1933 | DEATH | Anthony Hope, British author (Born 1863) |
| 8th of July 1934 | DEATH | Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (Born 1848) |
| 8th of July 1939 | DEATH | Havelock Ellis, British physician (Born 1859) |
| 8th of July 1941 | DEATH | Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, senator, historian and orientalist (Born 1874) |
| 8th of July 1943 | DEATH | Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader (Born 1899) |
| 8th of July 1950 | DEATH | Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher (Born 1878) |
| 8th of July 1956 | DEATH | Giovanni Papini, Italian essayist (Born 1881) |
| 8th of July 1957 | DEATH | Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (Born 1879) |
| 8th of July 1961 | DEATH | Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Greek medical doctor and politician, the 2nd Prime Minister of the collaborationist Hellenic State (Born 1878) |
| 8th of July 1962 | DEATH | Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher (Born 1897) |
| 8th of July 1967 | DEATH | Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani political figure (Born 1893) |
| 8th of July 1971 | DEATH | Charlie Shavers, American jazz trumpet player (Born 1920) |
| 8th of July 1973 | DEATH | Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (Born 1884) |
| 8th of July 1973 | DEATH | Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (Born 1877) |
| 8th of July 1979 | DEATH | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1906) |
| 8th of July 1979 | DEATH | Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1917) |
| 8th of July 1979 | DEATH | Michael Wilding, English actor (Born 1912) |
| 8th of July 1981 | DEATH | Wild Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (Born 1902) |
| 8th of July 1986 | DEATH | Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (Born 1909) |
| 8th of July 1987 | DEATH | Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (Born 1896) |
| 8th of July 1987 | DEATH | Lionel Chevrier, Canadian politician (Born 1903) |
| 8th of July 1988 | DEATH | Ray Barbuti, American middle distance runner and football player (Born 1905) |
| 8th of July 1990 | DEATH | Howard Duff, American actor (Born 1913) |
| 8th of July 1991 | DEATH | James Franciscus, American actor (Born 1934) |
| 8th of July 1994 | DEATH | Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-born American entrepreneur and explorer (Born 1927) |
| 8th of July 1994 | DEATH | Christian-Jaque, French film director and screenwriter (Born 1904) |
| 8th of July 1994 | DEATH | Dick Sargent, American actor (Born 1930) |
| 8th of July 1994 | DEATH | Kim Il-sung, North Korean leader (Born 1912) |
| 8th of July 1999 | DEATH | Pete Conrad, American astronaut (Born 1930) |
| 8th of July 2001 | DEATH | John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (Born 1920) |
| 8th of July 2002 | DEATH | Ward Kimball, American animator (Born 1914) |
| 8th of July 2004 | DEATH | Paula Danziger, American author (Born 1944) |
| 8th of July 2004 | DEATH | Jean Lefebvre, French actor (Born 1922) |
| 8th of July 2006 | DEATH | June Allyson, American actress (Born 1917) |
| 8th of July 2006 | DEATH | Peter Hawkins, British actor and voice actor (Born 1924) |
| 8th of July 2008 | DEATH | John Templeton, British businessman and philanthropist (Born 1912) |