August 8

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 117 &ndash; Roman Emperor Trajan dies, and is succeeded by Hadrian.
* 1220 &ndash; Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
* 1503 &ndash; King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor.
* 1576 &ndash; The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg Observatory is laid in Ven, Sweden.
* 1585 &ndash; John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search for the Northwest Passage.
* 1588 &ndash; The Spanish Armada is beaten by the English at the Battle of Gravelines.
* 1605 &ndash; The city of Oulu in Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
* 1647 &ndash; Battle of Dungan's Hill, Ireland – English Parliamentary forces defeat Irish forces during the Irish Confederate Wars and Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
* 1709 &ndash; Bartolomeu de Gusmao demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in front of an audience and the King of Portugal in Lisbon.
* 1786 &ndash; Mont Blanc is climbed for the first time, by an expedition led by Jacques Bilmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
* 1789 &ndash; Australia's first police force begins in Sydney, called Nightwatch.
* 1794 &ndash; Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to find the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
* 1815 &ndash; Napoleon Bonaparte sails to St. Helena to spend the rest of his life in exile.
* 1844 &ndash; The Twelve Apostles, led by Brigham Young become the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
* 1863 &ndash; American Civil War: General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Jefferson Davis, which is rejected.
* 1876 &ndash; Thomas Edison receives a patent for the mimeograph.
* 1885 &ndash; Over 1.5 million people attend the funeral of Ulysses S. Grant in New York City.
* 1900 &ndash; The first Davis Cup tennis match begins in Brookline, Massachusetts.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1908 &ndash; Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse in Le Mans, France.
* 1918 &ndash; World War I: Battle of Amiens.
* 1927 &ndash; The predecessor of the Philippine Stock Exchange is founded.
* 1929 &ndash; German airship *Graf Zeppelin* starts on its round–the–world flight.
* 1942 &ndash; The Walt Disney movie *Bambi* has its world premiere in London.
* 1942 &ndash; The Quit India movement in India begins against British rule in response to Mahatma Gandhi's call for total independence.
* 1945 &ndash; The London Charter is signed by the United Kingdom, France, United States and the Soviet Union, creating the laws and procedures for the Nuremberg Trials.
* 1960 &ndash; South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
* 1963 &ndash; The Great Train Robbery occurs in England. Thieves steal 2.6 million pounds.
* 1963 &ndash; Zimbabwe's main political party, ZANU, is founded.
* 1967 &ndash; ASEAN is founded by Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia.
* 1969 &ndash; At a zebra crossing in London, Iain Macmillan takes the photograph that becomes the cover of The Beatles' Abbey Road album.
* 1973 &ndash; Kim Dae Jung, future South Korean President, is kidnapped.
* 1974 &ndash; Richard Nixon announces his resignation as President of the United States, due to the Watergate scandal. Gerald Ford becomes President the next day.
* 1975 &ndash; 62 dams break in China, killing a total of over 231,000 people, in the worst–ever reservoir disaster.
* 1983 &ndash; President Efrain Rios Montt is removed from power in Guatemala.
* 1988 &ndash; The 8888 Uprising against Burma's military regime occurs.
* 1989 &ndash; Space Shuttle Columbia takes on a secret five–day military mission.
* 1990 &ndash; Iraq occupies Kuwait, as Iraq declares it to be part of its territory.
* 1991 &ndash; In Poland, the world–famous Warsaw Radio Mast collapses.
* 1994 &ndash; Yitzhak Rabin visits Jordan for the first time.
* 1997 &ndash; Ibrahim–al–Ibrahim Mosque in Gibraltar opens. It is Europe's southernmost Mosque, and was a gift from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
* 2000 &ndash; Confederate submarine *H.L. Hunley* is raised to the surface, 136 years after it sank.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman divorce. 
* 2007 &ndash; An EFF 2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, as the most powerful tornado to hit the state.
* 2008 &ndash; The Summer Olympics begin in Beijing, China, at exactly 8:08:08pm local time.
* 2008 &ndash; A EuroCity express train strikes part of a motorway bridge that had fallen on the railway track near Studenka Railway Station in the Czech Republic, killing 8 people and injuring 64.
* 2009 &ndash; Nine people are killed when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collide over the Hudson River at Hoboken, New Jersey. 
* 2010 &ndash; A mudslide in Zhungqu County, Gansu Province, China, kills over 1,400 people.
* 2013 &ndash; A suicide bombing at a funeral in Quetta, Pakistan, kills at least 31 people.
* 2016 &ndash; Japanese Emperor Akihito indicates that he might want to abdicate.
* 2016 &ndash; A bomb attack in Quetta, Pakistan, kills over 70 people.
* 2017 &ndash; US President Donald Trump threatens North Korea with "fire and fury" over its nuclear tests in the continuing stand–off between the two countries.
* 2022 &ndash; June Spencer, English actress, retires at the age of 103, after 79 years in the industry.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
*422 &ndash; Casper II, Maya ruler (d. 487)
*1079 &ndash; Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
*1170 &ndash; Saint Dominic, friar and founder of the Dominicans (d. 1221)
*1306 &ndash; Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1353)
*1518 &ndash; Conrad Lycosthenes, French–born German humanist (d. 1561)
*1605 &ndash; Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
*1646 &ndash; Godfrey Kneller, German–born painter (d. 1723)
*1693 &ndash; Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
*1694 &ndash; Francis Hutcheson, Scottish–Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
*1720 &ndash; Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
*1748 &ndash; Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German physician and naturalist (d. 1804)
*1754 &ndash; Hipólito Ruiz López, Spanish botanist (d. 1815)
*1790 &ndash; Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet and politician (d. 1838)
*1797 &ndash; Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter (d. 1890)
*1824 &ndash; Maria Alexandrovna, Tsarina of Russia (d. 1880)
*1832 &ndash; George, King of Saxony (d. 1904)
*1839 &ndash; Nelson A. Miles, American general (d. 1925)
*1846 &ndash; Frank Brown, Governor of Maryland (d. 1920)
*1849 &ndash; Vera Zasulich, Russian writer and revolutionary (d. 1919)
*1857 &ndash; Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (d. 1944)
*1861 &ndash; William Bateson, British geneticist (d. 1925)
*1875 &ndash; Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
*1876 &ndash; Varghese Payapilly Palakkapilly, Indian Syrian Catholic priest (d. 1929)
*1879 &ndash; Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
*1879 &ndash; Bob Smith, American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950)
*1880 &ndash; Earle Page, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
*1881 &ndash; Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (d. 1954)
*1882 &ndash; Ladislas Starevich, Polish stop–motion animator (d. 1965)
*1882 &ndash; Oscar K. Allen, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1936)
*1884 &ndash; Sara Teasdale, American poet (d. 1933)
*1891 &ndash; Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
*1896 &ndash; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American writer (d. 1953)
*1900 &ndash; Victor Young, American violinist, composer and bandleader (d. 1956)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
*1901 &ndash; Nina Berberova, Russian writer (d. 1993)
*1901 &ndash; Ernest Lawrence, American physicist (d. 1958)
*1902 &ndash; Paul Dirac, British physicist (d. 1984)
*1904 &ndash; Ciriaco Errasti, Spanish footballer (d. 1984)
*1904 &ndash; Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver (d. 1948)
*1907 &ndash; Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
*1908 &ndash; Arthur Goldberg, US Supreme Court Justice (d. 1990)
*1909 &ndash; Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1977)
*1909 &ndash; Jack Renshaw, Australian politician, 31st Premier of New South Wales (d. 1987)
*1910 &ndash; Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
*1913 &ndash; Boris Afanasiev, Russian ice hockey player, coach and footballer (d. 1983)
*1914 &ndash; Unity Mitford, British fascist sympathiser (d. 1948)
*1915 &ndash; James Elliott, American runner and coach (d. 1981)
*1919 &ndash; Dino de Laurentiis, Italian movie producer (d. 2010)
*1919 &ndash; Ciriaco Cañete, Filipino martial artist (d. 2016)
*1919 &ndash; Samuel Pearson Goddard, American politician, 12th Governor of Arizona (d. 2006)
*1920 &ndash; Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
*1920 &ndash; Carol Lambrino, Romanian royal (d. 2006)
*1920 &ndash; Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (d. 1997)
*1921 &ndash; Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (d. 2013)
*1921 &ndash; John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (d. 1979)
*1922 &ndash; Alberto Granado, Argentine–Cuban biochemist, writer and travel companion of Che Guevara (d. 2011)
*1922 &ndash; Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
*1922 &ndash; Rudi Gernreich, Austrian–American fashion designer (d. 1985)
*1922 &ndash; Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian
*1923 &ndash; Antonio Qarracino, Argentine cardinal (d. 1998)
*1923 &ndash; Jimmy Witherspoon, American blues and jazz singer (d. 1997)
*1925 &ndash; Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian politician (d. 2003)
*1926 &ndash; Richard Anderson, American actor (d. 2017)
*1927 &ndash; Johnny Temple, American baseball player (d. 1994)
*1928 &ndash; Simon Diaz, Venezuelan musician, singer and composer (d. 2014)
*1929 &ndash; Ronald Biggs, British train robber (d. 2013)
*1929 &ndash; Leoncio Evita Enoy, Equatorial Guinean writer (d. 1996)
*1930 &ndash; Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball player (d. 2015)
*1930 &ndash; Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, Bengali Mother of the Nation (d. 1975)
*1930 &ndash; Joan Mondale, American wife of former US Vice President Walter Mondale (d. 2014)
*1930 &ndash; Terry Nation, Welsh writer and screenwriter (d. 1997)
*1931 &ndash; Roger Penrose, British physicist
*1932 &ndash; Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian leader (d. 2018)
*1932 &ndash; Zito, Brazilian footballer (d. 2015)
*1933 &ndash; Joe Tex, American singer (d. 1982)
*1934 &ndash; Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director and movie producer (d. 2014)
*1935 &ndash; Donald P. Bellisario, American screenwriter and producer
*1936 &ndash; Erol Büyükburç, Turkish singer, composer and actor (d. 2015)
*1937 &ndash; Dustin Hoffman, American actor
*1937 &ndash; Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch–Swedish composer and poet (d. 1987)
*1938 &ndash; Connie Stevens, American actress, singer, director and producer
*1939 &ndash; Phil Balsley, baritone singer
*1940 &ndash; Dennis Tito, American businessman and space tourist
*1941 &ndash; George Tiller, American physician and abortion rights activist (d. 2009)
*1942 &ndash; Dennis Canavan, Scottish politician
*1943 &ndash; Denis Payton, British saxophonist
*1943 &ndash; Alan Boswell, English footballer (d. 2017)
*1944 &ndash; John Renbourn, British guitarist and songwriter (d. 2015)
*1944 &ndash; John Holmes, American pornographic actor (d. 1988)
*1946 &ndash; Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
*1947 &ndash; Miguel Blesa, Spanish banker (d. 2017)
*1947 &ndash; Philip Nitschke, Australian humanist and found of Exit International
*1948 &ndash; Akira Matsunaga, Japanese footballer
*1948 &ndash; Svetlana Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut
*1949 &ndash; Keith Carradine, American actor and singer
*1950 &ndash; Martine Aubry, French politician
*1950 &ndash; Lucjan Lis, Polish cyclist (d. 2015)

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
*1951 &ndash; Louis van Gaal, Dutch football manager
*1951 &ndash; Mohamed Morsi, former President of Egypt (d. 2019)
*1952 &ndash; Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian writer
*1953 &ndash; Nigel Mansell, British racing driver
*1955 &ndash; Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
*1956 &ndash; Cecilia Roth, Argentine actress
*1956 &ndash; David Grant, British singer and vocal coach
*1956 &ndash; Chris Foreman, British guitarist and songwriter (Madness)
*1957 &ndash; Dennis Drew, American keyboardist
*1958 &ndash; Akihiro Nishimura, Japanese footballer
*1960 &ndash; Ulrich Maly, German politician, 16th Mayor of Nuremberg
*1961 &ndash; The Edge, Irish musician (U2)
*1961 &ndash; Rikki Rockett, American drummer
*1962 &ndash; Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
*1963 &ndash; Hur Jin-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter
*1963 &ndash; Jordan K. Hubbard, American computer scientist
*1964 &ndash; Giuseppe Conte, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy
*1964 &ndash; Klaus Ebner, Austrian writer
*1964 &ndash; Scott Sandelin, American ice hockey player and coach
*1966 &ndash; Chris Eubank, British boxer
*1967 &ndash; Eric Angle, American wrestler
*1967 &ndash; Marcelo Balboa, American soccer player
*1968 &ndash; Huey Morgan, American singer and guitarist
*1969 &ndash; Faye Wong, Chinese singer and actress
*1970 &ndash; Pascal Duquenne, Belgian actor and Paralympic sportsman
*1970 &ndash; Chester Williams, South African rugby union player (d. 2019)
*1972 &ndash; Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach
*1972 &ndash; Axel Merckx, Belgian cyclist
*1972 &ndash; Steven Tweed, Scottish footballer
*1974 &ndash; Brian Harvey, English singer (East 17)
*1975 &ndash; Makoto Tanaka, Japanese footballer

### From 1976 
*1976 &ndash; JC Chasez, American singer
*1976 &ndash; Laura Kuenssberg, Scottish journalist, BBC News Political Editor
*1976 &ndash; Drew Lachey, American singer and actor
*1976 &ndash; Lee Seung-Yeop, South Korean baseball player
*1977 &ndash; Szilárd Németh, Slovakian footballer
*1977 &ndash; Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer
*1977 &ndash; Rocky Thompson, Canadian ice hockey player
*1977 &ndash; Mohammad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
*1978 &ndash; Massamasso Tchangai, Togolese footballer (d. 2010)
*1978 &ndash; Louis Saha, French footballer
*1979 &ndash; Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson, Icelandic handball player
*1980 &ndash; Michael Urie, American actor
*1981 &ndash; Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
*1981 &ndash; Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter
*1981 &ndash; Bradley McIntosh, British singer (S Club)
*1982 &ndash; Brandon Gay, American basketball player
*1982 &ndash; David Florence, Scottish canoe racer
*1984 &ndash; Kirk Broadfoot, Scottish footballer
*1984 &ndash; Owen Jones, English journalist and writer
*1985 &ndash; Toby Flood, English rugby player
*1986 &ndash; Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player
*1986 &ndash; Peyton List, American actress
*1987 &ndash; Katie Leung, Scottish actress
*1987 &ndash; Pierre Boulanger, French actor
*1988 &ndash; Princess Beatrice of York, member of the British Royal family
*1988 &ndash; Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
*1988 &ndash; Flavia Bujor, Romanian–French novelist
*1989 &ndash; Hannah Miley, British swimmer
*1990 &ndash; Oti Mabuse, South African professional dancer
*1991 &ndash; Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
*1991 &ndash; Joel Matip, German footballer
*1995 &ndash; Malin Reitan, Norwegian singer
*1998 &ndash; Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
*117 &ndash; Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
*869 &ndash; Lothair II of Lotharingia (b. 825)
*1303 &ndash; Henry of Castile the Senator (b. 1230)
*1445 &ndash; Oswald von Wolkenstein, Austrian composer
*1533 &ndash; Lucas van Leyden, Dutch painter (b. 1494)
*1553 &ndash; Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician (b. 1478)
*1604 &ndash; Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
*1631 &ndash; Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
*1719 &ndash; Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (b. 1667)
*1746 &ndash; Francis Hutcheson, Scottish–Irish philosopher (b. 1694)
*1747 &ndash; Madeleine de Vercheres, New France heroine (b. 1678)
*1759 &ndash; Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer (b. 1704)
*1824 &ndash; Friedrich August Wolf, German philologist (b. 1759)
*1827 &ndash; George Canning, shortest–serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
*1828 &ndash; Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (b. 1743)
*1854 &ndash; Zenaide Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte (b. 1801)
*1876 &ndash; Adolph Tidemand, Norwegian painter (b. 1814)
*1879 &ndash; Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797)
*1882 &ndash; Gouverneur Kimble Warren, American general (b. 1830)
*1887 &ndash; Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
*1897 &ndash; Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss art historian (b. 1818)
*1898 &ndash; Eugène Boudin, French painter (b. 1824)
*1899 &ndash; William Yates Atkinson, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1854)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
*1902 &ndash; James Tissot, French artist (b. 1836)
*1909 &ndash; Mary MacKillop, Scottish–born Australian Catholic nun and Saint (b. 1842)
*1911 &ndash; William P. Frye, American politician (b. 1830)
*1918 &ndash; Michel Zevaco, French writer (b. 1860)
*1928 &ndash; Stjepan Radic, Croatian politician (b. 1871)
*1930 &ndash; Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter (b. 1874)
*1940 &ndash; Johnny Dodds, jazz musician (b. 1892)
*1944 &ndash; Chaim Soutine, Russian painter (b. 1894)
*1950 &ndash; Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman (Qantas) (b. 1879)
*1959 &ndash; Albert Namatjira, Australian artist (b. 1902)
*1961 &ndash; Mei Lanfang, Chinese writer (b. 1916)
*1962 &ndash; Kunio Yanagita, Japanese writer and ethnologist (b. 1875)
*1965 &ndash; Shirley Jackson, American writer (b. 1919)
*1972 &ndash; Andrea Feldman, actor (b. 1948)
*1973 &ndash; Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish writer and historian (b. 1898)
*1973 &ndash; Nikos Zachariades, Greek Communist politician (b. 1893)
*1974 &ndash; Baldur von Schirach, Nazi Youth leader (b. 1907)
*1975 &ndash; Cannonball Adderley, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1928)
*1977 &ndash; Edgar Douglas Adrian, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (b. 1889)
*1985 &ndash; Louise Brooks, silent movie actress (b. 1906)
*1987 &ndash; Danilo Blanusa, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
*1988 &ndash; Alan Napier, English–American actor (b. 1903)
*1991 &ndash; James Irwin, astronaut (b. 1930)
*1991 &ndash; Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (b. 1972)
*1996 &ndash; Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (b. 1905)
*1997 &ndash; Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1915)

### From 2001 
*2004 &ndash; Fay Wray, American actress (b. 1907)
*2005 &ndash; Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
*2005 &ndash; Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
*2009 &ndash; Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
*2010 &ndash; Massamasso Tchangai, Togolese footballer (b. 1978)
*2010 &ndash; Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
*2012 &ndash; Sancho Gracia, Spanish entertainer (b. 1936)
*2013 &ndash; Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (b. 1985)
*2013 &ndash; Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
*2013 &ndash; Barbara Mertz, American writer (b. 1927)
*2013 &ndash; Jack Clement, American record and music producer, singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
*2014 &ndash; Danny Murphy, American actor (b. 1955)
*2014 &ndash; Menahem Golan, Israeli director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1929)
*2014 &ndash; Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
*2014 &ndash; J. J. Murphy, Northern Irish actor (b. 1928)
*2015 &ndash; Sean Price, American rapper (b. 1972)
*2015 &ndash; Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, Indian independence activist (b. 1915)
*2015 &ndash; Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
*2016 &ndash; Edward Daly, Irish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1933)
*2017 &ndash; Glen Campbell, American singer (b. 1936)
*2017 &ndash; Barbara Cook, American singer and actress (b. 1927)
*2017 &ndash; Dick MacPherson, American football player (b. 1930)
*2017 &ndash; Gonzague Saint Bris, French novelist and biographer (b. 1948)
*2017 &ndash; Janet Seidel, Australian jazz singer (b. 1955)
*2017 &ndash; Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician (b. 1923)
*2017 &ndash; Blanche Blackwell, Jamaican socialite (b. 1912)
*2017 &ndash; Eugene Burger, American magician and philosopher (b. 1939)
*2017 &ndash; Rius, Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer (b. 1934)
*2017 &ndash; Ken Roberts, English rugby league player
*2018 &ndash; Nicholas Bett, Kenyan athlete (b. 1990)
*2018 &ndash; Jarrod Lyle, Australian golfer (b. 1981)
*2018 &ndash; Takeshi Onaga, Japanese politician and governor of Okinawa Prefecture (b. 1950)
*2018 &ndash; Mikhail Shakhov, Ukrainian wrestler (b. 1931)
*2019 &ndash; Ernie Colón, American comic artist (b. 1931)
*2019 &ndash; Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (b. 1932)
*2019 &ndash; Jean-Pierre Mocky, French film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1929)
*2019 &ndash; Dave Parks, American football player (b. 1941)
*2019 &ndash; Fabrizio Saccomanni, Italian politician and economist (b. 1942)

## Observances 
* Father's Day (Taiwan)
* Chocolate Day (Chile)
* International Cat Day