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Who died on 8 August?
Celebrities who died on 8 August
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Olivia Newton-John
British-Australian singer
Glen Campbell
American guitarist
Bobby Bowden
American football player and coach
Bill Davis
Canadian politician, former Premier of Ontario
Karen Black
American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter
Louise Brooks
American dancer and actress
Patricia Neal
American stage and film actress
Alfredo Lim
Filipino politician
Jaan Kaplinski
Estonian poet, philosopher, translator, politician and culture critic
Paul Hellyer
engineer, politician, writer
Fay Wray
actress
Chica Xavier
Brazilian actress
Salome Bey
American-born Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and actress
James Irwin
American astronaut
Albert Downing
New Zealander rugby union player
Zofia Posmysz
Polish journalist and writer
Barbara Bel Geddes
American actress
Lamont Dozier
American singer, songwriter and record producer
Jozef Tomko
Slovak cardinal and Roman Catholic archbishop
Gene Mauch
baseball player
Pedro Casaldáliga
Roman Catholic bishop
Rut Hoffsten
Swedish actress
Alan Napier
actor
Baldur von Schirach
German Nazi leader
Vilhelm Moberg
Swedish author and historian
Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill
British politician and barrister
Najma Chowdhury
Bangladeshi academic
Billy Gilbert
baseball player
Alan Ameche
American football player
Menahem Golan
Israeli film director and producer
Dave Parks
American football player
Adam Comrie
Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Harry Walker
Baseball player and coach
Carol Hughes
American actress
Jean-Pierre Mocky
French actor, film director, editor, producer and screenwriter
Buruju Kashamu
Nigerian politician
Kurt Maetzig
Film director
Yolanda Vargas Dulché
writer
Ed Lewis
Wrestler
Bernard Fils-Aimé
Haitian activist
Takeshi Onaga
Japanese politician
Fabrizio Saccomanni
Italian economist
Konrad Steffen
Swiss glaciologist
Shamnad Basheer
Indian Jurist
Enrico Lorenzetti
Italian motorcycle racer
Alexander Roitburd
Ukrainian artist and painter
Leonardo Legaspi
Catholic Bishop
Mazhar Krasniqi
New Zealand community leader