Death month august celebrities
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Tomu Uchida (内田 吐夢, Uchida Tomu, April 26, 1898 – August 7, 1970), born Tsunejirō Uchida on 26 April 1898, was a Japanese film director. The stage name “Tomu” translates to “spit out dreams”.
James Oliver “Jim” Curwood (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books ranked among Publisher’s Weekly top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early 1920s. At least eighteen moti
Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 1857 – 9 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he would produce numerous operas and other songs throughout his career it is his two-act work Pagliacci (1892) that remained h
Sarah Tittle Bolton née Barrett (18 December 1814 – 5 August 1893), an American poet and Indiana’s “pioneer poet,” is best known for her poem “Paddle Your Own Canoe” (1850). An activist for women’s rights, she worked with Robert Dale Owen during I
Luís Antônio de Carvalho Ferraz (21 February 1940 – 11 August 1982) was a Brazilian Navy officer, engineer, hydrographer, oceanographer, and Brazilian pioneer in Antarctica.
Dorival Caymmi (April 30, 1914 – August 16, 2008) was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter active for more than 70 years beginning in 1933. He contributed to the birth of Brazil’s bossa nova movement, and several of his samba pieces,
Michael Maybrick (31 January 1841 – 26 August 1913) was an English composer and singer, best known under his pseudonym Stephen Adams as the composer of “The Holy City,” one of the most popular religious songs in English.