August 7

Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, of the British Air Force, died when he crashed his plane, a Sopwith Pup, on the 7th in 1917. The crash occurred when he was attempting to land the plane for a second time on the deck of the HMS Furious in the water around the Orkney Islands, Scotland. He should have quit when he was ahead, because he had become the first person to successfully land an airplane on a moving ship five days earlier.