Notable Deaths on December 8th
December 8th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
644 |
Omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered |
899 |
Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies |
1292 |
John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62 |
1596 |
Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico |
1626 |
John Davies, English poet (b. 1569) |
1632 |
Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561) |
1638 |
Ivan Gundulic, Dubravka |
1643 |
John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583) |
1649 |
Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613) |
1652 |
Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary, murdered at 35 |
1680 |
Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606) |
1681 |
Gerard Terborch, the Younger, Dutch painter/etcher, dies |
1691 |
Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615) |
1695 |
Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625) |
1709 |
Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74 |
1722 |
Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70 |
1722 |
Princess Palatine Elizabeth Charlotte, I Am |
1744 |
Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1717) |
1745 |
Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683) |
1746 |
Charles Radclyffe, British politician (b. 1693) |
1756 |
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat |
1768 |
Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702) |
1779 |
Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707) |
1785 |
Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer, dies at 68 |
1811 |
Eliza Poe, English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe(b. 1787) |
1830 |
H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63 |
1830 |
Benjamin Constant, Adolphe |
1831 |
James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies |
1859 |
Thomas de Quincey, English author (b. 1785) |
1859 |
Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater |
1864 |
George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815) |
1885 |
William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1821) |
1894 |
Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian, dies at 71 |
1894 |
Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821) |
1896 |
Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75 |
1900 |
Henry Russell, composer, dies at 87 |
1900 |
Henry Russell, Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman |
1903 |
Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83 |
1907 |
Oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies |
1907 |
King Oscar II, Royal Shooting Party on Hveen |
1913 |
Ella Sprange, Chatollets hemmelighed |
1914 |
Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (b. 1861) |
1917 |
Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (b. 1836) |
1923 |
Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88 |
1924 |
Franz X Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74 |
1925 |
Marguerite Marsh, The Master Mystery |
1926 |
Jan Six, Dutch art historian/collector, dies |
1926 |
Rosaline Courtneidge, Oxford Bags |
1929 |
Teddy Tetzlaff, The Speed Kings |
1932 |
Henry Kitchell Webster, Real Adventure |
1932 |
Harry Lee, Who's Who |
1934 |
Bernhard Seklas, composer, dies at 62 |
1934 |
Robert Brower, Thirty Days at Hard Labor |
1935 |
Hayden Coffin, Queen of My Heart |
1935 |
Erkki Karu, Koskenlaskijan morsian |
1936 |
David Freedman, Ziegfeld Follies |
1936 |
Odette Taylor, The Saphead |
1937 |
Laddie Cliff, Sporting Love |
1938 |
Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (b. 1896) |
1938 |
Károly Aszlányi, The Lady Is a Bit Cracked |
1938 |
Friedrich Glauser, Madness Rules |
1939 |
Ernest Schelling, composer, dies at 63 |
1939 |
Charles Mussett, Number 17 |
1939 |
Otto Jacobsen, Husband by Proxy |
1940 |
George Exton Lloyd, Anglican Bishop and theologian (b. 1861) |
1940 |
Pedro Fernández Cuenca, Marianela |
1941 |
Dorothy Cleveland, Citizen Kane |
1941 |
Howard Truesdale, Go West |
1942 |
Albert Kahn, architect of Detroit, dies at 73 |
1942 |
Dolph Singer, Watch the Birdie |
1944 |
Ethel Jewett, The Land Beyond the Sunset |
1945 |
Adolphe Engers, Finances of the Grand Duke |
1945 |
Richard M. Jones, Game Change |
1945 |
Gabriellino D'Annunzio, Quo Vadis? |
1945 |
Reinhold Becker, Sergeant Berry |
1945 |
Giulio Antamoro, Christus |
1946 |
Vinegar Roan, The Painted Stallion |
1947 |
Zoltán Szakáts, Pogányok |
1948 |
Wilfred H. Petitt, A Thousand and One Nights |
1949 |
Arthur Rebner, Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel |
1950 |
Georges Metaxa, Swing Time |
1952 |
Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874) |
1952 |
Charles Herbert Lightoller, |
1952 |
Pedro Sinzig, Caraça, Porta do Céu |
1953 |
Frederick Ranalow, The Knight of the Burning Pestle |
1954 |
Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50 |
1954 |
Claude Cahun, Playing a Part: The Story of Claude Cahun |
1954 |
Gladys George, The Maltese Falcon |
1954 |
Joseph B. Keenan, |
1954 |
Ernesto Vilches, El golfo |
1955 |
Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist, dies at 69 |
1955 |
George Burton, Bill and Coo |
1956 |
Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer, dies at 76 |
1956 |
Jack Cohn, Mussolin Speaks! |
1956 |
William S. Johnson, Don Q Son of Zorro |
1957 |
Reginald Sheffield, actor (Second Chance), dies at 55 |
1957 |
Mylos, The Turkey |
1957 |
Frank Goddard, The Card |
1957 |
Reginald Sheffield, Suspicion |
1957 |
Kathryn Byron, The Mummy |
1958 |
Tris Speaker, American baseball player (b. 1888) |
1958 |
Julia Lee, Life |
1958 |
Max Goldman, Kronos |
1961 |
William Beatton Moonie, composer, dies at 78 |
1961 |
Lou Koupal, Alibi Ike |
1961 |
Mila Kaminska, Pan Twardowski |
1963 |
Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908) |
1966 |
Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (b. 1899) |
1967 |
Robert H Lawrence, USAF/astronaut, dies at 32 |
1967 |
John Mills, Sr., American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1889) |
1969 |
Vincenzo Davico, composer, dies at 80 |
1970 |
Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77 |
1972 |
George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash |
1975 |
Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948) |
1976 |
Cathy Downs, My Darling Clementine |
1978 |
Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80 |
1978 |
William Berry, Running Brave |
1979 |
Al Torrieri, Lucy Gets a Roommate |
1979 |
Constance Bergen, Big Boy Rides Again |
1980 |
John Lennon, shot and killed in NY by Mark David Chapman at 40 |
1980 |
Millard McGowan, Zorro's Fighting Legion |
1980 |
John Lennon, A Hard Day's Night |
1981 |
Shakey, [Walter Horton], harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin'), dies at 64 |
1981 |
Sam Gellis, The Deep |
1981 |
Paul B. Kipilman, What's Up, Doc? |
1981 |
Valerie Cardew, The Prisoner |
1981 |
Walter Horton, Lisa |
1981 |
Rocky Shahan, Incident of the Valley in Shadow |
1982 |
Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered |
1982 |
Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux), dies |
1982 |
Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered |
1982 |
Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered |
1982 |
Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered |
1982 |
Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered |
1982 |
John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, murdered |
1982 |
Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered |
1982 |
Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered |
1982 |
Leckie, Suriname scholar, murdered |
1982 |
Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered |
1982 |
Marty Robbins, country singer, dies at 57 |
1982 |
Shakey, [Walter Horton], rocker, dies at 72 |
1982 |
Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered |
1982 |
Marty Robbins, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy |
1982 |
Adolf Horalek, Song of the Lark |
1982 |
Ján Smrek, Posledná bosorka |
1982 |
Robert Dabke, The Disorderly Orderly |
1983 |
Slim Pickins, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies after brain surgery at 64 |
1983 |
Slim Pickens, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
1983 |
Maya Van Horn, I Swear by Apollo |
1983 |
Dorothy Batley, Those Children! |
1984 |
Luther Adler, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81 |
1984 |
Razzle, English Musician and drummer for Hanoi Rocks (b.1960) |
1984 |
Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (b. 1953) |
1984 |
Viktor Shklovsky, Tretya meshchanskaya |
1984 |
Gene Ramey, Du Barry Was a Lady |
1984 |
Razzle, Hanoi Rocks: The Nottingham Tapes |
1985 |
Jack H. Skirball, Shadow of a Doubt |
1985 |
Bradley Page, Sherlock Holmes in Washington |
1986 |
Marguerite Madys, Les ailes s'ouvrent |
1986 |
Salvador Pruneda, El precio de una vida |
1987 |
Fay Baker, Notorious |
1988 |
Anne Seymour, actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show), dies at 79 |
1988 |
Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, US singer (Persuasions-Good news), dies at 44 |
1988 |
Ivan Bonar, General Hospital |
1988 |
Elton Burkett, The White Cliffs of Dover |
1988 |
Thore Swanerud, Suss gott |
1988 |
Anne Seymour, General Hospital |
1989 |
Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies |
1989 |
Bruno Carette, Objectif: Nul |
1989 |
Eino Haavisto, Varuskunnan 'pikku' morsian |
1989 |
Lester Fletcher, The Piano Movers |
1989 |
Marcella Cisney, Hard, Fast and Beautiful |
1989 |
Max Grundig, Episode dated 25 May 1984 |
1990 |
Martin Ritt, US, director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70 |
1990 |
Pony Sherrell Metcalf, NY, singer, dies of heart attack |
1990 |
John Alexander, Idomeneo |
1990 |
Alojzy Nowak, ... gdziekolwiek jestes, panie prezydencie... |
1990 |
Lana Marconi, The Lame Devil |
1990 |
Tadeusz Kantor, Nigdy tu juz nie powróce |
1990 |
Boris Kochno, |
1990 |
Martin Ritt, Hud |
1991 |
Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies |
1991 |
Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23 |
1991 |
Grace Dubray, Luxury Liner |
1991 |
Herbert Weber, Dick Tracy |
1991 |
Buck Clayton, A Great Day in Harlem |
1991 |
Joyce Niven, The Las Vegas Story |
1992 |
William Shawn, US editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85 |
1992 |
Elis Sella, The Year of the Hare |
1992 |
Ruth Channing, The Merry Widow |
1992 |
Helen Callaghan, A League of Their Own |
1993 |
Andre Cerf, French actor/producer (Nana), dies at 93 |
1993 |
Carlotta Monti, lover of WC Fields, dies at 86 |
1993 |
Cole Palen, Zelig |
1993 |
Carlotta Monti, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break |
1993 |
Halina Jezierska, Teddy Bear |
1993 |
Igor Bezyayev, Mumu |
1993 |
Sterling Jensen, Guns of the Trees |
1993 |
Bob Comer, The Last Gentleman |
1994 |
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil composer (Girl From Ipanema), dies at 67 |
1994 |
Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer, dies at 89 |
1994 |
Antonio Carlos Jobim, V for Vendetta |
1994 |
Ivan Draskoci, Jugoslovenski strucnjaci u Etiopiji |
1995 |
Carl Marsden, bodyguard, dies at 36 |
1995 |
Ernest LeRoy Boyer, educator, dies at 67 |
1995 |
John Gillett, film researcher, dies at 70 |
1995 |
Mikki Doyle, journalist, dies at 79 |
1995 |
George J. Lewis, Zorro's Black Whip |
1995 |
Robert Manuel, Rififi |
1996 |
Howard E Rollins Jr, actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46 |
1996 |
Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60 |
1996 |
Howard E. Rollins Jr., All My Children |
1996 |
Douglas Webb, And Now for Something Completely Different |
1996 |
Paulene Myers, The Sting |
1996 |
Stig Lasseby, Peter-No-Tail |
1997 |
Bob Bell, clown (WGN's 1st Bozo), dies at 75 |
1997 |
Leon Poliakov, historian, dies at 87 |
1997 |
Janusz Sykutera, Klincz |
1997 |
Hal Lipset, The Conversation |
1997 |
Bob Bell, Bozo's Circus |
1997 |
Stephen Tredre, The Sins of the Father |
1998 |
Valentino Guzzo, Ninguém Segura Essas Mulheres |
1998 |
Willy Witte, The Gripsholm Castle |
1998 |
John Veitch, Committed |
1998 |
John Veitch, Dracula |
1998 |
Peg Leg Bates, Episode #7.40 |
1998 |
Vasilis Manousakis, Hell in the Aegean |
1998 |
Lilly Hodácová, Valentin the Good |
1999 |
Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923) |
1999 |
Milton Carneiro, Katucha |
1999 |
Pupella Maggio, Cinema Paradiso |
1999 |
Wally Hebert, Alibi Ike |
1999 |
Venable Herndon, Alice's Restaurant |
1999 |
John Boersema, Garfield in Disguise |
1999 |
Ernst Günther, House of Angels |
2000 |
Claude Bouchinet-Serreulles, To Conquer or to Die |
2000 |
Marc Doelnitz, Zazie dans le métro |
2000 |
Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery |
2000 |
Tad Tadlock, Body Heat |
2000 |
H.F. Ellis, The Outsider |
2000 |
Dragutin Vunak, Varteks revija |
2001 |
Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922) |
2001 |
Walter Ribeiro dos Santos, A Pensão de D. Estela |
2001 |
George Young, Lawrence Taylor |
2001 |
Maude Chasen, Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's |
2001 |
Susan Teesdale, Go for It |
2001 |
Subrata Mitra, Pather Panchali |
2001 |
Bob Bransford, Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales |
2001 |
Aleksandr Khmelik, Drug moy, Kolka!.. |
2002 |
Cami Graham, The Devil in Miss Jones Part II |
2003 |
Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919) |
2003 |
Paul Simon, The Professional Politician |
2003 |
Lewis M. Allen, Fahrenheit 451 |
2003 |
Rubén González, The Rum Diary |
2003 |
Francine Weisweiller, La villa Santo Sospir |
2003 |
Nikolai Binev, Alien Hunter |
2004 |
Dimebag Darrell, heavy metal guitarist in band Pantera is shot & killed while performing onstage in Columbus Ohio by crazed fan Nathan Gale |
2004 |
Lord Scarman, In the Name of the Father |
2004 |
Dimebag Darrell, Sepultura: Third World Chaos |
2004 |
Jackson Mac Low, The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda |
2004 |
Jimmy Bangley, Rudolph Valentino: The Great Lover |
2004 |
José Libertella, Si sos brujo: A Tango Story |
2004 |
Lilla Mikes, Küldetés Evianba |
2005 |
Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915) |
2005 |
Georgi Zhzhyonov, Ekipazh |
2005 |
Maurice Shrog, Broadway Danny Rose |
2005 |
Paul F. Harron Jr., Shadow Glories |
2005 |
Hannswerner von Gehr, Der Bärenhäuter |
2005 |
Donald Martino, The Lonely Sex |
2005 |
Kalman Ruttenstein, The Hollywood Fashion Machine |
2006 |
Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915) |
2006 |
José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959) |
2006 |
Virginia McDowall, The Fan |
2006 |
Heinrich Riethmüller, Episode #1.1 |
2006 |
Jose Uribe, San Francisco Giants vs. Cincinnati Reds |
2006 |
Martha Tilton, Swing Hostess |
2006 |
Harry Barton, Fire at Magilligan |
2006 |
Bill Briare, Honey I Blew Up the Kid |
2006 |
Erni Arneson, After the Wedding |
2006 |
Jerry Lucas, The Last Fight |
2007 |
Gerardo García Pimentel, Mexican journalist |
2007 |
Roger King, The Little Rascals |
2007 |
Sam Cassel, Stop-Loss |
2007 |
Ion Fiscuteanu, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu |
2007 |
Gela Götze, Vierter Teil |
2007 |
Chris McCormack, The Vault |
2007 |
Rhiannon Meier, After School Special |
2007 |
Donald Burton, Hudson Hawk |
2008 |
Kerryn McCann, Australian athlete (b. 1967) |
2008 |
Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer. (b. 1925) |
2008 |
Robert Prosky, American actor (b. 1930) |
2008 |
Bob Spiers, Spice World |
2008 |
Hillary Waugh, Jigsaw |
2008 |
Robert Prosky, Dead Man Walking |
2008 |
Oliver Postgate, Bagpuss |
2008 |
Norm Nietzke, We Stand Alone Together |
2008 |
William Pullen, All About Eve |
2008 |
Maxine Fife, One Body Too Many |
2009 |
Luis Días, Dominican Composer (b. 1952). |
2009 |
Su Cruickshank, Young Einstein |
2009 |
Joan Bridge, The Red Shoes |
2009 |
Brock H. Brown, Rendezvous |
2010 |
Marian Harasimowicz, Vabank |
2010 |
Marion Gibbons, Ghoulies |
2010 |
Donald Wilder, Meatballs |
2010 |
Paul Shure, Batman Forever |
2010 |
Christopher Hibler, Triangle |
2011 |
Gilbert Adair, The Dreamers |
2011 |
Ladislas De Hoyos, Hôtel Terminus |
2011 |
Duong Don, We Were Soldiers |
2011 |
Werner Kofler, Wienfilm 1896-1976 |
2011 |
Joe Restic, Greatest College Football Traditions |
2011 |
Minoru Miki, In the Realm of the Senses |
2011 |
Bee Spears, Honeysuckle Rose |
2011 |
Luis Francisco Rebello, Birds with Clipped Wings |
2011 |
Nancy Hoyt, The Race Begins |
2011 |
Lewis Bush, Super Bowl XXIX |
2012 |
Johnny Lira, Gladiator |
2012 |
Hal Schaefer, There's No Business Like Show Business |
2012 |
Jacques Lègre, La triche |
2013 |
John Cornforth, Australian-British chemist and Nobel laureate, dies at 96 |
2013 |
Don Mitchell, American actor, dies at 70 |
2013 |
Sándor Szokolay, Alba Regia |
2013 |
Mado Maurin, Homicide by Night |
2013 |
Edward Williams, Journey Into Spring |
2013 |
Don Mitchell, Scream Blacula Scream |
2013 |
Lynne Kieran, Song.null.drei |
2013 |
Marc Mendelson, Jan Cox, a Painter's Odyssey |
2013 |
Reinhard Brock, Sauerkraut |
2014 |
Earl Hayes, Rock the Paint |
2014 |
Howard G. Barnes, Wake in Fright |
2014 |
Zbigniew Jakubowski, Jakob the Liar |
2014 |
Jan Laskowski, Night Train |
2014 |
Scot Young, I've Been to London to Visit the Queen |
2014 |
Florian Liewehr, Episode #1.19 |
2014 |
Russ Kemmerer, Don Larsen |
2015 |
Bonnie Lou, Pioneering Country and Rock Singer Dies at 91 |
2015 |
Mattiwilda Dobbs, American Soprano and Principal at Met, Dies at 90 |
2015 |
Martin E. Brooks Dead: 'Six Million Dollar Man' Star Sadly Dies At 90 |
2015 |
Actress Shirley Stelfox who played Emmerdale's Edna Birch dies after short cancer battle, aged 74 |
2015 |
'Mickey Mouse Club's' Marque 'Tate' Lynche dead at 34 |
2015 |
Douglas Tompkins, 72, North Face Founder, Dies in Kayaking Accident |
2015 |
Bhutan film director Tshering Wangyel dies at 43 |
2015 |
Former 'Mickey Mouse Club' Star Marque 'Tate' Lynche Dies at 34 |
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