Notable Deaths on April 8th
April 8th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
217 |
Caracalla, Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29 |
956 |
Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy |
1143 |
John II Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident |
1364 |
John II, the Good, King of France (1350-64), dies at 44 |
1461 |
Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423) |
1498 |
Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27 |
1537 |
Willem Aerts, Flemish architect, dies |
1586 |
Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522) |
1587 |
John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516) |
1629 |
Willem Teellinck, Dutch theologist/vicar, dies at 50 |
1697 |
Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629) |
1704 |
Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624) |
1704 |
Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641) |
1725 |
John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652) |
1735 |
Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. March 27, 1676) |
1736 |
Pedro Vaz Rego, composer, dies at 63 |
1759 |
Francois de La Croix, composer, dies at 76 |
1778 |
Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76 |
1794 |
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, mathematician dies |
1844 |
Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer, dies at 72 |
1848 |
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian composer, dies at 50 |
1848 |
Gaetano Donizetti, The Departed |
1851 |
John Parry, composer, dies at 75 |
1853 |
Jan W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo), dies at 73 |
1857 |
Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (b. 1827) |
1858 |
Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer/publisher, dies at 76 |
1861 |
Elisha G Otis, US elevator builder (Otis), dies at 50 |
1863 |
Joseph Netherclift, composer, dies at 70 |
1865 |
John Park, composer, dies at 61 |
1870 |
Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer, dies at 68 |
1870 |
Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
1871 |
Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer, dies at 68 |
1889 |
Henry Jupp, cricketer (scored 63 on Test debut for Engl in 1877), dies |
1890 |
Junius Morgan, philanthropist, dies at 76 |
1894 |
Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Mrinalini, Anandamath), dies at 55 |
1894 |
Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Anand Math |
1895 |
Manuel Pinheiro Chagas, La mantilla de Beatriz |
1897 |
George Garrett, composer, dies at 62 |
1897 |
Heinrich von Stephan, UK politician, dies |
1902 |
Sipyagain, Russian min of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated |
1906 |
Auguste D, First recorded Alzheimer's victim (b. 1950) |
1914 |
Jakub Arbes, Stedrý den bratrí Mánesu |
1918 |
Lucjan Rydel, Zaczarowane kolo |
1919 |
Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848) |
1920 |
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, US composer (White Peacock), dies at 35 |
1920 |
Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Glorifying the American Girl |
1921 |
Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager, dies |
1925 |
Thecla Åhlander, The Hell Ship |
1931 |
Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies |
1933 |
Louis Dean, The Birth of a Race |
1934 |
Hector Turnbull, The Cheat |
1935 |
Edwin Cannan, economist, dies |
1935 |
Lehel Kádár, A három galamb |
1935 |
Anker Kreutz, Mellem muntre musikanter |
1935 |
Adolph Ochs, |
1936 |
Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876) |
1937 |
Arthur William Foote, US organist/composer, dies at 84 |
1937 |
William Henry Hadow, composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77 |
1937 |
Flavia Arcaro, Come to Dinner |
1938 |
Harold Baumgartner, cricketer (took 2-99 lefty in test for S Af), dies |
1939 |
Ricardo de Baños, Secreto de confesión |
1939 |
Ludwig Fulda, Two-Faced Woman |
1939 |
Maja Bjerre-Lind, Elskovs opfindsomhed |
1940 |
Harlan Knight, The Critical Age |
1941 |
Marcel Prévost, Marie des angoisses |
1942 |
Alfred Mombert, writer, dies |
1942 |
Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880) |
1942 |
Arthur Housman, Sunrise |
1942 |
William Raskin, The Hangover |
1943 |
Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed |
1943 |
Richard Sears, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match, dies at 81 |
1943 |
Harry Baur, Les Misérables |
1943 |
John Peere Miles, The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok |
1945 |
Lizzi Waldmüller, Es lebe die Liebe |
1945 |
Richard Willis, The High Hand |
1946 |
Joseph P. Mack, Wild Honey |
1947 |
Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars), dies at 83 |
1948 |
Josef B Kjellgren, Swedish writer (Guldkedjan), dies at 40 |
1949 |
Morland Graham, Henry V |
1950 |
Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63 |
1950 |
Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London |
1950 |
Vaslav Nijinsky, Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky |
1950 |
Poul Gregaard, Dydsdragonen |
1951 |
Tyra Dörum, Hans nåds testamente |
1952 |
Fred Malatesta, Modern Times |
1954 |
Fritzi Scheff, Pretty Mrs. Smith |
1954 |
Jefferson Moffitt, Bonnie Scotland |
1955 |
Al Piantadosi, The Passing |
1955 |
Rudolf Klix, Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse |
1955 |
George 'Beetlepuss' Lewis, Pardon My Accident |
1957 |
Frank Chester, cricketer (distinguished 1-armed Engl Test ump), dies |
1957 |
Dorothy Sebastian, Spite Marriage |
1958 |
Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872) |
1958 |
Ethel Turner, Seven Little Australians |
1958 |
George Jean Nathan, Camille |
1959 |
Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian, dies |
1959 |
Alfons Godard, Madonna in Ketten |
1960 |
Barbara Child, A Modern Cinderella |
1961 |
Emily Dunning Barringer, The Girl in White |
1962 |
Juan Belmonte, Del prado a la arena |
1963 |
Len Tuckett, cricketer (no runs no wkts in 1 Test for S A), dies |
1965 |
Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70 |
1965 |
Jack Durston, cricketer (one Test for England, 4-102 & 1-34), dies |
1965 |
Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh & Devil), dies after illness at 78 |
1966 |
George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter, dies at 79 |
1966 |
Argentino Valle, Comahue |
1969 |
Arthur Walter Kramer, composer, dies at 78 |
1969 |
Denton Cooley, got 1st fully artificial heart, dies at 48 |
1970 |
Marie V Felix, Prince of Luxemburg, dies |
1973 |
Pablo (Ruiz y) Picasso, Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies at 91 |
1974 |
James Charles McGuigan, Catholic archbishop of Toronto (b. 1894) |
1975 |
Ossie Noble, Episode #1.3 |
1976 |
Phil Ochs, rock producer (Joe Hill), dies at 35 |
1977 |
Frank Milan, actor (Witness), dies at 71 |
1977 |
Igor Pretnar, Idealist |
1978 |
Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner, dies at 83 |
1980 |
Harold Wolf, Psycho |
1981 |
Norman Taurog, dies |
1981 |
Omar Bradley, last US 5-star general, (Normandy) dies in NY at 88 |
1981 |
Margaret Landis, The Martinache Marriage |
1981 |
Eric Rogers, The Kid |
1981 |
Elvira Velez, O Céu da Minha Rua |
1981 |
Adrian Hoven, Fox and His Friends |
1981 |
Omar N. Bradley, Patton |
1981 |
Flo Bert, The She-Creature |
1981 |
Pyotr Savin, By Pike |
1982 |
Burt Shevelove, The Wrong Box |
1982 |
David Shelley, Freshman Year |
1982 |
Katherine Rawls, Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty |
1982 |
Knud Lang, Next Stop Paradise |
1983 |
Roger Cherrill, Full Metal Jacket |
1983 |
Kauko Käyhkö, Radio tekee murron |
1983 |
Sigurd Björling, Kejsaren |
1984 |
Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894) |
1984 |
Bertalan Solti, Lincoln Ábrahám álmai |
1985 |
J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897) |
1985 |
Joan Croydon, The Bad Seed |
1985 |
J. Fred Coots, The Godfather |
1986 |
Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967) |
1986 |
Yukiko Okada, 8 ji dayo! zen'in shûgô |
1986 |
Louis Debney, Savage Sam |
1986 |
Lou Debney, Don Donald |
1987 |
Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) dies at 90 |
1987 |
Mike Graves, The General |
1987 |
James Moore, Forgotten Front |
1987 |
Mary Hamlett, The Pilgrim |
1987 |
Tommy Abbott, West Side Story |
1988 |
Ita Maximovna, Die seltsamen Abenteuer des geheimen Kanzleisekretärs Tusmann |
1988 |
Horace Brandt, Den hårda leken |
1988 |
Boris Vladimirov, Ded Moroz i Seryy Volk |
1989 |
Endri Keko, Lumja ti moj Shqipëri |
1989 |
Elise Relnah, Let's Get Laid |
1989 |
Mario Chiari, King Kong |
1990 |
Doreen Sloane, dies |
1990 |
Jose De Vega, dies of AIDS at 56 |
1990 |
Ryan White, hemophiliac aids sufferer, dies at 18 |
1990 |
Bellan Roos, Man on the Roof |
1990 |
Jean Orieux, Catherine de Médicis |
1990 |
Will Brandes, Hula-Hopp, Conny |
1990 |
Ernest Steward, Carry On... Up the Khyber |
1990 |
Apostolos Kaldaras, Hard Goodbyes: My Father |
1990 |
Ryan White, The Ryan White Story |
1990 |
Jose De Vega, West Side Story |
1991 |
Dead (musician), Swedish metal singer (b. 1969) |
1991 |
Tilo von Berlepsch, Tattoo |
1991 |
Dénes Csengey, Az utolsó nyáron |
1992 |
Nelson Olmstead, dies at 78 |
1992 |
Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907) |
1992 |
Nelson Olmsted, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
1992 |
Henry Madsen, Naar Katten er ude |
1992 |
John Cherberg, H.M.S. Bounty Sails Again! |
1992 |
Otakar Dadák, Cesta ke stestí |
1992 |
Ronald Eyre, The Hero |
1993 |
Arleen Whelan, dies of stroke at 78 |
1993 |
H Earnest, bishop of Breda, dies |
1993 |
Marian Anderson, US contralto (My Lord, What a Morning), dies at 96 |
1993 |
Fritz-Hugo Backman, Herra Lahtinen lähtee lipettiin |
1993 |
Marian Anderson, Jo taukos leikki alla joulupuun... |
1993 |
Aleksei Saltykov, Groza nad Rusyu |
1993 |
Stole Arandjelovic, Zena s krajolikom |
1994 |
Frank Wells, president (Disney), dies in helicopter crash |
1994 |
Irene Eisinger, singer, dies at 91 |
1994 |
Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64 |
1994 |
François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899) |
1994 |
Willis Cook, The Professionals |
1994 |
François Rozet, Notre-Dame de la mouise |
1994 |
R.J. Robertson, Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time |
1994 |
Irene Eisinger, Die Försterchristl |
1995 |
Maurice Allom, cricketer (14 Test wickets-NZ debut hat-trick), dies |
1995 |
Ileana Kwasinski, Pecado Sem Nome |
1995 |
Lev Zhukov, Ugol padeniya |
1995 |
Edda Mussolini, Mussolini: Italy's Nightmare |
1996 |
Basil Hembry, farmer/campaigner, dies at 80 |
1996 |
Ben Johnson, cowboy actor (Tex, Dillinger), dies of heart attack at 77 |
1996 |
Charles Donald Adams, singer, dies at 67 |
1996 |
Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918) |
1996 |
Roosevelt Barnes, Deep Blues |
1996 |
John Hudson, The Screaming Skull |
1996 |
Donald Adams, Patience |
1996 |
Georges Géret, Diary of a Chambermaid |
1996 |
León Klimovsky, The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman |
1996 |
Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show |
1996 |
Maxine Doviat, Pat and Mike |
1996 |
Fritz Zecha, Der Schatten |
1996 |
Edith Penn, The Women |
1997 |
Laura Nyro, singer, dies of ovarian cancer at 49 |
1997 |
Worth Gruelle, Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy |
1997 |
Audrey Atterbury, The Woodentops |
1997 |
Laura Nyro, Final Destination |
1998 |
Nick Auf der Maur, Windsor Protocol |
1998 |
Jirí Tarantík, The Fabulous World of Jules Verne |
1998 |
Anatole Dauman, Wings of Desire |
1998 |
Hugo Kaminský, Immortal Beloved |
1999 |
Stevan Minja, Beach Guard in Winter |
1999 |
Tina Gurko, V poiskakh radosti |
1999 |
Masato Chikusa, Stigmata |
1999 |
Clay Bryant, |
2000 |
Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910) |
2000 |
Robert Emmett, Color Me Barbra |
2000 |
Alfredo Alcala, Rambo |
2000 |
Eva Sadková, Pet miliónu svedku |
2000 |
María del Carmen Gordon, Nunca te engañé |
2000 |
A.K. Grant, McPhail & Gadsby |
2000 |
Claire Trevor, Stagecoach |
2000 |
Mantarô Ushio, Fires on the Plain |
2001 |
Yako Molhov, Zahari Stoyanov |
2001 |
Marguerite Viby, Frk. Kirkemus |
2001 |
Arthur Cantor, On Golden Pond |
2001 |
John Muri, College |
2002 |
María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914) |
2002 |
David Chudnow, The Jackie Robinson Story |
2002 |
Don Melvoin, Somewhere in Time |
2002 |
Josef Svoboda, Amadeus |
2002 |
María Félix, Enamorada |
2002 |
Bill Avery, Junior Bonner |
2003 |
Maki Ishii, Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis |
2003 |
Kathie Browne, Wink of an Eye |
2003 |
Ferenc Némethy, Gloomy Sunday |
2003 |
Bing Russell, The Magnificent Seven |
2003 |
István Fonyó, Sunshine |
2004 |
Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (b. 1941) |
2004 |
John Vlahos, Studio One in Hollywood |
2004 |
Marian Reniak-Struzynski, Haslo Korn |
2004 |
Chief Bey, Blue in the Face |
2004 |
Norm Filbert, The Christmas Angel: A Story on Ice |
2004 |
Matija Pasti, Bunja |
2004 |
Fred Olivi, Enola Gay and the Atomic Bombing of Japan |
2004 |
Allen Reisner, Mr. Denton on Doomsday |
2004 |
Herb Andress, Enemy Mine |
2004 |
Luut Buijsman, Episode dated 30 March 2001 |
2004 |
Vera Petáková, Harmonika |
2004 |
Lélia Abramo, They Don't Wear Black Tie |
2004 |
Adrian Beers, Schubert: A Winter's Journey |
2004 |
Gene Klavan, Who Pays? |
2005 |
Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (b. 1926) |
2005 |
Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924) |
2005 |
Onna White, Oliver! |
2005 |
Yoshitarô Nomura, The Castle of Sand |
2005 |
Deborah Stanford, The Girl with a Pistol |
2005 |
László Kolozsvári Papp, Ördögváltozás Csíkban |
2005 |
Allen Gettel, The Tin Star |
2005 |
Tadeusz Szaniecki, Strach |
2005 |
Eddie Miksis, Game 5 |
2005 |
Jerry Harper, Banjo the Woodpile Cat |
2006 |
Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923) |
2006 |
Henry Lewy, Mad Dogs & Englishmen |
2006 |
Paul Higa, Musubi Man |
2006 |
Tommy J. Huff, Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
2006 |
Gerard Reve, The 4th Man |
2006 |
Dieter Dost, Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job |
2006 |
Germano Facetti, La Jetée |
2007 |
Carey W. Barber, a member of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1905) |
2007 |
Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928) |
2007 |
Rachel Salik, La fonte de Barlaeus |
2007 |
Asad Amanat Ali Khan, Shama-E-Mohabbat |
2007 |
Margaret Perry, New Morals for Old |
2007 |
Jan Bzduch, St. Peter's Umbrella |
2007 |
Jordan Teplitz, Stranger Than Fiction |
2007 |
Christiane Nielsen, The Miracle of Father Malachia |
2007 |
Renate Dahlke, Panic Time |
2007 |
Sol LeWitt, The Stepford Wives |
2007 |
Osmo Harkimo, The Unknown Soldier |
2007 |
Paul Wadleigh, Sammyville |
2007 |
Pauline Jameson, Murder Most Foul |
2008 |
Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928) |
2008 |
John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933) |
2008 |
Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943) |
2008 |
Mark Eiges, Zombie Strippers |
2008 |
Vittorio Martinelli, The Crimson Pirate |
2008 |
Seaman Jacobs, Jeannie and the Great Bank Robbery |
2008 |
Kunio Ogawa, JNN Hôdô tokushu |
2008 |
Loren Driscoll, Der junge Lord |
2008 |
David Noel Freedman, The Story of David |
2008 |
Nadezhda Rumyantseva, The Girls |
2008 |
Isa Thomas, Walking and Talking |
2008 |
Jacqueline Voltaire, The Holy Mountain |
2008 |
Stanley Kamel, Domino |
2008 |
Árpád Benedek, Alba Regia |
2009 |
Dan Miller, Miller & Company |
2009 |
Charles Southwood, I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin |
2009 |
Francarlos Reis, Onde Andará Dulce Veiga? |
2009 |
Lennie Bennett, Episode #3.6 |
2009 |
John McCarthy, Amadeus |
2009 |
Jane Bryan, Each Dawn I Die |
2009 |
Tam Paton, Who Got the Bay City Rollers' Millions? |
2010 |
Malcolm McLaren, British music manager and musician (b. 1946) |
2010 |
Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer (b. 1926) |
2010 |
Jack Agnew, American World War II veteran (b. 1922) |
2010 |
Guy Kewney, Database |
2010 |
Renzo Casali, The Walls of Freedom |
2010 |
Thomas A. Geas, Lethal Weapon 3 |
2010 |
Heidi Rook, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band |
2010 |
Jean Vinci, Espions à l'affût |
2010 |
Andreas Kunze, 00 Schneider - Jagd auf Nihil Baxter |
2010 |
Malcolm McLaren, The Wolf of Wall Street |
2010 |
Hal Whitby, National Lampoon's Vacation |
2010 |
Aladár Kovácsi, Helsinki 1952: Games of the XV Olympiad |
2010 |
Teddy Scholten, Nationaal songfestival |
2010 |
Pamela Archer, North Hollywood Shoot Out |
2011 |
Hedda Sterne, Romanian born American artist dies aged 100 |
2011 |
Alex Leo Serban, Cinemaguerilla |
2011 |
Elena Zuasti, Waiting |
2011 |
Micki Maunsell, Haeckel's Tale |
2011 |
Donald Shanks, Cinderella |
2011 |
Hedda Sterne, Rothko's Rooms |
2011 |
Alfred Lucchetti, Bar-Cel-Ona |
2012 |
Jack Tramiel, Polish-American businessman, dies at 83 |
2012 |
Blair Kiel, Detroit Lions vs. Green Bay Packers |
2012 |
Anatoliy Ravikovich, Zagadka Endkhauza |
2012 |
Bram Bart, Woensdag, gehaktdag |
2012 |
Wiebo Ludwig, Wiebo's War |
2012 |
Rikiya Yasuoka, Tampopo |
2012 |
Tanner Hayes, The Violation: Surrender |
2012 |
Seppo Laine, Kinkkuvuori |
2013 |
Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister (1979 - 1990) dies aged 87 |
2013 |
Annette Funicello, Christmas at Pee Wee's Playhouse |
2013 |
Richard Brooker, Friday the 13th Part III |
2013 |
Les Brodrick, Great Escape: The Untold Story |
2013 |
Margaret Thatcher, Tracking Down Maggie: The Unofficial Biography of Margaret Thatcher |
2013 |
Sara Montiel, Sara, una estrella |
2013 |
Dragan Zikic, Kobni susret |
2013 |
Peter Reveen, Heroes of Magic |
2013 |
Floyd Gentry, Born on the Fourth of July |
2013 |
José Luis Sampedro, El río que nos lleva |
2014 |
Alena Hynková, Zdena Tominová |
2014 |
Irena Tamosiunaite, Laimingas laimes nerades |
2014 |
Jim Hellwig, WrestleMania VI |
2014 |
Juergen Hellwig, Providence |
2015 |
Eurydice Davis, Pathology |
2015 |
D. Jayakanthan, Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal |
2015 |
Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac, De Gaulle à Matignon, sept mois qui ont changé la France |
2015 |
Jason Mills, Gilgamesh |
2015 |
Lars Tunbjörk, Fotografen från Riga |
2015 |
David Laventhol, The Last Editor |
2015 |
Ion Trewin, Episode #1.3 |
2015 |
Lukács Bicskey, Spy |
2015 |
Sebastian Radke, Episode #1.4 |
2016 |
Funk and soul legend Leon Haywood reported dead, aged 74 |
2016 |
Sir Robert Finch dies, aged 71 |
2017 |
Tim Pigott-Smith, star of 'The Jewel In The Crown', dies aged 70 |
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