Notable Deaths on May 8th
May 8th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
535 |
John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies |
685 |
Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies |
1192 |
Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163) |
1278 |
Emperor Duanzong of China (b. 1268) |
1319 |
Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies |
1473 |
John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420) |
1538 |
Edward Fox, English bishop |
1577 |
Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies |
1672 |
Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598) |
1684 |
Henri Dumont, composer, dies |
1725 |
John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle |
1766 |
Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693) |
1773 |
Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies (b. 1728) |
1781 |
Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715) |
1785 |
Pietro Longhi, painter, dies |
1785 |
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719) |
1788 |
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723) |
1794 |
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined |
1809 |
Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (Bachante), dies at 78 |
1818 |
Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer, dies at 78 |
1819 |
Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (1782-1819) |
1829 |
Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani, composer, dies at 47 |
1837 |
Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770) |
1842 |
Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790) |
1844 |
Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies |
1846 |
Giacomo Cordella, composer, dies at 59 |
1853 |
Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch lt col-gen of Jesuits, dies at 67 |
1864 |
James Samuel Wadsworth, gen-mjr (Union), dies in battle at 56 |
1873 |
John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66 |
1876 |
Truganini, last originating Tasmanian, dies |
1880 |
Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821) |
1880 |
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary |
1885 |
Pavel Krizkovsky, composer, dies at 65 |
1887 |
Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar |
1891 |
Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies |
1891 |
Hélèna Pétrowna Blavatsky, Stanzas of Dzyan |
1894 |
Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79 |
1902 |
Paul Leicester Ford, Janice Meredith |
1903 |
Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies |
1903 |
Paul Gauguin, Gauguin |
1904 |
Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies |
1904 |
Eadweard Muybridge, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop |
1908 |
Ludovic Halévy, Carmen |
1909 |
Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies |
1915 |
Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82 |
1918 |
Russell Bassett, One of the Finest |
1923 |
Gertrude Smith, Rainbow Island |
1924 |
Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23 |
1924 |
Emilius Lindgreen, Peter Ligeglad paa Eventyr |
1924 |
Alma Belwin, The Ivory Snuff Box |
1925 |
Johan Jensen, Elskovsbarnet |
1926 |
Rida Johnson Young, Young Frankenstein |
1927 |
Georg Grönroos, Ingeborg Holm |
1927 |
Charles Nungesser, The Sky Raider |
1928 |
Clara Williams, Hell's Hinges |
1930 |
Lvar Henning Mankell, composer, dies at 61 |
1930 |
Julia Crawford Ivers, The Heart of Paula |
1931 |
Bertha Lewis, The Mikado |
1931 |
Hans Otto, Der Monte Christo von Prag |
1932 |
Albert Thomas, French socialist politician |
1933 |
Cardinal Cherrotte, Cavalcade of Faith |
1936 |
Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies |
1938 |
Sidney Ullman, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1939 |
Margarita Barskaya, Broken Shoes |
1940 |
Alexander Black, Miss Jerry |
1941 |
Heinrich Zollner, composer, dies at 86 |
1941 |
Tore Svennberg, The Phantom Carriage |
1942 |
Orfa Casanova, A1 Society |
1942 |
Orpha Alba, Look Your Best |
1943 |
Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed |
1943 |
Hans Homma, Das vierte Gebot |
1944 |
Otto Lagoni, Who Is She? |
1944 |
Ethel Smyth, Sylvia Pankhurst |
1944 |
Hanns Saßmann, The Mountain Calls |
1944 |
Stanislawa Slubicka, Zazdrosc |
1944 |
Herbert Richter-Luckian, Man by the Roadside |
1945 |
Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (b. 1883) |
1945 |
Hansi Arnstaedt, Der eingebildete Kranke |
1946 |
Karl Etlinger, The Joyless Street |
1947 |
Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858) |
1947 |
Carl Oscar Borg, The Black Pirate |
1948 |
Alfred Holy, composer, dies at 81 |
1948 |
U Saw, Burmese politician (b. 1900) |
1948 |
Vera Gordon, Humoresque |
1950 |
Franklin Dyall, dies at 76 |
1950 |
Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (b. 1865) |
1950 |
William Slade, His Military Figure |
1950 |
Franklin Dyall, The Private Life of Henry VIII. |
1951 |
Leo Diegel, Swing with Bing |
1951 |
Pat Hartigan, Love and Skates |
1952 |
William Fox, Austrian-born film producer (b. 1879) |
1952 |
Elena Fortún, ¡Hasta la vista! |
1952 |
Mariya Domashyova, Baltic Deputy |
1953 |
Richard Eichberg, The Tiger of Eschnapur |
1953 |
Gus Taillon, Top o' the Morning |
1954 |
Marie Spiljar, As God Made Her |
1954 |
Alan Edwards, If You Could Only Cook |
1955 |
Geraldo Pereira, The Besieged House |
1955 |
Kazimierz Wajda, Wlóczegi |
1955 |
William Pagan, Daredevils of the Red Circle |
1957 |
Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75 |
1957 |
Sandra Milovanoff, Mauprat |
1957 |
Harry Lamont, Blood and Sand |
1958 |
Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered |
1958 |
Norman Bel Geddes, Dance of the Hands |
1958 |
Friedrich Gnaß, M |
1959 |
Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55 |
1959 |
Paul Irving, The Great Ziegfeld |
1960 |
Hugo Alfven, Swedish composer (Midsommarvaka), dies at 88 |
1960 |
J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904) |
1961 |
James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63 |
1962 |
Johnnie Mae Beard, Free Wheeling |
1965 |
H T W Hardinge, cricketer (scored 25 & 5 in only Test for England), dies |
1965 |
Frank Uecker, Home of the Brave |
1967 |
Barbara Payton, actress (Dallas, Trapped, Bad Blonde), dies at 39 |
1967 |
Elmer Rice, NY playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74 |
1967 |
Laverne Andrews, singer (Andrews Sisters), dies at 51 |
1967 |
Elmer Rice, Holiday Inn |
1969 |
Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (b. 1892) |
1970 |
László Kemény, Baleset |
1973 |
Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player (Brooklyn Bridegrooms and Baltimore Orioles), dies aged 100 |
1973 |
Maxine Doyle, SOS Coast Guard |
1974 |
Graham Bond, rocker, dies jumping under a train |
1975 |
Avery Brundage, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72), dies at 87 |
1976 |
Alan Baxter, dies at 67 |
1976 |
Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies |
1976 |
Frank Smith, Air Power |
1979 |
Talcott Parsons, US sociologist, dies at 76 |
1979 |
Georges Lampin, King on Horseback |
1980 |
Norman Mingo, The Mad Magazine TV Special |
1980 |
Minnie Mae Presley, |
1980 |
Perdigão Queiroga, Sonhar é Fácil |
1981 |
Margaret Lindsay, actress (G Men, Lady Killer, Jezebel), dies at 70 |
1981 |
Maurice Fernandes, cricket captain (WI in 1st Test win, 1930 v Eng), dies |
1982 |
Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident |
1982 |
Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943) |
1982 |
Neil Bogart, Thank God It's Friday |
1983 |
Viktor Vitkovich, Aladdin and His Magic Lamp |
1983 |
James A. Healy, Wings |
1983 |
Mike Steen, Sweet Bird of Youth |
1983 |
John Fante, Full of Life |
1983 |
Fay Spain, The Godfather: Part II |
1984 |
Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1916) |
1984 |
Nola Hatterman, Geeft ons kracht |
1984 |
Lech Grzmocinski, The Tin Drum |
1984 |
Yevgeniya Rogulina, Life Is Beautiful |
1985 |
Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74 |
1985 |
Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies of Alzheimer's at 69 |
1985 |
Karl Marx, German composer/conductor, dies at 87 |
1985 |
Theodore Sturgeon, Killdozer |
1985 |
Susan Morrow, The Savage |
1985 |
Dolph Sweet, Another World |
1986 |
Kurt Hirschler, Enter the Dragon |
1986 |
Emanuel Shinwell, Home Fires: Britain - 1940-1944 |
1986 |
James Krondes, A Dirty Shame |
1986 |
Ernle Bradford, Burke & Hare |
1986 |
Jean Tolley, The Uninvited Guest |
1987 |
Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off |
1987 |
Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (b. 1920) |
1987 |
Lawrence Morton, Without Warning! |
1987 |
Reedy Talton, Dead to the World |
1988 |
Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80 |
1988 |
Domingo Ortega, Afternoon of the Bulls |
1988 |
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers |
1989 |
Ruggero Maccari, Scent of a Woman |
1989 |
Paul Steenbergen, Mooi weer vandaag |
1989 |
George Bloom, Around the World in Eighty Days |
1989 |
Tadeusz Wludarski, Aniol w szafie |
1990 |
Tomas O'Fiach, [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies |
1990 |
Luigi Nono, Verso la scuola ideale |
1990 |
Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Die Bernauerin |
1990 |
Michael Jeffers, Paradise Alley |
1991 |
Jean Langlais, composer, dies at 84 |
1991 |
Lloyd Ford, stuntman, dies at 79 |
1991 |
Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse), dies at 72 |
1991 |
Lloyd Ford, Idol of the Crowds |
1991 |
Rudolf Serkin, Ozawa |
1991 |
Alvord Eiseman, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
1991 |
Ronnie Brody, Superman III |
1991 |
Mireille Perrey, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg |
1991 |
Kenny Trimble, The Lawrence Welk Show |
1992 |
Addeke H Boerma, dir-gen (FAO), dies at 80 |
1992 |
Brian Moore, writer (Catholics), dies of heart failure at 59 |
1992 |
Gul Mahomed, cricketer (8 Tests for India & one for Pakistan), dies |
1992 |
Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies |
1992 |
Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer |
1992 |
Joseph A. Kramm, The Shrike |
1992 |
Ruth Saabye, En lille tilfældighed |
1992 |
Otto Simánek, Pan Tau |
1992 |
Sergey Obraztsov, Sergei Obraztsov |
1992 |
Brian Moore, Disorderlies |
1992 |
Richard Derr, When Worlds Collide |
1992 |
Fritz Bachschmidt, Augen... Blicke |
1993 |
Kees Deenik, singer/conductor |
1993 |
Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923) |
1993 |
Alwin Nikolais, The Company |
1993 |
Avram Davidson, The Ikon of Elijah |
1993 |
Harald Eggers, Wilhelmsburger Freitag |
1994 |
Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88 |
1994 |
George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), dies at 65 |
1994 |
Rupert Haselden, journalist/screenwriter, dies at 36 |
1994 |
Steven Keats, actor (Death Wish), dies of apparent suicide at 48 |
1994 |
Steven Keats, All My Children |
1994 |
Murray Spivack, The Sound of Music |
1994 |
George Peppard, Breakfast at Tiffany's |
1995 |
Carroll Best, bluegrass banjo, dies at 63 |
1995 |
Jerry Zipkin, socialite, dies at 80 |
1995 |
Prem Bhatia, journalist, dies at 83 |
1995 |
Teresa Teng, singer, dies at 41 |
1995 |
Teresa Teng, Ge mi xiao jie |
1995 |
Ernest H. Martin, A Chorus Line |
1995 |
Sally Moffet, Tough Guys Don't Dance |
1995 |
J. Brian Pizer, The Legend of the Golden Gun |
1995 |
Olga Vikland, Korotkie vstrechi |
1996 |
Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80 |
1996 |
Luis Miguel Domiguin, bullfighter, dies at 69 |
1996 |
Serge Chermayeff, architect/designer, dies at 95 |
1996 |
Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912) |
1996 |
Sydney Singerman, Igloo |
1996 |
Miomir Denic, Mars na Drinu |
1996 |
Totch Brown, Yesterday's Everglades |
1996 |
Luis Miguel Dominguín, Episode dated 15 November 1964 |
1996 |
Robert Le Béal, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie |
1997 |
Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German Pres of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72), dies |
1997 |
Kai Uwe von Hassel, Episode #3.1 |
1997 |
Mary Shipp, Jennifer |
1997 |
Berkley Garrett, Tender Mercies |
1997 |
Jan Blomberg, The Stone Face |
1997 |
Robert G. Kane, Kisses for My President |
1997 |
Bojana Subota, A Holy Place |
1998 |
Bebe Rebozo, American banker and Watergate figure (b. 1912) |
1998 |
Jacques Dumesnil, Ulysses |
1998 |
Jennings Randolph, Huey Long |
1999 |
Dirk Bogarde, London England, actor (b. 1921) (Death in Venice, Servant) |
1999 |
Ed Gilbert, American actor (b. 1931) |
1999 |
Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964) |
1999 |
Ed Gilbert, The Little Mermaid |
1999 |
Dirk Bogarde, Death in Venice |
1999 |
Daniel Fillion, Cover Girl |
1999 |
John Monck, Forty Million People |
1999 |
Stan Haze, From Noon Till Three |
1999 |
Irena Szymanska, Zofia Nalkowska - Zycie i twórczosc |
1999 |
Dana Plato, Different Strokes |
1999 |
Sally Payne, Rodeo Dough |
1999 |
Bud S. Isaacs, Brian's Song |
1999 |
Mouna, Les dieux en colère |
2000 |
Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (b. 1918) |
2000 |
Alexander Chislenko, Russian-American transhumanist (b. 1959) |
2000 |
Henry Nicols, AIDS activist (b. 1973) |
2000 |
X Brands, Two Tickets to Promontory |
2000 |
Henry Nicols, Eagle Scout: The Story of Henry Nicols |
2000 |
Lewis Crosley, Powel Crosley and the 20th Century |
2000 |
Jesús González Dávila, Streeters |
2001 |
Robert Serrecchia, The Wild Women of Wongo |
2001 |
Sue Bennett, Episode #1.27 |
2001 |
Piero Natoli, Ladri di cinema |
2002 |
Laurie Vejar, The Hoaxters |
2002 |
Tilly Lauenstein, Otto - Der Film |
2002 |
Lou Lombardo, The Wild Bunch |
2002 |
Boyce McDaniel, Ultimate Power |
2002 |
Ahmed Mazhar, El Naser Salah el Dine |
2003 |
Sam Lacy, Crossing White Lines |
2003 |
Carmen Mendes, Vinte E Nove Irmãos |
2003 |
Tin Hop Pang, The Pagoda Factor |
2003 |
Jack Baird, Baby's Day Out |
2003 |
Elvira Pagã, Dominó Negro |
2003 |
Ani Kachuleva, Tsar i general |
2004 |
Jim Spagg, Humanity School of Understanding |
2004 |
Valentin Ezhov, Ballad of a Soldier |
2004 |
Mark Wharton, Episode #1.3 |
2005 |
Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (b. 1981) |
2005 |
Nancy Atchison-Aylesworth, Bed & Blessings |
2005 |
Nino Terzo, Cinema Paradiso |
2005 |
Malgorzata Lorentowicz, Kogel-mogel |
2006 |
Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (b. 1938) |
2006 |
György Somlyó, Találkozások (Wallenberg) |
2006 |
Alfred Bruggmann, The Man in the Black Derby |
2006 |
Pualani Mossman, Ray Kinney and His Royal Hawaiian Orchestra |
2006 |
John Kimbrough, Lone Star Ranger |
2006 |
Philip Barberio, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi |
2006 |
Harold Millen, The Hanging Tree |
2006 |
George Lutz, The Amityville Horror |
2007 |
Mark Burns, Death in Venice |
2007 |
Audry Savage, Flying Down to Rio |
2007 |
Charlie Smithers, A Little of What You Fancy |
2007 |
Herval Rossano, Brava Gente |
2007 |
Leon Dony, The Departure |
2007 |
Velma Dunn, Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty |
2007 |
Maria Korda, Proof Through the Night |
2007 |
Joachim Fontheim, Die Laokoon-Gruppe |
2008 |
Eddy Arnold, Country music star (b. 1918) |
2008 |
François Sterchele, Belgian football player (b. 1982) |
2008 |
Gordon Crowe, Oh! Calcutta! |
2008 |
Allen Fristoe, One Life to Live |
2008 |
Chris Gampel, Annie Hall |
2008 |
Eddy Arnold, Ray |
2008 |
Hans Daniel, Das Wunder von Lengede |
2008 |
Guido Caiafa, Intruder |
2008 |
Willem Brakman, Oog in oog |
2008 |
Dorothy Green, The Big Heat |
2008 |
Luigi Malerba, Tre nel mille |
2008 |
Larry Levine, The Wrecking Crew |
2008 |
Maria Alves, Black Demons |
2009 |
Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1917) |
2009 |
Bud Shrake, American writer (b. 1931) |
2009 |
Gashouse Dave, Dystopia |
2009 |
Dominic DiMaggio, The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship |
2009 |
Eric Garrett, Die Fledermaus |
2009 |
Bud Shrake, Tom Horn |
2009 |
Kyllikki Virolainen, Itsenäisyyspäivän vastaanotto Tasavallan presidentin linnassa |
2010 |
Stefanos Lazaridis, Orphée et Eurydice |
2010 |
Joaquín Capilla, ¡Paso a la juventud..! |
2010 |
El Hadji Samba Sarr, Graines que la mer emporte |
2010 |
Andrew Hull, P2 |
2010 |
Peer Schmidt, Von Mäusen und Menschen |
2010 |
Alan Watkins, Episode dated 10 May 1990 |
2011 |
Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (b. 1948) |
2011 |
Alexander-Branislav Hromek, Ctvrté finále: Vyrazování |
2011 |
Lionel Rose, Lionel |
2011 |
Cornell Dupree, Still Bill |
2011 |
Greg Paramo, Lone Tiger |
2011 |
Hilton Rosemarin, Hellboy |
2011 |
Miroslaw Jakubowski, The Deluge |
2011 |
Gabriel Ben Meir, Yes We Can't |
2011 |
Miklós Hubay, Three Nights of Love |
2011 |
Carlos Trillo, Cybersix |
2012 |
Nicholas Katzenbach, American Attorney General, dies at 90 |
2012 |
Maurice Sendak, American author/illustrator, dies at 83 |
2012 |
Dzhemma Firsova, The White Bird Marked with Black |
2012 |
Stacy Robinson, Super Bowl XXV |
2012 |
Nicholas Katzenbach, Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy |
2012 |
Yves Courrière, Le jugement des nazis |
2012 |
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are |
2012 |
Caloi, Ánima Buenos Aires |
2012 |
Walter Roderer, Ein Schweizer namens Nötzli |
2012 |
Roman Totenberg, The 400 Million |
2013 |
Brian Forbes, English director and actor, dies at 86 |
2013 |
Jeanne Cooper, American actress, dies at 84 |
2013 |
Taylor Mead, Midnight Cowboy |
2013 |
Jeanne Cooper, The Boston Strangler |
2013 |
Bryan Forbes, Chaplin |
2013 |
Geza Vermes, The Nativity |
2013 |
Otar Megvinetukhutsesi, Izydi! |
2013 |
Julio Marbíz, Mire qué lindo es mi país |
2013 |
Dallas Willard, Be Still |
2014 |
Roger Easton, Archimedes' Secret |
2014 |
Yago Lamela, Episode dated 8 November 2002 |
2014 |
Stanford Whitmore, Portrait of a Dead Girl |
2014 |
George Kohut, Batman Begins |
2014 |
Nancy Malone, Guiding Light |
2014 |
Beverly Long, Rebel Without a Cause |
2014 |
Mercedes Salisachs, La Rapsodia de los Zapatos |
2014 |
Maria Bialobrzeska, Czlowiek wózków |
2014 |
Jair Rodrigues, Jovens Pra Frente |
2014 |
Aleksandr Flyarkovsky, Rozygrysh |
2014 |
Sam Lomberg, King Lear |
2015 |
Godfrey Isaac, The Second Gun |
2015 |
Menashe Kadishman, Episode #12.5 |
2015 |
Joanne Carson, Video Village |
2015 |
Zeki Alasya, Pardon |
2015 |
Rutger Gunnarsson, Mamma Mia! |
2015 |
Vadim Ilyenko, Gelli i Nok |
2016 |
Rickey Smith dead: American idol finalist dies aged 36 |
2016 |
Margot Honecker, the 'Purple Witch' of East Germany, dies aged 89 |
2016 |
Kaname Harada: Ex-fighter pilot dies aged 99 |
2018 |
'Menards Guy' Ray Szmanda, longtime company spokesman, dies at 91 |
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