Notable Deaths on October 8th
October 8th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
705 |
Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies |
976 |
Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen |
1094 |
St Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice |
1253 |
Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies |
1286 |
John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217) |
1317 |
Fushimi, Emperor of Japan (b. 1265) |
1604 |
Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58 |
1606 |
John VI the Elder, Count of Nassau, father of 24, dies aged 69 |
1613 |
Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74 |
1621 |
Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist |
1647 |
Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562) |
1651 |
Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55 |
1652 |
John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602) |
1656 |
Johann Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71 |
1659 |
Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary |
1680 |
Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61 |
1683 |
Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76 |
1686 |
Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55 |
1722 |
Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80 |
1728 |
Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47 |
1735 |
Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678) |
1754 |
Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47 |
1754 |
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones |
1771 |
John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76 |
1772 |
Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60 |
1793 |
John Hancock, US merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence), dies at 56 |
1795 |
Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman (b. 1725) |
1803 |
Vittorio A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54 |
1803 |
Vittorio Alfieri, Agamennone |
1809 |
James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721) |
1834 |
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58 |
1834 |
François-Adrien Boieldieu, 'Merci la vie' |
1842 |
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68 |
1842 |
C.E.F. Weyse, Magic Lighter |
1847 |
Rose Scott, Social Reformer |
1862 |
James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39 |
1862 |
William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28 |
1864 |
Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brig-general, dies at about 34 |
1865 |
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51 |
1869 |
Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64 |
1869 |
Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, dies at 64 |
1874 |
Vitezslav Halek, Muzikantská Liduska |
1879 |
Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834) |
1886 |
Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819) |
1888 |
Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies |
1894 |
Robun Kanagaki, Takahashi Oden - Kôhen |
1895 |
Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76 |
1896 |
George L. Du Maurier, Svengali |
1897 |
Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43 |
1897 |
Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830) |
1904 |
Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62 |
1907 |
Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65 |
1910 |
Maria Konopnicka, Marysia i krasnoludki |
1912 |
Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88 |
1914 |
Johann Schwarzer, The Vain Housemaid |
1918 |
Mikhail Alekseyev, |
1919 |
Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies |
1923 |
Beatrice DeMille, Castles for Two |
1925 |
Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies |
1926 |
Axel Madsen, The President |
1927 |
Mary Webb, Gone to Earth |
1927 |
Ricardo Güiraldes, Don Segundo Sombra |
1928 |
Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889) |
1928 |
Larry Semon, The Wizard of Oz |
1931 |
Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865) |
1931 |
Dwinelle Benthall, The Goose Woman |
1932 |
Annie Saker, The Lifeguardsman |
1936 |
William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851) |
1936 |
Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882) |
1936 |
Munshi Premchand, The Chess Players |
1938 |
Alma Jensen, Mac-Morton |
1938 |
James O'Neill, The Lure |
1938 |
Luiz Barbosa, Alô Alô Carnaval |
1940 |
Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78 |
1941 |
Gus Kahn, Goodfellas |
1942 |
Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer |
1942 |
Effie Ellsler, The Front Page |
1943 |
Maria Malanowicz-Niedzielska, Geniusz sceny |
1943 |
Horst Birr, D III 88: The New German Air Force Attacks |
1944 |
Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52 |
1944 |
Wendell Willkie, Charles Lindbergh |
1945 |
Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73 |
1945 |
Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869) |
1945 |
Felix Salten, Bambi |
1946 |
Rose Melville, A Double Elopement |
1946 |
John St. Polis, The Phantom of the Opera |
1946 |
Jack W. Robson, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
1947 |
Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78 |
1947 |
Helen Gilmore, Bumping Into Broadway |
1948 |
László Dezsõffy, Maga lesz a férjem |
1949 |
Monte Barrett, The Adventures of Jane Arden |
1950 |
Edwin W. Willat, The False Faces |
1950 |
Dorothy Adelphi, The Nagger at Breakfast |
1951 |
Larry Judge, Fog Island |
1951 |
Robert A. O'Neil, The Fargo Phantom |
1952 |
Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877) |
1952 |
Beulah Hall, Black Narcissus |
1952 |
Beulah Hall Jones, Drums Along the Mohawk |
1952 |
Thorild Bröderman, Tukkipojan morsian |
1953 |
Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41 |
1953 |
Nigel Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), dies at 58 |
1953 |
Ivy Baldwin, Dirigible Balloons at St. Louis |
1953 |
Kathleen Ferrier, The Taste of Others |
1953 |
Lawrence Kennedy, Irene |
1953 |
Nigel Bruce, Rebecca |
1954 |
Aleksandr Cheban, Sekretnaya missiya |
1956 |
Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69 |
1957 |
Alois Johannes Lippl, Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau |
1957 |
Charles Lacey, Quicker'n a Wink |
1958 |
Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886) |
1960 |
Vladimir Yegorov, We Are from Kronstadt |
1961 |
Milka Balek-Brodská, Perníková chaloupka |
1962 |
Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer |
1963 |
Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist dies of a heart attack aged 54 |
1963 |
Remedios Varo, |
1963 |
Rowland Leigh, The Charge of the Light Brigade |
1963 |
Géza Berczy, Paul Street Boys |
1964 |
Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69 |
1965 |
Thomas B. Costain, The Black Rose |
1967 |
Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84 |
1969 |
Eduardo Ciannelli, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81 |
1970 |
Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75 |
1970 |
Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies |
1970 |
Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934) |
1971 |
Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51 |
1971 |
Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79 |
1973 |
Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies |
1975 |
Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78 |
1976 |
Maria Menninger-Polt-Sauruck, Bellaria - So lange wir leben! |
1977 |
Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer, composer, lyricist (b. 1902 ) |
1977 |
Kathleen Fagan, Anatomy of a Murder |
1978 |
Jim Gilliam, coach (LA Dodgers), dies at 49 |
1978 |
Karl Swenson, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70 |
1978 |
Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76 |
1978 |
Ralph Marterie, Ralph Marterie and His Orchestra |
1978 |
Karl Swenson, The Sword in the Stone |
1979 |
June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68 |
1979 |
Helena Bystrzanowska, Dzieciol |
1979 |
David Izenzon, Who's Crazy? |
1979 |
Emmaline Henry, Rosemary's Baby |
1980 |
Ruth Fallows, Saleslady |
1980 |
Paul Nichols, Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo |
1980 |
Arvo Turtiainen, Arvo Turtiainen - Työn ja rakkauden lauluja |
1980 |
Jaakko Jahnukainen, Episode dated 16 July 1977 |
1980 |
Leonid Chubarov, Ballad of a Soldier |
1981 |
Aleksandra Panova, Chipollino |
1981 |
Vladimir Tkhapsaev, Patima |
1981 |
Kalevi Lahtinen, Boris Godunov |
1981 |
Armando Bo, Fuego |
1981 |
Deborah Marcus, Cycle Vixens |
1982 |
Fernando Lamas, actor/director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67 |
1982 |
Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92 |
1982 |
Nikolai Makarenko, Lyudi ne vsyo znayut |
1982 |
Fernando Lamas, The Violent Ones |
1982 |
Hoyt Bowers, Big Jake |
1983 |
Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49 |
1983 |
Tuija Ahvonen, Miesten koulu |
1983 |
Joan Hackett, Support Your Local Sheriff! |
1984 |
Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke |
1984 |
Frederick Brisson, The Pajama Game |
1985 |
Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat |
1985 |
Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright/poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94 |
1985 |
Theresa Harris, I Walked with a Zombie |
1985 |
George Santelli, Sport Slants |
1985 |
Riccardo Bacchelli, The Mill on the Po |
1985 |
Gina Presgott, Girls Behind Bars |
1986 |
Virginia Lucille Jones, One Moment Please |
1986 |
Jacqueline Huet, Latude ou L'entêtement de vivre |
1986 |
Artur London, The Confession |
1987 |
Donald McWhinnie, Rumpole and the Age for Retirement |
1987 |
Betty Pedretti, The Raven |
1987 |
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Zorro's Black Whip |
1988 |
Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82 |
1988 |
Alena Frimlová, Hudba srdcí |
1988 |
Marland Proctor, Curse of the Headless Horseman |
1988 |
Krista Keller, Mariana Pineda |
1988 |
Don Large, Wayne King |
1988 |
Charlie Tanimoto, The Karate Kid, Part II |
1988 |
Ernst Hermann Meyer, North Sea |
1989 |
Odel Conley, The Winning of Barbara Worth |
1989 |
Onest Conley, Racing Luck |
1989 |
Vera Kapustina, The Story of the Flaming Years |
1989 |
Rich Dehr, Sleepers |
1989 |
Siegfried Weiß, Die Sommerfrische |
1989 |
James Leicester, Casablanca |
1989 |
Eddie Woods, Beloved |
1989 |
Edward Woods, The Public Enemy |
1990 |
B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947) |
1990 |
B.J. Wilson, The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
1990 |
Gino Sabetelli, The Pleasure Seekers |
1991 |
Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75 |
1991 |
Maria Lang, Ljuvlig är sommarnatten |
1991 |
Natalia Ginzburg, Ti ho sposato per allegria |
1991 |
Tsvetana Tomova, Gnevno patuvane |
1991 |
Craig Lee, The Living End |
1991 |
Harry M. Popkin, D.O.A. |
1991 |
Edward Skórzewski, A Souvenir from Calvary |
1992 |
Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78 |
1992 |
Robert Berdella, |
1992 |
Róbert Rátonyi, Dream Brigade |
1992 |
Willy Brandt, Willy Brandt |
1992 |
Lindsley Parsons, The Man from Utah |
1992 |
Antoni Zukowski, Ocalic miasto |
1992 |
Zivko 'Zika' Ristic, Na Drini cuprija |
1992 |
Tom Talbert, Blind Fury |
1993 |
Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73 |
1993 |
Rosetta Calavetta, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
1993 |
Manke Nelis, De boezemvriend |
1993 |
Jack Parker, 4 Devils |
1994 |
Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55 |
1994 |
Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81 |
1994 |
John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68 |
1994 |
Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50 |
1994 |
Jan de Koning, |
1994 |
Chandra Kaly, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy |
1994 |
Chandra Kaly and His Dancers, The Time, the Place and the Girl |
1994 |
Diana Churchill, Scott of the Antarctic |
1994 |
Matti Bergström, Going It Alone |
1994 |
Robert Cotney, Quicksilver |
1995 |
Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48 |
1995 |
Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85 |
1995 |
John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82 |
1995 |
Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45 |
1995 |
Christopher Keene, Altered States |
1995 |
Yekaterina Mazurova, Kogda derevya byli bolshimi |
1995 |
Joe Kyle, Frasier, the Sensuous Lion |
1996 |
Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70 |
1996 |
Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85 |
1996 |
Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81 |
1996 |
Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33 |
1996 |
William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83 |
1996 |
Francis D. Lyon, The Great Locomotive Chase |
1996 |
William Prince, Another World |
1996 |
Lawrence P. Williams, Brief Encounter |
1996 |
Charles Oldfather, The Burden of Proof |
1996 |
Mignon G. Eberhart, While the Patient Slept |
1997 |
Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66 |
1997 |
Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913) |
1997 |
Hans Tiemeyer, Hughie |
1997 |
Ernie Brown, The Monster Squad |
1997 |
Henryk Bista, Schindler's List |
1997 |
Roger Creed, Batman Forever |
1997 |
William Rotsler, Agony of Love |
1998 |
Svend Aage Lorentz, Himlen er blaa |
1998 |
Lia Eliava, Oromtriali |
1998 |
Gigi Reder, White Collar Blues |
1998 |
Richard H. Berger, Rachel and the Stranger |
1998 |
Anatol Vieru, Felix si Otilia |
1999 |
John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915) |
1999 |
Fred Lucky, Rocky IV |
1999 |
Zezé Macedo, Etéia, a Extraterrestre em Sua Aventura no Rio |
2000 |
Jenia Reissar, Oliver! |
2000 |
Sükriye Atav, The Degenerate One |
2000 |
Jamie Kauffman, Teacher's Beau |
2000 |
John Hartley, Million Dollar Legs |
2000 |
Jess Walters, The Saint of Bleecker Street |
2000 |
Buf Nerbovig, The Phantom Tollbooth |
2000 |
Victor Mares, El periodista Turner |
2000 |
Vsevolod Larionov, Dark Eyes |
2000 |
Robert M. Leeds, 24 Hour Alert |
2001 |
Albert Nalpas, Futureworld |
2001 |
Alberto Pieralisi, O Comprador de Fazendas |
2001 |
Seymour Heller, Sincerely Yours |
2001 |
John Teeple, Brother's Keeper |
2001 |
Dietrich Körner, The Legend of Rita |
2002 |
Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952) |
2002 |
Gary Campbell, Some of My Best Friends Are |
2002 |
Phyllis Calvert, Indiscreet |
2002 |
Milenko Maricic, Prokleta avlija |
2003 |
Thalia Mara, To Dance for Gold |
2004 |
Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930) |
2004 |
James Chace, American historian (b. 1931) |
2004 |
Malcolm Summers, Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy |
2004 |
Joe McCrackin, Sling Blade |
2004 |
Richard Ellison, Vietnam: Parts IX & X - Peace Is at Hand/Homefront USA |
2004 |
Irina Demick, The Longest Day |
2004 |
James Chace, Episode dated 11 November 1998 |
2004 |
Jacques Derrida, Derrida |
2004 |
Linda Fontanette, South Central |
2004 |
Bent Grasten, Lenin, You Rascal, You |
2005 |
Jochen Zimmermann, Von Fall zu Fall |
2005 |
Hans Zimmermann, Leichenfund im Jagen 14 |
2005 |
Shirley Ellis, Spider-Man 3 |
2005 |
Phil Davis, Mrs. Beasley, Where Are You? |
2005 |
Art Vance, The Tuskegee Airmen |
2005 |
Galina Dyomina, Odnolyuby |
2005 |
Nikola Kovachev, Kazan |
2005 |
Brian Campbell, H3 |
2005 |
George Hislop, Rough Justice |
2006 |
Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1975) |
2006 |
Eve Adamson, Legacy of Blood |
2006 |
Frank Dolson, Best Pennant Races |
2006 |
David Adams, The Legend of John Henry |
2006 |
Norman Gollin, Apple |
2007 |
Manfred Sommer, Class Relations |
2007 |
Bob Coe, North by Northwest |
2007 |
Kenneth Lockwood, Eureka |
2007 |
Jerome T. Gollard, Dossier on a Diplomat |
2007 |
Urszula Halacinska, Nikodem Dyzma |
2008 |
George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912) |
2008 |
Eileen Herlie, American actress (b. 1918) |
2008 |
Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (b. 1938) |
2008 |
Bob Friend, Mission: Impossible |
2008 |
Herbert Bötticher, Lina Braake |
2008 |
Jan Rózewicz, Biale malzenstwo |
2008 |
Lauren Dombrowski, Episode #9.5 |
2008 |
Hogan Wharton, 1962 AFL Championship Game |
2008 |
Eileen Herlie, Loving |
2008 |
Jose Luis Garza, The World's Heaviest Man Gets Married |
2009 |
Gordon Needham, No Way Out |
2009 |
Gordon Boyd, Partners in Crime |
2009 |
Abu Talib, Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream |
2009 |
Juan Carlos Mareco, El mago de los sueños |
2009 |
Inderjit Hassanpuri, Man Jeete Jag Jeet |
2009 |
Werner Zeussel, Zuckerbaby |
2010 |
Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (b. 1919) |
2010 |
Mieczyslaw Janik, Tango |
2010 |
Albertina Walker, The 26th Annual Grammy Awards |
2010 |
Theodor Harisch, The Executioner |
2010 |
Frank Bourgholtzer, Episode dated 21 November 1980 |
2010 |
Susan Crane, I Sing the Body Electric |
2010 |
John P. Huchra, The Astronomers |
2010 |
Darwin R. Apel, Cougar Family |
2010 |
Evert de Jager, The Storm |
2010 |
Luigi Squarzina, The Terrorist |
2010 |
Nils Hallberg, One Summer of Happiness |
2010 |
Joe Milazzo, The Lemon Sisters |
2010 |
Ryô Ikebe, Pale Flower |
2010 |
Neil Richardson, Four Weddings and a Funeral |
2010 |
Viktor Ilichyov, Russkiy shchyot |
2011 |
Al Davis, American football executive, dies at 82 |
2011 |
Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941) |
2011 |
Angela Alexander, The Party |
2011 |
Mikey Welsh, Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002 |
2011 |
Bob Grimes, Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis |
2011 |
Nina Sorokina, Anna Karenina |
2011 |
Ingvar Wixell, Rigoletto |
2011 |
Al Davis, Straight Outta L.A. |
2011 |
Roger Williams, Episode dated 14 April 1960 |
2012 |
Gracie P. Aylward, Comedy Now! |
2012 |
Eric Lomax, The Railway Man |
2012 |
Marilou Diaz-Abaya, José Rizal |
2012 |
Gyula Pauer, Satantango |
2012 |
Aleksander Ford, Dziewce z ciortem |
2012 |
Eduard Volodarskiy, Obitaemyy ostrov |
2012 |
Ken Sansom, The Sting |
2013 |
Andy Pafko, Americal baseball player, dies at 92 |
2013 |
Rod Grams, American politician and television anchor, dies from cancer at 65 |
2013 |
Philip Chevron, Irish musician, dies from esophageal cancer at 56 |
2013 |
Khady Sylla, Une simple parole |
2013 |
Joseph Adelman, Frank Capra's American Dream |
2013 |
Andy Pafko, Cubs Forever: Celebrating 60 Years of WGN-TV and the Chicago Cubs |
2013 |
Dieter Ertel, Fernsehfieber |
2013 |
Claudio Quinteros, The Last Summer of La Boyita |
2013 |
Philip Chevron, The Pogues: Live at the Town and Country |
2013 |
Jack Mattis, The Back-up Plan |
2013 |
Paul Desmarais, Le confort et l'indifférence |
2014 |
Humberto Ríos, Argentina, mayo de 1969: Los caminos de la liberación |
2014 |
Jean-François Calvé, The Girl in the Bikini |
2014 |
Heino Pars, Operaator Kõps seeneriigis |
2014 |
Helmut Ruge, Is' was, Kanzler |
2014 |
Luis Murillo, Episode #3.5 |
2015 |
Lindy Infante, 1986 AFC Championship Game |
2015 |
Sachiko Meguro, Charisma |
2015 |
Richard Davies, Zulu |
2015 |
Galina Dauguvietyte, Ilga kelione prie juros |
2015 |
Gion Deplazes, Levzas petras |
2015 |
Massimo Scaglione, Angeli a sud |
2015 |
István Nemeskürty, Stars of Eger |
2015 |
Paul Prudhomme, Down in New Orleans |
2015 |
Hugh Scully, Antiques Roadshow |
2015 |
Elizabeth Ramsey, Ang bukas ay akin! |
2016 |
Terence Bayler: Kiwi Monty Python and Harry Potter actor dies aged 86 |
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