December 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 765 – Jafar as-Sadiq 6th Shi'ite Imam (b. 702)
• 899 – Arnulf of Carinthia was the Carolingian King of East Francia (b. 850)
• 1626 – John Davies, English poet (b. 1569)
• 1632 – Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (b. 1561)
• 1638 – Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
• 1643 – John Pym, English statesman (b. 1583)
• 1649 – Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1613)
• 1680 – Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (b. 1606)
• 1691 – Richard Baxter, English clergyman (b. 1615)
• 1695 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (b. 1625)
• 1709 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625)
• 1722 – Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans (b. 1652)
• 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 (b. 1690)
• 1768 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1702)
• 1779 – Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
• 1793 – Madame du Barry, last royal mistress of France, guillotined (b. 1743)
• 1811 – Eliza Poe, English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe (b. 1787)
• 1830 – Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (b. 1767)
• 1859 – Thomas De Quincey, English author (b. 1785)
• 1864 – George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815)
• 1869 – Narcisa de Jesús Martillo, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
• 1885 – William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1821)
• 1894 – Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (b. 1821)
• 1903 – Herbert Spencer, English philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1907 – Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• 1914 – Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer, in the Battle of the Falkland Islands (b. 1861)
• 1917 – Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (b. 1836)
• 1936 – Simplicio Godina, Filipino conjoined twin (b. 1908)
• 1938 – Friedrich Glauser, Swiss writer (b. 1896)
• 1940 – George Lloyd (bishop of Saskatchewan), Anglican Bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
• 1952 – Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the Titanic (b. 1874)
• 1954 – Joseph B. Keenan, American political figure (b. 1888)
• 1954 – Gladys George, American stage and screen actress
• 1958 – Tris Speaker, American baseball player (b. 1888)
• 1963 – Sarit Dhanarajata, Thai politician (b. 1908)
• 1966 – Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (b. 1899)
• 1967 – John Mills, Sr., American singer (Mills Brothers) (b. 1889)
• 1971 – Eleni Ourani, Greek writer (b. 1896)
• 1975 – Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (b. 1948)
• 1978 – Golda Meir, Russian-born Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
• 1980 – John Lennon, English musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
• 1982 – Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (b. 1951)
• 1982 – Marty Robbins, American singer (b. 1925)
• 1983 – Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1984 – Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1984 – Razzle, English musician and drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
• 1984 – Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (b. 1953)
• 1991 – Kimberly Bergalis, claimed to have contracted HIV from her dentist (b. 1968)
• 1991 – Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1911)
• 1992 – William Shawn, American magazine editor (b. 1917)
• 1993 – Yevgeni Minaev, Soviet (Russian) weightlifter (b. 1933)
• 1994 – Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer and arranger (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
• 1996 – Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (b. 1938)
• 1997 – Bob Bell, played Bozo the Clown (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Michael Craze, British Actor (b.1942)
• 1999 – Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923)
• 2000 – Milić od Mačve, Serbian painter and artist (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Don Tennant, American advertising executive (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Mirza Delibašić, Bosnian basketball player (b. 1954)
• 2003 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Abbott), American guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan) (b. 1966)
• 2005 – Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915)
• 2006 – José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Gerardo García Pimentel, Mexican journalist (b. 1983)
• 2008 – Kerryn McCann, Australian athlete (b. 1967)
• 2008 – Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer. (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Robert Prosky, American actor (b. 1930).
• 2009 – Kenneth Biros, American murderer (b. 1958)
• 2009 – Luis Días, Dominican Composer (b. 1952).