October 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 976 – Helen of Zadar
• 1286 – John I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
• 1317 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan (b. 1265)
• 1621 – Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier and economist (b. 1575)
• 1647 – Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
• 1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)
• 1656 – John George I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1585)
• 1659 – Jean de Quen, French missionary, priest, and historian (b. 1603)
• 1735 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
• 1754 – Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)
• 1772 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (b. 1711)
• 1793 – John Hancock, American politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1737)
• 1795 – Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (b. 1725)
• 1804 – Thomas Cochran, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1777)
• 1809 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
• 1834 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
• 1869 – Franklin Pierce, American politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 – Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian navy officer (b. 1834)
• 1886 – Austin F. Pike, American politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
• 1928 – Larry Semon, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1889)
• 1931 – John Monash, Australian engineer and general (b. 1865)
• 1936 – Premchand, Indian author (b. 1880)
• 1936 – Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• 1936 – William Henry Stark, American businessman (b. 1851)
• 1942 – Sergey Chaplygin, Soviet physicist, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1869)
• 1944 – Wendell Willkie, American lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
• 1945 – Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
• 1952 – Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
• 1953 – Nigel Bruce, Mexican-English actor (b. 1895)
• 1953 – Kathleen Ferrier, English soprano (b. 1912)
• 1955 – Iry LeJeune, American accordion player (b. 1928)
• 1958 – Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
• 1962 – Solomon Linda, South African singer-songwriter (b. 1909)
• 1967 – Clement Attlee, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (b. 1934)
• 1970 – Jean Giono, French author (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1977 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian activist and politician (b. 1902)
• 1982 – Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (b. 1915)
• 1982 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
• 1985 – Malcolm Ross, American captain and physicist (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899)
• 1990 – B.J. Wilson, English drummer (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
• 1992 – Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Christopher Keene, American conductor (b. 1946)
• 1997 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City Building (b. 1913)
• 1999 – John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Charlotte Lamb, English author (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Phyllis Calvert, English actress (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
• 2004 – James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1974)
• 2007 – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Bob Friend, English journalist (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress (b. 1918)
• 2008 – George Emil Palade, Romanian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2010 – Frank Bourgholtzer, American journalist (b. 1919)
• 2011 – Al Davis, American football coach and manager (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Roger Williams, American pianist (b. 1924)
• 2012 – Varsha Bhosle, Indian singer and journalist (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Donnie Butcher, American basketball player and coach (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Filipino director (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Rafael Lesmes, Spanish footballer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Eric Lomax, Scottish army officer and author (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Ken Sansom, American voice actor (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Nawal Kishore Sharma, Indian politician (b. 1925)
• 2012 – John Tchicai, Danish-French saxophonist and composer (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Sita Ramaiah Gudiseva, Indian politician (b. 1950)