Deaths on 8 December
2000s
Jill Jacobson
2024
American actress (1954–2024)
Clarke Reed
2024
American businessman and politician (1928–2024)
Ryan O'Neal
2023
American actor (1941–2023)
Robbie Shakespeare
2021
Jamaican bass guitarist (1953–2021)
René Auberjonois
2019
American actor (1940–2019)
Juice Wrld
2019
American rapper (1998–2019)
Caroll Spinney
2019
American puppeteer (1933–2019)
David Weatherall
2018
British physician and researcher (1933–2018)
John Glenn
2016
American astronaut and politician (1921–2016)
Mattiwilda Dobbs
2015
American opera singer (1925–2015)
Alan Hodgkinson
2015
English footballer and coach
Douglas Tompkins
2015
Chilean-American businessman and environmentalist (1943–2015)
John Trudell
2015
Native American activist, author, and poet (1946–2015)
Elsie Tu
2015
Hong Kong activist and politician (1913–2015)
Tom Gosnell
2014
Russ Kemmerer
2014
American baseball player (1930–2014)
Knut Nystedt
2014
Norwegian composer (1915–2014)
John Cornforth
2013
Australian-British chemist (1917–2013)
Sándor Szokolay
2013
Hungarian composer and professor
Richard S. Williamson
2013
American diplomat
Jerry Brown (gridiron football)
2012
American gridiron football player (1987–2012)
John Gowans
2012
Scottish Salvationist and composer (1934–2012)
Johnny Lira
2012
American boxer
Luis Días (composer)
2009
Dominican musician (born 1952)
Oliver Postgate
2008
British animator, puppeteer and writer
Robert Prosky
2008
American actor (1930–2008)
Gerardo García Pimentel
2007
Mexican crime journalist
Martha Tilton
2006
American singer
José Uribe
2006
Dominican baseball player (1960–2006)
Rose Heilbron
2005
British barrister and judge (1914–2005)
Dimebag Darrell
2004
American guitarist (1966–2004)
Rubén González (pianist)
2003
Cuban musician (1919–2003)
Pekka Siitoin
2003
Finnish neo-Nazi and Satanist (1944–2003)
Mirza Delibašić
2001
Bosnian basketball player and coach (1954–2001)
Betty Holberton
2001
American computer scientist (1917–2001)
1900s
Péter Kuczka
1999
Hungarian writer and poet
Bob Bell (actor)
1997
American actor
Howard Rollins
1996
American actor (1950–1996)
Kashiwado Tsuyoshi
1996
Japanese sumo wrestler
Antônio Carlos Jobim
1994
Brazilian composer and musician (1927–1994)
Yevgeny Minayev
1993
Russian weightlifter (1933–1993)
William Shawn
1992
American editor of The New Yorker (1907–1992)
Buck Clayton
1991
American jazz trumpeter (1911–1991)
Luther Adler
1984
American actor (1903–1984)
Robert Jay Mathews
1984
American neo-Nazi (1953–1984)
Razzle (musician)
1984
British drummer (1960–1984)
Semih Sancar
1984
16th Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces from 1973 to 1978
Keith Holyoake
1983
New Zealand politician (1904–1983)
Slim Pickens
1983
American rodeo performer and actor (1919–1983)
Bram Behr
1982
Surinamese journalist (1951–1982)
André Kamperveen
1982
Surinamese footballer and politician
Marty Robbins
1982
American country singer (1925–1982)
Haim Laskov
1982
5th Chief of Staff of the IDF
John Lennon
1980
English musician and activist (1940–1980)
Golda Meir
1978
Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
Gary Thain
1975
New Zealand bassist (1948–1975)
Ernst Krenkel
1971
Soviet arctic explorer, government official, and journalist
Eleni Ourani
1971
Greek writer
Ward Morehouse
1966
American dramatist
Sarit Thanarat
1963
Prime Minister of Thailand from 1959 to 1963
Tris Speaker
1958
American baseball player (1888–1958)
Claude Cahun
1954
French artist (1894–1954)
Gladys George
1954
American actress (1904–1954)
Joseph B. Keenan
1954
American politician (1888–1954)
Charles Lightoller
1952
British mariner and officer (1874–1952)
Tex O'Reilly
1946
American mercenary (1880–1946)
Albert Kahn (architect)
1942
American architect (1869–1942)
Izidor Kürschner
1941
Hungarian football player and coach
George Exton Lloyd
1940
Anglican bishop of Saskatchewan, Canada (1861–1940)
Friedrich Glauser
1938
Swiss writer
Hans Molisch
1937
Czech-Austrian botanist (1856–1937)
Gertrude Jekyll
1932
British garden designer and writer
José Vicente Concha
1929
President of Colombia from 1914 to 1918
Richard Barrett (Irish republican)
1922
IRA officer (1889-1922)
Joe McKelvey
1922
Irish Republican Army officer (1898–1922)
Liam Mellows
1922
Irish republican and politician (1892–1922)
Rory O'Connor (Irish republican)
1922
Irish republican (1883-1922)
J. Alden Weir
1919
American painter (1852–1919)
Josip Stadler
1918
19th and 20th-century Catholic bishop
Mendele Mocher Sforim
1917
Belarusian-Ukrainian Jewish author
Melchior Anderegg
1914
Swiss mountain guide
Maximilian von Spee
1914
German naval officer (1861–1914)
Camille Jenatzy
1913
Belgian racing driver (1868–1913)
Oscar II
1907
King of Sweden (1872–1907) and Norway (1872–1905)
Herbert Spencer
1903
English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
1800s
Pafnuty Chebyshev
1894
Russian mathematician (1821–1894)
Isaac Lea
1886
American publisher, conchologist and geologist (1792-1886)
William Henry Vanderbilt
1885
American businessman (1821–1885)
Narcisa de Jesús
1869
Ecuadoran virgin and saint (1832–1869)
George Boole
1864
English mathematician and philosopher (1815–1864)
Thomas De Quincey
1859
English essayist, translator and political economist (1785–1859)
Father Mathew
1856
Irish teetotalist reformer (1790–1856)
Benjamin Constant
1830
Swiss-French politician and writer (1767–1830)
Mary Fletcher (preacher)
1815
Early Methodist preacher (1739–1815)
Before 1800
Nathan Alcock
1779
English physician
Jean Denis Attiret
1768
French painter
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington
1756
British politician
Charles Radclyffe
1746
Titular 5th Earl of Derwentwater
Étienne Fourmont
1745
Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle
1744
French noblewoman and mistress of Louis XV
James Figg
1734
English martial artist (before 1700-1734)
Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine
1722
Duchess of Orléans (1652–1722)
Thomas Corneille
1709
French lexicographer and dramatist (1625-1709)
Barthélemy d'Herbelot
1695
French orientalist (1625–1695)
Richard Baxter
1691
17th-century English Puritan church leader and theologian
Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester
1680
17th-century English peer, Fellow of the Royal Society
Noël Chabanel
1649
French Jesuit missionary and martyr (1613-1649
John Pym
1643
17th-century English statesman and opponent of Charles I
Ivan Gundulić
1638
Poet from Ragusa, in modern Croatia (1589–1638)
Philippe van Lansberge
1632
Flemish Minister, astronomer and Mathematician
John Davies (poet, born 1569)
1626
English poet, lawyer, and politician (1569–1626)
Luis de Carvajal the Younger
1596
Crypto-Jewish writer and martyr (d. 1596)
Gian Giorgio Trissino
1550
Venetian humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat, linguist and philosopher (1478–1550)
Hedwig Jagiellon (1408–1431)
1431
Polish and Lithuanian princess (1408–1431)
Nicholas II, Duke of Opava
1365
John Peckham
1292
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1279 to 1292
Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen
1186
Rector of Burgundy (c. 1125–1186)
Queen Zhou the Elder
964
Queen Zhaohui of (Southern) Tang
Arnulf of Carinthia
899
Disputed Emperor in Italy (r. 896–899)
Drogo of Metz
855
Son of Frankish emperor Charlemagne