Deaths on 8 February
2000s
Dick Jauron
2025
American football player and coach (1950–2025)
Sam Nujoma
2025
President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005
Gyalo Thondup
2025
Brother of the 14th Dalai Lama (1928–2025)
Arto Heiskanen
2023
Finnish ice hockey player (1963–2023)
Marty Schottenheimer
2021
American football player and coach (1943–2021)
Mary Wilson (singer)
2021
American singer (1944–2021)
Robert Conrad
2020
American actor (1935–2020)
Peter Mansfield
2017
English physicist (1933–2017)
Rina Matsuno
2017
Musical artist
Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)
2017
British screenwriter (1929–2017)
Amelia Bence
2016
Argentine actress (1914–2016)
Nida Fazli
2016
Indian poet, lyricist and dialogue writer (1938–2016)
Margaret Forster
2016
English novelist and biographer (1938–2016)
Violette Verdy
2016
French ballet dancer, choreographer, and professor
Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde
2015
Finnish ufologist (1939–2015)
Els Borst
2014
Dutch politician (1932–2014)
Maicon (footballer, born May 1988)
2014
Brazilian footballer (1988–2014)
Nancy Holt
2014
American artist (1938–2014)
Giovanni Cheli
2013
James DePreist
2013
American conductor (1936–2013)
Maureen Dragone
2013
American journalist and author
Nevin S. Scrimshaw
2013
American food scientist
Wando (singer)
2012
Brazilian singer-songwriter
Luis Alberto Spinetta
2012
Argentine musician (1950–2012)
Tony Malinosky
2011
American baseball player
John Murtha
2010
American politician (1932–2010)
Ruby G. Woodson
2008
American educator (1931–2008)
Anna Nicole Smith
2007
American actress and television personality (1967–2007)
Ian Stevenson
2007
American psychiatrist (1918–2007)
Elton Dean
2006
English jazz musician
Thierry Fortineau
2006
French actor (1953–2006)
Akira Ifukube
2006
Japanese composer (1914–2006)
A. Chandranehru
2005
20th and 21st-century Sri Lankan politician
Julius Schwartz
2004
American comic book editor (1915–2004)
Ong Teng Cheong
2002
President of Singapore from 1993 to 1999
Ivo Caprino
2001
Norwegian film director (1920–2001)
Sid Abel
2000
Canadian ice hockey player (1918–2000)
Derrick Thomas
2000
American football player (1967–2000)
1900s
Iris Murdoch
1999
Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)
Halldór Laxness
1998
Icelandic author (1902–1998)
Enoch Powell
1998
British politician (1912–1998)
Julian Simon
1998
American economist (1932–1998)
Corey Scott
1997
American motorcycle stunt performer (1968–1997)
Del Ennis
1996
American baseball player (1925–1996)
Raymond Scott
1994
American composer, bandleader, pianist, record producer and inventor (1908–1994)
Stanley Armour Dunham
1992
Maternal grandfather of Barack Obama (1917–1992)
Del Shannon
1990
American musician (1934–1990)
Ernest Titterton
1990
British nuclear physicist (1916–1990)
Harriet MacGibbon
1987
American actress (1905–1987)
William Lyons
1985
Co-founder of Jaguar Cars (1901–1985)
John Hay Whitney
1982
American diplomat and publisher (1904–1982)
Nikos Xilouris
1980
Greek singer and composer (1936–1980)
Dennis Gabor
1979
Hungarian-British physicist (1900–1979)
Eivind Groven
1977
Norwegian composer of classical music
Robert Robinson (chemist)
1975
English chemist and Nobel laureate (1886–1975)
Markos Vamvakaris
1972
Greek rebetiko musician (1905–1972)
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
1971
Indian independence movement activist (1887–1971)
Cahir Healy
1970
Irish politician (1877–1970)
Ernst Kretschmer
1964
German psychchiatrist
George Dolenz
1963
American actor (1908–1963)
J. L. Austin
1960
English philosopher (1911–1960)
Giles Gilbert Scott
1960
English architect (1880–1960)
William J. Donovan
1959
American lawyer, soldier and diplomat (1883–1959)
Walther Bothe
1957
German experimental physicist (1891–1957)
John von Neumann
1957
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Connie Mack
1956
American baseball manager and owner (1862–1956)
Italo Santelli
1945
Italian fencer
Olga Taratuta
1938
Ukrainian anarchist (1876–1938)
Charles Curtis
1936
Vice President of the United States from 1929 to 1933
Eemil Nestor Setälä
1935
Finnish politician (1864–1935)
Yordan Milanov (architect)
1932
Bulgarian architect
Theodor Curtius
1928
German chemist (1857–1928)
George Formby Sr
1921
English comedian and singer (1875-1921)
Peter Kropotkin
1921
Russian anarchist (1842–1921)
François Langelier
1915
Canadian politician (1838–1915)
Hans Jæger
1910
Norwegian anarchist (1854–1910)
Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom
1907
Dutch chemist (1854–1907)
1800s
Agostino Bassi
1856
Italian entomologist (1773-1856)
François Habeneck
1849
French violinist and conductor (1781–1849)
France Prešeren
1849
Slovene poet (1800-1849)
Before 1800
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
1772
Princess of Wales (1719–1772)
Aaron Hill (writer)
1750
Jan van Huysum
1749
Dutch still-life painter (1682–1749)
Peter the Great
1725
Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725
Giuseppe Torelli
1709
Italian Baroque violinist and composer (1658–1709)
Ivan V of Russia
1696
Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696
Alexis of Russia
1676
Tsar of Russia from 1645 to 1676
Robert Rollock
1599
Minister of the Church of Scotland, theologian (c. 1555–1599)
Gerolamo Emiliani
1537
Italian Catholic saint
Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans
1382
French princess (1328–1393)
Saint Helen of Serbia
1314
Queen consort of Serbia (c. 1235–1314)
Przemysł II
1296
King of Poland from 1295 to 1296
Theodoric of Landsberg
1285
Hulegu Khan
1265
Western Asian Mongol ruler (c. 1217–1265)
Robert I, Count of Artois
1250
Count of Artois
William Longespée the Younger
1250
English crusader
Ali ibn Hanzala
1229
Alexios IV Angelos
1204
Byzantine emperor from 1203 to 1204
Severus of Antioch
538
Patriarch of Antioch from 512 to 538