Deaths on 8 January
2000s
Mangkra Souvanna Phouma
2025
Laotian royal (1938–2025)
Adan Canto
2024
Mexican actor (1981–2024)
Michael Lang (producer)
2022
American concert promoter and record producer (1944–2022)
Iancu Țucărman
2021
Romanian Jewish Holocaust and Iași pogrom survivor
Pat Dalton
2020
Australian rules footballer (1942–2020)
Buck Henry
2020
American actor (1930–2020)
Nicolai Gedda
2017
Swedish operatic tenor (1925–2017)
James Mancham
2017
President of Seychelles
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
2017
President of Iran from 1989 to 1997
Peter Sarstedt
2017
British singer-songwriter (1941–2017)
Maria Teresa de Filippis
2016
Italian racing driver (1926–2016)
German Moreno
2016
Filipino television host, actor, comedian, and talent manager (1933–2016)
Andraé Crouch
2015
American gospel singer, songwriter, and choir leader (1942–2015)
Kep Enderby
2015
Australian politician (1926–2015)
Patsy Garrett
2015
American actress and singer (1921–2015)
Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher
2014
Dutch swimmer (1925–2014)
Antonino Roman
2014
Filipino politician (1939–2014)
Kenojuak Ashevak
2013
Inuk artist (1927–2013)
Jeanne Manford
2013
American schoolteacher and activist
Alasdair Milne
2013
British television producer and executive (1930–2013)
Dave Alexander (blues musician)
2012
American Texas blues singer and pianist (1938–2012)
T. J. Hamblin
2012
British academic (1943–2012)
Alexis Weissenberg
2012
Bulgarian-born French pianist
Jiřà Dienstbier
2011
Czech politician and journalist
Thorbjørn Svenssen
2011
Norwegian footballer (1924–2011)
Art Clokey
2010
American animator (1921–2010)
Lasantha Wickrematunge
2009
Sri Lankan journalist (1958–2009)
George Moore (jockey)
2008
Australian champion jockey
Jane Bolin
2007
American judge (1908–2007)
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield
2007
British politician (1916–2007)
Yvonne De Carlo
2007
Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer (1922–2007)
David Ervine
2007
Northern Irish loyalist and politician (1953–2007)
Iwao Takamoto
2007
American animator and director (1925–2007)
Tony Banks, Baron Stratford
2006
British politician (1942–2006)
Ron Goodwin
2003
English composer and conductor (1925–2003)
Alexander Prokhorov
2002
Soviet-Russian physicist
Dave Thomas (businessman)
2002
Founder of Wendy's (1932–2002)
Hilary Smart
2000
American sailor
1900s
Michael Tippett
1998
English composer (1905–1998)
Melvin Calvin
1997
American biochemist
Metin Göktepe
1996
Kurdish photojournalist
François Mitterrand
1996
President of France from 1981 to 1995
Pat Buttram
1994
American character actor (1915–1994)
Harvey Haddix
1994
American baseball player (1925–1994)
Steve Clark
1991
English guitarist (1960–1991)
Bernard Krigstein
1990
20th-century American comics artist
Terry-Thomas
1990
English actor and comedian (1911–1990)
Pierre Fournier
1986
French cellist
Gerhard Barkhorn
1983
German general and fighter pilot during World War II (1919–1983)
Grégoire Aslan
1982
Swiss-Armenian actor (1908–1982)
John Mauchly
1980
American physicist and computer scientist (1907–1980)
Zhou Enlai
1976
Premier of China from 1949 to 1976
Richard Tucker
1975
American opera singer (1913–1975)
Kay Sage
1963
American Surrealist artist, poet (1898–1963)
Schoolboy Rowe
1961
American baseball player (1910–1961)
Mary Colter
1958
American architect (1869–1958)
Eduard Wiiralt
1954
Estonian artist
Hugh Binney
1953
Royal Navy Admiral (1883–1953)
Antonia Maury
1952
American astronomer (1866–1952)
Joseph Schumpeter
1950
Austrian political economist (1883–1950)
Kurt Schwitters
1948
German artist (1887–1948)
Karl Ernst Krafft
1945
Swiss astrologer (1900–1945)
William Kissam Vanderbilt II
1944
American heir and racing driver (1878–1944)
Andres Larka
1943
Estonian politician (1879–1943)
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
1942
Second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (1869–1942)
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
1941
British soldier and founder of The Scout Association (1857–1941)
VladimÃr Mandl
1941
Czech lawyer and university lecturer (1899–1941)
Johnny Gruelle
1938
American cartoonist (1880–1938)
Andrei Bely
1934
Russian-Soviet poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)
Alexandre Stavisky
1934
French financier and embezzler (1886–1934)
George Bellows
1925
American painter (1882–1925)
Josef Josephi
1920
Austrian singer and actor
Ellis H. Roberts
1918
American politician (1827–1918)
Rembrandt Bugatti
1916
Italian sculptor
Ada Rehan
1916
19th/20th-century American actress
Simon Bolivar Buckner
1914
Confederate Army general and American politician (1823–1914)
1800s
William Rainey Marshall
1896
American politician (1825–1896)
Paul Verlaine
1896
French poet (1844–1896)
Miska Magyarics
1883
Emperor Norton
1880
Self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States (1818–1880)
Nikolay Nekrasov
1878
Russian poet, critic, publisher (1821–1878)
Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
1874
French ethnographer, historian, and priest (1814–1874)
Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre
1865
French general and statesman
William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
1854
Anglo-Portuguese General
Eli Whitney
1825
American inventor (1765–1825)
Edward Pakenham
1815
British Army officer and politician
Before 1800
Justus Möser
1794
German jurist and social theorist (1720–1794)
Jack Broughton
1789
English bare-knuckle boxer (c. 1703–1789)
John Baskerville
1775
English businessman and type designer (1707–1775)
Arcangelo Corelli
1713
Italian violinist and composer (1653–1713)
John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair
1707
Scottish politician and lawyer (1648–1707)
Galileo Galilei
1642
Italian physicist and astronomer (1564–1642)
John George, Elector of Brandenburg
1598
Elector of Brandenburg from 1571 to 1598
Philibert de l'Orme
1570
French architect and writer
Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
1557
Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy
1538
Duchess consort of Savoy
Lawrence Justinian
1456
Italian Roman Catholic saint (1381–1456)
Stephen Zaccaria
1424
Charles de la Cerda
1354
Count of Angoulême
Giotto
1337
Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)
Pope Celestine III
1198
Head of the Catholic Church from 1191 to 1198
Edgar, King of Scotland
1107
King of Alba from 1097 to 1107
Adela of France
1079
Countess of Flanders (1009–1079)
Athelm
926
Archbishop of Canterbury, Christian saint (died 926)
Bagsecg
871
Viking king and leader of the Great Army
Severinus of Noricum
482
Italian Roman Catholic saint
Emperor Hui of Jin
307
Emperor of the Jin Dynasty from 290 to 307