Deaths on 8 March
2000s
Athol Fugard
2025
South African playwright (1932–2025)
Max von Sydow
2020
Swedish and French actor (1929–2020)
Marshall Brodien
2019
American magician (1934–2019)
Cedrick Hardman
2019
American football player (1948–2019)
Kate Wilhelm
2018
American science fiction writer (1928–2018)
George Martin
2016
English record producer (1926–2016)
Sam Simon
2015
American television writer and producer (1955–2015)
Leo Bretholz
2014
Holocaust survivor
William Guarnere
2014
US Army soldier
John O'Connell (Dublin politician)
2013
Irish politician (1927–2013)
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
2013
German publisher, convenor of the Munich Conference on Security Policy
Simin Daneshvar
2012
Iranian writer (1921-2012)
Hank Locklin
2009
American country music singer (1918–2009)
John Inman
2007
English actor (1935–2007)
John Vukovich
2007
American baseball player, coach, and manager (1947–2007)
César Lattes
2005
Brazilian physicist (1924–2005)
Aslan Maskhadov
2005
Chechen politician and military commander (1951-2005)
Muhammad Zaidan
2004
Founder and leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front (1948–2004)
Adam Faith
2003
English singer, actor and financial journalist (1940–2003)
Karen Morley
2003
American actress (1909–2003)
1900s
Adolfo Bioy Casares
1999
Argentine novelist (1914–1999)
Peggy Cass
1999
American actress, comedian (1924–1999)
Joe DiMaggio
1999
American baseball player (1914–1999)
Ray Nitschke
1998
American football player (1936–1998)
Jack Churchill
1996
British Army officer (1906–1996)
Billy Eckstine
1993
American jazz singer and bandleader (1914–1993)
Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton
1983
British Conservative politician (1904–1983)
William Walton
1983
English composer (1902–1983)
Hatem Ali Jamadar
1982
Bengali politician
George Stevens
1975
American filmmaker (1904–1975)
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
1973
American musician (1945–1973)
Harold Lloyd
1971
American actor and comedian (1893–1971)
Thomas Beecham
1961
British conductor and impresario (1879–1961)
Othmar Schoeck
1957
Swiss composer and conductor (1886–1957)
Hulusi Behçet
1948
Turkish dermatologist (1889–1948)
Fredy Hirsch
1944
German-Jewish youth leader
Cipto Mangunkusumo
1943
Indonesian independence leader
José Raúl Capablanca
1942
Cuban chess player (1888–1942)
Sherwood Anderson
1941
American writer (1876–1941)
Howie Morenz
1937
Canadian ice hockey player (1902–1937)
Minna Craucher
1932
Finnish socialite and spy
William Howard Taft
1930
President of the United States from 1909 to 1913
Edward Terry Sanford
1930
US Supreme Court justice from 1923 to 1930
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
1923
Dutch theoretical physicist (1837–1923)
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
1917
German general and airship pioneer (1838–1917)
1800s
John Ericsson
1889
Swedish-American engineer (1803–1889)
Henry Ward Beecher
1887
American clergyman and abolitionist (1813–1887)
James Buchanan Eads
1887
American civil engineer and inventor
Millard Fillmore
1874
President of the United States from 1850 to 1853
Priscilla Susan Bury
1872
British botanist and artist (1799–1872)
Cornelius Krieghoff
1872
Dutch painter (1815–1872)
Hector Berlioz
1869
French Romantic composer and conductor (1803–1869)
Charles XIV John
1844
King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 to 1844
Before 1800
Povel Juel
1723
Norwegian civil servant and writer (c.1673–1723)
Christopher Wren
1723
English architect (1632–1723)
Abraham Darby I
1717
English ironmaster and Quaker (1677–1717)
William III of England
1702
King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1702
Xu Xiake
1641
Chinese geographer and traveller
Veit Bach
1619
Founder of musical Bach family
John of God
1550
16th-century Portuguese saint
Francesco I Sforza
1466
Italian condottiero and Sforza dynasty founder (1401–1466)
Bayezid I
1403
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402
Pope Celestine II
1144
Head of the Catholic Church from 1143 to 1144
Adela of Normandy
1137
Countess of Blois from 1089 to 1102
Urraca of León and Castile
1126
Queen of León, Castile, and Galicia from 1109 to 1126