Deaths on 8 May
2000s
Simon Mann
2025
British Army officer and mercenary (1952–2025)
Chris Cannon
2024
American politician (1950–2024)
Jimmy Johnson (cornerback)
2024
American football player (1938–2024)
Pete McCloskey
2024
American politician (1927–2024)
Ramón Fonseca Mora
2024
Panamanian novelist and lawyer (1952–2024)
Robert Gillmor
2022
English painter (1936–2022)
Dennis Waterman
2022
English actor and singer (1948–2022)
Helmut Jahn
2021
German and American architect (1940–2021)
Sprent Dabwido
2019
President of Nauru from 2011 to 2013
Big Bully Busick
2018
American professional wrestler, powerlifter
Anne V. Coates
2018
British film editor (1925–2018)
William Schallert
2016
American actor (1922-2016)
Zeki Alasya
2015
Turkish actor and film director
Mwepu Ilunga
2015
DR Congolese footballer (1949–2015)
Juan Schwanner
2015
Hungarian-Chilean footballer and manager
Atanas Semerdzhiev
2015
Roger L. Easton
2014
American physicist and GPS inventor (1921–2014)
Nancy Malone
2014
American actress and director (1935–2014)
Jair Rodrigues
2014
Musical artist
Joseph P. Teasdale
2014
American politician (1936–2014)
Jeanne Cooper
2013
American actress (1928–2013)
Bryan Forbes
2013
English film director, screenwriter and actor (1926–2013)
Juan José Muñoz
2013
Hugh J. Silverman
2013
American philosopher and cultural theorist
Maurice Sendak
2012
American children's book author and illustrator (1928–2012)
Ampon Tangnoppakul
2012
Roman Totenberg
2012
Polish-American violinist and educator (1911–2012)
Lionel Rose
2011
Australian boxer (1948–2011)
Dom DiMaggio
2009
American baseball player (1917–2009)
Eddy Arnold
2008
American country music singer (1918–2008)
François Sterchele
2008
Belgian footballer
Philip R. Craig
2007
American novelist (1933–2007)
Carson Whitsett
2007
American keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer
Iain Macmillan
2006
20th-century Scottish photographer
Jean Carrière
2005
French writer (1928–2005)
Nicolás Vuyovich
2005
Argentine racing driver
Elvira Pagã
2003
Brazilian actress (1920–2003)
Pita Amor
2000
Mexican poet (1918–2000)
Dédé Fortin
2000
Canadian musician
Henry Nicols
2000
American HIV/AIDS activist
1900s
Dirk Bogarde
1999
English actor (1921–1999)
Ed Gilbert
1999
American actor (1931–1999)
Dana Plato
1999
American actress (1964–1999)
Soeman Hs
1999
Indonesian author
Johannes Kotkas
1998
Estonian wrestler (1915–1998)
Bebe Rebozo
1998
American businessman
Beryl Burton
1996
English racing cyclist (1937–1996)
Luis Miguel Dominguín
1996
Spanish bullfighter (1926–1996)
Larry Levis
1996
American poet and teacher
Garth Williams
1996
American children's book illustrator (1912–1996)
Teresa Teng
1995
Taiwanese singer (1953–1995)
George Peppard
1994
American actor (1928–1994)
Avram Davidson
1993
American writer (1923-1993)
Joyce Ricketts
1992
Baseball player
Jean Langlais
1991
French composer (1907–1991)
Rudolf Serkin
1991
Bohemia-born American pianist (1903–1991)
Luigi Nono
1990
Italian composer (1924-1990)
Robert A. Heinlein
1988
American author and engineer (1907–1988)
Doris Stokes
1987
Self-proclaimed British psychic
Ernle Bradford
1986
British writer (1922–1986)
Robert Halperin
1985
American sailor
Karl Marx (composer)
1985
German composer and music teacher
Theodore Sturgeon
1985
American speculative fiction writer (1918–1985)
Dolph Sweet
1985
American actor (1920–1985)
Lila Acheson Wallace
1984
American magazine publisher and philanthropist (1889-1984)
Gino Bianco
1984
Brazilian racing driver (1916–1984)
John Fante
1983
American writer (1909–1983)
Neil Bogart
1982
American record producer (1943–1982)
Gilles Villeneuve
1982
Canadian racing driver (1950–1982)
Uri Zvi Greenberg
1981
Israeli poet and politician (1896–1981)
Geoffrey Baker (British Army officer)
1980
British Army officer (1912–1980)
Avery Brundage
1975
President of the IOC from 1952 to 1972
Pandurang Vaman Kane
1972
Indian indologist and scholar (1880–1972)
Beatrice Worsley
1972
First female computer scientist in Canada
Remington Kellogg
1969
American paleontologist
Wally Hardinge
1965
English sportsman
J. H. C. Whitehead
1960
British mathematician (1904–1960)
Football at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads
1959
William Fox (producer)
1952
Hungarian-American film producer (1879–1952)
Vital Brazil
1950
Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist, and immunologist (1865–1950)
U Saw
1948
Burmese politician
Harry Gordon Selfridge
1947
American retail magnate (1858–1947)
Frank Bourne
1945
British Army officer
Julius Hirsch
1945
German footballer (1892–?)
Wilhelm Rediess
1945
German Waffen-SS general and police leader (1900–1945)
Bernhard Rust
1945
Minister of Science, Education and National Culture of Nazi Germany (1883–1945)
Josef Terboven
1945
German Nazi politician (1898–1945)
Themistoklis Diakidis
1944
Greek high jumper
Mordechai Anielewicz
1943
Leader of the anti-Nazi Jewish Combat Organization
Nikolai Reek
1942
Estonian military commander
Natalie of Serbia
1941
Princess/Queen of Serbia from 1875 to 1889
Tore Svennberg
1941
Swedish actor
Oswald Spengler
1936
German philosopher (1880–1936)
John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies
1925
Anglo-Irish army officer
Edmund G. Ross
1907
American politician (1826–1907)
Paul Gauguin
1903
French artist (1848–1903)
1800s
Manuel González Flores
1893
President of Mexico from 1880 to 1884
Helena Blavatsky
1891
Ukrainian-American mystic and writer (1831–1891)
John Robertson (premier)
1891
Australian politician (1816–1891)
Gustave Flaubert
1880
French novelist (1821–1880)
Jan Roothaan
1853
Superior General of the Society of Christ
Jules Dumont d'Urville
1842
French explorer and naval officer (1790–1842)
Alexander Balashov
1837
Russian general and statesman (1770–1837)
Mauro Giuliani
1828
Italian composer (1781–1829)
John Stark
1822
18th century soldier from New Hampshire
Kamehameha I
1819
King of Hawaii from 1795 to 1819
Before 1800
Antoine Lavoisier
1794
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
1788
Italian physician and naturalist
Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul
1785
French Royal Army officer, diplomat and statesman (1719–1785)
Pietro Longhi
1785
Italian painter (1701–1785)
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal
1782
Portuguese noble, diplomat and statesman (1699–1782)
Richard Jago
1781
English clergyman, poet and minor landscape gardener
Ali Bey al-Kabir
1773
Mamluk leader in Egypt
Samuel Chandler
1766
English minister and pamphleteer
Catherine of St. Augustine
1668
17th-century French nun and nurse of New France
Barbara Radziwiłł
1551
Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1548 to 1551
Edward Foxe
1538
16th-century English bishop
John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
1473
English nobleman
Haakon V
1319
King of Norway from 1299 to 1319
Emperor Duanzong
1278
Emperor of Song China from 1276 to 1278
Rikissa of Denmark
1220
Queen of Sweden from 1210 to 1216
Ottokar IV, Duke of Styria
1192
Margrave (later Duke) of Styria from 1164 to 1192
Ahmad Sanjar
1157
Sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1118 to 1157
Emperor Taizong of Song
997
Emperor of China from 976 to 997
Pope Benedict II
685
Head of the Catholic Church from 684 to 685
Pope Boniface IV
615
Head of the Catholic Church from 608 to 615
Pope John II
535
Head of the Catholic Church from 533 to 535