Deaths on 8 October
2000s
Miguel Ángel Russo
2025
Argentine football player and manager (1956–2025)
Pat Fischer
2024
American football player (1940–2024)
Tim Johnson (South Dakota politician)
2024
American politician (1946–2024)
Luis Tiant
2024
Cuban baseball player (1940–2024)
Whitey Ford
2020
American baseball player (1928–2020)
Richard Davies (Welsh actor)
2015
Welsh actor (1926–2015)
Jim Diamond (singer)
2015
Scottish singer-songwriter (1951–2015)
Dennis Eichhorn
2015
American writer (1945–2015)
Lindy Infante
2015
American football player and coach (1940–2015)
Paul Prudhomme
2015
American chef
Morris Lurie
2014
Australian writer
Alden E. Matthews
2014
Harden M. McConnell
2014
American physical chemist
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
2014
American author (1927–2014)
Jeen van den Berg
2014
Dutch speed skater
Philip Chevron
2013
Irish musician (1957–2013)
Paul Desmarais
2013
Canadian businessman
Rod Grams
2013
American politician (1948–2013)
Rodolphe Kasser
2013
Swiss coptologist (1927–2013)
Andy Pafko
2013
American baseball player (1921–2013)
Akong Rinpoche
2013
Tibetan Buddhist tulku (1940–2013)
Varsha Bhosle
2012
Indian singer, journalist and writer (1956–2012)
Marilou Diaz-Abaya
2012
Filipina film director and writer (1955–2012)
Eric Lomax
2012
British Army officer (1919–2012)
Nawal Kishore Sharma
2012
Indian politician
Al Davis
2011
American football coach and executive (1929–2011)
Mikey Welsh
2011
American musician and painter (1971–2011)
Roger Williams (pianist)
2011
American pianist (1924–2011)
Frank Bourgholtzer
2010
American journalist (1919–2010)
Eileen Crofton
2010
British anti-smoking activist (1919–2010)
Ângelo Carvalho
2008
Portuguese footballer
Bob Friend (newscaster)
2008
Eileen Herlie
2008
British actress (1918–2008)
George Emil Palade
2008
Romanian cell biologist, physicist and Nobel laureate
Constantine Andreou
2007
Greek Brazilian painter and sculptor
Mark Porter (racing driver)
2006
New Zealand racing driver
James Chace
2004
American historian (1931–2004)
Phyllis Calvert
2002
English film actress (1915–2002)
Jacques Richard
2002
Canadian ice hockey player (1952–2002)
Dmitry Polyansky
2001
Soviet bureaucrat
Charlotte Lamb
2000
British novelist (1937–2000)
1900s
John McLendon
1999
American basketball coach
Bertrand Goldberg
1997
American architect (1913–1997)
Christopher Keene
1995
American conductor and impresario
Oscar M. Ruebhausen
1994
American lawyer (1912–2004)
Willy Brandt
1992
Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 to 1974
Robert Berdella
1992
American serial killer (1949–1992)
Konstantinos Tsatsos
1987
Greek politician (1899–1987)
Malcolm Ross (balloonist)
1985
20th-century U.S. Navy Reserve captain, atmospheric scientist, and balloonist
Gordon Welchman
1985
English cryptanalyst and mathematician (1906–1985)
Joan Hackett
1983
American actress (1934–1983)
Fernando Lamas
1982
Argentine-American actor (1915–1982)
Philip Noel-Baker
1982
British athlete and politician (1889–1982)
Brian Edmund Baker
1979
Royal Air Force Air Marshal (1896–1979)
Jayaprakash Narayan
1979
Indian independence activist (1902–1979)
Bertha Parker Pallan
1978
American archaeologist
Giorgos Papasideris
1977
Greek singer, composer, and lyricist
Gabriel Marcel
1973
French philosopher, playwright and music critic (1889–1973)
Jean Giono
1970
French writer (1895–1970)
Clement Attlee
1967
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951
Remedios Varo
1963
Spanish Catalan artist (1908–1963)
Ran Bosilek
1958
Bulgarian writer and translator
Iry LeJeune
1955
American musician
Nigel Bruce
1953
British actor (1895–1953)
Kathleen Ferrier
1953
English singer (1912–1953)
Joe Adams (baseball)
1952
American baseball player (1877–1952)
Felix Salten
1945
Austro-Hungarian Jewish author and literary critic (1869–1945)
Wendell Willkie
1944
American lawyer and corporate executive (1892–1944)
Sergey Chaplygin
1942
Russian-Soviet engineer, mathematician and physicist
Premchand
1936
Indian Hindustani writer (1880–1936)
Red Ames
1936
American baseball player (1882–1936)
Ahmet Tevfik Pasha
1936
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1909, 1918–1919, 1920–1922)
William Henry Stark
1936
John Monash
1931
Australian Army officer (1865–1931)
Larry Semon
1928
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (1889–1928)
1800s
Alexei Savrasov
1897
Russian painter
Austin F. Pike
1886
American politician (1819–1886)
Miguel Grau
1879
Peruvian Navy officer and politician
Franklin Pierce
1869
President of the United States from 1853 to 1857
François-Adrien Boieldieu
1834
French composer (1775–1834)
Juan O'Donojú
1821
Spanish army officer and colonial governor (1762–1821)
James Elphinston
1809
British linguist
Thomas Cochran (judge)
1804
Emmanuele Vitale
1802
Maltese notary, statesman and commander
Before 1800
Andrew Kippis
1795
English nonconformist clergyman and biographer
John Hancock
1793
American Founding Father (1737–1793)
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville
1772
French composer and violinist (1711-1772)
Henry Fielding
1754
English writer and judge (1707–1754)
Yongzheng Emperor
1735
Emperor of China from 1722 to 1735
Jean de Quen
1659
French Jesuit missionary
John George I, Elector of Saxony
1656
Elector of Saxony from 1611 to 1656
John Greaves
1652
English mathematician, astronomer and antiquarian (1602–1652)
Christen Sørensen Longomontanus
1647
Danish astronomer
Antoine de Montchrestien
1621
French soldier, dramatist, adventurer and economist
Ishikawa Goemon
1594
Japanese folk hero
Marina de Guevara
1559
Spanish nun
Filippo Lippi
1469
Italian Renaissance painter (c. 1406–1469)
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut
1436
Countess of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland
John Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp of Somerset
1361
English peer
Cola di Rienzo
1354
Medieval Italian populist politician (1313–1354)
Emperor Fushimi
1317
Emperor of Japan from 1287 to 1298
John I, Duke of Brittany
1286
Duke of Brittany from 1221 to 1286
Constance of Greater Poland
1281
Helen of Zadar
976
Queen Consort of Croatia
Xiao Sagezhi
951
Khidan empress consort
Pilgrim I (archbishop of Salzburg)
923
German priest
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
705
Umayyad caliph from 685 to 705