Deaths on 8 September
2000s
Mauricio Arriaza Chicas
2024
Salvadoran police officer (1964–2024)
Ed Kranepool
2024
American baseball player (1944–2024)
Henny Moan
2024
Norwegian actress (1936–2024)
Zoot Money
2024
English musician (1942–2024)
Peter Renaday
2024
American actor (1935–2024)
Emi Shinohara
2024
Japanese voice actress (1963–2024)
Elizabeth II
2022
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
Gwyneth Powell
2022
British actress (1946–2022)
Luis Villafuerte
2021
Filipino politician (1935–2021)
S. Rajasekar
2019
Indian film director, cinematographer, and actor (1957–2019)
Gennadi Gagulia
2018
Abkhazian politician (1948–2018)
Chelsi Smith
2018
American actress
Pierre Bergé
2017
French businessman (1930–2017)
Blake Heron
2017
American actor (1982–2017)
Jerry Pournelle
2017
American writer and scientist (1933–2017)
Ljubiša Samardžić
2017
Serbian actor and director (1936–2017)
Don Williams
2017
American country music singer-songwriter (1939–2017)
Hannes Arch
2016
Austrian pilot (1967–2016)
Dragiša Pešić
2016
Montenegrin politician (1954–2016)
Prince Buster
2016
Jamaican musician (1938–2016)
Joaquín Andújar
2015
Dominican baseball player (1952–2015)
Andrew Kohut
2015
American pollster and nonpartisan news commentator
Tyler Sash
2015
American football player (1988–2015)
Joost Zwagerman
2015
Dutch writer, poet, and essayist
Marvin Barnes
2014
American basketball player (1952–2014)
S. Truett Cathy
2014
American restaurateur, businessman, philanthropist
Sean O'Haire
2014
American wrestler (1971–2014)
Magda Olivero
2014
Italian operatic soprano (1910–2014)
Gerald Wilson
2014
American jazz trumpeter (1918–2014)
George Zuverink
2014
American baseball player (1924–2014)
Goose Gonsoulin
2013
American football player (1938–2014)
Don Reichert
2013
Canadian artist (1932–2013)
Jean Véronis
2013
Radoslav Rotković
2013
Montenegrin historian, philologist (1928–2013)
Ronald Hamowy
2012
Canadian historian (1937–2012)
Bill Moggridge
2012
British designer (1943–2012)
Thomas Szasz
2012
Hungarian-American psychiatrist and activist (1920–2012)
Aage Bohr
2009
Danish physicist (1922–2009)
Mike Bongiorno
2009
Italian American television host (1924–2009)
Ralph Plaisted
2008
American explorer (1927 - 2008)
Vincent Serventy
2007
Australian author, ornithologist and conservationist
Hilda Bernstein
2006
British-born author, artist and activist
Peter Brock
2006
Australian racing driver (1945–2006)
Noel Cantwell
2005
Irish footballer (1932–2005)
Donald Horne
2005
Australian journalist and academic
Frank Thomas (animator)
2004
American animator and writer (1912–2004)
Leni Riefenstahl
2003
German filmmaker (1902–2003)
Laurie Williams (cricketer)
2002
West Indian cricketer (1968–2002)
Bill Ricker
2001
Canadian scientist (1908–2001)
1900s
Moondog
1999
American composer (1916–1999)
Derek Taylor
1997
English journalist, writer, publicist and record producer
Alex North
1991
American composer (1910–1991)
Brad Davis (actor)
1991
American actor (1949–1991)
Denys Watkins-Pitchford
1990
British naturalist, illustrator and author (1905–1990)
John Franklin Enders
1985
American medical researcher (1897-1985)
Johnnie Parsons
1984
American racing driver (1918–1984)
Antonin Magne
1983
French cyclist (1904–1983)
Nisargadatta Maharaj
1981
Indian guru (1897–1981)
Roy Wilkins
1981
American civil rights leader (1901–1981)
Hideki Yukawa
1981
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907–1981)
Willard Libby
1980
American physical chemist (1908–1980)
Zero Mostel
1977
American actor (1915–1977)
Wolfgang Windgassen
1974
German operatic tenor
Percy Spencer
1970
American electrical engineer and inventor of the microwave oven (1894–1970)
Bud Collyer
1969
American actor (1908–1969)
Alexandra David-Néel
1969
French explorer, spiritualist and writer (1868–1969)
John Taylor (racing driver)
1966
British racing driver (1933–1966)
Dorothy Dandridge
1965
American actress and singer (1922–1965)
Hermann Staudinger
1965
German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1881–1965)
Maurice Wilks
1963
English automotive and aeronautical engineer
André Derain
1954
French artist and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse (1880–1954)
Richard Strauss
1949
German composer and conductor (1864–1949)
Jan van Gilse
1944
Dutch conductor
Julius Fučík (journalist)
1943
Czech journalist and resistance fighter
Rıza Nur
1942
Turkish surgeon, politician and writer
Hemmo Kallio
1940
Finnish actor and playwright
Carl Weiss
1935
Suspected Assassin of Huey Long (1906–1935)
Faisal I
1933
King of Iraq from 1921 to 1933
Ugo Sivocci
1923
Italian racing driver (1885–1923)
Friedrich Baumfelder
1916
German composer, conductor, and pianist
Eddie Hasha
1912
American motorcycle racer (1890–1912)
Vere St. Leger Goold
1909
Irish tennis player
1800s
Adam Opel
1895
Founder of Opel and manufacturer of bicycles and sewing machines
Hermann von Helmholtz
1894
German physicist and physiologist (1821–1894)
Joseph Liouville
1882
French mathematician (1809–1882)
Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg
1873
Finnish priest (1832–1873)
Frédéric Ozanam
1853
French scholar (1813–1853)
John Aitken (music publisher)
1831
Scottish-American music publisher
Maria Carolina of Austria
1814
Queen of Naples and Sicily from 1768 to 1814
Peter Simon Pallas
1811
German zoologist, botanist, and natural historian (1741–1811)
Before 1800
Ann Lee
1784
Founder of the Shakers (1736–1784)
Enoch Poor
1780
Military figure in the American Revolutionary War
Bernard Forest de Bélidor
1761
French engineer
Ephraim Williams
1755
American landowner and militia officer (1714-1755)
Michael Brokoff
1721
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz
1682
Spanish philosopher, writer, mathematician and Catholic clergyman (1606–1682)
Joseph Hall (bishop)
1656
British bishop and writer (1574–1656)
Francisco de Quevedo
1645
Spanish nobleman, writer and politician (1580–1645)
John Coke
1644
English civil servant (1563–1644)
Francis Quarles
1644
English poet (1592–1644)
Robert Fludd
1637
English mathematician and astrologer (1574–1637)
Carlo Gesualdo
1613
Italian prince, composer and murderer (1566–1613)
Amy Robsart
1560
Wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
Thomas of Villanova
1555
Preacher, ascetic and religious writer
John Stokesley
1539
English prelate, Bishop of London (1475–1539)
Seraphina Sforza
1478
Italian beatified nun (1434–1478)
Charles III of Navarre
1425
King of Navarre from 1387 to 1425
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester
1397
English prince and nobleman (1355–1397)
Simon Fraser (died 1306)
1306
Scottish knight
Antipope Clement III
1100
Catholic antipope from 1080 to 1100
Ahmad ibn Isra'il al-Anbari
869
Leo IV the Khazar
780
Byzantine emperor from 775 to 780
Pope Sergius I
701
Head of the Catholic Church from 687 to 701
Arbogast (magister militum)
394
Roman army officer (died 394)