May 8 Deaths

May 8 Deaths

• 1192 – Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163)
• 1278 – Emperor Duanzong of China (b. 1268)
• 1319 – King Haakon V of Norway (b. 1270)
• 1473 – John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)
• 1538 – Edward Fox, English bishop
• 1668 – Catherine de Saint-Augustin, French-born Canadian nun (b. 1632)
• 1672 – Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Tréville and French Officer (b. 1598)
• 1766 – Samuel Chandler, English non-conformist minister (b. 1693)
• 1773 – Ali Bey Al-Kabir, Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1728)
• 1781 – Richard Jago, English poet (b. 1715)
• 1785 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman (b. 1719)
• 1785 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (b. 1701)
• 1788 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (b. 1723)
• 1794 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (executed) (b. 1743)
• 1819 – King Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii
• 1822 – John Stark, American revolutionary war general (b. 1728)
• 1828 – Mauro Giuliani, Italian composer (b. 1781)
• 1837 – Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770)
• 1842 – Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (b. 1790)
• 1853 – Jan Roothaan, Dutch priest (b. 1785)
• 1873 – John Stuart Mill, English philosopher (b. 1806)
• 1880 – Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (b. 1821)
• 1891 – Helena Blavatsky, Russian-born author (b. 1831)
• 1903 – Paul Gauguin, French painter (b. 1848)
• 1907 – Edmund G. Ross, American Senator (b. 1826)
• 1936 – Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)
• 1943 – Mordechaj Anielewicz, Polish Resistance Fighter (b. 1919)
• 1944 – Themistoklis Diakidis, Greek high jumper (b. 1882)
• 1945 – Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police leader of Nazi-occupied Norway (b. 1900)
• 1945 – Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (b. 1883)
• 1945 – Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of Nazi-occupied Norway (b. 1898)
• 1947 – Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder (b. 1858)
• 1948 – U Saw, Burmese politician (b. 1900)
• 1950 – Vital Brazil, Brazilian physician (b. 1865)
• 1952 – William Fox, Austrian-born film producer (b. 1879)
• 1960 – J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)
• 1967 – LaVerne Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (b. 1911)
• 1969 – Remington Kellogg, American naturalist (b. 1892)
• 1975 – Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887)
• 1981 – Uri Zvi Grinberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)
• 1982 – Neil Bogart, American record executive (b. 1943)
• 1982 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
• 1984 – Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader's Digest) (b. 1890)
• 1984 – Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1916)
• 1985 – Karl Marx, German composer (b. 1897)
• 1985 – Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction writer (b. 1918)
• 1985 – Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1986 – Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (b. 1922)
• 1987 – Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (b. 1920)
• 1988 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Luigi Nono, Italian composer (b. 1924)
• 1991 – Jean Langlais, French composer and pianist (b. 1907)
• 1991 – Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player [AAGPBL] (b. 1933)
• 1993 – Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
• 1994 – George Peppard, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1995 – Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)
• 1996 – Beryl Burton, English cyclist (b. 1937)
• 1996 – Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1926)
• 1996 – Garth Williams, American illustrator (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Larry Levis, American poet (b. 1946)
• 1998 – Bebe Rebozo, American banker and Watergate figure (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Sir Dirk Bogarde, British actor (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Ed Gilbert, American actor (b. 1931)
• 1999 – Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964)
• 2000 – Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Alexander Chislenko, Russian-American transhumanist (b. 1959)
• 2000 – Dédé Fortin, singer Québécois to group Les Colocs (b. 1962)
• 2000 – Henry Nicols, AIDS activist (b. 1973)
• 2001 – Koby Mandell, Israeli-American terror victim (b. 1987)
• 2005 – Jean Carrière, French writer (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentine racing driver (b. 1981)
• 2006 – Iain Macmillan, Abbey Road photographer (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Eddy Arnold, country music star (b. 1918)
• 2008 – François Sterchele, Belgian football player (b. 1982)
• 2009 – Dom DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Bud Shrake, American writer (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Lionel Rose, Australian boxer (b. 1948)