September 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 701 – Pope Sergius I
• 780 – Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor (b. 750)
• 1397 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (b. 1355)
• 1425 – King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
• 1539 – John Stokesley, English churchman
• 1560 – Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1532)
• 1601 – John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare (b. 1530)
• 1603 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
• 1613 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
• 1637 – Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574)
• 1644 – Francis Quarles, English poet (b. 1592)
• 1644 – John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1645 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (b. 1580)
• 1656 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
• 1675 – Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels (b. 1602)
• 1682 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
• 1721 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
• 1739 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
• 1755 – Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)
• 1761 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
• 1780 – Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
• 1784 – Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
• 1811 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
• 1831 – John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)
• 1853 – Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
• 1882 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
• 1888 – Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
• 1916 – Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (b. 1836)
• 1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
• 1933 – King Faysal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
• 1943 – Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (executed) (b. 1903)
• 1944 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b.1881)
• 1948 – Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
• 1949 – Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
• 1965 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1965 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1969 – Bud Collyer, American television game show host (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
• 1970 – Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
• 1977 – Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1979 – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1985 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
• 1991 – Alex North, American composer (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Bill Ricker, Canadian founder of fisheries science (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)
• 2003 – Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
• 2003 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
• 2004 – Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Evan Tanner, UFC Champion (b. 1971)
• 2008 – Ahn Jae-hwan, South Korean actor (b. 1972)
• 2009 – Mike Bongiorno, Italian television host (b. 1924)
• 2009 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1922)