November 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 911 – Louis the Child of the East Franks (b. 893)
• 955 – Pope Agapetus II
• 1115 – Godfrey of Amiens (b. 1066)
• 1171 – Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
• 1195 – Conrad of Hohenstaufen
• 1226 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
• 1246 – Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
• 1308 – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
• 1517 – Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman and cardinal (b. 1436)
• 1527 – Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
• 1599 – Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
• 1600 – Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
• 1605 – Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
• 1658 – Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
• 1674 – John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
• 1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
• 1817 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
• 1830 – King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
• 1873 – Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (b. 1796)
• 1887 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
• 1890 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
• 1895 – Robert Battey, American surgeon (b. 1828)
• 1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
• 1917 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)
• 1921 – Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
• 1924 – Michele Merlo, American mafia figure (b. 1880)
• 1934 – Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
• 1944 – Walter Nowotny, Austrian-born German fighter pilot (b. 1920)
• 1945 – August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
• 1949 – Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish clergyman (b. 1874)
• 1953 – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1953 – John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887)
• 1959 – Frank Sherman Land, American Freemason (b. 1890)
• 1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
• 1966 – Bernhard Zondek German-born Israeli gynecologist (b. 1891)
• 1968 – Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1970 – Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
• 1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1977 – Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
• 1978 – Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
• 1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
• 1983 – Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian-born American rabbi and educator (b. 1881)
• 1983 – James Booker, American jazz singer (b. 1939)
• 1983 – James Hayden, American actor (b. 1953)
• 1985 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
• 1985 – Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-born American painter and book illustrator (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
• 1992 – Larry Levan, American DJ (b. 1954)
• 1993 – Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
• 1994 – Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (b. 1940)
• 1998 – John Hunt, Baron Hunt, British mountaineer (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Rumer Godden, British writer (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
• 1999 – Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
• 2002 – Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
• 2003 – Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
• 2003 – C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Guy Speranza, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
• 2004 – Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
• 2005 – David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist (b. 1941)
• 2007 – Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Chad Varah, English humanitarian (b. 1911)
• 2009 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
• 2010 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Jack Levine, American painter (b. 1915)
• 2010 – Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961)
• 2010 – Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (b. 1950)