October 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 976 – Queen Jelena of Zadar of Croatia
• 1286 – John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)
• 1317 – Emperor Fushimi of Japan (b. 1265)
• 1621 – Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist
• 1647 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
• 1652 – John Greaves, English mathematician (b. 1602)
• 1656 – John George I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1585)
• 1659 – Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary
• 1735 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
• 1754 – Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)
• 1772 – Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (b. 1711)
• 1793 – John Hancock, American revolutionary (b. 1737)
• 1795 – Andrew Kippis, English clergyman (b. 1725)
• 1804 – Thomas Cochran (judge), Canadian judge (b. 1777)
• 1809 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (b. 1721)
• 1834 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer (b. 1775)
• 1869 – Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)
• 1879 – Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (b. 1834)
• 1886 – Austin F. Pike, American politician (b. 1819)
• 1897 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (b. 1830)
• 1928 – Larry Semon, comedian (b. 1889)
• 1931 – Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
• 1936 – William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
• 1936 – Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
• 1942 – Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer (b. 1869)
• 1944 – Wendell Willkie, American politician (b. 1892)
• 1945 – Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869)
• 1952 – Joe Adams, American baseball player (b. 1877)
• 1953 – Nigel Bruce, British actor (b. 1895)
• 1953 – Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (b. 1912)
• 1955 – Iry LeJeune, Cajun musician (b. 1928)
• 1958 – Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
• 1962 – Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer (b. 1909)
• 1967 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
• 1970 – Jean Giono, French author (b. 1895)
• 1973 – Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1977 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer , composer , lyricist (b. 1902)
• 1982 – Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (b. 1915)
• 1982 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born activist, Nobel laureate (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
• 1985 – Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899)
• 1990 – B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
• 1992 – Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Christopher Keene, American conductor (b. 1946)
• 1997 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (b. 1913)
• 1999 – John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Sheila Holland, English writer (b. 1937)
• 2002 – Phyllis Calvert, British actress (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
• 2004 – Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (b. 1930)
• 2004 – James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (b. 1974)
• 2007 – Constantine Andreou, Greek artist (b. 1917)
• 2008 – George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (b. 1912)
• 2008 – Eileen Herlie, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (b. 1938)
• 2010 – Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (b. 1919)