Deaths November 8 | History by KabAstro

1599 Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer and Catholic priest, dies at 71
1600 Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)

Robert Catesby (c. 1572-1605)

English conspirator (Gunpowder Plot), killed at about 32

1609 Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Electress of Brandenburg, by marriage, dies at 44
1638 Johann H. Alsted, German theologist and philosopher, dies at 50
1658 Pieter Floriszoon, Dutch admiral, dies at sea in the Battle of the Sound at about 50
1658 Witte de With, Dutch vice-admiral, dies at sea in the Battle of the Sound, at age 59

John Milton (1608-1674)

English poet and puritan (Paradise Lost), dies at 65

1694 Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer, law historian and polemist, dies at 58
1719 Michel Rolle, French mathematician (Rolle's theorem), dies at 67
1757 Pierre Prowo, German composer, dies at 60
1773 Friedrich Wilhelm, baron von Seydlitz, Prussian general, dies at 52
1793 Madame Roland [Marie-Jeanne Phlippon], French revolutionary (member of the Girondist faction), executed by guillotine at 39
1805 Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
1811 Charles Ferdinand Bentinck, Dutch military officer (Governor of Suriname 1809-11), dies at 47
1817 Andrea Appiani, Italian royal painter (Napoleon), dies at 63
1828 Thomas Bewick, English wood-engraver and illustrator (A History of British Birds, Aesop's Fables), dies at 75
1830 Francis I, King of the Two Sicilies (1825-30), dies at 53
1833 Maximilian Stadler, Austrian pianist and composer and Benedictine monk, dies at 85
1858 George Peacock, English mathematician (algebraic theory), dies at 67
1860 Charles Fellows, English Archaeologist who discovered ruins of the cities of ancient Lycia and brought to Lycian marbles to England, dies at 61
1864 Juan van Halen, Dutch-Spanish officer and adventurer (fought for Russia and in the Belgium Revolution), dies at 76
1873 Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Spanish poet and comic playwright, dies at 76
1876 Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, Queen consort of Spain (1870-73), dies at 29
1880 Jacob Edvard Gille, Swedish composer, dies at 66
1885 Johannes Kneppelhout [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist and author, dies at 71
1886 Fred Archer, English jockey (record 13 x GB Champion flat racing jockey 1874–86; 21 x British Classic Race wins; 5 x French Classic Race wins), commits suicide at 29

Doc Holliday (1851-1887)

American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), dies of tuberculosis at 36

1890 Caesar Franck, Belgian organist and composer (Symphonic Variations), dies at 67
1893 Francis Parkman, American historian and author (Oregon Trail), dies at 70
1894 Michael "King" Kelly, American Baseball HOF utility (NL batting champion 1884, 86; NL runs scored 1884–86, Chicago White Sox) and manager (Boston Beaneaters, Reds; Cincinnati KK's), dies from pneumonia at 36
1901 Mary Ann Bickerdyke, American army nurse (union), dies at 84
1905 Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter, dies at 35
1908 Victorien Sardou, French playwright, several of which were adapted as operas (Fedora, Tosca; Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
1908 William Edward Ayrton, English Physicist, Inventor and Electrical Engineer, dies at 60
1909 Charles Bordes, French composer, dies at 46
1909 Eduard de Hartog, Dutch composer, dies at 80
1911 Samuel Wilks, British physician and founding father of clinical science, dies at 87
1917 Colyn Blythe, English cricketer (2509 F-C wickets), dies at 38 fighting during WW I

Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920)

Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1901-05), dies at 83

1920 Salomon Anski, Russian-Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1921 Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
1924 Sergei Lyapunov, Russian pianist and composer (Lezghinka), dies at 64
1928 Mauritz Stiller [Moshe Stiller], Swedish actor and director (The Saga of Gösta Berling, Erotikon), dies from an infective pleurisy at 45
1933 Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1929-33), assassinated at 50 by Abdul Khaliq during a graduation ceremony at a high school in Kabul
1934 Carlos Chagas, Brazilian sanitary physician, dies at 55
1934 James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher and Psychologist, dies at 73
1935 Charles Kingsford-Smith, Australian pioneering aviator (1st transpacific flight), disappears on a flight over the Andaman Sea at 38
1935 Hans Windisch, German New Testament scholar, dies at 54
1941 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1944 Walter Nowotny, Austrian-born fighter pilot ace (258 aerial victories for Luftwaffe), dies in a plane crash at 23
1945 August von Mackensen, German field marshal (WWI), dies at 95
1949 Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest and writer (Maria Magdalena -1928), dies at 75
1952 Claude Carter, South African cricket spin bowler (19 Tests, 28 wickets, BB 6/50; Natal, Transvaal), dies at 71
1953 Ivan Bunin, Russian poet and novelist (Gentleman from San Francisco-Nobel 1933, dies at 83
1953 John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66
1959 Frank Sherman Land, American founder of the Order of DeMolay, dies at 69

Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880-1960)

American engineer (invented the bread-slicing machine), dies at 80

1963 Simon Jurovsky, Slovak composer and conductor, dies at 51
1965 Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1966 Bernhard Zondek, German-Israeli gynaecologist (developed 1st reliable pregnancy test), dies at 75
1968 James "Kokomo" Arnold, American blues slide guitarist, and singer, dies at 67 [or 72]
1968 Wendell Corey, American actor (Rear Window, 11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies from a liver ailment at 54
1969 Dave O'Brien [Fronabarger], American actor and writer (Reefer Madness, Kiss Me Kate, 1st Aid), dies from a heart attack at 57
1969 Kam Tong, Chinese American actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Across the Pacific, Flower Drum Song), dies at 62
1969 Vesto Slipher, American astronomer who provided the first evidence to support the expanding-universe theory, dies at 93
1970 Huw T. Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician, dies at 77
1970 Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher (Think and Grow Rich), dies at 87
1974 Ivory Joe Hunter "The Baron of the Boogie", American R&B singer, piano player, and songwriter ("Since I Met You Baby"), dies of lung cancer at 60
1976 Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (French C'ship 1934, 36), dies in a car accident at 67

Bucky Harris (1896-1977)

American Baseball HOF manager (World Series 1947 NY Yankees) and second baseman (WS 1924 Washington Senators), dies at 81

1977 Georg Wüst, German Oceanographer (provided first complete understanding of the temperature, salinity and deep-current structure of the Atlantic Ocean), dies at 87
1978 Norman Rockwell, American artist and illustrator (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84
1979 Sydney Tafler, English actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63
1979 Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of French President Charles de Gaulle, dies at 79

Betty Nuthall (1911-1983)

English tennis player (US National Championship, 1930), dies of a coronary arrest at 72

1983 Mordecai Kaplan, American Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism, dies at 102
1983 Robert Agnew, American silent movie director, dies at 84 of kidney failure
1984 Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, Norwegian composer, dies at 81
1985 Masten Gregory, American auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 1961, 65 [Jochen Rindt]), dies at 53
1985 Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish road cyclist (Tour de France 1927-28), dies at 86
1986 Beatrice Kay, American singer and actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78

Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986)

Russian politician (Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1939-49, 1953-6), dies at 96

1988 Kingman Brewster, American educator and president of Yale University, dies at 69
1989 Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67
1990 Anya Seton, American author (Katherine), dies at 86
1990 Grampy Davis, American actor, dies of a heart attack at 87
1991 Frances Faye, American cabernet singer and actress (Pretty Baby), dies after a stroke ay 79
1991 John Kirkpatrick, American pianist (Concord Sonata) and musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies at 86
1992 Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, Dutch speed skater (Olympic silver 1952), dies at 65
1992 Keith "Red" Mitchell, American jazz double bassist, composer, and lyricist (Hampton Hawes; André Previn), dies from a stroke at 65
1994 Marianne Straub, Swiss-born English textile designer and weaver (Festival of Britain, Piccadilly line seat pattern), dies at 85
1994 Michael O'Donoghue, American comedy writer (SNL), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 54
1995 Country Dick Montana [Daniel McLain], American rock drummer and vocalist (The Beat Farmers - "Happy Boy"), dies on stage during a performance in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada at age 40
1995 Neil Blaney, Irish politician, dies at 73
1996 Edward Albert Radice, British economist, dies at 89
1996 Gino Marinuzzi, Jr., Italian-American conductor, symphonic and film score composer (Le Carrosse d’or), and electronic music pioneer (Fonosynth), dies at 76
1996 Peter Fowler, British physicist who studied cosmic rays and radiation, dies at 73
1998 Jean Marais, French actor (Donkey Skin, Orpheus), dies of cardio-vascular disease at 84
1998 Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician, dies at 43
1998 Rumer Godden, English author (Thursday's Children), dies at 90
1998 Stuart Sutherland, British psychologist, educator (Sussex University's Laboratory of Experimental Psychology), and writer (Breakdown), dies of a heart attack at 76
1999 Francis D. Foley, American Rear Admiral (WW II, Guadalcanal), dies at 89
1999 Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (Olympic gold, 1924,1928; World Championship gold, 1922, 1926), dies at 100
1999 Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 58
2000 Brian Boydell, Irish composer, dies at 83
2002 Jaun Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher, dies at 70
2003 Bob Grant [Robert St Clair Grant], British actor, comedian and writer (on the Buses), dies at 71
2003 C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
2003 Guy Speranza, American heavy metal singer (Riot, 1975-81), dies of pancreatic cancer at 47
2004 Bruno Bettinelli, Italian composer and teacher (Musica per archi), dies at 90
2004 Chandler Harper, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1950), dies of pneumonia at 90
2004 Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (World #3 1976-81; Pot Black 1972, 73, 80), dies at 75
2004 Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
2005 Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (Oi Kyries tis avlis), dies of lung cancer at 76
2005 David Westheimer, American novelist (Von Ryan's Express), dies at 88
2006 Annette Rogers, American athlete (Olympic gold 4x100m relay 1932, 36), dies at 93
2006 Basil Poledouris, American film score composer, dies of cancer at 61
2006 Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist, dies at 65
2006 Lyudmila Buldakova, Russian volleyball player (Olympic gold USSR 1968, 72), dies at 68
2007 Aad Nuis, Dutch writer and political scientist, dies at 74
2007 Chad Varah, English founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)
2007 Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary, dies at 64
2009 Patrick Howard-Dobson, British general (last Chief of Staff at British Far East Command in Singapore), dies at 88
2009 Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2010 Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (San Francisco Chief of Police), dies at 60
2010 Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)
2010 Jack Levine, American social realist painter, dies at 95
2010 Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961)
2011 Bil Keane, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), dies at 89
2011 Ed Macauley, American Basketball Hall of Fame center (7-time NBA All Star), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 83
2011 Heavy D [Dwight Errington Myers], Jamaican-American rap artist, dies at 44
2011 Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist, dies at 70
2012 Lee MacPhail, American Baseball Hall of Fame executive (AL President 1974-83; Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees), dies at 95
2012 Lucille Bliss, American voice actress (Cinderella, The Secret of NIMH), dies from natural causes at 96
2014 Don Paul, 89, American football player, dies at 89
2014 Philip M. Crane, American politician (Rep-R-IL, 1969-2005), dies at 84
2015 Andrei Yakoulevich Eshpai, Soviet composer, dies at 90

Alex Trebek (1940-2020)

Canadian-American Emmy Award-winning TV game show host (Jeopardy, 1984-2020; High Rollers, 1974-80), dies of pancreatic cancer at 80

2020 Howie Meeker, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame right wing, coach, broadcaster (NHL All Star 1947-49; Stanley Cup 1947, 48, 49, 51; Toronto Maple Leafs) and politician (Canada MP), dies at 97
2020 Oscar Benton, Dutch blues singer and guitarist (Ze is Zoals Jij), dies at 71
2021 Cecilia Robinson, English cricket batsman (14 Tests, 2 x 100s; Kent WCT), dies at 97
2021 Keith Bradshaw, Australian cricket administrator (Secretary & Chief Executive Marylebone Cricket Club; CEO South Australian Cricket), dies from multiple myeloma at 58
2021 Margo Guryan, American jazz and pop pianist, songwriter, and singer (“I’m on My Way to Saturday”; "Take a Picture"), dies at 84
2021 Rinus Bennaars, Dutch soccer midfielder (15 caps; Feyenoord Rotterdam), dies at 90
2022 Dan McCafferty, Scottish rock vocalist (Nazareth - "Love Hurts"), dies at 76
2022 Father Abraham [Pierre Kartner], Dutch singer and songwriter (The Smurf Song), dies at 87
2022 Jeff Cook, American country music guitarist, singer and fiddler (Alabama - "Mountain Music"), dies at 73
2022 Lee Bontecou, American sculptor and printmaker, dies at 91 [1]
2022 Mario Conti, Scottish clergyman (Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, 2002-12; Bishop of Aberdeen, 1977-2002), dies at 88
2022 Tom Owen [Rowbotham], British actor (Last of the Summer Wine, 2000-10 - "Tom"), dies at 73
2023 Dale Reid, Scottish golfer (21 x Ladies European Tour wins; Ladies European Tour Order of Merit 1984, 87), dies from cancer at 64