Deaths October 8 | History by KabAstro

1728 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer (Concert Spirituel), dies at 47
1735 Yongzheng, 4th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1722-35), dies at 56
1754 Henry Fielding, English novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones), dies at 47
1772 Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, French composer and violinist, dies at 60

John Hancock (1737-1793)

American merchant and statesman who was 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence, dies at 56

1795 Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer, dies at 70
1803 Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and playwright (Filippo), dies at 54
1809 James Elphinston, Scottish philologist, dies at 87
1820 Henri Christophe, President of Haiti (1807-11) and King of Haiti (1811-20), dies at 53
1834 François-Adrien Boieldieu, French opera composer known as 'the French Mozart' (La dame blanche - The White Lady), dies at 58
1842 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (Ludlam’s Hule), dies at 68
1856 Théodore Chassériau, Dominican-French Romantic painter, muralist, and youngest artist exhibited at the Louvre museum, dies at 37
1862 James Streshley Jackson, American attorney and Brigadier General (Union Army), dies in battle at 39
1862 William Rufus Terrill, American Union brigadier general, dies in battle at 28
1864 Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, US Union-brigadier general, dies at about 34
1865 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer, dies at 51

Franklin Pierce (1804-1869)

14th President of the United States (Democrat: 1853-57), dies from severe cirrhosis of the liver, at 64

1879 Miguel Grau Seminario 'Gentleman of the Seas', Peruvian Admiral, dies during the Battle of Angamos at 45
1886 Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (b. 1819)
1888 Jules d'Anethan, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium (1870-71), dies at 85
1894 Norbert Rillieux, American chemical engineer and inventor (sugar refiner), dies at 88
1895 Charles Oberthür, German composer and harpist, dies at 76
1895 William Mahone, American railway engineer and Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
1897 Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter, dies at 67
1897 Martin Pluddemann, German composer, dies at 43
1904 Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austrian sociologist and general, dies at 62
1907 Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65
1912 Wilhelm Kuhe, German composer, dies at 88
1919 Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies at 58
1925 Abraham Pieter Cornelis van Karnebeek, Dutch Foreign Minister (Liberal, 1918-27), dies at 89
1927 Mary Webb, English writer (Gone to Earth), dies at 46
1928 Larry Semon, American silent film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (The Wizard of Oz (1925)), dies of pneumonia and tuberculosis at 39
1931 John Monash, Australian military general during WWI (Gallipoli, Western Front), dies at 66
1936 William Henry Stark, American timber industry leader, dies ta 85
1940 Robert Emden, Swiss astronomer and astrophysicist (Gaskugeln), dies at 78
1941 Gustav "Gus" Kahn, German-American lyricist ("It Had to Be You"; "Makin' Whoopee"; "I'll See You in My Dreams"), dies of a heart attack at 54
1942 Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer, dies at 73
1944 Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician (1940 republican nominee for President), dies at 52

Felix Salten (1869-1945)

Austrian author (Bambi, a Life in the Woods), dies at 76

1945 Herman Theodoor Colenbrander, Dutch historian, dies at 73
1946 Rose Melville, American stage actress (Sis Hopkins), dies at 73
1948 Sven Holger Körling, Swedish organist, music teacher, and composer of children's songs, dies at 69
1952 Joe Adams, American baseball player known as "Old Wagon Tongue" (St. Louis Cardinals - 1 game in 1904, 4 innings, 9.0 ERA), minor league manager, and restaurateur, dies at 74
1953 Kathleen Ferrier, English contralto singer (Orfeo Ed Evridice), dies of cancer at 41
1953 Nigel Bruce, British actor (Rebecca, Suspicion, Sherlock Holmes), dies from a heart attack at 58
1954 Morten Korch, Danish author, dies at 78
1958 Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886)
1959 Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol), dies at 70
1961 Tom Howard, American photo-journalist (Chicago Sun-Times), dies at 67
1963 Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist (Eyes on the table, Useless Science or the Alchemist), dies of a heart attack aged 54 [1]
1964 Charles Hodge, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69
1966 Célestin Freinet, French pedagogue & educational reformer, dies at 69

Clement Attlee (1883-1967)

British politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84

1967 Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd), dies at 61
1969 Eduardo Ciannelli, Italian actor (Foreign Correspondent, Gunga Din), dies at 80
1970 Jean Giono, French writer (Le Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75
1970 Lucien Goldmann, Romanian-French sociologist and philosopher, dies at 57
1970 Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (b. 1934)
1971 Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Dutch composer, dies at 79
1973 Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher and writer, dies at 83
1974 Harry Carney, American tenor and baritone jazz saxophonist (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1927-74), dies at 64
1975 Alberto Hemsi, Turkish born composer and collector of Sephardic Jews music, dies at 78
1977 Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer, composer and lyricist, dies at 75
1978 Jim Gilliam, American MLB player and coach (LA Dodgers), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 49
1978 Karl Swenson, American actor (Lars Hanson-Little House on the Prairie), dies of a heart attack at 70
1978 Tibor Serly, Hungarian violinist and composer (American Elegy), dies at 76
1979 Edith Sampson (née Spurlock) American lawyer, judge, and the first Black U.S. delegate appointed to the United Nations, dies at 77
1979 June Nash, American actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68
1980 Maurice Martenot, French cellist, WWI radio telegrapher, and instrument inventor (ondes Martenot), dies at 81 [1]
1982 Fernando Lamas, Argentine American actor and director (Lost World, You look marvelous), dies of cancer at 67
1982 Philip Noel-Baker, British politician and disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959), dies at 92
1983 Joan Hackett, American stage and screen actress (Will Penny; Only When I Laugh; Mourning Becomes Electra), dies of cancer at 49
1984 Frederick Brisson, Danish-born film and theater producer, dies at 71 after a stroke
1985 Leon Klinghoffer, American murdered by hijackers of the Achille Lauro when they threw him off the boat at 69
1985 Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist, dies at 65
1985 Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian playwright and poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94
1986 Walter Burkemo, American golfer (PGA C'ship 1953), dies at 67
1987 Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician and 2nd President of Greece (1975-1980), dies at 88
1988 Ernst Hermann Meyer, German composer, dies at 82
1990 B.J. Wilson, British session and touring rock drummer (Procol Harum, 1967-77; Joe Cocker), dies of a drug overdose complications and pneumonia at 43
1991 Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75
1992 Jane Ewart-Boggs, Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Labour) spokesperson on Home Affairs, and peace activist, dies of cancer at 63

Willy Brandt (1913-1992)

German statesman, leader of the SPD party (1964-1987) and Chancellor of West Germany (1969-74, Nobel 1971), dies of cancer at 78

1993 Manke Nelis [Cornelis Pieters], Dutch singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73
1994 Brian Hartley, British mathematician, dies at 55
1994 Diana Churchill, English actress (Spider, Sally Bishop, Housemaster), dies at 81
1994 Manual Pina, Spanish fashion Designer, dies at 50
1995 Christopher Keene, American conductor and musician, dies at 48
1995 Frederick Harry Baines, English figurative painter, dies at 85
1995 John Cairncross, British civil servant and spy (5th man - Cambridge Five), dies at 82
1995 Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45
1996 Geoffrey Finsberg, British politician, dies at 70
1996 Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81
1996 Susan Gautier-Smith, British TV producer, dies of heart failure at 33
1996 Watkins Shaw, British musicologist, dies at 85
1996 William Prince, American actor (Spies Like Us, The Stepford Wives, City in Fear), dies at 83
1997 Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, known for Marina City, dies at 84
1997 Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66
1997 Robin Lee, American figure skater, dies at 77
1998 Anatol Vieru, Romanian-Jewish composer (Ultimele zile, ultimele ore/The Last Days, the Last Hours), and pedagogue, dies at 72
1999 John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2001 Javed Iqbal, Pakistani serial killer (murderer of 100 boys), commits suicide in prison at 45
2002 Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
2002 Phyllis Calvert [Bickle], British actress (Crash of Silence, The Man in Grey), dies at 87
2004 Jacques Derrida, French philosopher associated with post-structuralism, dies at 74
2004 James Chace, American historian (b. 1931)
2008 Bob Friend, British newscaster (BBC, 1969-89; Sky News, 1989-2003), dies from a brain tumor at 70
2008 Eileen Herlie [Herlihy], Scottish-American actress (All My Children; The Angel with the Trumpet), dies of complications from pneumonia at 90
2008 George E. Palade, Romanian-American cell biologist (ribosomen, Nobel 1974), dies at 95
2008 Gidget Gein [Bradley Stewart], American hard rock bassist (Marilyn Manson), dies of a suspected drug overdose at 39
2010 Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (b. 1919)

Al Davis (1929-2011)

American businessman and NFL executive (owner Oakland Raiders), dies of heart failure at 82

2011 Antonio Iglesias Álvares, Spanish pianist, composer, educator and critic, dies at 93
2011 Mikey Welsh, American bass player (Weezer, 1998-2001 - "Island In The Sun"), dies of a drug overdose at 40
2011 Roger Williams [Louis Jacob Weertz], American popular music pianist ("Born Free"), dies of pancreatic cancer at 87
2013 Andy Pafko, American baseball player, dies at 92
2013 Larry Verne, American novelty song singer (Mr. Custer), dies of heart failure at 77
2013 Philip Chevron, Irish musician (Pogues - "Peace & Love"), dies from esophageal cancer at 56
2013 Rod Grams, American politician (Senator-R-Minnesota 1995-2001, Rep-R-Minnesota 1993-95), and television anchor, dies from cancer at 65
2015 Hugh Scully, British TV presenter (The Antiques Roadshow), dies at 72
2015 Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter (I Should Have Known Better), dies at 64
2015 Paul Prudhomme, American cajun chef (K-Paul), dies at 75
2016 Don Ciccone, American singer-songwriter (The Critters - "Mr. Dieingly Sad"; The Hit Men), dies of a heart attack at 70
2017 Grady Tate, American jazz drummer (Oliver Nelson, Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones, Jimmy Smith), and singer, dies of complications from Alzheimer disease at 85 [1]
2017 Jerry Kleczka, American politician (Rep-D-WI, 1984-2005), dies at 73
2017 Y. A. Tittle, American NFL quarterback (Baltimore, San Francisco, NY Giants, MVP 1963), dies at 90
2019 (Malcolm) "Molly" Duncan, Scottish saxophonist (Average White Band, 1972-83 - "Pick Up the Pieces"), dies of cancer at 74
2020 Charles Moore, American 400m hurdler (Olympic gold & silver 1952), dies at 91
2020 Jim Dwyer, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, dies of cancer at 63
2020 Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Iranian classical singer, dies at 80 [1]

Whitey Ford (1928-2020)

American Baseball HOF pitcher (10 x MLB All Star; World Series 1950, 53, 56, 58, 61 [MVP], 62; AL Cy Young Award 1961; NY Yankees), dies from dementia at 91

2021 Everett Morton, Nevisian-born English drummer and percussionist (English Beat), dies at 71
2022 Gerben Karstens, Dutch road cyclist (Olympic gold 100km team trial 1964; 6 x stages Tour de France, 14 x stages Vuelta a España, 1 x stage Giro d'Italia), dies of stroke complications at 80
2023 Agneta Andersson, Swedish sprint canoer (Olympic gold K-1 500 1984, K-2 500 1984, 96; World C'ship gold K-2 500 1993), dies from cancer at 62
2023 Alcides Báez, Paraguayan soccer goalkeeper (16 caps; FC Cerro Porteño, FC Libertad), dies at 76
2023 Burt Young [Gerald DeLouise or Richard Morea], American character actor (Rocky; Convoy; The Choirboys), screenwriter (Uncle Joe Shannon), and visual artist, and visual artist, dies at 83 [1]
2023 Stewkey [Robert Antoni], American power pop-rock vocalist and keyboard player (Nazz - "Open My Eyes", "Hello It's Me), dies of cancer at 75