Deaths September 8 | History by KabAstro

1644 John Coke, English politician (Secretary of State for Charles I, 1626-40), dies at 81
1645 Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64
1654 Peter Claver, Spanish saint and Jesuit missionary in Cartagena, South America (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies (b. 1581)
1656 Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (Virgidemiarum: Six Books), dies at 82
1660 Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54
1675 Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels and wife of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, dies at 73
1682 Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer, dies at 76
1706 Romanus Weichlein, Austrian composer, dies at 53
1721 Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor, dies at 35
1734 Michel Sarrazin, French surgeon and naturalist (kings doctor in New France, discovered sarsaparilla), dies at 75 [1]
1739 Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
1755 Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (Williams College), dies at 40
1761 Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer who pioneered hydraulics (b. 1698)
1780 Enoch Poor, American Revolutionary War general, dies at 44

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780)

French writer (Beauty and the Beast), dies at 69

Ann Lee (1736-1784)

American founder of the Shakers, dies at 48

1806 Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Irish showman, first known eight-foot-tall person (stood 8-feet, 1-inch (246cm), dies from strain of gigantism at 46 [1]
1811 Peter Simon Pallas, Prussian geologist and zoologist working in Russia, dies at 69
1814 Maria Carolina of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies, dies at 62
1819 Franz Stanislaus Spindler, German composer, dies at 56
1831 John Aitken, Scottish-born American music publisher, dies at 85 or 86
1838 Pietro Rovelli, Italian composer, dies at 45
1840 John Hendricus van de Palm, Dutch linguist and theologist, dies at 77
1853 Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar and founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, dies at 40
1858 Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, dies during cholera epidemic at 34
1869 William Pitt Fessenden, American politician, Secretary of the Treasury during Civil War (Union), dies at 62
1871 Etienne-Joseph Soubre, Belgian composer, dies at 57
1879 Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, Russian musical teacher to Tchaikovsky and composer, dies at 58
1881 Frederick, Prince of the Netherlands and general and large landowner (created Muskau Park), dies at 84
1882 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies at 73
1888 Annie Chapman, English victim of the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper, murdered at about 48
1893 Luke Short, American Old West gunslinger and saloon owner, dies of dropsy at 39
1893 Wilhelm Kalliwoda, Bohemian-German pianist, composer, kapellmeister, and music teacher, dies at 66
1894 Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist, dies at 73

Adam Opel (1837-1895)

German automobile manufacturer (Adam Opel AG), dies at 58

1899 Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, Bohemian clarinetist, bandleader, and composer, dies at 78
1901 Johannes von Miquel, German politician (Vice President Kingdom of Prussia 1897-1901), dies at 73
1909 Frank Crawford Armstrong, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 73
1914 William Erasmus Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, subject of his father's psychological studies, dies at 74
1917 Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, French composer, dies at 74
1922 Léon Bonnat, French painter (Job), dies at 89
1933 Faysal I, Arab statesman, King of Iraq (1921-33) and Syria (1920), dies of a heart attack at 48
1935 Carl Weiss, American physician who murdered US Senator Huey Long, shot and killed by the senator's bodyguards at 28

Edward L. Doheny (1856-1935)

American oil tycoon who drilled the 1st successful oil well in Los Angeles and set off the California oil boom, dies of natural causes at 79

Huey Long (1893-1935)

American politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (1928-32) and Senator (1932-35), assassinated at 42 by Carl Weiss at the Baton Rouge Capitol building

1944 Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer (Frau Helga von Staveren; Thijl), conductor, and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, dies of pneumonia at 63
1947 Victor Horta, Belgium architect, founder of Art Nouveau movement (Hôtel Tassel), dies at 86
1948 Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote), dies at 85

1951 Jürgen Stroop, SS General during World War II and commander of Nazi forces during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, executed by hanging for crimes against humanity at 56
1953 Fred M. Vinson, American Democratic politician, US Treasury Secretary (1945-46) and the 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53), dies of a heart attack at 63
1955 Johannes de Young, Dutch cardinal and archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
1956 Fred Rich, Polish-American jazz pianist and dance band bandleader ("I'm Tickled Pink with a Blue-Eyed Baby"; The Abbott and Costello Show), dies at 58
1956 Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-45), dies at 84
1956 Vital Celen, Flemish writer ('t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
1962 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1953 for polymers), dies at 84
1962 Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer ("Mbube" / "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), dies of kidney failure at 52 or 53 [birth date uncertain]
1965 Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (Island in the Sun), dies of accidental overdose at 42
1969 Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and writer, dies at 100
1969 Bud Collyer, American TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61
1970 Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven, dies at 76 [1]
1974 Robert Cox, American comic actor, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79
1975 John Mylong, Austrian actor (Robot Monsters), dies at 82
1976 Asen Karastoyanov, Bulgarian composer, dies at 83
1976 Joaquin Zamacois Soler, Chilean-Spanish composer, dies at 81
1977 Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel, American comedian and actor (Fiddler on the Roof, The Producers), dies of an aortic aneurysm at 62
1978 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Argentine film director (Monday's Child), dies at 54
1978 Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian pianist, composer (Vardar Rhapsody; Song to Peace), and pedagogue, dies at 79
1980 Bruce Dooland, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests; Nottinghamshire; Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1955), dies at 56
1980 Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram), dies at 101
1980 Jean Piaget, Swiss pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist, dies at 84

Willard Libby (1908-1980)

American chemist who developed radiocarbon dating (Nobel 1960), dies of pneumonia at 71

1981 Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (Nobel 1949), dies at 74
1981 Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist and longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
1983 Antonin Magne, French cyclist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies at 79
1983 Ibrahim Abboud, 1st President and 4th Prime Minister of Sudan (1958-64), dies at 82
1983 Willem "Wim" Kan, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 72
1984 Frank Lowson, England cricket batsman (7 Tests, 2 x 50s; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 59
1984 Johnnie Parsons, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1950; AAA/USAC Championship 1949), dies at 66
1984 Rene Bernier, Belgian composer, dies at 79
1985 John Franklin Enders, American microbiologist (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for culturing poliovirus, developed measles vaccine), dies at 88
1985 Manuel Ivo Cruz, Portuguese composer and founder of Philharmonic Orchestra of Lisbon, dies at 84
1990 Denys Watkins-Pitchford, British writer and illustrator (The Little Grey Men), dies at 85
1991 Alex North [Isadore Soifer], American composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata), dies of cancer at 80 [1]
1991 Brad Davis, American actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41
1991 Jan Józef Lipski, Polish historian and anti-communist dissident (Polish Socialist Party), dies at 65
1992 Quentin Burdick, American politician (Senator-D-North Dakota 1960-91), dies at 84
1993 Hall Bartlett, American director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
1993 Lorrin "Whitey" Harrison, American surfer, dies of a heart attack at 80
1993 Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher, author and diplomat, dies at 88
1994 Deborah Beer, British still photographer (Pasolini, Fellini), dies at 44
1994 Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies of lung cancer at 70
1994 Michael Peters, American choreographer of music videos, dies of AIDS at 46
1994 Rex Alston, English sports broadcaster and author (BBC radio), dies at 93
1995 Eileen Chang, Chinese-American writer and feminist, dies at 73
1995 Halldis Moren Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (Harp and Dagger), dies at 87
1995 Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
1995 Safa Khulusi, Iraqi writer and historian, dies at 78
1996 Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, American Art Deco designer, artist and writer, dies at 102
1999 Moondog [Louis Thomas Hardin], American composer, musician and poet ("Cofee Beans"), dies at 83
2002 Laurie Williams, West Indian cricket all-rounder (15 ODIs, 18 wickets; Jamaica), dies in a car accident at 33
2002 Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist (De Telegraaf), dies at 75
2003 Gulabrai Ramchand, Indian cricket all-rounder (33 Tests, 2 x 100, 41 wickets, BB 6/49; Sind, Bombay, Rajasthan), dies at 76
2003 Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress (Caillou; 15/Love), dies in a car crash at 17

Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003)

German film director (Triumph of the Will) and actress (Tiefland), dies in her sleep at 101

2004 Frank Thomas, American animator, dies at 92
2005 Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
2006 Erk Russell, American football, basketball, baseball and track coach, dies at 80
2006 Frank Middlemass, British actor (Heart Beat, As Time Goes By, Oliver Twist), dies at 87
2006 Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
2006 Jean Villain, Swiss writer, dies at 78
2006 Peter Brock, Australian auto racer (3 x Australian Touring Car C'ship; 9 x Bathurst 500/1000; 9 x Sandown Endurance), dies in a rally crash at 61
2007 Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell, British historian, dies at 69
2007 Ramón Cardemil, Chilean rodeo horse rider, dies at 90
2008 Evan Tanner, American mixed martial arts fighter and UFC Champion, dies of heat exposure in the California desert at 37
2009 Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1922)
2009 Army Archerd, American Hollywood columnist (Variety) and TV host (Movie Game), dies at 87
2009 Mike Bongiorno, Italian television host (b. 1924)
2009 Raymond "Ray" Barrett, Australian actor (The Troubleshooters, Gillette Summer Sports Reel), dies at 82
2010 Rich Cronin, American singer-songwriter (Lyte Funkie Ones), dies of cancer aged 36
2012 Bill Moggridge [William], British designer (IDEO), dies from cancer at 69
2014 Gerald Wilson, American jazz trumpeter, arranger (Jimmie Lunceford; Duke Ellington), orchestra leader, and teacher dies at 96
2014 Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (Adriana Lecouvreur; La Voix Humaine), dies at 104
2014 S. Truett Cathy, American businessman (founder of Chick-fil-A), dies at 93
2015 Joaquín Andújar, Dominican baseball pitcher (4 × MLB All-Star; World Series 1982; Gold Glove Award 1984; Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 62
2016 Johan Botha, South African operatic tenor, dies of liver cancer at 51
2016 Prince Buster [Cecil Bustamente Campbell], Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer ("Al Capone"; "Madness", "Whine and Grine"), dies at 78 [1]
2016 The Lady Chablis [Benjamin Knox], American transgender entertainer (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), dies at 59
2017 Catherine Hardy Lavender, American 4x100m runner (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 87
2017 Donald "Don" Williams, American country singer ("I Believe in You"), dies from emphysema at 78
2017 Isabelle Daniels, American sprinter (Olympic bronze 56), dies at 80
2017 Pierre Bergé, French industrialist and co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House, dies at 86
2018 Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario, dies at 87
2019 Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer (Perdóname, El Amor De Mi Vida), dies of kidney failure at 72
2019 Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (US Representatives from Pennsylvania, 1983-93), dies at 93
2020 Alfred Riedl, Austrian soccer striker (4 caps; Austria Wien, Standard Liège) and manager (Austria, Liechtenstein, Vietnam, Palestine, Laos, Indonesia), dies at 70
2020 Gene A. Budig, American baseball executive (last American League [AL] president 1994-99), dies from liver disease at 81
2020 Ronald Harwood, South African playwright and screenwriter (The Dresser), dies at 85
2020 Simeon Coxe, American songwriter, singer and psychedelic synthesizer player (Silver Apples), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 82 [1]
2021 Antony Acland, British diplomat (Ambassador to US, 1986-91; Undersecretary of State, 1982-86; Ambassador to Spain 1977-80; Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1975-77), and administrator (Provost of Eton College, 1991-2000), dies at 91
2021 Art Metrano, American comedian (Amy Prentiss, Joanie Loves Chachi), dies at 84
2021 Big Daddy Graham [Edward Gudonis], American comedian, writer, actor, recording artist, and radio personality, dies of heart failure at 68
2022 Dave Smith, Scottish soccer manager (Mansfield Town, Southend United, Plymouth Argyle, Dundee, Torquay United), dies at 88