Famous Deaths on 8 Sep

Famous Deaths on 8 Sep

1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman
1560 - Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1534)
1603 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
1613 - Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
1637 - Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574)
1644 - Francis Quarles, English poet (b. 1592)
1645 - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1645 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (b. 1580)
1656 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
1675 - Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels (b. 1602)
1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
1721 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
1739 - Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
1755 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (b. 1715)
1761 - Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
1780 - Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general (b. 1736)
1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
1811 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)
1831 - John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)
1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
1882 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
1888 - Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
1933 - King Faysal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
1943 - Julius Fucik, Czech journalist (executed) (b. 1903)
1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
1965 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1965 - Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
1969 - Bud Collyer, American television game show host (b. 1908)
1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
1977 - Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
1979 - Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
1980 - Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1981 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
1983 - Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
1991 - Alex North, American composer (b. 1910)
1999 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
2002 - Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)
2003 - Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
2003 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
2004 - Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
2005 - Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
2006 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
2006 - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
2006 - Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver and TV personality (rally accident) (b. 1945)
2007 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)
701 - Pope Sergius I
780 - Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor