April 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 217 – Caracalla, Roman Emperor (b. 188)
• 956 – Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy
• 1143 – John II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1087)
• 1364 – King John II of France (b. 1319)
• 1450 – Sejong the Great, king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea (b. 1397)
• 1461 – Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)
• 1586 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522)
• 1587 – John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516)
• 1691 – Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1611)
• 1697 – Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)
• 1704 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
• 1704 – Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
• 1725 – John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652)
• 1735 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian aristocrat, leader of the Hungarian uprising (b. 1676)
• 1848 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
• 1857 – Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (b. 1827)
• 1861 – Elisha Otis, American industrialist, founder of the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
• 1870 – Charles de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
• 1906 – Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)
• 1920 – Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884)
• 1925 – Thecla Åhlander, Swedish actress (b. 1855)
• 1931 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 – Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
• 1942 – Kostas Skarvelis, Greek composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 – Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian rifle shooter (b. 1862)
• 1950 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish ballet dancer (b. 1890)
• 1958 – Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872)
• 1962 – Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
• 1965 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1968 – Barbara Jane Harrison, British air stewardess (b.1945)
• 1973 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 – James Charles McGuigan, Canadian archbishop (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (b. 1894)
• 1981 – Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1984 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894)
• 1985 – J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
• 1986 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer, actress, and model (b. 1967)
• 1990 – Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
• 1991 – Per Yngve "Dead" Ohlin, Swedish singer and musician (Mayhem and Morbid) (b. 1969)
• 1992 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
• 1993 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
• 1994 – François Rozet, French-Canadian actor (b. 1899)
• 1996 – George W. Jenkins, American businessman and philanthropist, founder of Publix Super Markets (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1996 – León Klimovsky, Argentine director (b. 1906)
• 1997 – Laura Nyro, American singer, pianist, and composer (b. 1947)
• 2000 – František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer (b. 1927)
• 2000 – Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2002 – María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924)
• 2006 – Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
• 2007 – Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928)
• 2008 – John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Piotr Morawski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1976)
• 2010 – Jack Agnew, Irish-American Army Private (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Malcolm McLaren, British music manager (b. 1946)
• 2010 – Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Hedda Sterne, Romanian-born American artist (b. 1910)
• 2012 – Bram Bart, Dutch voice actor, known as the Dutch Bob the Builder