January 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 307 – Jin Huidi, Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty (b. 259)
• 482 – Saint Severinus of Noricum
• 1100 – Antipope Clement III (b. c.1029)
• 1107 – Edgar of Scotland (b. 1074)
• 1198 – Pope Celestine III (b. c. 1106)
• 1324 – Marco Polo, Italian explorer (b. 1254)
• 1337 – Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (b. 1267)
• 1456 – St. Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (b. 1381)
• 1464 – Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (b. 1385)
• 1557 – Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (b. 1522)
• 1570 – Philibert de l'Orme, French architect (b. c. 1510)
• 1598 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525)
• 1642 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (b. 1564)
• 1664 – Moses Amyraut, French theologian (b. 1596)
• 1707 – John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)
• 1713 – Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (b. 1653)
• 1775 – John Baskerville, English printer (b. 1706)
• 1789 – Jack Broughton, English boxer (b. c. 1703)
• 1794 – Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
• 1815 – Edward Pakenham, British general (b. 1778)
• 1825 – Eli Whitney, American inventor (b. 1765)
• 1853 – Mihály Bertalanits, Slovene (Prekmurian poet and teacher in Kingdom of Hungary (b. 1788)
• 1854 – William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
• 1865 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (b. 1779)
• 1874 – Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (b. 1814)
• 1878 – Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
• 1883 – Miska Magyarics, Slovene poet in Hungary (b. 1825)
• 1880 – Joshua A. Norton, "Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico" (b. 1811)
• 1896 – William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825)
• 1896 – Paul Verlaine, French poet (b. 1844)
• 1901 – John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)
• 1916 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
• 1916 – Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
• 1918 – Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian photographer and filmmaker (b. 1892)
• 1918 – Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (b. 1827)
• 1925 – Fernand Sanz, French racing cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1932 – Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
• 1934 – Andrei Bely, Russian writer (b. 1880)
• 1934 – Serge Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (b. 1886)
• 1938 – Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (b. 1880)
• 1941 – Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and founder of the Scout movement (b. 1857)
• 1942 – Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919)
• 1944 – William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1878)
• 1945 – Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (b. 1900)
• 1948 – Kurt Schwitters, German painter (b. 1887)
• 1948 – Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (b. 1891)
• 1950 – Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (b. 1883)
• 1953 – Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
• 1956 – Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (b. 1928)
• 1958 – Mary Jane Colter, American architect (b. 1869)
• 1958 – Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (b. 1883)
• 1961 – Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• 1963 – Kay Sage, American artist and poet (b. 1898)
• 1967 – Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (b. 1927)
• 1969 – Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
• 1970 – Georges Guibourg, French performer (b. 1891)
• 1972 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet (b. 1911)
• 1975 – John Gregson, English actor (b. 1919)
• 1975 – Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
• 1976 – Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
• 1979 – Sara Carter, American country musician (Carter Family) (b. 1898)
• 1980 – John Mauchly, American physicist (b. 1907)
• 1981 – Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1982 – Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor (b. 1908)
• 1983 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (b. 1919)
• 1983 – Ron Frazer, Australian actor (b. 1924)
• 1983 – Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
• 1986 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906)
• 1990 – Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b. 1960)
• 1994 – Pat Buttram, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1994 – Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1995 – Carlos Monzón, Argentinian boxer (b. 1942)
• 1996 – John Hargreaves, Australian actor (b. 1945)
• 1996 – François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916)
• 1996 – Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
• 1997 – Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Alexander Mikhaylovich Prokhorov, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932)
• 2003 – Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2004 – John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (b. 1952)
• 2005 – Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer (b. 1954)
• 2005 – Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Tony Banks, British politician (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (b. 1908)
• 2007 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Francis Cockfield, British politician (b. 1916)
• 2007 – David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (b. 1953)
• 2007 – Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
• 2008 – George Moore, Australian champion jockey (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Richard John Neuhaus, Canadian-American Christian writer and editor (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1958)
• 2010 – Tony Halme, Finnish boxer and politician (b. 1963)
• 2010 – Monica Maughan, Australian actor (b. 1933)
• 2011 – John Roll, United States federal judge (b.1947)
• 2011 – Thorbjørn Svenssen, Norwegian footballer (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1937)