September 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 394 – Arbogast, Frankish general
• 701 – Pope Sergius I (b. 650)
• 780 – Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (b. 750)
• 1100 – Antipope Clement III (b. 1029)
• 1134 – Alfonso the Battler, Spanish king (b. 1073)
• 1397 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester (b. 1355)
• 1425 – Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
• 1539 – John Stokesley, English bishop (b. 1475)
• 1560 – Amy Robsart, English wife of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1532)
• 1601 – John Shakespeare, English father of William Shakespeare (b. 1530)
• 1603 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
• 1613 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (b. 1566)
• 1637 – Robert Fludd, English physician (b. 1574)
• 1644 – John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1644 – Francis Quarles, English poet (b. 1592)
• 1645 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish politician and writer (b. 1580)
• 1656 – Joseph Hall, English bishop (b. 1574)
• 1675 – Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (b. 1602)
• 1682 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish philosopher and writer (b. 1606)
• 1721 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
• 1755 – Ephraim Williams, American soldier and philanthropist (b. 1715)
• 1761 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer (b. 1698)
• 1780 – Enoch Poor, American general (b. 1736)
• 1784 – Ann Lee, English-American religious leader (b. 1736)
• 1806 – Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Irish giant (b. 1760)
• 1811 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (b. 1741)
• 1831 – John Aitken, Scottish-American publisher (b. 1745)
• 1853 – Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar, co-founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
• 1882 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (b. 1809)
• 1888 – Annie Chapman, English victim of Jack the Ripper (b. 1841)
• 1916 – Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist (b. 1836)
• 1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
• 1909 – Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player and murderer (b. 1853)
• 1933 – Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
• 1935 – Carl Weiss, American physician, assassin of Huey Long (b. 1906)
• 1943 – Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (b. 1903)
• 1944 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b.1881)
• 1948 – Thomas Mofolo, Mosotho author (b. 1876)
• 1949 – Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
• 1954 – André Derain, French painter and sculptor (b. 1880)
• 1958 – Émile Delchambre, French rower (b. 1875)
• 1965 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1965 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1969 – Bud Collyer, American actor and game show host (b. 1908)
• 1969 – Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
• 1970 – Percy Spencer, American engineer and inventor, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
• 1974 – Wolfgang Windgassen, German tenor (b. 1914)
• 1977 – Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Roy Wilkins, American activist (b. 1901)
• 1981 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1985 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1991 – Brad Davis, American actor (b. 1949)
• 1991 – Alex North, American composer (b. 1910)
• 1995 – Erich Kunz, Austrian opera singer (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Moondog, American singer, composer, musician, and poet (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Bill Ricker, Canadian scientist (b. 1908)
• 2002 – Rulon Jeffs, American religious leader (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Laurie Williams, Jamaican cricketer (b. 1968)
• 2003 – Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress (b. 1986)
• 2003 – Leni Riefenstahl, German director (b. 1902)
• 2004 – Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Donald Horne, Australian journalist and critic (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
• 2006 – Peter Brock, Australian race car driver (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Frank Middlemass, English actor (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Erk Russell, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Ramón Cardemil, Chilean horse rider (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Vincent Serventy, Australian ornithologist, conservationist, and author (b. 1916)
• 2008 – Ahn Jae-hwan, South Korean actor (b. 1972)
• 2008 – Ralph Plaisted, American explorer (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Evan Tanner, American mixed martial arts (b. 1971)
• 2009 – Ray Barrett, Australian actor (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Mike Bongiorno, American-Italian television host (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Murali, Indian actor (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Adnan Farhan Abd Al Latif, Yemeni criminal (b. 1975)
• 2012 – Adolf Bechtold, German footballer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Leigh Hamilton, New Zealand-American actress (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Peter Hussing, German boxer (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Bill Moggridge, English-American designer, author, and educator, co-founded IDEO (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Mārtiņš Roze, Latvian politician (b. 1964)
• 2012 – Allyre Sirois, Canadian judge (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Mario Armond Zamparelli, American artist and designer (b. 1931)