Famous Deaths on 8th September

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394 - Arbogast, French general, commits suicide
701 - Sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies
780 - Leo IV de Chazaar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies
876 - Lodewijk de Duitser, king of East French Republic (833-76), dies at 72
1100 - Clement III, [Wibert van Ravenna], 1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies
1397 - Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
1425 - King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1539 - John Stokesley, English churchman
1550 - Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies
1555 - Thomas Villanova, Spanish saint/archbishop of Valencia, dies
1560 - Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies by accident
1603 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
1613 - Don Carlo Gesauldo, composer, dies
1633 - Carlo Caraffa, Ital jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72
1637 - Robert Fludd, composer, dies at 63
1644 - Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies
1645 - Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author/poet, dies at 64
1645 - John Coke, English politician (b. 1563)
1654 - Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies
1656 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (b. 1574)
1660 - Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54
1675 - Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels, dies at 73
1682 - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (b. 1606)
1706 - Romanus Weichlein, composer, dies at 53
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)
Founder of the Shakers Ann Lee (1784) 1784 - Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736)
1811 - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69
1819 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer, dies at 56
1831 - John Aitken, Scottish-born music publisher (b. 1745)
1838 - Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45
1840 - John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77
1853 - Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
1871 - Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57
1879 - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 58
1881 - W Frederik K, prince of Netherlands/general/admiral, dies at 84
1882 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies
1894 - Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821)
1895 - Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58
1899 - Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer, dies at 78
1914 - William E Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74
1917 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Faisal I ibn Hussein ibn Ali, 1st king of Iraq/Syria, dies at 50
1935 - Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down
1935 - Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
1944 - Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63
1948 - Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85
1951 - Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed
1951 - Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 33
1955 - John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
1956 - Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84
1956 - Vital Celen, Flemish writer ('t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
1962 - Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84
1965 - Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood
1969 - Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61
1969 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (b. 1868)
1970 - Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
1974 - Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79
1975 - John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82
1976 - Assen Karastoyanov, composer, dies at 83
1976 - Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer, dies at 81
1977 - Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, US actor (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 62
1978 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer, dies at 79
1979 - Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40
1980 - Bruce Dooland, cricketer (prolific leggie for Notts), dies
1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist/theory/educator, dies at 84
1981 - Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74
1981 - Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
1981 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist (b. 1901)
1983 - Antonin Magne, French bicylist (won Tour de France 1931, 34), dies
1983 - Willem C "Wim" Kan, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 72
1984 - Frank Lowson, cricketer (England opener 1951-55), dies
1984 - Rene Bernier, composer, dies at 79
1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
1991 - Alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer
1991 - Brad Davis, US, actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41
1991 - Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies
1991 - Jo Budie, Dutch orchestra leader (KRO), dies
1992 - Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91), dies at 84
1993 - Hall Bartlett, US director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
1993 - Lorin "Whitey" Harrison, surfer, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1993 - Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88
1994 - Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93
1994 - Deborah Bear, Engl still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44
1994 - Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass), dies at 83
1994 - Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer
1994 - Michael Peters, choreographer, dies
1994 - Rex Alston, cricketer (distinguished BBC commentator), dies
1995 - Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer, dies at 73
1995 - Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
1995 - Safa Khulusi, writer, dies at 78
1996 - Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102
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 - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver (b. 1945)
2006 - Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
2007 - Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso (b. 1917)
2008 - Evan Tanner, UFC Champion
2009 - Mike Bongiorno, Italian television host (b. 1924)
2009 - Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1922)
2012 - Bill Moggridge [William], British designer, dies from cancer at 69