June 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet (b. 570)
• 1042 – Harthacanute, Danish-English king (b. 1018)
• 1376 – Edward, the Black Prince, English son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)
• 1383 – Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English crusader (b. 1338)
• 1384 – Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)
• 1476 – George Neville, English archbishop and statesman (b. 1432)
• 1505 – Hongzhi Emperor of China (b. 1470)
• 1611 – Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)
• 1612 – Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)
• 1621 – Anne de Xainctonge, French saint, founder of the Society of the Sisters of Saint Ursula of the Blessed Virgin (b. 1567)
• 1628 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
• 1714 – Sophia of Hanover (b. 1630)
• 1716 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)
• 1727 – August Hermann Francke, German minister (b. 1663)
• 1768 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)
• 1771 – George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)
• 1795 – Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)
• 1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American author and pamphleteer (b. 1737)
• 1835 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
• 1845 – Andrew Jackson, American politician, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)
• 1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
• 1874 – Cochise, Native American chief (b. 1805)
• 1876 – George Sand, French author (b. 1804)
• 1885 – Ignace Bourget, French-Canadian priest and bishop (b. 1799)
• 1889 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English Poet (b. 1844)
• 1924 – Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer (b. 1902)
• 1924 – George Leigh Mallory, English mountaineer (b. 1886)
• 1929 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)
• 1945 – Karl Hanke, German Nazi official (b. 1903)
• 1951 – Eugène Fiset, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1874)
• 1956 – Marie Laurencin, French painter (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Edmondo Rossoni, Italian politician (b. 1884)
• 1966 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1970 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
• 1972 – Jimmy Rushing, American singer (Oklahoma City Blue Devils) (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (b. 1900)
• 1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (b. 1895)
• 1987 – Alexander Iolas, Greek-American gallery owner and art collector (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Atef Bseiso, PLO head of intelligence (b. 1948)
• 1993 – Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1997 – George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and educator (b. 1948)
• 1998 – Sani Abacha, Nigerian military dictator and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
• 1998 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948)
• 2003 – Leighton Rees, Welsh darts player (b. 1940)
• 2004 – Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Matta El Meskeen, Egyptian monk (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Kenny Olsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1977)
• 2007 – Richard Rorty, American American philosopher (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Šaban Bajramović, Serbian-Romani singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Omar Bongo, Gabonese politician, President of Gabon (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Johnny Palermo, American actor (b. 1982)
• 2010 – Andreas Voutsinas, Greek actor and director (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Comoran terrorist (b. 1974)
• 2012 – Pete Brennan, American basketball player (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Frank Cady, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2012 – K. S. R. Das, Indian director (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Nikolai Petrovich Ivanov, Russian rower (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Ivan Lessa, Brazilian journalist (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Ghassan Tueni, Lebanese journalist, politician, and academic (b. 1926)