8 September Deaths

September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 114 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

Deaths

394 – Arbogast, Frankish general
701 – Pope Sergius I (b. 650)
780 – Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (b. 750)
869 – Ahmad ibn Isra'il al-Anbari, Muslim vizier
1100 – Antipope Clement III (b. 1029)
1397 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1355)
1425 – Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
1539 – John Stokesley, English bishop (b. 1475)
1555 – Saint Thomas of Villanueva, Spanish bishop and saint(b. 1488)
1560 – Amy Robsart, English noblewoman (b. 1536)
1613 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian lute player and composer (b. 1566)
1637 – Robert Fludd, English physician, mathematician, and cosmologist (b. 1574)
1644 – John Coke, English civil servant and politician (b. 1563)
1644 – Francis Quarles, English poet and author (b. 1592)
1645 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish poet and politician (b. 1580)
1656 – Joseph Hall, English bishop (b. 1574)
1682 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish mathematician and philosopher (b. 1606)
1721 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1686)
1755 – Ephraim Williams, American soldier and philanthropist (b. 1715)
1761 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1698)
1780 – Enoch Poor, American general (b. 1736)
1784 – Ann Lee, English-American religious leader (b. 1736)
1811 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist and botanist (b. 1741)
1831 – John Aitken, Scottish-American publisher (b. 1745)
1853 – Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar, co-founded the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (b. 1813)
1882 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (b. 1809)
1916 – Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1836)
1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist (b. 1821)
1909 – Vere St. Leger Goold, Irish tennis player (b. 1853)
1933 – Faisal I of Iraq (b. 1883)
1935 – Carl Weiss, American physician (b. 1906)
1940 – Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (b. 1863)
1942 – Rıza Nur, Turkish surgeon and politician (b. 1879)
1943 – Julius Fučík, Czech journalist (b. 1903)
1944 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (b. 1881)
1949 – Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (b. 1864)
1954 – André Derain, French painter and sculptor (b. 1880)
1963 – Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (d. 1904)
1965 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
1965 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1969 – Bud Collyer, American game show host (b. 1908)
1969 – Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and activist (b. 1868)
1970 – Percy Spencer, American engineer, invented the microwave oven (b. 1894)
1974 – Wolfgang Windgassen, French-German tenor (b. 1914)
1977 – Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian (b. 1915)
1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1981 – Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)
1981 – Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (b. 1901)
1981 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
1983 – Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1985 – John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1990 – Denys Watkins-Pitchford English author and illustrator (b. 1905)
1991 – Alex North, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1997 – Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (b. 1932)
1999 – Moondog, American-German singer-songwriter, drummer, and poet (b. 1916)
1999 – Michalis Kounelis, Greek violinist (b. 1928)
2001 – Bill Ricker, Canadian entomologist and author (b. 1908)
2002 – Laurie Williams, Jamaican cricketer (b. 1968)
2003 – Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
2004 – Frank Thomas, American animator, voice actor, and screenwriter (b. 1913)
2005 – Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer, footballer, and manager (b. 1932)
2005 – Donald Horne, Australian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1921)
2006 – Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist (b. 1915)
2006 – Peter Brock, Australian race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1945)
2007 – Vincent Serventy, Australian ornithologist, conservationist, and author (b. 1916)
2008 – Ralph Plaisted, American explorer (b. 1927)
2009 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
2009 – Mike Bongiorno, American-Italian television host (b. 1924)
2012 – Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian and academic (b. 1937)
2012 – Bill Moggridge, English-American designer, author, and educator, co-founded IDEO (b. 1943)
2012 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1920)
2013 – Goose Gonsoulin, American football player (b. 1938)
2013 – Don Reichert, Canadian painter and photographer (b. 1932)
2013 – Jean Véronis, French linguist, computer scientist, and blogger (b. 1955)
2014 – Marvin Barnes, American basketball player (b. 1952)
2014 – S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (b. 1921)
2014 – Sean O'Haire, American wrestler, mixed martial artist, and kick-boxer (b. 1971)
2014 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (b. 1910)
2014 – Gerald Wilson, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1918)
2014 – George Zuverink, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2015 – Joaquín Andújar, Dominican baseball player (b. 1952)
2015 – Andrew Kohut, American political scientist and academic (b. 1942)
2015 – Tyler Sash, American football player (b. 1988)
2015 – Joost Zwagerman, Dutch author and poet (b. 1963)
2016 – Hannes Arch, Austrian race pilot (b. 1967)
2016 – Dragiša Pešić, Montenegrin politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1954)
2016 – Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1938)

Source: wikipedia