Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 8 January today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for January 8
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on January 8
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 307 | Hui of Jin, Chinese emperor (b. 259) |
| 482 | Severinus of Noricum, Italian apostle and saint |
| 871 | Bagsecg, Viking warrior and leader |
| 926 | Athelm, archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1079 | Adèle of France, countess of Flanders (b. 1009) |
| 1107 | Edgar, King of Scotland (b. 1074) |
| 1198 | Celestine III, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1106) |
| 1354 | Charles de la Cerda, French nobleman (b. 1327) |
| 1424 | Stephen Zaccaria, archbishop of Patras |
| 1456 | Lawrence Giustiniani, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1381) |
| 1538 | Beatrice of Portugal, duchess of Savoy (b. 1504) |
| 1557 | Albert Alcibiades, margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (b. 1522) |
| 1598 | John George, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1525) |
| 1642 | Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1564) |
| 1707 | John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and politician, Scottish Secretary of State (b. 1648) |
| 1713 | Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1653) |
| 1775 | John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (b. 1706) |
| 1794 | Justus Möser, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1720) |
| 1815 | Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (b. 1778) |
| 1825 | Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765) |
| 1854 | William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English field marshal and politician, Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance (b. 1768) |
| 1865 | Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1779) |
| 1874 | Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French historian and archaeologist (b. 1814) |
| 1878 | Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1821) |
| 1880 | Emperor Norton, English-American businessman (b. 1811) |
| 1883 | Miska Magyarics, Slovene-Hungarian poet (b. 1825) |
| 1896 | William Rainey Marshall, American banker and politician, 5th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1825) |
| 1914 | Simon Bolivar Buckner, American general and 30th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1823) |
| 1916 | Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884) |
| 1918 | Ellis H. Roberts, American journalist and politician, 20th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1827) |
| 1920 | Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (b.1852) |
| 1925 | George Bellows, American painter (b.1882) |
| 1934 | Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1880) |
| 1938 | Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (b. 1880)[239] |
| 1941 | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general and founder of the Scout movement (b. 1857) |
| 1942 | Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American lawyer and religious leader (b. 1869) |
| 1943 | Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (b. 1879) |
| 1944 | William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American lieutenant and sailor (b. 1878) |
| 1945 | Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer and author (b. 1900) |
| 1948 | Kurt Schwitters, German painter and graphic designer (b. 1887) |
| 1950 | Joseph Schumpeter, Czech-American economist and academic (b. 1883) |
| 1952 | Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1866) |
| 1953 | Hugh Binney, English admiral and politician, 16th Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883) |
| 1954 | Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1898) |
| 1958 | Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (b. 1869) |
| 1961 | Schoolboy Rowe, American baseball player and coach (b. 1910) |
| 1963 | Kay Sage, American painter (b. 1898) |
| 1975 | Richard Tucker, American operatic tenor (b. 1913) |
| 1980 | John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907) |
| 1982 | Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908) |
| 1983 | Gerhard Barkhorn, German general and pilot (b. 1919) |
| 1986 | Pierre Fournier, French cellist and educator (b. 1906) |
| 1990 | Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (b. 1919) |
| 1991 | Steve Clark, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960) |
| 1994 | Pat Buttram, American actor and comedian (b. 1915) |
| 1996 | Metin Göktepe, Turkish photographer and journalist (b. 1968) |
| 1997 | Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) |
| 1998 | Michael Tippett, English composer and conductor (b. 1905) |
| 2002 | Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) |
| 2003 | Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925) |
| 2006 | Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Northern Irish broadcaster and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics (b. 1943) |
| 2007 | Jane Bolin, American lawyer and judge (b. 1908) |
| 2008 | George Moore, Australian jockey and trainer (b. 1923) |
| 2009 | Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1958) |
| 2010 | Art Clokey, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) |
| 2011 | Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (b. 1937) |
| 2012 | Dave Alexander, American singer and pianist (b. 1938) |
| 2013 | Kenojuak Ashevak, Canadian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1927) |
| 2014 | Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch-Australian swimmer (b. 1925) |
| 2015 | Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (b. 1942) |
| 2016 | Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing driver (b. 1926) |
| 2017 | Nicolai Gedda, Swedish operatic tenor (b. 1925) |
| 2020 | Pat Dalton, Australian footballer (b. 1942) |
| 2021 | Iancu Țucărman, Romanian Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)[300] |
| 2022 | Michael Lang, American concert promoter and producer (b. 1944) |
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