Deaths in History on November 8

  • November
  • 397 Martin of Tours, [St Martin], bishop of Tours, dies
  • 618 St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies
  • 955 Pope Agapetus II (946-955)
  • 1171 Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
  • 1195 Conrad of Hohenstaufen
  • 1226 Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39
  • 1228 Dirk I, ruler of Heinsberg/Valkenburg, dies
  • 1246 Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
  • 1308 Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42
  • 1494 Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56
  • 1517 Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, cardinal/Chancellor of Castilia, dies
  • 1527 Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
  • 1590 Joost Jansz Bilhamer, master builder/cartographer, dies at about 49
  • 1595 Peter Opmeer, church historian and humanist (Historia Martyrum), dies at 69
  • 1600 Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
  • 1605 Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)

  • 1638 Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50
  • 1658 Pieter Floriszoon, Dutch admiral, dies at sea in the Battle of the Sound at about 50
  • 1658 Witte de With, Dutch vice-admiral, dies at sea in the Battle of the Sound, at age 59

Person of interestJohn Milton

1674 John Milton, English poet and puritan (Paradise Lost), dies at 65

Poet John Milton
Poet
John Milton
  • 1694 Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58
  • 1719 Michel Rolle, French mathematician (Rolle's theorem), dies at 67
  • 1773 Friedrich Wilhelm, baron von Seydlitz, Prussian general, dies at 52
  • 1793 Madame Roland [Marie-Jeanne Phlippon], French revolutionary (member of the Girondist faction), executed by guillotine at 39
  • 1805 Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
  • 1811 Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47
  • 1817 Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63
  • 1830 King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
  • 1858 George Peacock, English mathematician (algebraic theory), dies at 67
  • 1860 Charles Fellows, English Archaeologist who discovered ruins of the cities of ancient Lycia and brought to Lycian marbles to England, dies
  • 1873 Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76

Person of interestDoc Holliday

1887 Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter, dies at 36

Gunfighter in the American Old West Doc Holliday
Gunfighter in the American Old West
Doc Holliday
  • 1893 Francis Parkman, American historian and author (Oregon Trail), dies at 70
  • 1901 Mary Ann Bickerdyke, American army nurse (union), dies at 84
  • 1905 Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter, dies at 35
  • 1908 William Edward Ayrton, English Physicist and Inventor, dies at 60
  • 1911 Samuel Wilks, British Physician and founding father of clinical science, dies at 87
  • 1920 Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83
  • 1920 Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
  • 1921 Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
  • 1933 Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1929-33), assassinated at 50 by Abdul Khaliq during a graduation ceremony at a high school in Kabul

  • 1934 Carlos Chagas, Brazilian sanitary physician, dies at 55
  • 1934 James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher and Psychologist, dies at 73
  • 1935 Hans Windisch, German New Testament scholar, dies at 54
  • 1941 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
  • 1944 Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies
  • 1945 August von Mackensen, German field marshal, dies at 95
  • 1949 Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest and writer (Maria Magdalena -1928), dies at 75
  • 1953 Iwan Bunin, writer, dies at 83
  • 1953 John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66
  • 1959 Frank Sherman Land, founder of the Order of DeMolay, dies at 69

Person of interestOtto Frederick Rohwedder

1960 Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer (invented the bread-slicing machine), dies at 80

Inventor Otto Frederick Rohwedder
Inventor
Otto Frederick Rohwedder
  • 1965 Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
  • 1966 Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75
  • 1969 Vesto Slipher, American Astronomer who provided the first evidence to support the expanding-universe theory
  • 1970 Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician, dies at 77
  • 1970 Napoleon Hill, American writer and philosopher (Think and Grow Rich), dies at 87
  • 1977 Georg Wüst, German Oceanographer, dies at 87
  • 1978 Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84
  • 1979 Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
  • 1983 Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure
  • 1983 Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
  • 1985 Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)

Person of interestVyacheslav Molotov

1986 Vyacheslav Molotov [Skryabin], Russian politician (Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1939-49, 1953-6), dies at 96

Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov
Soviet Foreign Minister
Vyacheslav Molotov
  • 1989 Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67
  • 1990 Anya Seton, US author, dies
  • 1990 Grampy Davis, dies of heart attack at 87
  • 1991 Christine Felsmann, dies
  • 1991 Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45
  • 1993 Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
  • 1994 Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85
  • 1995 Neil Blaney, politician, dies at 73
  • 1996 Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89
  • 1996 Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73
  • 1998 Rumer Godden, English author (Thursday's Children), dies at 90
  • 1999 Francis D. Foley, American Rear Admiral (WW II, Guadalcanal), dies at 89
  • 2002 Jaun Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher, dies at 70
  • 2003 C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
  • 2004 Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
  • 2005 David Westheimer, American novelist (Von Ryan's Express), dies at 88
  • 2006 Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist, dies at 65
  • 2007 Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary, dies at 64
  • 2007 Chad Varah, English founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)
  • 2007 Aad Nuis, Dutch writer and political scientist, dies at 74
  • 2009 Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
  • 2010 Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b. 1925)
  • 2010 Jack Levine, American social realist painter, dies at 95
  • 2010 Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (b. 1950)
  • 2011 Bil Keane, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), dies at 89
  • 2016 Florence Finch, Philippine American war hero (WWII), dies at 101

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