History Deaths on October 08

Ishikawa Goemon, ninja and thief of Japan (b. 1558)

#Ishikawa_Goemon

Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Muslim caliph (b. 646)

#Abd_al-Malik_ibn_Marwan

Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director (b. 1916)

#Fernando_Lamas

Cola di Rienzo, Roman tribune (b. c.1313)

#Cola_di_Rienzo

Kathleen Ferrier, English soprano (b. 1912)

#Kathleen_Ferrier

Emperor Fushimi of Japan (b. 1265)

#Emperor_Fushimi

Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian admiral (b. 1834)

#Miguel_Grau_Seminario

Rodolphe Kasser, Swiss archaeologist and philologist (b. 1927)

#Rodolphe_Kasser

Nigel Bruce, British actor (b. 1895)

#Nigel_Bruce

Andrew Kippis, English minister and author (b. 1725)

#Andrew_Kippis

Jean de Quen, French missionary, priest, and historian (b. 1603)

#Jean_de_Quen

Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)

#Clement_Attlee

John I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1217)

#John_I,_Duke_of_Brittany

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer (b. 1711)

#Jean-Joseph_de_Mondonville

Felix Salten, Austrian author and critic (b. 1869)

#Felix_Salten

Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (b. 1401)

#Jacqueline,_Countess_of_Hainaut

Henry Fielding, English novelist and playwright (b. 1707)

#Henry_Fielding

Paul Prudhomme, American chef and author (b. 1940)

#Paul_Prudhomme

John Monash, Australian general and engineer (b. 1865)

#John_Monash

Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)

#Jacques_Richard

Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City Building (b. 1913)

#Bertrand_Goldberg

Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal (b. 1896)

#Brian_Edmund_Baker

Franklin Pierce, American general, lawyer, and politician, 14th President of the United States (b. 1804)

#Franklin_Pierce

Juan O'Donojú, last Spanish ruler of Mexico (b. 1762)

#Juan_O'Donojú

Jeen van den Berg, Dutch speed skater (b. 1928)

#Jeen_van_den_Berg

Malcolm Ross, American captain, physicist, and balloonist (b. 1919)

#Malcolm_Ross_(balloonist)

Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)

#Joan_Hackett

Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and academic (b. 1830)

#Alexei_Savrasov

James Elphinston, Scottish orthographer, phonologist, and linguist (b. 1721)

#James_Elphinston

Rod Grams, American journalist and politician (b. 1948)

#Rod_Grams

Filippo Lippi, artist (b. 1406)

#Filippo_Lippi

Premchand, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1880)

#Premchand

Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1869)

#Sergey_Chaplygin

Roger Williams, American pianist (b. 1924)

#Roger_Williams_(pianist)

Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)

#Larry_Semon

Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Ottoman politician, 292nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1845)

#Ahmet_Tevfik_Pasha

Andy Pafko, American baseball player and manager (b. 1921)

#Andy_Pafko

Dennis Eichhorn, American author and illustrator (b. 1945)

#Dennis_Eichhorn

Helen of Zadar, queen consort of the Kingdom of Croatia

#Helen_of_Zadar

John Greaves, English mathematician and astronomer (b. 1602)

#John_Greaves

John Hancock, American merchant and politician, 1st Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1737)

#John_Hancock

Philip Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957)

#Philip_Chevron

Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

#Willy_Brandt

Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (b. 1882)

#Red_Ames

Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (b. 1907)

#Bertha_Parker_Pallan

John George I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1585)

#John_George_I,_Elector_of_Saxony

Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader (b. 1939)

#Akong_Rinpoche

John McLendon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)

#John_McLendon

François-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (b. 1775)

#François-Adrien_Boieldieu

Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1892)

#Wendell_Willkie

Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1562)

#Christen_Sørensen_Longomontanus

Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (b. 1819)

#Austin_F._Pike

Mikey Welsh, American guitarist and painter (b. 1971)

#Mikey_Welsh

Phyllis Calvert, English actress (b. 1915)

#Phyllis_Calvert

Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician (b. 1902)

#Jayaprakash_Narayan

Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)

#Yongzheng_Emperor

George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

#George_Emil_Palade

Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author and translator (b. 1886)

#Ran_Bosilek

Lindy Infante, American football player and coach (b. 1940)

Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1951)

Richard Davies, Welsh-English actor (b. 1926)

Zilpha Keatley Snyder, American author (b. 1927)

Harden M. McConnell, American chemist and academic (b. 1927)

Alden E. Matthews, American missionary (b. 1921)

Morris Lurie, Australian author and playwright (b. 1938)

Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1927)

Nawal Kishore Sharma, Indian politician, 20th Governor of Gujarat (b. 1925)

Eric Lomax, Scottish captain and author (b. 1919)

Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)

Varsha Bhosle, Indian singer and journalist (b. 1956)

Al Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)

Frank Bourgholtzer, American journalist (b. 1919)

Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress (b. 1918)

Bob Friend, English journalist (b. 1938)

Ângelo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer (b. 1925)

Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1917)

Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1974)

James Chace, American historian and author (b. 1931)

Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1917)

Charlotte Lamb, English author (b. 1937)

Christopher Keene, American conductor and educator (b. 1946)

Oscar M. Ruebhausen, American lawyer (b. 1912)

Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899)

Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and scholar (b. 1906)

Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)

Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1902)

Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, playwright, and critic (b. 1889)

Jean Giono, French author and poet (b. 1895)

Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican painter (b. 1908)

Iry LeJeune, American accordion player (b. 1928)

Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)

William Henry Stark, American businessman (b. 1851)

Thomas Cochran, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1777)

Emmanuele Vitale, Maltese general and politician (b. 1758)

Antoine de Montchrestien, French soldier, playwright, and economist (b. 1575)

John Beauchamp, 3rd Baron Beauchamp

Princess Constance of Greater Poland (b. c.1245)

Xiao Sagezhi, Chinese Khitan empress

Pilgrim I, archbishop of Salzburg