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December 8 Deaths in History - December 8 Birthdays - December 8 Events
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December 8, 1997 Bob Bell, clown (WGN's 1st Bozo), dies at 75 December 8, 1997 Leon Poliakov, historian, dies at 87 December 8, 1996 Howard E Rollins Jr, actor (Ed Harding-Another World), dies at 46 December 8, 1996 Marin Sorescu, poet/dramatist, dies at 60 December 8, 1995 Carl Marsden, bodyguard, dies at 36 December 8, 1995 Ernest LeRoy Boyer, educator, dies at 67 December 8, 1995 John Gillett, film researcher, dies at 70 December 8, 1995 Mikki Doyle, journalist, dies at 79 December 8, 1994 Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazil composer (Girl From Ipanema), dies at 67 December 8, 1994 Israel Aaron Maisels, lawyer, dies at 89 December 8, 1994 Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87 December 8, 1993 Andre Cerf, French actor/producer (Nana), dies at 93 December 8, 1993 Carlotta Monti, lover of WC Fields, dies at 86 December 8, 1992 William Shawn, U.S. editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85 December 8, 1991 Buck Clayton, U.S. jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies December 8, 1991 Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23 December 8, 1990 Martin Ritt, U.S., director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70 December 8, 1990 Pony Sherrell Metcalf, New York, singer, dies of heart attack December 8, 1989 Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies December 8, 1988 Anne Seymour, actress (Misty, Chevy Mystery Show), dies at 79 December 8, 1988 Herbert "Tubo" Rhoad, U.S. singer (Persuasions-Good news), dies at 44 December 8, 1986 Henry Reed, English Writer December 8, 1984 Luther Adler, actor (Dr. Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81 December 8, 1983 Slim Pickins, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies after brain surgery at 64 December 8, 1982 Andre Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered December 8, 1982 Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux), dies December 8, 1982 Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered December 8, 1982 Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered December 8, 1982 Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered December 8, 1982 Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered December 8, 1982 John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, murdered December 8, 1982 Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered December 8, 1982 Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered December 8, 1982 Leckie, Suriname scholar, murdered December 8, 1982 Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered December 8, 1982 Marty Robbins, country singer, dies at 57 December 8, 1982 Shakey, [Walter Horton], rocker, dies at 72 December 8, 1982 Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered December 8, 1981 Shakey, [Walter Horton], harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin'), dies at 64 December 8, 1980 John Lennon, assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman at 40 December 8, 1978 Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80 December 8, 1974 Hugues Panassie, French jazz saxophonist/author, dies at 62 December 8, 1972 George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash December 8, 1970 Christopher K Ingold, English chemist, dies at 77 December 8, 1969 Vincenzo Davico, composer, dies at 80 December 8, 1967 Robert H Lawrence, USAF/astronaut, dies at 32 December 8, 1961 William Beatton Moonie, composer, dies at 78 December 8, 1957 Reginald Sheffield, actor (Second Chance), dies at 55 December 8, 1956 Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer, dies at 76 December 8, 1955 Jacques Handschin, Swiss musicologist, dies at 69 December 8, 1955 Hermann Weyl, German Mathematician December 8, 1954 Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50 December 8, 1939 Ernest Schelling, composer, dies at 63 December 8, 1934 Bernhard Seklas, composer, dies at 62 December 8, 1926 Jan Six, Dutch art historian/collector, dies December 8, 1924 Franz X. Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha), dies at 74 December 8, 1923 Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88 December 8, 1907 Oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies December 8, 1903 Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83 December 8, 1900 Henry Russell, composer, dies at 87 December 8, 1896 Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75 December 8, 1894 Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian, dies at 71 December 8, 1864 George Boole, Irish Mathematician December 8, 1859 Thomas De Quincey, English Author December 8, 1831 James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies December 8, 1830 H Benjamin Constant, French politician/writer, dies at 63 December 8, 1785 Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer, dies at 68 December 8, 1751 Jozef LD von Konigsegg, minister of Austrian Netherlands, dies at 78 December 8, 1722 Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70 December 8, 1709 Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies at 74 December 8, 1681 Gerard Terborch, the Younger, Dutch painter/etcher, dies December 8, 1652 Adriaan W. "Joris" van Geel, Flemish missionary, murdered at 35 December 8, 1643 John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59 December 8, 1596 Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico December 8, 1587 Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed December 8, 1292 John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62 December 8, 899 Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France, dies December 8, 644 Omar I, 2nd kalief of Islam, murdered |