Historical Figures Who Died on September 8

• 394 Arbogast, French general, commits suicide
• 701 Sergius I, Syrian born Pope (687-701), dies (b. c. 650)
• 780 Leo IV de Khazar, Byzantine Emperor (775-80), dies of tuberculosis at 30

• 1100 Antipope Clement III [Guibert of Ravenna], Italian archbishop, and1st anti-pope (1084-1100), dies at about 75 [birthdate uncertain]
• 1397 Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, son of Edward III of England, dies at 42
• 1425 King Charles III of Navarre (b. 1361)
• 1476 John II, French duke of Alencon (fought alongside Jeanne d'arc), dies in prison at 67
• 1539 John Stokesley, English churchman, chaplain to Henry VIII and Bishop of London, dies at 74
• 1550 Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies
• 1555 Thomas of Villanova [Tomás García], Spanish saint, Archbishop of Valencia, Spain, and writer, dies at 67
• 1560 Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies falling down a flight of stairs in suspicious circumstances at 28
• 1603 George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician, Lord Chamberlain to Elizabeth I (b. 1547)
• 1633 Carlo Caraffa, Italian founder of the Jesuit religious order founder, dies at about 72
• 1644 Francis Quarles, English poet (Enchiridion), dies at 52
• 1644 John Coke, English politician (Secretary of State for Charles I, 1626-40), dies at 81
• 1645 Francisco Gómez de Quevedo, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64

• 1654 Peter Claver, Spanish saint and Jesuit missionary in Cartagena, South America (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies (b. 1581)
• 1656 Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (Virgidemiarum: Six Books), dies at 82
• 1660 Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54
• 1675 Amalia, countess of Solms-Braunfels and wife of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, dies at 73
• 1682 Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer, dies at 76
• 1721 Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor, dies at 35
• 1734 Michel Sarrazin, French surgeon and naturalist (kings doctor in New France, discovered sarsaparilla), dies at 75 [1]
• 1739 Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
• 1755 Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (Williams College), dies at 40
• 1761 Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer who pioneered hydraulics (b. 1698)
• 1780 Enoch Poor, American Revolutionary War general, dies at 44

French writer (Beauty and the Beast), dies at 69

• 1806 Patrick Cotter O'Brien, Irish showman, first known eight-foot-tall person (stood 8-feet, 1-inch (246cm), dies from strain of gigantism at 46 [1]
• 1811 Peter Simon Pallas, Prussian geologist and zoologist working in Russia, dies at 69
• 1814 Maria Carolina of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies, dies at 62
• 1840 John Hendricus van de Palm, Dutch linguist and theologist, dies at 77
• 1853 Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar and founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, dies at 40
• 1869 William Pitt Fessenden, American politician, Secretary of the Treasury during Civil War (Union), dies at 62
• 1881 Frederick, Prince of the Netherlands and general and large landowner (created Muskau Park), dies at 84
• 1882 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies at 73
• 1888 Annie Chapman, English victim of the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper, murdered at about 48
• 1893 Luke Short, American Old West gunslinger and saloon owner, dies of dropsy at 39
• 1894 Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician and physicist, dies at 73

German automobile manufacturer (Adam Opel AG), dies at 58

• 1901 Johannes von Miquel, German politician (Vice President Kingdom of Prussia 1897-1901), dies at 73
• 1909 Frank Crawford Armstrong, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 73
• 1914 William Erasmus Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, subject of his father's psychological studies, dies at 74
• 1922 Léon Bonnat, French painter (Job), dies at 89
• 1933 Faysal I, Arab statesman, King of Iraq (1921-33) and Syria (1920), dies of a heart attack at 48
• 1935 Carl Weiss, American physician who murdered US Senator Huey Long, shot and killed by the senator's bodyguards at 28

American oil tycoon who drilled the 1st successful oil well in Los Angeles and set off the California oil boom, dies of natural causes at 79

American politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (1928-32) and Senator (1932-35), assassinated at 42 by Carl Weiss at the Baton Rouge Capitol building

• 1947 Victor Horta, Belgium architect, founder of Art Nouveau movement (Hôtel Tassel), dies at 86
• 1948 Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer (b. 1876)
• 1951 Jürgen Stroop, SS General during World War II and commander of Nazi forces during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, executed by hanging for crimes against humanity at 56
• 1953 Fred M. Vinson, American Democratic politician, US Treasury Secretary (1945-46) and the 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53), dies of a heart attack at 63
• 1955 Johannes de Young, Dutch cardinal and archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
• 1956 Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-45), dies at 84
• 1956 Vital Celen, Flemish writer ('t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
• 1962 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1953 for polymers), dies at 84
• 1969 Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and writer, dies at 100
• 1969 Bud Collyer, American TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61
• 1970 Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven, dies at 76 [1]
• 1980 Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram), dies at 101
• 1980 Jean Piaget, Swiss pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist, dies at 84

American chemist who developed radiocarbon dating (Nobel 1960), dies of pneumonia at 71

• 1981 Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (Nobel 1949), dies at 74
• 1981 Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist and longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
• 1983 Ibrahim Abboud, 1st President and 4th Prime Minister of Sudan (1958-64), dies at 82
• 1983 Willem "Wim" Kan, Dutch cabaret performer, dies at 72
• 1985 John Franklin Enders, American microbiologist (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for culturing poliovirus, developed measles vaccine), dies at 88
• 1990 Denys Watkins-Pitchford, British writer and illustrator (The Little Grey Men), dies at 85
• 1991 Jan Józef Lipski, Polish historian and anti-communist dissident (Polish Socialist Party), dies at 65
• 1992 Quentin Burdick, American politician (Senator-D-North Dakota 1960-91), dies at 84
• 1993 Hall Bartlett, American director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
• 1993 Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher, author and diplomat, dies at 88
• 1994 Deborah Beer, British still photographer (Pasolini, Fellini), dies at 44
• 1995 Eileen Chang, Chinese-American writer and feminist, dies at 73
• 1995 Halldis Moren Vesaas, Norwegian author and poet (Harp and Dagger), dies at 87
• 1995 Olga Ivinskaya, mistress of Boris Pasternak, dies of cancer at 83
• 1995 Safa Khulusi, Iraqi writer and historian, dies at 78
• 1996 Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, American Art Deco designer, artist and writer, dies at 102
• 2002 Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist (De Telegraaf), dies at 75
• 2006 Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
• 2006 Jean Villain, Swiss writer, dies at 78
• 2007 Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell, British historian, dies at 69
• 2007 Ramón Cardemil, Chilean rodeo horse rider, dies at 90
• 2009 Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1922)
• 2012 Bill Moggridge [William], British designer (IDEO), dies from cancer at 69
• 2014 S. Truett Cathy, American businessman (founder of Chick-fil-A), dies at 93
• 2016 The Lady Chablis [Benjamin Knox], American transgender entertainer (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), dies at 59
• 2017 Pierre Bergé, French industrialist and co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House, dies at 86
• 2018 Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario, dies at 87
• 2019 Joseph P. Kolter, American politician (US Representatives from Pennsylvania, 1983-93), dies at 93
• 2021 Antony Acland, British diplomat (Ambassador to US, 1986-91; Undersecretary of State, 1982-86; Ambassador to Spain 1977-80; Ambassador to Luxembourg, 1975-77), and administrator (Provost of Eton College, 1991-2000), dies at 91

Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland (country's longest reigning monarch 1952-2022), dies at 96

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