Died On January 8th
Discover the most famous people who died on January 8. The list includes people like Galileo Galilei, François Mitterrand, Eli Whitney, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Arcangelo Corelli. Famous personalities featured on this list, include physicists, political leaders, artists and soldiers and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, Italy, United Kingdom & Germany and many more countries.
Galileo Galilei15 February 1564, Italian
Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher, Rebel
Yvonne De Carlo01 September 1922, Canadian, American
Actress
Steve Clark23 April 1960, British
Musician
François Mitterrand26 October 1916, French
Former President of France
Zhou Enlai05 March 1898, Chinese
First Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell22 February 1857, British
Founder of the Scout Movement
Eli Whitney08 December 1765, American
American inventor
Joseph Schumpeter08 February 1883, Austrian, Czech
Economist
Pat Buttram19 June 1915, American
Actor
Jim Elliot08 October 1927, American
Missionary
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani25 August 1934, Iranian
Former President of Iran
Arcangelo Corelli17 February 1653, Italian
Composer
Melvin Calvin08 April 1911, American
Biochemist
Michael Tippett02 January 1905, British
Composer
Wesley Ruggles11 June 1889, American
Film Director
Dave Thomas02 July 1932, American
American businessman
Joshua A. Norton04 February 1818, American
Businessman
Aleksandr Prokhorov11 July 1916, Russian
Physicist
GiottoItalian
Terry-Thomas14 July 1911, British
Actor
Paul Verlaine30 March 1844, French
Poet, Essayist, Writer, Librettist
Sara Carter21 July 1898, American
Singer-songwriter, Singer
Peter Sarstedt10 December 1941, Indian, British
Singer
Adam Worth1844 AD, German
art thief
Kurt Schwitters20 June 1887, German
Painter, Artist, Sculptor, Graphic designer,
Galileo15 February 1564, Italian
Astronomer, Scientist
Joseph Franklin Rutherford08 November 1869, American
Lawyer, Judge
Yuen Siu-tien27 November 1912
Actor, Film actor
Gerhard Barkhorn20 March 1919, German
Aviator, Officer
Simon Bolivar Buckner01 April 1823, American
Soldier
Tony Halme06 January 1963, Finnish
Boxer, Politician, Singer, Professional wrestler
George Bellows19 August 1882, American
Painter, Artist, University teacher
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Nate Saint30 August 1923, American
Aviator
Giotto di Bondone30 June 1266, Italian
Painter, Architect
Art Clokey12 October 1921, American
American animator
David Marshall Williams13 November 1900, American
Alasdair Milne08 October 1930, British
Television producer, Journalist
Andrei Bely14 October 1880, Russian
poet, writer, autobiographer,playwright, literary
Richard John Neuhaus14 May 1936, American
Television presenter, Author, Journalist,
Alexander Prokhorov11 July 1916, Russian
Physicist
Nicolai Gedda11 July 1925, Swedish
Opera singer, Singer, Music educator
Władysław Turowicz23 April 1908, Polish
Physicist, Aerospace engineer
Pope Celestine III1106 AD, Italian
Jane Bolin11 April 1908, American
American judge
George Maxwell Richards01 December 1931, Trinidadian
Former President of Trinidad and Tobago
Carlos Monzon07 August 1942, Argentinian
Boxer
Xavier Mertz06 October 1882, Swiss
Explorer, Alpine skier
Joseph A. Schumpeter08 February 1883, Austrian, American
Economist
Keshab Chunder Sen19 November 1838, Indian
Philosopher
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov10 December 1821, Ukrainian
poet