January 8 Deaths |
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| January 8th, 2008 (January 08 2008) | Death | George Moore, Australian champion jockey (born in 1923) | |
| January 8th, 2008 (January 08 2008) | Death | Clyde Otis, American song writer and music producer (born in c. 1924) | |
| January 8th, 2007 (January 08 2007) | Death | Jane Bolin, first African American female judge (born in 1908) | |
| January 8th, 2007 (January 08 2007) | Death | Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born actress (born in 1922) | |
| January 8th, 2007 (January 08 2007) | Death | Francis Cockfield, British politician (born in 1916) | |
| January 8th, 2007 (January 08 2007) | Death | David Ervine, Northern Irish politician (born in 1953) | |
| January 8th, 2007 (January 08 2007) | Death | Iwao Takamoto, American animator (born in 1925) | |
| January 8th, 2006 (January 08 2006) | Death | Tony Banks, British politician (born in 1943) | Tony Banks Quotes |
| January 8th, 2005 (January 08 2005) | Death | Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (born in 1952) | |
| January 8th, 2005 (January 08 2005) | Death | Warren Spears, American choreographer and dancer | |
| January 8th, 2005 (January 08 2005) | Death | Michel Thomas, Polish linguist (born in 1914) | |
| January 8th, 2004 (January 08 2004) | Death | John A. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (born in 1930) | |
| January 8th, 2003 (January 08 2003) | Death | Ron Goodwin, British composer and conductor (born in 1925) | |
| January 8th, 2002 (January 08 2002) | Death | Alexander Prochorow, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (born in 1916) | |
| January 8th, 2002 (January 08 2002) | Death | Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (born in 1932) | |
| January 8th, 2000 (January 08 2000) | Death | Derrick Thomas, American football player (born in 1967) | |
| January 8th, 2000 (January 08 2000) | Death | Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrianist (born in 1918) | |
| January 8th, 1998 (January 08 1998) | Death | Michael Tippett, English composer (born in 1905) | |
| January 8th, 1997 (January 08 1997) | Death | Melvin Calvin, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1911) | |
| January 8th, 1996 (January 08 1996) | Death | John Hargreaves, Australian actor (born in 1945) | |
| January 8th, 1996 (January 08 1996) | Death | Francois Mitterrand, President of France (born in 1916) | |
| January 8th, 1996 (January 08 1996) | Death | Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (born in 1907) | |
| January 8th, 1995 (January 08 1995) | Death | Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer (born in 1942) | |
| January 8th, 1994 (January 08 1994) | Death | Pat Buttram, American actor (born in 1915) | |
| January 8th, 1994 (January 08 1994) | Death | Harvey Haddix, American baseball player (born in 1925) | |
| January 8th, 1991 (January 08 1991) | Death | Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (born in 1960) | |
| January 8th, 1990 (January 08 1990) | Death | Terry-Thomas, British actor, comedian (born in 1911) | |
| January 8th, 1986 (January 08 1986) | Death | Pierre Fournier, French cellist (born in 1906) | |
| January 8th, 1983 (January 08 1983) | Death | Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter pilot (born in 1919) | |
| January 8th, 1983 (January 08 1983) | Death | Ron Frazer, Australian actor (born in 1924) | |
| January 8th, 1983 (January 08 1983) | Death | Tom McCall, Governor of Oregon (born in 1913) | |
| January 8th, 1982 (January 08 1982) | Death | Gregoire Aslan, Armenian actor (born in 1908) | |
| January 8th, 1981 (January 08 1981) | Death | Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (born in 1925) | |
| January 8th, 1980 (January 08 1980) | Death | John Mauchly, American physicist (born in 1907) | |
| January 8th, 1979 (January 08 1979) | Death | Sara Carter, American country musician (born in 1898) | |
| January 8th, 1976 (January 08 1976) | Death | Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People s Republic of China (born in 1898) | |
| January 8th, 1976 (January 08 1976) | Death | Robert Forgan, British fascist (born in 1891) | |
| January 8th, 1975 (January 08 1975) | Death | John Gregson, English actor (born in 1919) | |
| January 8th, 1975 (January 08 1975) | Death | Richard Tucker, American tenor (born in 1913) | |
| January 8th, 1972 (January 08 1972) | Death | Kenneth Patchen, American poet (born in 1911) | Kenneth Patchen Quotes |
| January 8th, 1970 (January 08 1970) | Death | Georges Guibourg, French performer (born in 1891) | |
| January 8th, 1969 (January 08 1969) | Death | Albert Hill, British athlete (born in 1889) | |
| January 8th, 1967 (January 08 1967) | Death | Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (born in 1927) | |
| January 8th, 1963 (January 08 1963) | Death | Kay Sage, American artist and poet (born in 1898) | |
| January 8th, 1958 (January 08 1958) | Death | Paul Pilgrim, American athlete (born in 1883) | |
| January 8th, 1956 (January 08 1956) | Death | Jim Elliot, American Christian missionary (born in 1928) | Jim Elliot Quotes |
| January 8th, 1953 (January 08 1953) | Death | Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (born in 1883) | |
| January 8th, 1950 (January 08 1950) | Death | Joseph Schumpeter, Austrian economist (born in 1883) | |
| January 8th, 1948 (January 08 1948) | Death | Kurt Schwitters, German painter (born in 1887) | |
| January 8th, 1948 (January 08 1948) | Death | Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (born in 1891) | |
| January 8th, 1945 (January 08 1945) | Death | Karl Krafft, Swiss astrologer who was manipulated by the Nazi regime (born in 1900) | |
| January 8th, 1944 (January 08 1944) | Death | William Kissam Vanderbilt II, member of the Vanderbilt family (born in 1878) | |
| January 8th, 1943 (January 08 1943) | Death | Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (born in 1919) | |
| January 8th, 1942 (January 08 1942) | Death | Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American religious publisher (born in 1869) | |
| January 8th, 1941 (January 08 1941) | Death | Robert Baden-Powell, English founder of scouting (born in 1857) | |
| January 8th, 1938 (January 08 1938) | Death | Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy (born in 1880) | |
| January 8th, 1934 (January 08 1934) | Death | Andrei Bely, Russian writer (born in 1880) | |
| January 8th, 1934 (January 08 1934) | Death | Serge Stavisky, French financier and embezzler (born in 1886) | |
| January 8th, 1932 (January 08 1932) | Death | Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (born in 1866) | |
| January 8th, 1918 (January 08 1918) | Death | Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (born in 1827) | |
| January 8th, 1916 (January 08 1916) | Death | Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (born in 1860) | |
| January 8th, 1916 (January 08 1916) | Death | Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (born in 1884) | |
| January 8th, 1901 (January 08 1901) | Death | John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (born in 1873) | |
| January 8th, 1896 (January 08 1896) | Death | William Rainey Marshall, Governor of Minnesota (born in 1825) | |
| January 8th, 1896 (January 08 1896) | Death | Paul Verlaine, French poet (born in 1844) | Paul Verlaine Quotes |
| January 8th, 1880 (January 08 1880) | Death | Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (born in 1811) | |
| January 8th, 1878 (January 08 1878) | Death | Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (born in 1821) | |
| January 8th, 1874 (January 08 1874) | Death | Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French writer and historian (born in 1814) | |
| January 8th, 1865 (January 08 1865) | Death | Aime, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (born in 1779) | |
| January 8th, 1854 (January 08 1854) | Death | William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (born in 1768) | |
| January 8th, 1825 (January 08 1825) | Death | Eli Whitney, American inventor (born in 1765) | |
| January 8th, 1815 (January 08 1815) | Death | Edward Pakenham, British general (born in 1778) | |
| January 8th, 1794 (January 08 1794) | Death | Justus Moser, German statesman (born in 1720) | |
| January 8th, 1789 (January 08 1789) | Death | Jack Broughton, English boxer (bc. 1703) | |
| January 8th, 1775 (January 08 1775) | Death | John Baskerville, English printer (born in 1706) | |
| January 8th, 1713 (January 08 1713) | Death | Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (born in 1653) | |
| January 8th, 1707 (January 08 1707) | Death | John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (born in 1648) | John Scott Quotes |
| January 8th, 1642 (January 08 1642) | Death | Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and scientist (born in 1564) | Galileo Galilei Quotes |
| January 8th, 1598 (January 08 1598) | Death | John George, Elector of Brandenburg (born in 1525) | |
| January 8th, 1570 (January 08 1570) | Death | Philibert de l Orme, French architect (bc. 1510) | |
| January 8th, 1557 (January 08 1557) | Death | Albert the Warlike, Prince of Bayreuth (born in 1522) | |
| January 8th, 1464 (January 08 1464) | Death | Thomas Ebendorfer, Austrian historian (born in 1385) | |
| January 8th, 1456 (January 08 1456) | Death | St Lawrence Justinian, Italian bishop and first Patriarch of Venice (born in 1381) | |
| January 8th, 1337 (January 08 1337) | Death | Giotto di Bondone, Italian artist (born in 1267) | |
| January 8th, 1324 (January 08 1324) | Death | Marco Polo, Italian explorer (born in 1254) | |
| January 8th, 1198 (January 08 1198) | Death | Pope Celestine III (bc. 1106) | |
| January 8th, 1107 (January 08 1107) | Death | Edgar of Scotland (born in 1074) | |
| January 8th, 1100 (January 08 1100) | Death | Antipope Clement III (bc. 1029) | |
| January 8th, 0482 (January 08 0482) | Death | Saint Severinus of Noricum | |
