Famous Deaths on March 8, Who Died on March 8
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| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1126 | Urraca of León and Castile (b. 1079) |
| 1137 | Adela of Normandy, by marriage countess of Blois (b. c. 1067) |
| 1144 | Pope Celestine II |
| 1403 | Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1360)[147] |
| 1466 | Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (b. 1401) |
| 1550 | John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (b. 1495) |
| 1619 | Veit Bach, German baker and miller |
| 1641 | Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer and explorer (b. 1587) |
| 1702 | William III of England (b. 1650) |
| 1717 | Abraham Darby I, English blacksmith (b. 1678) |
| 1844 | Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763) |
| 1869 | Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1803) |
| 1872 | Priscilla Susan Bury, British botanist (b. 1799) |
| 1874 | Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800) |
| 1887 | Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and activist (b. 1813) |
| 1889 | John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer (b. 1803) |
| 1917 | Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman (b. 1838) |
| 1923 | Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837) |
| 1930 | William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857) |
| 1932 | Minna Craucher, Finnish socialite and spy (b. 1891)[167] |
| 1937 | Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902) |
| 1941 | Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876) |
| 1942 | José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888) |
| 1944 | Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916) |
| 1948 | Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889) |
| 1957 | Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886) |
| 1961 | Thomas Beecham, English conductor and composer (b. 1879) |
| 1971 | Harold Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1893) |
| 1973 | Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1945) |
| 1975 | George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904) |
| 1982 | Hatem Ali Jamadar, Bengali politician (b. 1872) |
| 1983 | Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1904) |
| 1993 | Billy Eckstine, American trumpet player (b. 1914) |
| 1996 | Jack Churchill, British colonel (b. 1906) |
| 1998 | Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936) |
| 1999 | Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1914) |
| 2003 | Adam Faith, English singer (b. 1940) |
| 2004 | Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian terrorist, founded the Palestine Liberation Front |
| 2005 | César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (b. 1924) |
| 2007 | John Inman, English actor (b. 1935) |
| 2009 | Hank Locklin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918) |
| 2012 | Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (b. 1921) |
| 2013 | Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (b. 1922) |
| 2014 | Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor and author (b. 1921) |
| 2015 | Sam Simon, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955) |
| 2016 | George Martin, English composer, conductor, and producer (b. 1926) |
| 2018 | Kate Wilhelm, American author (b. 1928) |
| 2019 | Marshall Brodien, American actor (b. 1934) |
| 2020 | Max von Sydow, Swedish actor (b. 1929) |
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