Notable Deaths on November 8

Q: Who died on November 8?

Notable people who died on November 8 include: Martin of Tours, Adeodatus I, Sawara, Willehad, Duan Ning.

Q: What is Norman Rockwell known for?

Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (born 1894)

114 people 397 – 2025

November 8 has seen 114 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 397 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1978 — Norman Rockwell

American painter and illustrator (born 1894)

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Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades

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He is also noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), during which he produced covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations

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Norman Percevel Rockwell was an American painter and illustrator

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His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of the country's culture

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Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, the Four Freedoms series, Saying Grace, and The Problem We All Live With

Martin of Tours

Frankish bishop and saint

Martin of Tours was the third bishop of Tours. He is the patron saint of many communities and organizations across Europe, including of the former French Third Republic. A native of Pannonia, he converted to…

397

Adeodatus I

pope of the Catholic Church

Pope Adeodatus I, also called Deodatus I or Deusdedit, was the bishop of Rome from 19 October 615 to his death on 8 November 618. He was the first priest to be elected pope since John II in 533. The first use of lead…

618

Sawara

Japanese prince

Prince Sawara was the fifth son of Prince Shirakabe, by Takano no Niigasa.

785

Willehad

bishop of Bremen

Willehad or Willihad ; c. 745 AD – 8 November 789) was a Christian missionary and the Bishop of Bremen from 787 AD.

789

Duan Ning

Chinese general

Duan Ning, né Duan Mingyuan (段明遠), known as Li Shaoqin (李紹欽) during the reign of Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang, was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Later Liang and Later Tang states.…

928

Yao Yi

Chinese chancellor (born 866)

Yao Yi (姚顗), courtesy name Bozhen (伯真) or Baizhen (百真), was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period states Later Liang, Later Tang, and Later Jin, serving as a chancellor during the reign of…

940

Liu

empress of Qi (Ten Kingdoms) (born 877)

Empress Liu, formally Lady Dowager Xiande of Qin (秦國賢德太夫人), was the wife of Li Maozhen, the only ruler of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Qi. During Li Maozhen's reign as the independent Prince…

943

Agapetus II

pope of the Catholic Church

Pope Agapetus II was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 10 May 946 to his death. A nominee of the princeps of Rome, Alberic II of Spoleto, his pontificate occurred during the period known as the…

955

Ibn al-Qūṭiyya

Andalusian historian

Ibn al-Qūṭiyya, born Muḥammad Ibn ʿUmar Ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʾIbrāhīm ibn ʿIsā ibn Muzāḥim, also known as Abu Bakr or al-Qurtubi, was an Andalusian historian and considered the greatest philologist at the Umayyad court…

977

Sancha of León

Queen of León (born c. 1018)

Sancha of León was infanta and queen of León. She was married to Ferdinand I, the Count of Castile who later became King of León after having killed Sancha's brother in battle. She and her husband commissioned the…

1067

Godfrey of Amiens

French bishop and saint (born 1066)

Godfrey of Amiens (1066–1115) was a bishop of Amiens. He is a saint in the Catholic Church.

1115

Ilghazi

Artuqid ruler of Mardin

Najm al-Din Ilghazi ibn Artuq was the Turkoman Artukid ruler of Mardin from 1107 to 1122. He was born into the Oghuz tribe of Döğer.

1122

Baldwin IV

Count of Hainaut (born 1108)

Baldwin IV was count of Hainaut from 1120 to his death.

1171

Conrad

Count Palatine of the Rhine (born 1135)

Conrad of Hohenstaufen was the first hereditary Count Palatine of the Rhine.

1195

Louis VIII

king of France (born 1187)

Louis VIII, nicknamed The Lion, was King of France from 1223 to 1226. As a prince, he invaded England on 21 May 1216 and was excommunicated by a papal legate on 29 May 1216. On 2 June 1216, Louis was proclaimed "King of…

1226

Berengaria of Castile (born 1179)

Berengaria, nicknamed the Great, was the queen of Castile who ascended the throne in 1217, and previously queen of León from 1197 to 1204 as the second wife of King Alfonso IX. As the eldest child and heir presumptive…

1246

Matilda of Béthune

French countess

Matilda of Béthune, was a noblewoman from Artois who became countess of Flanders by marriage to Guy, Count of Flanders. She was heiress to her father's titles as Lady of Béthune, of Dendermonde, of Richebourg and of…

1263

Duns Scotus

Scottish priest, philosopher, and academic (born 1266)

John Duns Scotus was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian. He is considered among the most important philosopher-theologians in Western Christendom during the…

1308

Peter of Aragon

Aragonese infante (born 1398)

Peter was the son and heir apparent of Queen Maria and King Martin I of Sicily. He was a member of the House of Barcelona.

1400

Baeda Maryam I

emperor of Ethiopia (born 1448)

Baeda Maryam I, otherwise known as Cyriacus was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1468 to 1478, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His reign was characterized by a number of military campaigns, most notably against the…

1478

Melozzo da Forlì

Italian painter (born c. 1438)

Melozzo da Forlì was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. His fresco paintings are notable for the use of foreshortening. He was the most important member of the Forlì painting school.

1494

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros

Spanish cardinal (born 1436)

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, OFM was a Spanish cardinal, religious figure, and statesman. Starting from humble beginnings he rose to the heights of power, becoming a religious reformer, twice regent of Spain,…

1517

Jerome Emser

German theologian and reformer (born 1477)

Jerome Emser, was a German theologian and antagonist of Martin Luther, was born of a good family at Ulm.

1527

Francisco Guerrero

Spanish composer (born 1528)

Francisco Guerrero was a Spanish Catholic priest and composer of the Renaissance. He was born and died in Seville.

1599

Natsuka Masaie

Japanese daimyō (born 1562)

Natsuka Masaie was a daimyō in the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He served Niwa Nagahide and later Hideyoshi. He was one of the Go-Bugyō, or five commissioners, appointed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

1600

Robert Catesby

English conspirator, leader of the Gunpowder Plot (born 1573)

Robert Catesby was the leader of a group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Born in Warwickshire, Catesby was educated at Oxford University. His family were prominent recusant Catholics,…

1605

Girolamo Mercuriale

Italian philologist and physician (born 1530)

Girolamo Mercuriale or Mercuriali was an Italian philologist and physician, most famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica.

1606

Witte de With

Dutch admiral (born 1599)

Witte Corneliszoon de With was a Dutch States Navy officer who served during the Eighty Years' War and the First Anglo-Dutch War.

1658

John Milton

English poet and philosopher (born 1608)

John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It…

1674

Michel Rolle

French mathematician and author (born 1652)

Michel Rolle was a French mathematician. He is best known for Rolle's theorem (1691). He is also the co-inventor in Europe of Gaussian elimination (1690).

1719

Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz

Prussian general (born 1721)

Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Seydlitz was a Prussian officer, lieutenant general, and among the most renowned of the Prussian cavalry generals. He commanded one of the first hussar squadrons of Frederick the Great's…

1773

Andrea Appiani

Italian painter and educator (born 1754)

Andrea Appiani was an Italian neoclassical painter. He is known as "the elder", to distinguish him from his great-nephew Andrea Appiani, a historical painter in Rome.

1817

Thomas Bewick

English engraver, illustrator and author (born1753)

Thomas Bewick was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating children's…

1828

Francis I of the Two Sicilies (born 1777)

Francis I of the Two Sicilies was King of the Two Sicilies from 1825 to 1830 and regent of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1806 to 1814.

1830

Manuel Bretón de los Herreros

Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (born 1796)

Manuel Bretón de los Herreros was a Spanish dramatist.

1873

Doc Holliday

American dentist and poker player (born 1851)

John Henry Holliday, better known as Doc Holliday, was an American dentist, gambler, and gunfighter who was a close friend and associate of lawman Wyatt Earp. Holliday is best known for his role in the events…

1887

César Franck

Belgian organist and composer (born 1822)

César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium.

1890

Robert Battey

American surgeon and academic (born 1828)

Robert Battey was an American physician who is known for pioneering a surgical procedure then called Battey's Operation and now termed radical oophorectomy.

1895

James Agnew

Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Tasmania (born 1815)

Sir James Willson Agnew was an Irish-born Australian politician, who was Premier of Tasmania from 1886 to 1887.

1901

Victor Borisov-Musatov

Russian painter (born 1870)

Victor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov was a Russian painter, prominent for his unique Post-Impressionistic style that mixed Symbolism, pure decorative style and realism. Together with Mikhail Vrubel he is often referred…

1905

Colin Blythe

English cricketer and soldier (born 1879)

Colin Blythe, also known as Charlie Blythe, was an English first-class cricketer, active from 1899 to 1914. Born in Deptford, he played for Kent as a slow left arm orthodox (SLA) bowler and a right-handed batsman. He…

1917

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav

Slovak poet and playwright (born 1849)

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and for a short time, member of the Czechoslovak parliament. Originally, he wrote in a traditional style, but later became influenced by parnassism and…

1921

Carlos Chagas

Brazilian physician and bacteriologist (born 1879)

Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and microbiologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. Best known for the discovery of an eponymous protozoal infection called…

1934

Walter Nowotny

Austrian-German soldier and pilot (born 1920)

Walter Nowotny was an Austrian-born fighter ace of the Luftwaffe in World War II. He is credited with 258 aerial victories—that is, 258 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft—in 442…

1944

August von Mackensen

German field marshal (born 1849)

Anton Ludwig Friedrich August Mackensen, was a German field marshal. He commanded Army Group Mackensen during World War I (1914–1918) and became one of the German Empire's most prominent and competent military leaders.…

1945

Cyriel Verschaeve

Belgian-Austrian priest and activist (born 1874)

Cyriel Verschaeve was a Flemish nationalist priest and writer who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War. He was recognised as the spiritual leader of Flemish nationalism by the ideology's adherents and…

1949

Ivan Bunin

Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1870)

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose…

1953

John van Melle

Dutch-South African author and educator (born 1887)

Jan van Melle was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African writer. His real name was Johannes van Melle.

1953

Chika Kuroda

Japanese chemist (born 1884)

Chika Kuroda was a Japanese chemist whose research focused on natural pigments. She was the first woman in Japan to receive a Bachelor of Science.

1956

Frank S. Land

American activist, founded the DeMolay International (born 1890)

Frank Sherman "Dad" Land was the Founder of the Order of DeMolay. A business and community leader in Kansas City and a member of Ivanhoe Lodge No. 446, Land served as Imperial Potentate of the Shriners and is revered…

1959

Subroto Mukerjee

Indian soldier; Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force (born 1911)

Subroto Mukerjee was an Indian military officer who was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of the Indian Air Force. He was awarded several honours during the course of a three-decade-long career, ended by his…

1960

Dorothy Kilgallen

American journalist, television personality, and game show panelist (born 1913)

Dorothy Mae Kilgallen was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist. After spending two semesters at the College of New Rochelle, she started her career shortly before her 18th birthday as a…

1965

Wendell Corey

American actor and politician (born 1914)

Wendell Reid Corey was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a board member of the Screen Actors Guild, and also served on the Santa…

1968

Peter Mohr Dam

Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1898)

Peter Mohr Dam was a Faroe Islands politician who was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Javnaðarflokkurin party in 1926.

1968

Huw T. Edwards

Welsh poet and politician (born 1892)

Huw Thomas Edwards MBE was a Welsh trade union leader and politician.

1970

Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel

Turkish poet, author, and politician (born 1898)

Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel was a leading Turkish poet, author and later politician. He is one of the Five Syllabists. Together with Behçet Kemal Çağlar, he wrote the lyrics of the Tenth Anniversary March. He served as a…

1973

Ivory Joe Hunter

American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1914)

Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid-1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording "Since I Met You…

1974

Tasos Giannopoulos

Greek actor and producer (born 1931)

Anastasios (Tasos) Giannopoulos was a Greek actor. He was born in 1931 and died of cancer on November 8, 1977, at the age of 46. He was famous as Kitsos in his movies.

1977

Bucky Harris

American baseball player and manager (born 1896)

Stanley Raymond "Bucky" Harris was an American professional baseball second baseman, manager and executive. While Harris played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers, it was his…

1977

James Booker

American singer and pianist (born 1939)

James Carroll Booker III was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues keyboardist and singer. Flamboyant in personality and style, and a pianist of extraordinary technical skill, he was dubbed "the Black Liberace."

1983

Mordecai Kaplan

Lithuanian-American rabbi and educator (born 1881)

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan was an American Conservative rabbi, writer, Jewish educator, professor, theologian-philosopher, activist, and religious leader who founded the Reconstructionist movement of Judaism with his…

1983

Nicolas Frantz

Luxembourger cyclist (born 1899)

Nikolas Frantz was a Luxembourgish bicycle racer with 60 professional racing victories over his 12-year career. He rode for the Thomann team in 1923 and then for Alcyon-Dunlop from 1924 to 1931. He won the Tour de…

1985

Jacques Hnizdovsky

Ukrainian-American painter and illustrator (born 1915)

Jacques Hnizdovsky was a Ukrainian-born American painter, printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and sculptor.

1985

Vyacheslav Molotov

Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1890)

Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov was a Soviet politician, diplomat, and revolutionary. He was one of Joseph Stalin's closest allies and one of the most prominent figures in the Soviet government during his rule. In…

1986

Michael O'Donoghue

American actor and screenwriter (born 1940)

Michael O'Donoghue was an American writer, actor, editor and comedian.

1994

Rumer Godden

English author and poet (born 1907)

Margaret Rumer Godden was a British author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably Black Narcissus in 1947 and The River in 1951.

1998

John Hunt

Baron Hunt, English colonel, mountaineer, and academic (born 1910)

Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt was a British Army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest.

1998

Jean Marais

French actor and director (born 1913)

Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais, known professionally as Jean Marais, was a French actor, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer. In 1937, Marais became the lover of acclaimed poet,…

1998

Lester Bowie

American trumpet player and composer (born 1941)

Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

1999

Leon Štukelj

Slovenian gymnast and judge (born 1898)

Leon Štukelj was a Slovene professional gymnast. He was an Olympic gold medalist and athlete who represented Yugoslavia at the Olympics.

1999

Aristidis Moschos

Greek santouri player and educator (born 1930)

Aristeidis Moschos was a Greek player and teacher of the musical instrument known as the santouri.

2001

Jaun Elia

Pakistani poet, philosopher, and scholar (born 1931)

Syed Hussain Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, commonly known by his pen name Jaun Elia, was a Pakistani poet.

2002

Bob Grant

English actor and screenwriter (born 1932)

Robert St Clair Grant was an English actor and writer, best known for playing bus conductor Jack Harper in the television sitcom On the Buses, as well as its film spin-offs and stage version.

2003

C.Z. Guest

American actress, fashion designer, and author (born 1920)

Lucy Douglas "C.Z." Guest was an American actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite who achieved a degree of fame as a fashion icon. She was frequently seen wearing elegant designs by…

2003

Guy Speranza

American singer-songwriter (born 1956)

Guy Speranza was an American singer best known as New York City-based metal band Riot's original frontman from 1975 to 1981.

2003

Peter Mathers

English-Australian author and playwright (born 1931)

Peter Mathers was an English-born Australian author and playwright.

2004

Alekos Alexandrakis

Greek actor and director (born 1928)

Alekos Alexandrakis was a famous Greek actor. He was known for his theatrical work as well as work in film and television. He died of lung cancer.

2005

David Westheimer

American soldier and author (born 1917)

David Westheimer, was an American novelist best known for writing the 1964 novel Von Ryan's Express, which was adapted into a 1965 film starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard.

2005

Basil Poledouris

American composer and conductor (born 1945)

Basil Konstantine Poledouris was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television scores, best known for his long-running collaborations with directors John Milius and Paul Verhoeven. Among his…

2006

Hannspeter Winter

Austrian physicist and academic (born 1941)

Hannspeter Winter was an Austrian plasma physicist who did research on hollow atoms and held a full professorship at the TU Wien. He won the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class in 2001 and the…

2006

Aad Nuis

Dutch journalist, poet, and politician (born 1933)

Adrianus "Aad" Nuis was a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party and political scientist.

2007

Dulce Saguisag

Filipino politician, 10th Filipino Secretary of Social Welfare and Development (born 1943)

Dulce Maramba Quintans-Saguisag was a Filipino politician and former Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development under the administration of former President Joseph Estrada. Saguisag was one of…

2007

Chad Varah

English priest, founded The Samaritans (born 1911)

Edward Chad Varah was an English Anglican priest and social activist from England. In 1953, he founded the Samaritans, the world's first crisis hotline, to provide telephone support to those contemplating suicide.

2007

Vitaly Ginzburg

Russian physicist and astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory…

2009

Quintin Dailey

American basketball player (born 1961)

Quintin "Q" Dailey was an American professional basketball player. A 6'3" guard who played collegiately at the University of San Francisco, he later went on to a career in the NBA, playing for the Chicago Bulls, Los…

2010

Jack Levine

American soldier and painter (born 1915)

Jack Levine was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives. Levine is considered one of the key artists of the Boston…

2010

Emilio Eduardo Massera

Argentinian admiral (born 1925)

Emilio Eduardo Massera was an Argentine Naval military officer and a leading participant in the Argentine coup d'état of 1976. In 1981, he was found to be a member of P2, a clandestine Masonic lodge involved in Italy's…

2010

Heavy D

Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (born 1967)

Dwight Arrington Myers, known professionally as Heavy D, was a Jamaican-American rapper, record producer, and actor. He was the leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, a group that included dancers/hype men G-Whiz and "Trouble"…

2011

Bil Keane

American cartoonist (born 1922)

William Aloysius Keane was an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip The Family Circus. He began it in 1960 and his son Jeff Keane continues to produce it.

2011

Lee MacPhail

American businessman (born 1917)

Leland Stanford MacPhail Jr. was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball. MacPhail was a baseball executive for 45 years, serving as the director of player personnel for the New York Yankees, the…

2012

Pete Namlook

German composer and producer (born 1960)

Peter Kuhlmann, known professionally as Pete Namlook was a German ambient and electronic music producer and composer. One music commentator noted that Namlook was "... comfortably the most prolific and arguably the best…

2012

Peggy Vaughan

American author (born 1936)

Peggy Vaughan was an American author and speaker on infidelity issues.

2012

William C. Davidon

American physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1927)

William Cooper Davidon was an American professor of physics and mathematics, and a peace activist. As the mastermind of the March 8, 1971, FBI office break-in, in Media, Pennsylvania, Davidon was the informal leader of…

2013

Penn Kimball

American journalist and academic (born 1915)

Penn Townsend Kimball II was an American journalist and college professor at Columbia University, most notable for suing the American government in the mid-1980s after his discovery that the FBI and CIA considered him…

2013

Arnold Rosner

American composer (born 1945)

Arnold Rosner was an American composer of classical music.

2013

Chiyoko Shimakura

Japanese singer and actress (born 1938)

Chiyoko Shimakura was an Enka singer and TV presenter in Japan. She was considered "the Goddess of Enka".

2013

Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam

Indian journalist and actor (born 1957)

Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam, better known and credited by his initials AVS, was an Indian actor, comedian, producer, director, and journalist known for his works in Telugu cinema. A.V.S. was known particularly for his…

2013

Phil Crane

American academic and politician (born 1930)

Philip Miller Crane was an American politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005, representing the 8th district of Illinois in the northwestern suburbs of…

2014

Luigi Gorrini

Italian soldier and pilot (born 1917)

Luigi Gorrini, MOVM, was an Italian World War II fighter pilot in the Regia Aeronautica and in the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana. During the conflict, he flew with the Corpo Aereo Italiano during the Battle of…

2014

Don Paul

American football player and sportscaster (born 1925)

Don Paul was an American professional football player who was a linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) from 1948 to 1955. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins. He was…

2014

Hugo Sánchez Portugal

Spanish-Mexican footballer and sportscaster (born 1984)

Hugo Sánchez Portugal was a Spanish-born Mexican footballer and sports commentator with Televisa Deportes. He was the son of former player and manager of the Mexico national football team, Hugo Sánchez.

2014

Ernie Vandeweghe

Canadian-American basketball player and physician (born 1928)

Ernest Maurice Vandeweghe Jr. was a Canadian professional basketball player. Vandeweghe was best known for playing for the New York Knicks of the NBA and for the athletic successes of his family.

2014

Rhea Chiles

American philanthropist, founded the Polk Museum of Art (born 1930)

Rhea May Chiles was First Lady of Florida from 1991 to 1998 during the tenure of her husband, Governor Lawton Chiles. In 2009, she was designated a Distinguished Floridian by the Florida Economics Club at an event…

2015

Joseph Cure

American ice hockey player and actor (born 1984)

Joseph O'Connell Cure was an American ice hockey player and actor. Cure made his film debut in Walt Disney Pictures' Miracle in 2004. Cure was cast as Mike Ramsey, the youngest member of the "Miracle on Ice" U.S. ice…

2015

Rod Davies

Australian-English astronomer and academic (born 1930)

Rodney Deane Davies CBE FRS was a professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He was the President of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1987–1989, and the Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory in…

2015

Om Prakash Mehra

Indian air marshal and politician (born 1919)

Air Chief Marshal Om Prakash Mehra, PVSM was a former air officer in the Indian Air Force. He served as the Chief of the Air Staff from 1973 to 1976. He received Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM), the highest military…

2015

Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero

Sri Lankan monk and activist (born 1942)

Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera was a Buddhist monk who participated in Sri Lankan politics and supported the 2015 presidential campaign of Maithripala Sirisena. He was the Chief Incumbent of the Kotte Naga Vihara.

2015

Dennis Wrong

Canadian-born American sociologist (born 1923)

Dennis Hume Wrong was a Canadian-born American sociologist and professor in the Department of Sociology at New York University.

2018

Alex Trebek

Canadian-American television personality and longtime host of Jeopardy! (born 1940)

George Alexander Trebek was a Canadian and American game show host and television personality. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he was best known for hosting the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! for 37 seasons from its…

2020

Elizabeth Nunez

American novelist (born 1944)

Elizabeth Nunez was a Trinidadian-American novelist academic who was a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, New York City.

2024

June Spencer

English actress (born 1919)

June Rosalind Spencer was an English actress best known for her long-running role as Peggy Woolley in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. Spencer played the character from 1950 to 1953, and again from 1962 to 2022.

2024

Trevor Sorbie

Scottish hairdresser (born 1949)

Trevor John Sorbie was a Scottish celebrity hairdresser and businessman. He is credited as the creator of the wedge haircut and was a four-time winner of British Hairdresser of the Year.

2024

Graham Richardson

Australian politician (born 1949)

Graham Frederick Richardson was an Australian Labor Party politician who was a senator for New South Wales from 1983 to 1994 and served as a cabinet minister in both the Hawke and Keating governments. He was later a…

2025

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Norman Rockwell — American painter and illustrator (1894–1978)

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