Famous people died on December 8

Dimebag Darrell  21 

American Musician

John Trudell  12 

American Author

James C. Nelson  1 

 

Ryan O'Neal  3 

American Actor

John Lennon  297 

English Musician

Rene Auberjonois  15 

American Actor

Harold Budd  6 

American Composer

Antonio Carlos Jobim  2 

Brazilian Musician

Paul Volcker  12 

American Economist

Marty Robbins  6 

American Musician

John Glenn  8 

American Astronaut

Sydney J. Harris  134 

British Journalist

Henry Reed  28 

English Poet

Bawa Muhaiyaddeen  38 

 

Golda Meir  73 

Israeli Minister

Florbela Espanca  13 

Portuguese Poet

Tris Speaker  5 

American Athlete

Hermann Weyl  34 

German Mathematician

Pavel Florensky  1 

Russian Philosopher

John Snaith  2 

British Cricketer

Charles Lightoller  2 

British Sailor

Ernest Dimnet  22 

French Clergyman

Madison Cawein  6 

Poet

John Joly  5 

Irish Scientist

Gertrude Jekyll  13 

British Designer

Sarah Doudney  6 

British Novelist

Henry Clay Trumbull  14 

Author

George Augustus Henry Sala  1 

British Journalist

Ernst Engel  2 

German Economist

William Henry Vanderbilt  2 

American Businessman

Herbert Spencer  129 

English Philosopher

George Boole  40 

English Mathematician

John Lanahan  4 

 

Thomas De Quincey  19 

English Author

Benjamin Constant  3 

French Politician

Henry Laurens  4 

American Politician

Richard Baxter  20 

English Clergyman

Sir John Davies  2 

Poet

John Peckham  20