Famous people died on May 8

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Dana Plato 16

American Actress

Gilles Villeneuve 14

Canadian Celebrity

Chris Cannon 5

American Politician

Neil Bogart 2

Fred Ward 15

American Actor

Helmut Jahn 34

German Architect

Pete du Pont 23

American Politician

Dallas Willard 27

American Philosopher

Jim Fowler 27

American Scientist

Maurice Sendak 162

American Artist

George Peppard 6

American Actor

Jeanne Cooper 2

American Actress

George Deukmejian 1

American Politician

Pete McCloskey 6

American Politician

Jim Finks 5

American Coach

Geza Vermes 4

British Scholar

Avram Davidson 44

American Writer

Dirk Bogarde 6

English Actor

Mordechai Anielewicz 5

Theodore Sturgeon 85

American Writer

Eddy Arnold 5

American Musician

Lloyd Cutler 5

American Lawyer

John Fante 115

American Novelist

Bram Fischer 7

South African Lawyer

Robert A. Heinlein 645

American Author

Talcott Parsons 43

American Sociologist

Elmer Rice 2

American Playwright

Lila Acheson Wallace 3

American Publisher

Avery Brundage 6

American Athlete

Oswald Spengler 46

German Historian

Charles Cooley 75

American Sociologist

Cassius Jackson Keyser 1

American Mathematician

Frederick York Powell 2

British Historian

Henry Jenner 2

British Celticist

Gustave Flaubert 168

French Novelist

Enoch Fitch Burr 5

American Astronomer

Jones Very 15

American Poet

John Stuart Mill 255

British Philosopher

Antoine Lavoisier 17

French Scientist

Peter Heylin 3

Edward Winslow 1

Passenger

Luigi Cornaro 7

See also: Famous people born on May 8