April 8th
192 Notable deaths
Billy Bassett
English footballer (1869-1937).
Born January 27th, 1869 in West Bromwich.
Died April 8th, 1937 at 68 years old in West Bromwich.
Katherine Rawls
American swimmer, diver, olympic silver medalist, aviator (1917-1982).
Born June 14th, 1917 in Nashville.
Died April 8th, 1982 at 64 years old in White Sulphur Springs (cancer).
Josef Weinheber
Austrian poet.
Born March 9th, 1892 in Vienna. [ref]
Died April 8th, 1945 at 53 years old in Kirchstetten (drug overdose). [ref]
Norman I. Platnick
American arachnologist.
Born December 30th, 1951 in Bluefield. [ref]
Died April 8th, 2020 at 68 years old in Philadelphia. [ref]
Alfred Rahlfs
German biblical scholar (1865-1935).
Born May 29th, 1865 in Linden-Limmer.
Died April 8th, 1935 at 69 years old in Göttingen.
Kyoshi Takahama
Japanese writer.
Born February 22nd, 1874 in Matsuyama.
Died April 8th, 1959 at 85 years old in Yuigahama (intracranial hemorrhage).
Svetlana Gerasimenko
Ukrainian soviet and tajik astronomer.
Born February 23rd, 1945 in Baryshivska Hromada. [ref]
Died April 8th, 2025 at 80 years old [ref]
Jean-Claude Turcotte
Canadian catholic cardinal (1936-2015).
Born June 26th, 1936 in Montreal.
Died April 8th, 2015 at 78 years old in Montreal (diabetes).
Donato Sabia
Italian middle distance runner (1963–2020).
Born September 11th, 1963 in Potenza. [ref]
Died April 8th, 2020 at 56 years old in Potenza. [ref]
Stefania Turkevych-Lukiianovych
Ukrainian pianist, composer, and musicologist (1898-1977).
Born April 25th, 1898 in Lviv.
Died April 8th, 1977 at 78 years old in Cambridge.
Deaths 101 to 110 of 192
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. Emily Dickinson