December 8 Deaths |
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| December 8th, 2007 (December 08 2007) | Death | Gerardo Garcia Pimentel, Mexican journalist | |
| December 8th, 2006 (December 08 2006) | Death | Martha Tilton, American singer (born in 1915) | |
| December 8th, 2006 (December 08 2006) | Death | Jose Uribe, Dominican baseball player (born in 1959) | |
| December 8th, 2005 (December 08 2005) | Death | Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (born in 1915) | |
| December 8th, 2004 (December 08 2004) | Death | Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Abbott), American guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan) (born in 1966) | |
| December 8th, 2003 (December 08 2003) | Death | Ruben Gonzalez, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (born in 1919) | |
| December 8th, 2001 (December 08 2001) | Death | Don Tennant, American advertising executive (born in 1922) | |
| December 8th, 1999 (December 08 1999) | Death | Peter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (born in 1923) | |
| December 8th, 1997 (December 08 1997) | Death | Bob Bell, played Bozo the Clown (born in 1922) | |
| December 8th, 1996 (December 08 1996) | Death | Howard Rollins, American actor (born in 1950) | |
| December 8th, 1994 (December 08 1994) | Death | Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer and arranger (born in 1927) | |
| December 8th, 1992 (December 08 1992) | Death | William Shawn, American magazine editor (born in 1917) | |
| December 8th, 1991 (December 08 1991) | Death | Kimberly Bergalis, claimed to have contracted HIV from her dentist (born in 1968) | |
| December 8th, 1991 (December 08 1991) | Death | Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpeter (born in 1911) | |
| December 8th, 1984 (December 08 1984) | Death | Luther Adler, American actor (born in 1903) | |
| December 8th, 1984 (December 08 1984) | Death | Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (born in 1953) | |
| December 8th, 1983 (December 08 1983) | Death | Slim Pickens, American actor (born in 1919) | |
| December 8th, 1982 (December 08 1982) | Death | Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (born in 1951) | |
| December 8th, 1982 (December 08 1982) | Death | Marty Robbins, American singer (born in 1925) | |
| December 8th, 1980 (December 08 1980) | Death | John Lennon, English musician and peace activist (The Beatles) (born in 1940) | John Lennon Quotes |
| December 8th, 1978 (December 08 1978) | Death | Golda Meir, Russian-born Prime Minister of Israel (born in 1898) | Golda Meir Quotes |
| December 8th, 1975 (December 08 1975) | Death | Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (born in 1948) | |
| December 8th, 1967 (December 08 1967) | Death | John Mills, Sr., American singer (Mills Brothers) (born in 1889) | |
| December 8th, 1966 (December 08 1966) | Death | Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (born in 1899) | |
| December 8th, 1963 (December 08 1963) | Death | Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand (born in 1908) | |
| December 8th, 1958 (December 08 1958) | Death | Tris Speaker, American baseball player (born in 1888) | |
| December 8th, 1952 (December 08 1952) | Death | Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the Titanic (born in 1874) | |
| December 8th, 1940 (December 08 1940) | Death | George Exton Lloyd, Anglican Bishop and theologian (born in 1861) | |
| December 8th, 1938 (December 08 1938) | Death | Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (born in 1896) | |
| December 8th, 1917 (December 08 1917) | Death | Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (born in 1836) | |
| December 8th, 1914 (December 08 1914) | Death | Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (born in 1861) | |
| December 8th, 1907 (December 08 1907) | Death | Oscar II of Sweden (born in 1829) | |
| December 8th, 1894 (December 08 1894) | Death | Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (born in 1821) | |
| December 8th, 1885 (December 08 1885) | Death | William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (born in 1821) | |
| December 8th, 1864 (December 08 1864) | Death | George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (born in 1815) | |
| December 8th, 1859 (December 08 1859) | Death | Thomas de Quincey, English author (born in 1785) | Thomas De Quincey Quotes |
| December 8th, 1830 (December 08 1830) | Death | Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (born in 1767) | |
| December 8th, 1811 (December 08 1811) | Death | Eliza Poe, English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe(born in 1787) | Edgar Allan Poe Quotes |
| December 8th, 1779 (December 08 1779) | Death | Nathan Alcock, English physician (born in 1707) | |
| December 8th, 1768 (December 08 1768) | Death | Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (born in 1702) | |
| December 8th, 1756 (December 08 1756) | Death | William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat | |
| December 8th, 1746 (December 08 1746) | Death | Charles Radclyffe, British politician (born in 1693) | |
| December 8th, 1745 (December 08 1745) | Death | Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (born in 1683) | |
| December 8th, 1744 (December 08 1744) | Death | Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Chateauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (born in 1717) | |
| December 8th, 1722 (December 08 1722) | Death | Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orleans (born in 1652) | |
| December 8th, 1709 (December 08 1709) | Death | Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (born in 1625) | |
| December 8th, 1695 (December 08 1695) | Death | Barthelemy d Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (born in 1625) | |
| December 8th, 1691 (December 08 1691) | Death | Richard Baxter, English clergyman (born in 1615) | |
| December 8th, 1680 (December 08 1680) | Death | Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (born in 1606) | |
| December 8th, 1649 (December 08 1649) | Death | Noel Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (born in 1613) | |
| December 8th, 1643 (December 08 1643) | Death | John Pym, English statesman (born in 1583) | |
| December 8th, 1638 (December 08 1638) | Death | Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (born in 1589) | |
| December 8th, 1632 (December 08 1632) | Death | Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (born in 1561) | |
| December 8th, 1626 (December 08 1626) | Death | John Davies, English poet (born in 1569) | John Davies Quotes |
| December 8th, 0899 (December 08 0899) | Death | Arnulf of Carinthia (born in 850) | |
