Discover the most famous people who died on September 8. The list includes people like Dorothy Dandridge, Hermann von Helmholtz, Willard Libby, Hideki Yukawa, Hermann Staudinger. Famous personalities featured on this list, include actors, composers, priests and journalists and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, Germany, Austria & Spain and many more countries.

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Birthdate: April 21, 1926

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Mayfair, London, England

Died: 2022

The Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms, Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-reigning British monarch in history. The first child of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother , she ascended to the throne in 1952. Despite the media criticism of the royal family, she continued to be a popular figure in the UK.

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Coolio

(Rapper Best Known for His Singles ‘Gangsta's Paradise’ and ‘My Soul’)

Birthdate: August 1, 1963

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Compton, California, U.S.

Died: 2022

Rapper Coolio soared to fame with his Grammy-winning single Gangsta's Paradise. He continued winning accolades with hits such as C U When U Get There. He later released a cookbook and hosted the culinary show Cookin' with Coolio. He was also part of WC and the Maad Circle.

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Dorothy Dandridge

(The First African-American Film Star to be Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress,)

Birthdate: November 9, 1922

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Died: 1965

Actress, singer, and dancer Dorothy Dandridge was one of the earliest African-American women stars to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Incredibly successful in her career, she was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. As a singer, she used to perform in night clubs. Unfortunately, she died under mysterious circumstances at 42.

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Shirley Jackson

(American Writer Known Primarily for Her Works of Horror and Mystery)

Birthdate: December 14, 1916

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States

Died: 1965

Shirley Jackson redefined the genres of horror and mystery through her works, which include over 200 short stories and six novels. Her iconic novel The Haunting of Hill House was made into a popular Netflix series and several movies, including the 1963 and 1999 versions of The Haunting. 

Birthdate: June 11, 1864

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Munich, Germany

Died: 1949

Richard Georg Strauss was a German conductor, composer, violinist, and pianist. Renowned for his pioneering subtleties of orchestration, Strauss is generally regarded as a modernist, although he was initially considered a conservative, backwards-looking composer. Over the years, his music has influenced other prominent composers like Béla Viktor János Bartók, Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Edward Elgar, and Benjamin Britten.

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Don Williams

(Singer-Songwriter)

Birthdate: May 27, 1939

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Floydada, Texas, United States

Died: 2017

Height: 6'1" (185 cm)

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Leni Riefenstahl

(Film Director, Photographer and Actress Known for Her Seminal Role in Producing Nazi Propaganda)

Birthdate: August 22, 1902

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Berlin, Germany

Died: 2003

Leni Riefenstahl was a German film director and actress best remembered for her role in producing Nazi propaganda. She made her directorial debut in 1932, becoming one of the few women to direct a movie during the Weimar Period. Riefenstahl is credited with directing two of the most technically innovative propaganda films of all time, Olympia and Triumph des Willens.

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Zero Mostel

(Actor)

Birthdate: February 28, 1915

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Died: 1977

Height: 5'11" (180 cm)

Birthdate: August 31, 1821

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Potsdam

Died: 1894

A descendant of Pennsylvania founder William Penn through his mother, Hermann von Helmholtz studied medicine, pushed by his father, in spite of being interested in the natural sciences. Best known for his law of conservation of energy, he coalesced the fields of medicine, physiology, math, and physics in his studies.

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Rich Cronin

(Singer)

Birthdate: August 30, 1974

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Roxbury, USA

Died: 2010

Height: 6'3" (190 cm)

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Brad Davis

(Actor)

Birthdate: November 6, 1949

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Died: 1991

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Moondog

(Musician)

Birthdate: May 26, 1916

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Marysville,United States

Died: 1999

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Bud Collyer

(American Radio Actor and Announcer)

Birthdate: June 18, 1908

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: New York, United States

Died: 1969

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Andre Derain

(French Artist, Painter, Sculptor and Co-founder of 'Fauvism')

Birthdate: June 10, 1880

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Garches, France

Died: 1954

Andre Derain is considered a co-founder of Fauvism, along with fellow artist Henri Matisse, who was one of his classmates at the Académie Carriere. He also created theatrical décor for Ballets Russes and woodcut book illustrations for authors such as Antonin Artaud and André Breton.

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Marvin Barnes

(Basketball Player)

Birthdate: July 27, 1952

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Died: 2014

Height: 6'8" (203 cm)

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Solomon Linda

(South African Musician, Singer and Composer)

Birthdate: 1909 AD

Birthplace: Pomeroy, South Africa

Died: 1962

Solomon Linda is best remembered for writing the hit Mbube, later known as Wimoweh and The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Part of the Evening Birds, he never got his due and died poor. His family couldn’t afford to build a headstone for his grave until 18 years after his death.

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Eileen Chang

(Chinese-born American Novelist, Essayist, and Screenwriter)

Birthdate: September 30, 1920

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Shanghai, China

Died: 1995

Zhang Ailing was a Chinese-born American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. A realist and modernist writer, Chang is credited with writing the scripts of many successful films like Miserable at Middle Age, Qing Chang Ru Zhan Chang, and Jin Suo Ji. Zhang Ailing is also credited with influencing and inspiring many creative writers in Taiwan, including Chu T’ien-wen and Yuan Chiung-chiung.

Birthdate: August 7, 1933

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

Died: 2017

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Roy Wilkins

(Civil rights activist who was the leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1964 to 1977)

Birthdate: August 30, 1901

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Died: 1981

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Aage Bohr

(Danish Nuclear Physicist and Winner of 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics)

Birthdate: June 19, 1922

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Copenhagen, Denmark

Died: 2009

Nobel Prize-winning Danish nuclear physicist Aage Bohr is best remembered for his work related to the geometry of atomic nuclei. Son of Nobel laureate physicist Niels Bohr, Aage had started his career as an assistant to his father and working on the development of the atomic bomb.

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Joaquín Andújar

(Baseball Pitcher)

Birthdate: December 21, 1952

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: San Pedro De Macoris, Dominican Republic

Died: 2015

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Alex North

(Composer)

Birthdate: December 4, 1910

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

Died: 1991

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Chelsi Smith

(Beauty pageant Winner)

Birthdate: August 23, 1973

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Redwood City, California, United States

Died: 2018

Height: 5'8" (173 cm)

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Francisco de Quevedo

(Spanish Politician and One of the Greatest Poets of the Spanish Golden Age)

Birthdate: September 14, 1580

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Madrid, Spain

Died: 1645

Spanish nobleman, politician and writer Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, KOS of the Baroque era is counted among the most prominent writers of Spain's Golden Age. Quevedo adhered to the conceptismo style compared to his lifelong rival, Luis de Góngora’s culteranismo style. His notable works include the picaresque novel El Buscón and the satirical prose Los Sueños.

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Hideki Yukawa

(Theoretical Physicist and the First Japanese to Receive the Nobel Prize)

Birthdate: January 23, 1907

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Azabu, Tokyo

Died: 1981

Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist who won the prestigious Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy in 1940. In 1949, Yukawa became the first Japanese to be honored with the Nobel Prize. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of the pion. The Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics was inaugurated in 1952 to honor Yukawa's achievements.

Birthdate: February 10, 1897

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: West Hartford, Connecticut

Died: 1985

John Franklin Enders was an American biomedical scientist best remembered for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 along with Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins for discovering that poliomyelitis viruses have the ability to grow in cultures of different types of tissue. John Franklin Enders is often referred to as the Father of Modern Vaccines.

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Victor Horta

(Belgian Architect and Designer)

Birthdate: January 6, 1861

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Ghent, Province of East Flanders, Belgium

Died: 1947

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William Erasmus Darwin

(First-Born Son of Charles and Emma Darwin)

Birthdate: December 27, 1839

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: United Kingdom

Died: 1914

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Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester

(Noble)

Birthdate: January 7, 1355

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Woodstock, England

Died: 1397

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Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia

(Aristocrat)

Birthdate: May 9, 1909

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Paris, France

Died: 1967

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Lisa Lyon

(American Bodybuilder and Playboy Model)

Birthdate: 1953 AD

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Died: 2023

Height: 5'4" (163 cm)

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Ronald Harwood

(British Author, Playwright and Screenwriter)

Birthdate: November 9, 1934

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Cape Town, South Africa

Died: 2020

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Willard Libby

(American Physical Chemist Who Played an Important Role in the Development of Radiocarbon Dating)

Birthdate: December 17, 1908

Sun Sign: Sagittarius

Birthplace: Grand Valley, Colorado, United States

Died: 1980

Willard Libby was an American physical chemist best remembered for his role in the development of radiocarbon dating in 1949. The process revolutionized palaeontology and archaeology. Libby's contributions during the development of this process earned him the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Willard Libby was also the recipient of the Elliott Cresson Medal, Willard Gibbs Award, and Albert Einstein Award.

Birthdate: March 23, 1881

Sun Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Empire

Died: 1965

Hermann Staudinger was a German organic chemist whose demonstration of the existence of polymers earned him the prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1953. He also played a key role in the development of pyrethroid insecticides as he was able to explain clearly the molecular structures of pyrethrin I and pyrethrin II. Hermann Staudinger is also credited with discovering ketenes. 

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Alexandra David-Néel

(Belgian–French Explorer, Anarchist, Spiritualist, and Writer)

Birthdate: October 24, 1868

Sun Sign: Scorpio

Birthplace: Saint-Mandé, France

Died: 1969

Alexandra David-Néel was a Belgian–French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist, writer, and opera singer. She is best remembered for traveling to important spiritual centers, including Lhasa, Tibet in 1924, when foreigners were forbidden from entering Lhasa. Alexandra David-Néel wrote more than 30 books and her teachings influenced people like Allen Ginsberg, Benjamin Crème, Jack Kerouac, Ram Dass, and Alan Watts.   

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S. Truett Cathy

(Business Person)

Birthdate: March 14, 1921

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Eatonton, Georgia, US

Died: 2014

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Leo IV the Khazar

(Emperor)

Birthdate: January 25, 0750

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Constantinople

Died: 0780

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Peter Claver

(Spanish Jesuit Missionary and Priest)

Birthdate: June 26, 1580

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Verdú, Spain

Died: 1654

Peter Claver was a Spanish Jesuit missionary and priest. His lifelong work with African slaves made him the patron saint of slaves. Peter Claver was canonized by Pope Leo XIII in 1888. Many organizations, religious congregations, schools, missions, parishes, and hospitals have been named in his honor.

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Prince Philippe, Count of Paris

(French pretender)

Birthdate: August 24, 1838

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Paris, France

Died: 1894

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Marco Siffredi

(Snowboarder)

Birthdate: May 22, 1979

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Chamonix, France

Died: 2002

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Greta Zimmer Friedman

(Dental assistant)

Birthdate: June 5, 1924

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Wiener Neustadt, Austria

Died: 2016

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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

(Author)

Birthdate: April 26, 1711

Sun Sign: Taurus

Birthplace: Rouen, France

Died: 1780

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Johan Botha

(South African Operatic Tenor)

Birthdate: August 19, 1965

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Rustenburg, South Africa

Died: 2016

Johan Botha was a South African operatic tenor whose career was marked with performances at iconic opera venues like the Vienna State Opera, Opéra Bastille, Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Royal Opera House, and Opera Australia. Johan Botha is credited with recording the most number of operas in the history of South African opera singing.

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Léon Bonnat

(Painter)

Birthdate: June 20, 1833

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Bayonne, France

Died: 1922

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Julius Fučík

(Czech Revolutionary and National Hero)

Birthdate: February 23, 1903

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Prague, Czechia

Died: 1943

Julius Fučík was a Czech journalist, writer, and critic. An important member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Fučík led the party's anti-Nazi resistance movement for which he was captured, tortured, and executed. Fučík became a national hero, especially among students growing up in Communist Czechoslovakia. The reverence of Fučík in Communist Czechoslovakia is portrayed in the book, The Joke.    

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Amalia of Solms-Braunfels

(Princess)

Birthdate: August 31, 1602

Sun Sign: Virgo

Birthplace: Braunfels, Germany

Died: 1675

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Christian von Ehrenfels

(Philosopher)

Birthdate: June 20, 1859

Sun Sign: Gemini

Birthplace: Vienna, Austria

Died: 1932

One of the pioneers of Gestalt psychology, Austrian philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels also made a significant contribution to the value theory. Apart from his pathbreaking work System of Value Theory, he had also penned plays and pamphlets. He also believed Asians were a threat to the European race.

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Vo Chi Cong

(Politician)

Birthdate: August 7, 1912

Sun Sign: Leo

Birthplace: Quang Nam Province, Vietnam

Died: 2011

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Johnnie Parsons

(American Race Car Driver)

Birthdate: July 4, 1918

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Died: 1984

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Robert Fludd

(British Paracelsian Physician, Astrologer and Mathematician Known for His Compilations in Occult Philosophy)

Birthdate: January 17, 1574

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Milgate House, Bearsted, Kent, England

Died: 1637

Best remembered for his study of occult philosophy, Robert Fludd, the son of English diplomat Sir Thomas Fludd, was also a physician. However, he was criticized for being a medical professional who believed in magic and defended Rosicrucianism. His other interests included cosmology, astrology, and Freemasonry.