October 8 Deaths

Franklin Pierce (1804 - 1869)

American politician

Clement Attlee (1883 - 1967)

English politician

John Hancock (1737 - 1793)

American statesman

Premchand (1880 - 1936)

Indian author

Prescott Bush (1895 - 1972)

American banker and politician

Willy Brandt (1913 - 1992)

German politician

Jayaprakash Narayan (1902 - 1979)

Indian activist and politician

Whitey Ford (1928 - 2020)

American baseball player

Yongzheng Emperor (1678 - 1735)

Qing Dynasty emperor

Al Davis (1929 - 2011)

American football executive

Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)

English author

Paul Prudhomme (1940 - 2015)

American chef

Andy Pafko (1921 - 2013)

baseball player

Joan Hackett (1934 - 1983)

Actress

Gus Kahn (1886 - 1941)

songwriter, lyricist

Jean Giono (1895 - 1970)

French author

Ken Sansom (1927 - 2012)

American actor

Vittorio Alfieri (1749 - 1803)

Italian playwright

Grady Tate (1932 - 2017)

American jazz musician

Larry Semon (1889 - 1928)

Actor, director, producer, screenwriter

Jim Diamond (1951 - 2015)

Scottish singer

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