Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: Oct-08

Died on This Day (Oct-08)

Person Person Description Age Anniv
Luis Tiant Luis Tiant Luis Clemente Tiant Vega is a Cuban former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher. Cuban baseball pitcher 83 1
Maude Jacques Maude Jacques Maude Jacques is a Canadian 2.5 point Paralympic wheelchair basketball player who won a gold medal at the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Toronto. Canadian paralympic basketball player 31 2
Peter Tobin Peter Tobin Peter Britton Tobin was a Scottish convicted serial killer and sex offender who served a whole life order at HM Prison Edinburgh for three murders committed between 1991 and 2006. Scottish serial killer 76 3
Anton Polyakov Anton Polyakov Anton Polyakov was a Ukrainian politician. A member of the party Servant of the People , he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2019 to 2021. Ukrainian politician 33 4
Whitey Ford Whitey Ford Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford , nicknamed "the Chairman of the Board", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played his entire 16-year Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees. American baseball pitcher 91 5
Francis S. Currey Francis S. Currey Francis Sherman Currey was a United States Army technical sergeant and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his heroic actions during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. US Medal of Honor recipient 94 6
George Taliaferro George Taliaferro George Taliaferro was a professional American football player who was the first African American drafted by a National Football League team. American footballer 91 7
Grady Tate Grady Tate Grady Tate was an American jazz and soul-jazz drummer and baritone vocalist. American drummer 85 8
  Maximiliano Giusti Maximiliano Jorge Giusti was an Argentine football centre forward. Argentine football centre forward 25 9
  Hugh Scully Michael Hugh Scully was an English journalist, radio and television presenter. British television presenter 72 10
Karl Prantl Karl Prantl Karl Prantl was an Austrian sculptor. Sculptor 86 15
Gidget Gein Gidget Gein Bradley Mark Stewart , known by his stage name Gidget Gein, was an American musician and artist. American musician 39 17
Zdzisław Peszkowski Zdzisław Peszkowski Zdzislaw Peszkowski , of the Jastrzebiec coat of arms was a Polish Roman Catholic priest and one of a small group of Polish army officers who managed to survive the 1940 mass execution of 22,000 Polish citizens by NKVD, the Katyn massacre. Polish Roman Catholic priest 89 18
Pavol Hnilica Pavol Hnilica Pavol Mária Hnilica, S.J. was a Slovak prelate of the Catholic Church who served as a titular bishop of Rusadir from 1964 until his death in 2006. Catholic bishop 85 19
Anatoly Shapiro Anatoly Shapiro Anatoliy Pavlovych Shapiro , was a Ukrainian-born Jewish soldier of the Army of the Soviet Union, who led the first elements of the advancing army into the Nazi-developed Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, during the latter stages of World War II. Ukrainian soldier 92 20
Erich Brost Erich Brost Erich Brost was a German journalist and publisher. German journalist and publisher 91 30
William H. Harrison William H. Harrison William Henry Harrison III was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives and in the state legislatures of Indiana and Wyoming. Wyoming politician 94 35
John Wesley Snyder John Wesley Snyder John Wesley Snyder was an American businessman and senior federal government official. United States Secretary of the Treasury 90 40
William Trufant Foster William Trufant Foster William Trufant Foster , was an American educator and economist, whose theories were especially influential in the 1920s. American economist 71 75
Ignazio Porro Ignazio Porro Ignazio Porro was an Italian inventor of optical instruments. Italian inventor 73 150