Died on This Day (08-Nov)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Lucette Destouches | Lucette Destouches was a French dancer. She was married to the writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline until his death in 1961. | French dancer | 107 | 1 | |
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Antonio Carluccio | Antonio Carluccio, OBE OMRI was an Italian chef, restaurateur and food expert, based in London. | Italian chef | 80 | 3 |
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Lee MacPhail | Leland Stanford MacPhail Jr. was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball. | American baseball executive | 95 | 8 |
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Robert Eugene Bush | Robert Eugene Bush , at age 18, was the youngest member of the United States Navy in World War II to receive the nation's highest military decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor. | United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient | 79 | 15 |
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Geoffrey Howard | Cecil Geoffrey Howard was an English cricketer and cricket administrator. | English cricketer | 93 | 18 |
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John Levitow | John Lee Levitow was a United States Air Force Loadmaster who received the Medal of Honor for exceptional heroism during wartime. | United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient | 55 | 20 |
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Jacques Hnizdovsky | Jacques Hnizdovsky , was a Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, graphicdesigner, illustrator and sculptor. | American artist | 70 | 35 |
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Esther Vilenska | Esther Vilenska was a Lithuanian Jewish Israeli communist politician, journalist and author who served as a member of the Knesset for Maki between 1951 and 1959 and then again from 1961 to 1965. | Israeli politician | 57 | 45 |
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Dorothy Kilgallen | Dorothy Mae Kilgallen was an American journalist and television game show panelist. | Journalist, television personality | 52 | 55 |
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Abraham Kuyper | Abraham Kuijper , publicly known as Abraham Kuyper, was Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist theologian and also a journalist. | Dutch politician | 83 | 100 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Wallace Triplett | Wallace Triplett was a professional American football player, the first African-American draftee to play for a National Football League team. | American football player | 92 | 2 |
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Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam | Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam , better known by his initials, A. | Indian actor | 56 | 7 |
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Herbert S. Okun | Herbert Stuart Okun was a United States Ambassador to East Germany and the Deputy U. | American diplomat | 80 | 9 |
Ed Kemmer | Ed Kemmer was an American motion picture and television actor. | American motion picture and television actor | 84 | 16 | |
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Josef Heichele | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of the Third Reich during World War II. | German officer and Knight's Cross recipient | 87 | 19 |
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Veselin Petrović | Veselin Petrović was a Serbian cyclist. | Serbian racing cyclist and cycle racing executive | 66 | 25 |
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Claudio Bincaz | Claudio Bincaz was an Argentine sportsman who competed in sailing, association football and rugby union for the Club Atlético San Isidro during the decade of 1920. | Sportsman | 83 | 40 |
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George Russell Boucher | George Russell Boucher was a Canadian politician and barrister. | Canadian politician | 70 | 50 |
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August von Mackensen | Anton Ludwig Friedrich August von Mackensen , born August Mackensen, was a German field marshal. | German general | 95 | 75 |
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Johannes Overbeck | Johannes Adolph Overbeck was a German archaeologist and art historian. | German archaeologist and art historian | 69 | 125 |