Josh Becker
American director (Xena: Warrior Princess) and screenwriter
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Deaths on December 8
This archive lists notable deaths associated with December 8 across multiple years.
Hiroaki Inoue
Japanese baseball player (Hiroshima Toyo
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Jean-Pierre Winter
French psychoanalyst and writer
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Hans Roericht
German designer
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Lesley Walker
British film editor (Mona Lisa
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
George Mira
American football player (Miami Hurricanes
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Jubilant Sykes
American singer
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Bernie Toorish
Canadian-American singer (The Four Lads)
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Roger Lumont
French artistic director and actor (Gendarme in New York
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Pierre-Paul Geoffroy
Canadian Quebec nationalist militant (Front de libération du Québec)
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Piotr Cieplak
Polish stage director
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Lajos Marton
Hungarian anti-communist activist
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Tito Topin
French writer and illustrator
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
David Best
English footballer (Bournemouth
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Ludovic Assemoassa
Togolese footballer (Clermont Foot
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Béatrice Picard
Canadian actress (Once Upon a Time in the East
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
José Filomeno Monteiro
Cape Verde diplomat and politician
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Emile van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
Dutch constitutional lawyer and Africanist
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Gordon Goodwin
American musician
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Erzsébet Csajbók
Hungarian Olympic handball player (1976
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Adnan Mroueh
Lebanese physician and politician
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Claude Boucher
Canadian politician
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Iain Douglas-Hamilton
British zoologist and wildlife conservationist (Save the Elephants)
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
William Yap
Malaysian actor (The Kid from the Big Apple)
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Emil Šneberg
Czech fighter pilot and Chief of Staff of the Air Force
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Clara Pinto-Correia
Portuguese novelist and journalist
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Peter McFarlane
Australian rock drummer (Finch
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Wolfgang Baake
German journalist
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Dixie Deans
Scottish footballer (Motherwell
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Baba Adhav
Indian socialist leader and marathi writer
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Matylda Růžičková-Šínová
Czech gymnast
Died on Tuesday December 9th 2025
Stan Shillington Canadian lacrosse historian and sportswriter dead at age 90
Stan Shillington, a Canadian lacrosse historian, sportswriter and statistician,
died on December 8, 2025, at age 90. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 21, 1935, he was inducted into…
Bill Hauritz Australian festival director dead at age 73
Bill Hauritz, an Australian festival director,
died on December 8, 2025. He directed the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland from its inception in 1994 until his retirement in 2022, when…
Tom Copeland American politician, member and speaker of the Washington House of Representatives dea…
Tom Copeland, an American politician and member and speaker of the Washington House of Representatives,
died on December 8, 2025, at age 101. Born Thomas Lenox Copeland in Pendleton, Oregon,…
Erwin Nypels
Dutch politician
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Iosif Vitebskiy
Soviet fencer
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Jody Gormley
Irish Gaelic footballer (Tyrone
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Héctor Recalde
Argentine politician
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Mazen al-Hamada
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Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Ali Mahmoud
Syrian military officer
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Clarke Reed
95–96
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Tony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick
British jurist
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Hisham Kabbani
Lebanese-American Islamic scholar
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Dmitry Buchkin
Russian painter
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Roberto Gómez
Dominican baseball player (San Francisco Giants)
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
David McMurtry
Irish businessman
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Leonid Rudnytzky
Ukrainian-born American linguist
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Jack Hennessy
American politician
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Marshall Rutter
American lawyer and choral administrator (Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Jean Khamsé Vithavong
Laotian Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Julie Stevens
English actress
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Frederik Finisie
Surinamese politician
Died on Monday December 9th 2024
Luigi Manocchio
American mobster
Died on Sunday December 8th 2024
Jean-Claude Lecourieux
French Cyclist
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Jean-Pierre Moulin
Swiss writer and actor
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Nevzad Atlığ
Turkish doctor and choir conductor
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Aleksandr Dronov
Russian chess grandmaster
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Jean Garnault
French Politician
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Stan Rogow
American television producer (Lizzie McGuire
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Nidra Beard
American singer (Dynasty)
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Joanne Hewson
Canadian Olympic alpine skier (1952)
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Frank Fiscalini
American politician and educator
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Ladislav Županič
Czech actor
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Carles Soler Perdigó
Spanish Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Peter-Michael Kolbe
German rower
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Mainul Hosein
Bangladeshi lawyer and politician
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Andrei Nemzer
Russian literary critic and scholar
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Clyde Butts
Guyanese cricketer (West Indies)
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Maxim Gustik
Belarusian freestyle skier
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Joe Solomon
Guyanese cricketer (West Indies)
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Wei Jinshan
Chinese vice admiral
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Carlos Jurado
Uruguayan football player (national team) and manager (Cienciano
Died on Saturday December 9th 2023
Antonio Recalcati
Italian painter and sculptor
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Scott M. Bennett
American politician
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
British politician
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Ademar José Gevaerd
Brazilian ufologist
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Franco Gaudenzi
Italian film producer (Robowar
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Joseph Kittinger
American officer in the United States Air Force (USAF) and a Command Pilot
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Kevin Schamehorn
Canadian ice hockey player
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Erasmus Desiderius Wandera
Ugandian Roman Catholic prelate
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Djalma Corrêa
Brazilian instrumentalist and composer
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
René Snelders
Belgian footballer and businessman
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Max van Rooy
Dutch writer and journalist
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Patrick Delsemme
Belgian snooker player
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Abraham Nehmé
Syrian archbishop
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Helen Slayton-Hughes
American actress (Parks and Recreation
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Yitzhak Klepter
Israeli singer-songwriter
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Gordon Bradt
American art designer
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Andrée Damant
French actress (Plus belle la vie
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Yoshishige Yoshida
Japanese film director and screenwriter
Died on Friday December 9th 2022
Jovit Baldivino
Filipino actor and singer
Died on Friday December 9th 2022