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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of October 0314 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses his European territories. |
| 8th of October 0451 | EVENT | At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1). |
| 8th of October 1075 | EVENT | Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia. |
| 8th of October 1200 | EVENT | Isabella of Angouleme is crowned Queen consort of England. |
| 8th of October 1480 | EVENT | Great standing on the Ugra river, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia, which results in the retreat of the Tataro-Mongols and the eventual disintegration of the Horde. |
| 8th of October 1573 | EVENT | End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years War. |
| 8th of October 1582 | EVENT | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. |
| 8th of October 1600 | EVENT | San Marino adopts its written constitution. |
| 8th of October 1806 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve. |
| 8th of October 1813 | EVENT | The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bayern and Austria. |
| 8th of October 1821 | EVENT | The government of general Jose de San Martin establishes the Peruvian Navy. |
| 8th of October 1829 | EVENT | Rail transport: Stephenson's The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials. |
| 8th of October 1856 | EVENT | The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River. |
| 8th of October 1860 | EVENT | Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens. |
| 8th of October 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Perryville : Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell halt the Confederate invasion of Kentucky by defeating troops led by General Braxton Bragg at Perryville, Kentucky. |
| 8th of October 1871 | EVENT | Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire. |
| 8th of October 1879 | EVENT | War of the Pacific: the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, Peruvian Admiral Miguel Grau is killed in the encounter. |
| 8th of October 1895 | EVENT | Eulmi incident- Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace. |
| 8th of October 1912 | EVENT | First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey. |
| 8th of October 1918 | EVENT | World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York leads an attack that kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132. |
| 8th of October 1921 | EVENT | KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game. |
| 8th of October 1928 | EVENT | Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto. |
| 8th of October 1932 | EVENT | The Indian Air Force is established. |
| 8th of October 1939 | EVENT | World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland. |
| 8th of October 1941 | EVENT | World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol. |
| 8th of October 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Crucifix Hill occurs on Crucifix Hill just outside Aachen. Capt. Bobbie Brown receives a Medal of Honor for his heroics in this battle. |
| 8th of October 1952 | EVENT | The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people. |
| 8th of October 1956 | EVENT | New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series; one of only 20 perfect games in MLB history. |
| 8th of October 1962 | EVENT | Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine is soon accused of treason. |
| 8th of October 1962 | EVENT | Algeria joins the United Nations. |
| 8th of October 1967 | EVENT | Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. |
| 8th of October 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Operation Sealords : United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta. |
| 8th of October 1969 | EVENT | The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 8th of October 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects US President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion". |
| 8th of October 1973 | EVENT | Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed. |
| 8th of October 1974 | EVENT | Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. |
| 8th of October 1978 | EVENT | Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia. |
| 8th of October 1982 | EVENT | Poland bans Solidarity and all trade unions. |
| 8th of October 1990 | EVENT | Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount. |
| 8th of October 1991 | EVENT | Croatia votes to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia, making the country fully independent |
| 8th of October 1998 | EVENT | Oslo's Gardermoen airport opens after the close down of Fornebu airport. |
| 8th of October 2001 | EVENT | A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118. |
| 8th of October 2001 | EVENT | U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. |
| 8th of October 2005 | EVENT | 2005 Kashmir earthquake: Thousands of people are killed by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in parts of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. |
| 8th of October 1515 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (d. 1578) |
| 8th of October 1676 | BIRTHDAY | Benito Jeronimo Feijoo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (d. 1764) |
| 8th of October 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi and Talmudist (d. 1793) |
| 8th of October 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1774) |
| 8th of October 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (d. 1766) |
| 8th of October 1747 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Francois Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807) |
| 8th of October 1765 | BIRTHDAY | Harman Blennerhassett, Irish lawyer (d. 1831) |
| 8th of October 1789 | BIRTHDAY | John Ruggles, American politician (d. 1874) |
| 8th of October 1789 | BIRTHDAY | William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist (d. 1855) |
| 8th of October 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (d. 1858) |
| 8th of October 1818 | BIRTHDAY | John Henninger Reagan, American politician (d. 1905) |
| 8th of October 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905) |
| 8th of October 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Rose Scott, Social Reformer (d. 1925) |
| 8th of October 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Louis le Chatelier, French chemist (d. 1936) |
| 8th of October 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Edythe Chapman, American actress (d. 1948) |
| 8th of October 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Ozias Leduc, Quebecois painter (d. 1955) |
| 8th of October 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Vierne, French organist (d. 1937) |
| 8th of October 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, British Labour politician (d. 1966) |
| 8th of October 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist (d. 1968) |
| 8th of October 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970) |
| 8th of October 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977) |
| 8th of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Walther von Reichenau, German military officer (d. 1942) |
| 8th of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (d. 1956) |
| 8th of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (d. 1964) |
| 8th of October 1889 | BIRTHDAY | C. E. Woolman, American airline founder (d. 1966) |
| 8th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Rickenbacker, American fighter pilot and airline executive (d. 1973) |
| 8th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (d. 1971) |
| 8th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Peron, President of Argentina (d. 1974) |
| 8th of October 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Zog I, King of Albania (d. 1961) |
| 8th of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Julien Duvivier, French film director (d. 1967) |
| 8th of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (d. 1987) |
| 8th of October 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer (d. 1977) |
| 8th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Alyn, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 8th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Paulette Dubost, French actress |
| 8th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000) |
| 8th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (d. 2003) |
| 8th of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Gilruth, American aviation and space pioneer (d. 2000) |
| 8th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993) |
| 8th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002) |
| 8th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player (d. 1976) |
| 8th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985) |
| 8th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Randell, film character actor (d. 2005) |
| 8th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Christian Skou, Danish chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 8th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2007) |
| 8th of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Herbert, American writer (d. 1986) |
| 8th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino Supreme Court jurist (d. 2010) |
| 8th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and coach (d. 2007) |
| 8th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Alphons Egli, member of the Swiss Federal Council |
| 8th of October 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet (d.2006 ) |
| 8th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Elliot, American missionary (d. 1956) |
| 8th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Milstein, Argentine scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002) |
| 8th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Harvey, Australian cricketer |
| 8th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | M. Russell Ballard, American religious figure |
| 8th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Maynard, British actor |
| 8th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Valdir Pereira, Brazilian footballer (d. 2001) |
| 8th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (d. 1996) |
| 8th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player |
| 8th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Roux, French chef |
| 8th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Rona Barrett, American gossip columnist |
| 8th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Gretzky, father of Wayne Gretzky |
| 8th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Stolle, Australian tennis player |
| 8th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hogan, Australian actor |
| 8th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Lynne Stewart, American civil liberties lawyer |
| 8th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Pekar, American author (d. 2010) |
| 8th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Cash, American singer (The Impressions) |
| 8th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist |
| 8th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor |
| 8th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | R. L. Stine, American author |
| 8th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Raye, American singer |
| 8th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (d. 2010) |
| 8th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Jacques Beineix, French film director |
| 8th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Kucinich, American politician |
| 8th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Shore, American photographer |
| 8th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Emiel Puttemans, Belgian athlete |
| 8th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Cheever, American novelist and editor |
| 8th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Jade, French actress (d. 2006) |
| 8th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Lopez, Colombian serial killer |
| 8th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2004) |
| 8th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Purcell, American television host |
| 8th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sigourney Weaver, American actress |
| 8th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Kool Bell, American musician (Kool & the Gang) |
| 8th of October 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jack O'Connell, American politician |
| 8th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Marijnissen, Dutch politician |
| 8th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Zwick, American film director |
| 8th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Dudikoff, American actor |
| 8th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Huub Rothengatter, Dutch racing driver |
| 8th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Darrell Hammond, American comedian (SNL) |
| 8th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Elliott, American racing driver |
| 8th of October 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician (d. 1998) |
| 8th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Lahti, American baseball player |
| 8th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Zimbalist, American actress |
| 8th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Cabrini, Italian footballer |
| 8th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Castiglione, American college athletic director |
| 8th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Coll, American journalist |
| 8th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Morgan, American baseball player |
| 8th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Bakay, American actor |
| 8th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Lorenzo Mila, Spanish newscaster |
| 8th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Perusse, Quebec humorist |
| 8th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Reed Hastings, American businessman and entrepreneur |
| 8th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Kooshian, American jazz pianist |
| 8th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Thiry, Belgian rally driver |
| 8th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Jijikine, Russian actor |
| 8th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | CeCe Winans, American singer |
| 8th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Greene, American actor |
| 8th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ardal O'Hanlon, Irish comedian and actor |
| 8th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) |
| 8th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Biondi, American swimmer |
| 8th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Art Barr, American wrestler (d. 1994) |
| 8th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Karyn Parsons, American actress |
| 8th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean television presenter |
| 8th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Coduri, British actress |
| 8th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Procter, American actress |
| 8th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Yvonne Reyes, Venezuelan actress |
| 8th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Benarbia, former Algerian footballer |
| 8th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy) |
| 8th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Zvonimir Boban, Croatian footballer |
| 8th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Ann, American pornographic actress |
| 8th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Davies, American actor |
| 8th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dylan Neal, Canadian actor |
| 8th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Damon, American actor |
| 8th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video-game designer |
| 8th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Anne-Marie Duff, English actress |
| 8th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Soon-Yi Previn, Korean American actress |
| 8th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Monty Williams, American basketball player |
| 8th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Myung Min, Korean actor |
| 8th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Stanislav Varga, Slovakian footballer |
| 8th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Henderson, New Zealand actor |
| 8th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang) |
| 8th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Fredrik Modin, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 8th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower |
| 8th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Galo Blanco, Spanish tennis player |
| 8th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Renate Groenewold, Dutch speed skater |
| 8th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Lordi) |
| 8th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain-bike rider |
| 8th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Marchi, American Voice Actor |
| 8th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mick O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player |
| 8th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Antonino D'Agostino, Italian footballer |
| 8th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Burchill, English wrestler |
| 8th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kristanna Loken, American actress |
| 8th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Gregori Chad Petree, American musician (Shiny Toy Guns) |
| 8th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Rajesh Sharma, Canadian Born Indian Politician |
| 8th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Cannon, American actor |
| 8th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Mizanin, American wrestler |
| 8th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ruby, Egyptian singer |
| 8th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Cassano, Italian footballer |
| 8th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Fraser, Scottish footballer |
| 8th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Abhishek Nayar, Indian Cricketer |
| 8th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Pastrana, American motor sports competitor |
| 8th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Eiji Wentz, Japanese entertainer |
| 8th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter |
| 8th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Dodds, English footballer |
| 8th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Sepe, Italian rugby player |
| 8th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Aya Hirano, Japanese voice actress |
| 8th of October 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Price, American football player |
| 8th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Armand Traore, French footballer |
| 8th of October 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Angus T. Jones, American actor |
| 8th of October 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Molly C. Quinn, American actress |
| 8th of October 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Bella Thorne, American actress |
| 8th of October 0976 | DEATH | Queen Jelena of Zadar of Croatia |
| 8th of October 1286 | DEATH | John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany (Born 1217) |
| 8th of October 1317 | DEATH | Emperor Fushimi of Japan (Born 1265) |
| 8th of October 1621 | DEATH | Antoine de Montchretien, French dramatist |
| 8th of October 1647 | DEATH | Christian S?rensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (Born 1562) |
| 8th of October 1652 | DEATH | John Greaves, English mathematician (Born 1602) |
| 8th of October 1656 | DEATH | John George I, Elector of Saxony (Born 1585) |
| 8th of October 1659 | DEATH | Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary |
| 8th of October 1735 | DEATH | Yongzheng Emperor of China (Born 1678) |
| 8th of October 1754 | DEATH | Henry Fielding, English author (Born 1707) |
| 8th of October 1772 | DEATH | Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (Born 1711) |
| 8th of October 1793 | DEATH | John Hancock, American revolutionary (Born 1737) |
| 8th of October 1795 | DEATH | Andrew Kippis, English clergyman (Born 1725) |
| 8th of October 1804 | DEATH | Thomas Cochran (judge), Canadian judge (Born 1777) |
| 8th of October 1809 | DEATH | James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (Born 1721) |
| 8th of October 1834 | DEATH | Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (Born 1775) |
| 8th of October 1869 | DEATH | Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (Born 1804) |
| 8th of October 1879 | DEATH | Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral (Born 1834) |
| 8th of October 1886 | DEATH | Austin F. Pike, American politician (Born 1819) |
| 8th of October 1897 | DEATH | Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (Born 1830) |
| 8th of October 1928 | DEATH | Larry Semon, comedian (Born 1889) |
| 8th of October 1931 | DEATH | Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (Born 1865) |
| 8th of October 1936 | DEATH | William Henry Stark, American business leader (Born 1851) |
| 8th of October 1936 | DEATH | Red Ames, American baseball player (Born 1882) |
| 8th of October 1942 | DEATH | Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer (Born 1869) |
| 8th of October 1944 | DEATH | Wendell Willkie, American politician (Born 1892) |
| 8th of October 1945 | DEATH | Felix Salten, Austrian author (Born 1869) |
| 8th of October 1952 | DEATH | Joe Adams, American baseball player (Born 1877) |
| 8th of October 1953 | DEATH | Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (Born 1912) |
| 8th of October 1953 | DEATH | Nigel Bruce, British actor (Born 1895) |
| 8th of October 1955 | DEATH | Iry LeJeune, Cajun musician (Born 1928) |
| 8th of October 1958 | DEATH | Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (Born 1886) |
| 8th of October 1962 | DEATH | Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer (Born 1909) |
| 8th of October 1967 | DEATH | Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1883) |
| 8th of October 1970 | DEATH | Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor (Born 1934) |
| 8th of October 1970 | DEATH | Jean Giono, French author (Born 1895) |
| 8th of October 1973 | DEATH | Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher (Born 1889) |
| 8th of October 1977 | DEATH | Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer , composer , lyricist (Born 1902) |
| 8th of October 1982 | DEATH | Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (Born 1915) |
| 8th of October 1982 | DEATH | Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born activist, Nobel laureate (Born 1889) |
| 8th of October 1983 | DEATH | Joan Hackett, American actress (Born 1934) |
| 8th of October 1985 | DEATH | Malcolm Ross, American balloonist and atmospheric physicist (Born 1919) |
| 8th of October 1987 | DEATH | Konstantinos Tsatsos, 2nd President of Greece (Born 1899) |
| 8th of October 1990 | DEATH | B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (Born 1947) |
| 8th of October 1992 | DEATH | Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel laureate (Born 1913) |
| 8th of October 1995 | DEATH | Christopher Keene, American conductor (Born 1946) |
| 8th of October 1997 | DEATH | Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (Born 1913) |
| 8th of October 1999 | DEATH | John McLendon, American basketball coach (Born 1915) |
| 8th of October 2000 | DEATH | Sheila Holland, English writer (Born 1937) |
| 8th of October 2002 | DEATH | Phyllis Calvert, British actress (Born 1915) |
| 8th of October 2002 | DEATH | Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1952) |
| 8th of October 2004 | DEATH | Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (Born 1930) |
| 8th of October 2004 | DEATH | James Chace, American historian (Born 1931) |
| 8th of October 2006 | DEATH | Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (Born 1974) |
| 8th of October 2007 | DEATH | Constantine Andreou, Greek artist (Born 1917) |
| 8th of October 2008 | DEATH | George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist (Born 1912) |
| 8th of October 2008 | DEATH | Eileen Herlie, American actress (Born 1918) |
| 8th of October 2008 | DEATH | Bob Friend (newscaster), British newscaster (Born 1938) |
| 8th of October 2010 | DEATH | Frank Bourgholtzer, American television correspondent (Born 1919) |