Famous Deaths on April 8th

By carleydshirley
  • Apr 8, 1143

    John II Comnenus

    Emperor of Byzantium
  • Apr 8, 1498

    Charles VIII

    King of France was beheaded at 27.

  • Martin Chemnitz

    Lutheran reformer and theologian.

  • Pedro Vaz Rego

    composer, dies at 63.

  • Francois de La Croix

    composer, dies at 76.

  • Junius Morgan

    philanthropist, dies at 76.

  • Albert Ehrenstein

    Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63.

  • Pablo Picasso

    Spanish/French painter (Guernica), dies at 91.

  • Ryan White

    hemophiliac AIDS sufferer, dies at 18.

  • Claire Trevor

    American actress