Famous Deaths for 8th November 2025

618 – St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies
1773 – Friedrich Wilhelm, baron von Seydlitz, Prussian general, dies at 52
1833 – Maximilian Stadler, Austrian pianist and composer and Benedictine monk, dies at 85
1877 – Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Queen consort of Saxony (1854-73), dies at 75
1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of French President Charles de Gaulle, dies at 79
1995 – Country Dick Montana [Daniel McLain], American rock drummer and vocalist (The Beat Farmers – “Happy Boy”), dies on stage during a performance in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada at age 40
1998 – Rumer Godden, English author (Thursday’s Children), dies at 90
2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist, dies at 65
2010 – Jack Levine, American social realist painter, dies at 95
2021 – Margo Guryan, American jazz and pop pianist, songwriter, and singer (“I’m on My Way to Saturday”; “Take a Picture”), dies at 84

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