Famous Deaths for 8th October 2025

1606 – John VI the Elder, Count of Nassau, father of 24, dies at 69
1820 – Henri Christophe, President of Haiti (1807-11) and King of Haiti (1811-20), dies at 53
1834 – François-Adrien Boieldieu, French opera composer known as ‘the French Mozart’ (La dame blanche – The White Lady), dies at 58
1941 – Gus Kahn, German-American lyricist (“It Had to Be You”; “Makin’ Whoopee”; “I’ll See You in My Dreams”), dies of a heart attack at 54
1969 – Eduardo Ciannelli, Italian actor (Foreign Correspondent, Gunga Din), dies at 80
1978 – Karl Swenson, American actor (Lars Hanson-Little House on the Prairie), dies of a heart attack at 70
1988 – Ernst Hermann Meyer, German composer, dies at 82
2002 – Phyllis Calvert [Bickle], British actress (Crash of Silence, The Man in Grey), dies at 87
2017 – Jerry Kleczka, American politician (Rep-D-WI, 1984-2005), dies at 73
2024 – Tim Johnson, American Democratic politician and senator from South Dakota (1997-2015), dies at 77

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