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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 8th of December 1432 | EVENT | the first battle between the forces of Svitrigaila and Sigismund Kestutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the civil war in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. |
| 8th of December 1660 | EVENT | Margaret Hughes becomes the first actress to appear on an English public stage, playing the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello. |
| 8th of December 1854 | EVENT | In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin. |
| 8th of December 1907 | EVENT | King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne. |
| 8th of December 1912 | EVENT | Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out. |
| 8th of December 1941 | EVENT | Japanese forces invade Thailand's southern peninsula. They face a heavy resistance, however, Plaek Phibunsongkhram ordered a ceasefire. |
| 8th of December 1941 | EVENT | United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. and the Republic of China declare war against Japan. |
| 8th of December 1941 | EVENT | Japanese forces launch an invasion into Hong Kong. Battle of Hong Kong begins. |
| 8th of December 1953 | EVENT | United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, and the U.S. launches its "Atoms for Peace" program that supplied equipment and information to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world. |
| 8th of December 1963 | EVENT | Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by positive lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing all 81 people on board. |
| 8th of December 1966 | EVENT | The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200. |
| 8th of December 1972 | EVENT | United Airlines Flight 553 crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. |
| 8th of December 1974 | EVENT | A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece. |
| 8th of December 1980 | EVENT | John Lennon, an English musician and peace activist, is murdered by Mark David Chapman, a mentally unstable fan, in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City. |
| 8th of December 1982 | EVENT | In Suriname, several opponents of the military government are killed. |
| 8th of December 1987 | EVENT | The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed. |
| 8th of December 1987 | EVENT | The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs. |
| 8th of December 1987 | EVENT | Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death. |
| 8th of December 1991 | EVENT | The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
| 8th of December 1991 | EVENT | The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum. |
| 8th of December 1993 | EVENT | The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton. |
| 8th of December 1998 | EVENT | Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria. |
| 8th of December 1998 | EVENT | The Australian Cricket Board's cover-up of Shane Warne and Mark Waugh's involvement with bookmakers is revealed. |
| 8th of December 2002 | EVENT | The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day"--to celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba. |
| 8th of December 2004 | EVENT | The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations. |
| 8th of December 2005 | EVENT | Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Americas, Tenerife by the Spanish police. |
| 8th of December 2007 | EVENT | Benazir Bhutto, first and only female former Prime Minister of Pakistan, had her PPP Office stormed by unidentified gunmen. Three supporters are killed. |
| 8th of December 2009 | EVENT | Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq kill 127 and injure 448. |
| 8th of December 2010 | EVENT | With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. |
| 8th of December 1542 | BIRTHDAY | Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1587) |
| 8th of December 1574 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Anna of Bavaria, consort of Ferdinand II (d. 1616) |
| 8th of December 1626 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Christina of Sweden (d. 1689) |
| 8th of December 1678 | BIRTHDAY | Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (d. 1757) |
| 8th of December 1699 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Maria Josepha of Poland (d. 1757) |
| 8th of December 1708 | BIRTHDAY | Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765) |
| 8th of December 1730 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist and botanist (d. 1799) |
| 8th of December 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria (d. 1801) |
| 8th of December 1765 | BIRTHDAY | Eli Whitney, American inventor (d. 1825) |
| 8th of December 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (d. 1874) |
| 8th of December 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905) |
| 8th of December 1816 | BIRTHDAY | August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born American financier (d. 1890) |
| 8th of December 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician (d. 1896) |
| 8th of December 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson, Norwegian author and Nobel laureate (d. 1910) |
| 8th of December 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish novelist and poet (d. 1939) |
| 8th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | William C. Durant, American automobile executive (d. 1947) |
| 8th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (d. 1944) |
| 8th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Melies, French filmmaker (d. 1938) |
| 8th of December 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921) |
| 8th of December 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Claudel, French graphic artist and sculptor (d. 1943) |
| 8th of December 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician (d. 1963) |
| 8th of December 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (d. 1957) |
| 8th of December 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Moro, Austrian physician (d. 1951) |
| 8th of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (d. 1957) |
| 8th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Bohuslav Martinu, Czech composer (d. 1959) |
| 8th of December 1894 | BIRTHDAY | E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938) |
| 8th of December 1894 | BIRTHDAY | James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (d. 1961) |
| 8th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | John Qualen, Canadian actor (d. 1987) |
| 8th of December 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (d. 1990) |
| 8th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist (d. 1982) |
| 8th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | John A. Volpe, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation (d. 1994) |
| 8th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Lesslie Newbigin, English theologian and bishop (d. 1998) |
| 8th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Gratien Gelinas, French-Canadian playwright and producer (d. 1999) |
| 8th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (d. 1992) |
| 8th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Delmore Schwartz, American poet (d. 1966) |
| 8th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter (d. 2005) |
| 8th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006) |
| 8th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Souzay, French baritone (d. 2004) |
| 8th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Tali Coleman, American politician and 43rd, 51st and 53rd Governor of American Samoa (d. 1997) |
| 8th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Ritchie, American folk singer |
| 8th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Lucian Freud, English painter |
| 8th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-born American chemist |
| 8th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Davis Jr., American actor and singer (d. 1990) |
| 8th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Smith, American jazz organist (d. 2005) |
| 8th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Martin Gaite, Spanish author (d. 2000) |
| 8th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdie Pacheco, American boxing trainer |
| 8th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Shatalov, Soviet cosmonaut |
| 8th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (d. 1996) |
| 8th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ulric Neisser, American cognitive psychologist |
| 8th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilian Schell, Austrian-born Swiss actor and film director |
| 8th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Critchley, British politician (d. 2000) |
| 8th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Arum, American boxing promoter |
| 8th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Flip Wilson, American comedian (d. 1998) |
| 8th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player |
| 8th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Dharmendra, Indian actor |
| 8th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | David Carradine, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 8th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Arne Naess Jr., Norwegian mountain climber and businessman (d. 2004) |
| 8th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 8th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Red Berenson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sir James Galway, Northern Irish flautist |
| 8th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry "The Iceman" Butler, American soul singer |
| 8th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Soko Richardson, American rhythm and blues drummer (d. 2004) |
| 8th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Brant Alyea, American baseball player |
| 8th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Brinkman, American baseball player |
| 8th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Cunningham, First Navy Vietnam Ace, American politician |
| 8th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Brown, American football player |
| 8th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Geoff Hurst, English footballer |
| 8th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bodo Tummler, German middle-distance runner |
| 8th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Johnson, American professional wrestling manager |
| 8th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (d. 1971) |
| 8th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Woronov, American actress |
| 8th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist |
| 8th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Rubinstein, American actor, composer, director |
| 8th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Sharmila Tagore, Indian Actress |
| 8th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger |
| 8th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gregg Allman, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band) |
| 8th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 8th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Blanc, French singer |
| 8th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish author |
| 8th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Caffarelli, Argentine-born American mathematician |
| 8th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Shulman, English musician |
| 8th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Meyers, American film director, producer and screenwriter |
| 8th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Gordon, American writer |
| 8th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Sternberg, American psychologist and psychometrician |
| 8th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Foli, American baseball player |
| 8th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Hartman, American musician (Edgar Winter Group) (d. 1994) |
| 8th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Baker, American film makeup artist |
| 8th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Bryson, American author |
| 8th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer and songwriter |
| 8th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Khaw Boon Wan, Singapore Health Minister |
| 8th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Firestone, American sports announcer |
| 8th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Basinger, American actress |
| 8th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Finkelstein, American professor |
| 8th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Kinison, American comedian (d. 1992) |
| 8th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Hongju Koh, American lawyer and Obama Administration advisor |
| 8th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Gadowar Singh Sahota, Indian professional wrestler |
| 8th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Cuccurullo, American musician |
| 8th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Edge English musician |
| 8th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Collen, English guitarist (Def Leppard) |
| 8th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Curling, British television presenter |
| 8th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bird McIntyre, Thai pop singer, musician |
| 8th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Steyn, Canadian writer and cultural critic |
| 8th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Jefferies, South African cricketer |
| 8th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Lim Guan Eng, Malaysian statesman |
| 8th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Coulter, American political commentator |
| 8th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mikey Robins, Australian comedian |
| 8th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Wendell Pierce, American actor |
| 8th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Friedman, American guitarist |
| 8th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Howe, Americal guitarist |
| 8th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese wrestler |
| 8th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | James Blundell, Australian country singer |
| 8th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Teri Hatcher, American actress |
| 8th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Chigusa Nagayo, Japanese wrestler |
| 8th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | David Harewood, British actor |
| 8th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Carina Lau, Hong Kong actress |
| 8th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sinead O'Connor, Irish musician |
| 8th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Tremaine, American television and film director |
| 8th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff George, American football player |
| 8th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress) |
| 8th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Sheridan, English footballer and manager |
| 8th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Kapp, German curler |
| 8th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cole, American professional wrestling commentator |
| 8th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Mussina, American baseball player |
| 8th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Van Wormer, American actor |
| 8th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Abreu, Angolan footballer |
| 8th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Shamrock, American mixed martial artist |
| 8th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Taylor, American singer (Slipknot, Stone Sour) |
| 8th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Doron Bell Jr., Canadian actor |
| 8th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Cristian Castro, Mexican singer |
| 8th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Simmons, American football player |
| 8th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Zinner, American guitarist (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) |
| 8th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jerrelle Clark, American wrestler |
| 8th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Harvick, American racing driver |
| 8th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Reed Johnson, American baseball player |
| 8th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Naimee Coleman, Irish singer and songwriter |
| 8th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Monaghan, English actor |
| 8th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Butler, Celebrity Chef |
| 8th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brettina Robinson, singer and songwriter |
| 8th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Elsa Benitez, Mexican supermodel |
| 8th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Newman, American racing driver |
| 8th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Chabal, French rugby union footballer |
| 8th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Somerhalder, American actor |
| 8th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Oster, Welsh footballer |
| 8th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Wells, American baseball player |
| 8th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Anwar Siraj, Ethiopian footballer |
| 8th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Park Kyung-lim, South Korean entertainer |
| 8th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Piquionne, France footballer |
| 8th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Lam, Hong Kong actor and singer |
| 8th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Forssell, Swedish politician |
| 8th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 8th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Michaelson, American indie-pop singer-songwriter |
| 8th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Pena Quevedo, Venezuelan track and field athlete |
| 8th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer |
| 8th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Kelly, American reality television personality |
| 8th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player |
| 8th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Rivers, American football player |
| 8th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hamit Alt?ntop, Turkish footballer |
| 8th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Aceves, American baseball player |
| 8th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (d. 2009) |
| 8th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Halil Alt?ntop, Turkish footballer |
| 8th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Rave, American wrestler |
| 8th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Noelle Pikus-Pace, American skeleton racer |
| 8th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | DeeDee Trotter, American athlete |
| 8th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Neel Jani, Swiss racing driver |
| 8th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Liu Song, Chinese snooker player |
| 8th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Badr Hari, Dutch kickboxer |
| 8th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-American rapper |
| 8th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Halford, English footballer |
| 8th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Meagan Duhamel, Canadian figure skater |
| 8th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Oleksiy Pecherov, American basketball player |
| 8th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight Howard, American basketball player |
| 8th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Amir Khan, English boxer |
| 8th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Voegele, American musician |
| 8th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 8th of December 1993 | BIRTHDAY | AnnaSophia Robb, American actress and singer |
| 8th of December 0899 | DEATH | Arnulf of Carinthia (Born 850) |
| 8th of December 1626 | DEATH | John Davies, English poet (Born 1569) |
| 8th of December 1632 | DEATH | Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer (Born 1561) |
| 8th of December 1638 | DEATH | Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (Born 1589) |
| 8th of December 1643 | DEATH | John Pym, English statesman (Born 1583) |
| 8th of December 1649 | DEATH | Noel Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (Born 1613) |
| 8th of December 1680 | DEATH | Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician (Born 1606) |
| 8th of December 1691 | DEATH | Richard Baxter, English clergyman (Born 1615) |
| 8th of December 1695 | DEATH | Barthelemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (Born 1625) |
| 8th of December 1709 | DEATH | Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (Born 1625) |
| 8th of December 1722 | DEATH | Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orleans (Born 1652) |
| 8th of December 1744 | DEATH | Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Chateauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (Born 1717) |
| 8th of December 1745 | DEATH | Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (Born 1683) |
| 8th of December 1746 | DEATH | Charles Radclyffe, British politician (Born 1693) |
| 8th of December 1756 | DEATH | William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat (Born 1690) |
| 8th of December 1768 | DEATH | Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary (Born 1702) |
| 8th of December 1779 | DEATH | Nathan Alcock, English physician (Born 1707) |
| 8th of December 1793 | DEATH | Madame du Barry, last royal mistress of France, guillotined (Born 1743) |
| 8th of December 1811 | DEATH | Eliza Poe, English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe (Born 1787) |
| 8th of December 1830 | DEATH | Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer (Born 1767) |
| 8th of December 1859 | DEATH | Thomas de Quincey, English author (Born 1785) |
| 8th of December 1864 | DEATH | George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (Born 1815) |
| 8th of December 1869 | DEATH | Narcisa de Jesus Martillo, Ecuadorian saint (Born 1832) |
| 8th of December 1885 | DEATH | William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (Born 1821) |
| 8th of December 1894 | DEATH | Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (Born 1821) |
| 8th of December 1907 | DEATH | Oscar II of Sweden (Born 1829) |
| 8th of December 1914 | DEATH | Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer (Born 1861) |
| 8th of December 1917 | DEATH | Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer (Born 1836) |
| 8th of December 1938 | DEATH | Friedrich Glauser, Swiss writer (Born 1896) |
| 8th of December 1940 | DEATH | George Lloyd (bishop of Saskatchewan), Anglican Bishop and theologian (Born 1861) |
| 8th of December 1952 | DEATH | Charles Lightoller, English second officer on the Titanic (Born 1874) |
| 8th of December 1954 | DEATH | Joseph B. Keenan, American political figure (Born 1888) |
| 8th of December 1954 | DEATH | Gladys George, American stage and screen actress |
| 8th of December 1958 | DEATH | Tris Speaker, American baseball player (Born 1888) |
| 8th of December 1963 | DEATH | Sarit Dhanarajata, Thai politician (Born 1908) |
| 8th of December 1966 | DEATH | Ward Morehouse, American theater critic and newspaper columnist (Born 1899) |
| 8th of December 1967 | DEATH | John Mills, Sr., American singer (Mills Brothers) (Born 1889) |
| 8th of December 1971 | DEATH | Eleni Ourani, Greek writer (Born 1896) |
| 8th of December 1975 | DEATH | Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep) (Born 1948) |
| 8th of December 1978 | DEATH | Golda Meir, Russian-born Prime Minister of Israel (Born 1898) |
| 8th of December 1980 | DEATH | John Lennon, English musician (The Beatles) (Born 1940) |
| 8th of December 1982 | DEATH | Marty Robbins, American singer (Born 1925) |
| 8th of December 1982 | DEATH | Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist (Born 1951) |
| 8th of December 1983 | DEATH | Slim Pickens, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 8th of December 1984 | DEATH | Luther Adler, American actor (Born 1903) |
| 8th of December 1984 | DEATH | Razzle, English musician and drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (Born 1960) |
| 8th of December 1984 | DEATH | Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist (Born 1953) |
| 8th of December 1991 | DEATH | Kimberly Bergalis, claimed to have contracted HIV from her dentist (Born 1968) |
| 8th of December 1991 | DEATH | Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpeter (Born 1911) |
| 8th of December 1992 | DEATH | William Shawn, American magazine editor (Born 1917) |
| 8th of December 1993 | DEATH | Yevgeni Minaev, Soviet (Russian) weightlifter (Born 1933) |
| 8th of December 1994 | DEATH | Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian composer and arranger (Born 1927) |
| 8th of December 1996 | DEATH | Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (Born 1938) |
| 8th of December 1996 | DEATH | Howard Rollins, American actor (Born 1950) |
| 8th of December 1997 | DEATH | Bob Bell, played Bozo the Clown (Born 1922) |
| 8th of December 1998 | DEATH | Michael Craze, British Actor (Born1942) |
| 8th of December 1999 | DEATH | Peter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (Born 1923) |
| 8th of December 2001 | DEATH | Don Tennant, American advertising executive (Born 1922) |
| 8th of December 2003 | DEATH | Ruben Gonzalez, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club) (Born 1919) |
| 8th of December 2004 | DEATH | Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Abbott), American guitarist (Pantera, Damageplan) (Born 1966) |
| 8th of December 2005 | DEATH | Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (Born 1915) |
| 8th of December 2006 | DEATH | Martha Tilton, American singer (Born 1915) |
| 8th of December 2006 | DEATH | Jose Uribe, Dominican baseball player (Born 1959) |
| 8th of December 2007 | DEATH | Gerardo Garcia Pimentel, Mexican journalist (Born 1983) |
| 8th of December 2008 | DEATH | Oliver Postgate, English animator, puppeteer and writer. (Born 1925) |
| 8th of December 2008 | DEATH | Robert Prosky, American actor (Born 1930). |
| 8th of December 2008 | DEATH | Kerryn McCann, Australian athlete (Born 1967) |
| 8th of December 2009 | DEATH | Kenneth Biros, American murderer (Born 1958) |
| 8th of December 2009 | DEATH | Luis Dias, Dominican Composer (Born 1952). |