What happened on June 8 ?

218 - Macrinus, Roman Emperor

632 - Muhammad, Prophet of Islam (b. 570)

1042 - Harthacanute, King of Denmark and England (b. 1018)

1376 - Edward, the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England (b. 1330)

1383 - Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros, English Crusader (b. 1338)

1384 - Kanami, Japanese actor (b. 1333)

1476 - George Neville, English archbishop and statesman

1505 - Hongzhi, Emperor of China (b. 1470)

1611 - Jean Bertaut, French poet (b. 1552)

1612 - Hans Leo Hassler, German composer (b. 1562)

1621 - Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (b. 1567)

1628 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)

1714 - Sophia of Hanover, heir to the throne of Great Britain (b. 1630)

1716 - Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (b. 1658)

1727 - August Hermann Francke, German protestant minister (b. 1663)

1768 - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German classical scholar and archaeologist (b. 1717)

1771 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)

1795 - King Louis XVII of France (b. 1785)

1809 - Thomas Paine, American revolutionary and writer (b. 1737)

1835 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)

1845 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (b. 1767)

1857 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)

1874 - Cochise, Apache leader

1876 - George Sand, French author (b. 1804)

1885 - Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal (b. 1799)

1924 - Andrew Irvine, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1902)

1924 - George Leigh Mallory, English mountain climber (climbing accident) (b. 1886)

1929 - Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (b. 1861)

1965 - Edmondo Rossoni, Italian fascist (b. 1884)

1966 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b. 1890)

1969 - Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)

1970 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)

1972 - Jimmy Rushing, American blues singer (b. 1903?)

1982 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (b. 1906)

1998 - Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria (b. 1943)

2000 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (b. 1948)

2004 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)

2006 - Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)

2006 - Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)