Notable deaths on April 8

Dominican Republic politician (1982–2025)

Welsh-Australian rugby league footballer (1934–2024)

British theoretical physicist (1929–2024)

U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient (1926–2024)

Austrian secretary (1915–2022)

Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (1930–2020)

Canadian-American actor (1940–2020)

Romanian-born American art curator (1926–2019)

American newspaper editor and publisher (1933–2015)

Indian writer, journalist, filmmaker

Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal (1936–2015)

Hong Kong chemist

Ukrainian kickboxer (1987–2015)

Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 2003 to 2012

New Zealand architect (1930–2014)

German writer and activist (1924–2014)

American actress and singer (1942–2013)

Spanish economist and writer (1917–2013)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990

Russian journalist (1958–2013)

Spanish actress and singer (1928–2013)

American football player (1961–2012)

American businessman and Holocaust survivor (1928–2012)

Polish-American soldier, historian, and political scientist (born 1921)