Notable deaths on February 8

American football player and coach (1950–2025)

Brother of the 14th Dalai Lama (1928–2025)

President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005

Finnish ice hockey player (1963–2023)

American football player and coach (1943–2021)

American singer (1944–2021)

American actor (1935–2020)

British screenwriter (1929–2017)

English physicist (1933–2017)

Musical artist

Argentine actress (1914–2016)

English novelist and biographer (1938–2016)

Indian poet, lyricist and dialogue writer (1938–2016)

French ballet dancer, choreographer, and professor

Finnish ufologist (1939–2015)

Dutch politician (1932–2014)

Brazilian footballer (1988–2014)

American artist (1938–2014)

Italian cardinal (born 1918)

American conductor (1936–2013)

American journalist and author

American food scientist

Argentine musician (1950–2012)

Brazilian singer-songwriter