Notable deaths on June 8

American basketball player (1940–2024)

Indian businessman, media proprietor and film producer (1936–2024)

American media mogul and minister (1930–2023)

Portuguese visual artist (1935–2022)

Brazilian singer and musician (1971–2019)

American chef and travel documentarian (1956–2018)

Cambodian politician (1932–2015)

Polish–American scientist (1903–2014)

Japanese prince (1948–2014)

American lawyer and politician (1948–2013)

Indonesian politician (1942–2013)

Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theatre critic (1930–2013)

New Zealand/Australian mathematician

Lebanese journalist and politician (1926–2012)

Canadian musician (1940–2010)

President of Gabon from 1967 to 2009

American cartoonist

Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk

American astrophysicist and dissident

American baseball player (1938–2004)

American pornographic film director and producer (1935–2001)

French crime writer

Peruvian archaeologist, mathematician and technical translator (1903–1998)

Military head of state of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998