Notable deaths on May 8

British Army officer and mercenary (1952–2025)

American politician (1950–2024)

American football player (1938–2024)

American politician (1927–2024)

Panamanian novelist and lawyer (1952–2024)

Brazilian musician, author, actress and television host (1947–2023)

English actor and singer (1948–2022)

English painter (1936–2022)

German and American architect (1940–2021)

President of Nauru from 2011 to 2013

British film editor (1925–2018)

American professional wrestler, powerlifter

American actor (1922-2016)

Bulgarian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Bulgaria (born 1924)

Hungarian-Chilean footballer (1921–2015)

DR Congolese footballer (1949–2015)

Turkish actor and film director

Musical artist

American politician (1936–2014)

American actress and director (1935–2014)

American physicist and GPS inventor (1921–2014)

British filmmaker, writer, and actor (1926–2013)

American philosopher and cultural theorist

American actress (1928–2013)