i was born last October 8 , 1997 104,457 died! People who died on October 08, 1997 (the exact day you were born) * Bertrand Goldberg, American architect Unusual Deaths in 1997 * Daniel jones, a 21-year-old from woodbridge, virginia died when the 8-foot-deep hole he dug at a beach in buxton, north carolina, collapsed on him, burying him under five feet of sand. Natural disasters in 1997 * October 24-26, 1997 Western Plains winter storms * 1997 Red River Flood * 1997 Thredbo landslide People who died on October 08 (various years) * 2006 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver * 2004 - James Chace, American historian * 2004 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher * 2002 - Jacques Richard, French Canadian ice hockey player * 1999 - John McLendon, American basketball coach * 1992 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel laureate * 1990 - B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) * 1983 - Joan Hackett, American actress * 1982 - Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, Nobel laureate * 1982 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor * 1977 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer , composer , lyricist (b. 1902 ) * 1973 - Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher * 1970 - Jean Giono, French author * 1970 - Mitr Chaibancha, Thai film actor * 1967 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom * 1958 - Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author * 1953 - Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto * 1953 - Nigel Bruce, British actor * 1952 - Joe Adams, American baseball player * 1945 - Felix Salten, Austrian author * 1944 - Wendell Willkie, American politician * 1942 - Sergei Chaplygin, Soviet engineer * 1936 - Red Ames, American baseball player * 1936 - William Henry Stark, American business leader * 1931 - Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general * 1928 - Larry Semon, comedian * 1897 - Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter * 1886 - Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire * 1879 - Miguel Grau Seminario, Peruvian Admiral * 1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States * 1847 - Rose Scott, Social Reformer * 1834 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, French composer * 1809 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist * 1795 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman * 1793 - John Hancock, American revolutionary * 1772 - Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer * 1754 - Henry Fielding, English author * 1735 - Yongzheng Emperor of China * 1659 - Jean de Quen, French Jesuit missionary * 1656 - John George I, Elector of Saxony * 1652 - John Greaves, English mathematician * 1647 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer * 1621 - Antoine de Montchrétien, French dramatist * 1317 - Fushimi, Emperor of Japan * 1286 - John I of Dreux, Duke of Brittany * 976 - Jelena of Zadar, Croatian queen

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