| 115321 | October 8 | Death | 1944 – Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1892) |
| 115322 | October 8 | Death | 1945 – Felix Salten, Austrian author and critic (b. 1869) |
| 115323 | October 8 | Death | 1952 – Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1877) |
| 115324 | October 8 | Death | 1953 – Nigel Bruce, Mexican-American actor and singer (b. 1895) |
| 115325 | October 8 | Death | 1953 – Kathleen Ferrier, English singer (b. 1912) |
| 115326 | October 8 | Death | 1955 – Iry LeJeune, American accordion player (b. 1928) |
| 115327 | October 8 | Death | 1958 – Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author and translator (b. 1886) |
| 115328 | October 8 | Death | 1962 – Toivo Aro, Finnish diver (b. 1887) |
| 115329 | October 8 | Death | 1962 – Solomon Linda, South African singer-songwriter (b. 1909) |
| 115330 | October 8 | Death | 1963 – Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican painter (b. 1908) |
| 115331 | October 8 | Death | 1967 – Clement Attlee, English soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883) |
| 115332 | October 8 | Death | 1970 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor and producer (b. 1934) |
| 115333 | October 8 | Death | 1970 – Jean Giono, French author and poet (b. 1895) |
| 115334 | October 8 | Death | 1973 – Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, playwright, and critic (b. 1889) |
| 115335 | October 8 | Death | 1977 – Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1902) |
| 115336 | October 8 | Death | 1979 – Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal (b. 1896) |
| 115337 | October 8 | Death | 1979 – Emmaline Henry, American actress (b. 1928) |
| 115338 | October 8 | Death | 1979 – Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician (b. 1902) |
| 115339 | October 8 | Death | 1982 – Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director (b. 1915) |
| 115340 | October 8 | Death | 1982 – Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) |
| 115341 | October 8 | Death | 1983 – Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934) |
| 115342 | October 8 | Death | 1985 – Malcolm Ross, American captain, physicist, and balloonist (b. 1919) |
| 115343 | October 8 | Death | 1985 – Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and scholar (b. 1906) |
| 115344 | October 8 | Death | 1987 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899) |
| 115345 | October 8 | Death | 1990 – B. J. Wilson, English drummer (Procol Harum) (b. 1947) |
| 115346 | October 8 | Death | 1992 – Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) |
| 115347 | October 8 | Death | 1994 – Oscar M. Ruebhausen, American lawyer (b. 1912) |
| 115348 | October 8 | Death | 1995 – Christopher Keene, American conductor and educator (b. 1946) |
| 115349 | October 8 | Death | 1997 – Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City Building (b. 1913) |
| 115350 | October 8 | Death | 1999 – John McLendon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915) |