| September 8th 1935 | | Carl Austin Weiss, murderer of Sen Huey Long, shot down
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| September 8th 1935 | | Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
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| September 8th 1944 | | Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal, hanged at 62
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| September 8th 1944 | | Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63
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| September 8th 1949 | | Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85
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| September 8th 1951 | | Jurgen Stroop, Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed
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| September 8th 1951 | | Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 33
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| September 8th 1955 | | John de Young, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69
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| September 8th 1956 | | Vital Celen, Flemish writer ('t Pastoorke van Vossendonck), dies at 69
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| September 8th 1956 | | Gerrit Bolkestein, Dutch minister of Education (1939-4.), dies at 84
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| September 8th 1960 | | Johan J "Jussi" Bjā€¯rling, Swedish epic tenor, dies at 49
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| September 8th 1962 | | Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84
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| September 8th 1965 | | Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood
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| September 8th 1969 | | Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61
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| September 8th 1974 | | Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79
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