Famous People Who Died on May 8

• Blavatsky, Helena (1891)

  The psychic who co-founded The Theosophical Society

• Bo the Dog (2021)

  The family dog of President Barack Obama

• Flaubert, Gustave (1880)

  The author of Madame Bovary

• Gaugin, Paul (1903)

  The Post-Impressionist painter of Tahitian girls

• Heinlein, Robert A. (1988)

  The author of Stranger in a Strange Land

• Lavoisier, Antoine (1794)

  French chemist who proved the law of conservation of mass

• Little Richard (2020)

  The flamboyant singer of "Tutti Frutti"

• Mill, John Stuart (1873)

  The author of 1859's On Liberty

• Muybridge, Eadweard (1904)

  The guy whose frame-by-frame horse photos started the movies

• Sendak, Maurice (2012)

  The illustrator who created Where the Wild Things Are

• Sturgeon, Theodore (1985)

  The science fiction author of 'More Than Human'

See also: Born on May 8