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Celebrities who died on 8 September
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Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022

Leni Riefenstahl
German film director, photographer, actress and dancer

Dorothy Dandridge
American film and theatre actress, singer and dancer

Jerry Pournelle
American science fiction writer and journalist

Ram Jethmalani
Indian lawyer and politician

Jack Verge
Australian rugby union player

Zero Mostel
American actor

Chelsi Smith
actress, singer, Miss USA 1995 and Miss Universe 1995

Susan L. Solomon
American chief executive

Camilo Sesto
Spanish singer 1946

Pierre Bergé
French industrialist and patron

Moondog
American composer

Prince Buster
Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer

Chris Dobson
British chemist

Abu Hassan Omar
Malaysian politician

Yevgeny Zinichev
Russian politician and colonel

George F. Veenker
American college basketball coach, college athletic director

Don Williams
American country singer

Paul Philippe Cret
French-American architect and industrial designer

Bud Collyer
American actor

Gerald Wilson
American trumpetist

Jaya Prakash Reddy
Indian actor

Connie Johnson
Australian cancer fundraiser

Alfred Riedl
Austrian soccer player

Sonny West
American rockabilly musician, singer, songwriter

Antony Acland
British diplomat

Uno Loop
Estonian singer

Akbar Ali Khan
Bangladeshi economist and educationist

Richard Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill
British field marshal

Gennady Gagulia
Abkhazian politician

Arthur Turner
English cricketer and officer

Gene Budig
American baseball executive

Brad Davis
American actor

Mike Bongiorno
American-born Italian television host.

Lorraine H. Morton
American mayor

Derek Bailey
American tribal chairman

Vexi Salmi
Finnish lyricist and record producer

Leonid Kinskey
Russian actor

Frank Thomas
American animator

Jim Owens
American baseball player and coach

Peter M. Schneider
German forensic geneticist

Lou Rosenberg
professional baseball player

Tito Capobianco
Argentine opera director and impresario

Catherine Hardy Lavender
American Athletics competitor

Luis Villafuerte
Filipino politician

Dietmar Lorenz
East German judoka

Yusuf Motala
Indian scholar

Marciano Cantero
Argentine musician