Deaths in 2008
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2008. Names are listed by date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.
A typical entry appears in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
- Björn Berg, 84, Swedish graphic artist and illustrator of several of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren's books. [1] [2]
- Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, 88, Indian jurist, chief justice of India (1978–1985). [3]
- Henki Kolstad, 93, Norwegian actor. [4]
- Mike Schutte, 57, South African boxer. [5]
- Bronisław Geremek, 76, Polish social historian and politician, car accident. [6] (English) [7] (Polish)
- Dave Ricketts, 73, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), renal cancer. [8]
- Evgeni Artyukhin, 58, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler, 1983 world champion. [9] (Russian)
- Reinhard Fabisch, 57, German football manager. [10]
- Gianfranco Funari, 76, Italian author and television presenter. [11] (Italian)
- Vili Kazasyan, 74, Bulgarian composer, conductor and pianist. [12]
- Bobby Murcer, 62, American baseball player and sportscaster (New York Yankees), brain cancer. [13]
- Olive Riley, 108, Australian woman believed to be the world's oldest blogger, natural causes. [14][15]
- Tony Snow, 53, American White House press secretary (2006–2007), Fox News presenter, colon cancer. [16]
- Tsai Chao-yang, 67, Taiwanese politician, minister of Transportation and Communications, pneumonia. [17] (Chinese)
- Joe Barr, 63, American editor and writer. [18]
- Michael E. DeBakey, 99, American cardiovascular surgeon and medical pioneer, natural causes. [19]
- Roy M. Huffington, 90, American oilman, diplomat and philanthropist, natural causes. [20]
- Anatoly Pristavkin, 76, Russian writer. [21] (Russian)
- Hiroaki Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American founder of Benihana restaurants, pneumonia. [22] [23]
- Bernard Cahier, 81, French Formula One photojournalist. [24]
- Jakob Ejersbo, 40, Danish writer, cancer. [25] (Danish)
- Steve Mingori, 64, American baseball pitcher (Kansas City Royals), natural causes. [26]
- Mike Souchak, 81, American golfer, complications of heart attack. [27]
- Ahmad Suradji, 57, Indonesian serial killer, execution by firing squad. [28]
- Yoji Totsuka, 66, Japanese particle physicist, colorectal cancer. [29]
- Vindication, 8, American champion racehorse, euthanized. [30]
- Séamus Brennan, 60, Irish politician, prostate cancer. [31]
- Charles H. Joffe, 78, American film producer, after long illness. [32]
- Ramesh Singh Munda, 53, Indian politician, welfare minister of Jharkhand, shot. [33]
- Alex d'Arbeloff, 80, American entrepreneur. [34]
- Sir John Templeton, 95, British businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia. [35]
- Bruce Conner, 74, American artist, natural causes. [36]
- Bruce Dalling, 69, South African yachtsman, heart attack. [37]
- Yitzchok Dovid Groner, 83, Australian Chabad rabbi. [38]
- João Isidro, 58, Portuguese journalist, cancer. [39] (Portuguese)
- Dorian Leigh, 91, American fashion model (Revlon). [40]
- Clem McSpadden, 82, American politician, congressman from Oklahoma (1973–1975), cancer. [41]
- Hugh Mendl, 88, British record producer. [42]
- Giovanni Viola, 82, Italian football goalkeeper, natural causes. [43] (Italian)
- Fred Yates, 85, British painter. [44]
- Bob Ackles, 69, Canadian executive for the CFL's BC Lions, heart attack. [45]
- Jack C. Collins, 78, Australian footballer, premiership winner with Footscray (1954), heart attack. [46]
- Bobby Durham, 71, American jazz drummer. [47]
- Ambuya Mlambo, 84, Zimbabwean radio and television presenter, cancer. [48]
- Nonna Mordyukova, 82, Russian actress, diabetes. [49] (Russian)
- Diana O'Brien, 22, Canadian model, stabbed. [50]
- Mando Ramos, 59, American professional boxer. [51]
- Ethne Rudd, 79, British magistrate, secretary of the Kensington Society, pancreatic cancer. [52]
- George Tibbits, 74, Australian historian and composer. Source: The Age 9 July 2008
- Hasan Doğan, 52, Turkish president of the national football federation, cardiac arrest. [53]
- René Harris, 59, Nauruan president (1999–2000, 2001–2003, 2003, 2003–2004), cardiac arrest. [54]
- Thich Huyen Quang, 88, Vietnamese religious leader, supreme patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam. [55]
- Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author (Camp Concentration, The Brave Little Toaster), suicide. [56]
- Jesse Helms, 86, American politician, senator from North Carolina (1973–2003), natural causes. [57]
- Evelyn Keyes, 91, American actress (Gone With the Wind), uterine cancer. [58]
- Terrence Kiel, 27, American football player (San Diego Chargers), car crash. [59]
- Wayne Pai, 55, Taiwanese businessman, founding chairman of Polaris Group, suicide. [60]
- Agneta Prytz, 91, Swedish actress, wife of Gösta Folke. [61] (Swedish)
- Janwillem van de Wetering, 77, Dutch writer. [62]
- Sir Charles Wheeler, 85, British journalist, longest serving BBC foreign correspondent, lung cancer. [63] [64]
- Dan Cook, 81, American journalist (San Antonio Express-News). [65]
- Ernie Cooksey, 28, British footballer (Oldham Athletic, Grays Athletic), melanoma. [66]
- Colin Cooper, 69, British vocalist and saxophonist (Climax Blues Band), cancer. [67]
- Larry Harmon, 83, American entertainer (Bozo the Clown), heart failure. [68]
- Harald Heide-Steen Jr., 68, Norwegian actor and comedian, lung cancer. [69] (Norwegian)
- Clive Hornby, 63, British actor (Emmerdale), hypoxia. [70]
- Kat Kinkade, 77, American co-founder of Twin Oaks Community, cancer. [71]
- Noel Sayre, 37, American violinist and co-founder of The Black Swans, apparent heart attack. [72]
- Oliver Schroer, 53, Canadian fiddler, leukemia. [73]
- Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal, 66, Indian qadi, cancer. [74]
- Abdel Wahab Elmessiri, 70, Egyptian scholar and politician, cancer. [75]
- Eric Lieber, 71, American television producer (Love Connection), leukemia. [76]
- Joe Nhlanhla, 71, South African politician, minister of Intelligence Services (1999–2001). [77]
- Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish writer. [78]
- Natasha Shneider, 52, Russian-born American actress (2010: The Year We Make Contact) and musician (Eleven), cancer. [79]
- Elizabeth Spriggs, 78, British actress. [80]
- Clay Felker, 82, American editor and journalist (New York magazine), throat cancer. [81]
- Mel Galley, 60, British guitarist (Trapeze, Whitesnake, Phenomena), cancer. [82]
- Mogens Glistrup, 82, Danish politician, lawyer and founder of the Progress Party. [83] [84] (Danish)
- Robert Harling, 98, British typographer. [85]
- Dejan Medaković, 85, Serbian writer, historian, professor, president of Academy of Sciences and Arts (1999–2003). [86] (Serbian)
- John Pont, 80, American college football coach. [87]
- Mark Dean Schwab, 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [88]
- Jules Tygiel, 59, American professor and author, cancer. [89] [90]
- Erich Witte, 97, German tenor. [91] (German)
See Deaths in June 2008.
See Deaths in May 2008.
See Deaths in April 2008.
See Deaths in March 2008.
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For earlier deaths, see Deaths in 2007, Deaths in 2006, Deaths in 2005, Deaths in 2004, Deaths in 2003, Deaths in 2002, Deaths in 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, ...