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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2008. Names are listed under the 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.
April 2008
17
- Aimé Césaire, 94, French Martiniquan poet and politician.
- Gwyneth Dunwoody, 77, British Labour Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich, following open heart surgery.
- Mikhail Tanich, 84, Russian poet, kidney problems. (Russian)
16
- Lucia Cunanan, 80, Filipino restaurateur credited with inventing sisig, murdered (battery).
- Pedro Bandeira Freire, 68, Portuguese writer, founder and director of Cinema Quarteto. (Portuguese)
- Edward Lorenz, 90, American professor of meteorology, cancer.
15
- Imre Antal, 72, Hungarian pianist, TV personality, actor and humorist, cancer. (Hungarian)
- David Cass, 71, American economist.
- Sean Costello, 28, American blues guitarist and singer.
- Hazel Court, 82, British actress (The Masque of the Red Death, The Raven), heart attack.
- Clifford Davies, 59, American musician, former drummer for Ted Nugent, apparent suicide by gunshot.
- Parvin Dowlatabadi, 84, Iranian children's author and poet, heart attack.
- Renata Fronzi, 82, Argentine-born Brazilian actress, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. (Portuguese)
- Miguel Galván, 50, Mexican comedian and TV personality, respiratory arrest.
- Benoît Lamy, 62, Belgian motion picture writer-director. (French)
- Krister Stendahl, 86, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop.
- Mahinarangi Tocker, 52, New Zealand musician, asthma attack.
14
- Horst Bingel, 74, German author. (German)
- Olivia Cenizal, 81, Filipino actress.
- Madeline Lee Gilford, 84, American actress and theatrical producer, wife of the late Jack Gilford.
- Tommy Holmes, 91, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
- Jamacia Jackson, 26, American football linebacker (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Berlin Thunder), cardiac arrhythmia.
- Ollie Johnston, 95, American animator, the last of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men".
- Marisa Sannia, 61, Italian singer. (Italian)
- Donald Sloan, 81, Scottish rugby union player (Edinburgh Academical, Scotland).
- Robert Somervaille, 86, Australian lawyer, chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1987–1991).
13
- Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, 51, American kidnapper.
- Eduardo Martins, 68, Brazilian journalist and author, cancer and respiratory failure. (Portuguese)
- Michael Mills, 80, Irish government ombudsman (1984–1994).
- Mark Speight, 42, British TV presenter, body found on this date after suicide by hanging.
- John Archibald Wheeler, 96, American physicist who coined the term "black hole", pneumonia.
- Khasan Yandiyev, 51, Russian deputy head of Ingushetia Supreme Court, shot.
12
- Cecilia Colledge, 87, British figure skater and 1936 Olympic silver medallist.
- Dieter Eppler, 81, German film actor and director of radio dramas. (German)
- Donald Forbes, 73, British convicted murderer.
- Patrick Hillery, 84, Irish President (1976–1990) and Minister (1959–1973), European Commissioner for Ortoli Commission.
- Abbas Katouzian, 86, Iranian painter.
- Artur Maurício, 63, Portuguese Constitutional Court President (2004–2007), after long illness. (Portuguese)
- Barbara McDermott, 95, American survivor of the Lusitania sinking.
- Buzz Nutter, 77, American football player (Colts, Steelers), heart failure.
- Paw Paw 13, American chow chow dog, appeared on owner Martha Stewart's TV show Martha, renal failure.
- Augusta Wallace, 78, New Zealand district judge (1975–1990), after long illness.
- Jerry Zucker, 58, Israeli-born American businessman, cancer.
11
- Claude Abbes, 80, French football player. (French)
- Clyde Cook, 72, American president of Biola University (1982–2007).
- Willoughby Goddard, 81, British actor.
- Robert Hartmann, 91, American speechwriter for President Gerald Ford, cardiac arrest.
- Joan Jackson, 92, British muse of poet John Betjeman.
- Jack Lemmon, 80, American journalist and editor for The Washington Post, cardiac arrest.
- Bob Pellegrini, 73, American football linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles).
10
- Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, 88, Mexican cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Mexico. (Spanish)
- Robert W. Greene, 78, American investigative journalist, heart failure.
- Andy Knight, 46, Canadian animator and director, stroke.
- Dickson Mabon, 82, British Labour and SDP MP (1955–1983).
- Shomu Mukherjee, 65, Indian director and producer.
- Jeremiah Nyagah, 87, Kenyan politician, after short illness.
- Kim Santow, 67, Australian judge (NSW Supreme Court), Chancellor of the University of Sydney (2001–2007), brain tumour.
9
- Abu Ubaidah al-Masri, Pakistani Al Qaeda senior operative, death from probable hepatitis confirmed on this date.
- Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley, 79, British Green Party member of the House of Lords.
- George Butler, 71, American record producer and A&R man (Blue Note, Columbia), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Herman Carr, 83, American physicist, pioneer of MRI, heart disease.
- Diego Catalán, 80, Spanish philologist, grandson of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, heart disease. (Spanish)
- Erkki Junkkarinen, 78, Finnish singer. (Finnish)
- Bob Kames, 82, American polka musician, songwriter and popularizer of the Chicken Dance, prostate cancer.
- Daniela Klemenschits, 25, Austrian tennis player, abdominal cancer.
- Steffen Krauß, 43, German footballer. (German)
- Lloyd Lamble, 94, Australian actor.
- Jacques Morel, 85, French actor, voice of Obelix. (French)
- Flora Pereira, 79, Portuguese Fado singer. (Portuguese)
- Choubeila Rached, 75, Tunisian singer.
- Elizabeth Stefan, 112, American supercentenarian, verified seventh-oldest person in the world.
- Marvin Sylvor, 75, American carousel designer, kidney failure.
- Aline Wainwright, 78, Canadian feminist, cancer.
8
- Cedella Booker, 81, Jamaican mother of Bob Marley, natural causes.
- John Button, 74, Australian senator, Minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce (1983–1993), pancreatic cancer.
- Seaman Jacobs, 96, American television writer, cardiac arrest.
- Stanley Kamel, 65, American actor (Monk), heart attack.
- Ogawa Kunio, 80, Japanese novelist.
- Hersh Lyons, 92, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
- Nadezhda Rumyantseva, 77, Russian actress, after long illness. (Russian)
- Jacqueline Voltaire, 59, British-born Mexican soap opera actress for Televisa, cancer. (Spanish)
7
- Ludu Daw Amar, 92, Burmese journalist, writer and activist.
- Kunio Egashira, 70, Japanese chairman of Ajinomoto, pancreatic cancer.
- Sir Frank Little, 82, Australian Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
- Joe Shell, 89, American member of the California State Assembly (1953–1963).
- Gloria Taylor, 57, British activist and mother of murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor, heart attack.
- Andrey Tolubeev, 63, Russian actor, after long illness. (Russian)
- Esko Tommola, 77, Finnish news anchor, after long illness. (Finnish)
- Phil Urso, 82, American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer.
6
- Lakshman de Alwis, 68, Sri Lankan national athletics coach, suicide bomb attack.
- Tony Davies, 68, New Zealand rugby union player (All Blacks).
- Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, 55, Sri Lankan Highways Minister, suicide bomb attack.
- Kuruppu Karunaratne, 47, Sri Lankan Olympic marathoner, suicide bomb attack.
- Abraham Osheroff, 92, American social activist, veteran of the Spanish Civil War (Abraham Lincoln Brigade), heart attack.
- Gib Shanley, 76, American radio sportscaster (Cleveland Browns).
- Teoh Chye Hin, 94, Malaysian secretary-general of the Asian Football Confederation (1974–1978).
5
- Herbert Breiteneder, 54, Austrian European Rallycross Championship runner-up (1987, 1988), rally accident. (German)
- Iris Burton, 77, American talent agent, pneumonia and complications of Alzheimer's disease.
- Evangelino da Costa Neves, 82, Brazilian football club president (Coritiba), multiple organ failure. (Portuguese)
- Eugene Ehrlich, 85, American lexicographer and author.
- Charlton Heston, 84, American Academy Award–winning film actor (Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments), NRA president.
- Engla Juncosa-Hoglund, 10, Swedish murder victim.
- Sarah Lee, 76, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
- Walt Masterson, 87, American baseball player, stroke.
- McKelvey, 9, British race horse, euthanised after fall during Grand National.
- Saad Razuqui, Iraqi army commander, shot. (Spanish)
- Steve Sinnott, 56, British General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers since 2004.
- Jeu Sprengers, 69, Dutch chairman of the Royal Netherlands Football Association.
- Michael White, Australian inventor of narrative therapy, cardiac arrest.
- Kaku Yamanaka, 113, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest person in Japan.
4
- Fay McKay, 78, American entertainer ("The Twelve Daze of Christmas").
- Jerry Rosholt, 85, American journalist and historian.
- Wu Xueqian, 87, Chinese politician, Foreign Minister (1982–1988).
3
- Johnny Byrne, 73, Irish writer (Doctor Who, Space: 1999, All Creatures Great and Small).
- Andrew Crozier, 64, British poet, brain tumour.
- Hrvoje Ćustić, 24, Croatian footballer (NK Zadar), head injury.
- William D. Eberle, 84, American Trade Representative (1971-1974), kidney failure.
- Frosty Freeze, 44, American B-boy, breakdancer and member of the Rock Steady Crew.
- Jeremy Knowles, 72, British-born Harvard University Dean of Arts and Sciences (1991–2002), prostate cancer.
- Ivan Korade, 44, Croatian general and murder suspect, apparent suicide by gunshot.
- Brendan O'Brien, 67, Irish musician (The Dixies), probable heart attack.
- Vladimir Preclik, 78, Czech sculptor and writer.
2
- Norberto Collado Abreu, 87, Cuban naval officer, helmsman of the yacht Granma which carried Fidel Castro to Cuba in 1956.
- Sir Geoffrey Cox, 97, British founder of ITN News at Ten.
- Ray Poole, 86, American football player (New York Giants), cancer.
- Yakup Satar, 110, Crimean-born supercentenarian, believed to be the last Turkish veteran of World War I. (Turkish)
- Mona Seilitz, 65, Swedish actress and entertainer, cancer. (Swedish)
- Adam Studziński, 97, Polish Roman Catholic Dominican priest, World War II chaplain of Polish forces.
- Taotao, 36, China's oldest captive giant panda, brain thrombus and cerebral hemorrhage.
1
- Mosko Alkalai, 77, Israeli actor (Blaumilch Canal, The Fox in the Chicken Coop, Yana's Friends), respiratory failure.
- Triston Jay Amero, 26, American hotel bomber, pulmonary edema.
- Shosh Atari, 58, Israeli radio presenter and actress, heart attack.
- Péter Baczakó, 56, Hungarian weightlifter, 1980 Olympic champion, cancer.
- Sabin Bălaşa, 75, Romanian painter, heart attack.
- Sherry Britton, 89, American burlesque dancer turned musical stage actress (Guys and Dolls).
- Wally Bronner, 81, American founder of Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, cancer.
- Jim Finney, 83, British football referee.
- Licínio Pereira da Silva, 63, Portuguese last political prisoner of PIDE during Estado Novo, nosocomial infection. (Portuguese)
- Floyd Simmons, 84, American decathlon Olympic bronze medallist (1948, 1952) and actor (South Pacific).
- Marvin Stone, 26, American basketball player for Saudi Arabian Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) team, heart attack.
March 2008
See Deaths in March 2008.
February 2008
January 2008
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