Deaths in 2008
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.
June 2008
7
- Rudy Fernandez, 56, Filipino action movie star, periampullary cancer. [1]
- Joseph Kabui, 57/58, Papua New Guinean president of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville since 2005, heart attack. [2]
- Jim McKay, 86, American sportscaster (Wide World of Sports, 12 Olympic Games), natural causes. [3]
- Dino Risi, 91, Italian film director, natural causes. [4] (Italian)
6
- Ferenc Sánta, 81, Hungarian Kossuth Prize-winning writer. [5] (Hungarian)
- Edwin Tchorzewski, 65, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan finance minister and Legislative Assembly member, cancer. [6]
- Dwight White, 58, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [7]
5
- Jacklyn H. Lucas, 80, American World War II veteran, youngest Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor, cancer. [8]
- Eugenio Montejo, 69, Venezuelan poet, essayist and ambassador, stomach cancer. [9] (Portuguese)
- Vic Wilson, 87, British cricketer, captain of Yorkshire, Wisden Cricketer of the Year (1961). [10]
4
- Matthew Bruccoli, 76, American professor of English at University of South Carolina, expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald. [11]
- Jack Byrne, 57, Canadian member of Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, mayor of LB-MC-OC (1986–1993). [12]
- Ivan Herasymov, 87, Ukrainian politician, oldest member of the Verkhovna Rada. [13]
- Harriet McBryde Johnson, 50, American attorney and disability rights activist. [14]
- Agata Mróz-Olszewska, 26, Polish international volleyball player, myelodysplastic syndrome. [15]
- Curtis Osborne, 37, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [16]
- Jonathan Routh, 80, British co-star of UK Candid Camera. [17]
- Nikos Sergianopoulos, 56, Greek actor, homicide by stabbing. [18]
3
- Pat Egan, 90, Canadian ice hockey defenceman. [19]
- Trevor Kaine, 80, Australian chief minister of the ACT (1989–1991). [20]
- Grigory Romanov, 85, Russian first secretary of the Leningrad obkom (1970–1983), Politburo member (1976–1985). [21]
2
- Sheela Basrur, 51, Canadian health administrator, Toronto medical officer of health during SARS crisis, leiomyosarcoma. [22]
- Anne d'Harnoncourt, 64, American chief executive of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, natural causes. [23]
- Sheriff Mustapha Dibba, 71, Gambian politician, first vice president (1965–1975), speaker (2002–2006), heart attack. [24]
- Bo Diddley, 79, American rock and roll and blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist, heart failure. [25]
- Ferenc Fejtő, 98, Hungarian-born French historian and journalist, after long illness. [26]
- Mel Ferrer, 90, American actor, film director and producer (War and Peace, Lili). [27]
- Paul Sills, 80, American theater director and comedian, co-founder of The Second City improv troupe, pneumonia. [28]
- Frank Tsosie Thompson, 87, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran. [29]
1
- Terry Keane, 68, Irish columnist and fashion journalist, after long illness. [30]
- Alton Kelley, 67, American graphic designer and psychedelic artist, after long illness. [31]
- Tommy Lapid, 76, Israeli journalist and politician, deputy prime minister (2003–2004), cancer. [32]
- Ted Manson, 81, American actor, lung cancer. [33]
- Murray Protter, 90, American mathematician, heart failure. [34]
- Pat Regan, 53, British anti-gun activist, stabbed. [35]
- Yves Saint Laurent, 71, French fashion designer, founder of Yves Saint Laurent brand, brain cancer. [36]
May 2008
See Deaths in May 2008.
April 2008
See Deaths in April 2008.
March 2008
See Deaths in March 2008.
February 2008
January 2008
External links
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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, ...