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.
Please note that deaths of notable animals (that is, those animals with their own Wikipedia articles) are reported here.
A typical entry appears in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
October 2008
10
9
- Francisco Ibáñez San Pedro, 60, Mexican actor and comedian, complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [1] (Spanish)
8
- Peter Copley, 93, British actor. [2]
- Bob Friend, 70, British newscaster, cancer. [3]
- Eileen Herlie, 90, British-born American actress (All My Children), complications of pneumonia. [4]
- Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld, 70, British politician, MP (1979–1997), cancer. [5]
- George Emil Palade, 95, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1974). [6]
7
- Bruce Dal Canton, 66, American baseball player, esophageal cancer. [7]
- George Kissell, 88, American baseball coach (St. Louis Cardinals), car accident. [8]
6
- Peter Avery, 85, British scholar and Iranian specialist. [9]
- Larry Belcher, 61, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (1999–2002, since 2006), car accident. [10]
- Kim Chan, 91?, Chinese actor. [11] (Chinese)
- Paavo Haavikko, 77, Finnish poet and playwright, after long illness. [12]
- Kim Ji-hoo, 23, South Korean actor, suicide by hanging. [13]
- Nadia Nerina, 80, South African ballerina. [14]
- Janaka Perera, 62, Sri Lankan general and politician, bomb blast injuries. [15]
- Glenister Sheil, 78, Australian medical practitioner and politician, Senator (1974–1981, 1984–1990). [16]
- Anne Margrethe Strømsheim, 95, Norwegian resistance member. [17] (Norwegian)
- Sir John Young, 88, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Victoria 1974-91, Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria 1974-95 [18]
5
- Ernest Beutler, 80, American hematologist, lymphoma. [19]
- Leopoldo Elia, 82, Italian legal scholar, President of the Constitutional Court, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994). [20] (Italian)
- Howard G. Munson, 84, American judge. [21]
- Ken Ogata, 71, Japanese actor (The Ballad of Narayama), liver cancer. [22]
- Hans Richter, 89, German actor and director (Emil and the Detectives). [23] (German)
- Lloyd Thaxton, 81, American television personality, multiple myeloma. [24]
4
- Harry Bath, 83, Australian rugby league player and coach, after long illness. [25]
- Ted Briggs, 85, British sailor, last survivor of the sinking of HMS Hood. [26]
- Craig Fertig, 66, American football player and coach, kidney failure. [27]
- Alfred Gallodoro, 95, American jazz musician, after brief illness. [28]
- Levi Kereama, 27, Australian 2003 Australian Idol contestant, apparent suicide by jumping. [29]
- Saul Laskin, 90, Canadian politician, first mayor of Thunder Bay, Ontario. [30]
- Peter Vansittart, 88, British writer. [31]
3
- Zulfiqar Ahmed, 82, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest. [32]
- Mahir al-Zubaydi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot. [33]
- Györgyi Albert, 44, Hungarian journalist and media personality, heart attack. [34] (Hungarian)
- László Csiki, 64, Hungarian poet. [35] (Hungarian)
- Jean Foyer, 87, French politician, Minister of Justice (1962–1967) and Minister of Health (1972–1973). [36] (French)
- Johnny "J", 39, American hip-hop producer, apparent suicide by jumping. [37]
- Rajendra Singh Lodha, 66, Indian accountant, chairman of the Birla Corporation, heart attack. [38]
- George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, 87, British politician, businessman and journalist, MP (1952–1973), viral infection. [39]
2
- Bonnie Bluh, 82, American feminist writer, aortic dissection. [40].
- Choi Jin-sil, 39, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging. [41]
- Rob Guest, 58, British-born New Zealand actor and singer, stroke. [42]
- Shaharom Husain, 88, Malaysian historian. [43]
- Arnold Klayman, 82, American inventor of the Sound Retrieval System. [44]
1
- Robert Arthur, 83, American radio personality. [45]
- Audrey Blignault, 92, South African writer. [46]
- Ian Collier, British actor and singer. [47]
- Robert Couturier, 103, French sculptor. [48] (French)
- Boris Efimov, 109, Russian political cartoonist. [49]
- Vassily Gryazev, 80, Russian weapons engineer, designer of the GSh-30-1 cannon. [50] (Russian)
- Val Jansante, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [51]
- Detlef Lewe, 69, German canoeist, 1972 Olympic bronze medalist. [52] (German)
- House Peters, Jr., 92, American actor (Mr. Clean), pneumonia. [53]
- Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio), acute respiratory disease. [54]
- LeJuan Simon, 27, Trinidadian athlete, complications of pulmonary hypertension. [55]
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
See Deaths in July 2008.
June 2008
See Deaths in June 2008.
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, ...