Nekrolog 2008
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This is a list of famous people who died in 2008 . The entries are made alphabetically within the individual data. Animals can be found in the necrology for animals .
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| Surname | Profession / known by | Age | receipt | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shakir al-Absi | Leader of the Sunni radical Islamic underground organization Fatah al-Islam | |||
| Ismail bin Ali al-Akwaʿ | Yemeni Islamic lawyer and historian | |||
| Lia Avé | German journalist | ~ 84 | ||
| Shakir al-Fahham | Syrian Chairman of the Academy for the Arabic Language in Damascus; former Minister of Education of Syria | |||
| Paul Bilke | German Colonel of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR | |||
| Juan Blanco | Cuban composer | |||
| Gaston Bogaert | Belgian painter and writer | 89/90 | [1] | |
| Wilhelm Bollwahn | German veterinarian | |||
| Renato de Grandis | Italian musicologist and composer | |||
| Madeleine Defrenne | Belgian Romance studies and literary scholar | 91/92 | [2] | |
| Fatima Ibrahim Didi | Maldivian politician | |||
| Karl J. Dierkes | German sculptor and philosopher | |||
| July | Claude Digeon | French Romanist | 88 | |
| Roberto Donís | Mexican painter | |||
| Carlos Martín Fajardo | Colombian poet, Romanist and Hispanist who worked in the Netherlands | |||
| Bakir Farrachowitsch Farchutdinow | soviet weightlifter | 82/83 | ||
| Abdul Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo | Nigerian businessman, philanthropist, Baba Adinni and Muslim leader | |||
| Zewde Gabre-Selassie | Ethiopian politician, diplomat and historian | 81/82 | ||
| Jacques Gilard | French Latin American scholar | |||
| Georg Glowatzki | German anthropologist and coroner | |||
| José González | American bishop | 94 | ||
| Rolf Gozell | German writer | |||
| Rudolf Gümbel | German economist | |||
| Peter Haak | German soccer goalkeeper | |||
| Georges Heisbourg | Luxembourg diplomat | |||
| probably May 1st | Dieter Hellwig | German boat builder and motorboat racer | 75/76 | [3] |
| Kurt Höck | German doctor and chief medical officer | |||
| Friedel Homeyer | German homeland researcher | |||
| Natela Iankoshvili | Georgian painter | |||
| Shigeru Inoda | Japanese astronomer | |||
| Jules Jacob | American jazz and studio musician | ≈85 | [4] | |
| Pavol Jonáš | Czechoslovak politician and agricultural functionary | |||
| Hans-Joachim Kipka | German singer and radio play speaker | |||
| Helene Koller-Buchwieser | Austrian architect | |||
| Goulven Laurent | French historian of science | |||
| John Leone | American jazz musician | |||
| Hans Kurt Luh | German teacher, author of kitchen books | 74 | ||
| JT McIntosh | Scottish science fiction writer | 83 | [5] | |
| Fritz Mertens | Swiss author | 45 | ||
| Maureen Mockford | Northern Irish badminton player and bowler | |||
| Carmen Yvonne Parris | Jamaican diplomat | |||
| Monika Plessner | German art historian and translator | ≈95 | ||
| Konrad room | German landscape painter, draftsman and graphic artist | ≈80 | ||
| Trudy Richards | American pop and jazz singer | |||
| Robert Rober | German film and theater actor | |||
| Walter Schellemann | German puppeteer and speaker | |||
| Martin Schliessler | German adventurer, filmmaker and artist | |||
| Nate Seids | Austrian actress | |||
| Egon Sinz | Austrian politician; Mayor and Deputy Head of the Vorarlberg State Labor Office | 79/80 | ||
| February 16 or 17 | Ken Slater | British bookseller | 90 | [6] |
| Cliff Smalls | American jazz musician | |||
| Jörg Spranger | German composer | |||
| Roberta's Sutkus | Lithuanian grandmaster in correspondence chess | 54/55 | [7] | |
| Sidede Onyulo | Kenyan actor | [8th] | ||
| Hans Schmid | German author and publisher | |||
| Izz Al-Din Al-Tamimi | Sunni scholar; Member of the Jordanian Senate; former Chief Justice of Jordan; former Minister for Foundations and Islamic Affairs; former Grand Mufti of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan | |||
| Diether Trede | German soccer player | |||
| Robert Weber | American astronomer | |||
| Yves Trudeau | Canadian felon | |||
| Rudolf Vombek | German painter of the Informel | |||
| Luis G. Zorrilla Ochoa | Mexican ambassador |
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/bishops/000X.html ( Memento from October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )