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 there is long-standing consensus that deaths of notable animals, i.e. those 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.
- Mila Schoen, Italian fashion designer [1]
- Robert Giroux, American book editor and publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [2]
- Colin Egar, 81, Australian test cricket umpire. [3]
- Dick Enderle, 60, American former NFL lineman. [4]
- Tommy Johnston, 81, British footballer, top scorer for Leyton Orient. [5]
- Mila Schon, 89, Italian stylist, cancer. [6]
- Waldick Soriano, 75, Brazilian romantic composer and singer, prostate cancer. [7] (Portuguese)
- Fernando Torres, 80, Brazilian actor, voice-over artist, director and producer, emphysema. [8] (Portuguese)
- Abdulla Alishayev, Russian Dagestani journalist, shot. [9]
- Françoise Demulder, 61, French war photographer, heart attack. [10]
- Michael Hammer, 60, American management theorist, cranial bleeding. [11]
- Earl Lunsford, 74, American CFL football player and Hall of Famer (Calgary Stampeders). [12] [13]
- Andreas Zeier Cappelen, 93, Norwegian politician and former minister. [14] (Norwegian)
- Todd Cruz, 52, American baseball player. [15]
- Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist. [16] (Swedish)
- Mark Guardado, 46, American president of Hells Angels San Francisco chapter, shot. [17]
- Shaykh Abdullah al-Harari, 98, Ethiopian-born Lebanese scholar, founder of the Al-Ahbash movement. [18]
- Bill Meléndez, 91, Mexican-born American animator. [19]
- Thomas J. Bata, 93, Czech-born Canadian businessman (Bata Shoes). [20]
- Calvin Beale, 85, American demographer, colon cancer. [21]
- Ian Edward Fraser, 87, British recipient of the Victoria Cross. [22]
- Kevin Heinze, 80, Australian pioneer gardening television presenter, heart attack. [23] [24]
- Mel Ignatow, 70, American murderer, fall. [25]
- Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [26]
- Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist, complications from pneumothorax. [27]
- Henry Wako Muloki, 87, Ugandan Kyabazinga of Busoga since 1995, esophageal cancer. [28]
- Michael Pate, 88, Australian actor and writer, pneumonia. [29]
- Oded Schramm, 46, Israeli-born mathematician, fall while hiking. [30]
- Jorio Vivarelli, 86, Italian sculptor and graphic artist. [31] (Italian)
See Deaths in July 2008.
See Deaths in June 2008.
See Deaths in May 2008.
See Deaths in April 2008.
See Deaths in March 2008.
External links
- English language obituaries on the Web
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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, ...