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Revision as of 16:40, 6 August 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.
A typical entry appears in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
August 2008
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5
- Reg Lindsay, 79, Australian country music singer and songwriter, pneumonia. [1]
- José Medellín, 33, Mexican convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. [2]
4
- Craig Jones, 23, British motorcycle racer, head injuries from a race crash. [3]
- Eri Kawai, Japanese pop and classical singer. [4]
- Robert Maheu, 91, American businessman, aide to Howard Hughes. [5]
- Nicola Rescigno, 92, American opera conductor, complications from broken femur. [6]
- Johnny Thio, 63, Belgian football player and coach, myocardial rupture. [7] (Dutch)
- Greg Weld, 64, American racing driver and businessman, heart attack. [8]
- Joe Yonto, 83, American football assistant coach (Notre Dame). [9]
3
- Anton Allemann, 72, Swiss footballer, heart attack. [10] (French)
- Skip Caray, 68, American broadcaster for baseball (Atlanta Braves) and basketball (Atlanta Hawks), son of Harry Caray, bronchitis. [11]
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian novelist and historian, Nobel Prize winner (1970), heart failure. [12]
- Louis Teicher, 83, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), heart failure. [13]
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- Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde, 81, British aristocrat and banker. [14]
- Fujio Akatsuka, 72, Japanese manga artist, pneumonia. [15]
- Geoffrey Ballard, 76, Canadian businessman and scientist (fuel cells), founder of Ballard Power Systems. [16]
- Pérez Celis, 69, Argentine plastic artist, leukaemia. [17]
- Helga Gitmark, 78, Norwegian politician. [18] (Norwegian)
- Christopher Gonzalez, 65, Jamaican sculptor and painter, cancer. [19]
- Allen Kolstad, 76, American politician, lieutenant governor of Montana (1988–1991), cancer. [20]
- Peter Rodman, 64, American foreign policy expert, leukemia. [21]
- John F. Seiberling, 89, American politician, representative from Ohio (1971–1987), respiratory failure. [22] [23]
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- Pauline Baynes, 85, British illustrator (Chronicles of Narnia). [24]
- Peter Jackson, 80, Australian fashion designer, prostate cancer. [25]
- Ashok Mankad, 61, Indian cricketer. [26]
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 92, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. [27]
- Ray Underhill, 41, American professional skateboarder, brain tumor. [28]
- Butch White, 72, British test cricketer. [29]
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
- English language obituaries on the Web
- General
- US
- South Africa
- UK
- Australia
- Specialized websites
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, ...