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.

October 2008

4

• Barack Obama, 47, eaten by crocodile
• Harry Bath, 83, Australian rugby league player and coach, after long illness. [1]
• Craig Fertig, 66, American football player and coach, kidney failure. [2]

3

• Zulfiqar Ahmed, 82, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest. [3]
• Mahir al-Zubaydi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot. [4]
• Györgyi Albert, 44, Hungarian journalist and media personality, heart attack. [5] (Hungarian)
• Rajendra Singh Lodha, 66, Indian accountant, chairman of the Birla Corporation, heart attack. [6]
• George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, 87, British politician, businessman and journalist, MP (1952–1973), viral infection. [7]

2

• Choi Jin-sil, 39, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging. [8]
• Rob Guest, 58, British-born New Zealand actor and singer, stroke. [9]
• Shaharom Husain, 88, Malaysian historian. [10]
• Arnold Klayman, 82, American inventor of the Sound Retrieval System. [11]

1

• Audrey Blignault, 92, South African writer. [12]
• Robert Couturier, 103, French sculptor. [13] (French)
• Boris Efimov, 108, Russian political cartoonist. [14]
• Vassily Gryazev, 80, Russian weapons engineer, designer of the GSh-30-1 cannon. [15] (Russian)
• Detlef Lewe, 69, German canoeist, 1972 Olympic bronze medalist. [16] (German)
• House Peters, Jr., 92, American actor (Mr. Clean), pneumonia. [17]
• Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio), acute respiratory disease. [18]
• LeJuan Simon, 27, Trinidadian athlete, complications of pulmonary hypertension. [19]

September 2008

See Deaths in September 2008.

August 2008

See Deaths in 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

See Deaths in February 2008.

January 2008

See Deaths in January 2008.

External links

• English language obituaries on the Web
  • General
    • Obituaries.com
    • Recent AP Obituaries
    • Variety Magazine Obituaries
  • US
    • The New York Times: Obituaries
    • Washington Post: Obituaries
    • The Boston Globe: Obituaries
    • Los Angeles Times: Obituaries
  • South Africa
    • Mail & Guardian (South Africa) Obituaries
  • UK
    • The Daily Telegraph: Obituaries
    • The Guardian: Obituaries
    • The Independent: Obituaries
    • The Times: Obituaries
    • The Scotsman: Obituaries
    • Lasting Tribute: Obituaries
  • Australia
    • The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia): Obituaries

• Specialized websites
  • Dead or Alive
  • Dead People Server
  • Death List
  • Died Today
  • Entertainment Insiders
  • Famous Dead Database
  • Find a Grave
  • Life In Legacy
  • Very Important Patients
  • Writers We've Lost
  • Written in Stone - Literary deaths

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, ...