Deaths in 2008
The following is a list of notable deaths. 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 lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
- Milú, 82, Portuguese actress (O Costa do Castelo) and singer, pulmonary infection.[1]
- Baldev Raj Chopra, 94, Indian film director, after long illness. [2]
- Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, 96, Tuvan politician, world's first (non-monarch) female head of state. [3] (Russian)
- Lennart Bergelin, 83, Swedish tennis player and coach, heart failure. [4]
- Jheryl Busby, 59, American record executive. [5]
- Michael Crichton, 66, American writer, (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Congo), cancer. [6]
- Marshall Fritz, 65, American libertarian author (World's Smallest Political Quiz), founded Advocates for Self Government, pancreatic cancer.[7]
- Rosella Hightower, 88, American ballerina, stroke. [8]
- Byron Lee, 73, Jamaican musician and record producer, bladder cancer. [9]
- Juan Camilo Mouriño, 37, Mexican secretary of the Interior, 2008 Mexico City plane crash. [10]
- Brooks Mileson, 60, British football club owner (Gretna F.C.). [11]
- Lalit Mohan Sharma, 80, Indian jurist, Chief justice of India (1992–1993). [12]
- Cecil W. Stoughton, 88, American photographer (JFK's photographer.[13]
- Ahmed al-Mirghani, 67, Sudanese politician, President (1986–1989). [14]
- Joseph Alliluyev, 63, Russian cardiologist, grandson of Joseph Stalin. [15]
- Madelyn Dunham, 86, American, maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, cancer. [16]
- George F. Grant, 102, American angler, author and conservationist, natural causes. [17]
- Jim Koleff, 55, Canadian hockey coach and former player, cancer. [18]
- Oscar Lathlin, 61, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 1990. [19]
- Bill Stall, 71, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (Los Angeles Times), complications from pulmonary disease. [20]
- Terence Tolbert, 44, American political campaign director for Barack Obama in Nevada, heart attack. [21]
- Badaró, 75, Brazilian-born Portuguese comedian, cancer. [22] (Portuguese)
- Jimmy Carl Black, 70, American Cheyenne drummer and vocalist (The Mothers of Invention), lung cancer. [23]
- Dermot Curtis, 76, Irish footballer and manager, after long illness. [24]
- Nathaniel Mayer, 64, American rhythm & blues singer, stroke. [25]
- Jacques Piccard, 86, Belgian-born Swiss oceanologist and explorer. [26]
- Shakir Stewart, 34, American vice president of Def Jam Recordings, suicide by gunshot. [27]
- Yma Sumac, 86, Peruvian soprano, cancer. [28]
- Tan Jiazhen, 99, Chinese geneticist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [29]
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
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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, ...