2008 in Italy

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See also:	History of Italy Timeline of Italian history List of years in Italy

Events during the year 2008 in Italy.

Incumbents

• President: Giorgio Napolitano
• Prime Minister:

• Romano Prodi (until 8 May)
• Silvio Berlusconi (from 8 May)

Events

• 24 January – Start of the 2008 Italian political crisis
• 8 May – Silvio Berlusconi takes over as prime minister, succeeding Romano Prodi

Deaths

Duilio Loi

Dina Sassoli

Marisa Sannia

Marisa Merlini

• 5 January – Giovanni Rinaldo Coronas, politician, police chief and Interior Minister (b. 1919).
• 6 January – Vittorio Tomassetti, Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola (b. 1930).
• 17 January – Giuliana Penzi, dancer and choreographer (b. 1918).
• 18 January –

• Pier Miranda Ferraro, opera tenor (b. 1924).
• Ugo Pirro, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1920).

• 20 January – Duilio Loi, boxer (b. 1929).
• 3 February – Ernesto Illy, food chemist and businessman (b. 1925)
• 11 February – Carolina Tronconi, gymnast, Olympic silver medalist (b. 1913).
• 13 February – Michele Greco, Mafia boss (b. 1924).
• 16 February –

• Vittorio Lucarelli, fencer (b. 1928).
• Fabio Presca, basketball player (b. 1930).

• 17 February – Nicola Agnozzi, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1911).
• 22 February – Nunzio Gallo, singer (b. 1928).
• 3 March – Giuseppe Di Stefano, operatic tenor (b. 1921).
• 4 March – Tina Lagostena Bassi, lawyer and politician (b. 1926).
• 7 March – Leonardo Costagliola, footballer (b. 1921).
• 12 March – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-born French veteran of World War I (b. 1897).
• 14 March – Chiara Lubich, Catholic activist (b. 1920).
• 18 March – Oreste Rizzini, voice actor (b. 1940).
• 24 March – Dina Sassoli, actress (b. 1920).
• 14 April – Marisa Sannia, singer (b. 1942).
• 23 July – Anna Maria Cantù, sprinter (b. 1923).
• 27 July – Marisa Merlini, actress (b. 1923).
• 14 August – Luigi Grossi, Olympic sprinter (b. 1925).
• 5 September – Mila Schön, fashion designer (b. 1916).
• 5 October – Leopoldo Elia, politician (b. 1925).
• 20 December – Samuele Bacchiocchi, theologian (b. 1938).