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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 deaths of notable animals (that is, those animals 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
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- Vija Artmane, 79, Latvian actress. [1]
- William Claxton, 80, American photographer, complications of congestive heart failure. [2]
- Alton Ellis, 68, Jamaican singer, lymphatic cancer. [3]
- Jörg Haider, 58, Austrian politician, Governor of Carinthia (1989–1991, since 1999), leader of the FPÖ and BZÖ, car accident. [4]
- Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, 42, Surinamese-born Dutch television producer, car accident. [5]
- Badar Munir, 68, Pakistani actor, complications of cardiac arrest. [6]
- Allan Spear, 71, American politician, first openly gay member of Minnesota Senate (1973–2000), complications of heart surgery. [7]
- Gil Stratton, 86, American television and radio sportscaster (Los Angeles Rams, Santa Anita Racetrack), congestive heart failure. [8]
10
- James Benson, 63, American entrepreneur (SpaceDev), brain tumor. [9]
- Sid Hudson, 93, American baseball player. [10]
- Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak, 100, Pakistani politician and diplomat, after long illness. [11]
- Kazuyoshi Miura, 61, Japanese businessman, murder suspect, suicide by hanging. [12]
- Javad Nurbakhsh, 81, Iranian spiritual leader. [13]
- Alexey Prokurorov, 44, Russian cross-country skier, car accident. [14]
9
- Gidget Gein, 39, American bassist (Marilyn Manson), drug overdose. [15]
- Francisco Ibáñez San Pedro, 60, Mexican actor and comedian, complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [16] (Spanish)
- David Lett, 69, American winemaker, heart failure. [17]
- Bert Loxley, 74, British footballer and manager, after long illness. [18]
- Ardeshir Mohassess, 70, Iranian illustrator and cartoonist. [19] (Persian)
- Saleh al-Ogaili, 41, Iraqi MP, roadside bomb. [20]
8
- Daniel De Gale, 21, British leukemia campaigner, after short illness. [21]
- Bob Friend, 70, British newscaster, cancer. [22]
- Eileen Herlie, 90, British-born American actress (All My Children), complications of pneumonia. [23]
- Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld, 70, British politician, MP (1979–1997), cancer. [24]
- Les McCrabb, 93, American baseball player. [25]
7
- Bruce Dal Canton, 66, American baseball player, esophageal cancer. [26]
- Peter Copley, 93, British actor. [27]
- George Kissell, 88, American baseball coach (St. Louis Cardinals), car accident. [28]
- DeWayne McKinney, 47, American ATM entrepreneur wrongfully convicted for murder, traffic accident. [29]
- George Emil Palade, 95, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1974). [30]
6
- Peter Avery, 85, British scholar and Iranian specialist. [31]
- Larry Belcher, 61, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (1999–2002, since 2006), car accident. [32]
- Paavo Haavikko, 77, Finnish poet and playwright, after long illness. [33]
- Richard Heyser, 81, American U-2 pilot during the Cuban missile crisis. [34]
- Olga Kaljakin, 57, American art director, film poster designer, emphysema. [35]
- Kim Ji-hoo, 23, South Korean actor, suicide by hanging. [36]
- Nadia Nerina, 80, South African ballerina. [37]
- Janaka Perera, 62, Sri Lankan general and politician, bomb blast injuries. [38]
- Glenister Sheil, 78, Australian medical practitioner and politician, Senator (1974–1981, 1984–1990). [39]
- Anne Margrethe Strømsheim, 95, Norwegian resistance member. [40] (Norwegian)
- Sir John Young, 88, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Victoria (1974–1991), Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria (1974–1995). [41]
5
- Ernest Beutler, 80, American hematologist, lymphoma. [42]
- Kim Chan, 93/94?, Chinese-born American actor. [43]
- Leopoldo Elia, 82, Italian legal scholar, President of the Constitutional Court, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994). [44] (Italian)
- Howard G. Munson, 84, American judge. [45]
- Ken Ogata, 71, Japanese actor (The Ballad of Narayama), liver cancer. [46]
- Hans Richter, 89, German actor and director (Emil and the Detectives). [47] (German)
- Lloyd Thaxton, 81, American television personality, multiple myeloma. [48]
4
- Harry Bath, 83, Australian rugby league player and coach, after long illness. [49]
- Ted Briggs, 85, British sailor, last survivor of the sinking of HMS Hood. [50]
- Craig Fertig, 66, American football player and coach, kidney failure. [51]
- Alfred Gallodoro, 95, American jazz musician, after brief illness. [52]
- Levi Kereama, 27, Australian 2003 Australian Idol contestant, apparent suicide by jumping. [53]
- Saul Laskin, 90, Canadian politician, first mayor of Thunder Bay, Ontario. [54]
- Peter Vansittart, 88, British writer. [55]
3
- Zulfiqar Ahmed, 82, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest. [56]
- Mahir al-Zubaydi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot. [57]
- Györgyi Albert, 44, Hungarian journalist and media personality, heart attack. [58] (Hungarian)
- Raymond Coffey, 79, American newspaper columnist (Chicago Sun-Times), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [59]
- László Csiki, 64, Hungarian poet. [60] (Hungarian)
- Jean Foyer, 87, French politician, Minister of Justice (1962–1967) and Minister of Health (1972–1973). [61] (French)
- Johnny "J", 39, American hip-hop producer, apparent suicide by jumping. [62]
- Rajendra Singh Lodha, 66, Indian accountant, chairman of the Birla Corporation, heart attack. [63]
- Joseph Mongiello, 81, American associate regional commissioner of Immigration Service, after long illness. [64]
- Robert Murphy, 83, American paratrooper on D-Day, cancer. [65]
- Gil Rossellini, 51, Italian filmmaker, staphylococcal infection. [66]
- Francis Sayre, Jr., 93, American dean of the Washington National Cathedral (1951–1978). [67]
- George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, 87, British politician, businessman and journalist, MP (1952–1973), viral infection. [68]
2
- Bonnie Bluh, 82, American feminist writer, aortic dissection. [69].
- Choi Jin-sil, 39, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging. [70]
- Rob Guest, 58, British-born New Zealand actor and singer, stroke. [71]
- Shaharom Husain, 88, Malaysian historian. [72]
- Arnold Klayman, 82, American inventor of the Sound Retrieval System. [73]
1
- Robert Arthur, 83, American radio personality. [74]
- Audrey Blignault, 92, South African writer. [75]
- Ian Collier, British actor and singer. [76]
- Robert Couturier, 103, French sculptor. [77] (French)
- Boris Efimov, 109, Russian political cartoonist. [78]
- Vassily Gryazev, 80, Russian weapons engineer, designer of the GSh-30-1 cannon. [79] (Russian)
- Val Jansante, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [80]
- Detlef Lewe, 69, German canoeist, 1972 Olympic bronze medalist. [81] (German)
- House Peters, Jr., 92, American actor (Mr. Clean), pneumonia. [82]
- Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio), acute respiratory disease. [83]
- LeJuan Simon, 27, Trinidadian athlete, complications of pulmonary hypertension. [84]
- Poornam Viswanathan, 88, Indian actor, multiple organ failure. [85]
- Charles Wright, 76, American novelist, heart failure. [86]
September 2008
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
January 2008
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