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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 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.
- Ilarion Ciobanu, 76, Romanian actor. [1]
- Don Gutteridge, 96, American baseball player, coach and manager. [2]
- Don Haskins, 78, American college basketball coach. [3]
- Larry Shaben, 73, Canadian politician (Legislative Assembly of Alberta), cancer. [4]
- Dino Dvornik, 44, Croatian actor and singer. [5]
- Aril Edvardsen, 69, Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary. [6] (Norwegian)
- Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala, 78, Egyptian politician, field marshal and defence minister, throat cancer. [7]
- Antonio Innocenti, 93, Italian cardinal. [8]
- Sören Nordin, 91, Swedish harness racing trainer. [9]
- Anita Page, 98, American actress (The Broadway Melody), natural causes. [10]
- Mike Swoboda, 69, American politician, mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri (2000–2008), complications of shooting. [11]
- Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). [12]
- Fernando Barbosa Lima, 74, Brazilian journalist and television producer, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [13] (Portuguese)
- G. Béla Németh, 83, Hungarian historian. [14] (Hungarian)
- Thupten Jigme Norbu, 86, Tibetan Lama (Taktser Rinpoche), eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama. [15]
- Doyle Parrack, 86, American college basketball coach. [16]
- Luis Santibáñez, 72, Chilean football team manager, complications from a kidney condition. [17]
- Mila Schön, 91, Italian fashion designer. [18]
- Colin Egar, 81, Australian test cricket umpire. [19]
- Dick Enderle, 60, American football player. [20]
- Abdul Samad Ismail, 84, Malaysian journalist, lung infection and kidney failure. [21]
- Alain Jacquet, 69, French pop artist, cancer. [22]
- Tommy Johnston, 81, British footballer, top scorer for Leyton Orient. [23]
- Erik Nielsen, 84, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister (1984–1986), brother of Leslie Nielsen, heart attack. [24]
- Waldick Soriano, 75, Brazilian composer and singer, prostate cancer. [25] (Portuguese)
- Fernando Torres, 80, Brazilian actor, voice-over artist, director and producer, emphysema. [26]
- Abdulla Alishayev, Russian Dagestani journalist, shot. [27]
- Françoise Demulder, 61, French war photographer, heart attack. [28]
- Michael Hammer, 60, American management theorist, cranial bleeding. [29]
- Earl Lunsford, 74, American Canadian Football League player and Hall of Famer (Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [30]
- Geo Voumard, 87, Swiss composer and producer. [31]
- Andreas Zeier Cappelen, 93, Norwegian politician and minister. [32] (Norwegian)
- Todd Cruz, 52, American Major League Baseball player. [33]
- Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist. [34]
- Joey Giardello, 78, American boxer, middleweight boxing champion (1963–1965), heart failure. [35]
- Mark Guardado, 46, American president of Hells Angels San Francisco chapter, shot. [36]
- Shaykh Abdullah al-Harari, 98, Ethiopian-born Lebanese scholar, founder of the Al-Ahbash movement. [37]
- Bill Meléndez, 91, Mexican-born American animator (Peanuts). [38]
- Sir Denis Rooke, 84, British industrialist. [39]
- Thomas J. Bata, 93, Czech-born Canadian businessman (Bata Shoes). [40]
- Calvin Beale, 85, American demographer, colon cancer. [41]
- Ian Edward Fraser, 87, British recipient of the Victoria Cross. [42]
- Kevin Heinze, 80, Australian pioneer gardening television presenter, heart attack. [43]
- Mel Ignatow, 70, American murderer, fall. [44]
- Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [45]
- Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist, complications from pneumothorax. [46]
- Henry Wako Muloki, 87, Ugandan Kyabazinga of Busoga since 1995, esophageal cancer. [47]
- Michael Pate, 88, Australian actor and writer, pneumonia. [48]
- Oded Schramm, 46, Israeli mathematician, fall. [49]
- Jorio Vivarelli, 86, Italian sculptor and graphic artist. [50] (Italian)
See Deaths in August 2008.
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.
See Deaths in February 2008.
See Deaths in January 2008.
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