Deaths in 2008

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Contents 1 June 2008 1.1 14 1.2 13 1.3 12 1.4 11 1.5 10 1.6 9 1.7 8 1.8 7 1.9 6 1.10 5 1.11 4 1.12 3 1.13 2 1.14 1 2 May 2008 3 April 2008 4 March 2008 5 February 2008 6 January 2008 7 External links

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2008. Names are listed under the date of death, not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.

A typical entry appears in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

[edit] June 2008

[edit] 14

• Jamelão, 95, Brazilian samba singer, multiple organ failure. [1]
• Piero Pradenas, 21, Belgian national volleyball player, motorcycle accident. [2] (Dutch)
• Emilio Rabasa, 84, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1970–1975), heart failure. [3] (Spanish)

[edit] 13

• Mel Krause, 80, American college baseball coach and player, myeloid leukemia. [4]
• Tim Russert, 58, American journalist and television host (Meet the Press), coronary thrombosis. [5]

[edit] 12

• Danny Davis, 83, American country musician, cardiac arrest. [6]
• Charlie Jones, 77, American sportscaster, heart attack. [7]
• Anatoly Kalinin, 91, Russian writer, after long illness. [8] (Russian).
• Stewart Rawlings Mott, 70, American philanthropist, cancer. [9]
• Monte Ohia, 62, New Zealand Maori educationalist, politician and activist. [10]
• Derek Tapscott, 75, British footballer (Arsenal, Cardiff City, Wales). [11]

[edit] 11

• Ove Andersson, 70, Swedish rally driver and former principal of the Toyota F1 racing team, rally crash. [12]
• Reid Bryson, 88, American meteorologist. [13]
• Brian Budd, 56, Canadian soccer player. [14]
• Jean Desailly, 87, French actor. [15]
• Miroslav Dvořák, 56, Czech ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers), throat cancer. [16]
• Mitch Frerotte, 43, American football player (Buffalo Bills), heart attack. [17]
• Francis Hassett, 90, Australian head of the Defence Force (1975–1977). [18]
• Taras Kermauner, 78, Slovenian literary historian, philosopher and playwright. [19]
• Adam Ledwoń, 34, Polish footballer, suicide. [20]
• James Reaney, 81, Canadian playwright. [21]
• Mary Paul Steiner, 101, American pharmacist and college professor, heart failure. [22]
• Võ Văn Kiệt, 85, Vietnamese politician, reformist, prime minister (1991–1997). [23]

[edit] 10

• Chinghiz Aitmatov, 79, Kyrgyzstani writer (The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years), respiratory and renal failure. [24]
• Eliot Asinof, 88, American writer (Eight Men Out), pneumonia. [25]
• Ralph Bacerra, 70, American ceramic artist, lung cancer. [26]
• Vinod Chowdhury, 58, Indian economist, educator and international relations expert, cardiac arrest. [27]
• Tyrone Jones, 46, American Canadian football linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer. [28] [29]
• Kipkalya Kones, 56, Kenyan politician, plane crash. [30]
• Lorna Laboso, 47, Kenyan politician, plane crash. [31]
• John Rauch, 80, American football coach and player. [32]

[edit] 9

• Karen Asrian, 28, Armenian chess grandmaster, heart attack. [33]
• Algis Budrys, 77, American science fiction writer. [34]
• Josef Minsch, 66, Swiss Olympic alpine skier. [35] (German)
• Elly M. Peterson, 94, American first female chair of Michigan Republican Party (1965–1969). [36]
• Curtis Watkins, 51, American basketball player (DePaul University), blocked artery. [37]

[edit] 8

• Šaban Bajramović, 72, Serbian Romani musician, heart attack. [38]
• Gene Damschroder, 86, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1973–1983), plane crash. [39]
• Jake Flake, 72, American politician, Arizona House of Representatives (1997–2005); Arizona Senate since 2005, heart attack. [40]
• Danilo Lagbas, 56, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives since 2004, lung and liver cancer. [41]
• Bruce Purchase, 69, New Zealand-born British actor. [42]
• Abdul Samad Rohani, 25, Afghan journalist, shot. [43]
• Peter Rühmkorf, 78, German writer, cancer. [44] (German)
• Edith Derby Williams, 90, American historian, granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt. [45]

[edit] 7

• Jimmy Bonthrone, 76, Scottish footballer and manager (Aberdeen FC). [46]
• Tom Catlin, 76, American football linebacker (University of Oklahoma, Cleveland Browns), complications from surgery. [47]
• Nasteh Dahir, 36, Somali journalist, vice-president of the National Union of Somali Journalists, shot. [48]
• Rudy Fernandez, 56, Filipino action movie star, periampullary cancer. [49]
• Joseph Kabui, 53/54, Papua New Guinean secessionist, first president of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, heart attack. [50]
• Mustafa Khalil, 88, Egyptian prime minister (1978–1980), architect of the Camp David Accords peace treaty. [51]
• Roelof Koops, 98, Dutch Olympic speed skater. [52] (Dutch)
• Braam Kruger, 58, South African artist, chef and food writer, organ failure. [53]
• Jim McKay, 86, American sportscaster (Wide World of Sports, 12 Olympic Games), natural causes. [54]
• Dino Risi, 91, Italian film director (Il Sorpasso, Profumo di donna), natural causes. [55]
• Horst Skoff, 39, Austrian tennis player, heart attack. [56]
• Erick Wujcik, 57, American game designer, pancreatic cancer. [57]

[edit] 6

• Robert J. Anderson, 75, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life), cancer. [58]
• Warren A. Croll, Jr., 88, American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred race horse trainer. [59]
• Saeko Himuro, 51, Japanese novelist and essayist, lung cancer. [60]
• Ferenc Sánta, 81, Hungarian author. [61] (Hungarian)
• Edwin Tchorzewski, 65, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan finance minister and Legislative Assembly member, cancer. [62]
• Dwight White, 58, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [63]
• Trevor Wilkinson, 85, British founder of sports car manufacturer TVR. [64]

[edit] 5

• Frank Blackmore, 92, British traffic engineer and inventor of the mini-roundabout. [65]
• Angus Calder, 66, British historian and writer, lung cancer. [66]
• Carl E. Dusinberre, 78, American real estate manager, infection. [67]
• Willemina Hol, 110, Dutch supercentenarian. [68]
• Jacklyn H. Lucas, 80, American World War II veteran, youngest marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor, cancer. [69]
• Eugenio Montejo, 70, Venezuelan poet, essayist and ambassador, stomach cancer. [70]
• Cecil Todes, 77, British child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. [71]
• Vic Wilson, 87, British cricketer, captain of Yorkshire, Wisden Cricketer of the Year (1961). [72]

[edit] 4

• Nick Badami, 88, American alpine skiing promoter. [73]
• Matthew Bruccoli, 76, American professor of English at University of South Carolina, expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald. [74]
• Jack Byrne, 57, Canadian member of Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, mayor of LB-MC-OC (1986–1993). [75]
• Bill Finegan, 91, American jazz arranger and bandleader, pneumonia. [76]
• Ivan Herasymov, 87, Ukrainian politician, oldest member of the Verkhovna Rada. [77]
• Harriet McBryde Johnson, 50, American attorney and disability rights activist. [78]
• Agata Mróz-Olszewska, 26, Polish international volleyball player, myelodysplastic syndrome. [79]
• Frank Muller, 57, Dutch-born American actor and audiobook narrator. [80]
• Curtis Osborne, 37, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [81]
• Jonathan Routh, 80, British co-star of UK Candid Camera. [82]
• Nikos Sergianopoulos, 55, Greek actor, homicide by stabbing. [83]
• James Young, 78, American White House physician (John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson). [84]

[edit] 3

• Pat Egan, 90, Canadian ice hockey defenceman. [85]
• Trevor Kaine, 80, Australian chief minister of the ACT (1989–1991). [86]
• Grigory Romanov, 85, Russian first secretary of the Leningrad obkom (1970–1983), Politburo member (1976–1985). [87]

[edit] 2

• Sheela Basrur, 51, Canadian health administrator, Toronto medical officer of health during SARS crisis, leiomyosarcoma. [88]
• Sheriff Mustapha Dibba, 71, Gambian politician, first vice president (1965–1975), speaker (2002–2006), heart attack. [89]
• Bo Diddley, 79, American rock and roll and blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist, heart failure. [90]
• Ferenc Fejtő, 98, Hungarian-born French historian and journalist, after long illness. [91]
• Mel Ferrer, 90, American actor, film director and producer (War and Peace, Lili). [92]
• Heinz Geyer, 79, German secret policeman for East Germany, heart attack. [93]
• Lois Roisman, 70, American philanthropist and playwright, heart failure. [94]
• Paul Sills, 80, American theater director and comedian, co-founder of The Second City improv troupe, pneumonia. [95]
• Frank Tsosie Thompson, 87, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran. [96]

[edit] 1

• Anne d'Harnoncourt, 64, American chief executive of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, natural causes. [97]
• Terry Keane, 68, Irish columnist and fashion journalist, after long illness. [98]
• Alton Kelley, 67, American graphic designer and psychedelic artist, after long illness. [99]
• Tommy Lapid, 76, Israeli journalist and politician, deputy prime minister (2003–2004), cancer. [100]
• Ted Manson, 81, American actor, lung cancer. [101]
• Murray Protter, 90, American mathematician, heart failure. [102]
• Pat Regan, 53, British anti-gun activist, stabbed. [103]
• Yves Saint Laurent, 71, French fashion designer, founder of Yves Saint Laurent brand, brain cancer. [104]

[edit] May 2008

See Deaths in May 2008.

[edit] April 2008

See Deaths in April 2008.

[edit] March 2008

See Deaths in March 2008.

[edit] February 2008

See Deaths in February 2008.

[edit] January 2008

See Deaths in January 2008.

[edit] External links

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