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.
- Jesse Helms, 86, American politician, five-term Republican senator from North Carolina, natural causes. [5]
- Terrence Kiel, 27, American football player (San Diego Chargers), car crash. [6]
- Pai Wen-cheng, 55, Taiwanese businessman, founding chairman of Polaris Group, suicide. [7]
- Sir Charles Wheeler, 85, British journalist, longest serving BBC foreign correspondent, lung cancer. [8] [9]
- Dan Cook, 81, American journalist (San Antonio Express-News). [10]
- Ernie Cooksey, 28, British footballer (Oldham Athletic, Grays Athletic), melanoma. [11]
- Larry Harmon, 83, American entertainer (Bozo the Clown), heart failure. [12]
- Harald Heide-Steen Jr., 68, Norwegian actor and comedian, lung cancer. [13] (Norwegian)
- Clive Hornby, 63, British actor (Emmerdale), hypoxia. [14]
- Kat Kinkade, 77, American co-founder of Twin Oaks Community, cancer. [15]
- Oliver Schroer, 53, Canadian fiddler, leukemia. [16]
- Abdel Wahab Elmessiri, 70, Egyptian scholar and politician, cancer. [17]
- Eric Lieber, 71, American television producer (Love Connection), leukemia. [18]
- Joe Nhlanhla, 71, South African politician, minister of Intelligence Services (1999–2001). [19]
- Natasha Shneider, 52, Russian-American actress (2010: The Year We Make Contact) and musician (Eleven), cancer. [20]
- Elizabeth Spriggs, 78, British actress. [21]
- Clay Felker, 82, American editor and journalist, cancer. [22]
- Mel Galley, 60, British guitarist (Trapeze, Whitesnake, Phenomena), cancer. [23]
- Mogens Glistrup, 82, Danish politician, lawyer and founder of the Progress Party. [24] [25] (Danish)
- Dejan Medaković, 85, Serbian writer, historian, professor, president of Academy of Sciences and Arts (1999–2003). [26] (Serbian)
- Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish author. [27] (Spanish)
- John Pont, 80, American college football coach. [28]
- Mark Dean Schwab, 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [29]
- Jules Tygiel, 59, American professor and author, cancer. [30] [31]
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.
External links
- English language obituaries on the Web
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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, ...
