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Recent celebrity deaths
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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.
A typical entry appears in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
- Bruce Adler, 63, American actor (Those Were the Days, Crazy for You), liver cancer. [1]
- Hiram Bullock, 52, American jazz guitarist, throat cancer. [2]
- Jamiel Chagra, 63, American drug trafficker, cancer. [3]
- Johnny Griffin, 80, American saxophonist. [4]
- Tracy Hall, 88, American physical chemist. [5]
- Tim Kilpatrick, 41, Canadian radio host, pneumonia. [6]
- Randy Pausch, 47, American computer science professor (Carnegie Mellon) and author (The Last Lecture), pancreatic cancer. [7]
- Mikhail Pugovkin, 85, Russian actor, diabetes. [8] (Russian)
- Kurt Furgler, 84, Swiss member of the Federal Council (1972–1986), heart failure. [12]
- Helen Gardiner, 70, Canadian art museum founder, cancer. [13]
- Ahmet Hadžipašić, 56, Bosnian politician, prime minister (2003–2007), heart attack. [14] (Bosnian)
- Frank Schweihs, 78, American reputed mafia enforcer, cancer. [15]
- Helen Brockman, 105, American fashion designer, author and professor, natural causes. [16]
- Estelle Getty, 84, American actress (The Golden Girls), Lewy body dementia. [17]
- Victor A. McKusick, 86, American geneticist, cancer. [18]
- Knut Boye, 71, Norwegian economist. [19] (Norwegian)
- Sidney Craig, 76, Canadian entrepreneur and thoroughbred horse owner, co-founder of Jenny Craig, Inc.. [20]
- Khia Edgerton, 29, American disc jockey, drowned due to broken neck. [21]
- Antoni Jaszczak, 62, Polish economist, politician and minister of construction (2006). [22] (Polish)
- El Kazovsky, 58, Russian-born Hungarian painter and artist. [23] (Hungarian)
- Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, 94, British industrialist and chief executive of British Leyland (1964–1968). [24]
- Adil Zulfikarpašić, 86, Bosnian businessman and philanthropist, natural causes. [25] (Bosnian)
- Richard Bergenheim, 60, American president of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, editor of CSM (2005–2008), natural causes. [26]
- Célio de Castro, 76, Brazilian politician, mayor of Belo Horizonte (1997–2001), natural causes. [27] (Portuguese)
- Dave Cawood, 64, American college sports executive. [28]
- Yann Richter, 80, Swiss politician, president of the FDP (1978–1984), heart disease. [29] (German)
- Dinko Šakić, 86, Croatian fascist leader of the Independent State of Croatia in World War II, heart failure. [30] [31]
- Artie Traum, 65, American folk singer and guitarist, cancer. [32] [33]
- Charles Z. Wick, 90, American politician, director of USIA (1981–1988), natural causes. [34]
- Dercy Gonçalves, 101, Brazilian actress, pneumonia. [35]
- Samudra Gupta, 62, Bangladeshi poet, gallbladder cancer. [36]
- Jerome Holtzman, 82, American baseball writer, stroke. [37]
- Ann Lambton, 96, British historian. [38]
- Yardley Chittick, 107, American oldest living patent attorney, injuries sustained in a fall. [39]
- Terry Gibson, 46, American racing car driver, race crash. [40]
- Tauno Marttinen, 95, Finnish composer. [41] (Finnish)
- George Niven, 79, British footballer (Rangers, Partick Thistle). [42]
- Khosrow Shakibai, 64, Iranian actor, liver cancer. [43]
- Peter J. Welsh, 54, Australian footballer (Hawthorn, Richmond), cancer. [44]
- Lila Abaunza, 79, Nicaraguan first lady (2002–2007), wife of President Enrique Bolaños. [45]
- Creig Flessel, 96, American comic book artist. [46]
- Larry Haines, 89, American actor (Search for Tomorrow). [47]
- John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, 88, British civil servant and politician, cabinet secretary (1973–1979). [48]
- Paul Sorensen, 82, American actor. [49]
- Graham Speight, 86, New Zealand High Court judge, chief justice of the Cook Islands. [50]
- Ma Prem Usha, 70, Indian tarot card reader and columnist, natural causes. [51]
- Cindy Woods-Lunney, 46, Canadian radio reporter, cancer. [52]
- Sir Eric Dunn, 80, British Royal Air Force engineer. [53]
- Roger Landes, 91, British Special Operations Executive agent. [54]
- Sherman Maxwell, 100, American Negro league baseball sportscaster. [55]
- Peanuts O'Flaherty, 90, Canadian ice hockey player. [56]
- Jo Stafford, 90, American traditional pop singer ("You Belong to Me"), heart failure. [57]
- Lindsay Thompson, 84, Australian politician, premier of Victoria (1981–1982), pneumonia. [58]
- Monica Dickinson, 83, British racehorse trainer (Wayward Lad, Badsworth Boy). [59]
- György Kolonics, 36, Hungarian Olympic canoeing gold medallist (1996, 2000), heart failure. [60]
- Gionata Mingozzi, 23, Italian footballer (Treviso F.B.C. 1993), car accident. [61]
- Steve Peterson, 58, American NASCAR technical director, natural causes. [62] [63]
- Glendaly Vigoreaux, 45, Puerto Rican actress, daughter of Luis Vigoreaux and Lydia Echevarría, suicide by gunshot. [64] (Spanish)
- Gennadi Volnov, 68, Russian basketball player for Soviet Union, 1972 Olympic gold medallist. [65]
- Björn Berg, 84, Swedish graphic artist, illustrator for Astrid Lindgren. [66]
- Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, 88, Indian jurist, chief justice (1978–1985). [67]
- Bryan Cowgill, 81, British television executive. [68]
- Slobo Ilijevski, 58, American soccer goalkeeper (St. Louis Steamers), aortic aneurysm. [69]
- Henki Kolstad, 93, Norwegian actor. [70]
- Luke Kruytbosch, 47, American race caller, natural causes. [71]
- Hugh Lloyd, 85, British actor (Hancock's Half Hour). [72]
- Katie Reider, 30, American singer and songwriter, brain hemorrhage. [73]
- Riek Schagen, 94, Dutch actress and artist. [74] (Dutch)
- Mike Schutte, 57, South African boxer. [75]
- Steven Thomas, 36, American entrepreneur missing since 30 June, body found on this date after fall from Pali Lookout. [76]
- Eric Turner, 80, Australian quadruple murderer, longest serving state prisoner, lung cancer. [77]
- Les Crane, 74, American talk show host, Grammy Award winner ("Desiderata"). [78]
- Todd Doxey, 19, American college football player (University of Oregon), drowned. [79]
- Peter Durack, 81, Australian senator and attorney-general (1977–1983). [80]
- Red Foley, 79, American sportswriter and baseball official scorer. [81] [82]
- Bronisław Geremek, 76, Polish social historian and politician, minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2000), car accident. [83]
- Dave Ricketts, 73, American baseball player and coach (St. Louis Cardinals), renal cancer. [84]
- Dona Spring, 55, American disability rights activist and Green politician, Berkeley city councilor since 1992, rheumatoid arthritis. [85]
- Gerald Wiggins, 86, American jazz pianist. [86]
- Evgeni Artyukhin, 58, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler, 1983 world champion. [87] (Russian)
- Patricia Buckley Bozell, 81, American founder of Catholic journal Triumph, wife of L. Brent Bozell Jr., throat cancer. [88]
- Reinhard Fabisch, 57, German football manager, cancer. [89]
- Gianfranco Funari, 76, Italian author and television presenter. [90] (Italian)
- Vili Kazasyan, 74, Bulgarian composer, conductor and pianist. [91]
- Bobby Murcer, 62, American baseball player and sportscaster (New York Yankees), brain cancer. [92]
- Earl Nelson, 79, American R&B singer (Bob & Earl, The Hollywood Flames, Jackie Lee). [93]
- Olive Riley, 108, Australian woman believed to be the world's oldest blogger, natural causes. [94][95]
- Tony Snow, 53, American White House Press Secretary (2006–2007), Fox News presenter, colon cancer. [96]
- Tsai Chao-yang, 67, Taiwanese politician, minister of Transportation and Communications, pneumonia. [97] (Chinese)
- Joe Barr, 63, American editor and writer. [98]
- Michael E. DeBakey, 99, American cardiovascular surgeon and medical pioneer, natural causes. [99]
- Roy M. Huffington, 90, American oilman, diplomat and philanthropist, natural causes. [100]
- Mike Kleinhenz, 56, American voice actor, heart attack. [101]
- Anatoly Pristavkin, 76, Russian writer. [102] (Russian)
- Chuck Stobbs, 79, American baseball pitcher, cancer. [103]
- Hiroaki Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American founder of Benihana restaurants, pneumonia. [104] [105]
- Bernard Cahier, 81, French Formula One photojournalist. [106]
- Jakob Ejersbo, 40, Danish writer, cancer. [107] (Danish)
- Steve Mingori, 64, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals), natural causes. [108]
- Ayub K. Ommaya, 78, Pakistani neurosurgeon, Alzheimer's disease. [109]
- Mike Souchak, 81, American golfer, complications of heart attack. [110]
- Ahmad Suradji, 57, Indonesian serial killer, execution by firing squad. [111]
- Yoji Totsuka, 66, Japanese particle physicist, colorectal cancer. [112]
- Vindication, 8, American champion racehorse, euthanized. [113]
- Séamus Brennan, 60, Irish politician, prostate cancer. [114]
- Charles H. Joffe, 78, American Academy Award-winning film producer (Annie Hall), after long illness. [115]
- Sherman Lee, 90, American director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1958–1983). [116] [117]
- Ramesh Singh Munda, 53, Indian politician, welfare minister of Jharkhand, shot. [118]
- Kåre Rodahl, 90, Norwegian professor of medicine. [119] (Norwegian)
- Princess Sultana bint Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. [123]
- Richard Angarola, 87, American actor, leukemia. [124]
- Bruce Conner, 74, American artist, natural causes. [125]
- Bruce Dalling, 69, South African yachtsman, heart attack. [126]
- Yitzchok Dovid Groner, 83, Australian Chabad rabbi. [127]
- João Isidro, 58, Portuguese journalist, cancer. [128] (Portuguese)
- Dorian Leigh, 91, American fashion model (Revlon), sister of Suzy Parker, Alzheimer's disease. [129]
- Clem McSpadden, 82, American politician, congressman from Oklahoma (1973–1975), cancer. [130]
- Hugh Mendl, 88, British record producer. [131]
- Giovanni Viola, 82, Italian football goalkeeper, natural causes. [132] (Italian)
- Fred Yates, 85, British painter. [133]
- Bob Ackles, 69, Canadian executive for the CFL's BC Lions, heart attack. [134]
- Jack C. Collins, 78, Australian footballer, premiership winner with Footscray (1954), heart attack. [135]
- Bobby Durham, 71, American jazz drummer. [136]
- Ambuya Mlambo, 84, Zimbabwean radio and television presenter, cancer. [137]
- Nonna Mordyukova, 82, Russian actress, diabetes. [138] (Russian)
- Diana O'Brien, 22, Canadian model, stabbed. [139]
- Mando Ramos, 59, American professional boxer. [140]
- Ethne Rudd, 79, British magistrate, secretary of the Kensington Society, pancreatic cancer. [141]
- George Tibbits, 74, Australian architect and composer. Source: The Age 9 July 2008
- Hasan Doğan, 52, Turkish president of the national football federation, cardiac arrest. [142]
- René Harris, 60, Nauruan president (1999–2000, 2001–2003, 2003, 2003–2004), cardiac arrest. [143]
- Thich Huyen Quang, 88, Vietnamese religious leader, supreme patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam. [144]
- Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author (Camp Concentration, The Brave Little Toaster), suicide. [145]
- Jesse Helms, 86, American politician, senator from North Carolina (1973–2003), natural causes. [146]
- Evelyn Keyes, 91, American actress (Gone With the Wind), uterine cancer. [147]
- Terrence Kiel, 27, American football player (San Diego Chargers), car crash. [148]
- Wayne Pai, 55, Taiwanese businessman, founding chairman of Polaris Group, suicide. [149]
- Agneta Prytz, 91, Swedish actress, wife of Gösta Folke. [150] (Swedish)
- Janwillem van de Wetering, 77, Dutch writer. [151]
- Sir Charles Wheeler, 85, British journalist, longest serving BBC foreign correspondent, lung cancer. [152] [153]
- John Armstrong, 56, British bridge player, brain haemorrhage. [154]
- Dan Cook, 81, American journalist (San Antonio Express-News). [155]
- Ernie Cooksey, 28, British footballer (Oldham Athletic, Grays Athletic), melanoma. [156]
- Colin Cooper, 69, British vocalist and saxophonist (Climax Blues Band), cancer. [157]
- Larry Harmon, 83, American entertainer (Bozo the Clown), heart failure. [158]
- Harald Heide-Steen Jr., 68, Norwegian actor and comedian, lung cancer. [159] (Norwegian)
- Clive Hornby, 63, British actor (Emmerdale), hypoxia. [160]
- Kat Kinkade, 77, American co-founder of Twin Oaks Community, cancer. [161]
- Noel Sayre, 37, American violinist and co-founder of The Black Swans, apparent heart attack. [162]
- Oliver Schroer, 53, Canadian fiddler, leukemia. [163]
- Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal, 66, Indian qadi, cancer. [164]
- Abdel Wahab Elmessiri, 70, Egyptian scholar and politician, cancer. [165]
- Eric Lieber, 71, American television producer (Love Connection), leukemia. [166]
- Joe Nhlanhla, 71, South African politician, minister of Intelligence Services (1999–2001). [167]
- Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish culinary author. [168]
- Natasha Shneider, 52, Russian-born American actress (2010: The Year We Make Contact) and musician (Eleven), cancer. [169]
- Elizabeth Spriggs, 78, British stage, television and film actress (Sense and Sensibility, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone). [170]
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