Deaths in 2008

Obituaries, reminiscences, histories...

List of prominent people who died in 2008.


December 2008

18th: W. Mark Felt, 95 (Watergate Deep Throat)
 

November 2008

1st: Jacques Piccard, 86 (ocean explorer)

October 2008

25th: Anne Pressly, 26 (newsreader)
17th: Levi Stubbs, 72 (lead singer of the Four Tops)
11th: Jorg Haider, 58 (Austrian politician)

September 2008

26th: Paul Newman, 83 (actor)
1st:: Don LaFontaine, 68 (actor)

August 2008

9th: Bernie Mac, 50 (comedian)
3rd: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89 (dissident novelist)

July 2008

25th: Randy Pausch, 47 (inspirational professor)
6th: Bob Ackles, 69 (footballer)

June 2008

22nd: George Carlin, 71 (actor and comedian)
2nd: Bo Diddley, 79 (musician)
1st: Yves St Laurent, 71 (fashion designer)

May 2008

24th: Dick Martin, 86 (entertainer)

April 2008

5th: Charlton Heston, 84 (actor)

March 2008

23rd: Neil Aspinall, 66 (Beatles' manager)
19th: Arthur C Clarke, 90 (science fiction author)

February 2008

January 2008

17th: Bobby Fischer, 64 (chess champion)
11th: Edmund Hillary, 88 (mountaineer)

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