Deaths in July 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2008.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Abdullahi Afrah, 55, Somalian islamist, shot.
 * Aleksei Argun, 71, Abkhazian politician.
 * Keith Charles, 74, American actor (As the World Turns, The Royal Tenenbaums, Drop Dead Fred), lung cancer.
 * Clay Felker, 82, American editor and journalist (New York magazine), throat cancer.
 * Mel Galley, 60, British guitarist (Trapeze, Whitesnake, Phenomena), esophageal cancer.
 * Mogens Glistrup, 82, Danish politician, lawyer and founder of the Progress Party.
 * Robert Harling, 98, British typographer.
 * Dejan Medaković, 85, Serbian writer, historian, professor, president of Academy of Sciences and Arts (1999–2003).
 * Sir Richard Morris, 82, British industrialist.
 * John Pont, 80, American college football coach.
 * Mark Dean Schwab, 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.

2

 * Chris Arlman, 64, Dutch politician, heart attack.
 * Glencairn Balfour Paul, 90, British diplomat.
 * Omar Caetano, 69, Uruguayan football player.
 * Abdel Wahab El-Messiri, 70, Egyptian scholar and politician, cancer.
 * Jean-Pierre Muller, 83, French Olympic fencer.
 * Joe Nhlanhla, 71, South African politician, minister of Intelligence Services (1999–2001).
 * Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish culinary author.
 * Natasha Shneider, 52, Russian-born American actress (2010: The Year We Make Contact) and musician (Eleven), cancer.
 * Elizabeth Spriggs, 78, British actress (Sense and Sensibility, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Shine on Harvey Moon).

3

 * M. C. Ahamed, 77, Sri Lankan politician.
 * Sue Alexander, 74, American writer of children's literature.
 * Dan Cook, 81, American journalist (San Antonio Express-News, KENS-TV).
 * Ernie Cooksey, 28, British footballer (Oldham Athletic, Grays Athletic), melanoma.
 * Larry Harmon, 83, American entertainer (Bozo the Clown), heart failure.
 * Harald Heide-Steen Jr., 68, Norwegian actor and comedian, lung cancer.
 * Clive Hornby, 63, British actor (Emmerdale), cancer.
 * Kat Kinkade, 77, American co-founder of Twin Oaks Community, cancer.
 * Annabelle Lee, 86, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * Thomas Orley, 74, American Olympic fencer.
 * Dave Powers, 74, American television director (Three's Company, The Carol Burnett Show, Mama's Family), four-time Emmy winner, skin cancer.
 * Oliver Schroer, 53, Canadian fiddler, leukemia.
 * John Sedwick, 79, American television director.
 * Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal, 66, Indian qadi, cancer.

4

 * Alfred Arteaga, 58, American Chicano poet, heart attack.
 * Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author (Camp Concentration, The Brave Little Toaster), suicide.
 * Jesse Helms, 86, American politician, senator from North Carolina (1973–2003), natural causes.
 * Evelyn Keyes, 91, American actress (Gone With the Wind), uterine cancer.
 * Terrence Kiel, 27, American football player (San Diego Chargers), car crash.
 * Wayne Pai, 55, Taiwanese businessman, founding chairman of Polaris Group, suicide.
 * Agneta Prytz, 91, Swedish actress, wife of Gösta Folke.
 * Janwillem van de Wetering, 77, Dutch writer.
 * Sir Charles Wheeler, 85, British journalist, longest serving BBC foreign correspondent, lung cancer.

5

 * Pieter Bogaers, 84, Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP).
 * Hasan Doğan, 52, Turkish president of the national football federation, cardiac arrest.
 * René Harris, 60, Nauruan president (1999–2000, 2001–2003, 2003, 2003–2004), cardiac arrest.
 * Dagfinn Næss, 74, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
 * Thích Huyền Quang, 88, Vietnamese religious leader, supreme patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam.

6

 * Bob Ackles, 69, Canadian executive for the Canadian Football League's BC Lions, heart attack.
 * George Ambo, 85, Papua New Guinean Archbishop.
 * Jack Collins, 78, Australian footballer, premiership winner with Footscray (1954), heart attack.
 * Bobby Durham, 71, American jazz drummer.
 * Ambuya Mlambo, 84, Zimbabwean radio and television presenter, cancer.
 * Nonna Mordyukova, 82, Russian actress, diabetes.
 * Mando Ramos, 59, American former WBC and WBA World lightweight champion boxer.
 * George Tibbits, 74, Australian architect and composer.

7

 * Sultana bint Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah.
 * Larry H. Abraham, 70, American businessman and author.
 * Ralph Ackerman, 67, American photographer, producer, traveler and lecturer.
 * Donald Allen, 81, Australian cricketer.
 * Bruce Conner, 74, American artist, natural causes.
 * Bruce Dalling, 69, South African yachtsman, heart attack.
 * Yitzchok Dovid Groner, 83, Australian Chabad rabbi.
 * Lear Fan, 27, American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, natural causes.
 * Dorian Leigh, 91, American fashion model (Revlon), sister of Suzy Parker, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Clem McSpadden, 82, American politician, congressman from Oklahoma (1973–1975), cancer.
 * Hugh Mendl, 88, British record producer.
 * Giovanni Viola, 82, Italian football goalkeeper, natural causes.
 * Fred Yates, 85, British painter.

8

 * Alex d'Arbeloff, 80, American entrepreneur.
 * Wieńczysław Gliński, 87, Polish actor.
 * Erling Rønneberg, 84, Norwegian resistance trainer and politician, mayor of Ski (1958–1990).
 * Sir John Templeton, 95, British businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia.
 * Sir Anthony Troup, 86, British vice-admiral.

9

 * Séamus Brennan, 60, Irish politician, prostate cancer.
 * Wim de Beer, 75, Dutch field hockey player.
 * Don Eaddy, 74, American sportsman.
 * Elizabeth Fabac, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
 * Charles H. Joffe, 78, American film producer (Annie Hall, Match Point, Hannah and Her Sisters), Oscar winner (1978), after long illness.
 * Sherman Lee, 90, American director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1958–1983).
 * J. Murdoch Ritchie, 83, American biophysicist.
 * John West, 84, Australian broadcaster and theatre historian.

10

 * Hiroaki Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American founder of Benihana restaurants, pneumonia.
 * Bernard Cahier, 81, French Formula One photojournalist.
 * Robert M. DeHaven, 86, American flying ace and test pilot.
 * Don Devitt, 86, Australian politician.
 * Archie McCardell, 81, American business executive (Xerox, International Harvester).
 * Steve Mingori, 64, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals), natural causes.
 * Ayub Ommaya, 78, Pakistani neurosurgeon, Alzheimer's disease.
 * William W. Robertson, 66, American lawyer.
 * Mike Souchak, 81, American golfer, complications of heart attack.
 * Ahmad Suradji, 57, Indonesian serial killer, execution by firing squad.
 * Yoji Totsuka, 66, Japanese particle physicist, colorectal cancer.
 * Vindication, 8, American champion racehorse, euthanized.

11

 * Mahmood Ali, 79-80, Pakistani artist, cardiac arrest.
 * Joe Barr, 63, American editor and writer.
 * Michael DeBakey, 99, American cardiovascular surgeon and medical pioneer, natural causes.
 * Roy M. Huffington, 90, American oilman, diplomat and philanthropist, natural causes.
 * James H. Humphrey, 97, American physical education educator and researcher.
 * Mike Kleinhenz, 56, American voice actor, heart attack.
 * Breno Mello, 76, Brazilian actor (Black Orpheus) and footballer.
 * Chuck Stobbs, 79, American baseball pitcher, cancer.

12

 * Patricia Buckley Bozell, 81, American founder of Catholic journal Triumph, wife of L. Brent Bozell Jr., throat cancer.
 * Reinhard Fabisch, 57, German football manager, cancer.
 * Virginia B. MacDonald, 87, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois State Senate.
 * Bobby Murcer, 62, American baseball player and sportscaster (New York Yankees), brain cancer.
 * Earl Lee Nelson, 79, American R&B singer (Bob & Earl, The Hollywood Flames, Jackie Lee), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Olive Riley, 108, Australian woman believed to be the world's oldest blogger, natural causes.
 * Tony Snow, 53, American White House press secretary (2006–2007), Fox News presenter, colon cancer.
 * Tsay Jaw-yang, 67, Taiwanese politician, minister of Transportation and Communications, pneumonia.

13

 * Nicolas Arroyo, 90, Cuban architect, diplomat and minister.
 * Les Crane, 74, American talk show host, Grammy Award winner ("Desiderata").
 * Peter Durack, 81, Australian senator and attorney-general (1977–1983).
 * Red Foley, 79, American sportswriter and baseball official scorer.
 * Bronisław Geremek, 76, Polish social historian and politician, minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2000), car accident.
 * John Raymond Hobbs, 79, British physician, lung cancer.
 * John Mabuku, Namibian politician, governor of Caprivi Region, supporter of Caprivi Strip secessionist movement.
 * Dave Ricketts, 73, American baseball player and coach (St. Louis Cardinals), renal cancer.
 * Dona Spring, 55, American disability rights activist and Green politician, Berkeley city councilor since 1992, rheumatoid arthritis.
 * Gerald Wiggins, 86, American jazz pianist.

14

 * Miguel Benavides, 68, Cuban actor.
 * Y. V. Chandrachud, 88, Indian jurist, Chief Justice (1978–1985).
 * Bryan Cowgill, 81, British television executive.
 * Henki Kolstad, 93, Norwegian actor.
 * Luke Kruytbosch, 47, American race caller, natural causes.
 * Teta Lando, 60, Angolan musician, cancer.
 * Hugh Lloyd, 85, British actor (Hancock's Half Hour).
 * George Noakes, 83, Welsh Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Wales (1987–1991).
 * Ong Chit Chung, 59, Singaporean politician.
 * Katie Reider, 30, American singer and songwriter, cerebral hemorrhage and cancer.
 * Riek Schagen, 94, Dutch actress and artist.
 * Mike Schutte, 57, South African boxer, cancer.
 * Steven Thomas, 36, American entrepreneur missing since 30 June, fall from Pali Lookout. (body found on this date)

15

 * Peter Ala Adjetey, 76, Ghanaian lawyer and politician.
 * Ahmad Basri Akil, 69, Malaysian football manager.
 * György Kolonics, 36, Hungarian Olympic canoeing gold medallist (1996, 2000), heart failure.
 * Yuri Mikhaylov, 77, Russian speed skater.
 * Gionata Mingozzi, 23, Italian footballer (Treviso F.B.C. 1993), car accident.
 * Derek W. Moore, 77, British mathematician.
 * Steve Peterson, 58, American NASCAR technical director, natural causes.
 * Tang Aoqing, 92, Chinese chemist, President of Jilin University (1978–1986).
 * Karl Unterkircher, 37, Italian mountaineer and explorer, fall on Nanga Parbat.
 * Gennadi Volnov, 68, Russian basketball player for Soviet Union, 1972 Olympic gold medallist.

16

 * Sir Eric Dunn, 80, British air marshal.
 * Roger Landes, 91, British Special Operations Executive agent.
 * Sherman Maxwell, 100, American Negro league baseball sportscaster.
 * Peanuts O'Flaherty, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Jo Stafford, 90, American traditional pop singer ("You Belong to Me"), heart failure.
 * Lindsay Thompson, 84, Australian politician, premier of Victoria (1981–1982), pneumonia.

17

 * Lila T. Abaunza, 79, Nicaraguan first lady (2002–2007), wife of President Enrique Bolaños.
 * Giorgio Ceragioli, 78, Italian engineer, professor and a leader in the pro-Third World movement, Parkinson's disease.
 * Creig Flessel, 96, American comic book artist.
 * Johny Fonck, 87, Luxembourgian Olympic athlete.
 * Larry Haines, 89, American actor (Search for Tomorrow, The Odd Couple).
 * John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, 88, British civil servant and politician, cabinet secretary (1973–1979).
 * Mick Ibbett, 80, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1984–1991).
 * George Niven, 79, Scottish football goalkeeper (Rangers, Partick Thistle).
 * M. P. Shankar, 72, Indian actor.
 * Paul Sorensen, 82, American actor (Dallas, Hang 'Em High, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock).
 * Sir Graham Speight, 86, New Zealand High Court judge, chief justice of the Cook Islands.
 * Ma Prem Usha, 70, Indian tarot card reader and columnist, natural causes.

18

 * Yardley Chittick, 107, American patent attorney, injuries sustained in a fall.
 * Tauno Marttinen, 95, Finnish composer.
 * Khosrow Shakibai, 64, Iranian actor, liver cancer.
 * Dennis Townhill, 83, British chorister and organist.
 * Peter Welsh, 54, Australian footballer (Hawthorn, Richmond), cancer.

19

 * Robert Berning, 73, American grocer, principal wine buyer for Trader Joe's, bone cancer.
 * Sarah Conlon, 82, British campaigner on behalf of Guildford Four and Maguire Seven, lung cancer.
 * Eddie Fuller, 76, South African cricketer.
 * Dercy Gonçalves, 101, Brazilian actress, pneumonia.
 * Samudra Gupta, 62, Bangladeshi poet, gallbladder cancer.
 * Jerome Holtzman, 82, American baseball writer, stroke.
 * Ann Lambton, 96, British historian, after long illness.
 * Robert Nesheim, 86, American nutritionist (Quaker Oats), developed Cap'n Crunch and Life breakfast cereals, prostate cancer.
 * Dave Pearson, 70, British painter.

20

 * Célio de Castro, 76, Brazilian politician, mayor of Belo Horizonte (1997–2001), natural causes.
 * Jim Johnson, 83, British army officer.
 * Yann Richter, 80, Swiss politician, president of the FDP (1978–1984), heart disease.
 * Dinko Šakić, 86, Croatian fascist leader of the Independent State of Croatia in World War II, heart failure.
 * Artie Traum, 65, American folk singer and guitarist, cancer.
 * Charles Z. Wick, 90, American politician, director of USIA (1981–1988), natural causes.

21

 * Harry Åkerfelt, 93, Finnish canoeist.
 * Sidney Craig, 76, Canadian entrepreneur and thoroughbred horse owner, co-founder of Jenny Craig, Inc.
 * Eric Dowling, 92, British prisoner of war, helped plan The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III.
 * Antoni Jaszczak, 62, Polish economist, politician and minister of construction (2006).
 * K-Swift, 29, American radio personality, drowned.
 * El Kazovsky, 58, Russian-born Hungarian painter and artist.
 * Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, 94, British industrialist and chief executive of British Leyland (1964–1968).
 * Muhlis Tayfur, 85-86, Turkish Olympic wrestler.
 * María Vaner, 73, Argentine actress.
 * Adil Zulfikarpašić, 86, Bosnian businessman and philanthropist, natural causes.

22

 * Ballindaggin, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Joe Beck, 62, American jazz guitarist.
 * Helen Brockman, 105, American fashion designer, author and professor, natural causes.
 * Greg Burson, 59, American voice actor (Jurassic Park, Tiny Toon Adventures, Garfield and Friends).
 * Patrick Connor, 81, British actor (Brazil, Eye of the Needle).
 * Maurice Coomarawel, 68, Sri Lankan Olympic cyclist.
 * Helen Gardiner, 70, Canadian philanthropist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Estelle Getty, 84, American actress (The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Mask), Emmy winner (1988), Lewy body dementia.
 * Victor A. McKusick, 86, American geneticist, architect of the Human Genome Project, cancer.

23

 * Anna Maria Cantù, 84, Italian Olympic sprinter.
 * N. Robin Crossby, 54, Canadian game designer, creator of Hârn role-playing system, cancer.
 * Kurt Furgler, 84, Swiss member of the Federal Council (1972–1986), heart failure.
 * Ahmet Hadžipašić, 56, Bosnian politician, prime minister (2003–2007), heart attack.
 * Frank Schweihs, 78, American reputed mafia enforcer, cancer.
 * Clay T. Whitehead, 69, American director of White House Office of Telecommunications Policy (1970–1974), prostate cancer.

24

 * Lawrence Anastasia, 81, American politician.
 * Bruce Clarke, 82, Australian jazz guitarist.
 * Eddie Davidson, 35, American convicted spammer and prison escapee, suicide by gunshot.
 * Norman Dello Joio, 95, American composer, natural causes.
 * Zezé Gonzaga, 81, Brazilian singer, natural causes.
 * Robert T. Herres, 75, American Air Force general, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1987–1990), brain cancer.
 * David H. Popper, 95, American diplomat, ambassador to Cyprus (1969–1973) and Chile (1974–1977), complications from a fall.

25

 * Bruce Adler, 63, American actor, liver cancer.
 * Bud Browne, 96, American surf film maker.
 * Hiram Bullock, 52, American jazz guitarist, throat cancer.
 * Harriet Burns, 79, American artist, first woman to work at Walt Disney Imagineering, heart complications.
 * Don Callander, 78, American fantasy novel author.
 * Jamiel Chagra, 63, American drug trafficker, cancer.
 * Michael J. Daly, 83, American Medal of Honor recipient, cancer.
 * Jeff Fehring, 53, Australian footballer, suicide.
 * Johnny Griffin, 80, American jazz saxophonist.
 * Tracy Hall, 88, American physical chemist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Joseph P. Landry, 86, Canadian businessman, senator (1996–1997).
 * Carrie Allen McCray, 94, American author.
 * Randy Pausch, 47, American computer science professor (Carnegie Mellon) and author (The Last Lecture), pancreatic cancer.
 * Mikhail Pugovkin, 85, Russian actor, diabetes.
 * Herizo Razafimahaleo, 53, Malagasy politician, renal failure.

26

 * Nadir Abdurrahmanov, 82, Azerbaijani painter.
 * Malik Anokha, 65, Pakistani actor, heart attack.
 * Daniel Bukantz, 90, American Olympic fencer.
 * Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini, 72, Italian Olympic fencer.
 * Roland B. Day, 89, American judge, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1974–1996).
 * Ed Foster, 59, American technology columnist (InfoWorld), heart attack.
 * Chas Messenger, 94, British racing cyclist.
 * William H. Rogers, 94, British architect.

27

 * Raymonde Allain, 96, French model and actress.
 * Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero, 67, Argentine politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Carl Aschan, 102, Swedish-born British intelligence officer and spy during World War II.
 * Marie Kachel Bucher, 98, American teacher, last surviving resident of the Ephrata Cloister.
 * Youssef Chahine, 82, Egyptian film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Graeme Crallan, 50, British rock drummer (White Spirit, Tank), head injuries from fall.
 * Bob Crampsey, 78, British football journalist, after long illness.
 * Russ Gibson, 69, American baseball catcher.
 * Tomio Hosoda, 82, Japanese Olympic sprinter.
 * Russell Johnston, Baron Russell-Johnston, 75, British politician, cancer.
 * Fenwick Lansdowne, 71, Canadian wildlife artist.
 * Marisa Merlini, 84, Italian actress.
 * Isaac Saba Raffoul, 84, Mexican businessman.
 * Julius B. Richmond, 91, American vice admiral, surgeon general (1977–1981), cancer.
 * Horst Stein, 80, German conductor.
 * Jean Stonell, 79, New Zealand cricketer.

28

 * Pierre Berès, 95, French bookseller.
 * Wendo Kolosoy, 83, Congolese musician, after long illness.
 * Bob Margarita, 87, American football player (Chicago Bears), pneumonia.
 * Midhat Mursi, 55, Egyptian al-Qaeda chemical weapons expert, missile strike.
 * Margaret Ringenberg, 87, American aviator and airplane racer, natural causes.
 * Syahrir, 63, Indonesian economist and political activist, lung cancer.
 * Suzanne Tamim, 30, Lebanese singer and actress, stabbed.
 * Anatoly Tyazhlov, 66, Russian politician, governor of Moscow Oblast (1991–2000).

29

 * Joseph Batten, 36, American game developer, suicide by gunshot.
 * Melissa Batten, 36, American game developer (Halo 3, Gears of War), shot.
 * Eula Beal, 89, American opera singer.
 * Luther Davis, 91, American playwright and screenwriter.
 * Edie Huggins, 72, American journalist and reporter (WCAU-TV), lung cancer.
 * Bruce Edwards Ivins, 62, American microbiologist suspected of 2001 anthrax attacks, suicide by drug overdose.
 * Mate Parlov, 59, Croatian boxer, Olympic and World Boxing Council light-heavyweight champion, lung cancer.
 * Earlene Risinger, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * Ishmeet Singh, 18, Indian singer, drowned.
 * Eric Varley, Baron Varley, 75, British politician, Secretary of State for Industry (1975–1979), cancer.
 * June Walker, 74, American activist, President of Hadassah.

30

 * Anne Armstrong, 80, American diplomat and politician, ambassador to the United Kingdom (1976–1977), cancer.
 * Peter Coke, 95, British actor (Paul Temple) and playwright.
 * Alfonso Dantés, 65, Mexican professional wrestler.
 * Vittorio Fiorucci, 75, Canadian graphic artist, stroke.
 * Anette Fredriksson, 48, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
 * Tim McLean, 22, Canadian homicide victim, stabbed.
 * Jack Nash, 79, German-born American businessman and hedge fund pioneer.
 * Leif Pettersen, 57, Canadian football player and sportscaster, heart attack.

31

 * Falani Aukuso, 69, Tokelauan politician, deputy director general of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
 * Blagoje Bratić, 62, Bosnian footballer.
 * Athos Bulcão, 90, Brazilian painter and sculptor, Parkinson's disease.
 * Alice Chalifoux, 100, American harpist with the Cleveland Orchestra (1931–1974).
 * Hirosi Ismael, 72, Micronesian politician, Vice President (1987–1991).
 * Yi Chong-jun, 68, South Korean novelist, lung cancer.
 * Lee Young, 94, American jazz drummer.