User:RandomOrca2/2008 deaths

January

 * January 3 - Yo-Sam Choi, Korean boxer (b. 1972)
 * January 10 - Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. 1921)
 * January 11 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist  (b. 1919)
 * January 15 - Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
 * January 17 - Bobby Fischer, American-Icelandic chess grandmaster (b. 1943)
 * January 19 - Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
 * January 22 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor  (b. 1979)
 * January 27 - Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon leader (b. 1910)
 * January 27 - Suharto, 2nd President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
 * January 28 - Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens (b. 1939)

February

 * February 5 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1917)
 * February 10 - Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
 * February 11 - Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel (b. 1967)
 * February 11 - Tom Lantos, American politician (b. 1928)
 * February 12 - Imad Mugniyah, Lebanese militant (b. 1962)
 * February 12 - Badri Patarkatsishvili, Georgian businessman and politician (b. 1955)
 * February 13 - Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917)
 * February 15 - Steve Fossett, American adventurer (b. 1944)
 * February 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer (b. 1922)
 * February 19 - Natalia Bessmertnova, Russian ballerina (b. 1941)
 * February 19 - Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (b. 1945)
 * February 23 - Janez Drnovšek, 2nd President and 2nd Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1950)
 * February 27 - William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and conservative commentator (b. 1925)

March

 * March 1 - Raúl Reyes, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1948)
 * March 2 - Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
 * March 3 - Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1921)
 * March 4 - Gary Gygax, American writer and game designer (b. 1938)
 * March 5 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (b. 1923)
 * March 12 - Lazare Ponticelli, last French veteran of World War I (b. 1897)
 * March 14 - Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist (b. 1920)
 * March 18 - Anthony Minghella, English film director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
 * March 19 - Arthur C. Clarke, English author, inventor, and futurist (b. 1917)
 * March 19 - Hugo Claus, Flemish writer, painter and film director (b. 1929)
 * March 19 - Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
 * March 24 - Neil Aspinall, British record producer and business executive (b. 1942)
 * March 24 - Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
 * March 26 - Manuel Marulanda, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1930)
 * March 27 - Jean-Marie Balestre, French sports executive (b. 1921)
 * March 30 - Dith Pran, Cambodian-American photojournalist (b. 1942)
 * March 31 - Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)

April

 * April 3 - Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b. 1983)
 * April 5 - Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)
 * April 10 - Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (b. 1919)
 * April 12 - Patrick Hillery, 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923)
 * April 13 - John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
 * April 14 - Ollie Johnston, American animator (b. 1912)
 * April 15 - Benoît Lamy, Belgian motion picture writer-director (b. 1945)
 * April 16 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
 * April 17 - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
 * April 29 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (b. 1906)

May

 * May 1 - Anthony Mamo, 1st President of Malta (b. 1909)
 * May 2 - Philipp von Boeselager, German military officer (b. 1917)
 * May 3 - Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, 74th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1926)
 * May 8 - François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (b. 1982)
 * May 10 - Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
 * May 12 - Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (b. 1910)
 * May 13 - Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930)
 * May 15 - Willis Lamb, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 * May 26 - Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1934)

June

 * June 1 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
 * June 1 - Tommy Lapid, Israeli television presenter, journalist and politician (b. 1931)
 * June 2 - Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
 * June 3 - Mel Ferrer, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
 * June 4 - Agata Mróz-Olszewska, Polish volleyball player (b. 1982)
 * June 7 - Dino Risi, Italian director (b. 1916)
 * June 8 - Šaban Bajramović, Serbian musician (b. 1936)
 * June 9 - Algis Budrys, American science fiction writer (b. 1931)
 * June 9 - Karen Asrian, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1980)
 * June 10 - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani writer (b. 1928)
 * June 11 - Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1939)
 * June 11 - Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese prime minister (b. 1922)
 * June 15 - Stan Winston, American special effects and make up artist (b. 1946)
 * June 17 - Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
 * June 17 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (b. 1922)
 * June 18 - Jean Delannoy, French film director (b. 1908)
 * June 22 - George Carlin, American author, actor, and comedian (b. 1937)
 * June 23 - Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
 * June 24 - Leonid Hurwicz, American economist, mathematician, and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
 * June 28 - Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b. 1987)
 * June 29 - Don S. Davis, American actor (b. 1942)

July

 * July 4 - Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
 * July 11 - Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
 * July 12 - Tony Snow, American political commentator (b. 1955)
 * July 15 – György Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist (b. 1972)