Deaths in 2008

Contents 1 January 2008 1.1 5 1.2 4 1.3 3 1.4 2 1.5 1 2 External links

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.

January 2008

5

• Raymond Forni, 66, French politician, leukemia. [1] (French)
• Clinton Grybas, 32, Australian sports commentator. [2] [3]
• Galiano Pahor, 53, Croatian actor, cancer. [4] (Croatian)
• José Roberto Preto, 62, Brazilian politician, pulmonary condition. [5] (Portuguese)

4

• Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan, 67, Russian footballer, champion of USSR, hit by car. [6] (Russian)
• Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, 75, Nicaraguan editor of El Nuevo Diario, heart failure. [7] (Spanish)
• Joyce Carlson, 84, American artist, designer of Disney's It's a Small World rides, cancer. [8]
• Marianne Kiefer, 79, German actress. [9] (German)
• John O'Donoghue, 53, Irish poet and philosopher. [10]
• Romeiro, 74, Brazilian footballer, heart attack. [11]. (Portuguese)

3

• Aleksandr Abdulov, 54, Russian actor, lung cancer. [12] (Russian)
• Natasha Collins, 31, British television presenter. [13]
• Werner Dollinger, 89, German politician. [14] (German)
• Petru Dugulescu, 62, Romanian Baptist pastor, poet and politician, heart attack. [15]
• Milt Dunnell, 102, Canadian sportswriter. [16]
• Butch Felker, 62, American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, cancer. [17]
• Virgílio Galassi, 84, Brazilian politician, multiple organ failure. [18] (Portuguese)
• Joseph Lazarow, 84, American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey. [19]
• Herman Le Compte, 78, Belgian doctor, the 'Vitamin Doctor', heart attack. [20] (Dutch), [21]
• Antônio Matias, 43, Portuguese judoka. [22] (Portuguese)
• Lisandro Otero, 75, Cuban author. [23] (Portuguese)
• Haymo Pockberger, 82, Austrian actor and radio moderator. [24] (German)
• Jimmy Stewart, 76, British racing driver. [25]

2

• Yo-Sam Choi, 35, South Korean boxer, former WBC Light Flyweight Champion, cerebral haemorrhage. [26]
• Lee S. Dreyfus, 81, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983). [27]
• George MacDonald Fraser, 82, British novelist and non-fiction writer (Flashman series), cancer. [28]
• Ben Marlin, 31, American bassist (Disgorge), cancer. [29]
• G.G. Njuguna Ngengi, Kenyan politician, homicide. [30]
• Julio Martínez Pradanos, 84, Chilean sports journalist, cancer. [31]
• Robert C. Schnitzer, 101, American actor, producer, educator, and theater administrator. [32]
• Günter Schubert, 69, German actor. [33]
• Gerry Staley, 87, American baseball pitcher. [34].
• Galyani Vadhana, 84, Thai princess, eldest sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, cancer. [35]

1

• Salvatore Bonanno, 75, American mobster, heart attack. [36]
• Peter Caffrey, 58, Irish actor. [37]
• Pratap Chandra Chunder, 88, Indian cabinet minister (1977–1980), heart disease. [38] [39]
• Dennis Clifton, 54, American musician (Cornbread Red) and studio engineer, cancer. [40]
• Harold Corsini, 88, American photographer, stroke. [41]
• Harald Deilmann, 87, German architect and author. [42] (German)
• Irena Górska-Damięcka, 97, Polish actress. [43] (Polish)
• John Granville, 33, American diplomat, homicide. [44]
• Erich Kästner, 107, jurist, last known German World War I veteran. [45] (German)
• Thiyagarajah Maheswaran, 47, Sri Lankan politician, former cabinet minister, assassination by gunshot. [46] [47]
• Lucas Sang, 46, Kenyan runner and 1988 Olympian, homicide. [48]

External links

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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, ...