Deaths in 2008 Totally Explained

Everything about Recent Deaths totally explained

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.
May 2008

26
Dolly Aglay, 41, Filipino journalist with Reuters, cancer. (External Link)
Ako Kawada, 29, Japanese television presenter, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. (External Link)
Jhamu Sugandh, 57, Indian producer, natural causes. (External Link)

25

James Griffin, 78, American mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994). (External Link

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Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian chess grandmaster. (External Link

) (Russian)

Thomas McHale, 45, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers). (External Link

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László Nedeczky, 95, Hungarian fencer. (External Link

) (Hungarian)

Oscar Ratnoff, 91, American hematologist, physician, researcher. (External Link

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J. R. Simplot, 99, American businessman, original McDonald's french fries supplier. (External Link

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Tero "Camu Tao" Smith, 30, American rapper-producer, lung cancer. (External Link

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Clementine Solignac, 113, French supercentenarian, world's fourth oldest person. (External Link

) (French)

Ernst Stuhlinger, 94, German-born American rocket scientist. (External Link

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Dommy Ursua, 72, Filipino flyweight boxer. (External Link

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24

Adam Baruch, 63, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic, diabetes complications. (External Link

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Tano Cimarosa, 86, Italian actor. (External Link

) (Italian)

Rob Knox, 18, British actor, stabbed. (External Link

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Eugenio Garza Lagüera, 84, Mexican businessman, former president of FEMSA, natural causes. (External Link

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Dick Martin, 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), respiratory complications. (External Link

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Jimmy McGriff, 72, American jazz and blues organist. (External Link

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23

Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and critic. (External Link

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Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer. (External Link

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Roberto Freire, 81, Brazilian writer and psychiatrist, created somatherapy. (External Link

) (Portuguese)

Geremi González, 33, Venezuelan baseball player, lightning strike. (External Link

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Dritan Hoxha, 39, Albanian businessman, car accident. (External Link

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Thelma Keane, 82, Australian-born American who inspired The Family Circus comic strip, Alzheimer's disease. (External Link

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Heinrich Kwiatkowski, 81, German footballer, member of 1954 World Cup squad.(External Link

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Jefferson Peres, 76, Brazilian senator from Amazonas, heart attack. (External Link

) (Portuguese)

Bruce "Utah" Phillips, 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure. (External Link

) (External Link

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22

Robert Asprin, 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures), heart attack. (External Link

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Charlie Booth, 104, Australian athlete, inventor of the starting block. (External Link

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Jack Mildren, 58, American football player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (1990–1995), stomach cancer. [http://www.tulsaworld.com/sports/article.aspx?articleID=20080522_2 article.html/mayor_springs.html]

Mildred Loving, 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia). (External Link

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Ilyas Malayev, 72, Uzbekistani musician and poet, pancreatic cancer. (External Link

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Beverlee McKinsey, 72, American soap opera actress (Guiding Light), complications from kidney transplant. (External Link

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Alastair Michie, 86, British painter, sculptor and illustrator. (External Link

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Izold Pustylnik, 70, Ukrainian-born Estonian astronomer. (External Link

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Daniel Sekhoto, 37, South African football player. (External Link

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Mike Titcomb, 75, British rugby union referee, kidney failure. (External Link

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Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr., 93, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Ruffian). (External Link

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Justin Yak, Sudanese politician, minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash. (External Link

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Nasimuddin Amin, 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza, lung cancer. (External Link

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Bernard Archard, 91, British actor. (External Link

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Buzzie Bavasi, 93, American baseball executive (Dodgers, Angels, Padres). (External Link

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Mary Berry, 90, British musicologist and nun. (External Link

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Philipp von Boeselager, 90, German World War II anti-Hitler conspirator. (External Link

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Danton Burroughs, 64, American businessman, grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs, heart failure. (External Link

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Nirmala Deshpande, 78, Indian peace activist, after brief illness. (External Link

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Terry Duggan, 76, British actor. (External Link

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Elaine Dundy, 86, American writer and actress. (External Link

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Frédéric H. Fajardie, 60, French writer, cancer. (External Link

) (French)

Aden Hashi Farah, Somali leader of Al-Shabab insurgent group, air strike. (External Link

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Jim Hager, 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw), heart attack. (External Link

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Mark Kendall, 49, British footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Newport County, Wolverhampton Wanderers). (External Link

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Sir Anthony Mamo, 99, Maltese politician, first president of the Republic of Malta. (External Link

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Alberto Estima de Oliveira, 74, Portuguese poet. (External Link

) (Portuguese)

Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging. (External Link

) (External Link

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J. J. Voskuil, 82, Dutch author, euthanasia. (External Link

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April 2008

See Deaths in April 2008.

March 2008

See Deaths in March 2008.

February 2008

See Deaths in February 2008.

January 2008

See Deaths in January 2008.

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