Who famous died in 2008?

Answer 1

=== === * January 3 - Yo-Sam Choi, Korean boxer (b. 1972) * January 10 - Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. 1921) * January 11 - Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist (b. 1919) * January 15 - Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982) * January 16 - Nikola Kljusev, Macedonian Prime Minister (b. 1927) * 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 22 - Claude Piron, Swiss linguist and psychologist (b. 1931) * January 26 - George Habash, Palestinian politician (b. 1926) * 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 2 - Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925) * February 5 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1917) * February 7 - Andrew Bertie, British Grand Master of the Order of Malta (b. 1929) * February 9 - Baba Amte, Indian social activist (b. 1914) * 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 Mughniyah, Lebanese militant (b. 1962) * February 12 - Badri Patarkatsishvili, Georgian businessman and politician (b. 1955) * February 13 - Kon Ichikawa, Japanese film director (b. 1915) * February 13 - Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917) * February 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1922) * February 19 - Natalia Bessmertnova, Russian ballerina (b. 1941) * February 19 - Yegor Letov, Russian singer (b. 1964) * 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 23 - Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver (b. 1917) * February 27 - William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and conservative commentator (b. 1925) * February 27 - Ivan Rebroff, German singer (b. 1931) * 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 3 - Norman Smith, English singer and record producer (b. 1923) * March 4 - Gary Gygax, American writer and game designer (b. 1938) * March 6 - Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918) * 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 22 - Adolfo Suárez Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1927) * 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 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 and writer, discoverer of LSD (b. 1906)

* 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 - Robert Rauschenberg, American pop artist (b. 1925) * May 12 - Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian (b. 1910) * May 13 - Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930) * May 13 - Bernardin Gantin, Beninese cardinal (b. 1922) * May 15 - Willis Lamb, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) * May 23 - Cornell Capa, Hungarian-American photographer (b. 1918) * May 26 - Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1934) * May 28 - Sven Davidson, Swedish tennis player (b. 1928) * 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, Lithuanian-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 13 - Tim Russert, American journalist (b. 1950) * June 15 - Stan Winston, American special effects and make up artist (b. 1946) * 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 4 - Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921) * July 4 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916) * July 5 - René Harris, President of Nauru (b. 1947) * July 11 - Michael E. DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908) * July 12 - Tony Snow, American political commentator (b. 1955) * July 13 - Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932) * July 15 - György Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist (b. 1972) * July 22 - Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923) * July 23 - Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician (b. 1924) * July 25 - Johnny Griffin, American saxophonist (b. 1928) * July 25 - Randy Pausch, American author and computer scientist (b. 1960) * July 27 - Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926) * July 29 - Mate Parlov, Croatian boxer (b. 1948) * August 1 - Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916) * August 3 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) * August 9 - Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (b. 1957) * August 9 - Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (b. 1941) * August 10 - Isaac Hayes, American musician (b. 1942) * August 11 - Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician (b. 1929) * August 13 - Henri Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1904) * August 15 - Jerry Wexler, American music producer (b. 1917) * August 16 - Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (b. 1934) * August 16 - Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese microbiologist (b. 1913) * August 19 - Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia (b. 1948) * August 20 - Hua Guofeng, Chinese premier (b. 1921) * August 23 - Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) * August 28 - Phil Hill, American race car driver (b. 1927) * September 1 - Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940) * September 6 - Antonio Innocenti, Italian cardinal (b. 1915) * September 6 - Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910) * September 9 - Nouhak Phoumsavanh, President of Laos (b. 1910) * September 12 - David Foster Wallace, American writer (b. 1962) * September 15 - Richard Wright, English musician (b. 1943) * September 18 - Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (b. 1931) * September 26 - Paul Newman, American actor (b. 1925) * October 1 - Boris Efimov, Russian political cartoonist (b. 1900) * October 6 - Paavo Haavikko, Finnish poet (b. 1931) * October 8 - George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) * October 10 - Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese businessman (b. 1947) * October 10 - Alexey Prokurorov, Russian cross-country skier (b. 1964) * October 11 - Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (b. 1950) * October 13 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (b. 1971) * October 13 - Antonio José González Zumárraga, Ecuadorian cardinal (b. 1925) * October 17 - Urmas Ott, Estonian talk show host and journalist (b. 1955) * October 20 - Sœur Emmanuelle, Belgian-born French nun (b. 1908) * October 25 - Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani singer (b. 1942) * October 26 - Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925) * October 31 - Studs Terkel, American author (b. 1912) * November 1 - Jacques Piccard, Swiss explorer and engineer (b. 1922) * November 1 - Yma Sumac, Peruvian soprano (b. 1922) * November 4 - Michael Crichton, American author and producer (b. 1942) * November 4 - Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican politician (b. 1971) * November 10 - Kiyoshi Itō, Japanese mathematician (b. 1915) * November 10 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer (b. 1932) * November 12 - Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (b. 1947) * November 13 - Paco Ignacio Taibo I, Mexican writer and journalist (b. 1924) * November 14 - Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgarian athlete (b. 1962) * November 22 - Ibrahim Nasir, Maldivian President (b. 1926) * November 27 - Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister (b. 1931) * November 29 - Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (b. 1918) * December 1 - Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934) * December 2 - Odetta, American singer (b. 1930)

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