2008 deaths

American astronomer (1925-2008)

figure skater (1967-2008)

Brazilian association football player (1923-2008)

East Timorese military commander (1968-2008)

Indian writer

American model (1917–2008)

Spanish architect

Danish politician (1926-2008)

President of the Marshall Islands (1942-2008)

fencer (1928-2008)

United States writer, editor and bookshop worker (1934–2008)

Sri Lankan politician (1949–2008)

Welsh composer (1929–2008)

Canadian sports businessman (1923-2008)

Athletics competitor from Kenya

Irish politician, writer, historian and academic (1917-2008)

American musician (1969–2008)

Spanish poet (1917-2008)

American internist and medical geneticist (1921-2008)

Bulgarian footballer

Romanian actress (1912-2008)

American mixed martial arts fighter (1971–2008)

American actor (1920-2008)

Italian engineer and manager (1957–2008)

American songwriter and singer (1939–2008)

Brazilian actress and comedian (1907-2008)

Australian rower (1945–2008)

Vice President of Bosnia (1921-2008)

French fashion designer (1929-2008)

Italian-Dutch motorsport engineer

Croatian chess master (1929-2008)

Mexican actress and singer (1926–2008)

American gambler (1929–2008)

French sprinter (1923–2008)

American microbiologist and vaccinologist (1946–2008)

Bosnia and Herzegovina politician (1952-2008)

German activist

American composer (1913–2008)

British guitarist (1940–2008)

South African actress

American government official (1909-2008)

Israeli mathematician (1916–2008)

American chemist (1919–2008)

English conductor (1948-2008)

French-Romanian composer (1942-2008)

Italian theologian

American comedian and actor (1922–2008)

American physicist (1930-2008)

American television sports journalist (1921–2008)

American voice actor (1949-2008)

Czech ice hockey coach, ice hockey player and field hockey player (1933–2008)

Dutch sprint canoeist (1914–2008)

Spanish noble (1936-2008)

actor, director, producer (1931–2008)

American astronaut (1951–2008)

British writer (1937-2008)

Australian rower, yachtsman and investment banker (1954–2008)

American swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, former world record-holder, engineer

Italian film director, actor, screenwriter and film editor (1924-2008)

American jazz trombonist (1926-2008)