Famous People Who Died In 2008
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 2008. This list includes people like Heath Ledger, Paul Newman, Bernie Mac, Michael Crichton, George Carlin and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include journalists, political leaders, poets and directors who died in 2008. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, India & France and many more countries.
Heath Ledger04 April 1979, Australian
Actor
Paul Newman26 January 1925, American
Actor
George Carlin12 May 1937, American
Charlton Heston04 October 1923, American
Actor
Estelle Getty25 July 1923, American
Actress
Bobby Fischer09 March 1943, Icelander, American
Chess Grandmaster
Bernie Mac05 October 1957, American
Actor, Comedian
Harvey Korman15 February 1927, American
Actor
Edmund Hillary20 July 1919, New Zealander
First person to climb Mt. Everest
David Foster Wallace21 February 1962, American
Writer
Michael Crichton23 October 1942, American
Roy Scheider10 November 1932, American
Actor
Tsutomu Miyazaki21 August 1962, Japanese
Serial Killer
Jeff Healey25 March 1966, Canadian
Singer
Suzanne Pleshette31 January 1937, American
Actress
Brad Renfro25 July 1982, American
Actor
Mark Felt17 August 1913, American
FBI Agent
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn11 December 1918, Russian, Russian
Author
Christian Brando11 May 1958, American
Son of Marlon Brando
Bettie Page22 April 1923, American
V. P. Singh25 June 1931, Indian
Eighth Prime Minister of India
Sam Manekshaw03 April 1914, Indian
Majel Barrett23 February 1932, American
Actress
Mel Ferrer25 August 1917, American
Sydney Pollack01 July 1934, American
Film Director, Producer, Actor
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi12 January 1918, Indian
Founder of Transcendental Meditation Technique
Albert Hofmann11 January 1906, Swiss
The First Person to Synthesize LSD
Irena Sendler15 February 1910, Polish
Nurse
Van Johnson25 August 1916, American
Actor
Miriam Makeba04 March 1932, South African
Singer
Harold Pinter10 October 1930, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Literature
Robert Rauschenberg22 October 1925, American
painter
Shomu Mukherjee19 June 1943, Indian
Film Director & Producer
Samuel P. Huntington18 April 1927, American
Baba Amte26 December 1914, Indian
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Jeremy Beadle12 April 1948, British
TV Presenter
Randy Pausch23 October 1960, American
Motivational Speaker, Educationist, Professor
Rob Knox21 August 1989, British
Actor
Paul Scofield21 January 1922, British
Actor
John Archibald Wheeler09 July 1911, American
Physicist
Dith Pran27 September 1942, American
Photojournalist
Michael DeBakey07 September 1908, American
Cardiac Surgeon
Mahmoud Darwish13 March 1941, Palestinian
Poet
Gordon B. Hinckley23 June 1910, American
Religious Leader
Ahmad Suradji10 January 1949, Indonesian
Serial Killer
Jules Dassin18 December 1911, American
Film Director, Producer
Adi Da03 November 1939, American
Founder of Adidam
George Habash02 August 1926, Israeli, Jordanian
Founder of The Popular Front for the Liberation of
Mel Ignatow26 March 1938, American
Murderer
Levy Mwanawasa03 September 1948, Zambian
Member of Parliament
Yves Saint Laurent01 August 1936, French
Fashion Designer
Joshua Lederberg23 May 1925, American
Geneticist
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek09 September 1923, American
Physician and medical researcher
Jane McGrath04 May 1966, British
England-born Australian cancer support campaigner
Adrian Mitchell24 October 1932, British
Poet
Willis Lamb12 July 1913, American
Physicist
Adrian Kantrowitz04 October 1918, American
Cardiac Surgeon
Alun Hoddinott11 August 1929, Welsh
Composer
George E. Palade19 November 1912, Romanian
Cell Biologist
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke16 December 1917, British
Writer
Richard Wright (Musician)28 July 1943, British
Musician
Eartha Kitt17 January 1927, American
Singer, Jazz musician, Film actor, Television
Isaac Hayes20 August 1942, American
Singer, Actor, Singer-songwriter, Composer, Film
Hemant Karkare12 December 1954, Indian
Police officer
Jerry Reed20 March 1937, American
Actor, Singer-songwriter, Musician, Singer,
Cyd Charisse08 March 1922, American
Dancer,actress
Manna06 December 1964, Bangladeshi
actor
Frank Rosenthal12 June 1929, American
Entrepreneur, Manager, Journalist
Suharto08 June 1921, Indonesian
Politician, Military personnel
Richard Widmark26 December 1914, American
film actor, stage actor, television actor
John List17 September 1925, American
Criminal
Gary Gygax27 July 1938, American
Writer, Novelist, Publisher, Game designer
Richey Edwards22 December 1967, British
Guitarist, Songwriter, Lyricist
Arthur Shawcross06 June 1945, American
serial killer
Bo Diddley30 December 1928, American
Guitarist, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Composer
Anthony Minghella06 January 1954, British
Screenwriter, Playwright, Film director, Film
Bernhard Caesar Einstein10 July 1930, Swiss, American
Physicist, Engineer
Mitch Mitchell09 July 1947, British
Drummer, Actor, Film actor
Warith Deen Mohammed30 October 1933
Religious Figure
Hua Guofeng16 February 1921, Chinese
Politician
Sandeep Unnikrishnan15 March 1977, Indian
Margaret Truman17 February 1924, American
actor, novelist, writer, biographer
Rudy Ray Moore17 March 1927, American
Actor, Film producer
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah15 February 1957, American
Serial killer
Dock Ellis11 March 1945, American
Baseball player
Sujatha Rangarajan03 May 1935, Indian
Writer, Screenwriter
Don LaFontaine26 August 1940, American
Voice actor, Actor
Jørn Utzon09 April 1918, Danish
architect
Stan Winston07 April 1946, American
Film director, Make-up artist, Film producer,
Odetta31 December 1930, American
Singer
Boyd Coddington28 August 1944, American
Designer, Engineer
Jörg Haider26 January 1950, Austrian
Politician, Businessperson
John Rutsey23 July 1953, Canadian
musician
Vijay Tendulkar06 January 1928, Indian
linguist, screenwriter, writer, translator
Bruce Edwards Ivins22 April 1946, American
Biologist, Scientist, Circus performer, Politician
Joseph Alliluyev22 May 1945, Russian
Cardiologist