Biographies: Deaths of 2008

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Deaths of 2008

A-E | F-L | M-Q | R-Z

A-E

• Agee, Philip, former CIA officer
• Berenbaum, Shmuel, Rabbi
• Bessmertnova, Natalia, ballerina
• Bonanno, Bill, mob member
• Booker, Cedella, singer
• Boring, Floyd M., Secret Service agent
• Bowman, Christopher, figure skater
• Bradley, David, author
• Browning, Kirk, TV director
• Brumberg, Abraham, writer
• Buckley, William Frank, writer, editor
• Burk, Joe, former rowing champion
• Calvo-Sotelo, Leopoldo, former prime minister of Spain
• Carlin, George, comedian
• Charisse, Cyd, actress
• Christodoulos, Archbishop, former Archbishop of Greece
• Clarke, Arthur C., science fiction writer
• Daly, John, film producer
• Daniel, Margaret Truman, U.S. president's daughter
• Darwish, Mahmoud, Palestinian poet
• Dassin, Jules, American director
• Davies, Jamie, founder of Schramsberg Vineyards
• Degeollado, Rev. Marcial Maciel, Catholic priest
• Diddley, Bo, rock musician
• Drnovsek, Janez, former Slovenian President

F-L

• Feeney, Joe, singer
• Felker, Clay S., editor and publisher
• Fischer, Bobby, chess player
• Fraser, George MacDonald, British writer
• Frontiere, Georgia, NFL team owner
• Galston, Arthur, Agent Orange creator
• Geremek, Bronislaw, political figure
• Getty, Estelle, actress
• Gonzalez, Angel, Spanish poet
• Grillet-Robbe, Alain, French Author
• Gygax, Gary, game creator
• Haider, Jorg, Austrian politician
• Harrison, Gilbert, publisher and editor
• Hayes, Isaac, singer, actor
• Helms, Jesse, U.S. Senator
• Heston, Charlton, actor
• Hillary, Sir Edmund, mountaineer and explorer
• Hillery, Patrick, former President of Ireland
• Hinckley, Gordon B., American religious leader
• Hofmann, Albert, Swiss chemist
• Jaffe, Ernst, hematologist
• Johnston, Ollie, Disney animator
• Jones, Stephanie Tubbs, U.S. Representative
• Kamel, Stanley, actor
• Karcher, Carl N., hamburger entrepeneur
• Knerr, Richard, toy inventor
• Lantos, Tom, congressman
• Lederberg, Joshua, scientist and Nobel winner
• Ledger, Heath, actor
• Lewis, John, lawyer
• Loving, Mildred, prevailed in Supreme Court case

M-Q

• Mac, Bernie, comedian and actor
• Marlowe, Stephen, fiction novelist
• Metzenbaum, Howard, U.S. Senator
• Moore, Robin, American writer
• Morrice, Norman, former ballet artistic director
• Mugniyah, Imad, Hezbollah terrorist
• Mwanawasa, Levy, president of Zambia
• Nettleton, Lois, former actress
• Newman, Paul, actor
• Newton, Peter, wine vintner
• Page, Bettie, pinup model
• Patarkatsishvili, Badri, opposition leader
• Pausch, Randy, professor and inspirational speaker
• Phillips, John, Civil Court judge
• Pleshette, Suzanne, sitcom actress
• Podres, Johnny, baseball pitcher
• Ponticelli, Lazare, French veteran
• Pollack, Sydney, Hollywood director

R-Z

• Rahho, Archbishop Paulos Faraj, Iraqi archbishop
• Rauschenberg , Robert, American painter
• Rediger, Alexei, head of Russian Church
• Reid, Irene, actress and singer
• Renfro, Brad, former child actor
• Russert, Tim, NBC news anchorman
• Saint-Laurent, Yves, fashion designer
• Scheider, Roy, actor
• Scofield, Paul, British actor
• Seiberling, John Frederick, Ohio Representative
• Sendler, Irena, rescuer of children
• Sethi, Pramod Karan, orthodpedic doctor
• Simplot, Jack, American billionaire
• Smith, Mike, lead singer
• Solzhenitsyn , Aleksandr Isayevich, Russian writer
• Sorenson, James, entrepeneur
• Snow, Tony, White House press secretary
• Stubbs, Levi, lead singer
• Suharto, former Indonesian president
• Upshaw, Gene, NFL football player
• Vrinat, Jean-Claude, restaurant owner
• Wallace, David Foster, writer
• White, Ralph Bradshaw, explorer and cameraman
• Weizenbaum, Joseph, computer programmer
• Whitney, Phyllis A., author
• Widmark, Richard, actor
• Wolff, Milton, American commander
• Wright, Richard, keyboardist
• Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh, spiritual leader