Deaths in 2008
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- Don Brautigam, American artist (b. 1946)
- Magda Cordell McHale, Hungarian artist, (b. 1921)
- January 10 - Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. 1921)
- January 17 - Bobby Fischer, American-Icelandic chess grandmaster (b. 1943)
- January 22 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
- February 10 - Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932)
- February 13 - Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917)
- February 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1922)
- February 18 - Teo Macero, American record producer
- February 21 - Joe Gibbs, Jamaican record producer
- March 15 - Mikey Dread, Jamaican singer
- March 19 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author and inventor (b. 1917)
- March 19 - Hugo Claus, Belgian Writer (b. 1929)
- March 21 - Klaus Dinger, 61, German musician of Neu! (b. 1946)
- March 24 - Rafael Azcona, 81, Spanish scriptwriter (b. 1926)
- April 5 - Charlton Heston, 84, American actor
- April 15 - Hazel Court, 82, British actress (The Masque of the Red Death, The Raven), heart attack.
- April 17 - Aimé Césaire, 94, French Martiniquan poet and politician.
- April 20 - Bebe Barron, 82, American composer, pioneer of electronic music.
- April 29 - Albert Hofmann, 102, Swiss researcher, chemist and discoverer of LSD.
- May 12 - Robert Rauschenberg, 82, American pop artist.
- May 13 - John Phillip Law, 70, American actor (Barbarella).
- May 23 - Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer.
- May 26 - Sydney Pollack, 73, American actor and film director, cancer.
- May 29 - Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles).
- June 1 - Yves Saint-Laurent, 71, French fashion designer
- June 2 - Bo Diddley, 79, American rock and roll and blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
- June 2 - Mel Ferrer, 90, American actor, film director and producer.
- June 7 - Dino Risi, 91, Italian film director (Il Sorpasso, Profumo di donna), natural causes.
- July 4 - Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author (Camp Concentration, The Brave Little Toaster), suicide.
- July 6 - Bobby Durham, 71, American jazz drummer.
- July 7 - Bruce Conner, 74, American artist, natural causes.
- July 7 - Hugh Mendl, 88, British record producer.
- July 7 - Dorian Leigh, 91, American model.
- July 14 - Björn Berg, 84, Swedish graphic artist, illustrator of Astrid Lindgren's books.
- August 10 - Isaac Hayes, 65, American soul and funk musician, actor (South Park), stroke.
- August 15 - Jerry Wexler, 91, American record producer, heart failure.
- August 17 - Manny Farber, 91, American film critic and painter.
- August 31 - Jean-Marie Berckmans, 54, Belgian writer, lung disease.
- September 1 - Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist
- September 4 -Alain Jacquet, 69, French pop artist, cancer.
- September 5 - Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
- September 8 - Hector Zazou, 60, French composer and record producer.
- September 12 - David Foster Wallace, 46, American author and essayist, suicide by hanging.
- September 12 - Norman Whitfield, 65, American Motown songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), diabetes.
- September 17 - James Crumley, 68, American crime writer.
- September 18 - Mauricio Kagel, 76, Argentinian composer.
- September 19 - Jun Ichikawa, 59, Japanese film director.
- September 26 - Paul Newman, 83, American Academy Award-winning actor and philanthropist, cancer.
- September 26 - Marc Moulin, 66, Belgian musician, cancer.
- October 11 - Alton Ellis, 68, Jamaican singer, lymphatic cancer.
- October 11 - William Claxton, 80, American photographer, complications of congestive heart failure.
- October 17 - Levi Stubbs, 72, American vocalist (The Four Tops), complications of cancer and stroke.
- October 25 - Gerard Damiano, 80, American adult film director (Deep Throat), stroke.
- November 1 - Yma Sumac, 86, Peruvian soprano, cancer.
- November 4 - Byron Lee, 73, Jamaican musician and record producer, bladder cancer.
- November 9 - Miriam Makeba, 76, South African singer, heart attack.
- Mitch Mitchell, 61, British drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), natural causes.
- François Caradec, 84, French writer, member of Oulipo and Collège de 'pataphysique.
- Guy Peellaert 74, Belgian painter, illustrator and photographer.
- Jørn Utzon, 90, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House), heart attack.
- Odetta, 77, American folk singer and human rights activist, heart disease.
- Forrest J Ackerman, 92, American science fiction expert, heart failure.
- George Brecht, 82, American artist (Fluxus), natural causes.
- December 11 - Bettie Page, 85, American pin-up girl, complications from a heart attack.
- Harold Pinter, 78, British playwright, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2005), liver cancer.
- Eartha Kitt, 81, American singer and actress, colon cancer.
- Ann Savage, 87, American actress (Detour), complications following a series of strokes.
- Freddie Hubbard, 70, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a heart attack.
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