Deaths in December 2008

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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2008.

December 2008

31

• Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player, after long illness. [1]
• Kazbek Pagiyev, 49, Russian politician, mayor of Vladikavkaz, shot. [2]
• Brad Sullivan, 77, American actor (Slap Shot), liver cancer. [3]
• Vic Washington, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers). [4]
• Donald E. Westlake, 75, American mystery writer, heart attack. [5]

30

• Roy Boehm, 84, American Navy SEAL commander. [6]
• Stewart Cleveland Cureton, 78, American pastor, President of the National Baptist Convention (1999). [7]
• Richard Genelle, 47, American actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Zeo), heart attack. [8]
• Bernie Hamilton, 80, American actor (Starsky and Hutch), cardiac arrest. [9]
• Paul Hofmann, 96, Austrian writer, informant against the Nazis. [10]
• Peter Karmel, 86, Australian economist. [11]
• Roy Saari, 63, American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (1964). [12]

29

• Manjit Bawa, 67, Indian painter, after long illness. [13]
• William Ellis Green, 85, Australian cartoonist. [14]
• Jim Horne, 91, American model, heart failure. [15]
• Freddie Hubbard, 70, American jazz trumpeter, complications from a heart attack. [16]
• Victor H. Krulak, 95, American Marine Corps officer. [17]
• Vladislav Lalicki, 73, Serbian production designer. [18] (Serbian)
• Ted Lapidus, 79, French fashion designer, respiratory failure. [19]
• Daniel Nagrin, 91, American choreographer and dancer. [20]
• Harlington Wood Jr., 88, American lawyer. [21]

28

• Quentin C. Aanenson, 87, American fighter pilot, cancer. [22]
• A. O. L. Atkin, 83, American mathematician, complications from a fall. [23]
• Vincent Ford, 68, Jamaican reggae songwriter ("No Woman, No Cry"), complications from diabetes.[24]
• Donald Gleason, 88, American physician, creator of prostate cancer test, heart attack. [25]
• Sir Michael Levey, 81, British art historian, Director of the National Gallery (1973–1986). [26]
• Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, 92, American architect and industrial designer, created the United Nations logo, prostate cancer. [27]
• Haralamb Zincă, 85, Romanian writer, Alzheimer's disease. [28] (Romanian)

27

• Arild Andresen, 80, Norwegian footballer and ice hockey player (Vålerenga). [29] (Norwegian)
• Rodrigo Arango Velásquez, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Diocese of Buga. [30]
• Delaney Bramlett, 69, American songwriter and record producer, complications from gallbladder surgery. [31]
• Sailor Brown, 93, British footballer and manager. [32]
• Roque Cordero, 91, Panamanian-born American composer. [33]
• Robert Graham, 70, Mexican-born American sculptor, husband of actress Anjelica Huston, after long illness. [34]
• Ian Harland, 76, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1989–2000), after long illness. [35]
• Lars Hollmer, 60, Swedish musician. [36] (Swedish)
• Tuanku Ja'afar, 86, Malaysian King (1994–1999), Great Ruler of Negeri Sembilan since 1967. [37]
• Patricia Kneale, 83, British actress. [38]
• Christine Maggiore, 51, American AIDS denialist. [39]
• Sahu Mewalal, 82, Indian footballer, natural causes. [40]
• Alfred Pfaff, 82, German footballer, 1954 FIFA World Cup winner. [41] (German)

26

• Israel Horowitz, 92, American record producer. [42]
• Gösta Krantz, 83, Swedish actor. [43] (Swedish)
• Mikhail Krichevsky, 111, Russian supercentenarian. [44]
• George Miller, 69, British footballer and manager (Falkirk FC, Wolverhampton Wanderers), cancer. [45]
• Ellie Nesler, 56, American criminal, breast cancer. [46]
• Sir Kenneth Stoddart, 94, British Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside (1979–1989). [47]
• J. Lamar Worzel, 89, American oceanographer, heart attack. [48]
• Wyvetter H. Younge, 78, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives since 1975, surgical complications. [49]

25

• Edd Cartier, 94, American illustrator (The Shadow). [50]
• Alvah Chapman, Jr., 87, American publisher and philanthropist, pneumonia. [51]
• Justin Eilers, 30, American mixed martial artist, shot. [52]
• Olívio Aurélio Fazza, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu. [53]
• Leo Frankowski, 65, American science fiction author. [54]
• William Glendon, 89, American attorney. [55]
• Eartha Kitt, 81, American singer and actress (Batman, The Emperor's New Groove), colon cancer. [56]
• Ann Savage, 87, American actress (Detour), complications from stroke. [57]
• Robert Ward, 70, American blues singer and guitarist. [58]
• Colin White, 57, British naval historian, cancer. [59]

24

• Ian Ballinger, 83, New Zealand sport shooter, 1968 Olympic medallist. [60]
• Ray Deakin, 49, British footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Burnley), brain cancer. [61]
• Stanley Eveling, 83, British playwright. [62]
• Gordon Fairweather, 85, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Royal, New Brunswick (1962–1977). [63]
• Samuel P. Huntington, 81, American political scientist, heart failure and complications of diabetes. [64]
• Ai Iijima, 36, Japanese media personality and AIDS activist, former adult film actress, pneumonia. [65]
• Harold Pinter, 78, British playwright (The Homecoming), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2005), throat cancer. [66]
• Alf Robertson, 67, Swedish singer and composer. [67] (Swedish)

23

• Clint Ballard, Jr., 77, American songwriter ("You're No Good"). [68]
• Manuel Benitez, 39, American child actor and FBI fugitive, shot. [69]
• Narciso Bernardo, 71, Filipino basketball player, cardiac arrest. [70]
• Thomas Congdon, 77, American editor, Parkinson's disease and heart failure. [71]
• Frank Krog, 54, Norwegian actor. [72] (Norwegian)
• Mitsugu Saotome, 82, Japanese author, stomach cancer. [73]
• Thierry de la Villehuchet, 65, French money manager and businessman, apparent suicide. [74]
• Eric Wilson, 96, British recipient of the Victoria Cross. [75]
• Arnold Jacob Wolf, 84, American rabbi, heart attack. [76]

22

• Anand Babla, 54, Fijian politician, MP (1992–2006), after long illness. [77]
• Coy Bacon, 66, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins). [78]
• Lansana Conté, 74, Guinean politician, President of Guinea since 1984, after long illness. [79]
• Norm Cook, 53, American basketball player (Kansas Jayhawks, Boston Celtics). [80]
• Ossie Dawson, 89, South African cricketer. [81]
• James Lebon, 49, British music video director and hairdresser. [82]
• Jani Lehtonen, 40, Finnish pole vaulter. [83] (Finnish)
• Robert J. Marshall, 90, American minister, president of the Lutheran Church in America (1968–1978), heart failure. [84]
• Hugh Myers, 78, American chess player and author. [85]
• Alfred Shaheen, 86, American textile manufacturer, popularized the Hawaiian shirt, complications of diabetes. [86]
• Guy Warren, 85, Ghanaian jazz musician, illness. [87]

21

• Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, 92, British noble. [88]
• James Fulton, 58, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Skeena (1979–1993), colon cancer. [89]
• Teddy Gueritz, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral. [90]
• Christopher Hibbert, 84, British historian. [91]
• Ron Hornaday, Sr., 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer. [92]
• Al Meyerhoff, 61, American lawyer, complications from leukemia. [93]
• Carlos Manuel Santiago, 82, Puerto Rican baseball player (Negro Leagues), heart failure. [94]
• Dale Wasserman, 94, American playwright (Man of La Mancha), heart failure. [95]
• Maurice Zilber, 88, Egyptian horse trainer, cancer. [96]

20

• Samuele Bacchiocchi, 70, Italian theologian, liver cancer. [97]
• Joseph Conombo, 91, Burkinabé politician, Prime Minister of Upper Volta (1978–1980). [98] (French)
• Sahar Daftary, 24, British model, fall. [99]
• Jack Kuehler, 76, American electrical engineer, president of I.B.M. (1989–1993), Parkinson's disease. [100]
• Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso, 83, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the diocese of Santiago de Chile. [101]
• Olga Lepeshinskaya, 92, Ukrainian-born Russian ballerina. [102]
• Joel Mandelstam, 89, British biochemist and microbiologist. [103]
• Adrian Mitchell, 76, British poet, heart attack. [104]
• Robert Mulligan, 83, American film director (To Kill a Mockingbird), heart disease. [105]
• Albin Planinc, 64, Slovenian chess grandmaster, after long illness. [106]
• Dorothy Sarnoff, 94, American self-help consultant, opera singer and actress. [107]
• Igor Troubetzkoy, 96, Russian auto racer. [108]

19

• James Bevel, 72, American civil rights leader, pancreatic cancer. [109]
• Page Cavanaugh, 86, American jazz pianist and singer, kidney failure. [110]
• Carol Chomsky, 78, American linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky, cancer. [111]
• Michael Connell, 45, American political strategist, plane crash. [112]
• Kenny Cox, 68, American jazz musician, lung cancer. [113]
• Sir Bernard Crick, 79, British political theorist, cancer. [114]
• Dock Ellis, 63, American baseball player, cirrhosis. [115]
• Joe L. Kincheloe, 58, American professor, heart attack. [116]
• Matt Kofler, 49, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts). [117]
• Derek Stanford, 90, British poet and critic. [118]
• Sam Tingle, 87, Zimbabwean racing driver. [119]

18

• Majel Barrett, 76, American actress (Star Trek), widow of science fiction writer Gene Roddenberry, leukemia. [120]
• Peter Malam Brothers, 91, British Royal Air Force pilot, Battle of Britain ace. [121]
• Pete Case, 67, American football player (New York Giants), after long illness. [122]
• John Costelloe, 47, American actor (The Sopranos), suicide by gunshot. [123]
• Jack Douglas, 81, British comedy actor (Carry On films), pneumonia. [124]
• W. Mark Felt, 95, American public official, Deputy Director of the FBI, "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal, heart failure. [125]
• Hannah Frank, 100, British sculptor. [126]
• Nahla Hussain al-Shaly, 37, Iraqi women's rights activist, shot and decapitated. [127]
• Robert Jonquet, 83, French footballer, after long illness. [128]
• Conor Cruise O'Brien, 91, Irish politician, writer and academic. [129]
• Ivan Rabuzin, 87, Croatian painter. [130]
• Harold Snyder, 86, American pharmaceuticals magnate, pioneer of generic drugs, respiratory failure. [131]
• Paul Weyrich, 66, American conservative activist, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation think tank, diabetes. [132]

17

• Turgun Alimatov, 85, Uzbek musician. [133]
• Ismet Bajramović, 42, Bosnian reputed organized crime figure and wartime commander, suicide by gunshot. [134]
• Sammy Baugh, 94, American football player (Washington Redskins). [135]
• Freddy Breck, 66, German schlager singer, cancer. [136] (German)
• Jennifer Gale, 47, American transgender politician, cardiac arrest. [137]
• Ved Prakash Goyal, 82, Indian politician, brain tumor. [138]
• Gregoire, 66, African-born primate, oldest known chimpanzee. [139]
• Justin Levens, 28, American mixed martial art fighter, possible suicide by gunshot. [140]
• Willoughby Sharp, 72, American artist, art dealer, curator and impresario, throat cancer. [141]
• Dave Smith, 53, American baseball pitcher (Houston Astros), heart attack. [142]
• Feliciano Vierra Tavares, 88, American musician and singer, father of the Tavares Brothers, prostate cancer. [143]
• Henry Ashby Turner, 76, American historian, melanoma. [144]
• Nina Varlamova, 54, Russian politician, mayor of Kandalaksha, stabbed. [145]

16

• Sam Bottoms, 53, American actor (Apocalypse Now), glioblastoma multiforme. [146]
• Richard Coleman, 78, British actor. [147]
• George Constantinou, 75, Cypriot-born Papua New Guinean businessman, aggravated assault during carjacking. [148]
• Julius Fast, 89, American writer. [149]
• Harold Gramatges, 90, Cuban composer and pianist. [150]
• Joe Krol, 89, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts). [151]
• John E. Sprizzo, 73, American jurist, organ failure. [152]
• Zlatko Šugman, 76, Slovenian actor, illness. [153]

15

• Valentin Berlinsky, 83, Russian cellist, after long illness. [154]
• Mike Blum, 65, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), cerebral hemorrhage. [155]
• Carlo Caracciolo, 83, Italian publisher (La Repubblica). [156]
• León Febres Cordero, 77, Ecuadorian President (1984–1988), complications from pulmonary emphysema. [157]
• Davey Graham, 68, British guitarist, lung cancer. [158]
• David Lieber, 83, Polish-born American biblical scholar, lung ailment. [159]
• John W. Powell, 89, Chinese-born American journalist tried for sedition, complications from pneumonia. [160]
• Gian Franco Romagnoli, 82, Italian chef, author, television personality. [161]
• Clyde Sproat, 78, American musician. [162]
• Anne-Catharina Vestly, 88, Norwegian children's writer and actress. [163] (Norwegian)
• Jay E. Welch, 83, American musician, founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus. [164]

14

• Mike Bell, 37, American professional wrestler. [165]
• Hank Goldup, 90, Canadian ice hockey player. [166]
• William Kaufmann, 90, American nuclear strategist, adviser to seven Defense Secretaries, Alzheimer's disease. [167]
• Carl Kotchian, 94, American aviation executive, president of Lockheed. [168]
• Gastón Parra Luzardo, 75, Venezuelan academic and banker, after long illness. [169]
• Candida Tobin, 82, British music educator. [170]
• Nick Willhite, 67, American baseball pitcher, cancer. [171]

13

• Doris Totten Chase, 85, American painter and sculptor. [172]
• Sir David Clutterbuck, 95, British admiral. [173]
• John Drake, 49, New Zealand rugby union player. [174]
• Mario Alvarez Dugan, 77, Dominican journalist and newspaper editor, heart problems. [175]
• Otto Felix, 65, American actor, amyloidosis. [176]
• Vince Karalius, 76, British rugby league player, cancer. [177]
• Shan Lloyd, 55, British journalist, wife of actor Hugh Lloyd. [178]
• David Margolis, 78, American industrialist, cardiac arrest. [179]
• Kjartan Slettemark, 76, Norwegian political artist, heart failure. [180] (Norwegian)
• Kathy Staff, 80, British actress (Last of the Summer Wine), brain tumour. [181]
• Horst Tappert, 85, German actor (Derrick). [182]

12

• David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 96, British aristocrat and public servant. [183]
• Avery Dulles, 90, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal. [184]
• Max Elbin, 88, American golfer, President of the PGA (1965−1968), heart failure. [185]
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 85, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1976). [186]
• Sigitas Geda, 65, Lithuanian poet. [187] (Lithuanian)
• Van Johnson, 92, American actor (Battleground, The Caine Mutiny, Brigadoon, Batman), natural causes. [188]
• Emmanuel Kasonde, 72, Zambian economist and politician, Finance Minister (1967−1971). [189]
• Tassos Papadopoulos, 74, Cypriot politician, President (2003−2008), small cell lung carcinoma. [190]
• Maksym Pashayev, 20, Ukrainian footballer, car accident. [191]
• Amalia Solórzano, 97, Mexican First Lady (1934–1940), respiratory complications. [192]
• Robin Toner, 54, American journalist (The New York Times), colon cancer. [193]

11

• Ali Alatas, 76, Indonesian politician, Foreign Minister (1988–1999), heart attack. [194]
• Maddie Blaustein, 48, American voice actress (Pokémon), after an illness. [195]
• Ron Carey, 72, American labor leader (Teamsters), lung cancer. [196]
• Robert Chandler, 80, American CBS executive, heart failure. [197]
• Elie Amsini Kiswaya, 80, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Sakania-Kipushi. [198]
• Bettie Page, 85, American pin-up model and actress, complications from a heart attack. [199]
• Yeh Shih-tao, 83, Taiwanese writer, colorectal cancer. [200]

10

• Henning Christiansen, 76, Danish composer. [201]
• Mildred Constantine, 95, American curator (Museum of Modern Art), heart failure. [202]
• Munawwar Hasan, 44, Indian politician, car accident. [203]
• Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet (The Monkey's Mask), breast cancer. [204]
• Didith Reyes, 60, Filipino singer, heart attack and rupture of the pancreas. [205]
• Chris Richardson, 28, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), natural causes. [206]
• Sal Yvars, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants), amyloidosis. [207]

9

• Jonathan Bailey, 69, British Angelican prelate, Bishop of Derby (1995–2005) and Clerk of the Closet (1997–2005). [208]
• Ibrahim Dossey, 36, Ghanaian footballer, car accident. [209]
• James Fergason, 74, American inventor. [210]
• Yuri Glazkov, 69, Russian cosmonaut. [211]
• Dražan Jerković, 72, Croatian football player and manager, heart failure. [212]
• José María Larrauri Lafuente, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Vitoria. [213]
• Brenda Leipsic, 66, Canadian politician, lung cancer. [214]
• Howard Pack, 90, American businessman, shipping magnate, heart failure. [215]
• William Neff Patman, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative for Texas (1981–1985), cancer. [216]
• George Turman, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (1981–1989), natural causes. [217]

8

• Manzoor Hussain Atif, 81, Pakistani field hockey player and administrator, after long illness. [218]
• Frank K. Edmondson, 96, American astronomer. [219]
• Kerryn McCann, 41, Australian athlete, breast cancer. [220]
• Xavier Perrot, 76, Swiss auto racer. [221] (German)
• Oliver Postgate, 83, British animator (Bagpuss, Clangers). [222]
• Robert Prosky, 77, American actor (Mrs. Doubtfire, Broadcast News, Last Action Hero), complications from a heart procedure. [223]
• Bob Spiers, 63, British television director (Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers), after long illness. [224]
• William S. Stevens, 60, American lawyer, heart attack. [225]
• Hillary Waugh, 88, American mystery writer. [226]

7

• Abul Ahsan, 71, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, cardiac arrest. [227]
• Marky Cielo, 20, Filipino Igorot actor, suspected acute pancreatitis. [228]
• Jimmy Gourley, 82, American jazz guitarist. [229] (French)
• Herbert Hutner, 99, American chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts (1982–1990). [230]
• George Kuzma, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys. [231]
• Georges Nguyen Van Loc, 75, French police officer, writer and actor. [232] (French)
• James H. Pomerene, 88, American electrical engineer. [233]
• Roger Sonnabend, 83, American hotelier. [234]
• John Ellis Williams, 84, British author. [235]
• Dennis Yost, 65, American singer (Classics IV), respiratory failure. [236]
• Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, 79, Pakistani journalist and philatelist, paralysis. [237]

6

• John Cumming, 78, British footballer. [238]
• Larry Devlin, 86, American CIA agent, emphysema. [239]
• Catherine Hagel, 114, American supercentenarian, third oldest validated living person. [240]
• Gérard Lauzier, 76, French cartoonist and film director, after long illness. [241]
• Elliot Manyika, 53, Zimbabwean politician, road accident. [242]
• Richard Marsland, 32, Australian radio host, apparent suicide. [243]
• Lloyd Ohlin, 90, American criminologist, complications of Shy-Drager syndrome. [244]
• Ivan Semedi, 87, Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Mukacheve. [245]
• Sunny von Bülow, 76, American heiress, cardiopulmonary arrest. [246]

5

• A. Bernard Ackerman, 72, American dermatopathologist, heart failure. [247]
• Alexy II, 79, Estonian-born Russian primate of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1990, heart failure. [248]
• Jimmy Anderson, 55, American rodeo clown, heart disease. [249]
• George Brecht, 82, American artist (Fluxus), natural causes. [250]
• Martyn Crook, 52, Australian footballer and coach, heart attack. [251]
• Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, 80, Romanian politician, cancer. [252]
• Nina Foch, 84, Dutch-born American actress (Executive Suite), myelodysplasia. [253]
• Beverly Garland, 82, American actress (My Three Sons), after long illness. [254]
• Paris Herouni, 75, Armenian scientist and professor. [255]
• Sir Basil Kelly, 88, British politician and jurist, after short illness. [256]
• Rawson Macharia, 96, Kenyan perjurer against Jomo Kenyatta, traffic accident. [257]
• Jean-Pierre Nguema, 76, Gabonese politician, member of the Senate of Gabon. [258]
• Anca Parghel, 51, Romanian singer, ovarian cancer. [259]
• Richard Topus, 84, American World War II messenger pigeon trainer and business executive, kidney failure. [260]
• Dick Vertlieb, 78, American baseball and basketball executive. [261]

4

• Forrest J. Ackerman, 92, American science fiction expert, heart failure. [262]
• Steve Bradley, 32, American wrestler. [263]
• Jan Kemp, 59, American academic, exposed bias in passing college football players, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [264]
• Party Arty, 29, American rapper. [265]
• Warren M. Robbins, 85, American art collector, complications from a fall. [266]
• Richard Van Allan, 73, British opera singer, lung cancer. [267]

3

• William Pierson, Jr., 97, American art historian. [268]
• Oliver Selfridge, 82, British-born American computer scientist, pioneer of artificial intelligence, injuries from a fall. [269]
• William Spoelhof, 98, American academic, President of Calvin College (1951–1976), complications from a fall. [270]
• Ignacio Uria Mendizabal, 71, Spanish businessman, shot. [271]
• Elmer Valentine, 85, American nightclub owner. [272]
• Derek Wadsworth, 69, British composer and jazz trombonist. [273]
• Alex Widmer, 52, Swiss executive, CEO of Julius Baer bank. [274]
• Robert Zajonc, 85, Polish-born American psychologist, pancreatic cancer. [275]

2

• Carlos María Abascal Carranza, 59, Mexican public official, Secretary of the Interior (2005–2006), cancer. [276]
• Kathleen Baskin-Ball, 50, American minister (United Methodist Church), cancer. [277]
• Frank Crean, 92, Australian politician, Treasurer (1972–1974), Deputy Prime Minister (1975), after short illness. [278]
• Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 81, American writer, filmmaker and scholar, after long illness. [279]
• Leïla Karam, Lebanese actress, after long illness. [280]
• Margarita Karapanou, 62, Greek author, respiratory problems. [281]
• Pyotr Latyshev, 60, Russian politician, presidential envoy to Urals Federal District. [282]
• Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, 97, British aristocrat and politician. [283]
• Henry Molaison, 82, American amnesiac, subject of brain science study, respiratory failure. [284]
• Odetta, 77, American folk singer and human rights activist, heart disease. [285]
• Ted Rogers, 75, Canadian businessman, CEO of Rogers Communications and owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, heart failure. [286]

1

• Paul Benedict, 70, American television actor (The Jeffersons). [287]
• James Bree, 85, British film and television actor, illness. [288]
• Betty Goodwin, 85, Canadian artist. [289]
• Tom Kirby, 61, Irish darts player, pancreatic cancer. [290]
• Siegfried Knappe, 91, German Wehrmacht artillery and General Staff officer, author (Soldat). [291]
• Mikel Laboa, 74, Spanish Basque singer and songwriter. [292]
• Raymond F. Lederer, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1977–1981), lung cancer. [293]
• Emanuel Rackman, 98, American Orthodox rabbi. [294]
• H. Sridhar, 50, Indian sound engineer, heart attack. [295]
• Dorothy Sterling, 95, American writer and historian. [296]
• Joseph B. Wirthlin, 91, American Mormon prelate, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, natural causes. [297]

See also

Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →