Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2008. [edit] June 2008 - Frances Bult, 95, Australian Olympic swimmer. [1]
- Kewal Krishan, 84, Indian politician, speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly (1973–1977, since 2002), heart attack. [2]
- Jack Nash, 79, German-born American businessman and hedge fund pioneer. [3]
- Arthur Ryan Smith, 89, Canadian serviceman, politician and Order of Canada recipient, cancer. [4]
- Ángel Tavira, 83, Mexican musician and actor, kidney complications. [5]
- William R. Bennett, Jr., 78, American physicist, esophageal cancer. [6]
- Don S. Davis, 65, American character actor (Twin Peaks, Stargate SG-1, A League of Their Own), heart attack. [7]
- Ben Kinsella, 16, English murder victim, stabbing. [8]
- Eladio Vicuña Aránguiz, 97, Chilean prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, pneumonia. [9] (Spanish)
- Vladimir Vinogradov, 52, Russian banker. [10]
- Irina Baronova, 89, Russian ballerina, last of the three "Baby Ballerinas". [11]
- John Bonetti, 80, American professional poker player, cancer. [12]
- Douglas Dollarhide, 85, American first black mayor of Compton, California. [13]
- Terry Fields, 71, British MP for Liverpool Broadgreen (1983–1992), lung cancer. [14]
- Ruslana Korshunova, 20, Kazakhstani model, fall from height ruled a suicide by the police. [15]
- Nicolae Linca, 79, Romanian Olympic gold medal-winning boxer (1956). [16]
- Kenneth Macke, 69, American retail executive, complications of Parkinson's disease. [17]
- Ronnie Mathews, 72, American jazz pianist. [18]
- Christopher "Crip" McWilliams, 44, Irish member of the INLA, convicted murderer, cancer. [19]
- Stig Olin, 87, Swedish actor and songwriter. [20] (Swedish)
- Robert Seamans, 89, American space scientist, Deputy Administrator of NASA (1965–1968). [21]
- Robert Lewis Shayon, 95, American writer and radio producer, pneumonia. [22]
- Frédéric Botton, 71, French composer. [23]
- Marie Castello, 93, American fortune teller made famous in Bruce Springsteen's 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy). [24]
- Francesco Domenico Chiarello, 109, Italian penultimate national survivor of World War I. [25].
- Sasha Gabor, 63, Hungarian-born Norwegian pornographic actor, heart failure. [26] (Norwegian)
- Vinicio Gómez, 48, Guatemalan interior minister, helicopter crash. [27]
- Raymond Lefèvre, 78. French conductor. [28]
- Sam Manekshaw, 94, Indian field marshal and chief of Army Staff, bronchopneumonia. [29]
- Daihachi Oguchi, 84, Japanese master of taiko drumming, car accident. [30]
- Leonard Pennario, 83, American concert pianist, complications of Parkinson’s disease. [31]
- Lenka Reinerová, 92, Czech author. [32]
- Polk Robison, 96, American college basketball coach, natural causes. [33]
- Michael Turner, 37, American comic book artist and publisher, chondrosarcoma. [34]
- Uga VI, 9, American bulldog, University of Georgia mascot, heart failure. [35]
- Lilyan Chauvin, 82, French-born American actress (Baa Baa Black Sheep). [36]
- Asbjørn Haugstvedt, 81, Norwegian Christian Democratic politician. [37] (Norwegian)
- Tony Melody, 85, British actor. [38]
- Charles Percy Parkhurst, 95, American museum curator. [39]
- Setsuya Tabuchi, 84, Japanese businessman, president of Nomura Securities (1978–1985), heart failure. [40]
- G. M. Banatwala, 74, Indian Islamic spokesman in parliament. [41]
- Gerard Batliner, 79, Liechtensteinian head of government (1962–1970). [42] (German)
- Warren J. Ferguson, 87, American federal judge (Ninth Circuit). [43]
- Betty Hanson, 89, Manx politician, first woman elected to the Legislative Council of the Tynwald (1982–1988). [44]
- Alla Kazanskaya, 88, Russian actress, widow of Boris Barnet. [45] (Russian)
- Bill Robinson, 86, Canadian ice hockey player. [46]
- Lyall Watson, 69, South African writer and botanist. [47]
- Buddy West, 71, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives since 1993, complications of kidney failure. [48]
- Ruth Cardoso, 77, Brazilian anthropologist and professor, wife of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, cardiac arrhythmia. [49]
- Dave Carpenter, 48, American jazz bassist, heart attack. [50]
- Eric Chia, 74, Malaysian industrialist, managing director of Perwaja Steel. [51]
- Charles Dempsey, 86, New Zealand football official, after short illness. [52]
- Charles Dryden, 87, American serviceman and academic, member of the Tuskegee Airmen. [53]
- Leonid Hurwicz, 90, American economist, mathematician and 2007 Nobel laureate. [54]
- Victor Kuzkin, 67, Russian ice hockey player, diving accident. [55]
- Shao Hua, 69, Chinese photographer, PLA major general, daughter-in-law of Mao Zedong. [56]
- Józef Szajna, 86, Polish stage director and painter, natural causes. [57].
- Ira Tucker, 83, American lead singer (The Dixie Hummingbirds), heart failure. [58]
- Claudio Capone, 55, Italian voice actor. [59] (Italian)
- Arthur Chung, 90, Guyanese politician, first president (1970–1980). [60]
- John Furlong , 75, American actor. [61]
- Vic Hershkowitz, 89, American handball player, lung disease. [62]
- Mick Hill, 60, Welsh footballer (Sheffield United, Ipswich, Crystal Palace, Wales). [63]
- Judith Holzmeister, 88, Austrian actress. [64]
- Vlado Taneski, 56, Macedonian journalist, murder suspect, suicide. [65]
- Odd Aukrust, 92, Norwegian economist. [66] (Norwegian)
- Bryan J. Baptiste, 52, American politician, mayor of Kauai, cardiac arrest. [67]
- Jon-Erik Beckjord, 69, American paranormal researcher, prostate cancer. [68]
- Natalia Bekhtereva, 83, Russian neuroscientist and psychologist. [69]
- George Carlin, 71, American stand-up comedian and actor, heart failure. [70]
- Albert Cossery, 94, Egyptian-born French writer. [71]
- Jens Petter Ekornes, 66, Norwegian entrepreneur. [72] (Norwegian)
- Dody Goodman, 93, American actress, natural causes. [73]
- Jane McGrath, 42, British-born Australian cancer support campaigner, wife of Glenn McGrath, complications of cancer surgery. [74]
- Revius Ortique, Jr, 84, American jurist, first African American Louisiana Supreme Court justice, complications of a stroke. [75]
- Ron Stitfall, 82, British footballer (Cardiff City, Wales). [76]
- Fyodor Uglov, 103, Russian oldest practicing surgeon in the world. [77]
- Scott Kalitta, 46, American drag racer (NHRA), race crash. [78]
- Kermit Love, 91, American costume designer, Muppets puppeteer and creator, heart failure. [79]
- William Vince, 44, Canadian film producer, Academy Award nominee, cancer. [80]
- David Caminer, 92, British computer pioneer. [85]
- Tim Carter, 40, British football goalkeeper (Sunderland, Millwall), goalkeeping coach, suspected suicide by hanging. [86]
- Anselm Genders, 88, British clergyman, Bishop of Bermuda (1977–1982). [87]
- Barun Sengupta, 74, Indian journalist, after long illness. [88]
- Bennie Swain, 77, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), cancer. [89]
- Bomber Wells, 77, British cricketer. [90]
- Jean Delannoy, 100, French film director (La symphonie pastorale, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les amitiés particulières). [91]
- Marion Jorgensen, 96, American philanthropist and civic leader. [92]
- Miyuki Kanbe, 24, Japanese actress, heart failure. [93]
- Tasha Tudor, 92, American author and illustrator. [94]
- Henry Beckman, 86, Canadian character actor and screenwriter. [95]
- Henry Chadwick, 87, British theologian, dean of Christ Church, Oxford (1969–1979). [96]
- Cyd Charisse, 86, American actress and dancer (Singin' in the Rain, The Band Wagon), heart attack. [97]
- Hewitt Crane, 81, American computer engineer, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [98]
- A. Wallace Denny, 101, American deputy chief scout of Scouts Canada. [99]
- Davey Lee, 83, American child actor. [100]
- Henryk Mandelbaum, 85, Polish survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. [101]
- Tsutomu Miyazaki, 45, Japanese serial killer, execution by hanging. [102]
- Mark Sacks, 54, British philosopher, prostate cancer. [103]
- Michael Shernoff, 57, American AIDS activist, pancreatic cancer. [104]
- Tom Compernolle, 32, Belgian national 5000m and cross country running champion, truck crash. [105] (Dutch)
- Mike Dukes, 72, American professional football player, traffic accident. [106]
- Gareth Jones, 28, Welsh rugby union player (Neath), complications of neck injury during game. [107]
- Margaret Kitchin, 94, British pianist. [108]
- Bert Shepard, 87, American baseball pitcher (Washington Senators). [109]
- Mario Rigoni Stern, 86, Italian writer and World War II veteran. [110] (Italian)
- David Topliss, 58, British rugby league footballer, heart attack. [111]
- Mel Agee, 39, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack. [112]
- Franklin Otis Booth, Jr., 84, American billionaire, Los Angeles Times executive, ALS. [113]
- John Buzhardt, 71, American baseball player (1958–1968). [114]
- Ray Getliffe, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, liver cancer. [115]
- Johnathan Goddard, 27, American football player, motorcycle accident. [116]
- Billy Muffett, 77, American baseball pitcher. [117]
- Walter Netsch, 88, American architect, pneumonia. [118]
- Ole-Jørgen Nilsen, 72, Norwegian actor and theatre director, Bechterew's disease. [119] (Norwegian)
- Rafael del Pino, 87, Spanish businessman. [120],
- Tony Schwartz, 84, American co-creator of President Johnson's "Daisy ad", heart valve stenosis. [121]
- Stan Winston, 62, American Academy Award–winning special effects and make-up artist, multiple myeloma. [122]
- Syed Wajid Ali, 97, Pakistani business magnate, member of the IOC. [123]
- Charles Albert Buswell, 94, American Roman Catholic bishop of Pueblo (1959–1979). [124]
- Chu Fu-Sung, 93, Taiwanese foreign minister (1979–1987). [125]
- Hermina Dunz, 110, Austrian supercentenarian, oldest living Austrian at time of death. [126] (German)
- Kees Fens, 78, Dutch essayist. [127] (Dutch)
- Jamelão, 95, Brazilian samba singer, multiple organ failure. [128]
- Alan Johnston, Lord Johnston, 66, British judge, heart attack. [129]
- Emilio Óscar Rabasa, 84, Mexican secretary of foreign affairs (1970–1975), heart failure. [130] (Spanish)
- Esbjörn Svensson, 44, Swedish jazz musician, diving accident. [131]
- Mel Krause, 80, American college baseball coach and player, myeloid leukemia. [132]
- Maryon Lane, 77, South African ballerina. [133]
- Tim Russert, 58, American journalist and television host (Meet the Press), coronary thrombosis. [134]
- Sir Dennis Weatherstone, 77, British banker, cancer. [135]
- Ward Boston, 84, American Navy attorney, investigated USS Liberty incident, complications from pneumonia. [136]
- Danny Davis, 83, American country musician and trumpet player, cardiac arrest. [137]
- Charlie Jones, 77, American sportscaster, heart attack. [138]
- Dan Kuykendall, 83, American politician, representative from Tennessee (1967–1975). [139]
- Stewart Rawlings Mott, 70, American philanthropist, cancer. [140]
- Gunther Stent, 84, German molecular biologist, pneumonia. [141]
- Derek Tapscott, 75, British football international (Arsenal, Cardiff City, Wales). [142]
- Ove Andersson, 70, Swedish rally driver and principal of the Toyota F1 racing team, rally crash. [143]
- Reid Bryson, 88, American meteorologist. [144]
- Brian Budd, 56, Canadian soccer player. [145]
- Jean Desailly, 87, French actor. [146]
- Miroslav Dvořák, 56, Czech ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers), throat cancer. [147]
- Mitch Frerotte, 43, American football player (Buffalo Bills), heart attack. [148]
- Sir Francis Hassett, 90, Australian head of the Australian Defence Force (1975–1977). [149]
- Taras Kermauner, 78, Slovenian literary historian, philosopher and playwright. [150]
- Adam Ledwoń, 34, Polish footballer, suicide. [151]
- Anne Clark Martindell, 93, American politician and diplomat, ambassador to New Zealand (1979–1981). [152]
- Mickey McMahan, 77, American big band musician (Les Brown and Lawrence Welk orchestras), neuropathy. [153]
- James Reaney, 81, Canadian playwright. [154]
- Gunnar Solum, 78, Norwegian politician. [155] (Norwegian)
- Võ Văn Kiệt, 85, Vietnamese politician, reformist, prime minister (1991–1997). [156]
- Chinghiz Aitmatov, 79, Kyrgyzstani writer (The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years), respiratory and renal failure. [157]
- Eliot Asinof, 88, American writer (Eight Men Out), pneumonia. [158]
- Ralph Bacerra, 70, American ceramic artist, lung cancer. [159]
- David Brierly, 73, British actor, voice of K-9 on Doctor Who, cancer. [160]
- Vinod Chowdhury, 58, Indian economist, educator and international relations expert, cardiac arrest. [161]
- Tyrone Jones, 46, American Canadian football linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer. [162]
- Kipkalya Kones, 56, Kenyan politician, plane crash. [163]
- Lorna Laboso, 47, Kenyan politician, plane crash. [164]
- John Rauch, 80, American football coach and player. [165]
- Karen Asrian, 28, Armenian chess grandmaster, heart attack. [166]
- Algis Budrys, 77, American science fiction writer. [167]
- Alton W. Knappenberger, 84, American Medal of Honor recipient. [168]
- Esteban Mellino, 63, Argentine actor, heart attack. [169]
- Josef Minsch, 66, Swiss Olympic alpine skier. [170] (German)
- Elly M. Peterson, 94, American first female chair of Michigan Republican Party (1965–1969). [171]
- Šaban Bajramović, 72, Serbian Romani musician, heart attack. [172]
- Charles-Noël Barbès, 93, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament (1957–1958). [173] (French)
- Gene Damschroder, 86, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1973–1983), plane crash. [174]
- Jake Flake, 72, American politician, Arizona representative (1997–2005) and senator since 2005, heart attack. [175]
- Bob Grabeau, 81, American vocalist, Alzheimer's disease. [176]
- Danilo Lagbas, 56, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives since 2004, lung and liver cancer. [177]
- Abdul Samad Rohani, 25, Afghan journalist, shot. [178]
- Peter Rühmkorf, 78, German writer, cancer. [179] (German)
- Edith Derby Williams, 90, American historian, granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt. [180]
- Ed Beatty, 76, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers). [181]
- Jimmy Bonthrone, 76, Scottish footballer and manager (Aberdeen FC). [182]
- Bill Coday, 66, American singer, stroke. [183]
- Nasteh Dahir, 36, Somali journalist, vice-president of the National Union of Somali Journalists, shot. [184]
- Rudy Fernandez, 55, Filipino action movie star, periampullary cancer. [185]
- Joseph Kabui, 53/54, Papua New Guinean secessionist, first president of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, heart attack. [186]
- Mustafa Khalil, 88, Egyptian prime minister (1978–1980), architect of the Camp David Accords peace treaty. [187]
- Roelof Koops, 98, Dutch Olympic speed skater. [188] (Dutch)
- Jim McKay, 86, American sportscaster (Wide World of Sports, 12 Olympic Games), natural causes. [189]
- Dino Risi, 91, Italian film director (Il Sorpasso, Profumo di donna), natural causes. [190]
- Horst Skoff, 39, Austrian tennis player, heart attack. [191]
- Erick Wujcik, 57, American game designer, pancreatic cancer. [192]
- Robert J. Anderson, 75, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life), cancer. [193]
- Warren A. Croll, Jr., 88, American Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse trainer. [194]
- Herman Farr, 90, American civil rights activist. [195]
- Saeko Himuro, 51, Japanese novelist and essayist, lung cancer. [196]
- Ray Mallouf, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). [197]
- Gene Persson, 74, American theatrical and film producer (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown). [198]
- László Péter, 78, Hungarian historian. [199]
- Ferenc Sánta, 81, Hungarian author. [200] (Hungarian)
- Edwin Tchorzewski, 65, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan finance minister and Legislative Assembly member, cancer. [201]
- Paul Tessier, 90, French plastic surgeon. [202]
- Victor Wégria, 71, Belgian football player (Belgium, RFC Liège). [203] (Dutch)
- Dwight White, 58, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), complications from back surgery. [204]
- Trevor Wilkinson, 85, British founder of sports car manufacturer TVR. [205]
- Frank Blackmore, 92, British traffic engineer and inventor of the mini-roundabout. [206]
- Angus Calder, 66, British historian and writer, lung cancer. [207]
- Colin Kay, 82, New Zealand Mayor of Auckland (1980–1983), stroke. [208]
- Jacklyn H. Lucas, 80, American World War II veteran, youngest marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor, cancer. [209]
- Eugenio Montejo, 70, Venezuelan poet, essayist and ambassador, stomach cancer. [210]
- Bruce Purchase, 69, New Zealand-born British actor. [211]
- Vic Wilson, 87, British cricketer, captain of Yorkshire, Wisden Cricketer of the Year (1961). [212]
- Matthew Bruccoli, 76, American professor of English at University of South Carolina, expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald. [213]
- Jack Byrne, 57, Canadian member of Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, mayor of LB-MC-OC (1986–1993). [214]
- Ruby Chow, 87, American Chinese restaurateur. [215]
- Bill Finegan, 91, American jazz arranger and bandleader, pneumonia. [216]
- Ivan Herasymov, 87, Ukrainian politician, oldest member of the Verkhovna Rada. [217]
- Harriet McBryde Johnson, 50, American attorney and disability rights activist. [218]
- Agata Mróz-Olszewska, 26, Polish international volleyball player, myelodysplastic syndrome. [219]
- Frank Muller, 57, Dutch-born American actor and audiobook narrator. [220]
- Curtis Osborne, 37, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [221]
- Jonathan Routh, 80, British co-star of UK Candid Camera. [222]
- Nikos Sergianopoulos, 55, Greek actor, homicide by stabbing. [223]
- James Young, 78, American White House physician (John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson). [224]
- John A. Choi Jae-seon, 96, South Korean Bishop of Pusan (1957–1973). [225]
- Pat Egan, 90, Canadian ice hockey defenceman. [226]
- Trevor Kaine, 80, Australian chief minister of the ACT (1989–1991). [227]
- Grigory Romanov, 85, Russian first secretary of the Leningrad obkom (1970–1983), Politburo member (1976–1985). [228]
- Carl H. Stevens Jr., 78, American evangelist, heart failure. [229]
- Sheela Basrur, 51, Canadian health administrator, Toronto medical officer of health during SARS crisis, leiomyosarcoma. [230]
- Sheriff Mustapha Dibba, 71, Gambian politician, first vice president (1965–1975), speaker (2002–2006), heart attack. [231]
- Bo Diddley, 79, American rock and roll and blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist, heart failure. [232]
- Ferenc Fejtő, 98, Hungarian-born French historian and journalist, after long illness. [233]
- Mel Ferrer, 90, American actor, film director and producer (War and Peace, Lili). [234]
- Lois Roisman, 70, American philanthropist and playwright, heart failure. [235]
- Paul Sills, 80, American theater director and comedian, co-founder of The Second City improv troupe, pneumonia. [236]
- Frank Tsosie Thompson, 87, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran. [237]
- Anne d'Harnoncourt, 64, American chief executive of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, natural causes. [238]
- Al Jones, 62, British folk singer. [239]
- Terry Keane, 68, Irish columnist and fashion journalist, after long illness. [240]
- Alton Kelley, 67, American graphic designer and psychedelic artist, after long illness. [241]
- Tommy Lapid, 76, Israeli journalist and politician, deputy prime minister (2003–2004), cancer. [242]
- Pat Regan, 53, British anti-gun activist, stabbed. [243]
- Yves Saint Laurent, 71, French fashion designer, founder of Yves Saint Laurent brand, brain cancer. [244]
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