Famous Deaths for Year 2008 (Part 2)

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Mar 27th - Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
Mar 27th - George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
Mar 30th - Dith Pran, The Killing Fields Photographer (b. 1942)
Mar 30th - David Leslie, Touring Car Driver (b. 1953)
Mar 30th - Richard Lloyd, Racing Car Driver (b. 1945)
Mar 31st - Jules Dassin, American film director (b .1911)
Mar 31st - Bill Keightley, "Mr. Wildcat." University of Kentucky basketball equipment manger 1962-2008 (b .1926)
Apr 3rd - Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian football player (b. 1983)
Apr 4th - Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (b. 1923)
Apr 5th - Charlton Heston, American Actor (b. 1923)
Apr 8th - Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928)
Apr 8th - John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
Apr 8th - Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
Apr 11th - Merlin German, United States Marine
Apr 12th - Paddy Hillery, 6th President of Ireland, EEC Commissioner and Irish Minister (b. 1923)
Apr 12th - Cecilia Colledge, British ice skater and Olympian (b. 1920)
Apr 12th - Jerry Zucker, Israeli-born American businessman (b. 1949)
Apr 13th - John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
Apr 14th - Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918)
Apr 14th - Ollie Johnston, the last living member of Disney's Nine Old Men. (b. 1912)
Apr 14th - Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)
Apr 15th - Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (b. 1921)
Apr 15th - Benoît Lamy, Belgian Movie Director (b. 1945)
Apr 16th - Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
Apr 16th - Joseph Solman, American painter
Apr 17th - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
Apr 17th - Danny Federici, organ player for E-Street Band (b. 1950)
Apr 19th - John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
Apr 19th - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
Apr 19th - Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
Apr 20th - VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976)
Apr 20th - Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923)
Apr 21st - Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
Apr 22nd - Ed Chynoweth, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1941)
Apr 25th - Humphrey Lyttelton, Jazz musician and broadcaster, (b. 1921)
Apr 29th - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
Apr 30th - John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1919)
May 1st - Anthony Mamo, Malta's first President (b. 1909)
May 1st - Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Washington, D.C. prostitution service owner (b. 1956)
May 2nd - Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (b. 1940)
May 3rd - Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish former Primer Minister (b. 1926)
May 5th - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)
May 8th - Eddy Arnold, Country music star (b. 1918)
May 8th - François Sterchele, Belgian football player (b. 1982)
May 9th - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (b. 1929)
May 9th - Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1942)
May 10th - Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
May 10th - Jessie Jacobs, Australian Actress (b. 1990)
May 11th - Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (b. 1934)
May 11th - John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b.1953)
May 11th - Bruno Neves, portuguese cyclist that died in competition (b.1981)
May 12th - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925)
May 12th - Irena Sendler, Polish social worker, WWII heroine (b. 1910)
May 13th - Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
May 13th - Ron Stone, American television reporter (b. 1936)
May 15th - Alexander Courage, composer of original Star Trek theme (b. 1919)
May 15th - Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
May 15th - Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, younger brother of Joey Dunlop (b. 1960)
May 18th - Joseph Pevney, American television director
May 19th - Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright, (b. 1928)
May 20th - Hamilton Jordan, former Carter White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
May 22nd - Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946)
May 23rd - David Mitton, British television director (b. 1939)
May 24th - Dick Martin American comedian (b. 1922)
May 25th - J. R. Simplot, American potato farmer (b. 1909)
May 26th - Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
May 27th - Franz Künstler, Last remaining Austro-Hungarian Empire World War I veteran (b. 1900)
May 28th - David Mitton, Scottish-born director (b. 1938)
May 28th - Robert Justman, American television producer (b. 1926)
May 29th - Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
May 29th - Harvey Korman, American actor (b. 1927)
May 29th - Dianne Odell, American medical figure (b. 1947)
May 30th - Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)
Jun 1st - Tommy Lapid, Israeli journalist and politician (b. 1931)
Jun 1st - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (b. 1936)
Jun 2nd - Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
Jun 2nd - Mel Ferrer, American actor, film director and film producer (b. 1917)
Jun 4th - Nikos Sergianopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1952)
Jun 7th - Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
Jun 7th - Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)
Jun 8th - Šaban Bajramović, Serbian Romani musician (b. 1936)
Jun 9th - Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)
Jun 10th - Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet writer (b. 1928)
Jun 11th - Võ Văn Kiệt, former prime minister of Vietnam (b. 1922)
Jun 11th - Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1938)
Jun 11th - Miroslav Dvořák, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (b. 1951)
Jun 12th - Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)
Jun 13th - Tim Russert, American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator (b. 1950)
Jun 13th - Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (b. 1926)
Jun 14th - Jamelão, Brazilian samba singer (b. 1913)
Jun 14th - Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1964)
Jun 15th - Stan Winston, American special effects and makeup artist, and film director (b. 1946)
Jun 16th - Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
Jun 16th - Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)
Jun 17th - Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
Jun 17th - Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1922)
Jun 18th - Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
Jun 18th - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (b. 1915)
Jun 18th - Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
Jun 19th - Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist (b. 1934)
Jun 19th - Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
Jun 21st - Scott Kalitta, American drag racer (b. 1962)
Jun 22nd - George Carlin, American comedian, actor (b. 1937)
Jun 22nd - Dody Goodman, American comedienne (b. 1914)
Jun 22nd - Jane McGrath, British-born Australian cancer support campaigner (b. 1966)
Jun 24th - Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)
Jun 27th - Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
Jun 27th - Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)
Jun 28th - Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (b.1987)
Jun 29th - Don S. Davis, American actor and artist (b. 1942)
Jul 1st - Mel Galley, English guitarist (b. 1948)
Jul 2nd - Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (b. 1956)
Jul 2nd - Elizabeth Spriggs, English-Born Actress (b. 1929)
Jul 3rd - Ernie Cooksey, English Footballer (b. 1980)
Jul 3rd - Larry Harmon, American entertainer and TV producer (b. 1925)
Jul 3rd - Clive Hornby, English soap actor - Emmerdale (b. 1944)
Jul 3rd - Oliver Schroer, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1956)
Jul 4th - Charles Wheeler, British journalist (b. 1923)
Jul 4th - Jesse Helms, American politician (b. 1921)
Jul 4th - Terrence Kiel, American Football Player (b. 1980)
Jul 4th - Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940)
Jul 4th - Evelyn Keyes, American actress (b. 1916)
Jul 5th - Hasan Doğan, 37th president of the Turkish Football Federation (b. 1956)
Jul 6th - Bobby Durham, American jazz drummer (b. 1937)
Jul 7th - Bruce Conner, American artist (b. 1933)
Jul 7th - Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (b. 1917)
Jul 9th - Séamus Brennan, Irish politicain (b. 1948)
Jul 10th - Hiroaki Aoki, founder of Benihana (b. 1938)
Jul 10th - Mike Souchak, professional golfer (b. 1927)
Jul 11th - Michael DeBakey, American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908)
Jul 12th - Tony Snow, former speechwriter for Presidents George H.W. Bush and press secretary for George W. Bush (b. 1955)
Jul 12th - Bobby Murcer, center fielder for the New York Yankees,San Francisco Giants, and Chicago Cubs from 1965-1983(b. 1946)
Jul 13th - Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
Jul 14th - Henki Kolstad, Norwegian actor (b. 1915)
Jul 15th - Gyorgy Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist, Olympics medalist. (b. 1972)
Jul 16th - Jo Stafford, American singer of traditional pop music (b. 1917)
Jul 17th - Larry Haines, American actor (b. 1918)
Jul 18th - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (b. 1944)
Jul 19th - Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (b. 1907)
Jul 20th - Artie Traum, American guitarist (b. 1943)
Jul 22nd - Estelle Getty American comedic actress (b. 1923)
Jul 23rd - Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1924)
Jul 24th - Norman Dello Joio, American composer (b. 1913)
Jul 25th - Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his "Last Lecture" (b. 1960)
Jul 25th - Tracy Hall, American inventor (b. 1919)
Jul 25th - Jeff Fehring, Australian rules footballer (b. 1955)
Jul 27th - Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926)
Jul 27th - Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
Jul 27th - Isaac Saba Raffoul, Mexican Businessman (b. 1923)
Jul 28th - Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress, murdered (b. 1977)


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