People who died in 2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918
– 2008
· Age 89
Deceased
Edmund Hillary
1919
– 2008
· Age 88
Deceased
Arthur C. Clarke
1917
– 2008
· Age 90
Deceased
Suharto
1921
– 2008
· Age 86
Deceased
Bobby Fischer
1943
– 2008
· Age 64
Deceased
Harold Pinter
1930
– 2008
· Age 78
Deceased
Paul Newman
1925
– 2008
· Age 83
Deceased
Heath Ledger
1979
– 2008
· Age 28
Deceased
George Carlin
1937
– 2008
· Age 71
Deceased
Chinghiz Aitmatov
1928
– 2008
· Age 79
Deceased
Miriam Makeba
1932
– 2008
· Age 76
Deceased
Charlton Heston
1923
– 2008
· Age 84
Deceased
Michael Crichton
1942
– 2008
· Age 66
Deceased
Samuel P. Huntington
1927
– 2008
· Age 81
Deceased
Eartha Kitt
1927
– 2008
· Age 81
Deceased
Sydney Pollack
1934
– 2008
· Age 73
Deceased
Albert Hofmann
1906
– 2008
· Age 102
Deceased
Yves Saint Laurent
1936
– 2008
· Age 71
Deceased
Mahmoud Darwish
1941
– 2008
· Age 67
Deceased
Willis Lamb
1913
– 2008
· Age 94
Deceased
Irena Sendler
1910
– 2008
· Age 97
Deceased
Hua Guofeng
1921
– 2008
· Age 87
Deceased
Jörg Haider
1950
– 2008
· Age 58
Deceased
Janez Drnovšek
1950
– 2008
· Age 57
Deceased
Leonid Hurwicz
1917
– 2008
· Age 90
Deceased