Deaths in April 2008#8 23

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

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

April 2008

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Mosko Alkalai, 77, Israeli actor (Blaumilch Canal, The Fox in the Chicken Coop, Yana's Friends), respiratory failure.{{cite news |url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207238168610&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull |title=In Appreciation: Moscu Alkalai, 1931–2008 |last=Kaye |first=Helen |date=6 April 2008 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917060841/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1207238168610&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull |archive-date=17 September 2011}}
Triston Jay Amero, 26, American hotel bomber, pulmonary edema.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7324918.stm |title='Vampire' convict dies in Bolivia |date=1 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Shosh Atari, 58, Israeli radio presenter and actress, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3526567,00.html |title=Radio broadcaster Shosh Atari dies |date=2 April 2008 |website=Ynetnews |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Péter Baczakó, 56, Hungarian weightlifter, 1980 Olympic champion, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/peter-baczako |title=Peter Baczako |website=International Olympic Committee |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Sabin Bălaşa, 75, Romanian painter, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/controverse-privind-opera-si-personalitatea-pictorului-sabin-balasa |title=Controverse privind opera si personalitatea pictorului Sabin Balasa |website=Historia |language=ro |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Sherry Britton, 89, American burlesque dancer and actor (Guys and Dolls).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/arts/dance/03britton.html |title=Sherry Britton, 89, a Star of the Burlesque Stage, Dies |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=3 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Audrey Cahn, 102, Australian nutritionist and microbiologist.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/a-scientist-ahead-of-her-times/2008/05/11/1210444243844.html |title=Audrey Josephine Cahn: A scientist ahead of her times |first1=Leann |last1=Tilley |author-link1=Leann Tilley |first2=Bruce |last2=Stone |name-list-style=amp |date=12 May 2008 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Jim Finney, 83, British football referee.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7325246.stm |title=Former Fifa referee Finney dies |date=1 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Gabriel Mkhumane, Swazi opposition leader, shot.{{cite news |url=http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-04-24-who-killed-pudemo-leader |title=Who killed Pudemo leader? |first=Donny |last=Nxumalo |date=24 April 2008 |newspaper=Mail & Guardian |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Licínio Pereira da Silva, 63, Portuguese last political prisoner of PIDE during Estado Novo, nosocomial infection.{{cite web |url=http://ww1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?article=337237&visual=26 |title=Óbito: Morreu o último preso político da PIDE condenado com medidas de segurança |date=3 April 2008 |agency=Lusa News Agency |website=RTP |language=pt |access-date=30 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210125409/http://ww1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?article=337237&visual=26 |archive-date=10 February 2012}}
Floyd Simmons, 84, American decathlon Olympic bronze medallist (1948, 1952) and actor (South Pacific).{{cite news |url=http://ncpreptrack.org/ChunkSimmons.html |title=Floyd Simmons: Charlotte photographer won medals |last=Maschal |first=Richard |date=2 April 2008 |newspaper=The Charlotte Observer |via=North Carolina High School Track & Field and Cross-Country |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Otto Soemarwoto, 82, Indonesian professor and ecologist, Order of the Golden Ark recipient.{{cite web |url=https://dienim.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/otto-soemarwoto-lebih-banyak-memberi-contoh/ |title=Otto Soemarwoto, Lebih Banyak Memberi Contoh... |date=3 April 2008 |website=dienim.wordpress.com |language=id |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Marvin Stone, 26, American basketball player for Saudi Arabian Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) team, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-playerdeath&prov=ap&type=lgns |title=Ex-Kentucky, Louisville player Marvin Stone dies in Saudi Arabia |date=2 April 2008 |website=Yahoo! Sports |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402135423/https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-playerdeath&prov=ap&type=lgns |archive-date=2 April 2008}}

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Norberto Collado Abreu, 87, Cuban naval officer, helmsman of the yacht Granma which carried Fidel Castro to Cuba in 1956.{{cite web |url=http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BEF659872-4D6E-4D2A-ADBE-A2C86883925E%7D)&language=EN |title=Granma Yacht Helmsman Dies |date=2 April 2008 |website=Prensa Latina |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408135539/http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BEF659872-4D6E-4D2A-ADBE-A2C86883925E%7D)&language=EN |archive-date=8 April 2008}}
Paul Arden, 67, British creative director and author.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1583960/Paul-Arden.html|title=Paul Arden|website=The Telegraph}}
Johnny Byrne, 72, Irish writer and script editor (Doctor Who, Heartbeat).{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/apr/25/television.bbc |title=Johnny Byrne |first=Gavin |last=Gaughan |date=25 April 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Sir Geoffrey Cox, 97, British founder of ITN News at Ten.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3677157.ece |title=Sir Geoffrey Cox |date=4 April 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708234008/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3677157.ece |archive-date=8 July 2008}}
David Henshaw, 76, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Geelong (1982–1996).{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/about/people-in-parliament/re-member/details/24/1279 |title=David Ernest Henshaw |website=Parliament of Victoria |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Ray Poole, 86, American football player (New York Giants), cancer.{{cite web |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-obit-poole&prov=ap&type=lgns |title=Former Giants all-pro Ray Poole dies of cancer at 86 |first=Chris |last=Talbott |date=2 April 2008 |website=Yahoo! Sports |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080417230604/https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-obit-poole&prov=ap&type=lgns |archive-date=17 April 2008}}
Yakup Satar, 110, Crimean-born supercentenarian, believed to be the last Turkish veteran of World War I.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3676439.ece |title=Yakup Satar: The last Turkish veteran of the First World War |date=3 April 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512085613/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3676439.ece |archive-date=12 May 2008}}
Mona Seilitz, 65, Swedish actress and entertainer, breast cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.expressen.se/noje/film/mona-seilitz-dod/ |title=Mona Seilitz död |last=Kaplan |first=Tony |date=2 April 2008 |newspaper=Expressen |language=sv |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Livio Spanghero, 88, Italian Olympic sailor.[https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/63726 Livio Spanghero]
Adam Studziński, 97, Polish Roman Catholic Dominican priest, World War II chaplain of Polish forces.{{cite web |url=http://www.gminaskawina.pl/index.php?option=27&gal_id=38 |title=śp. O. Adam Franciszek Studziński |website=Urząd Miasta i Gminy w Skawinie |access-date=13 December 2018 |archive-date=December 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216073853/http://www.gminaskawina.pl/index.php?option=27&gal_id=38 |url-status=dead }}
Taotao, 36, Chinese oldest captive giant panda, brain thrombus and cerebral hemorrhage.{{cite news |url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-04/03/content_6590951.htm |title=Oldest captive panda dies in Shandong |date=3 April 2008 |newspaper=China Daily |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Percival Allen, 91, British geologist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/About/History/Obituaries-2001-onwards/Obituaries-2008/Percival-Allen-1917-2008|title=The Geological Society of London - Percival Allen, 1917-2008|website=www.geolsoc.org.uk}}
Andrew Crozier, 64, British poet, brain tumour.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/andrew-crozier-poet-and-poets-champion-809561.html |title=Andrew Crozier: Poet and poets' champion |first=Nicholas |last=Johnson |date=16 April 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Hrvoje Ćustić, 24, Croatian footballer (NK Zadar), head injury.{{cite web |url=http://www.javno.com/en/sports/clanak.php?id=137225 |title=Croatian Footballer Hrvoje Custic Dies |last=Horvat |first=Karmen |date=3 April 2008 |website=Javno |access-date=7 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407032226/http://www.javno.com/en/sports/clanak.php?id=137225 |archive-date=7 April 2008}}
William Denman Eberle, 84, American businessman, U.S. Trade Representative (1971–1974), kidney failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/business/09eberle.html |title=William D. Eberle, Trade Representative for Nixon, Is Dead at 84 |first=Barnaby J. |last=Feder |date=9 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Frosty Freeze, 44, American B-boy, breakdancer and member of the Rock Steady Crew.{{cite web |url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jhX7uIgUDraQqQ5WGTvD8F9YbpXQD8VR2FQG0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407012945/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jhX7uIgUDraQqQ5WGTvD8F9YbpXQD8VR2FQG0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 April 2008 |title=Breakdance Pioneer Dies in NYC |first=Ula |last=Ilnytzky |date=7 April 2008 |website=Associated Press |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Jeremy R. Knowles, 72, British-born Harvard University dean of Arts and Sciences (1991–2002), prostate cancer.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/04.03/99-knowles.html |title=Jeremy R. Knowles, 1935–2008 |date=3 April 2008 |magazine=Harvard University Gazette |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511181456/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/04.03/99-knowles.html |archive-date=11 May 2008}}
Ivan Korade, 44, Croatian general and murder suspect, apparent suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |url=http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/04/03/Retired_Croatian_army_general_suspected_4394.html#selection-147.0-147.14 |title=Retired Croatian army general, suspected in quadruple murder, dies |last=Vukic |first=Snjezana |date=3 April 2008 |website=Bay Ledger News Zone |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118030818/http://www.blnz.com/news/2008/04/03/Retired_Croatian_army_general_suspected_4394.html#selection-147.0-147.14 |archive-date=18 January 2013}}
Leslie MacPhail, 55, Belgian Olympic judoka.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/leslie-macphail-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418100419/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/leslie-macphail-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Leslie MacPhail |website=Sports Reference |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Vladimír Preclík, 78, Czech sculptor and writer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jul/03/obituaries.mainsection |title=Vladimír Preclík |last=Masters |first=Christopher |date=3 July 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Robert Tomasulo, 73, American computer scientist.

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Harley Dickinson, 69, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1982–1992).{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/about/people-in-parliament/re-member/details/24/1160 |title=Harley Rivers Dickinson |website=Parliament of Victoria |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Fay McKay, 78, American entertainer ("The Twelve Daze of Christmas").{{cite news |url=http://www.lvrj.com/news/17321084.html |title=Table set for Hef at Playboy Club |first=Norm |last=Clarke |author-link=Norm Clarke |date=5 April 2008 |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410044629/http://www.lvrj.com/news/17321084.html |archive-date=10 April 2008}}
Jerry Rosholt, 85, American journalist and historian.{{cite web |url=https://www.fjelstul.com/?action=obituaries.obit_view&o_id=865839&fh_id=13160 |title=Karlton J. Rosholt |website=Fjelstul Funeral Home |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Michael White, 59, Australian inventor of narrative therapy, cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=https://dulwichcentre.com.au/michael-white-archive/remembering-michael-white/ |title=Remembering Michael White |website=The Dulwich Centre |access-date=13 December 2018}}

*Wu Xueqian, 87, Chinese politician, foreign minister (1982–1988).{{cite news |url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-04/04/content_6592857.htm |title=Former Chinese vice-premier Wu Xueqian dies at 87 |date=4 April 2008 |newspaper=China Daily |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Giuseppe Attardi, 84, American molecular biologist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/science/05attardi.html |title=Giuseppe Attardi Is Dead at 84; Studied Cells for Clues to Aging |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=5 May 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Iris Burton, 77, American talent agent, pneumonia and complications of Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/movies/25burton.html |title=Iris Burton, 77, an Agent for Child Actors, Dies |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=25 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Eugene Ehrlich, 85, American lexicographer and author.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/books/15ehrlich.html |title=Eugene Ehrlich, 85, Word Connoisseur, Dies |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=15 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Alex Grasshoff, 79, American documentary filmmaker known for having his Academy Award revoked.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-grasshoff20apr20,1,363615.story |title=Alex Grasshoff, 79; documentary filmmaker had to give back his Oscar |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=20 April 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423211534/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-grasshoff20apr20,1,363615.story |archive-date=23 April 2008}}
Charlton Heston, 84, American actor (Ben-Hur, Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes), president of the NRA (1998–2003), Oscar winner (1960), pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-heston6apr06-story.html |title=Charlton Heston, 84; actor, Oscar winner, played grand figures |first1=Robert W. |last1=Welkos |first2=Susan |last2=King |name-list-style=amp |date=6 April 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912021919/http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-heston6apr06-story.html |archive-date=12 September 2014}}
Walt Masterson, 87, American baseball player, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803097.html |title=Walt Masterson, 87; Pitcher Spent 10 Years With Senators |first=Joe |last=Holley |date=9 April 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=13 December 2018}}
McKelvey, 9, British race horse, euthanised after fall during Grand National.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/7331589.stm |title=Grand National as it happened |date=5 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Frank Opsal, 79, Canadian Olympic shooter.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/op/frank-opsal-1.html |title=Frank Opsal |website=Sports Reference |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927164844/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/op/frank-opsal-1.html |archive-date=27 September 2015}}
Steve Sinnott, 56, British general secretary of the National Union of Teachers since 2004, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7332251.stm |title=Teacher union leader Sinnott dies |date=7 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Wang Donglei, 23, Chinese footballer, car accident.{{cite web |url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/b/2008-04-15/16113600119.shtml |title=有有胜利日闻噩耗中甲小将深夜外出车祸身亡 |date=15 April 2008 |website=Sina Sports |language=zh |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Sibte Hasan Zaidi, 89, Indian pathologist and toxicologist.{{Cite journal |url=http://www.iitrindia.org/pdf/iitr_toxresbulletin28%281%29.pdf |title=Prof. S.H. Zaidi, Former Director, Passes Away |journal=Toxicology Research Bulletin |date=May 2008 |volume=28 |number=1 |location=Lucknow |publisher=Indian Institute of Toxicology Research |page=2 |access-date=23 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150601235949/http://www.iitrindia.org/pdf/iitr_toxresbulletin28%281%29.pdf |archive-date=1 June 2015}}

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James Barrier, 55, American wrestler.{{cite news |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/apr/15/police-no-evidence-buffalo-jim-was-killed/ |title=Police: No evidence 'Buffalo' Jim was killed |first=Jeff |last=German |date=15 April 2008 |newspaper=Las Vegas Sun |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Lakshman de Alwis, 68, Sri Lankan national athletics coach, suicide bomb attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/sinhala/news/story/2008/04/080406_iaaf_thilaka.shtml |title=Tributes paid to Karu and Alwis |date=6 April 2008 |website=BBC Sinhala |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Tony Davies, 68, New Zealand rugby union player (All Blacks).{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10502846 |title=Rugby: Former All Black Davies dies |date=8 April 2008 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, 55, Sri Lankan highways minister, suicide bomb attack.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7332952.stm |title=Blast kills Sri Lankan minister |date=6 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Abdou Latif Guèye, 52, Senegalese politician, sixth vice-president of the National Assembly (2007–2008), car accident.{{cite web |url=http://www.aps.sn/aps.php?page=articles&id_article=42258 |title=Abdou Latif Guèye, homme de combat engagé sur le front social |date=6 April 2008 |website=Agence de Presse Sénégalaise |language=fr |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722074710/http://www.aps.sn/aps.php?page=articles&id_article=42258 |archive-date=22 July 2011}}
Kuruppu Karunaratne, 47, Sri Lankan Olympic marathon runner, suicide bomb attack.
Naziur Rahman Manzur, 59, Bangladeshi politician, mayor of Dhaka City Corporation.{{Cite web|url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/2008/04/06/naziur-rahman-manzur-dies-at-591|title=Naziur Rahman Manzur dies at 59|website=bdnews24.com}}
Abraham Osheroff, 92, American social activist, veteran of the Spanish Civil War (Abraham Lincoln Brigade), heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Abe-Osheroff-1915-2008-He-led-a-rich-life-of-1269451.php |title=Abe Osheroff, 1915–2008: He led a rich life of activism |date=6 April 2008 |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109001755/http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Abe-Osheroff-1915-2008-He-led-a-rich-life-of-1269451.php |archive-date=9 January 2014}}
Gib Shanley, 76, American radio sportscaster (Cleveland Browns), pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/2008-04-06-3662734579_x.htm |title=Browns' former radio announcer Gib Shanley dies at 76 |date=6 April 2008 |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Jeu Sprengers, 69, Dutch chairman of the Royal Dutch Football Association.{{cite web |url=http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/laatste_24_uur/artikel/asp/artnr/200346/ |title=KNVB-voorzitter Jeu Sprengers overleden |date=6 April 2008 |website=NU.nl |language=nl |access-date=13 December 2018}}

*Teoh Chye Hin, 94, Malaysian secretary-general of the Asian Football Confederation (1974–1978).{{cite news |url=http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp?file=/2008/4/10/sports/20904185&sec=sports |title=Former AFC sec-gen Chye Hin dies at age 94 |date=10 April 2008 |newspaper=The Star |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521105253/http://thestar.com.my/sports/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F4%2F10%2Fsports%2F20904185&sec=sports |archive-date=21 May 2011}}

Sir Francis Vallat, 95, British international lawyer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-sir-francis-vallat-international-lawyer-scholar-and-legal-adviser-to-the-foreign-office-834615.html |title=Professor Sir Francis Vallat: International lawyer, scholar and Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office |first=Maurice |last=Mendelson |date=27 May 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Ludu Daw Amar, 92, Burmese journalist, writer and activist.{{cite news |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C04%5C08%5Cstory_8-4-2008_pg4_15 |title=Celebrated Myanmar journalist dies |date=8 April 2008 |newspaper=Daily Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413115558/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C04%5C08%5Cstory_8-4-2008_pg4_15 |archive-date=13 April 2008}}
Kunio Egashira, 70, Japanese chairman of Ajinomoto, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/ajinomoto-idUST17677720080409 |title=Ajinomoto chairman Kunio Egashira, 70, dies |date=9 April 2008 |website=Reuters |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Ruth Greenglass, 84, American atomic spy for the Soviet Union, wife of David Greenglass, sister-in-law of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2276705/Ruth-Greenglass.html |title=Ruth Greenglass |date=9 April 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Bob Howard, 63, American football player (San Diego Chargers), cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/chargers/20080410-9999-1s10howard.html |title=Ex-Charger, Aztec Howard dies at 63 |last=Magee |first=Jerry |date=10 April 2008 |newspaper=The San Diego Union-Tribune |access-date=22 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011204132/http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/chargers/20080410-9999-1s10howard.html |archive-date=11 October 2008}}
Sir Frank Little, 82, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Melbourne (1974–1996).{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/mildmannered-archbishop-little-dead-at-82/2008/04/08/1207420390706.html |title=Mild-mannered Archbishop Little dead at 82 |first=Barney |last=Zwartz |date=9 April 2008 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Mark Speight, 42, British TV presenter (SMart), suicide by hanging.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7346909.stm |title=TV host Speight was found hanged |date=15 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Gloria Taylor, 57, British activist and mother of murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7338634.stm |title=Mother of stabbed Damilola dies |date=9 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Andrei Tolubeyev, 63, Russian actor, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.lenta.ru/news/2008/04/07/tolubeev/ |title=Умер петербургский актер Андрей Толубеев |trans-title=St. Petersburg actor Andrei Tolubeyev dies |date=7 April 2008 |website=Lenta.ru |language=ru |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Esko Tommola, 77, Finnish news anchor, after long illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/a/200804077488320 |title=Uutisankkuri Esko Tommola on kuollut |date=7 April 2008 |newspaper=Iltalehti |language=fi |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Phil Urso, 82, American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer.{{cite web |url=https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/saxophonist-phil-urso-rip/ |title=Saxophonist Phil Urso RIP |last=Johnson |first=David |date=8 April 2008 |website=Indiana Public Media |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley, 79, British Green Party member of the House of Lords.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7341044.stm |title=Green Party's Lord Beaumont dies |date=10 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Cedella Booker, 81, Jamaican mother of Bob Marley, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/cedella-marley-booker-keeper-of-the-marley-flame-807775.html |title=Cedella Marley Booker: Keeper of the Marley flame |first=Pierre |last=Perrone |date=11 April 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=13 December 2018}}
John Button, 74, Australian senator, minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce (1983–1993), pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/08/2210637.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409011708/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/08/2210637.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 9, 2008 |title=Tributes flow for former senator John Button |date=8 April 2008 |website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Loren Driscoll, 79, American tenor.{{cite web |url=http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Driscoll-Loren.htm |title=Loren Driscoll Biography |date=29 May 2017 |website=Bach Cantatas.com |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Graham Higman, 91, British mathematician.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2032991/Professor-Graham-Higman.html |title=Professor Graham Higman |date=26 May 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Seaman Jacobs, 96, American television writer (The Red Skelton Show, F Troop, The Jeffersons), cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=http://www.businessofcinema.com/news.php?newsid=7819 |title=Comedy writer Seaman Jacobs passes away at 96 |date=11 April 2008 |website=Business of Cinema.com |access-date=1 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412210631/http://www.businessofcinema.com/news.php?newsid=7819 |archive-date=12 April 2008}}
Stanley Kamel, 65, American actor (Monk, Domino, Cagney & Lacey), heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/monk-star-stanley-kamel-dies-65-wbna24033500 |title='Monk' star Stanley Kamel dies at 65 |date=9 April 2008 |website=Today.com |access-date=13 December 2018 }}
Hersh Lyons, 92, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=herschel-e-lyons&pid=107339351 |title=Obituary: Herschel E. Lyons |date=10 April 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |via=Legacy.com |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Kunio Ogawa, 80, Japanese novelist.{{cite news |url=http://book.asahi.com/news/TKY200804080267.html |title=作家の小川国夫さん死去 |trans-title=Writer Ogawa Kunio died |date=8 April 2008 |newspaper=Asahi Shimbun |language=ja |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008034207/http://book.asahi.com/news/TKY200804080267.html |archive-date=8 October 2008}}
Nadezhda Rumyantseva, 77, Russian actress, brain tumor.{{cite web |url=http://russianfilm.blogspot.com/2008/04/cult-actress-nadezhda-rumyantseva.html |title=Russian Film: Cult Actress Nadezhda Rumyantseva Passes Away |first=Zdenka |last=Pregelj |date=9 April 2008 |website=Russianfilm.blogspot.com |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708062130/http://russianfilm.blogspot.com/2008/04/cult-actress-nadezhda-rumyantseva.html |archive-date=8 July 2011}}
Jacqueline Voltaire, 59, British-born Mexican soap opera actress for Televisa, malignant melanoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/496796.html |title=Muere la actriz Jacqueline Voltaire a causa de cáncer |date=8 April 2008 |newspaper=El Universal |language=es |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411005612/https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/496796.html |archive-date=11 April 2008}}
Kees Wijdekop, 94, Dutch Olympic canoer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/cor-wijdekop-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418002113/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wi/cor-wijdekop-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Cornelis Wijdekop |website=Sports Reference |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Herbert Zearfoss, 78, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.{{Cite web|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=683&body=H|title=HERBERT K. ZEARFOSS|website=The official website for the Pennsylvania General Assembly.}}

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Ángel Aguiar, 81, Cuban gymnast.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ag/angel-aguiar-1.html |title=Ángel Aguiar Bio, Stats, and Results |website=Sports Reference |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418015159/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ag/angel-aguiar-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 |url-status=dead}}
Abu Ubaidah al-Masri, 40s, Pakistani al-Qaeda senior operative, death from probable hepatitis confirmed on this date.{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/top-al-qaeda-leader-abu-ubaida-al-masri-confirmed-dead-in-pakistan |title=Top Al Qaeda Leader Abu Ubaida al-Masri Confirmed Dead in Pakistan |date=9 April 2008 |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428213733/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,348668,00.html |archive-date=28 April 2008}}
George Butler, 76, American record producer and A&R man (Blue Note, Columbia), complications from Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.bluenote.com/EditorialDetail.aspx?newsId=11299&promoId=718 |title=Dr. George Butler, A&R Man & Record Producer for Blue Note in 1970s, Dies |date=11 April 2008 |website=Blue Note Records |access-date=1 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503194608/http://bluenote.com/EditorialDetail.aspx?newsId=11299&promoId=718 |archive-date=3 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Herman Carr, 83, American physicist, pioneer of MRI, heart disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402873.html |title=Hermann Carr; Played Early Role In Development of MRI Scanning |first=Linda A. |last=Johnson |date=15 April 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Diego Catalán, 80, Spanish philologist, grandson of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, heart disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Necrologicas/Diego/Catalan/filologo/hombre/bien/elpepinec/20080413elpepinec_1/Tes |title=Diego Catalán, filólogo y hombre de bien |first1=José Manuel Sánchez |last1=Ron |first2=José Antonio |last2=Pascual |name-list-style=amp |date=13 April 2008 |newspaper=El País |language=es |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Paul Dumont, 87, Canadian ice hockey administrator, kidney failure.{{cite web|url=https://www.rds.ca/hockey/lhjmq/le-pere-des-remparts-n-est-plus-1.332543|title=Le père des Remparts n'est plus|date=April 10, 2008|language=fr|website=RDS.ca|access-date=September 17, 2018}}
Burt Glinn, 82, American photographer, kidney failure and pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2008/04/glinn.html |title=Magnum's Burt Glinn, 82 |date=8 October 2009 |website=National Press Photographers Association |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008115232/http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2008/04/glinn.html |archive-date=8 October 2009}}
Michael Golomb, 98, American mathematician.{{cite web |url=http://intranet.math.purdue.edu/news/2008/04/11/obituary-of-michael-golomb/ |title=Obituary of Michael Golomb |date=11 April 2008 |website=Math PUrview |publisher=Purdue University Department of Mathematics |access-date=13 December 2018 |archive-date=September 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918154608/http://intranet.math.purdue.edu/news/2008/04/11/obituary-of-michael-golomb/ |url-status=dead }}
Erkki Junkkarinen, 78, Finnish singer.{{cite news |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/viihde/a/200804097497037 |title=Erkki Junkkarinen kuollut |date=9 April 2008 |newspaper=Iltalehti |language=fi |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Bob Kames, 82, American polka musician, songwriter and popularizer of the Chicken Dance, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=4/9/2008&id=38202 |title=Bob Kames, of chicken dance fame, dies |first=Amy Rabideau |last=Silvers |date=9 April 2008 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415180335/http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=4%2F9%2F2008&id=38202 |archive-date=15 April 2008}}
Daniela Klemenschits, 25, Austrian tennis player, abdominal cancer.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20080409/ca_pr_on_te/obit_ten_klemenschits_1 |title=Former Austrian tennis player Daniela Klemenschits dies of cancer at age 25 |date=9 April 2008 |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414133023/https://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20080409/ca_pr_on_te/obit_ten_klemenschits_1 |archive-date=14 April 2008}}
Jacques Morel, 85, French actor, voice of Obelix.{{cite magazine |url=http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/culture/20080410.OBS9055/jacques_morel_est_mort.html |title=Jacques Morel est mort |date=10 April 2008 |magazine=L'Obs |language=fr |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414122217/http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/culture/20080410.OBS9055/jacques_morel_est_mort.html |archive-date=14 April 2008}}
Choubeila Rached, 75, Tunisian singer.{{cite news |url=http://www.lapresse.tn/index.php?opt=15&categ=4&news=69604 |title=Le symbole d'une époque artistique tant aimée |first=Ali |last=Ouertani |date=14 April 2008 |newspaper=La Presse de Tunisie |language=fr |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415054449/http://www.lapresse.tn/index.php?opt=15&categ=4&news=69604 |archive-date=15 April 2008}}
Marvin Sylvor, 75, American carousel designer, kidney failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/nyregion/11sylvor.html |title=Marvin Sylvor, a Designer of Carousels, Dies at 75 |first=Glenn |last=Collins |date=11 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Francis Coleman, 84, Canadian-born British conductor, television producer and director.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4172279.ece |title=Francis Coleman: award-winning TV producer and director |date=19 June 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523200952/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4172279.ece |archive-date=23 May 2010}}
Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, 88, Mexican cardinal, archbishop emeritus of Mexico.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-corripio11apr11,0,5999713.story |title=Ernesto Corripio Ahumada, 88; Cardinal helped heal Vatican rift with Mexican government |date=11 April 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517100754/http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-corripio11apr11,0,5999713.story |archive-date=17 May 2008}}
Peter Dubovský, 86, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Banská Bystrica (1991–1997).{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdubovsky.html |title=Bishop Peter Dubovský |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Robert W. Greene, 78, American investigative journalist, heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/890112,xgreene041108.article |title=Ex-Newsday reporter, 2-time Pulitzer winner Robert W. Greene dies |date=11 April 2008 |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |access-date=1 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416042303/http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/890112,xgreene041108.article |archive-date=16 April 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Dickson Mabon, 82, British Labour and Social Democratic Party MP (1955–1983).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1585087/J-Dickson-Mabon.html |title=J. Dickson Mabon |date=14 April 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Jeremiah J. M. Nyagah, 87, Kenyan politician, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=49347 |title=Jeremiah Nyagah dies |first1=Wangari |last1=Kanyongo |first2=Rose |last2=Kamau |name-list-style=amp |date=10 April 2008 |website=Kenya Broadcasting Corporation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080412031539/http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=49347 |archive-date=12 April 2008}}
Marcel Pertry, 86, Belgian footballer (Cercle Brugge).{{cite web |url=http://home.scarlet.be/~tsd51501/PERTRY%20MARCEL.htm |title=Pertry, Marcel |website=Cercle Museum |language=nl |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Gopal Raju, 80, American website pioneer of Indian ethnic media in USA (India Abroad, Indo-Asian News Service), jaundice.{{cite news |url=http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F4%2F12%2Fapworld%2F20080412090428&sec=apworld |title=Gopal Raju, pioneer in Indian ethnic press, dies in NY |date=12 April 2008 |newspaper=The Star |access-date=5 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005002755/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F4%2F12%2Fapworld%2F20080412090428&sec=apworld |archive-date=5 October 2012}}
Kim Santow, 67, Australian judge (NSW Supreme Court), chancellor of the University of Sydney (2001–2007), brain tumour.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/humble-judge-with-brain-for-business/2008/04/13/1208024985660.html |title=Humble judge with brain for business |first=Tony |last=Stephens |date=14 April 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Juan Ramón Sánchez, 51, Spanish actor, singer and artist (Barrio Sésamo), lung cancer.{{cite web|url=https://m.diariodesevilla.es/television/Fallece-Sanchez-Guinot-Barrio-Sesamo_0_140685953.html |title= Fallece Juan Ramón Sánchez Guinot, el panadero de 'Barrio Sésamo' |publisher=diariodesevilla.es |language=es|date=14 April 2008 |access-date=22 September 2019}}

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Claude Abbes, 80, French football player.{{cite news |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/breves2008/20080414_123721Dev.html |title=Claude Abbes est décédé |date=14 April 2008 |newspaper=L'Équipe |language=fr |access-date=1 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016133820/http://www2.lequipe.fr/redirect-v6/homes/Football/breves2008/20080414_123721Dev.html |archive-date=16 October 2012}}
J. Leon Altemose, 68, American developer and contractor.{{Cite web|url=http://enr.construction.com/people/people/archives/080417.asp|title = Engineering News-Record | ENR}}
Fraser Colman, 83, New Zealand politician, MP for Pencarrow (1978–1987).{{cite news |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/hutt-news/380613/Colman-the-ideal-politician |title=Colman the ideal politician |date=31 January 2009 |newspaper=The Dominion Post |via=Stuff.co.nz |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Clyde Cook, 72, American president of Biola University (1982–2007).{{cite web |url=http://www.clydecook.com/biography/ |title=Clyde Cook biography |website=Biola University |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Raymond E. Dana, 93, American politician.{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/twincities/name/raymond-dana-obituary?id=24981449|title=Raymond Dana Obituary (2008)|work=Pioneer Press|date=April 13, 2008|access-date=July 25, 2024}}
Joan Hunter Dunn, 92, British muse of poet John Betjeman.{{cite web |url=http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jhF49pZVbw1RiLQOObK1rDAwl5Hw |title=Poet John Betjeman's muse dies |date=17 April 2008 |agency=Press Association |website=Google News |access-date=1 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421023350/http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jhF49pZVbw1RiLQOObK1rDAwl5Hw |archive-date=21 April 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Willoughby Goddard, 81, British actor (Young Sherlock Holmes).{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3738938.ece |title=Willoughby Goddard |date=14 April 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906153230/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3738938.ece |archive-date=6 September 2008}}
Harry Goonatilake, 78, Sri Lankan Air Force Commander (1976–1981).{{cite web |url=http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20080411_02 |title=Air Chief Marshal Harry Goonethileke passes away |date=11 April 2008 |website=Ministry of Defence |access-date=11 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413114446/http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20080411_02 |archive-date=13 April 2008}}
Donald Macfadyen, Lord Macfadyen, 62, Scottish jurist.{{cite news |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12463872.Lord_Macfadyen/ |title=Lord Macfadyen |date=19 April 2008 |newspaper=The Herald |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Bob Pellegrini, 73, American football linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles).{{cite web |url=https://footballfoundation.org/news/2008/4/20/_51958.aspx?path=football |title=1996 Hall of Fame Inductee Bob Pellegrini Dies |date=20 April 2008 |website=National Football Foundation |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson, 91, American author, daughter of Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com:80/php/news.php?id=18104 |title=Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson, Daughter of Legendary Broadway Impresario |date=25 April 2008 |website=All About Jazz |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429065837/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=18104 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 April 2008}}

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Duilio Agostini, 82, Italian racer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.motogp.com/en/riders/profile/profiles/Duilio+Agostini|title=MotoGP™ Riders|website=www.motogp.com|access-date=February 28, 2022|archive-date=January 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117013437/http://www.motogp.com/en/riders/Duilio+Agostini|url-status=dead}}
Cecilia Colledge, 87, British figure skater and 1936 Olympic silver medallist.{{cite web |url=http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080412&content_id=47603&vkey=ice_news |title=Cecilia Colledge dead at 87 |first=Lois |last=Elfman |date=12 April 2008 |website=Icenetwork.com |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615150548/http://web.icenetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080412&content_id=47603&vkey=ice_news |archive-date=15 June 2008}}
Valda Cooper, 92, Australian-born American journalist for the Associated Press.{{cite news |url=http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_8904297?source=most_emailed |title=Longtime New Mexico journalist dies |last=Fonseca |first=Felicia |date=12 April 2008 |newspaper=Las Cruces Sun News |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415151929/http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_8904297?source=most_emailed |archive-date=15 April 2008}}
Dieter Eppler, 81, German film actor and radio drama director.{{cite web |url=http://videowatchdog.blogspot.com/2008/04/dieter-eppler-1927-2008.html |title=A Toast to Dieter Eppler (1927–2008) |first=Tim |last=Lucas |date=13 April 2008 |website=Video WatchBlog |access-date=13 December 2018 |archive-date=May 8, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508235258/http://videowatchdog.blogspot.com/2008/04/dieter-eppler-1927-2008.html |url-status=dead }}
Donald Forbes, 73, British convicted murderer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7345196.stm |title=Double murderer dies in hospital |date=13 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Patrick Hillery, 84, Irish president (1976–1990) and minister (1959–1973), European commissioner for Ortoli Commission.{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0412/hilleryp.html |title=A look at Patrick Hillery's career in politics |date=12 April 2008 |website=RTÉ News |access-date=12 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414145427/http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0412/hilleryp.html |archive-date=14 April 2008}}
Abbas Katouzian, 86, Iranian painter.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
Artur Maurício, 63, Portuguese Constitutional Court president (2004–2007), after long illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.publico.pt/2008/04/13/sociedade/noticia/morreu-o-expresidente-do-tribunal-constitucional-artur-mauricio-1325713 |title=Morreu o ex-presidente do Tribunal Constitucional Artur Maurício |date=13 April 2008 |newspaper=Público |language=pt |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Buzz Nutter, 77, American football player (Colts, Steelers), heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/2008-04-14-1013558983_x.htm |title=Buzz Nutter, former Baltimore Colt, dies at 77 |date=14 April 2008 |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Augusta Wallace, 78, New Zealand district judge (1975–1990), after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/4479422a11.html |title=Dame Augusta Wallace dies |date=14 April 2008 |website=Stuff.co.nz |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Dwaine Wilson, 47, American former Canadian Football League player, drowned.{{cite news |url=http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/04/18/news/californian/lake_elsinore/07662e037e9cbb7d8825742d00758ba7.txt |title=Family of drowning victim looking for answers |last=Claverie |first=Aaron |date=18 April 2008 |newspaper=The Salinas Californian |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Jerry Zucker, 58, Israeli-born American businessman, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/apr/13/philanthropist_zucker_dies/ |title=Philanthropist Zucker dies |last=McDermott |first=John P. |date=13 April 2008 |newspaper=The Post and Courier |access-date=1 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420035237/http://charleston.net/news/2008/apr/13/philanthropist_zucker_dies/ |archive-date=20 April 2008 |url-status=dead}}

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Elías Amézaga, 86, Spanish writer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elcorreo.com/vizcaya/20080414/cultura/escritor-elias-amezaga-fallece-20080414.html|title=El escritor Elías Amézaga fallece en su casa de Getxo a los 86 años|date=April 14, 2008|website=El Correo}}
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, 51, American kidnapper, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1086901 |title=Accused cannibal Nathaniel Bar-Jonah dies in prison |date=14 April 2008 |newspaper=Boston Herald |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Larry Elliott, 72, American college football coach (Washburn University).{{cite news |url=http://www.cjonline.com/stories/041408/was_268184070.shtml |title=WU legend dies at 72 |first=Ken |last=Corbitt |date=14 April 2008 |newspaper=The Topeka Capital-Journal |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Robert Greacen, 87, Irish poet.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3875954.ece |title=Robert Greacen |date=6 May 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516090642/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3875954.ece |archive-date=16 May 2008}}
Michael Mills, 80, Irish first government ombudsman (1984–1994).{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0414/millsm.html |title=Former Ombudsman Michael Mills dies |date=14 April 2008 |website=RTÉ News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Kedamangalam Sadanandan, 82, Indian actor.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/Kedamangalam-Sadanandan-dead/article15203302.ece|title=Kedamangalam Sadanandan dead|newspaper=The Hindu|date=April 14, 2008|via=www.thehindu.com}}
John Archibald Wheeler, 96, American physicist who coined the term "black hole", pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/science/14wheeler.html |title=John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term 'Black Hole,' Is Dead at 96 |first=Dennis |last=Overbye |author-link=Dennis Overbye |date=14 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Khasan Yandiev, 52, Russian deputy head of Ingushetia Supreme Court, shot.{{cite news |url=http://news.smh.com.au/world/top-judge-shot-dead-in-southern-russia-20080413-25w7.html |title=Top judge shot dead in southern Russia |date=30 December 2012 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121230210423/http://news.smh.com.au/world/top-judge-shot-dead-in-southern-russia-20080413-25w7.html |archive-date=30 December 2012}}
Ross Yockey, 64, American Emmy Award-winning author, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.{{cite web |url=http://www.todaysobituaries.com/ross-yockey-obituary-death-notice_51a05eb11afc4d378ded758eb4f7e080.aspx |title=Ross Yockey obituary |website=todaysobituaries.com |access-date=June 4, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224111504/http://www.todaysobituaries.com/ross-yockey-obituary-death-notice_51a05eb11afc4d378ded758eb4f7e080.aspx |archive-date=December 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

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Olivia Cenizal, 81, Filipino actress, colon disease.{{cite news |url=http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20080415-130591/Olivia-Cenizal-80 |title=Olivia Cenizal, 80 |date=15 April 2008 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=20 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420085310/http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20080415-130591/Olivia-Cenizal-80 |archive-date=20 April 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Miguel Galván, 50, Mexican actor and comedian, respiratory arrest.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.peopleenespanol.com/pespanol/en/articles/0,22490,1731331,00.html |title=Miguel Galván Passes Away |date=16 April 2008 |magazine=People en Español |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080520111115/http://www.peopleenespanol.com/pespanol/en/articles/0,22490,1731331,00.html |archive-date=20 May 2008}}
Werner "Frick" Groebli, 92, Swiss ice skating comedian (Frick and Frack).{{cite news |url=http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F4%2F21%2Fapworld%2F20080421201326&sec=apworld |title=Ice comedian 'Mr. Frick' Werner Groebli dies at 92 |date=21 April 2008 |newspaper=The Star |access-date=3 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006104056/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F4%2F21%2Fapworld%2F20080421201326&sec=apworld |archive-date=6 October 2012 |url-status=dead}}
Tommy Holmes, 91, American baseball player (Boston Braves).{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3346526 |title=Former major league outfielder, Mets front-office exec Holmes dies |date=14 April 2008 |website=ESPN |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Ollie Johnston, 95, American animator (Cinderella, Pinocchio, Mary Poppins), the last of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men".{{cite web |url=http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2008/04/14/remembering-ollie-johnston-1912-2008.aspx |title=Remembering Ollie Johnston (1912–2008) |first=Jim |last=Hill |date=14 April 2008 |website=jimhillmedia.com |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Marisa Sannia, 61, Italian singer.{{cite news |url=http://www.repubblica.it/2008/04/sezioni/spettacoli_e_cultura/marisa-sannia/marisa-sannia/marisa-sannia.html |title=Addio alla cantante Marisa Sannia da 'Casa bianca' a Garcia Lorca |first=Rita |last=Celi |date=15 April 2008 |newspaper=la Repubblica |language=it |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Robert Somervaille, 86, Australian lawyer, chairman of the Australian Telecommunications Commission (1987–1991).{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/15/2217884.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080614073938/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/15/2217884.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 14, 2008 |title=Former ABC chairman Somervaille dies, aged 86 |date=15 April 2008 |website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=13 December 2018}}
June Travis, 93, American actress.{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/chi-hed_friedlobapr16,0,3436994.story |title=June Travis Friedlob 1914–2008: Actress had a funny life |last=Jensen |first=Trevor |date=16 April 2008 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430160624/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/chi-hed_friedlobapr16,0,3436994.story |archive-date=30 April 2008}}

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Imre Antal, 72, Hungarian pianist, TV personality, actor and humorist, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28124 |title=Elhunyt Antal Imre |date=15 April 2008 |website=Index |language=hu |access-date=13 December 2018 |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605045918/http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=28124 |url-status=dead }}
David K. Brown, 79-80, British naval architect.{{cite web |url=http://www.worldshipsociety.org/323401.html |title=Announcements - Obituaries: Brown, David Keith |website=World Ship Society |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930022133/http://www.worldshipsociety.org/323401.html |archive-date=30 September 2011}}
David Cass, 71, American economist.{{cite web |url=https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/people/david-cass |title=David Cass |website=Penn Economics |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Sean Costello, 28, American blues guitarist and singer, accidental drug overdose.{{cite web |url=http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15900187/detail.html |title=Atlanta Bluesman Sean Costello Found Dead |date=16 April 2008 |website=WSB-TV |access-date=6 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524151822/http://www.wsbtv.com/news/15900187/detail.html |archive-date=24 May 2011}}
Hazel Court, 82, British actress (The Masque of the Red Death, The Raven), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7352167.stm |title=Horror actress Court dies aged 82 |date=17 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Cliff Davies, 59, American musician, drummer for Ted Nugent, apparent suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=94962 |title=Ted Nugent's Former Drummer Found Dead |date=15 April 2008 |website=Roadrunner Records |access-date=1 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420014354/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=94962 |archive-date=20 April 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Brian Davison, 65, British musician, drummer for progressive rock band The Nice.{{cite web |url=http://b-a-d-blog.blogspot.com/2008/04/in-memory-of-brian-davison-1942-2008.html |title=In memory of Brian Davison (1942–2008) |first=Bjørn |last=Are |date=1 April 2008 |website=Badblog |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Parvin Dowlatabadi, 84, Iranian children's author and poet, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.payvand.com/news/08/apr/1151.html |title=Iranian author Parvin Dowlatabadi dies at 84 |date=15 April 2008 |website=Payvand News |access-date=13 December 2018 |archive-date=January 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200115124734/http://www.payvand.com/news/08/apr/1151.html |url-status=dead }}
Renata Fronzi, 82, Argentine-born Brazilian actress, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.{{cite news |url=http://www.estadao.com.br:80/arteelazer/not_art157247,0.htm |title=Atriz Renata Fronzi morre aos 82 anos no Rio |date=15 April 2008 |newspaper=O Estado de S. Paulo |language=pt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420001408/http://www.estadao.com.br/arteelazer/not_art157247%2C0.htm |archive-date=20 April 2008}}
Hendrik S. Houthakker, 83, American economist.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202871.html |title=Hendrik Houthakker, 83; Economist, Nixon Adviser |first=Adam |last=Bernstein |date=23 April 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Fernand Jaccard, 100, Swiss football midfielder.{{cite news |url=https://www.20min.ch/ro/sports/football/story/Fernand-Jaccard-s-est-eteint-27078764 |title=Fernand Jaccard s'est éteint |date=16 April 2008 |newspaper=20 minutes |language=fr |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Benoît Lamy, 62, Belgian motion picture writer-director, murdered.{{cite web |url=http://www.expatica.com/be/articles/news/Home-Sweet-Home-director-dies-at-62.html |title=Home Sweet Home director dies at 62 |date=16 April 2008 |website=Expatica |access-date=13 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080524044626/http://www.expatica.com/be/articles/news/Home-Sweet-Home-director-dies-at-62.html |archive-date=May 24, 2008 |url-status=dead }}
Madeline Lee, 84, American actress and theatrical producer, wife of Jack Gilford.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/legit/news/actress-madeline-lee-gilford-dies-1117984097/ |title=Actress Madeline Lee Gilford dies |date=15 April 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Krister Stendahl, 86, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/us/16stendahl.html |title=Krister Stendahl, 86, Ecumenical Bishop, Is Dead |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=16 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Mahinārangi Tocker, 52, New Zealand musician, asthma attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/obituaries/384008/Mahinarangi-Tocker |title=Mahinarangi Tocker |date=24 April 2008 |newspaper=The Dominion Post |via=Stuff.co.nz |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Lou Allen, 83, American football player.
Joseph Cameron Alston, 81, American badminton player and FBI agent.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-alston24apr24,1,7900183.story |title=Joe Alston, 1926-2008: FBI agent was U.S. badminton champion |first=Valerie J. |last=Nelson |date=24 April 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025183924/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/24/local/me-alston24 |archive-date=25 October 2012}}
Lucia Cunanan, 80, Filipino restaurateur credited with inventing sisig, murdered.{{cite news |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20080418-131301/Husband-tagged-as-suspect-in-Sisig-Queens-murder |title=Husband tagged as suspect in 'Sisig Queen's' murder |last=Orejas |first=Tonette |date=18 April 2008 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=18 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501111804/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20080418-131301/Husband-tagged-as-suspect-in-Sisig-Queens-murder |archive-date=1 May 2008}}
Joe Feeney, 76, American tenor (The Lawrence Welk Show), emphysema.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/arts/television/24feeney.html |title=Joe Feeney, 'Lawrence Welk Show' Singer, Dies at 76 |date=24 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Edward Norton Lorenz, 90, American professor of meteorology, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/obit-lorenz-0416.html |title=Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory and butterfly effect, dies at 90 |date=16 April 2008 |website=MIT News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Fadel Shana'a, 24, Palestinian Reuters cameraman, flechette shell.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/18/israelandthepalestinians |title=Palestinian journalist killed by metal darts from Israeli shell |first=Rory |last=McCarthy |date=18 April 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Joseph Solman, 99, American painter with Works Progress Administration.{{cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Apr18/0,4670,ObitSolman,00.html |title=Painter Joseph Solman dies |first=Ula |last=Ilnytzky |date=18 April 2008 |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Edna Andrade, 91, American abstract artist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.locksgallery.com/exception/info|title=Locks Gallery|website=www.locksgallery.com}}
Aimé Césaire, 94, French Martiniquan poet and politician.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/books/18cesaire.html |title=Aimé Césaire, Martinique Poet and Politician, Dies at 94 |date=18 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Richard Chopping, 90, British illustrator (James Bond).{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-chopping-versatile-illustrator-best-known-for-his-distinctive-bond-book-jackets-813974.html |title=Richard Chopping: Versatile illustrator best known for his distinctive Bond book jackets |first=David |last=Buckman |date=23 April 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Gwyneth Dunwoody, 77, British Labour MP for Crewe and Nantwich, following open heart surgery.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7353743.stm |title=Veteran Labour MP Dunwoody dies |date=18 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Danny Federici, 58, American keyboardist (Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band), melanoma.{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/springsteen-keyboard-player-danny-federici-dies-at-58 |title=Springsteen Keyboard Player Danny Federici Dies at 58 |date=18 April 2008 |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080428213825/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351660,00.html |archive-date=28 April 2008}}
Nicolette Goulet, 52, American actress (Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, The Guiding Light), breast cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/individual_display.jsp?obitID=3863950 |title=Obituaries: Goulet, Nicolette |date=20 April 2008 |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607003733/http://www.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/individual_display.jsp?obitID=3863950 |archive-date=7 June 2008}}
Zoya Krakhmalnikova, 79, Russian Christian dissident and writer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/13/russia.religion |title=Zoya Krakhmalnikova: Christian writer jailed for her beliefs by the Soviet authorities |first=Michael |last=Bourdeaux |date=13 May 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Lloyd Lamble, 94, Australian actor.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/talented-actor-had-little-faith-in-his-own-worth/2008/04/09/1207420480969.html |title=Talented actor had little faith in his own worth |first=Harriet |last=Veitch |date=10 April 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Viktor Nosov, 67, Ukrainian football player and coach.{{cite web |url=http://footballfacts.ru/players/107174-nosov-viktor-vasilevich |title=Носов Виктор Васильевич |trans-title=Nosov, Viktor Vasilyevich |website=Footballfacts.ru |language=ru |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509151439/http://footballfacts.ru/players/107174-nosov-viktor-vasilevich |archive-date=9 May 2016}}
George Pollard, 89, American portrait painter (Harry Truman, Muhammad Ali), pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/04/20/george_pollard_portraits_captured_the_famous_88/ |title=George Pollard; portraits captured the famous; 88 |date=20 April 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=13 December 2018}}

*Rosario Sánchez Mora, 88, Spanish female anti-Franco veteran of the Spanish Civil War.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/rosario-sanchez-frontline-fighter-against-franco-813357.html |title=Rosario Sanchez: Front-line fighter against Franco |first=Elizabeth |last=Nash |date=22 April 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=13 December 2018}}

Mikhail Tanich, 84, Russian poet, kidney problems.{{cite web |url=http://www.rambler.ru/news/culture/inmemoriam/561310744.html |title=Умер Михаил Танич |trans-title=Mikhail Tanich dead |last1=Elena |first1=Sheremetova |last2=Inga |first2=Safronova |name-list-style=amp |date=17 April 2008 |website=Rambler |language=ru |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080421010404/http://www.rambler.ru/news/culture/inmemoriam/561310744.html |archive-date=21 April 2008}}
Su-Lin Young, 96, American explorer.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4142544.ece |title=Adelaide 'Su-Lin' Young: intrepid traveller in China |date=16 June 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523054712/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4142544.ece |archive-date=23 May 2010}}

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Refat Appazov, 87, Soviet-Crimean Tatar rocket scientist.{{Cite web|url=http://kirimtatar.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=196&Itemid=3|title=Крым и крымские татары - Offline|website=kirimtatar.com|access-date=January 31, 2022|archive-date=January 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111203202/http://kirimtatar.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=196&Itemid=3|url-status=dead}}
Peter Howard, 80, American music director and arranger, complications of Parkinson's Disease.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/legit/news/broadway-s-peter-howard-dies-at-80-1117984720/ |title=Broadway's Peter Howard dies at 80 |date=27 April 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Michael de Larrabeiti, 73, British author (The Borrible Trilogy).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1935822/Michael-de-Larrabeiti.html |title=Michael de Larrabeiti |date=7 May 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Kay Linaker, 94, American actress and screenwriter (The Blob).{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2778 |title=Kate Phillips (1913–2008) aka: Mary Katherine (Kay) Linaker |date=19 June 2016 |website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Joy Page, 83, American actress (Casablanca), complications from a stroke and pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-page24apr24,0,6992883.story |title=Joy Page, 83; in 'Casablanca,' Bogart told her: 'Go back to Bulgaria.' |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=24 April 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430044332/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-page24apr24,0,6992883.story |archive-date=30 April 2008}}
Rosalie Ritz, 84, American courtroom artist (O.J. Simpson Trial, Sirhan Sirhan trial), lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/21/AR2008042103169.html |title=Rosalie Ritz; Sketched Trials' High Drama |last=Deutsch |first=Linda |author-link=Linda Deutsch |date=22 April 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=13 December 2018}}
William W. Warner, 88, American biologist and writer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/books/30warner.html |title=William W. Warner, Chesapeake Bay Author, Dies at 88 |first=William |last=Grimes |date=30 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Charles S. Minter Jr., 93, Vice Admiral Of United States Navy and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland ( 1964–1965 ) .{{Citation|chapter=Minter, Charles Frederic|date=2011-10-31|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00123349|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists}}

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Mohammad Abbas Baig, 90, Pakistani officer.{{Cite web|url=https://wikidea.ru/wiki/Mohammad_Abbas_Baig|title=Мохаммад Аббас Байг|website=wikidea.ru}}
Hanan Al-Agha, 59-60, Palestinian-Jordanian writer, poet and plastic artist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.zamanalwsl.net/news/article/9744|title=نتائجُ مسابقةِ الحكايا للإبداعِ الأدبيِّ (مسابقةُ الأديبةِ الرَّاحلةِ حنان الآغا)|website=www.zamanalwsl.net}}
Bob Bledsaw, 65, American founder of Judges Guild, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.judgesguild.net/obituary.shtml |title=Obituary of Robert E. "Bob" Bledsaw |date=2008 |website=Judges Guild |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517054932/http://www.judgesguild.net/obituary.shtml |archive-date=17 May 2008}}
Alessandro Cevese, 57, Italian ambassador to South Africa, Lesotho, Mauritius and Madagascar, car accident.{{cite news |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2008-04-20-italian-ambassador-to-sa-killed-in-accident |title=Italian ambassador to SA killed in accident |date=20 April 2008 |newspaper=Mail & Guardian |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Lawrence Hertzog, 56, American television writer and producer (Nowhere Man), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/25/nowhere-man-creator-lawrence-hertzog-dead-at-56/ |title=Nowhere Man creator Lawrence Hertzog dead at 56 |first=Bob |last=Sassone |date=25 April 2008 |website=TV Squad |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430081146/http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/04/25/nowhere-man-creator-lawrence-hertzog-dead-at-56/ |archive-date=30 April 2008}}
Alfonso López Trujillo, 72, Colombian Catholic archbishop, president of Pontifical Council for the Family, diabetes.{{cite web |url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/12399/cardinal-trujillo-president-of-pontifical-council-for-the-family-passes-away |title=Cardinal Trujillo, President of Pontifical Council for the Family, passes away |date=19 April 2008 |website=Catholic News Agency |access-date=13 December 2018 |archive-date=March 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321112355/http://catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12399 |url-status=live }}
John Marzano, 45, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), co-host of Leading Off on mlb.com, injuries from a fall.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/04/23/john_marzano_was_sox_catcher/ |title=John Marzano; was Sox catcher |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=23 April 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Germaine Tillion, 100, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/germaine-tillion-resistance-fighter-and-ethnologist-815382.html |title=Germaine Tillion: Resistance fighter and ethnologist |first=Nicholas |last=Atkin |author-link=Nicholas Atkin |date=25 April 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Constant Vanden Stock, 93, Belgian president of RSC Anderlecht football club.{{cite news |url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf19042008_044 |title=Constant Vanden Stock overleden |date=19 April 2008 |newspaper=Het Nieuwsblad |language=nl |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Richard Alexander, 73, British politician, Conservative MP for Newark (1979–1997), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1897456/Richard-Alexander.html |title=Richard Alexander |date=22 April 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Bebe Barron, 82, American composer, pioneer of electronic music.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/composer-bebe-barron-dies-1117984384/ |title=Composer Bebe Barron dies |date=21 April 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Frank Michael Beyer, 80, German composer.{{cite journal |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-56756411.html |title=Gestorben: Frank Michael Beyer |date=28 April 2008 |journal=Spiegel Online |volume=18 |language=de |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Gazanfer Bilge, 85, Turkish freestyle wrestler, 1948 Olympic champion.{{cite news |url=https://www.dunya.com/ekonomi/gazenfer-bilge-vefat-etti-haberi-36551 |title=Gazenfer Bilge vefat etti |date=20 April 2008 |newspaper=Dünya |language=tr |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Farid Chopel, 55, French actor and singer, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2008/04/20/le-comedien-farid-chopel-est-mort_1036264_3382.html |title=Le comédien Farid Chopel est mort |date=20 April 2008 |newspaper=Le Monde |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Monica Lovinescu, 84, Romanian writer.{{cite web |url=https://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-esential-2850198-murit-monica-lovinescu.htm#self |title=A murit Monica Lovinescu |last=Neagu |first=Alina |date=21 April 2008 |website=Hotnews.ro |language=ro |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Derek McKay, 58, Scottish footballer (Deveronvale, Dundee, Aberdeen, Barrow), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.afc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/clubNewsDetail/0,,10284~1294038,00.html |title=Sad news as 'Cup Tie McKay' dies |date=21 April 2008 |website=Aberdeen F.C. |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080425031334/http://www.afc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/clubNewsDetail/0,,10284~1294038,00.html |archive-date=25 April 2008}}
VL Mike, 32, American rapper, shot.{{cite web |url=http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/04/21/19690779.aspx |title=Former Chopper City Boy VL Mike Shot And Killed |last=Wolfe |first=Roman |date=21 April 2008 |website=AllHipHop |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206190303/http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/04/21/19690779.aspx |archive-date=6 February 2009}}
Nissan Nativ, 86, Israeli director, actor and acting teacher.{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3533889,00.html |title=Nissan Nativ dead at 86 |date=20 April 2008 |website=Ynetnews |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Tariq Niazi, 68, Pakistani field hockey player, member of 1968 Olympic gold medal team, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/299116 |title=Olympian Tariq dies |date=21 April 2008 |newspaper=Dawn |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Geoff Polites, 60, Australian CEO of Jaguar Land Rover.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/car-boss-loses-cancer-battle/2008/04/21/1208742852005.html |title=Car boss loses cancer battle |first=Joshua |last=Dowling |date=22 April 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=13 December 2018}}
William R. Snodgrass, 85, American government official, Comptroller of Tennessee (1955–1999).{{cite news |url=http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/apr/22/former-state-comptroller-dies-at-85/ |title=Former state comptroller dies at 85: Snodgrass served 44 years, worked under seven governors |date=22 April 2008 |newspaper=Knoxville News Sentinel |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520201946/http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/apr/22/former-state-comptroller-dies-at-85/ |archive-date=20 May 2011}}
Harry Ulinski, 83, American football player (Washington Redskins), sepsis.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/04/26/harry_ulinski_83_redskins_center_in_50s/ |title=Harry Ulinski, 83, Redskins center in '50s |first=Joe |last=Holley |date=26 April 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Geoff Ward, 81, English cricketer (Kent and Essex).{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22298.html |title=Geoff Ward |website=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Michel Allex, 60, French chocolatier and politician.{{cite web |url=http://www.chalonsursaone.fr/e.php?lsd=1x147x5&cc=16&tc=1 |title=Site Officiel de la Ville de Chalon sur Saône |website=www.chalonsursaone.fr |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830114226/http://www.chalonsursaone.fr/e.php?lsd=1x147x5&cc=16&tc=1 |archive-date=30 August 2006 |url-status=dead}}
Monna Bell, 70, Chilean singer, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://vivirlatino.com/2008/04/23/chilean-singer-monna-bell-dead-at-70.php |title=Chilean Singer Monna Bell, Dead at 70 |date=23 May 2014 |website=VivirLatino |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523052054/http://vivirlatino.com/2008/04/23/chilean-singer-monna-bell-dead-at-70.php |archive-date=23 May 2014}}
Fayr Jag, 8, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised.{{Cite web|url=https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/racing/fayr-jag-suffers-fatal-injury-in-pontefract-starting-stalls-accident-253290|title=Fayr Jag suffers fatal injury in Pontefract starting stalls accident|first=Amy|last=Mathieson|date=April 22, 2008|website=Horse & Hound}}
Darell Garretson, 76, American professional basketball referee.{{cite news |url=http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/114590 |title=Former NBA ref, Garretson dies at Valley home |date=23 April 2008 |newspaper=East Valley Tribune |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080425023400/http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/114590 |archive-date=25 April 2008}}
Sharp Cat, 13-14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/44994/major-winner-sharp-cat-dead Major winner sharp cat dead]
Aaron Shearer, 88, American classical guitarist.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/aaron-shearer-obituary?pid=108193806 |title=Aaron Shearer |date=23 April 2008 |newspaper=Winston-Salem Journal |via=Legacy.com |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Carmen Silva, 92, Brazilian actress, multiple organ failure.{{cite web |url=http://exclusivo.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI2763806-EI1118,00-Morre+a+atriz+Carmen+Silva+aos+anos.html |title=Morre a atriz Carmen Silva aos 92 anos |date=21 April 2008 |website=Terra |language=pt |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Al Wilson, 68, American soul singer ("Show and Tell"), kidney failure.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wilson-idUSN2217074720080422 |title=Soul singer Al Wilson dies in California |date=22 April 2017 |website=Reuters |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Jack Ansell, 86, English footballer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ntfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10425~1295398,00.html |title=NTFC |access-date=January 31, 2022 |archive-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201072352/https://www.ntfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10425~1295398,00.html |url-status=dead }}
Cameron Argetsinger, 87, American auto racing pioneer.{{cite web |url=http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/cameron-r-argetsinger-legend-in-american-road-racing-dies-april-22/ |title=Cameron R. Argetsinger, legend in American road racing, dies |date=23 April 2008 |website=Speed Channel, Inc. |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424232546/http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/cameron-r-argetsinger-legend-in-american-road-racing-dies-april-22/ |archive-date=24 April 2008}}
Bob Childers, 61, American singer-songwriter, emphysema.{{cite web |url=http://newsok.com/influential-oklahoma-singer-songwriter-dies/article/3234722/ |title=Influential Oklahoma singer-songwriter dies |date=25 April 2008 |website=NewsOK.com |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Ed Chynoweth, 66, Canadian president of the Western Hockey League (1972–1995) and CHL (1975–1995), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/2008/04/22/former_whl_president_ed_chynoweth_dies_at_66.html |title=Former WHL president Ed Chynoweth dies at 66 |date=22 April 2008 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Paul Davis, 60, American singer ("I Go Crazy", "'65 Love Affair", "Cool Night"), heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.meridianstar.com/local/x681107015/recording-star-paul-davis-dies-tuesday-at-age-60/ |title=Recording star Paul Davis dies Tuesday at age 60 |first=Brian |last=Livingston |date=23 April 2008 |newspaper=The Meridian Star |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206125805/https://www.meridianstar.com/local/x681107015/recording-star-paul-davis-dies-tuesday-at-age-60/ |archive-date=6 February 2013}}
Safdar Kiyani, 60, Pakistani teacher and pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Balochistan, shot.{{cite news |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/299480 |title=Top varsity official gunned down in Quetta |first=Saleem |last=Shahid |date=23 April 2008 |newspaper=Dawn |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Dora Ratjen, 89, German high jumper, disguised as female to compete for Nazi Germany at 1936 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/dora-ratjen-german-olympic-athlete-arrested-train-station-suspicion-man-dress-1938/ |title=Dora Ratjen, a German Olympic athlete, who was arrested at a train station on suspicion of being a man in a dress, 1938 |date=19 January 2014 |website=Rare Historical Photos |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Francisco Martins Rodrigues, 81, Portuguese anti-Fascist resistant, Marxist-Leninist Committee founder, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.publico.pt/politica/noticia/morreu-francisco-martins-rodrigues-fundador-do-comite-marxistaleninista-portugues-1326607 |title=Morreu Francisco Martins Rodrigues, fundador do Comité Marxista-Leninista Português |date=22 April 2008 |newspaper=Público |language=pt |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416092216/http://www.publico.pt/politica/noticia/morreu-francisco-martins-rodrigues-fundador-do-comite-marxistaleninista-portugues-1326607 |archive-date=16 April 2013}}
Daniel Lee Siebert, 54, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-04-23-1743623889_x.htm |title=Alabama death row inmate who challenged protocol dies |last=Hunter |first=Desiree |date=23 April 2008 |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Abdellatief Abouheif, 78, Egyptian marathon swimmer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ishof.org/|title=International Swimming Hall of Fame|website=ISHOF}}
Jean-Daniel Cadinot, 64, French film director and producer, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.cadinot.fr/cadinot/index.php |title=Ma révérence |date=23 April 2008 |website=Cadinot.fr |language=fr |access-date=1 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501121830/http://www.cadinot.fr/cadinot/index.php |archive-date=1 May 2008}}
Don Gillis, 85, Canadian-born American sportscaster.{{cite web |url=http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/15978384/detail.html?treets=bos&tid=2658243650813&tml=bos_12pm&tmi=bos_12pm_1_11000304242008&ts=H |title=Don Gillis, Dean of Boston TV Sports, Dies |date=24 April 2008 |website=WCVB-TV |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518174248/http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/15978384/detail.html?treets=bos&tid=2658243650813&tml=bos_12pm&tmi=bos_12pm_1_11000304242008&ts=H |archive-date=18 May 2011}}
Martha Kostuch, 58, Canadian environmentalist, multiple system atrophy.{{cite news |url=http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=6419af17-df1d-461a-92e6-815a21d50ed4&k=76603 |title=Alberta's environmental 'mentor' dies |first=Hanneke |last=Brooymans |date=24 April 2008 |newspaper=Edmonton Journal |via=Canada.com |access-date=1 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105051111/http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=6419af17-df1d-461a-92e6-815a21d50ed4&k=76603 |archive-date=5 November 2012}}
Cook Lougheed, 86, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.{{cite news |url=http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080425/LOCAL/804250349/0/LOCAL08 |title=Former county councilman Cook Lougheed dies at 86 |last=Slutsky |first=Ab |date=25 April 2008 |newspaper=The Journal Gazette |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218142923/http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080425%2FLOCAL%2F804250349%2F0%2FLOCAL08 |archive-date=February 18, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}
Loreto Paras-Sulit, 99, Filipino writer.{{cite web |url=http://eatingthesun.blogspot.com/2008/04/loreto-paras-sulit-99.html |title=Loreto Paras Sulit, 99 |first=Ian Rosales |last=Casocot |date=23 April 2008 |website=The Spy in the Sandwich |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Rustam Sani, 64, Malaysian politician, sociologist, political scientist and blogger.{{cite news |url=http://thestar.com.my:80/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/24/nation/21046675&sec=nation |title=Rustam Sani dies, aged 64 |date=24 April 2008 |newspaper=The Star |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503202234/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F4%2F24%2Fnation%2F21046675&sec=nation |archive-date=3 May 2008}}
Harold Stephenson, 87, British first-class wicketkeeper (Somerset).{{cite web |url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/347592.html |title=Somerset keeping legend Harold Stephenson dies |date=25 April 2008 |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=13 December 2018}}
William H. Stewart, 86, American surgeon general (1965–1969), complications from renal failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Flibrary-146%2F1209101575155740.xml&coll=1 |title=Dr. William Stewart, past surgeon general |last=Pope |first=John |date=25 April 2008 |newspaper=The Times-Picayune |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522171551/http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?%2Fbase%2Flibrary-146%2F1209101575155740.xml&coll=1 |archive-date=22 May 2011}}

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Lucy Appleby, 88, British traditional cheesemaker.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3903400.ece |title=Lucy Appleby: Traditional cheesemaker |date=10 May 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517004242/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3903400.ece |archive-date=17 May 2008}}
Tristram Cary, 82, British film and television composer (Doctor Who, The Ladykillers, Quatermass and the Pit).{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3834649.ece |title=Tristram Cary: Godfather of British electronic music |date=29 April 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511200502/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3834649.ece |archive-date=11 May 2008}}
James Day, 89, American television host, respiratory failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/arts/television/01day.html |title=James Day, Public Television Host, Dies at 89 |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=1 May 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Harry Geris, 60, Canadian Olympic wrestler.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/3-time-canadian-olympic-wrestler-dies-at-60-1.740658 |title=3-time Canadian Olympic wrestler dies at 60 |date=25 April 2008 |website=CBC Sports |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Jimmy Giuffre, 86, American jazz clarinetist, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/music/25cnd-giuffre.html |title=Jimmy Giuffre, Jazz Musician, Is Dead at 86 |first=Ben |last=Ratliff |date=25 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Carlos Robalo, 76, Portuguese politician, Secretary of State (1980–1981).{{cite web |url=http://ww1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?article=341869&visual=26&rss=0 |title=Óbito: Morreu Carlos Robalo, antigo secretário de Estado |date=24 May 2008 |website=Rádio e Televisão de Portugal |language=pt |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522174009/http://ww1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?article=341869&visual=26&rss=0 |archive-date=22 May 2008}}
Trilochan Singh, 85, Indian field hockey player, member of the gold medal-winning 1948 Summer Olympics team.{{cite web |url=http://www.bharatiyahockey.org/calendar/calbulletins.asp?year=2008&mon=may&bkmark=Tarlochan |title=1948 Olympian Tarlochan Singh Bawa Passes Away |date=May 2008 |website=Bharatiya Hockey.org |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Enrico Donati, 99, Italian-born American surrealist painter and sculptor.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/arts/26donati.html |title=Enrico Donati, Surrealist Artist, Dies at 99 |first=Frank J. |last=Prial |author-link=Frank J. Prial |date=26 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Sonny Grandelius, 79, American football player and coach.{{cite web |url=https://msuspartans.com/news/2008/4/25/Spartan_Football_Legend_Sonny_Grandelius_Passes_Away_At_Age_79.aspx |title=Spartan Football Legend Sonny Grandelius Passes Away At Age 79 |date=25 April 2008 |website=Michigan State Spartans |access-date=13 December 2018}}
R. Laird Harris, 97, American Presbyterian minister and Old Testament scholar.{{cite web |url=http://www.pcahistory.org/findingaids/harris/index.html |title=Robert Laird Harris Manuscript Collection |website=PCA Historical Center |access-date=13 December 2018 |archive-date=September 27, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927213019/http://www.pcahistory.org/findingaids/harris/index.html |url-status=dead }}
Humphrey Lyttelton, 86, British jazz trumpeter and chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, following surgery for aortic aneurysm.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/apr/25/radio.bbc |title=Humphrey Lyttelton: Jazz musician and radio broadcaster |first=George |last=Melly |author-link=George Melly |date=26 April 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=13 December 2018}}
John H. McConnell, 84, American owner of Worthington Industries and the Columbus Blue Jackets.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=3368056 |title=McConnell, who helped bring NHL to Columbus, dies |date=26 April 2008 |website=ESPN |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Anzar Shah Kashmiri, 80, Indian Islamic scholar, heart and kidney problems.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilmgate.org/mawlana-anzar-shah-kashmiri-a-tribute-to-his-life-and-services/|title=Mawlana Anzar Shah Kashmiri: A Tribute to His Life and Services | IlmGate|date=October 28, 2010}}
Henry Brant, 94, Canadian-born American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/29/BALI10DAE2.DTL |title=Henry Brant dies - Pulitzer Prize composer |first=Joshua |last=Kosman |date=29 April 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Moisey Feigin, 103, Russian artist, Guinness World Record–holder for the oldest professional working artist.{{cite web |url=http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/6292/ |title=World Oldest Artist Aged 104 Dies |date=4 May 2008 |website=Russia-InfoCentre |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Wallace Gichere, 53, Kenyan photojournalist.{{cite web |url=https://allafrica.com/stories/200804281104.html |title=Kenya: Veteran Photojournalist Wallace Gichere is Dead |date=27 April 2008 |website=AllAfrica.com |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Yossi Harel, 90, Israeli captain of Exodus, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Commander-of-legendary-ship-Exodus-dies-at-90 |title=Commander of Legendary Ship 'Exodus' Dies at 90 |date=27 April 2008 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Carmen Scarpitta, 74, Italian actress,{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769273/ |title=Carmen Scarpitta (1933–2008) |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Abraham Adesanya, 85, Nigerian politician, lawyer, and activist.{{Cite web |url=http://nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=12040&t=Pa%20Abraham%20Adesanya%85%20His%20life%20and%20times |title=Abraham Adesanya his life and times |access-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-date=December 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202172028/http://nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=12040&t=Pa%20Abraham%20Adesanya%85%20His%20life%20and%20times |url-status=dead }}
Ram Babu Gupta, 72, Indian cricket umpire.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/349823.html |title=Former Indian Test umpire Ram Gupta passes away |date= 2 May 2008 |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Art Johnson, 88, American baseball player.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegram.com/article/20080504/COLUMN35/805040720/1009/SPORTS |title=Johnson was one of a kind |first=Bill |last=Ballou |date=4 May 2008 |newspaper=Telegram & Gazette |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Ron O'Brien, 56, American disc jockey, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=https://www.broadcastpioneers.com/ronobrien.html |title=Big Ron O'Brien |first=Gerry |last=Wilkinson |date=2008 |website=Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Mike Patrick, 55, American former NFL punter (New England Patriots).{{cite news |url=http://archive.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2008/04/29/mike_patrick_at_55_was_patriots_punter/ |title=Mike Patrick, at 55; was Patriots punter |date=29 April 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216030959/http://archive.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2008/04/29/mike_patrick_at_55_was_patriots_punter/ |archive-date=December 16, 2018 |df=mdy-all }}
Hal Stein, 79, American jazz musician.{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-jazz-saxophonist-Hal-Stein-dead-at-79-3216063.php |title=Oakland jazz saxophonist Hal Stein dead at 79 |last=Hamlin |first=Jesse |date=6 May 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Marios Tokas, 54, Greek Cypriot composer, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.cypruspost.post/en/news/tokas-2018-news |title=10th Anniversary of Marios Tokas' death |date=2 May 2018 |website=Cyprus Post |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Sallie Wilson, 76, American ballerina, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sallie-wilson-keeper-of-antony-tudors-flame-844179.html |title=Sallie Wilson: Keeper of Antony Tudor's flame |first=Marilyn |last=Hunt |date=11 June 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Frances Yeend, 95, American soprano opera singer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/arts/music/08yeend.html |title=Frances Yeend, Soprano at City Opera and the Met, Dies at 95 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=8 May 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Alfredo José Anzola, 33, Venezuelan businessman, plane crash.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/657116167/|title=The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida on May 1, 2008 · 29|website=Newspapers.com}}
Diana Barnato Walker, 90, British aviator, first British woman to break the sound barrier.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2008/05/04/diana-barnato-walker-obituary/ |title=Diana Barnato Walker – obituary |date=4 May 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 December 2018}}
John Barron, 74, Irish hurler.{{cite web |url=http://www.hoganstand.com/Waterford/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=93920 |title=Waterford All-Ireland winner dies |date=29 April 2008 |website=Hoganstand.com |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Ivan Caesar, 41, American football player (Boston College, Minnesota Vikings, Portland Forest Dragons), shot.{{cite web |url=http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nfl%2Fnews%2Fnewstest.aspx%3Fid%3D4147297 |title=Former NFL player shot and killed |date=29 April 2008 |website=SportsNetwork.com |access-date=3 November 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913025812/http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nfl%2Fnews%2Fnewstest.aspx%3Fid%3D4147297 |archive-date=13 September 2012}}
Max Cherry, 81, Australian Olympics and Commonwealth Games athletics coach, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au:80/mercury/story/0,22884,23615359-3462,00.html |title=Max Cherry dies suddenly |date=29 April 2008 |newspaper=The Mercury |access-date=2 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502211714/http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0%2C22884%2C23615359-3462%2C00.html |archive-date=2 May 2008}}
Tarka Cordell, 40, British musician, suicide by hanging.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/tarka-cordell-a-life-in-the-fast-lane-820362.html |title=Tarka Cordell: a life in the fast lane |first=Tim |last=Walker |date=3 May 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=13 December 2018}}
John Patrick Crecine, 69, American president of Georgia Tech (1987–1994).{{cite web |url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1852 |title=In Memoriam: John Patrick Crecine (1939–2008) |website=Georgia Tech News Center |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502104110/http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1852 |archive-date=2 May 2008}}
Hans Eder, 81, Austrian Olympic skier.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ed/hans-eder-1.html |title=Hans Eder |website=Sports Reference |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519211122/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ed/hans-eder-1.html |archive-date=19 May 2011}}
Jack Hanrahan, 75, American television writer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Get Smart, Dennis the Menace), Emmy winner (1968).{{cite web |url=http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2008/04/28/scriptwriter_hanrahan_dead_at_age_75/7902/ |title=Scriptwriter Hanrahan dead at age 75 |date=28 April 2008 |website=United Press International |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604143859/http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/04/28/Scriptwriter-Hanrahan-dead-at-age-75/UPI-79021209418462/ |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Sir Derek Higgs, 64, British chairman of Alliance & Leicester, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7372621.stm |title=A&L chairman Sir Derek Higgs dies |date=29 April 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Ed Marion, 81, American official in the National Football League from 1960 to 1987.{{cite news |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2008/04/29/ed-marion-who-officiated-three-super-bowls-dies/ |title=Ed Marion, who officiated three Super Bowls, dies |date=29 April 2008 |newspaper=The Denver Post |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Will Robinson, 96, American coach, first African American Division I college basketball (ISU) coach, Detroit Pistons scout.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/sports/30robinson.html |title=Will Robinson, Top Scout, Dies at 96 |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=30 April 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Eudy Simelane, 31, South African footballer.

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Jadesola Akande, 67, Nigerian lawyer, author and academic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nigerianmuse.com/|title=NigerianMuse | Nigerian News, Articles, Current Events, & Musings|date=February 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204124255/https://www.nigerianmuse.com/|archive-date=February 4, 2022}}
John Berkey, 75, American science fiction artist.{{cite web |url=https://www.starwars.com/community/news/family/news20080513.html |title=John Berkey Remembered |date=13 May 2008 |website=StarWars.com |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517124534/http://www.starwars.com/community/news/family/news20080513.html |archive-date=17 May 2008}}
Bo Yang, 88, Taiwanese writer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/simp/hi/newsid_7370000/newsid_7372400/7372486.stm |title=台湾著名作家柏杨因病逝世 |trans-title=Famous Taiwanese writer Bai Yang dies |date=29 April 2008 |website=BBC Chinese Network |language=zh |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Ernesto Bonino, 86, Italian singer.{{cite news |url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2008/aprile/30/Morto_Ernesto_Bonino_Mister_swing_co_9_080430080.shtml |title=Morto Ernesto Bonino il 'Mister swing' della canzone italiana |date=30 April 2008 |newspaper=Corriere della Sera |language=it |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520041757/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2008/aprile/30/Morto_Ernesto_Bonino_Mister_swing_co_9_080430080.shtml |archive-date=20 May 2011}}
Gordon Bradley, 74, British footballer and coach (North American Soccer League), Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/sports/soccer/01bradley.html |title=Gordon Bradley, Who Nurtured U.S. Soccer, Dies at 74 |first=Jack |last=Bell |date=1 May 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Lewis Croft, 88, American actor (The Wizard of Oz).{{cite news |url=http://nwi.com/articles/2008/05/10/columnists/offbeat/doc39080882cd1d8b6b86257444007018d2.txt |title='Wizard of Oz' Munchkin soldier Lewis Croft, dead at age 88 |first=Philip |last=Potempa |date=10 May 2008 |newspaper=The Times of Northwest Indiana |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Chuck Daigh, 84, American racing driver, heart and respiratory disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.historicracing.com/top100.cfm?driverID=1362&today=on&fromrow=1 |title=Chuck Daigh |website=HistoricRacing.com |access-date=8 February 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525143520/http://historicracing.com/top100.cfm?driverID=1362&today=on&fromrow=1 |archive-date=25 May 2008}}
Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, 87, Iranian Anglican Bishop, first ethnic Iranian Christian bishop since the 7th century.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1918728/The-Rt-Rev-Hassan-Dehqani-Tafti.html |title=The Rt Rev Hassan Dehqani-Tafti |date=1 May 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Julie Ege, 64, Norwegian actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), breast cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1402802.php/Norwegian_model_and_actress_Julie_Ege_dies_at_64 |title=Norwegian model and actress Julie Ege dies at 64 |date=30 April 2008 |website=Monsters and Critics |access-date=29 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129125511/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1402802.php/Norwegian_model_and_actress_Julie_Ege_dies_at_64 |archive-date=29 January 2013}}
Tatsuo Hasegawa, 92, Japanese automotive engineer, development chief of the first Toyota Corolla.{{cite web |url=http://members.aol.com/pinealguy/tatsuo.htm |title=Tatsuo Hasegawa (1916–2008) |first=Akio |last=Hasegawa |date=22 June 2008 |website=Aol.com |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719024542/http://members.aol.com/pinealguy/tatsuo.htm |archive-date=19 July 2008}}
Albert Hofmann, 102, Swiss researcher, chemist and discoverer of LSD, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hofmann30apr30,0,5466127.story |title=Albert Hofmann, 102; Swiss chemist discovered LSD |first=Thomas H. |last=Maugh II |date=30 April 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505060810/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hofmann30apr30,0,5466127.story |archive-date=5 May 2008}}
Sir Anthony Kershaw, 92, British Conservative MP (1955–1987).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1915379/Sir-Anthony-Kershaw.html |title=Sir Anthony Kershaw |date=30 April 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Francis Mahoney, 80, American basketball player (Boston Celtics).{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/berkshire/obituary.aspx?pid=108750706 |title=Francis Mahoney |date=1 May 2008 |newspaper=The Berkshire Eagle |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Terlingua, 32, American thoroughbred horse, infirmities of old age.[http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/44937/terlingua-storm-cats-dam-dead#ixzz1q3PzCUpC Terlingua, Storm Cat's Dam, Dead]
Charles Tilly, 78, American sociologist, historian and political scientist.{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/08/04/tilly.html |title=President Bollinger's Statement on the Passing of Professor Charles Tilly |date=29 April 2008 |website=Columbia News |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Micky Waller, 66, British drummer (Jeff Beck Group, Cyril Davies), liver failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/may/28/obituaries.mainsection |title=Mickey Waller |first=Peter |last=Mason |date=28 May 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=13 December 2018}}

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Jean Ancel, 67-68, Romanian-born Israeli author and historian.{{cite web |url=http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/605.extract |title=Obituary |website=hgs.oxfordjournals.org |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919031420/http://hgs.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/605.extract |archive-date=19 September 2011 |url-status=dead}}
John Cargher, 89, Australian radio broadcaster, hosted Singers of Renown since 1966.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/01/2232653.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502034159/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/01/2232653.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 2, 2008 |title=Radio presenter John Cargher dies |date=1 May 2008 |website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Juancho Evertsz, 85, Dutch Antillean politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1973–1977).{{cite web |url=http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/5762839/Former-Netherlands-Antilles-PM-dies |title=Former Netherlands Antilles PM dies |date=1 May 2008 |website=Radio Netherlands Worldwide |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510235743/http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/5762839/Former-Netherlands-Antilles-PM-dies |archive-date=10 May 2008}}
Ling Ling, 22, Chinese panda, lived in Ueno Zoo, Tokyo, oldest giant panda in Japan, heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-panda30apr30,0,3796792.story |title=Japan's oldest giant panda dies of heart failure |date=30 April 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=13 December 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502183437/http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-panda30apr30,0,3796792.story |archive-date=2 May 2008}}
M. G. Pandithan, 68, Malaysian politician, leukemia.{{cite web |url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/ipf-president-and-ex-mic-man-pandithan-dead_10043480.html |title=IPF president and ex-MIC man Pandithan dead |date=30 April 2008 |website=Thaindian News |access-date=13 December 2018 |archive-date=June 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621061044/http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/ipf-president-and-ex-mic-man-pandithan-dead_10043480.html |url-status=dead }}
Clarence Ross, 84, American bodybuilder.{{cite web |url=http://www.naturalstrength.com/2008/10/king-of-bodybuilders-by-joseph-merrette.html |title=Clancy Ross: King of the Bodybuilders |last=Merrette |first=Joseph |date=2 October 2008 |website=NaturalStrength.com |access-date=13 December 2018}}
Allan Sparrow, 63, Canadian politician, activist and Toronto city councillor (1974–1980), colorectal cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/obituaries/2008/05/02/allan_sparrow_63_activist_and_councillor.html |title=Allan Sparrow, 63: Activist and councillor |first1=Vanessa |last1=Lu |first2=Debra |last2=Black |name-list-style=amp |date=2 May 2008 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=13 December 2018}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2008-04-01,2008-04-30&adult=include List of April 2008 deaths] at IMDb

*2008-04