Deaths in February 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 2008

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Hélio Quaglia Barbosa, 66, Brazilian member of the Superior Court of Justice, multiple organ failure.{{cite news |url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u369127.shtml |title=Ministro do STJ Hélio Quaglia Barbosa morre aos 66 anos em SP |date=2 February 2008 |newspaper=Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Norman Bleehen, 77, British oncologist.{{cite web|url=https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/professor-norman-bleehen-dies-aged-77|title=Professor Norman Bleehen dies, aged 77|publisher=St. John's College, Cambridge|accessdate=24 January 2025}}
Floyd Boring, 92, American Secret Service agent, helped foil Truman assassination attempt, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/us/07boring.html |title=Floyd M. Boring, Agent Who Guarded 5 Presidents, Is Dead at 92 |first=Richard |last=Goldstein |date=7 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Beto Carrero, 70, Brazilian theme park owner (Beto Carrero World), endocarditis.{{cite web |url=http://www.parkworld-online.com/news/archivestory.php/aid/716/Beto_Carrero_dies.html |title=Beto Carrero dies |date=6 February 2008 |website=Park World Online |access-date=4 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104031235/http://www.parkworld-online.com/news/archivestory.php/aid/716/Beto_Carrero_dies.html |archive-date=4 January 2014 |url-status=dead}}
Al DeMao, 87, American football center for the Washington Redskins (1945–1953).{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/05/AR2008020503184.html |title=Al Demao; Versatile Star of the Postwar Redskins |first=Joe |last=Holley |date=6 February 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ralph DiGia, 93, American World War II conscientious objector and peace activist with War Resisters League, pneumonia.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}
Allan Grant, 88, American photojournalist for Life magazine.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-grant9feb09,1,3012720.story |title=Allan Grant, 88; shot iconic photos for Life magazine |first=Jon |last=Thurber |date=9 February 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604150243/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/09/local/me-grant9 |archive-date=4 June 2008}}
Earl Greenburg, 61, American head of NBC daytime, melanoma.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/daytime-guru-earl-greenburg-dies-1117980131/ |title=Daytime guru Earl Greenburg dies |via=Associated Press |date=4 February 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Frank Fletcher Hamilton, 86, Canadian World War II pilot and politician.{{cite web |url=https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=9666 |title=Frank Fletcher Hamilton |website=Library of Parliament |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Russi Karanjia, 95, Indian journalist, editor of Blitz.{{cite web |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/feb/01karanjia.htm |title=Veteran journalist Russi Karanjia passes away |date=1 February 2008 |website=Rediff.com |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Władysław Kawula, 70, Polish footballer.{{cite web |url=http://www.sport.pl/sport/1,65025,4891940.html |title=Zmarł Władysław Kawula |website=sport.pl |language=pl}} {{Dead link |date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
Shell Kepler, 49, American actress (General Hospital, Three's Company) and fashion designer (HSC), renal failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.tmz.com/2008/02/02/god-pages-nurse-vining-to-heaven/ |title=God Pages Nurse Vining to Heaven |date=2 February 2008 |website=TMZ.com |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Tony Silver, 82, American documentary filmmaker known for directing the film Style Wars.{{Cite news |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=2008-03-05 |title=Tony Silver, 72, Documentary Director, Dies |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/movies/05silver.html |access-date=2022-06-29 |issn=0362-4331}}
Ralph Wallace, 58, American politician, member of the Texas State House (1977–1992).{{cite web |url=http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7815360 |title=Former Houston legislator dies at 58 |date=3 February 2008 |website=KLTV |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205014537/http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7815360 |archive-date=5 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}

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Gus Arriola, 90, American cartoonist (Gordo), Parkinson's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Gordo-cartoonist-Gus-Arriola-dies-in-Carmel-3295770.php |title=Gordo cartoonist Gus Arriola dies in Carmel |last=Buchanan |first=Wyatt |date=3 February 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Billy Balbastro, 67, Filipino journalist and broadcaster, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080203-116482/Billy-Balbastro-lawyer-journalist-67 |title=Billy Balbastro, lawyer-journalist; 67 |last=San Diego Jr. |first=Bayani |date=3 February 2008 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=25 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206021243/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080203-116482/Billy-Balbastro-lawyer-journalist-67 |archive-date=6 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Ahmad Bourghani, 48, Iranian politician, heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/story/2008/02/080202_bd-bourghani-death.shtml |title=احمد بورقانی، نماینده سابق مجلس ایران، درگذشت |trans-title=Ahmad Buraghani, a former MP from Iran, died |date=2 February 2008 |website=BBC Persian Service |language=fa |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Earl Butz, 98, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1971–1976).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/washington/04butz.html |title=Earl L. Butz, Secretary Felled by Racial Remark, Is Dead at 98 |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=4 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Heinrich Dahlinger, 85, German field handball player, entrepreneur, kidney failure.{{cite web |url=http://archiv.thw-handball.de/thw/se_dahli.htm |title=Heinrich Dahlinger |website=THW Kiel |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Joshua Lederberg, 82, American Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist.{{cite web |url=https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/2434-joshua-lederberg-rockefellers-fifth-president-dies-at-82/ |title=Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller's fifth president, dies at 82 |date=4 February 2008 |website=The Rockefeller University |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Barry Morse, 89, British-born Canadian actor (The Fugitive, Space: 1999).{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/theatre/obituary/0,,2253248,00.html |title=Barry Morse: Prolific British actor remembered for pursuing The Fugitive across America |last=Gaughan |first=Gavin |date=6 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Katoucha Niane, 47, French supermodel and women's rights activist, drowning.
Sir David Orr, 85, British businessman.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1580190/Sir-David-Orr.html |title=Sir David Orr |date=29 February 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Daoud Soumain, Chadian general, Army Chief of Staff, killed during the Battle of N'Djamena.{{cite web |url=http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/5627058/Chad-rebels-kill-army-chief-of-staff |title=Chad rebels kill army chief of staff |date=3 February 2008 |website=Radio Netherlands Worldwide |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408102848/http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/5627058/Chad-rebels-kill-army-chief-of-staff |archive-date=8 April 2008}}
Roger Testu, 94, French cartoonist.{{cite web |url=http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/1531/Culture/article/detail/156945/2008/02/02/D-c-s-94-ans-du-dessinateur-de-presse-Tetsu.dhtml |title=Décès à 94 ans du dessinateur de presse Tetsu |date=2 February 2008 |website=7SUR7.be |language=fr |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ed Vargo, 79, American baseball umpire.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/sports/baseball/08vargo.html |title=Ed Vargo, 79, Plate Umpire When Aaron Tied Ruth, Is Dead |date=8 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Edward Wilson, 60, British actor (When the Boat Comes In), director of the National Youth Theatre, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/feb/08/theatre.culture |title=Edward Wilson |first=Illtyd |last=Harrington |date=8 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Cyril Stanley Bamberger, 88, British Royal Air Force pilot.{{Cite web |title=Bamberger, Cyril Stanley "Bam" - TracesOfWar.com |url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/41685/Bamberger-Cyril-Stanley-Bam.htm |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=www.tracesofwar.com}}
Samuel Boyle, 59, American bureau chief (New York City) of Associated Press (1981–2002), lung cancer.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/sam-boyle-ap-chief-in-nyc-dies-at-59/ |title=Sam Boyle, AP Chief in NYC, Dies at 59 |date=3 February 2008 |magazine=Editor & Publisher |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-date=January 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111055154/https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/sam-boyle-ap-chief-in-nyc-dies-at-59/ |url-status=dead }}
Charles Fernley Fawcett, 92, American adventurer, actor and freedom fighter.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1578075/Charles-Fawcett.html |title=Charles Fawcett |date=9 February 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ernesto Illy, 82, Italian food chemist and chairman of the illy coffee company.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/world/europe/06illy.htm |title=Ernesto Illy, Chairman of Coffee Company, Is Dead at 82 |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=6 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Sigurveig Jónsdóttir, 77, Icelandic actress, natural causes.{{Cite web |title=Sigurveig Jónsdóttir |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429621/bio |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=IMDb}}
Jorge Liderman, 50, Argentine-American composer, suicide by train.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/04/BAFGURL71.DTL |title=Composer Liderman dies in apparent suicide |first=Joshua |last=Kosman |date=4 February 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Jackie Orszaczky, 59, Hungarian-born Australian musician, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/music-lovers-mourn-band-leader-jackie-orszaczky/2008/02/04/1202090320716.html |title=Music lovers mourn band leader Jackie Orszaczky |first=Clare |last=Morgan |date=5 February 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Geoffrey Paish, 86, British tennis player and administrator.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3446793.ece |title=Geoff Paish: Distinguished Davis Cup player who became a dedicated administrator of tennis |date=28 February 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524143543/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3446793.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010}}
Algirdas Ražauskas, 55, Lithuanian politician.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
Cornelius L. Reid, 96, American vocal pedagogue.{{Cite web |date=2014-08-22 |title=Biography |url=https://corneliusreid.com/cornelius-reid/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Cornelius L. Reid |language=en}}
John Elliott Smart, 91, British submariner.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2003397/Lt-Cdr-Jack-Smart.html |title=Lt-Cdr Jack Smart |date=21 May 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Charley van de Weerd, 86, Dutch football player.{{cite news |url=https://www.gelderlander.nl/de-vallei/charley-van-de-weerd-overleden~a81f6623/ |title=Charley van de Weerd overleden |date=4 February 2008 |newspaper=De Gelderlander |language=nl |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Chris Anderson, 81, American jazz pianist, complications from a stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/arts/music/09anderson.html |title=Chris Anderson, 81, Influential Jazz Pianist, Is Dead |first=Nate |last=Chinen |date=9 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Endel Aruja, 96, Estonian physicist.{{cite web |url=http://www.eesti.ca/index.php?op=article&articleid=18971 |title=Endel Aruja: In Memoriam |date=7 February 2008 |website=Estonian World Review |language=et |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Sheldon Brown, 63, American bicycle mechanic and technical authority, heart attack.{{cite web |last=Boulanger |first=Gary |date=4 February 2008 |title=Sheldon Brown: 1944-2008 |url=http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/sheldon-brown-1944-2008-14433 |access-date=10 January 2019 |website=BikeRadar.com |archive-date=February 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212071745/https://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/sheldon-brown-1944-2008-14433/ |url-status=dead }}
Larry Cruz, 66, Filipino journalist and restaurateur, pneumonia and complications from cancer.{{cite news |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080205-116845/Larry-Cruz-restaurateur-journalist-dies-in-US-66 |title=Larry Cruz, restaurateur, journalist, dies in US; 66 |last=Sioson San Juan |first=Thelma |date=5 February 2008 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=18 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207055843/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080205-116845/Larry-Cruz-restaurateur-journalist-dies-in-US-66 |archive-date=7 February 2008}}
Augusta Dabney, 89, American actress (A World Apart, Running on Empty, The Paper).{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/scene/markets-festivals/actress-augusta-dabney-dies-at-89-1117980546/ |title=Actress Augusta Dabney dies at 89 |date=8 February 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Tata Güines, 77, Cuban percussionist, kidney infection.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/world/americas/07guines.html |title=Tata Güines, 77, Cuban Master of the Congas, Is Dead |last=Ratliff |first=Ben |date=7 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Rose Hacker, 101, British activist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3470119.ece |title=Rose Hacker: Social worker, author, counsellor and passionate socialist |date=3 March 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524092355/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3470119.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010}}
Richard Ho, 81, Malaysian civil servant.{{Cite web |last=CHEAH |first=ROYCE |title=Former MCA deputy president Richard Ho dies |url=https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2008/02/05/former-mca-deputy-president-richard-ho-dies |access-date=2024-04-14 |website=The Star |date=February 5, 2008 |language=en}}
Harry Richard Landis, 108, American second-to-last World War I veteran.{{cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329107,00.html |title=One of Two Known U.S. WWI Vets Dead at 108 |date=6 February 2008 |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318165313/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329107,00.html |archive-date=18 March 2008}}
Stefan Meller, 65, Polish diplomat, foreign minister (2005–2006).{{cite web |url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114873,4898990.html |title=Zmarł Stefan Meller, były szef MSZ |trans-title=Stefan Meller, former head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dies |website=Gazeta.pl |language=pl |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Bertha Moss, 88, Argentine actor, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=348384 |title=Falleció Bertha Moss víctima de un paro cardiaco en Argentina |agency=Notimex |date=20 February 2008 |newspaper=La Crónica de Hoy |language=es |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-date=July 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726093249/http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=348384 |url-status=dead }}
Nikolay Popov, 76, Russian chief designer of T-80 tank, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.lenta.ru/news/2008/02/06/popov/ |title=Умер создатель "летающего танка" |trans-title=The creator of the "flying tank" died |date=6 February 2008 |website=Lenta.ru |language=ru |access-date=10 January 2019}}
John Snodgrass, 79, British diplomat.{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-35573 |title=Snodgrass, John Michael Owen |website=Who's Who & Who Was Who |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U35573 |isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Peter Thomas, Baron Thomas of Gwydir, 87, British Conservative Party chairman (1970–1972), Welsh Secretary (1970–1974).{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7227072.stm |title=First Tory Welsh secretary dies |date=4 February 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Sayed Nafees al-Hussaini, 74, Pakistani calligrapher.{{Cite web|url=https://dailypakistan.com.pk/07-Feb-2020/1089622|title=حضرت سید نفیس الحسینی شاہؒ ……ایک عہد ساز شخصیت|date=February 7, 2020}}
Zoran Antonijević, 62, Serbian soccer plater.{{Cite web|url=http://www.b92.net/sport/vesti.php?yyyy=2008&mm=02&dd=05&nav_id=283725|title = Preminuo Zoran Antonijević| date=May 2, 2008 }}
Schoolboy Cleve, 82, American blues musician, harmonica and guitar player.{{cite news |url=http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/music/15470906.html |title='Schoolboy Cleve,' blues musician, dies |first=John |last=Wirt |date=9 February 2008 |newspaper=The Advocate |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522043831/http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/music/15470906.html |archive-date=22 May 2011}}
Karl Ehrhardt, 83, American New York Mets fan known for his signs in the crowd.{{Cite web |date=2008-02-09 |title=Ehrhardt, known as Mets' 'sign man' at Shea, dies |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3238455 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}
Kenny Konz, 79, American football defensive back (Cleveland Browns), pneumonia.{{cite web |url=https://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2008/02/kenny_konz_19282008.html |title=Kenny Konz 1928-2008 |first=Tony |last=Grossi |date=6 February 2008 |website=Cleveland.com |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 90, Indian founder of Transcendental Meditation movement, former guru to The Beatles.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/india/story/0,,2253182,00.html |title=Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in peace |first=Martin |last=Hodgson |date=6 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Vitaliy Ponomarenko, 33, Ukrainian powerlifting champion, heart condition.{{cite web |url=http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/7242 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227205744/http://www.powerliftingwatch.com/node/7242 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 27, 2010 |title=Ukrainian Vitaliy Ponomarenko Dead At 33 |date=5 February 2008 |website=Powerlifting Watch.com |access-date=10 January 2019 }}
Winston Walls, 65, American musician, heart failure and diabetes.{{cite news |url=http://dailymail.com/News/Kanawha/200802080173 |title=Accomplished musician Winston Walls, a Charleston native, dead at 65 |last=Ferrell Smith |first=Charlotte |date=8 February 2008 |newspaper=Charleston Daily Mail |access-date=5 March 2008 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080417065814/http://dailymail.com/News/Kanawha/200802080173 |archive-date=17 April 2008 |url-status=dead}}

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John Alvin, 59, American film poster artist (Star Wars, Blade Runner, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F02-07-2008%2F0004752025&EDATE= |title=Legendary Cinema Campaign Artist John Alvin, 1948–2008 |date=7 February 2008 |website=PR Newswire |access-date=31 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222022014/http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F02-07-2008%2F0004752025&EDATE= |archive-date=22 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Phyllis Barnhart, 85, American animator (The Secret of NIMH).{{cite web |url=https://animationguild.org/in-memoriam/#B |title=In Memoriam |website=The Animation Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Local 839 |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Charles Borck, 91, Filipino Olympic basketball player and coach.{{cite news |url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/ |title=Obituaries: Borck, Charles |date=10 February 2008 |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604143147/http://www.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/individual_display.jsp?obitID=3560421 |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
George W. Dunaway, 85, United States Army soldier who served as the second Sergeant Major of the Army.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-28 |title=Las Vegas News {{!}} Breaking News & Headlines |url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/ |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=Las Vegas Review-Journal |language=en-US}}
Nikol Faridani, 72, Iranian aerial photographer, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=162884 |title=Photographer of dessert terrains Nikol Faridani dies |date=7 February 2008 |newspaper=Tehran Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Oliver Foot, 61, British President of Orbis International.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3364346.ece |title=Oliver Foot: Genial and energetic president of Orbis International |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524091802/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3364346.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010}}
John Grimsley, 45, American football linebacker (Houston Oilers, Miami Dolphins), accidental gunshot.{{cite web |url=http://www.wfaa.com:80/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa080206_mo_formeroiler.97e82ea8.html |title=Ex-Houston Oiler dies in shooting accident |date=6 February 2008 |website=WFAA |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611092328/http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa080206_mo_formeroiler.97e82ea8.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 June 2008}}
Andrew Harwood, 62, Australian radio and TV presenter (It's Academic, Jeopardy!), actor (The Paul Hogan Show), asthma attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/quiz-show-host-harwood-dead/2008/02/09/1202234236483.html |title=Quiz show host Harwood dead |first=Angela |last=Cuming |date=10 February 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=10 January 2019}}
George Hekkers, 84, American football player.{{Cite web |title=George Hekkers Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HekkGe20.htm |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}
Neville Holt, 95, Australian Olympic shooter.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/neville-holt-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418123227/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/neville-holt-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Neville Holt |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
John McWethy, 61, American news correspondent (ABC News), skiing accident.{{cite news |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2008/02/06/ex-abc-reporter-mcwethy-dies-at-keystone/ |title=Ex-ABC reporter McWethy dies at Keystone |first=Joey |last=Bunch |date=6 February 2008 |newspaper=The Denver Post |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Kurt Nemetz, 81, Austrian Olympic cyclist.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/kurt-nemetz-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418063621/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ne/kurt-nemetz-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Kurt Nemetz |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ruth Stafford Peale, 101, American writer, widow of Norman Vincent Peale.{{cite web |url=http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080206006281&newsLang=en |title=Ruth Stafford Peale, Wife of Late Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Dies at the Age of 101 |date=6 February 2008 |website=Business Wire |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312213607/http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080206006281&newsLang=en |archive-date=12 March 2008}}
Kalpana Rai, 57, Indian actress.{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Four-Telugu-cinema-personalities-dead/article15160687.ece |title=Four Telugu cinema personalities dead |date=8 February 2008 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Tony Rolt, 89, British racing driver and last living participant in the first F1 World Championship race.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3329031.ece |title=Major Anthony Rolt |date=8 February 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720043035/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3329031.ece |archive-date=20 July 2008}}

*Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, 78, French leader of the Druids of Brittany.{{cite web |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBV6UA8Ad-V-j6yv07Vjvcdw_q0g |title=Les druides bretons perdent leur chef |date=7 February 2008 |website=Agence France-Presse |language=fr |access-date=1 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520121806/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jBV6UA8Ad-V-j6yv07Vjvcdw_q0g |archive-date=20 May 2011}}

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Richard Altick, 92, American historian and author.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/05/culture.obituaries |title=Richard Altick |first=Michael |last=Slater |date=5 April 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Alberto Bustamante Belaunde, 57, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1999–2000), heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.peru21.com/p21online/Html/2008-02-07/onp2portada0849725.html |title=Ex premier fujimorista Alberto Bustamante falleció en el Congreso |date=7 February 2008 |newspaper=Perú.21 |language=es |access-date=1 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312003319/http://www.peru21.com/p21online/Html/2008-02-07/onp2portada0849725.html |archive-date=12 March 2008}}
Andrew Bertie, 78, British Grand Master of the Order of Malta.{{cite web |url=http://www.orderofmalta.int/news/40656/the-death-is-announced-of-hmeh-78th-prince-and-grand-master-fra-andrew-bertie/?lang=en |title=The Death is Announced of HMEH 78th Prince and Grand Master Fra' Andrew Bertie |date=24 March 2012 |website=Sovereign Order of Malta |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324184023/http://www.orderofmalta.int/news/40656/the-death-is-announced-of-hmeh-78th-prince-and-grand-master-fra-andrew-bertie/?lang=en |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 March 2012}}
Bill Bowman, 76, American football player.{{Cite web |title=Bill Bowman Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BowmBi00.htm |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}
Hoàng Minh Chính, 85, Vietnamese dissident, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7234214.stm |title=Famous Vietnamese dissident dies |first=Nga |last=Pham |date=8 February 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Tamara Desni, 96, German-born British actress.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1578714/Tamara-Desni.html |title=Tamara Desni |date=15 February 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Lakshmipati, 50, Indian actor.[https://www.oneindia.com/2008/02/07/telugu-comedian-chittajallu-dead-1202401976.html Telugu comedian Chittajallu dead]
Helen Mayer, 75, Australian politician, MP (1983–1987).{{cite web |url=http://www.openaustralia.org/debates/?id=2008-02-21.122.1&s=Helen%20Mayer#g126.1 |title=Condolences: Ms Helen Mayer |first=Anna |last=Burke |author-link=Anna Burke |date=21 February 2008 |website=OpenAustralia.org |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Benny Neyman, 56, Dutch singer, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article496177.ece/Zanger_Benny_Neyman_overleden |title=Zanger Benny Neyman overleden |last=van den Hanenberg |first=Patrick |date=7 February 2008 |newspaper=de Volkskrant |language=nl |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080210170714/http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article496177.ece/Zanger_Benny_Neyman_overleden |archive-date=10 February 2008}}
Daphne Robinson, 75, New Zealand cricketer.{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Players/17/17311/17311.html |title=Daphne Robinson |website=CricketArchive.com |url-access=subscription }}
Guy Severin, 81, Russian academician and engineer.{{cite web |url=http://gzt.ru/science/2008/02/07/163947.html |title=Скончался известный ученый Гай Северин |trans-title=Famous scientist Guy Severin dead |date=7 February 2008 |website=Gazeta.ru |language=ru |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213033956/http://gzt.ru/science/2008/02/07/163947.html |archive-date=13 February 2008}}
Kunal Singh, 30, Indian actor, suicide by hanging.{{Cite web |date=2013-10-19 |title=Court orders CBI probe into actor's murder - Times Of India |website=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Court-orders-CBI-probe-into-actors-murder/articleshow/5349525.cms |access-date=2022-08-16 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019155018/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-12-18/mumbai/28106055_1_court-orders-cbi-probe-kunal-singh-lavina-bhatia |archive-date=October 19, 2013 }}
Frank Wayman, 76, English footballer (Chester City), struck by motorcycle.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7235521.stm |title=Ex-footballer dies after accident |date=8 February 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Nicolaas Jan van Strien, 61, Dutch conservationist, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.rhinos-irf.org/nico/ |title=Nicolaas Jan van Strien |date=11 February 2008 |website=International Rhino Foundation |access-date=19 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228154628/http://www.rhinos-irf.org/nico/ |archive-date=28 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Leona Wood, 86, American painter and dancer{{Cite web |title=Leona Wood, Painter: Biography |url=https://leonawood.com/biography.htm |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=leonawood.com}}

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John Bartlett, 58, Australian politician.[https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/formermembers/Pages/former-member-details.aspx?pk=1972 Mr John Richard Bartlett (1949–2008)]

*Chua Ek Kay, 61, Singaporean painter and Cultural Medallion winner, nose cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/327827/1/.html |title=Cultural Medallion winner Chua Ek Kay dies at 61 |first=Hasnita A. |last=Majid |date=9 February 2008 |website=Channel NewsAsia |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311131438/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/327827/1/.html |archive-date=11 March 2008}}

Eva Dahlbeck, 87, Swedish actress and writer, infection.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/feb/11/obituaries.mainsection |title=Eva Dahlbeck: Swedish actor who showed the witty side of Ingmar Bergman |last=Bergan |first=Ronald |date=11 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Frank J. Dixon, 87, American University teacher.{{Cite journal |last=Oldstone |first=Michael B. A. |date=April 2008 |title=Frank J. Dixon 1920–2008 |journal=Nature Immunology |language=en |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=333 |doi=10.1038/ni0408-333 |pmid=18349807 |s2cid=21618588 |issn=1529-2916|doi-access=free }}
Victor Dominguez, 72, Filipino congressman, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080208-117664/Mountain-Province-solon-Victor-Dominguez-dies-72 |title=Mountain Province solon Victor Dominguez dies; 72 |last=Cimatu |first=Frank |date=8 February 2008 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211043634/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080208-117664/Mountain-Province-solon-Victor-Dominguez-dies-72 |archive-date=11 February 2008}}
Earl B. Fowler Jr., 82, American Vice Admiral.{{Cite web |title=Earl B. Fowler Obituary (2008) The Washington Post |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/earl-fowler-obituary?id=5610482 |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=Legacy.com}}
J. Hemachandran, 75, Indian politician and trade unionist, spinal cord injury.{{Cite web |date=2012-08-08 |title=Comrade J Hemachandran Passes Away |url=http://pd.cpim.org/2008/0217_pd/02172008_hema.htm |access-date=2023-10-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808170210/http://pd.cpim.org/2008/0217_pd/02172008_hema.htm |archive-date=August 8, 2012 }}
Robert Jastrow, 82, American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/science/space/12jastrow.html |title=Robert Jastrow, Who Made Space Understandable, Dies at 82 |first=John |last=Schwartz |date=12 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Stephen Kipkorir, 37, Kenyan long-distance runner, car crash.{{cite web |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=43329.html |title=1996 Olympic bronze medallist Stephen Arusei Kipkorir dies in road accident |first=Ottavio |last=Castellini |date=8 February 2008 |website=IAAF |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218124930/http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=43329.html |archive-date=18 February 2008}}
Swaran Lata, 83, Pakistani film actress.{{Cite web |title=Log into Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fwisemoviereview%2Fposts%2F491018015151156%2F |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=Facebook |language=en}}
Jane Lumb, 65, British model and actress, appeared in Fry's Turkish Delight commercials, breast cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3555299.ece |title=Jane Lumb |date=15 March 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524173913/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3555299.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010}}
Ah Meng, 48, Sumatran orangutan, tourist icon at Singapore Zoo.{{cite news |url=http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_204484.html |title=S'pore's favourite Orang Utan, Ah Meng dies |date=8 February 2008 |newspaper=The Straits Times |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226165949/http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/Singapore/STIStory_204484.html |archive-date=26 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}
K. Rajaram, 82, Indian politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/09/stories/2008020952980400.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212135731/http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/09/stories/2008020952980400.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 February 2008 |title=K. Rajaram dead |date=9 February 2008 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Rudie Sypkes, 57, Australian founder of the Chickenfeed retail chain and philanthropist, pulmonary fibrosis.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/08/2158322.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209040942/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/08/2158322.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 9, 2008 |title=Tributes to Rudie Sypkes |date=8 February 2008 |website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Phyllis A. Whitney, 104, American mystery novelist, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/books/09whitney.html |title=Phyllis A. Whitney, Author, Dies at 104 |first=Dulcie |last=Leimbach |date=9 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Manuel F. Alsina Capo, 98, Spanish-Puerto Rican urologist and surgeon.https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/M-F-ALSINA-CAPO/16825264 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}
Alfred Altenburger, 84, Swiss speed skater.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/al/alfred-altenburger-1.html |title=Alfred Altenburger Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com |website=www.sports-reference.com |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418104048/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/al/alfred-altenburger-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 |url-status=dead}}
Baba Amte, 93, Indian social activist, advocate for lepers, RLA recipient.{{cite web |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jPoDEtGSK2mGU3MGmusLXb16Mw7w |title=Indian leprosy activist dies aged 93 |date=9 February 2008 |website=Agence France-Presse |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315072156/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jPoDEtGSK2mGU3MGmusLXb16Mw7w |archive-date=15 March 2008 |url-status=dead}}
John Anthony Derrington, 86, British civil engineer.[https://legacy-ia.com/obituary/481525?s_source=nqsx_arg Obituary John Derrington]
Robert DoQui, 73, American character actor (RoboCop, Coffy, Nashville).{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/actor-robert-doqui-dies-at-74-1117980996/ |title=Actor Robert DoQui dies at 74 |date=15 February 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Scot Halpin, 54, American one time drummer for The Who, brain tumor.{{cite web |url=https://www.wittichfuneralhome.com/obituary/59597/Thomas-Scot-Halpin/ |title=Thomas Scot Halpin |website=Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Günter Havenstein, 79, German Olympic runner.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/gunter-havenstein-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417222003/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/gunter-havenstein-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Günter Havenstein |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Christopher Hyatt, 64, American psychologist, occultist, and author, cancer.{{Cite web |date=2008-02-13 |title=Dr. Christopher Hyatt Dies at 64 |url=https://jamesrfrench.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/dr-christopher-hyatt-dies-at-64/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Strange Onion Peelings |language=en |archive-date=November 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114190438/http://jamesrfrench.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/dr-christopher-hyatt-dies-at-64/ |url-status=dead }}
Gene Knutson, 75, American football player.{{Cite web |title=Gene Jones Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JoneGe20.htm |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}
Dorothy Podber, 75, American performance artist, shot Andy Warhol's Shot Marilyns paintings.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dorothy-podber-witch-who-shot-warhols-marilyns-794931.html |title=Dorothy Podber: 'Witch' who shot Warhol's Marilyns |first=Charles |last=Darwent |date=13 March 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Merril Sandoval, 82, American Navajo Code Talker during World War II.{{cite news |url=http://www.denverpost.com/obituaries/ci_8232269 |title=Navajo Code Talker dead at age 82 |first=Felicia |last=Fonseca |date=11 February 2008 |newspaper=The Denver Post |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080330130935/http://www.denverpost.com/obituaries/ci_8232269 |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 March 2008}}
Joseph Tyree Sneed III, 87, American senior judge (Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit).{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-sneed15feb15,1,4261299.story |title=Joseph T. Sneed III, 1920–2008: Senior judge on U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, former law school professor |first=Jocelyn Y. |last=Stewart |date=15 February 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816144121/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/15/local/me-sneed15 |archive-date=16 August 2010}}
Carm Lino Spiteri, 75, Maltese architect and politician.{{cite news |title=Ċumpaqq passes away |url=https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/cumpaqq-passes-away.195699 |work=Times of Malta |date=10 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721134854/https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/cumpaqq-passes-away.195699 |archive-date=21 July 2020}}
Jazeh Tabatabai, 77, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet, and sculptor, heart failure.{{Cite web |title=Jazeh Tabatabai - Biography |url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Jazeh_Tabatabai/11162826/Jazeh_Tabatabai.aspx |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=www.askart.com}}
Harry Tapping, 81, New Zealand cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/38636.html |title=Harry Tapping |website=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Guy Tchingoma, 22, Gabonese footballer, on-field collision.{{cite news |url=http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-7300325,00.html |title=Gabon international collapses and dies during match |date=11 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214164418/http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0%2C%2C-7300325%2C00.html |archive-date=14 February 2008}}
Mindrolling Trichen, 78, Tibetan ceremonial head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.{{cite web |url=http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=19221&t=1 |title=Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche passes away |date=11 February 2008 |website=Phayul.com |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-date=February 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213002348/http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=19221&t=1 |url-status=dead }}
Georgy Yegorov, 89, Russian Soviet Navy Admiral of the Fleet.{{cite web |url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1076 |title=Егоров Георгий Михайлович |website=Warheroes.ru |language=ru |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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John Abbotts, 83, English footballer.{{Hugman|13|John Abbotts}}
Arne Barhaugen, 76, Norwegian Olympic Nordic combined skier.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/arne-barhaugen-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418033940/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/arne-barhaugen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Arne Barhaugen |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Freddie Bell, 76, American rhythm and blues singer, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3364570.ece |title=Freddie Bell: Rock'n'roll singer who inspired Elvis Presley's version of Hound Dog |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523092151/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3364570.ece |archive-date=23 May 2010}}
Kirk Browning, 86, American television director, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/arts/television/13browning.html |title=Kirk Browning, 86, Dies; Put the Arts on TV |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=13 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Alaa Abdulkareem Fartusi, 29, Iraqi journalist and cameraman, victim of the Balad bomb blast.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq31jan31,1,7392077.story |title=Bomb kills TV cameraman, his driver near checkpoint |first=Kimi |last=Yoshino |date=10 February 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910194243/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/31/world/fg-iraq31 |archive-date=10 September 2015}}
Ārijs Geikins, 71, Latvian playwright, writer, director, actor and drama teacher.{{Cite web |title=The Dislocated Tragic Hero in Latvian Drama |url=http://www.lituanus.org/1983_4/83_4_01.htm |access-date=2022-07-01 |website=www.lituanus.org |archive-date=July 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701232103/http://www.lituanus.org/1983_4/83_4_01.htm |url-status=dead }}
Adeline Geo-Karis, 89, American politician, member of Illinois State Senate (1979–2007), natural causes.{{cite news |url=http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/25047.asp |title=Geo-Karis remembered for 'bigger-than-life personality' |last=Keith |first=Ryan |date=11 February 2008 |newspaper=The State Journal-Register |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215213048/http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/25047.asp |archive-date=15 February 2008}}
Steve Gerber, 60, American comic book writer (Howard the Duck, Captain America, Daredevil), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.{{cite web |url=http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_02_11.html |title=Steve Gerber, R.I.P. |last=Evanier |first=Mark |date=11 February 2008 |website=News From Me |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813103834/http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2008_02_11.html#014809 |archive-date=13 August 2010 |url-status=dead}}
Ove Jørstad, 37, Norwegian footballer, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=510727 |title=Døde på trening |first1=Maiken Nøtsund |last1=Fotland |first2=Morten |last2=Samdal |date=12 February 2008 |newspaper=Verdens Gang |language=no |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ron Leavitt, 60, American television writer and producer (Married... with Children, Unhappily Ever After, The Jeffersons), lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/02/11/ron-leavitt-60-created-married-with-children/ |title=Ron Leavitt, 60, created 'Married . . . With Children' |last=Mclellan |first=Dennis |date=11 February 2008 |newspaper=The Mercury News |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Dario Lodigiani, 91, American baseball player.{{cite news |url=http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2008/02/former-sox-play.html |title=Former Sox player/scout Lodigiani dead at 91 |first=Mark |last=Gonzales |date=12 February 2008 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220054053/http://blogs.chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports_hardball/2008/02/former-sox-play.html |archive-date=20 February 2008}}
William Long, 85, British politician, MP of Northern Ireland (1962–1972).{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/apr/11/northernireland |title=William Long |first=Anne |last=McHardy |date=11 April 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Peter Marginter, 73, Austrian author.{{cite news |url=http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3219845 |title=Peter Marginter 1934–2008 |date=17 February 2008 |newspaper=Der Standard |language=de |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Inga Nielsen, 61, Danish soprano, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/feb/13/classicalmusicandopera |title=Inga Nielsen: Opera soprano of slight frame yet strong and intense tone |first=Barry |last=Millington |date=13 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Manuel Ortiz, 59, Cuban Olympic fencer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/or/manuel-ortiz-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417115543/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/or/manuel-ortiz-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Manuel Ortíz |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Roy Scheider, 75, American actor (Jaws, The French Connection, All That Jazz), staph infection.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/movies/11scheider.html |title=Roy Scheider, Actor in 'Jaws,' Dies at 75 |first=Dave |last=Kehr |date=11 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ramón Daumal Serra, 95, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop.{{cite web |url=http://www.periodistadigital.com/religion/object.php?o=841540 |title=Fallece monseñor Daumal |date=11 February 2008 |website=Periodista Digital.com |language=es |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116054701/http://www.periodistadigital.com/religion/object.php?o=841540 |archive-date=16 January 2009}}
Chris Townson, 60, British drummer (John's Children).{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/chris-townson-drummer-with-johns-children-787838.html |title=Chris Townson: Drummer with John's Children |date=27 February 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ray Wu, 79, American biologist and educator.{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2008214102012343201177.html |title=CUSBEA创始人吴瑞因病去世享年79岁吴 |trans-title=CUSBEA founder Wu Rui died of illness at the age of 79 |date=14 February 2018 |website=ScienceNet.cn |language=zh |access-date=30 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031120727/http://www.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2008214102012343201177.html |archive-date=31 October 2011 |url-status=dead}}

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Fouad al-Tikerly, 81, Iraqi novelist and judge, pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/11/africa/ME-GEN-Obit-Tikerly.php |title=Famed Iraqi novelist Fouad al-Tikerly dies of cancer in Jordan hospital |last=Youssef |first=Maamoun |date=11 February 2008 |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214011604/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/11/africa/ME-GEN-Obit-Tikerly.php |archive-date=14 February 2008}}
Emilio Carballido, 82, Mexican playwright, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/481447.html |title=Muere Emilio Carballido |first=Edgar Ávila |last=Pérez |date=12 February 2008 |newspaper=El Universal |language=es |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220105518/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/481447.html |archive-date=20 February 2008}}
Tom Lantos, 80, American Representative from California since 1981, only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress, esophageal cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/washington/12lantos.html |title=Tom Lantos, 80, Is Dead; Longtime Congressman |first=David M. |last=Herszenhorn |date=12 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Torakichi Nakamura, 92, Japanese professional golfer, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/sports/golf/14nakamura.html |title=Torakichi Nakamura, 92, Golf Pioneer, Is Dead |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Frank Piasecki, 88, American aeronautical engineer who invented the tandem rotor placement in helicopter design, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.domain-b.com/people/in_the_news/20080212_pioneer.html |title=US helicopter pioneer, Frank Piasecki, passes away |date=12 February 2008 |website=Domain-B.com |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Rahatullah, 18, Pakistani cricketer (Peshawar, Under-19 national team), shot.{{cite web |url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/336217.html |title=Former Pakistan Under-19 cricketer killed |date=12 February 2008 |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Alfredo Reinado, 39, East Timorese rebel, shot during attack on José Ramos-Horta.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/attack-on-ramoshorta/2008/02/11/1202578640733.html |title=Critical Ramos Horta on life support |first=Jill |last=Jolliffe |date=12 February 2008 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Zelig Sharfstein, 79, American chief rabbi of Cincinnati, heart condition.{{cite web |url=http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2021954/Rabbi-Zelig-Sharfstein-Halachik-Authority-Passes-Away.html |title=Rabbi Zelig Sharfstein, Halachik Authority, Passes Away |date=11 February 2008 |website=Chabad Lubavitch World HQ |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr., 92, American ornithologist and curator emeritus at the Field Museum of Natural History.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=103390103 |title=Obituary: Melvin A. Traylor Jr. |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |via=Legacy.com |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Carolina Tronconi, 94, Italian gymnast, Olympic silver medalist (1928).{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/carolina-tronconi-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418013535/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/tr/carolina-tronconi-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Carolina Tronconi |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Laura Urdapilleta, 76, Mexican ballerina.{{cite web |url=http://www.interescena.com/articulos/2690-laura-urdapilleta…-a-traves-de-la-danza-expreso-lo-que-queria-de-la-vida |title=Laura Urdapilleta… a través de la danza expresó lo que quería de la vida |last=Mazari |first=Fritzi |date=14 February 2008 |website=Interescena.com |language=es |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713045019/http://www.interescena.com/articulos/2690-laura-urdapilleta%E2%80%A6-a-traves-de-la-danza-expreso-lo-que-queria-de-la-vida |archive-date=13 July 2011}}

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T. O. S. Benson, 90, Nigerian lawyer.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bE43wjI0R8C&pg=PA186 |title=Federal Government in Nigeria |date=2011 |publisher=University of California Press |language=en}}
Oscar Brodney, 100, American lawyer and screenwriter (Harvey).{{cite web |url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=Brodney&start=21 |title=RootsWeb: Social Security Death Index |website=Ancestry.com |url-access=subscription }}
John Brunious, 67, American jazz trumpeter, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/arts/music/18brunious.html |title=John Brunious, 67, Louisiana Trumpeter, Is Dead |first=Nate |last=Chinen |date=18 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ron Chippindale, 75, New Zealand chief air accident investigator, car accident.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10491998 |title=Erebus investigator killed in crash |date=12 February 2008 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Boris Chirikov, 79, Soviet and Russian physicist, cancer.{{Cite journal |url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/61/6/67/931929 |access-date=2023-10-30 |journal=Physics Today|doi=10.1063/1.2947656 |title=Boris Valerianovich Chirikov |date=2008 |last1=Izrailev |first1=Felix |last2=Lichtenberg |first2=Allan |last3=Shepelyansky |first3=Dima |volume=61 |issue=6 |pages=67–68 |bibcode=2008PhT....61f..67I }}
Wilson Hermosa González, 64, Bolivian musician and composer (Los Kjarkas).{{cite news |url=http://www.lostiempos.com/noticias/13-02-08/13_02_08_ultimas_cul6.php |title=Muere el fundador del emblemático grupo de música andina 'Los Kjarkas' |date=13 February 2008 |newspaper=Los Tiempos |language=es |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220035053/http://www.lostiempos.com/noticias/13-02-08/13_02_08_ultimas_cul6.php |archive-date=20 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}
David Groh, 68, American actor (Rhoda), kidney cancer and heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-me-groh14feb14,1,5015497.story |title=Actor played the husband on 1970s TV series 'Rhoda' |first=Claire |last=Noland |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220000233/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-me-groh14feb14,1,5015497.story |archive-date=20 February 2008}}
Thomas Grosser, 42, German footballer, heart attack during training.{{cite web |url=http://www.spvgg-unterhaching.de/news/news_detail.php3?news_id=3280 |title=Haching trauert um Thomas Grosser |date=13 February 2008 |website=SpVgg Unterhaching |language=de |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220014527/http://www.spvgg-unterhaching.de/news/news_detail.php3?news_id=3280 |archive-date=20 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Preston Hanson, 87, American actor (Julius Caesar, The Loretta Young Show, Cage of Evil).{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0361350/ |title=Preston Hanson (I) (1921–2008) |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Geoffrey Lewis, 87, British Professor of Turkish at Oxford University.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/mar/12/turkey.world |title=Geoffrey Lewis |first=David |last=Barchard |date=12 March 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Monica Morell, 54, Swiss singer, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nzz.ch/monica-morell-gestorben--1.671665 |title="Ich fange nie mehr was an einem Sonntag an": Monica Morell gestorben |date=15 February 2008 |newspaper=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |language=de |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Imad Mughniyah, 45, Lebanese senior member of Hezbollah, car bomb.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/13/israelandthepalestinians.usa |title=Car bomb kills Hizbullah chief in Syria |last=Sturcke |first=James |date=13 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, Georgian business oligarch and 2008 presidential candidate, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3362061.ece |title=Georgian billionaire found dead in Surrey feared plots |first1=Tony |last1=Halpin |first2=Philippe |last2=Naughton |date=13 February 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706171905/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3362061.ece |archive-date=6 July 2008}}
Jean Prouff, 88, French footballer and manager.{{cite news |url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/20080213_105537Dev.html |title=Jean Prouff est décédé |date=13 February 2008 |newspaper=L'Équipe |language=fr |access-date=29 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522101919/http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/breves2008/20080213_105537Dev.html |archive-date=22 May 2011 |url-status=dead}}

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Smoky Dawson, 94, Australian country music performer, after a short illness.{{cite web |url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=379663 |title=Country music legend Smoky Dawson dies |date=14 February 2008 |website=NineMSN |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217210828/http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=379663 |archive-date=17 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Michele Greco, 83, Italian Mafia boss, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.unita.it/view.asp?IDcontent=72893 |title=Morto Michele Greco, il "Papa" della mafia, era all'ergastolo |date=13 February 2008 |newspaper=L'Unità |language=it |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215062524/http://www.unita.it/view.asp?IDcontent=72893 |archive-date=15 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Kon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film director (Tokyo Olympiad, The Burmese Harp), pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Feb13/0,4670,ObitIchikawa,00.html |title=Japanese Film Director Kon Ichikawa Dies |first=Carl |last=Freire |date=13 February 2008 |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Larry King, 15, Student at E.O. Green Junior High School, shot.
Rajendra Nath, 75, Indian film actor, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/popular-comedian-rajendra-nath-dead/story-sldUJc6rFhb46dF0hF6RpK.html |title=Popular comedian Rajendra Nath dead |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=Hindustan Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Henri Salvador, 90, French jazz singer and guitarist, aneurysm.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/arts/14salvador.html |title=Henri Salvador, Singer Who Helped Bring Rock to France, Dies at 90 |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Lionel Mark Smith, 62, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Homicide, Magnolia), cancer.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/lionel-mark-smith-actor-dies-at-62-1117981796/ |title=Lionel Mark Smith, actor, dies at 62 |date=3 March 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Roger Voisin, 89, American trumpeter.{{cite web |url=http://www.trumpetguild.org/news/08/0826voisin.html |title=Roger Voisin 1918-2008 |date=15 February 2008 |website=International Trumpet Guild |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219111014/http://www.trumpetguild.org/news/08/0826voisin.html |archive-date=19 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}

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Gene Allen, 79, American jazz reedist.{{cite web | url=https://www.radioswissjazz.ch/en/music-database/musician/1387860b8e7b30eb5d0cfc657265756872229/biography | title=Radio Swiss Jazz - Music database - Musician }}
Len Boyd, 84, British footballer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/len-boyd-steely-birmingham-city-skipper-783981.html |title=Len Boyd: Steely Birmingham City skipper |first=Ivan |last=Ponting |date=19 February 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Jess Cain, 81, American radio personality (WHDH AM), cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/02/radio_legend_je.html |title=Radio legend Jess Cain is dead at 81 |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726045534/http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/02/radio_legend_je.html |archive-date=26 July 2008}}
Thurlow Cooper, 74, American football player (New York Titans).{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2008/02/17/former_umaine_football_star_who_went_on_to_the_pros_dies_at_74 |title=Former UMaine Football Star who went on to the Pros dies at 74 |date=17 February 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe}} {{dead link|date=January 2019}}
Hal Erickson, 88, American baseball player.{{Cite web |last=admin |title=Hal Erickson – Society for American Baseball Research |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/hal-erickson/ |access-date=2022-08-06 |language=en-US}}
Chuck Heaton, 90, American sports journalist.{{cite news |url=http://blog.cleveland.com/sports/2008/02/chuck_heaton_a_welcome_voice_w.html |title=Chuck Heaton a welcome voice we won't forget |last=Starkey |first=Mike |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Sir Ralph Howell, 84, British Conservative MP (1970–1997).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1578971/Sir-Ralph-Howell.html |title=Sir Ralph Howell |date=18 February 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Steven Kazmierczak, 27, American mass murderer (Northern Illinois University shooting), suicide by gunshot.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4293081&page=1 |title=Gunman Planned Campus Shooting for at Least a Week |first1=Russell |last1=Goldman |first2=Richard |last2=Esposito |first3=Pierre |last3=Thomas |first4=Jack |last4=Date |first5=Barbara |last5=Pinto |name-list-style=amp |date=15 February 2008 |website=ABC News |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Sir Desmond Langley, 77, British army general.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1583445/Major-General-Sir-Desmond-Langley.html |title=Major-General Sir Desmond Langley |date=1 April 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Odell Lawson, 59, American football running back.{{Cite web |title=The list sets off a debate Not everyone agrees with the choices, and they're letting us know |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/sooners/2007/08/27/list-sets-off-debatebrspan-classhl2not-everyone-agrees-with-the-choices-and-theyre-letting-knowspan/61728753007/ |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=The Oklahoman |language=en-US}}
Perry Lopez, 78, American actor (Chinatown, Kelly's Heroes, McLintock!), lung cancer.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/actor-perry-lopez-dies-at-78-1117980997/ |title=Actor Perry Lopez dies at 78 |date=15 February 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=10 January 2019}}
William Modell, 86, American chairman of Modell's Sporting Goods, complications from prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/02/22/william_modell_expanded_sporting_goods_chain/ |title=William Modell; expanded sporting goods chain |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=22 February 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan, 64, Burmese Secretary General of Karen National Union, shot.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/14/burma |title=Burmese rebel leader shot dead |first=Louise |last=Radnofsky |date=14 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Ayman al-Fayed, 42, Palestinian commander of al-Quds Brigades, explosion.{{cite web |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B9E244E5-4819-4D19-8578-F1F7C14FF2B6.htm |title=Several Killed In Gaza Blast |date=15 May 2008 |website=Al Jazeera English |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516122913/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B9E244E5-4819-4D19-8578-F1F7C14FF2B6.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 May 2008}}
Willie P. Bennett, 56, Canadian singer, natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=ec373f59-396f-4e9d-98ea-5de74f830a0d&k=23570 |title=Canadian folk singer Willie P. Bennett dead |date=21 February 2008 |website=Canada.com |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105190855/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=ec373f59-396f-4e9d-98ea-5de74f830a0d&k=23570 |archive-date=5 November 2012}}
Sam Bith, 74, Cambodian former Khmer Rouge commander.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/world/asia/22sambith.html |title=Sam Bith, Tied to Cambodia Tourist Deaths, Dies at 74 |date=22 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ashley Callie, 31, South African actress, car accident.{{cite news |url=https://mg.co.za/article/2008-02-15-isidingo-actress-ashley-callie-dies |title=Isidingo actress Ashley Callie dies |date=15 February 2008 |newspaper=Mail & Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Joaquim Costa, 72, Portuguese rock musician.{{cite news |url=https://discodigital.sapo.pt/news.asp?id_news=28118 |title=Morreu o primeiro rocker português |date=16 February 2008 |newspaper=Diário Digital |language=pt |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213112420/https://discodigital.sapo.pt/news.asp?id_news=28118 |archive-date=13 February 2012}}
Werner Giesa, 53, German author.{{cite magazine |date=15 February 2008 |title=Ein Freund ist tot |url=http://www.stern.de/computer-technik/computer/scheibe/:Scheibes-Kolumne-Ein-Freund/611342.html |access-date=10 January 2019 |magazine=Stern |language=de}}
Antoni Heda, 91, Polish Brigadier General, freedom fighter during World War II.{{cite news |url=http://miasta.gazeta.pl/kielce/1,35255,4931817.html |title=Zmarł legendarny dowódca partyzantów AK |last=Kędracki |first=Janusz |date=15 February 2008 |newspaper=Gazeta Wyborcza |language=pl |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Marcel Hendrickx, 82, Belgian cyclist.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=10990 |title=Marcel Hendrickx |website=Cycling Archives |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Derek Frank Lawden, 88, British-born New Zealand mathematician.{{cite web |url=http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/publications/reports/yearbooks/year2008/obituaries/derek-lawden/ |title=2008 Obituaries: Derek Frank Lawden |website=Royal Society of New Zealand |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212003552/http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/publications/reports/yearbooks/year2008/obituaries/derek-lawden/ |archive-date=12 February 2013}}
Amnon Netzer, 73, Iranian Jewish historian.{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=18956 |title=Dr. Amnon Netzer, World-Renowned Iranian Jewish Scholar, Dies at 73 |last=Melamed |first=Karmel |date=21 February 2008 |website=The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Peter B. Neubauer, 94, American child psychiatrist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/nyregion/03neubauer.html |title=Peter B. Neubauer, 94, Noted Child Psychiatrist, Is Dead |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=3 March 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Marijan Oblak, 88, Croatian Archbishop of Zadar.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/boblak.html |title=Archbishop Marijan Oblak |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Naziha Salim, 81, Iraqi painter, complications from a stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/17/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Obit-Salim.php |title=Prominent Iraqi painter Naziha Salim dies in Baghdad at 81 |date=17 February 2008 |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |access-date=19 February 2008 }}{{dead link|date=October 2022|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Walter Warwick Sawyer, 96, English mathematician.[https://plus.maths.org/content/os/latestnews/may-aug08/sawyer/index W. W. Sawyer passes away]
Mikhail Solomentsev, 94, Russian Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the SFSR (1971–1983).{{cite news |url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/24050/103122/ |title=Умер самый опытный российский премьер |trans-title=The most experienced Russian prime minister has died |date=15 February 2008 |newspaper=Komsomolskaya Pravda |language=ru |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Inge Thun, 62, Norwegian footballer (Strømsgodset), stroke.{{cite news |url=http://dt.no/godset/600-fulgte-inge-thun-1.3393515 |title=600 fulgte Inge Thun |last=Shetelig |first=Tore |date=27 February 2008 |newspaper=Drammens Tidende |language=no |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Johnny Weaver, 72, American professional wrestler, natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=22077 |title=Carolinas legend passes away |date=15 February 2008 |website=Wrestling Observer |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420172605/http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=22077 |archive-date=20 April 2008}}

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Kenneth Radway Allen, 97, New Zealand fisheries biologist.{{cite web | url=http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/publications/reports/yearbooks/year2008/obituaries/radway-allen/ | title=Our reports }}
Shelley Beattie, 40, American bodybuilder (American Gladiators), suicide by hanging.{{cite news |url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/lifestories/2008/04/life_story_shelley_beattie.html |title=Life Story: Shelley Beattie |last=Casey |first=Jerry |date=19 April 2008 |newspaper=The Oregonian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Hugh Bullard, 65, Bahamian Olympic sprinter.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/hugh-bullard-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417172401/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/hugh-bullard-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Hugh Bullard |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Harry Flemming, 74, Canadian journalist, complications from cancer and pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://www.amherstdaily.com/index.cfm?sid=108936&sc=58 |title=Veteran Halifax political commentator Harry Flemming dies at the age of 74 |date=15 February 2008 |newspaper=The Amherst Daily News |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815161623/http://www.cumberlandnewsnow.com/Tennis/2008-02-15/article-393140/Veteran-Halifax-political-commentator-Harry-Flemming-dies-at-the-age-of-74/1 |archive-date=15 August 2011}}
Brendan Hughes, 59, Irish member of the Provisional IRA.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7249225.stm |title=Former hunger striker Hughes dies |date=17 February 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Jerry Karl, 66, American racing driver, car accident.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/racing/news/story?id=3253962&seriesId=1 |title=Six-time Indy starter Karl dies after car accident |date=20 February 2008 |website=ESPN |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Boris Khmelnitsky, 67, Russian actor in adventure films.{{cite web |url=http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/5785/ |title=Actor Boris Khmelnitsky Passed Away |date=16 February 2008 |website=Russia InfoCentre |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Hans Leussink, 96, German politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.gn-online.de/index.php?pageId=10&article=108499 |title=Hans Leussink |newspaper=Grafschafter Nachrichten |language=de |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719034220/http://www.gn-online.de/index.php?pageId=10&article=108499 |archive-date=19 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}
Shawn Lonsdale, 38, American videographer and critic of Scientology.{{cite news |url=http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/19/Northpinellas/Scourge_of_Scientolog.shtml |title=Scourge of Scientology dies in apparent suicide |first1=Jonathan |last1=Abel |first2=Robert |last2=Farley |date=19 February 2008 |newspaper=St Petersburg Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305162536/http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/19/Northpinellas/Scourge_of_Scientolog.shtml |archive-date=5 March 2008}}
Bobby Lord, 74, American country musician.{{cite news |url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2008-02-21/news/semlord21_1_bobby-lord-rob-lord-sanford |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112023629/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2008-02-21/news/semlord21_1_bobby-lord-rob-lord-sanford |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 12, 2016 |title=Country singer Bobby Lord dies |last=Wersinger |first=Tammie |date=21 February 2008 |newspaper=Orlando Sentinel |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Vittorio Lucarelli, 79, Italian Olympic fencer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/vittorio-lucarelli-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418013840/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/vittorio-lucarelli-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Vittorio Lucarelli |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Horst-Rüdiger Magnor, 65, German Olympic athlete.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/horst-rudiger-magnor-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418095258/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/horst-rudiger-magnor-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Horst-Rüdiger Magnor |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Per Erik Monsen, 61, Norwegian Member of Parliament (1997–2005), complications from heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.sb.no/article/20080216/NYHETER/809021572 |title=Per Erik Monsen er død |last=Rowe |first=Asle |date=12 January 2010 |newspaper=Sandefjords Blad |language=no |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807215751/http://www.sb.no/nyheter/per-erik-monsen-er-dod-1.996162 |archive-date=7 August 2011}}
James Orange, 65, American civil rights activist.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/16/obit.orange/index.html |title=James Orange, civil rights activist, dies at 65 |date=17 February 2008 |website=CNN |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Fabio Presca, 77, Italian Olympic basketball player.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pr/fabio-presca-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418013030/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pr/fabio-presca-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Fabio Presca |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Charlie Ryan, 92, American musician and songwriter ("Hot Rod Lincoln"), heart disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ryan22feb22,0,4034564.story |title=Charles Ryan, 92; co-wrote pop hit 'Hot Rod Lincoln' |last=Pelle |first=Dan |date=22 February 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226093954/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ryan22feb22,0,4034564.story |archive-date=26 February 2008}}

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Nicola Agnozzi, 96, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.{{cite web |url=http://www2.ofmconv.pcn.net/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42:the-funeral-of-bishop-nicola-agnozzi-pioneer-among-the-conventuals-in-zambia-and-australia&catid=1:news-2008&Itemid=87 |title=The Funeral of Bishop Nicola Agnozzi, Pioneer Among the Conventuals in Zambia and Australia |date=19 February 2008 |website=Friars Minor Conventual |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-date=July 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724003508/http://www2.ofmconv.pcn.net/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42:the-funeral-of-bishop-nicola-agnozzi-pioneer-among-the-conventuals-in-zambia-and-australia&catid=1:news-2008&Itemid=87 |url-status=dead }}
Aysel Gürel, 80, Turkish lyric writer and actress, chronic bronchitis.{{cite news |url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/aysel-gurel-vefat-etti-8251041 |title=Aysel Gürel vefat etti |date=19 February 2008 |newspaper=Hürriyet |language=tr |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Brian Harris, 72, English footballer (Everton, Cardiff City, Newport County).{{cite web |url=http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2008/02/17/brian-harris-dies |title=Brian Harris Dies |first=Darren |last=Griffiths |date=17 February 2008 |website=Everton F.C. |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111055049/http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2008/02/17/brian-harris-dies |archive-date=January 11, 2019 |url-status=dead }}
Bill Juzda, 87, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/2008/02/19/the_beast_known_for_his_tough_brand_of_hockey.html |title='The Beast' known for his tough brand of hockey |last=Mathieu |first=Emily |date=19 February 2008 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Manna, 43, Bangladeshi film actor, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=23792 |title=Film actor Manna passes away |first=Ershad |last=Kamol |date=18 February 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Val Ross, 57, Canadian journalist and children's writer, brain cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080218.OBITROSS18/TPStory/?query=Val+Ross |title=Val Ross, 57: Journalist and Author |last=Martin |first=Sandra |date=18 February 2008 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105155613/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080218.OBITROSS18/TPStory/?query=Val+Ross |archive-date=5 January 2009}}
Benigno G. Tabora, 92, American survivor of Bataan Death March.{{cite news |url=http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_8323998 |title=World War II vet Tabora dies at 92 |first=Marisa |last=Donelan |date=21 February 2008 |newspaper=Sentinel & Enterprise |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Winning Colors, 23, American racehorse, won 1988 Kentucky Derby, euthanized.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/155559/winning-colors-euthanized |title=Winning Colors Euthanized |date=19 February 2008 |magazine=The Blood-Horse |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Grits Gresham, 85, American conservationist, sportsman and actor, complication of infection and pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080219/NEWS01/802190322/1002/NEWS |title=Outdoor legend Grits Gresham dies |last=Timothy |first=Philip |date=19 February 2008 |newspaper=Shreveport Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315205326/http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080219%2FNEWS01%2F802190322%2F1002%2FNEWS |archive-date=March 15, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}
Jim Jones, 57, American rock guitarist (Pere Ubu), heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.cleveland.com/music/index.ssf/2008/02/longtime_cleveland_musician_ji.html |title=Former Pere Ubu guitarist and longtime Cleveland musician Jim Jones found dead |last=Petkovic |first=John |date=21 February 2008 |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Raymond Kennedy, 73, American novelist, complications of a stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/books/23kennedy.html |title=Raymond Kennedy, Novelist, Dies at 73 |date=23 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Sir Richard Knowles, 90, British leader of Birmingham City Council (1984–1993), bladder cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2008/02/18/leader-who-revived-city-dies-aged-90/ |title=Leader who revived city dies aged 90 |date=18 February 2008 |newspaper=Express & Star |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Jack Lyons, 92, British financier and philanthropist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3397921.ece |title=Jack Lyons: Successful businessman, philanthropist and supporter of the arts |date=20 February 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507214734/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3397921.ece |archive-date=7 May 2009}}
Mihaela Mitrache, 52, Romanian actress, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.cronicaromana.ro/s-a-stins-actrita-mihaela-mitrache.html |title=S-a stins actrita Mihaela Mitrache |date=20 February 2008 |website=Cronica Română |language=ro |access-date=13 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719130629/http://www.cronicaromana.ro/s-a-stins-actrita-mihaela-mitrache.html |archive-date=19 July 2011}}
Ralph Brazelton Peck, 95, American civil engineer.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3540542.ece |title=Ralph Peck: Influential American civil engineer |date=13 March 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523133256/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3540542.ece |archive-date=23 May 2010}}
Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, French writer (Last Year at Marienbad), heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/19/culture.obituaries |title=Alain Robbe-Grillet: French master and manifesto-writer |first=Douglas |last=Johnson |date=19 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=23 April 2010}}
Raymond J. Smith, 77, American editor, complications of pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/arts/27smith.html |title=Raymond Smith, Founder and Editor of Literary Journal, Dies at 77 |date=27 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Stanisław Swatowski, 73, Polish Olympic sprinter.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sw/stanislaw-swatowski-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418084603/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sw/stanislaw-swatowski-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Stanisław Swatowski |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Alec N. Wildenstein, 67, French international art dealer, ex-husband of socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1579208/Alec-Wildenstein.html |title=Alec Wildenstein |date=20 February 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Barry Barclay, 63, New Zealand film maker, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10493329 |title=Film maker Barry Barclay dies |date=19 February 2008 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Mary Barclay, 91, British actress.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/7255144.stm |title=Actress Mary Barclay dies at 91 |date=20 February 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Jean-Michel Bertrand, 64, French politician.{{cite news |url=https://www.20minutes.fr/municipales/214157-20080220-deces-jean-michel-bertrand-maire-bourg-en-bresse |title=Décès de Jean-Michel Bertrand, maire de Bourg-en-Bresse |date=20 February 2008 |newspaper=20 minutes |language=fr |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Natalia Bessmertnova, 66, Russian prima ballerina, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1579209/Natalia-Bessmertnova.html |title=Natalia Bessmertnova |date=20 February 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Richard D'Aeth, 95, British scholar.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-richard-daeth-exeter-educationist-821149.html |title=Professor Richard D'Aeth: Exeter educationist |first=Bob |last=Burden |date=5 May 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Eugene Freedman, 82, American figurine creator.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/business/26freedman.html |title=Novelty Maker Eugene Freedman Is Dead at 82 |date=26 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
David Hildyard, 91, English sound engineer (Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Firestarter), Oscar winner (1972, 1973).[https://www.amps.net/media/files/library/journals/59_september2008.pdf AMPS Magazine Issue #59, Page 22]
Bob Howsam, 89, American sports executive (Denver Broncos, Cincinnati Reds), heart condition.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3253250 |title=Howsam, former Reds GM, Broncos founder, dies |date=19 February 2008 |website=ESPN |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Yegor Letov, 43, Russian punk rock singer, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/apr/23/obituaries.russia |title=Yegor Letov: Anti-establishment rock musician |last=Yoffe |first=Mark |date=23 April 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Teo Macero, 82, American record producer and saxophonist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3416524.ece |title=Teo Macero: Composer and producer |date=22 February 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829190509/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3416524.ece |archive-date=29 August 2008}}
Emily Perry, 100, British actress.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3409355.ece |title=Emily Perry: Actress who became celebrated late in life |date=21 February 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013085817/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3409355.ece |archive-date=13 October 2008}}
Peter Pianto, 78, Australian footballer.{{cite news |url=http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/02/19/11497_news.html |title=Cat great Peter Pianto dies |last=Breen |first=Daniel |date=19 February 2008 |newspaper=Geelong Advertiser |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311061707/http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/02/19/11497_news.html |archive-date=11 March 2012}}
Lydia Shum, 62, Hong Kong actress, liver cancer.{{cite web |url=https://in.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-lydiashum-idINSYD26589820080219 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190111055029/https://in.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-lydiashum-idINSYD26589820080219 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 11, 2019 |title=Popular Hong Kong entertainer Lydia Shum dies |last=Pomfret |first=James |date=19 February 2008 |website=Reuters |access-date=10 January 2019}}
David Watkin, 82, British cinematographer (Out of Africa, Chariots of Fire, Moonstruck), Oscar winner (1986), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1579444/David-Watkin.html |title=David Watkin |date=22 February 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Peter S. Albin, 73, American economist.{{cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/peter-albin-73-john-jay-economist/71753/ |title=Peter Albin, 73, John Jay Economist |first=Joseph |last=Goldstein |date=25 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Sun |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, 91, American nurse, cardiovascular disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603678.html |title=M. Elizabeth Carnegie, 91; Advocated for Black Nurses |first=Patricia |last=Sullivan |date=7 March 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Larry Davis, 41, American convicted murderer, stabbed.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/21/internationalcrime |title=Larry Davis killed in New York prison |first=Mike |last=McDonough |date=21 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
D. G. S. Dhinakaran, 73, Indian evangelist.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/325362.aspx |title=Renowned Evangelist Passes Away |first=Donna |last=Russell |date=20 February 2008 |website=CBN.com |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226082503/http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/325362.aspx |archive-date=26 February 2008}}
Helmut Sturm, 75, German painter.{{cite news |url=https://www.mittelbayerische.de/kultur-nachrichten/helmut-sturm-der-spur-mitbegruender-ist-tot-21853-art199839.html |title=Helmut Sturm: Der SPUR-Mitbegründer ist tot |last=Raab |first=Harald |date=20 February 2008 |newspaper=Mittelbayerische Zeitung |language=de |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-date=July 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702210513/https://www.mittelbayerische.de/kultur-nachrichten/helmut-sturm-der-spur-mitbegruender-ist-tot-21853-art199839.html |url-status=dead }}
Bobby Lee Trammell, 74, American rockabilly singer, Arkansas Representative (1997–2002).{{cite web |url=http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7911367 |title=Rockabilly performer, politician Bobby Lee Trammell dies |date=22 February 2008 |website=WMC-TV |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807135436/http://www.wmctv.com/story/7911367/rockabilly-performer-politician-bobby-lee-trammell-dies?redirected=true |archive-date=7 August 2011}}
Paranjape Prakash Vishvanath, 60, Indian Shiv Sena politician, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/shiv-sena-mp-prakash-paranjpe-dead/story-Qz9VXPDQQppf91Kwk75E8O.html |title=Shiv Sena MP Prakash Paranjpe dead |date=21 February 2008 |newspaper=Hindustan Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Madalena Barbosa, 65, Portuguese feminist.{{cite web |url=http://ww1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?article=328018&visual=26&tema=1 |title=Feminista Madalena Barbosa morreu hoje aos 66, depois de uma vida dedicada a defender direitos das mulheres |date=21 February 2008 |website=RTP |language=pt |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130025014/http://ww1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?article=328018&visual=26&tema=1 |archive-date=30 January 2012 |url-status=dead}}
Paul-Louis Carrière, 99, French Roman Catholic prelate.{{cite web |url=http://peredavidjournault.blogspot.com/2008/02/mgr-paul-louis-carrire-1908-2008.html |title=Mgr Paul-Louis Carrière (1908-2008) |first=David |last=Journault |date=27 February 2008 |website=Un Prêtre en Ligne |language=fr |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ben Chapman, 79, American actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/movies/01chapman.html |title=Ben Chapman, 'Black Lagoon' Creature, Dies at 79 |date=1 March 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Joe Gibbs, 65, Jamaican reggae producer, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/5781/26/ |title=Legendary producer died at 65 |date=22 February 2008 |website=Radio Jamaica |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080331032559/http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/5781/26/ |archive-date=31 March 2008}}
Ana González Olea, 92, Chilean actress, septic shock.{{cite news |url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/2008/02/22/sin_clasificacion/_portada/noticias/0031C717-6847-4144-AAB4-9F8B5B743383.htm?id=%7B0031C717-6847-4144-AAB4-9F8B5B743383%7D |title=A los 92 años murió ayer la 'Desideria' |date=22 February 2008 |newspaper=El Mercurio |language=es |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225111508/http://diario.elmercurio.com/2008/02/22/sin_clasificacion/_portada/noticias/0031C717-6847-4144-AAB4-9F8B5B743383.htm?id=%7B0031C717-6847-4144-AAB4-9F8B5B743383%7D |archive-date=25 February 2008}}
Archie Hind, 79, British novelist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3817483.ece |title=Archie Hind: Novelist who captured the grim Glaswegian spirit |date=26 April 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905024613/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3817483.ece |archive-date=5 September 2008}}
Hans Janitschek, 73, Austrian journalist, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/mar/04/themanwhoerectedanelephant |title=The man who erected an elephant: remembering Hans Janitschek |last=Williams |first=Ian |date=4 March 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Geoff Leek, 76, Australian footballer with Essendon.{{cite news |url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/gentle-giant-geoff-leek-dies/news-story/4d42f58f2a81907b857aacb8c2e02bfc?nk=da254f3142823bb01725e030b5ebe06a-1546773497 |title='Gentle giant' Geoff Leek dies |first=Mike |last=Sheahan |date=21 February 2008 |newspaper=Herald Sun |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Sunny Lowry, 97, One of the first English women to swim the English Channel.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7259009.stm |title=Early Channel swimmer dies at 97 |date=22 February 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Evan Mecham, 83, American Governor of Arizona (1987–1988).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/us/23mecham.html |title=Evan Mecham, Ousted Governor, Dies at 83 |date=23 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Robin Moore, 82, American author (The French Connection, The Green Berets).{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/feb/27/culture.obituaries |title=Robin Moore |first=Michael |last=Carlson |date=27 February 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Billy J. Murphy, 87, American football coach (University of Memphis).{{cite web |url=http://www.gotigersgo.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/022108aaa.html |title=Long-time Former Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Billy J. Murphy Passes Away |date=21 February 2008 |website=Memphis Tigers |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201181253/http://www.gotigersgo.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/022108aaa.html |archive-date=1 February 2014}}
Emmanuel Sanon, 56, Haitian footballer, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=699053.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228102841/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=699053.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 28, 2008 |title=Remembering Manno |date=25 February 2008 |website=FIFA |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Walter Eric Spear, 87, German physicist.{{cite web |url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/spear_w.pdf |title=Walter Eric Spear |last=Fitzgerald |first=Alexander G. |website=Royal Society of Edinburgh |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Sufi Abu Taleb, 83, Egyptian politician, acting President (1981), Speaker of the People's Assembly (1978–1983).{{cite web |url=http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN154552.html |title=Former acting president of Egypt dies in Malaysia |date=21 February 2008 |website=Reuters |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303202130/http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN154552.html |archive-date=3 March 2008}}
Sanggyai Yexe, 92, Chinese government official, one of the first ethnic Tibetans to join Mao Zedong's army and the Chinese Communist Party.{{cite web |date=26 February 2008 |title=原中共四川省委书记天宝逝世享年92岁 |trans-title=The former Chinese Communist Party Sichuan Provincial Party Secretary Tianbao died at the age of 92 |url=http://www.sc.xinhuanet.com/content/2008-02/26/content_12539890.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090606154813/http://www.sc.xinhuanet.com/content/2008-02/26/content_12539890.htm |archive-date=6 June 2009 |access-date=10 January 2019 |website=Xinhua News Agency |language=zh}}

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Chuck Adamson, 71, American police officer, cancer.{{Cite web|url=http://www.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/individual_display.jsp?obitID=3645211|title = Las Vegas News | Breaking News & Headlines}}
Richard Baer, 79, American television writer (Bewitched, Hennesey, That Girl), heart attack.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/scene/markets-festivals/writer-richard-baer-dies-at-79-1117981450/ |title=Writer Richard Baer dies at 79 |date=25 February 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Johnnie Carr, 97, American civil rights leader.{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23434620 |title=Civil rights icon remembered for strength |date=2 March 2008 |website=NBC News |access-date=10 January 2019 }}
Eagle Day, 75, American football player, after short illness.{{cite web |url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/obit-eagle-day/ |title=Former CFL player Eagle Day dead at 75 |date=15 September 2009 |website=Sportsnet |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Rubens de Falco, 76, Brazilian telenovela actor (Escrava Isaura), heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/22/america/LA-GEN-Brazil-Obit-De-Falco.php |title=Brazilian telenovela actor Rubens de Falco, star of 'The Slave Isaura', dies at 76 |date=22 February 2008 |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924012359/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/22/america/LA-GEN-Brazil-Obit-De-Falco.php |archive-date=24 September 2008}}
Nunzio Gallo, 79, Italian singer, represented Italy in the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, brain haemorrhage.{{cite web |url=http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/10647 |title=Italy: Nunzio Gallo died at the age of 80 |first=Stella |last=Floras |date=24 February 2008 |website=ESC Today.com |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302220940/http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/10647 |archive-date=2 March 2008}}
Maurice Laing, 90, English builder.{{Cite web |date=2008-02-26 |title=Sir Maurice Laing: Firebrand head of the Laing construction company |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-maurice-laing-firebrand-head-of-the-laing-construction-company-who-became-the-first-president-of-the-cbi-787303.html |access-date=2022-05-15 |website=The Independent |language=en}}
Dennis Letts, 73, American actor (August: Osage County, Cast Away, Fire Down Below), lung cancer.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/dennis-letts-actor-who-appeared-in-sons-august-osage-county-dead-at-73-com-147878 |title=Dennis Letts, Actor Who Appeared in Son's August: Osage County, Dead at 73 |first=Kenneth |last=Jones |date=24 February 2008 |magazine=Playbill |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Oswaldo Louzada, 95, Brazilian actor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.{{cite news |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/2008/02/374876-ator-oswaldo-louzada-morre-aos-95-anos-no-rio.shtml |title=Ator Oswaldo Louzada morre aos 95 anos no Rio |date=22 February 2008 |newspaper=Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Stephen Marlowe, 79, American novelist (The Second Longest Night).{{cite web |url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gAw5HeW3MXfPOOWRyOPOPeWsTg9gD8UVL9KG0 |title=Writer Stephen Marlowe Dies |website=Associated Press |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226171519/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gAw5HeW3MXfPOOWRyOPOPeWsTg9gD8UVL9KG0 |archive-date=26 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Andreas Rüedi, 76, Swiss Olympic skier.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ru/andreas-ruedi-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418052550/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ru/andreas-ruedi-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Andreas Rüedi |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Steve Whitaker, 53, British comic book colorist (V for Vendetta).{{cite web |url=http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/steve_whitaker_1955_2008/ |title=Steve Whitaker, 1955-2008 |date=25 February 2008 |website=The Comics Reporter |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Joaquim Pinto de Andrade, 81, Angolan politician, first honorary MPLA President, PRD chairman, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://ww1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?article=328578&visual=26 |title="Históricos" do MPLA Joaquim Pinto Andrade e Gentil Viana morrem no mesmo dia |date=23 February 2008 |website=RTP Noticias |language=pt |access-date=26 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719220158/http://ww1.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?article=328578&visual=26 |archive-date=19 July 2011}}
Henry Arana, 86, Puerto Rican composer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/henry-arana-mn0002291534/credits|title = Henry Arana | Credits | AllMusic|website = AllMusic}}
Janez Drnovšek, 57, Slovenian Prime Minister (1992–2002) and President (2002–2007), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1579738/Janez-Drnovsek.html |title=Janez Drnovsek |date=25 February 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Josep Palau i Fabre, 90, Spanish author.{{cite news |url=http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Muere/90/anos/escritor/Palau/i/Fabre/experto/obra/Picasso/elpepucul/20080223elpepucul_4/Tes |title=Muere a los 90 años el escritor Palau i Fabre, experto en la obra de Picasso |date=23 February 2008 |newspaper=El País |language=es |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Roger Foulon, 84, Belgian writer.{{cite web |url=http://www.servicedulivre.be/fiches/f/foulon.htm |title=Roger Foulon: Poète, nouvelliste, conteur, romancier... |website=Service du Livre Luxembourgeois |language=fr |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080621044838/http://www.servicedulivre.be/fiches/f/foulon.htm |archive-date=21 June 2008}}
Douglas Fraser, 91, American president of the United Auto Workers, emphysema.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/business/25fraser.html |title=Douglas A. Fraser, 91, Union Chief Who Helped Chrysler, Is Dead |first1=John |last1=Holusha |first2=Micheline |last2=Maynard |date=25 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Paul Frère, 91, Belgian Formula One driver, 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and automobile journalist.{{cite web |url=http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=280678 |title=Memories of Paul Frère |first=Nancy Knapp |last=Schilke |date=28 February 2008 |website=Motorsport.com |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129020318/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=280678 |url-status=dead |archive-date=29 January 2013}}
Denis Lazure, 82, Canadian politician (NDP), cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/former-pq-cabinet-minister-denis-lazure-dies-at-82-1.702775 |title=Former PQ cabinet minister Denis Lazure dies at 82 |date=25 February 2008 |website=CBC News |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Hubert Lilliefors, 79, American statistician, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031002848.html |title=Obituaries: Hubert W. Lilliefors, Statistics Professor |date=11 March 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Gentil Ferreira Viana, 72, Angolan politician.{{cite web |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200802270879.html |title=Angola: Remains of Nationalist Gentil Viana Laid to Rest |date=27 February 2008 |website=AllAfrica |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Phil Bodner, 90, American jazz clarinetist and studio musician.{{Cite web |last=Tamarkin |first=Jeff |title=Saxophonist/Bandleader Phil Bodner Dies at 90 |url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/saxophonistbandleader-phil-bodner-dies-at-90/ |access-date=2022-05-15 |website=JazzTimes |date=April 25, 2019 |language=en-US}}
Peter Curtin, 58, Australian cricketer.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/4809.html |title=Peter Curtin |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Lady Darcy de Knayth, 69, British crossbench member of the House of Lords, disability campaigner.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1581433/Lady-Darcy-de-Knayth.html |title=Lady Darcy de Knayth |date=12 March 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Alan Dargin, 40, Australian didgeridoo player.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alan-dargin-inventor-of-rocknroll-didgeridoo-800236.html |title=Alan Dargin: Inventor of rock'n'roll didgeridoo |first=Jon |last=Lusk |date=25 March 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Floyd Matthews, 105, American oldest living submariner.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080226/NEWS/802260335 |title=State's oldest veteran dies at 105 |last=Eubanks |first=Michelle Rupe |date=26 February 2008 |newspaper=TimesDaily}} {{Dead link |date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}
Larry Norman, 60, American Christian rock singer/songwriter, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/arts/music/04norman.html |title=Larry Norman, Singer of Christian Rock Music, Dies at 60 |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=4 March 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Shirley Ritts, 87, American interior designer, mother of photographer Herb Ritts, emphysema.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-01-me-passings1.s2-story.html |title=Shirley Ritts: Designer, mother of Herb Ritts |date=1 March 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003025904/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/01/local/me-passings1.S2 |archive-date=3 October 2015}}
W. Laird Stabler Jr., 77, American former Attorney General of Delaware, oral cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.delawaregrapevine.com/2-08stabler.asp |title=W. Laird Stabler Jr., 1930-2008 |last=Cohen |first=Celia |date=24 February 2008 |website=Delaware Grapevine |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Pearl Witherington, 93, British World War II Secret Service agent.{{cite web |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jdm6idwWZD0nkJH5LOwL7Jn5hOng |title=British war heroine Pearl Cornioley dies |date=24 February 2008 |website=Agence France-Presse |access-date=1 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521092557/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jdm6idwWZD0nkJH5LOwL7Jn5hOng |archive-date=21 May 2011 |url-status=dead}}
Milford Zornes, 100, American watercolor artist, heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-zornes1mar01,1,3744782.story |title=Milford Zornes 1908 - 2008: Painter captured Southland scenes |first=Mary |last=Rourke |date=1 March 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811020714/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/01/local/me-zornes1 |archive-date=11 August 2011}}

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Ashley Cooper, 27, Australian V8 Supercar driver, injuries from a race crash.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/motorsport/v8-supercar-driver-dies-in-adelaide-hospital/2008/02/25/1203788222509.html |title=V8 Supercar driver dies in hospital |date=26 February 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Genoa Keawe, 89, American performer of Hawaiian music.{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2008/02/25/daily5.html |title=Entertainer Aunty Genoa Keawe dies |date=25 February 2008 |newspaper=Pacific Business News |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Hans Raj Khanna, 95, Indian Supreme Court judge.{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200802252071.htm |title=Justice Khanna passes away at 95 |date=25 February 2008 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026134155/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200802252071.htm |archive-date=26 October 2012}}
Alan Ledesma, 30, Mexican telenovela actor, stomach cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.esmas.com/laoreja/707791.html |title=Deceso: Muere el actor Alan Ledesma |website=Esmas.com |language=es |access-date=28 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228121843/http://www.esmas.com/laoreja/707791.html |archive-date=28 February 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Static Major, 33, American performer, record producer and songwriter, from complications after medical procedure.{{cite web |url=http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/02/26/19345210.aspx |title=Producer Static Major Passes |last=Strong |first=Nolan |date=26 February 2008 |website=AllHipHop |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080301234053/http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/02/26/19345210.aspx |archive-date=1 March 2008}}
Vladimir Troshin, 81, Russian singer and actor.[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0873603/ Vladimir Troshin (1926–2008)]
Roy Wise, 84, American baseball player.{{Cite web |title=Ogden Wise Stats, Fantasy & News |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/ogden-wise-124474 |access-date=2022-08-06 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}

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Julio García Agapito, 44, Peruvian environmentalist, shot.{{Cite web |url=https://amazonia.org.br/noticias/noticia.cfm?id=264580 |access-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-date=6 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706161046/https://amazonia.org.br/noticias/noticia.cfm?id=264580 |url-status=usurped |title= Peruvian Illegal Mahogany Taking Lives }}
Charles Chan, 93, Chinese actor and director.{{cite web |url=http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=655 |title=Jackie Chan's Father Dies Aged 93 |first=Emma |last=Lam |date=26 February 2008 |website=Batgwa.com |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707083957/http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=655 |archive-date=7 July 2009}}
Jimmy Dugdale, 76, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa).{{cite news |url=http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2008/02/26/former-aston-villa-captain-jimmy-dugdale-dies-97319-20524017/ |title=Former Aston Villa captain Jimmy Dugdale dies |first=Mat |last=Kendrick |date=26 February 2008 |newspaper=Birmingham Mail |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-date=March 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302035858/http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2008/02/26/former-aston-villa-captain-jimmy-dugdale-dies-97319-20524017/ |url-status=dead }}
Paddy Fahey, 84, Irish Olympic athlete.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fa/paddy-fahey-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418065446/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fa/paddy-fahey-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Paddy Fahey |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Tyronne Fernando, 66, Sri Lankan politician, Foreign Minister (2001–2004).{{cite news |url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/02/27/news18.asp |title=Tyronne Fernando dead |date=27 February 2008 |newspaper=Daily News |access-date=10 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302000455/http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/02/27/news18.asp |archive-date=2 March 2008}}
Cabral Ferreira, 56, Portuguese President of C.F. Os Belenenses (2005–2008), cancer.{{cite web |url=https://noticias.sapo.pt/lusa/artigo/bc8e044df0cae7b311e343.html |title=Futebol: Belenenses - Morreu Cabral Ferreira |date=26 February 2008 |website=SAPO |language=pt |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227142227/https://noticias.sapo.pt/lusa/artigo/bc8e044df0cae7b311e343.html |archive-date=27 February 2008}}
Dick Fletcher, 65, American meteorologist at WTSP Tampa Bay, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.theledger.com/news/20080227/aint-no-sunshine-when-hes-gone-dick-fletcher-mourned |title=Ain't No Sunshine When He's Gone: Dick Fletcher Mourned |date=27 February 2008 |newspaper=The Ledger |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Robert Kraichnan, 80, American physicist, heart disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/us/08kraichnan.html |title=Robert Kraichnan, Physicist Who Studied Turbulence, Is Dead at 80 |first=Jeremy |last=Pearce |date=8 March 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Buddy Miles, 60, American drummer (Band of Gypsys, Electric Flag), lead vocalist (California Raisins), heart failure.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/music/news/drummer-buddy-miles-dies-at-60-1117981528/ |title=Drummer Buddy Miles dies at 60 |first=Phil |last=Gallo |date=27 February 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Dan Shomron, 70, Israeli general, Chief of the Defense Forces (1987–1991), stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3440122.ece |title=General Dan Shomron: Soldier who planned the daring rescue of Israeli hostages at Entebbe |date=27 February 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523125028/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3440122.ece |archive-date=23 May 2010}}
Bodil Udsen, 83, Danish actress, after short illness.{{cite web |url=http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/Danish_theatrical_doyenne_Bodil_Udsen_dead_at_83_P86360/ |title=Danish theatrical doyenne Bodil Udsen dead at 83 |date=1 March 2008 |website=The Big Cartoon Forum |access-date=14 March 2008 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130117181956/http://forum.bcdb.com/forum/Danish_theatrical_doyenne_Bodil_Udsen_dead_at_83_P86360/ |archive-date=17 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}
Zbigniew Woźnicki, 49, Polish Olympic cyclist.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wo/zbigniew-woznicki-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418102344/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wo/zbigniew-woznicki-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Zbigniew Woźnicki |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}
John Yates, 82, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Gloucester (1975–1992).{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3699674.ece |title=The Right Rev John Yates: Bishop who served Gloucester for 16 years |date=7 April 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516103202/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3699674.ece |archive-date=16 May 2008}}

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Shihab al-Tamimi, 74, Iraqi head of the Journalists Syndicate, heart attack following a gunshot wound.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7267160.stm |title=Iraq journalists' union head dies |date=27 February 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Mira Alečković, 84, Serbian and Yugoslav poet.[http://draganlekovic.me/2018/02/mira-aleckovic-biografija/ Mira Alečković. Biografiya] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190928081814/http://draganlekovic.me/2018/02/mira-aleckovic-biografija/ |date=September 28, 2019 }}
Anna Andreeva, 90, Russian textile designer.{{cite web | url=https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/12144/soviet-textile-artist-anna-andreeva-freedom-state-censors-fabric | title=How Soviet artist Anna Andreeva found freedom from state censors in fabric }}
Anthony Blond, 79, British book publisher.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/anthony-blond-bold-and-imaginative-publisher-with-an-infectious-love-of-life-790500.html |title=Anthony Blond: Bold and imaginative publisher with an infectious love |first=Isabel |last=Colegate |date=3 March 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=10 January 2019}}
William F. Buckley, Jr., 82, American author, conservative political commentator, founder of National Review magazine, emphysema.{{cite magazine |url=http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTVlMTE4MDk3NTAyNjAwMzM4NWM5NTI2ZDg4ODVlMTM= |title=William F. Buckley, Jr., R.I.P. |date=27 February 2008 |magazine=National Review |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302020602/http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTVlMTE4MDk3NTAyNjAwMzM4NWM5NTI2ZDg4ODVlMTM= |archive-date=2 March 2008}}
Boyd Coddington, 63, American owner of hot rod shop, star of American Hot Rod on TLC.{{cite web |url=http://jalopnik.com/361391/boyd-coddington-hot-rod-king-dead-at-age-63 |title=Boyd Coddington, Hot Rod King, Dead At Age 63 |first=Matt |last=Hardigree |date=27 February 2008 |website=Jalopnik.com |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Octavio Cortázar, 73, Cuban film director and screenwriter, heart attack.[https://www.cubaencuentro.com/cultura/noticias/fallece-el-cineasta-octavio-cortazar-71272 Fallece el cineasta Octavio Cortázar] (in Spanish)
Myron Cope, 79, American radio broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers, inventor of the "Terrible Towel".{{cite web |url=http://kdka.com/steelers/Myron.Cope.dies.2.663862.html |title=Myron Cope Was A 'Pittsburgh Original' |date=27 February 2008 |website=KDKA-TV |access-date=29 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302030114/http://kdka.com/steelers/Myron.Cope.dies.2.663862.html |archive-date=2 March 2008 |url-status=dead}}
David Edwards, 20, American football player paralyzed during a game in 2003, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.ksat.com/sports/15428446/detail.html |title=Ex-Madison Football Player David Edwards Dies |date=27 February 2008 |website=KSAT 12 News |access-date=11 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611043228/http://www.ksat.com/sports/15428446/detail.html |archive-date=11 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}
W. C. Heinz, 93, American sportswriter.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/sports/28heinz.html |title=W. C. Heinz, 93, Writing Craftsman, Dies |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=28 February 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ernst Hiller, 79, German motorcycle racer.{{cite web |url=http://www.nieuwsmotor.nl/motornieuws/1592-ernst-hiller-overleden.html |title=Ernst Hiller overleden |website=Nieuwsmotor.nl |language=nl |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Raymond Kāne, 82, American slack key guitarist.{{cite news |url=http://starbulletin.com/breaking/breaking.php?id=6779 |title=Slack key master Raymond Kane dies |first=John |last=Berger |date=28 February 2008 |newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080301121533/http://starbulletin.com/breaking/breaking.php?id=6779 |archive-date=1 March 2008}}
Mandi Lampi, 19, Finnish child actress and singer.{{cite news |url=http://www.iltasanomat.fi/viihde/uutinen.asp?id=1494540 |title=Lahjakas lapsitähti Mandi Lampi kuoli äkillisesti |date=29 February 2008 |newspaper=Ilta-Sanomat |language=fi |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524142214/http://www.iltasanomat.fi/viihde/Lahjakas%20lapsit%C3%A4hti%20Mandi%20Lampi%20kuoli%20%C3%A4killisesti/art-1288339695287.html |archive-date=24 May 2011}}
Ivan Rebroff, 76, German singer.{{cite web |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5idqBSbFSamREpUxaUAIFrduqEw3g |title=Singer Ivan Rebroff dead at 76 |date=28 February 2008 |website=Agence France-Presse |access-date=14 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402234744/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5idqBSbFSamREpUxaUAIFrduqEw3g |archive-date=2 April 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Barbara Seaman, 72, American writer, journalist and activist, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/nyregion/01seaman.html |title=Barbara Seaman, 72, Dies; Cited Risks of the Pill |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=1 March 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Sujatha, 72, Indian author, inventor of the electronic voting machine, multiple organ failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/2008/feb/28sujatha.htm |title=Tamil writer Sujatha is dead |date=28 February 2008 |website=Rediff.com |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Aharon Amir, 85, Israeli author and translator, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Israel-Prize-laureate-Aharon-Amir-dies |title=Israel Prize Laureate Aharon Amir Dies |date=29 February 2008 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=10 January 2019}}
John Bliss, 77, American actor (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Intolerable Cruelty, Andy Richter Controls the Universe), aortic aneurysm.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/actor-john-bliss-dies-at-77-1117982031/ |title=Actor John Bliss dies at 77 |date=7 March 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Gérard Calvet, 80, French abbot and founder of the Abbey of Le Barroux, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080303/CULTURE/76043972/1015 |title=Calvet, 80, mourned in France |date=3 March 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Milt Harradence, 86, Canadian lawyer, judge and former leader of PCAA, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a1ec8a76-8153-481e-a048-db447f55adb1&k=49090 |title=Legal eagle Harradence dies at 86 |date=2 March 2008 |newspaper=Calgary Herald |via=Canada.com |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104024156/http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a1ec8a76-8153-481e-a048-db447f55adb1&k=49090 |archive-date=4 November 2012}}
Joseph M. Juran, 103, American engineer and philanthropist, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/business/03juran.html |title=Joseph Juran, 103, Pioneer in Quality Control, Dies |last=Bunkley |first=Nick |date=3 March 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Miss Alleged, 20, French Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.{{cite news |title=BC Winner Miss Alleged Dead |url=http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/43902/bc-winner-miss-alleged-dead |access-date=22 November 2023 |work=Blood Horse |date=4 March 2008}}
Val Plumwood, 67, Australian ecologist and feminist, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/environment/val-plumwood-died-of-natural-causes-friend-20080306-gds455.html |title=Val Plumwood died of natural causes: friend |date=6 March 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Julian Rathbone, 73, British novelist.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/mar/04/culture.obituaries |title=Julian Rathbone: Witty and imaginative novelist |first=Nick |last=Coleman |date=4 March 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Mike Smith, 64, British rock and roll singer and keyboardist (The Dave Clark Five), pneumonia.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/02/28/breaking-dave-clark-five-singer-mike-smith-dies-on-eve-of-rock-hall-induction/ |title=Dave Clark Five Singer Mike Smith Dies, Days Before Induction into Rock Hall |date=28 February 2008 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=10 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302011705/https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/02/28/breaking-dave-clark-five-singer-mike-smith-dies-on-eve-of-rock-hall-induction/ |archive-date=2 March 2008}}
André Verhalle, 84, Belgian Olympic fencer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ve/andre-verhalle-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417202154/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ve/andre-verhalle-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=André Verhalle |website=Sports Reference |access-date=10 January 2019}}

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Maria Adelaide Aboim Inglez, 75, Portuguese communist activist.{{cite web | url=https://www.jornaltornado.pt/maria-adelaide-aboim-inglez-de-1932-a-2008/ | title=Maria Adelaide Aboim Inglez | date=December 16, 2018 }}
Bill Carlson, 73, American news anchor (WCCO, Twin Cities), prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.startribune.com/local/16137102.html |title=Longtime 'CCO anchor Bill Carlson dies at 73 |last=Collins |first=Terry |date= 1 March 2008 |newspaper=Star Tribune |access-date=2 March 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303063247/http://www.startribune.com/local/16137102.html |archive-date=3 March 2008}}
Buddy Dial, 71, American football player.{{cite news |url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/fb/fbc/5584979.html |title=Former Rice, NFL player Dial dies at 71 |first=David |last=Barron |date=2 March 2008 |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Vitaly Fedorchuk, 89, Russian head of the KGB.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/world/europe/09fedorchuk.html |title=Vitaly Fedorchuk, 89, of K.G.B., Dies |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=9 March 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Jerry Groom, 78, American football player.{{cite web |url=https://und.com/news/2008/3/4/Former_Irish_Football_All_America_Jerry_Groom_Dies.aspx |title=Former Irish Football All-America Jerry Groom Dies |date=4 March 2008 |website=University of Notre Dame |access-date=10 January 2019}}
Ralph Hansch, 83, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/edmontonjournal/obituary.aspx?n=ralph-hansch&pid=104791702 |title=Ralph Hansch |date=2 March 2008 |newspaper=Edmonton Journal |via=Legacy.com |access-date=10 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213001902/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/edmontonjournal/obituary.aspx?n=ralph-hansch&pid=104791702 |archive-date=February 13, 2017 |url-status=dead }}
Janet Kagan, 62, American writer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.sfwa.org/news/2008/jkagan.htm |title=Janet Kagan (1946-2008) |last=Dozois |first=Gardner |date=1 March 2008 |website=Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America |access-date=4 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306005606/http://www.sfwa.org/news/2008/jkagan.htm |archive-date=6 March 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Mar Paulos Faraj Rahho, 65, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic archbishop, kidnapped on this date and subsequently found dead.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7295672.stm |title=Iraqi archbishop death condemned |date=13 March 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=10 January 2019}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2008-02-01,2008-02-29&adult=include List of February 2008 deaths] at IMDb

*2008-02