Deaths in September 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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.

September 2008

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Thomas J. Bata, 93, Czech-born Canadian businessman (Bata Shoes).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/business/worldbusiness/03bata.html |title=Thomas Bata, 'Shoemaker to the World,' Dies at 93 |last=Austen |first=Ian |date=2 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017082133/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/business/worldbusiness/03bata.html |archive-date=October 17, 2018 |df=mdy-all }}
Inge Bausenwein, 87, German Olympic athlete.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/inge-bausenwein-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417224346/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/inge-bausenwein-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Inge Bausenwein |website=Sports Reference |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Calvin Beale, 85, American demographer, colon cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/03beale.html |title=Calvin L. Beale, Demographer With a Feel for Rural America, Dies at 85 |first=Felicity |last=Barringer |date=2 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Ian Edward Fraser, 87, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.{{cite news |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/09/02/merseyside-war-hero-ian-fraser-dies-100252-21658649/#Obituary |title=Merseyside war hero Ian Fraser dies |date=2 September 2008 |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Helen Galland, 83, American retail executive, president of Bonwit Teller (1980–1983), heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/business/09galland.html |title=Helen Galland Dies at 83; Gave Bonwit Teller Back Its Gleam |first=Bruce |last=Weber |date=9 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Kevin Heinze, 80, Australian pioneer gardening television presenter, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24281300-12377,00.html |title=TV gardener Kevin Heinze dies |date=2 September 2008 |newspaper=The Australian |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916125715/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24281300-12377,00.html |archive-date=16 September 2008}}
Mel Ignatow, 70, American murderer, fall.{{cite web |url=http://www.wdrb.com/story/8932531/confessed-killer-mel-ignatow-dies |title=Confessed killer Mel Ignatow dies |date=1 September 2008 |website=WDRB |access-date=17 October 2018 |archive-date=October 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017123618/http://www.wdrb.com/story/8932531/confessed-killer-mel-ignatow-dies |url-status=dead }}
Carl Kaufmann, 72, German Olympic silver medallist (1960).{{cite web |url=http://www.iaaf.org/aboutiaaf/news/newsid=47793.html |title=1960 Olympic 400m silver medallist Kaufmann passes away |date=2 September 2008 |website=IAAF.org |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021055610/http://www.iaaf.org/aboutiaaf/news/newsid=47793.html |archive-date=21 October 2012}}
Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/arts/television/04keller.html |title=Sheldon Keller, TV Comedy Writer, Dies at 85 |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=4 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist, complications from pneumothorax.{{cite web |url=http://www.koin.com/entertainment/entertainmenttonight/story.aspx?content_id=7652482c-fc83-4276-bbfc-9c2ae1e970b5 |title=Don LaFontaine Dies at 68 |date=1 September 2008 |website=KOIN |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908080442/http://www.koin.com/entertainment/entertainmenttonight/story.aspx?content_id=7652482c-fc83-4276-bbfc-9c2ae1e970b5 |archive-date=8 September 2008}}
Henry Wako Muloki, 87, Ugandan Kyabazinga of Busoga since 1995, esophageal cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/REST_IN_PEACE_Kyabazinga_Wako_Muloki_dies_at_87_70883.shtml |title=Rest In Peace: Kyabazinga Wako Muloki dies at 87 |last1=Muyita |first1=Solomon |last2=Bareebe |first2=Gerald |date=2 September 2008 |newspaper=Daily Monitor |access-date=26 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213090559/http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/news/REST_IN_PEACE_Kyabazinga_Wako_Muloki_dies_at_87_70883.shtml |archive-date=13 February 2009}}
Michael Pate, 88, Australian actor (Matlock Police, Hondo, The Court Jester) and writer, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,24280271-10388,00.html |title=Veteran Australian actor Michael Pate dies |date=2 September 2008 |website=News.com.au |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912125410/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0%2C26278%2C24280271-10388%2C00.html |archive-date=12 September 2008}}
Jerry Reed, 71, American musician ("When You're Hot, You're Hot", "East Bound and Down") and actor (Smokey and the Bandit), complications from emphysema.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/arts/music/03reed.html |title=Jerry Reed, Country Singer and Actor, Dies at 71 |first=Bill |last=Friskics-Warren |date=2 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Oded Schramm, 46, Israeli mathematician, fall.{{cite news |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/377577_hiker04.html |title=Rescuers recover hiker's body near Cascades' Guye Peak |first=Scott |last=Gutierrez |date=3 September 2008 |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919210127/http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Rescuers-recover-hiker-s-body-near-Cascades-Guye-1284071.php |archive-date=19 September 2012}}
Gerry White, 64, British businessman, prostate cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/wirral-news/local-wirral-news/2008/09/10/tributes-to-self-made-millionaire-gerry-white-80491-21711913/ |title=Tributes to self-made millionaire Gerry White |first=Carrie |last=Catterall |date=10 September 2008 |website=Wirral News.co.uk |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723032441/http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/wirral-news/local-wirral-news/2008/09/10/tributes-to-self-made-millionaire-gerry-white-80491-21711913/ |archive-date=23 July 2011}}

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Andreas Zeier Cappelen, 93, Norwegian politician and minister.{{cite news |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article2633879.ece |title=Andreas Cappelen er død |date=3 September 2008 |newspaper=Aftenposten |language=no |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916180153/http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article2633879.ece |archive-date=16 September 2008}}
Todd Cruz, 52, American Major League Baseball player.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-09-04-3727589369_x.htm |title=Former infielder Todd Cruz dead at 52 |date=4 September 2008 |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2677532/Arne-Domnerus.html |title=Arne Domnérus |date=3 September 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Joey Giardello, 78, American boxer, middleweight boxing champion (1963–1965), heart failure.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/former-middleweight-champion-giardello-dies-1.701521 |title=Former middleweight champion Giardello dies |date=5 September 2008 |website=CBC Sports |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924022139/http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2008/09/05/giardello-obit.html |archive-date=24 September 2008}}

*Abdullah al-Harari, 98, Ethiopian-born Lebanese scholar, founder of the Al-Ahbash movement, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Founder-of-Lebanon-fundamentalist-Sunni-group-dies-at-98 |title=Founder of Lebanon fundamentalist Sunni group dies at 98 |date=2 September 2008 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}

Bill Melendez, 91, Mexican-born American animator (Peanuts).{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/09/04/ST2008090401641.html |title=Bill Melendez, 91; Award-Winning 'Peanuts' Animator |first=Matt |last=Schudel |date=4 September 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Dame Alison Munro, 94, British civil servant and headmistress.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2677455/Dame-Alison-Munro.html |title=Dame Alison Munro |date=3 September 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Julia Pirie, 90, British MI5 spy.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3275532/Julia-Pirie.html |title=Julia Pirie |date=28 October 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Sir Denis Rooke, 84, British industrialist.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2690308/Sir-Denis-Rooke-OM.html |title=Sir Denis Rooke, OM |date=5 September 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Charles-Robert Ageron, 84, French historian.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediapart.fr/club/blog/benjamin-stora/030908/le-deces-d-un-grand-historien-charles-robert-ageron-0|title = Le décès d'un grand historien, Charles Robert Ageron}}
Abdulla Alishayev, Russian Dagestani journalist, shot.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/world/europe/04journalists.html |title=2 More Journalists Are Attacked in Caucasus |first=Ellen |last=Barry |date=3 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Lalla Bahia, Moroccan royalty, third wife of Mohammed V.{{cite web |url=http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/general/spouse_of_late_king/view |title=Spouse of late king Mohammed V dies |date=3 September 2008 |website=Maghreb Arabe Press |access-date=28 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915023648/http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/general/spouse_of_late_king/view |archive-date=15 September 2008}}
Donald Blakeslee, 89, American Air Force officer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/12/AR2008101202095.html |title=Donald Blakeslee; World War II Combat Fighter Commander |first=Joe |last=Holley |date=13 October 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Paul DiLascia, 49, American software developer.{{cite web |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/matt_pietrek/archive/2008/10/06/on-the-passing-of-paul-dilascia.aspx |title=On the passing of Paul DiLascia |first=Matt |last=Pietrek |author-link=Matt Pietrek |date=6 October 2008 |website=MSDN |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Françoise Demulder, 61, French war photographer, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/world/europe/12iht-letter.1.16095188.html |title=A pioneering photographer who chronicled and survived war reaches final rest |last=Cowell |first=Alan |date=12 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Mark Guardado, 46, American mobster, President of Hells Angels San Francisco chapter, shot.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/05/BA1B193IR8.DTL |title=Federal charges filed in S.F. biker killing |first=Henry K. |last=Lee |date=5 August 2009 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Michael Hammer, 60, American management theorist, cranial bleeding.{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/obit-hammer-0904.html |title=Former professor, MIT alumnus Hammer dies at 60 |date=4 September 2008 |website=MIT News |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Earl Lunsford, 74, American Canadian Football League player (Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), Hall of Famer.{{cite web |url=https://www.cfl.ca/2008/09/04/earl-lunsford-passes-away-at-74/ |title=Earl Lunsford passes away at 74 |date=4 September 2008 |website=Canadian Football League |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Ron Rivera, 60, American public health innovator, malaria.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/health/14rivera.html |title=Ron Rivera, Potter Devoted to Clean Water, Dies at 60 |first=William |last=Grimes |date=14 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Joan Segarra, 80, Spanish football player (FC Barcelona and manager.[https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/card/648255/joan-segarra Joan Segarra]
May Shin, 91, Burmese actress and singer, pulmonary edema.{{cite web |url=http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/992-actress-and-singer-of-yesteryear-daw-may-shin-dead.html |title=Actress and singer of yesteryear Daw May Shin dead |author=Phanida |date=4 September 2008 |website=Mizzima News |access-date=3 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201111239/http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/992-actress-and-singer-of-yesteryear-daw-may-shin-dead.html |archive-date=1 December 2008}}
Pierre Van Dormael, 56, Belgian guitarist, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.deredactie.be/cm/de.redactie.english/flanders_today/080904_pierreVanDormael |title=Adieu to jazz guitarist Pierre Van Dormael |date=4 September 2008 |website=DeRedactie.be |access-date=3 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920140342/http://www.deredactie.be/cm/de.redactie.english/flanders_today/080904_pierreVanDormael |archive-date=20 September 2008}}
René Vingerhoet, 96, Belgian Olympic rower.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/vi/rene-vingerhoet-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418002628/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/vi/rene-vingerhoet-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=René Vingerhoet |website=Sports Reference |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Géo Voumard, 87, Swiss composer and producer, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival.{{cite web |url=http://esctoday.com/news/read/12250 |title=Composer of 1st Eurovision winner Switzerland: Geo Voumard dies at the age of 87 |first=Stella |last=Floras |date=5 September 2008 |website=ESCToday.com |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924192726/http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/12250 |archive-date=24 September 2008}}
Jerry Zawadzkas, 62, American football player.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abqjournal.com/obits/profiles/11958565526obitsprofiles09-11-08.htm|title=ABQJOURNAL OBITS/PROFILES: Jerry Zawadzkas Was NFL Player, Musician and Scientist|website=www.abqjournal.com}}

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Fernest Arceneaux, 68, American Creole Zydeco accordionist and singer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/fernest-arceneaux-mn0000171443/biography|title=Fernest Arceneaux Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}
Mary Dunn, 66, American Iyengar Yoga instructor, peritoneal cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/nyregion/10dunn.html |title=Mary Dunn, Yoga Instructor, Is Dead at 66 |first=Roslyn |last=Sulcas |date=9 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Colin Egar, 81, Australian test cricket umpire.{{cite news |url=http://news.theage.com.au/sport/tied-test-umpire-col-egar-dies-aged-80-20080905-4ajx.html |title=Tied Test umpire Col Egar dies aged 80 |date=5 September 2008 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922215141/http://news.theage.com.au/sport/tied-test-umpire-col-egar-dies-aged-80-20080905-4ajx.html |archive-date=22 September 2008}}
Dick Enderle, 60, American football player.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/10962590/rss |title=Former NFL, Gophers lineman Enderle, 60, found dead |date=5 September 2008 |website=CBS Sports |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203013132/http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/10962590/rss |archive-date=3 February 2013}}
Fon Huffman, 95, American World War II veteran, last survivor of the Panay incident.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-sep-08-me-passings8.s1-story.html |title=Survivor of 1937 attack on gunboat |date=8 September 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Abdul Samad Ismail, 84, Malaysian journalist, lung infection and kidney failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/9/5/nation/22246821&sec=nation |title=Pak Samad dies at 84 |date=5 September 2008 |newspaper=The Star |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906122314/http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F9%2F5%2Fnation%2F22246821&sec=nation |archive-date=September 6, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}
Alain Jacquet, 69, French pop artist, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/sep/16/art1 |title=Alain Jacquet: French artist of the new realism school |last=McNay |first=Michael |date=16 September 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Jenny, 55, American western lowland gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity (Dallas Zoo), euthanized.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-sep-07-adna-gorilla7-story.html |title=Oldest captive gorilla dies in Dallas at 55 |last=Ball |first=Linda Stewart |date=7 September 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Tommy Johnston, 81, British footballer, top scorer for Leyton Orient.{{cite web |url=http://www.leytonorient.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10439~1384275,00.html |title=Tommy Johnston |date=4 September 2008 |website=Leyton Orient F.C. |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914202544/http://www.leytonorient.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C10439~1384275%2C00.html |archive-date=14 September 2008}}
Francesca Lancellotti, 91, Italian farmer declared venerable.{{Cite web |title=Francesca Lancellotti |url=https://www.causesanti.va/it/venerabili/francesca-lancellotti.html |access-date=2024-10-27 |website=Dicastery for the Causes of Saints |language=it}}
Erik Nielsen, 84, Canadian deputy prime minister (1984–1986), brother of Leslie Nielsen, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080905.wobitnielsen0905/BNStory/National/home |title=Erik Nielsen dies in B.C. at 84 |date=5 September 2008 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927101322/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080905.wobitnielsen0905/BNStory/National/home |archive-date=27 September 2008}}
Eduard Paukson, 72, Estonian astrologer.{{cite web |url=http://uudised.err.ee/index.php?06135014 |title=Suri astroloog Eduard Paukson |first=Sven |last=Randlaid |date=5 September 2008 |website=ERR Uudised |language=et |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907141605/http://uudised.err.ee/index.php?06135014 |archive-date=7 September 2008}}
Waldick Soriano, 75, Brazilian composer and singer, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.estadao.com.br/arteelazer/not_art236100,0.htm |title=Morre Waldick Soriano aos 75 anos no Rio |date=4 September 2008 |newspaper=O Estado de S. Paulo |language=pt |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080910100705/http://www.estadao.com.br/arteelazer/not_art236100%2C0.htm |archive-date=10 September 2008}}
Fernando Torres, 80, Brazilian actor, voice-over artist, director and producer, husband of Fernanda Montenegro, emphysema.{{cite news |url=http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=54183 |title=Brazilian actor Fernando Torres dies aged 80 |date=5 September 2008 |newspaper=The News International |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913094846/http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=54183 |archive-date=13 September 2008 }}
Alina Vedmid, 68, Ukrainian politician.{{cite news|last=Leschenko|first=Alexander|title=На сельской дороге в киевской области автомобиль насмерть сбил народного депутата украины алину ведмидь|trans-title=On a rural road in the Kyiv region, a car knocked down the People's Deputy of Ukraine Alina Vedmid to death|url=https://fakty.ua/ru/30861-na-selskoj-doroge-v-kievskoj-oblasti-avtomobil-nasmert-sbil-narodnogo-deputata-ukrainy-alinu-vedmid|work=Fakty i Kommentarii|language=ru|date=6 September 2008|access-date=1 November 2022}}
Jerome Weber, 92, Canadian abbot of St. Peter-Muenster of Saskatchewan.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestarphoenix/obituary.aspx?n=jerome-weber&pid=117010055 |title=Obituary: Fr. Jerome Weber OSB |date=6 September 2008 |newspaper=The StarPhoenix |via=Legacy.com |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Kay Amert, 60, French scholar, cancer.{{Cite web|url=https://clas.uiowa.edu/faculty/kay-amert-1947-2008|title = Kay Amert (1947–2008) | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | the University of Iowa|date = September 14, 2011}}
Raymond Bernabei, 83, American soccer player, complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.{{cite news |url=http://thedailystar.com/localsports/x112903227/Soccer-Hall-of-Famer-dies |title=Soccer Hall of Famer dies |date=9 September 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130203222128/http://thedailystar.com/localsports/x112903227/Soccer-Hall-of-Famer-dies |archive-date=3 February 2013}}
Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090503919.html |title=Robert Giroux; Publishing Maverick Discovered and Edited Great Writers |last=Schudel |first=Matt |date=6 September 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Miroslav Havel, 86, Czech-born Irish chief designer (Waterford Crystal).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3075166/Miroslav-Havel.html |title=Miroslav Havel |date=24 September 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Thubten Jigme Norbu, 86, Tibetan lama (Taktser Rinpoche), eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama.{{cite web |url=http://www.savetibet.org/news/newsitem.php?id%3D1358 |title=Taktser Rinpoche, eldest brother of the Dalai Lama, passes away |date=5 September 2008 |website=International Campaign for Tibet |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915030921/http://www.savetibet.org/news/newsitem.php?id=1358 |archive-date=15 September 2008}}
Lucian Pye, 86, American political scientist and sinologist, expert on Chinese politics, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/us/12pye.html |title=Lucian W. Pye, Bold Thinker on Asia, Is Dead at 86 |date=11 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Luis Santibáñez, 72, Chilean football team manager, complications from a kidney condition.{{cite news |url=http://www.emol.com/noticias/deportes/2008/09/05/320634/fallecio-luis-santibanez-tecnico-de-la-roja-en-espana-82.html |title=Falleció Luis Santibáñez, técnico de la "Roja" en España 82 |date=5 September 2008 |newspaper=El Mercurio |language=es |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Mila Schön, 91, Italian fashion designer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2700477/Mila-Schon.html |title=Mila Schön |date=7 September 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala, 78, Egyptian politician, field marshal and defence minister, throat cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/30/egypt |title=Abdel-Halim Abu Ghazala: Egyptian defence minister with strong anti-communist views |last=Joffe |first=Lawrence |date=30 September 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Aril Edvardsen, 69, Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary.{{cite news |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2640804.ece |title=Evangelist dead at 69 |date=8 September 2008 |newspaper=Aftenposten |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080912131838/http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article2640804.ece |archive-date=12 September 2008}}
Antonio Innocenti, 93, Italian cardinal.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/binno.html |title=Cardinal Antonio Innocenti |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Nicole Lai, 34, Singaporean singer, skin cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_282468.html |title=Late singer gets own CD at last |date=25 September 2008 |newspaper=The Straits Times |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028155034/http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_282468.html |archive-date=28 October 2008}}
Allan Lawrence, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Northumberland—Durham (1972–1988).{{cite web |url=http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1190633 |title=Former MP Allan Lawrence dies |website=Northumberland Today |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810002743/http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1190633&archive=true |archive-date=10 August 2011}}
Ray Loring, 65, American professor and composer, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/09/13/ray_loring_gordon_college_professor_composed_tv_scores/ |title=Ray Loring; Gordon College professor composed TV scores |first=J. M. |last=Lawrence |date=13 September 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Sören Nordin, 91, Swedish harness racing trainer.{{cite web |url=http://xwebapp.ustrotting.com/absolutenm/templates/article.aspx?articleid=28818&zoneid=63 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213090219/http://xwebapp.ustrotting.com/absolutenm/templates/article.aspx?articleid=28818&zoneid=63 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 13, 2017 |title=Soren Nordin dead at 91 |first=Karsten |last=Barnsdorf |date=6 September 2008 |website=United States Trotting Association |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Anita Page, 98, American actress (The Broadway Melody), natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/movies/08page.html |title=Anita Page, Silent-Film Siren, Dies at 98 |first=Robert |last=Berkvist |date=8 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Larry Shaben, 73, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1975–1989), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/former-alta-cabinet-minister-larry-shaben-dies-1.322763 |title=Former Alberta cabinet minister Larry Shaben dies |date=7 September 2008 |website=CTV News |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101164254/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080907/shaben_obitt_080907/20080907?hub=Canada |archive-date=1 January 2009}}
Bill Shorthouse, 86, British footballer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bill-shorthouse-stalwart-of-the-finest-wolves-side-934143.html |title=Bill Shorthouse: Stalwart of the finest Wolves side |date=18 September 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Mike Swoboda, 69, American politician, mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri (2000–2008), complications from gunshot wounds.{{cite news |url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/FB655C8A51D2B402862574BC00544C98?OpenDocument |title=Former Kirkwood Mayor Mike Swoboda dies |last=Holland |first=Elizabethe |date=6 September 2008 |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |access-date=6 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20080908105006/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/FB655C8A51D2B402862574BC00544C98?OpenDocument |archive-date=8 September 2008}}
Sally Willington, 77, English activist.{{cite journal |date=1 September 2008 |title=In Memorium: Sally Willington |url=https://www.aims.org.uk/journal/item/in-memorium-sally-willington |journal=AIMS Journal |volume=20 |access-date=19 March 2025 |number=3}}

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Kune Biezeveld, 60, Dutch theologian.{{cite web |url=http://www.kerknieuws.nl/nieuws.asp?1=1&oId=13750 |title=Kune Biezeveld overleden |date=9 September 2008 |website=IKON Kerk Nieuws |language=nl |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724155041/http://www.kerknieuws.nl/nieuws.asp?1=1&oId=13750 |archive-date=24 July 2011}}
Ilarion Ciobanu, 76, Romanian actor.{{cite web |url=http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-cultura-4257553-murit-ilarion-ciobanu.htm |title=A murit Ilarion Ciobanu |date=7 September 2008 |website=HotNews |language=ro |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Dino Dvornik, 44, Croatian actor and pop singer.{{cite web |url=http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=179838 |title=Croatian Singer Dino Dvornik Dies |date=7 September 2008 |website=Javno.com |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201024041/http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=179838 |archive-date=1 February 2009}}
David Fitzsimons, 58, Australian Olympic athlete.[https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/athletics-great-fitzsimons-dies/news-story/6b000fce01fabf8b53a107f9b820b712 South Australian athletics great David Fitzsimmons dies]
Peter Glossop, 80, British operatic baritone.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4708393.ece |title=Peter Glossop: operatic baritone |date=9 September 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523212044/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4708393.ece |archive-date=23 May 2010}}
Don Gutteridge, 96, American Major League Baseball player, coach and manager.{{cite news |url=http://www.joplinglobe.com/neo_sek/local_story_252001938.html?keyword=secondarystory |title=Don Gutteridge dies at 96 |first=Jim |last=Henry |date=8 September 2008 |newspaper=The Joplin Globe |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918022637/http://www.joplinglobe.com/neo_sek/local_story_252001938.html?keyword=secondarystory |archive-date=18 September 2008}}
Don Haskins, 78, American college basketball coach, heart failure.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/don-haskins-legendary-hoops-coach-dies/ |title=Don Haskins, Legendary Hoops Coach, Dies |date=7 September 2008 |website=CBS News |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American author (Fletch), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203390.html |title=Writer Gregory Mcdonald, 71; 'Fletch' Made Him Famous |first=Patricia |last=Sullivan |date=13 September 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Nagi Noda, 35, Japanese pop artist and director, complications from a traffic collision.{{cite web |url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-09-11/honey-and-clover-opening-director-nagi-noda-passes-away |title=Honey and Clower Opening's Director Nagi Noda Passes Away |first=Egan |last=Loo |date=11 September 2008 |website=Anime News Network |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Gordon Stromberg, 80, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1971–1986).{{cite report |url=https://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/annual_reports/Report2008/AnnualReport_08.pdf |title=Annual Report of the Legislative Assembly Office |date=2008 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |page=61 |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Richard "Popcorn" Wylie, 69, American musician.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-popcorn-wylie-tamla-motown-pioneer-who-became-a-cult-hero-for-northern-soul-fans-960281.html |title=Richard 'Popcorn' Wylie: Tamla Motown pioneer who became a cult hero for Northern Soul fans |first=Pierre |last=Perrone |date=14 October 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Ahn Jae-hwan, 36, South Korean actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.{{cite web |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/09/117_30755.html |title=Actor Ahn Dead in Apparent Suicide |last=Bae |first=Ji-sook |date=8 September 2008 |newspaper=The Korea Times |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029060604/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/09/117_30755.html |archive-date=29 October 2014}} (body discovered on this date)
Riaz Ahsan, 56, Pakistani statistician and mathematician, cancer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dawn.com/2008/09/12/local13.htm |title=KARACHI: Prof Ahsan remembered -DAWN - Local; September 12, 2008 |access-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-date=September 15, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915102915/http://www.dawn.com/2008/09/12/local13.htm |url-status=dead }}
Nathan Green Gordon, 92, American politician and Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. Governor of Arkansas (1947–1967), pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=108098.54928.120227 |title=Former Arkansas Lieutenant Governor, War Hero, Dies |agency=Associated Press |date=9 September 2008 |newspaper=Arkansas Business |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927001308/http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=108098.54928.120227 |archive-date=27 September 2008}}
Celia Gregory, 58, British actress.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/sep/26/television.bbc |title=Celia Gregory: An accomplished and dedicated actor, she was a familiar TV face |first1=Cherie |last1=Lunghi |author-link1=Cherie Lunghi |first2=Allan |last2=Corduner |author-link2=Allan Corduner |date=26 September 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Ron Guthrey, 92, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Christchurch (1968–1971).[http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/People/GuthreyRon/ Albert Ronald Guthrey 1916 - 2008]
Ralph Plaisted, 80, American Arctic explorer, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103515.html |title=Ralph Plaisted; First to Reach North Pole by Surface Travel |last=Holley |first=Joe |date=12 September 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Evan Tanner, 37, American mixed martial arts fighter and UFC middleweight champion, hyperthermia.{{cite web |url=http://mmajunkie.com/news/5243/former-ufc-champ-evan-tanner-dead-at-37.mma |title=Former UFC middleweight champ Evan Tanner dead at 37 |last=Stupp |first=Dann |date=8 September 2008 |website=MMA Junkie.com |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927212922/http://mmajunkie.com/news/5243/former-ufc-champ-evan-tanner-dead-at-37.mma |archive-date=27 September 2008}} (body discovered on this date)
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, 73, Indian violinist, after long illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200809082321.htm |title=Violin maestro Kunnakudi R. Vaidyanathan passes away |date=8 September 2008 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013211835/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200809082321.htm |archive-date=13 October 2008}}
George Zarnecki, 92, Polish art historian and medievalist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4742933.ece |title=Professor George Zarnecki: pioneering historian of Romanesque art |date=13 September 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524195929/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4742933.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010}}
Hector Zazou, 60, French composer and record producer.{{cite web |url=http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_110378/entertainment/MUSIC-French-composer-Hector-Zazou-dies/ |title=French composer Hector Zazou dies |date=8 September 2008 |website=EITB24.com |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013171602/http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_110378/entertainment/MUSIC-French-composer-Hector-Zazou-dies/ |archive-date=13 October 2008}}

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Tina Allen, 58, American sculptor, pneumonia.{{Cite web|url=http://ourweekly.com/news/2008/sep/10/sculptor-tina-allen-passes/|title = Sculptor Tina Allen passes|date = September 11, 2008}}
Betty Constable, 83, American squash player.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/sports/othersports/16constable.html |title=Betty Constable, Early Squash Star and Coaching Pioneer, Is Dead at 83 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=15 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Eddie Crowder, 77, American football player and coach, complications of leukemia.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/college-football/news/story?id=3579932 |title=Longtime Colorado coach, administrator Crowder dies at 77 |date=10 September 2008 |website=ESPN |access-date=17 October 2018}}
A. U. Fuimaono, 85, American Samoan politician, first Delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1970–1974).{{cite web |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=41967 |title=American Samoa's first delegate to Washington passes away |date=12 September 2008 |website=RNZ International |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006131104/http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=41967 |archive-date=6 October 2008}}
Nina Lawson, 82, British wigmaker for the Metropolitan Opera, pernicious anaemia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/arts/music/17lawson.html |title=Nina Lawson, Tamer of the Met's Wigs and Egos, Is Dead at 82 |first=William |last=Grimes |date=16 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Jacob Lekgetho, 34, South African footballer.{{cite web |url=http://www.football365.co.za/story/0,22162,14340_4122531,00.html |title=Former Bafana star passes away |date=9 September 2008 |website=Football365.co.za |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013192554/http://www.football365.co.za/story/0%2C22162%2C14340_4122531%2C00.html |archive-date=13 October 2008}}
P. N. Menon, 80, Indian film director, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.in.msn.com/southcinema/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1663466 |title=Filmmaker P.N.Menon passes away |date=10 September 2008 |website=MSN India |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911155901/http://entertainment.in.msn.com/southcinema/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1663466 |archive-date=11 September 2008}}
Warith Deen Mohammed, 74, American Islamic leader, son of Elijah Muhammad.{{cite news |url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080909/NEWS08/80909074/1010 |title=Muslim leader Warith Deen Mohammed dies |last=Warikoo |first=Niraj |date=9 September 2008 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915043554/http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080909%2FNEWS08%2F80909074%2F1010 |archive-date=September 15, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}
Richard Monette, 64, Canadian actor and director, pulmonary embolism.{{cite web |url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/former-stratford-festival-director-monette-dies-1.323782 |title=Former Stratford Festival director Monette dies |date=10 September 2008 |website=CTV News |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Bheki Mseleku, 53, South African-born British jazz musician, diabetes.{{cite news |url=http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id%3D840721 |title=Jazz maestro Bheki Mseleku dies |date=11 September 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=11 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915022629/http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=840721 |archive-date=15 September 2008}}
Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 98, Laotian politician, president (1992–1998), natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/world/asia/13nouhak.html |title=Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Former President of Laos, Dies at 98 |date=12 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Saleh al Aridi, 50, Lebanese pro-Syrian politician, car bomb.{{cite web |url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/09/2008910191932791866.html |title=Car bomb kills Lebanese politician |date=11 September 2008 |website=Al Jazeera |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Gérald Beaudoin, 79, Canadian lawyer and senator (1988–2004).{{cite news |url=http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=af8022bf-e6e9-4de4-8beb-b725b7b345f8 |title=Former Conservative senator Beaudoin dies |date=12 September 2008 |newspaper=The Ottawa Citizen |via=Canada.com |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105051501/http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=af8022bf-e6e9-4de4-8beb-b725b7b345f8 |archive-date=5 November 2012}}
José Antonio Dammert Bellido, 91, Peruvian bishop.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdambel.html |title=Bishop José Antonio Dammert Bellido |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Cameron Buchanan, 80, British footballer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/cameron-buchanan-934142.html |title=Cameron Buchanan |date=18 September 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=17 October 2018}}
David Chipp, 81, British editor-in-chief (Press Association, Reuters), first resident correspondent for Reuters in China.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/sep/12/pressandpublishing |title=David Chipp |first=Roy |last=Greenslade |author-link=Roy Greenslade |date=12 September 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Patrick Flynn, 72, American composer and conductor, pulmonary embolism.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-flynn25-2008sep25,0,4130000.story |title=Riverside County Philharmonic's music director for nearly 20 years |first=Mary |last=Rourke |date=25 September 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Robert Glasgow, 83, American organist and University of Michigan professor emeritus.{{cite web |url=http://www.music.umich.edu/about/news.htm |title=Alumnus David Gier named Dean of SMTD |date=19 July 2018 |website=University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance |access-date=17 October 2018 |archive-date=September 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912165931/http://www.music.umich.edu/about/news.htm |url-status=dead }}
Florian Goebel, 35, German astrophysicist, fall.{{cite web |url=http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_17980.shtml |title=German Astrophysicist dies in telescope accident |date=12 September 2008 |website=Spain News and Information in English |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914225111/http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_17980.shtml |archive-date=14 September 2008}}
Vernon Handley, 77, British conductor.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7608956.stm |title=Conductor Vernon Handley dies |date=10 September 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=17 October 2018}}
J. J. Harrington, 89, American politician.[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsobserver/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=117268192 Joseph Julian "Monk" Harrington]
Sherrill Headrick, 71, American football player, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.star-telegram.com/latest-news/article3824180.html |title=Former TCU, Chiefs standout Sherrill Headrick, 71, dies |date=10 September 2008 |newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017123614/https://www.star-telegram.com/latest-news/article3824180.html |archive-date=October 17, 2018 |df=mdy-all }}
Fitzroy Hoyte, 68, Trinidad Olympic cyclist, traffic collision.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/fitzroy-hoyte-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418123337/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/fitzroy-hoyte-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Fitzroy Hoyte |website=Sports Reference |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Domagoj Kapec, 18, Croatian ice hockey player, car accident.{{cite web |url=http://www.eurohockey.net/news/story.html?id=20080912153137_croatian_player_dies_in_car_crash |title=Croatian player dies in car crash |first=Fredrik |last=Pålsson |date=12 September 2008 |website=Eurohockey.net |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005080050/http://www.eurohockey.net/news/story.html?id=20080912153137_croatian_player_dies_in_car_crash |archive-date=5 October 2008}}
Frank Mundus, 82, American shark fisherman, alleged inspiration for Quint in Jaws, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.newsday.com/ny-limundus0914,0,7561328.story |title=Legendary shark hunter Frank Mundus, 82, dies |first=Robert |last=Wargas |date=13 September 2008 |newspaper=Newsday |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915215859/http://www.newsday.com/ny-limundus0914,0,7561328.story |archive-date=15 September 2008}}
Gary O'Donnell, 40, British soldier, improvised explosive device.{{cite news |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/wo-gary-o-donnell-1-1090719 |title=WO Gary O'Donnell |date=15 September 2008 |newspaper=The Scotsman |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Yuri Osipyan, 77, Russian physicist.{{cite web |url=http://www.physicstoday.org/obits/notice_315.shtml |title=Death notice: Yuri Andreevich Osipyan |last=Lebedev |first=Mikhail A. |date=15 September 2008 |website=Physics Today |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20081013144409/http://www.physicstoday.org/obits/notice_315.shtml |archive-date=13 October 2008}}
Reginald Shepherd, 45, American poet, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/reginald-shepherd |title=Poet: Reginald Shepherd |website=Academy of American Poets |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Paul Williams, 85, British politician, MP (1953–1964).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2800162/Paul-Williams.html |title=Paul Williams |date=11 September 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Bennett Campbell, 65, Canadian politician, premier of Prince Edward Island (1978–1979), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/former-p-e-i-premier-dies-1.695258 |title=Former P.E.I. premier dies |date=12 September 2008 |website=CBC News |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Dave Hanner, 78, American football player and coach (Green Bay Packers), heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=793954 |title=Packers lose old friend: Hanner, ex-player, coach, scout, dies at age 78 |first=Bob |last=McGinn |date=11 September 2008 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915001535/http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=793954 |archive-date=15 September 2008}}
Klaus Johann Jacobs, 71, German-born Swiss billionaire, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103514.html |title=Chocolate, Temp Work Billionaire Klaus Jacobs |first=Thomas |last=Mulier |date=12 September 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Fran Reed, 65, American teacher and fish skin artist, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.adn.com/life/story/523672.html |title=Fish skin artist Fran Reed dead at 65 |last=Dunham |first=Mike |date=12 September 2008 |newspaper=The Anchorage Daily News |access-date=25 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913051412/http://www.adn.com/life/story/523672.html |archive-date=13 September 2008}}
Nils Johan Ringdal, 56, Norwegian author and historian.{{cite news |url=http://www.kjendis.no/2008/09/12/546613.html |title=Nils Johan Ringdal er død |last1=Thorkildsen |first1=Joakim |last2=Nordseth |first2=Pål |date=12 September 2008 |newspaper=Dagbladet |language=no |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006051707/http://www.kjendis.no/2008/09/12/546613.html |archive-date=6 October 2008}}
Martin Tytell, 94, American manual typewriter expert, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/nyregion/12tytell.html |title=Martin K. Tytell, Typewriter Wizard, Dies at 94 |first=Bruce |last=Weber |date=12 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Joan Winston, 77, American author, founder of Star Trek convention, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.trektoday.com/news/130908_03.shtml |title=Joan Winston Passes |date=13 September 2008 |website=TrekToday.com |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Lai Ying Xin, 16, Malaysian schoolgirl, strangulation.

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Camila Ashland, 97, American actress (Dark Shadows, 10).{{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JTVZ-PPL |title=United States Social Security Death Index: Camile Ashland Russo |website=FamilySearch |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109045359/https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JTVZ-PPL |archive-date=9 January 2017}}
George Brown, 85, American football player.{{cite news |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/aztecs/20081116-9999-1s16aznotes.html |title=Hall of Famer dies |last=Schrotenboer |first=Brent |date=16 November 2008 |newspaper=The San Diego Union-Tribune |access-date=22 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516164623/http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/aztecs/20081116-9999-1s16aznotes.html |archive-date=16 May 2010}}
Simon Hantaï, 85, Hungarian-born French abstract artist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03hantai.html |title=Simon Hantaï, 85, Reclusive French Painter, Is Dead |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=3 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Tomislav Ladan, 76, Croatian encyclopedist and polymath, malignant tumor.{{cite web |url=http://www.limun.hr/en/main.aspx?id=335417 |title=Croatian Writer Tomislav Ladan Dies Aged 75 |date=11 September 2008 |website=Limun.hr |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721101801/http://www.limun.hr/en/main.aspx?id=335417 |archive-date=21 July 2011}}
Max Mermelstein, 65, American drug trafficker, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/09/rip_the_man_who_made_it_show.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519105544/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/09/rip_the_man_who_made_it_show.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 19, 2011 |title=Key Witness Against Cocaine Cartel Dies of Natural Causes |first=Jeff |last=Leen |date=16 September 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}
George Putnam, 94, American television news reporter, heart failure.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
Bob Quinn, 93, Australian footballer (Port Adelaide) and Military Medal recipient.{{cite web |url=http://afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId%3D67567 |title=Hall of famer Bob Quinn dies aged 93 |date=12 September 2008 |website=Australian Football League |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007224234/http://afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=67567 |archive-date=7 October 2008}}
Marjorie Thomas, 85, British opera singer, after long illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/25/classicalmusicandopera |title=Marjorie Thomas |first=Tully |last=Potter |date=25 September 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Paola S. Timiras, 85, American doctor, expert on the physiology of ageing, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-sep-23-me-timiras23-story.html |title=Researcher studied aging |first=Mary |last=Rourke |date=23 September 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Ferenc Velkey, 92, Hungarian Olympic handball player.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ve/ferenc-velkey-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418003112/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ve/ferenc-velkey-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Ferenc Velkey |website=Sports Reference |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Charlie Walker, 81, American country music singer, colon cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1594705/grand-ole-opry-member-charlie-walker-dies-at-age-81.jhtml |title=Grand Ole Opry Member Charlie Walker Dies at Age 81 |date=12 September 2008 |website=Country Music Television |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916032709/http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1594705/grand-ole-opry-member-charlie-walker-dies-at-age-81.jhtml |archive-date=16 September 2008}}
David Foster Wallace, 46, American author and essayist (Infinite Jest), suicide by hanging.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-wallace14-2008sep14-story.html |title=Writer David Foster Wallace found dead |first1=Claire |last1=Noland |first2=Joel |last2=Rubin |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Peter Camejo, 68, American politician and activist, lymphoma.{{cite web |url=http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/09/peter-camejo-dead-at-69/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914074015/http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/09/peter-camejo-dead-at-69/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 14, 2008 |title=Peter Camejo dead at 69 |first=Gregg |last=Jocoy |date=13 September 2008 |website=Independent Political Report |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Dean Hoge, 71, American sociologist, specialist in American Catholicism, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/1915 |title=Dean Hoge, spent decades studying American Catholics, dies |last=Fox |first=Thomas C. |date=15 September 2008 |newspaper=National Catholic Reporter |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217151119/http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node%2F1915 |archive-date=17 February 2009}}
Duncan Laing, 75, New Zealand swimming coach, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/4691733a1823.html |title=Legendary swimming coach Duncan Laing dies |date=13 September 2008 |website=Stuff.co.nz |access-date=17 October 2018}}
James Snow, 79, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1967–1985), diabetes.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/2008/09/16/former_cabinet_minister_james_snow_dies.html |title=Former cabinet minister James Snow dies |first=Noor |last=Javed |date=16 September 2008 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Olin Stephens, 100, American yacht designer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/sports/othersports/15stephens.html |title=Olin J. Stephens II, Renowned Yacht Designer, Is Dead at 100 |last=Lloyd |first=Barbara |date=14 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
John Usher, 62, British academic lawyer, leukaemia.{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/professor-john-usher-lecturer-in-law-1-1136472 |title=Professor John Usher - Lecturer in law |date=9 October 2008 |newspaper=The Scotsman |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Alice Van-Springsteen, 90, American stuntwoman, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stuntwoman-alice-van-springsteen-dies-119276 |title=Stuntwoman Alice Van-Springsteen dies |first=Mike |last=Barnes |date=16 September 2008 |newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Abdullah Wardak, Afghan governor of Logar Province, suicide attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/world/asia/14afghan.html |title=A Bomb Blast Kills an Afghan Governor and 3 Others |date=13 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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John Burnside, 91, American inventor, brain cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-burnside18-2008sep18,0,699210.story |title=Gay rights activist also invented variation on kaleidoscope |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=18 September 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Hyman Golden, 85, American co-founder of Snapple Beverage Corporation, complications from stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/business/21golden.html |title=Hyman Golden, Co-Founder of Snapple, Dies at 85 |first=Anahad |last=O'Connor |date=20 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Ștefan Iordache, 67, Romanian actor, leukemia.{{cite news |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/14/arts/EU-Romania-Obit-Iordache.php |title=Romanian actor Stefan Iordache dies at 67 |date=14 September 2008 |newspaper=International Herald Tribune |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920024939/http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/14/arts/EU-Romania-Obit-Iordache.php |archive-date=20 September 2008}}
Georgi Kitov, 65, Bulgarian archaeologist, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hh57rOfxCYvlxao9ufoOOUJbjaMg |title=World-famous Bulgarian archeologist Georgi Kitov dies at 65 |date=14 September 2008 |website=Agence France-Presse |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520174047/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hh57rOfxCYvlxao9ufoOOUJbjaMg |archive-date=20 May 2011}}
Lynn Kohlman, 62, American model and photographer, breast and brain cancer.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/model-lynn-kohlman-dies-at-62-1779830?justin=1779830 |title=Model Lynn Kohlman Dies at 62 |first=Dianne M. |last=Pogoda |date=14 September 2008 |magazine=Women's Wear Daily |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Lobsang Nyima Pal Sangpo, 79, Tibetan 100th Ganden Tripa (1994–2002), head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.{{cite web |url=http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=22818&t=1 |title=Obituary: His Eminence the 100th Ganden Tripa Lobsang Nyima |date=17 September 2008 |website=Phayul.com |access-date=17 October 2018 |archive-date=February 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213002105/http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=22818&t=1 |url-status=dead }}

*Mu Tiezhu, 59, Chinese basketball player, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/14/content_9995065.htm |title=Former Chinese basketball star Mu Tiezhu dies at 59 |date=14 September 2008 |website=Xinhua News Agency |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024231628/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/14/content_9995065.htm |archive-date=24 October 2008}}

Ralph Russell, 90, British Urdu scholar.{{cite news |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/321417 |title=Baba-i-Urdu of England mourned |date=16 September 2008 |newspaper=Dawn |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Gennady Troshev, 61, Russian politician and military commander (Second Chechen War), plane crash.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/world/europe/15russia.html |title=Engine Failure Studied in Russian Air Crash |first=Clifford J. |last=Levy |author-link=Clifford J. Levy |date=14 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Marion Dewar, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (1978–1985), fall.{{cite web |url=https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/marion-dewar-march-31-1928-sept-15-2008-1.325024 |title=Marion Dewar: March 31, 1928 - Sept.15, 2008 |date=16 September 2008 |website=CTV News |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Barthélémy Djabla, 72, Ivorian archbishop of Gagnoa.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdjabla.html |title=Archbishop Barthélémy Djabla |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil, 85, Indian writer, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/holnus/004200809152032.htm |title=Gangadhar Gadgil passes away |date=15 September 2008 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=4 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107155119/http://www.hindu.com/holnus/004200809152032.htm |archive-date=7 November 2012}}
Jean-Jacques Guissart, 81, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/jean-jacques-guissart-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417201858/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/jean-jacques-guissart-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Jean-Jacques Guissart |website=Sports Reference |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Charlotte Kohler, 99, American editor, heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/10/10/charlotte_kohler_at_99_was_va_quarterly_review_editor/ |title=Charlotte Kohler, at 99; was Va. Quarterly Review editor |first=Matt |last=Schudel |date=10 October 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Danny Lawson, 60, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings).[https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/l/lawsoda01.html Danny Lawson]
John Matshikiza, 53, South African actor, writer and poet, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-matshikiza-poet-actor-journalist-and-activist-936191.html |title=John Matshikiza: Poet, actor, journalist and activist |first=Gavin |last=Evans |date=20 September 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Juraj Njavro, 70, Croatian doctor and politician, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.croatia.org/crown/articles/9622/1/Croatian-Heroes-Dr-Juraj-Njavro-legendary-surgeon-at-the-Vukovar-Hospital-died.html |title=Croatian Heroes: Dr. Juraj Njavro legendary surgeon at the Vukovar Hospital died |first=Darko |last=Zubrinic |date=22 September 2008 |website=Croatia.org |access-date=17 October 2018}}
J. Patrick Rooney, 80, American insurance advocate.{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122178334570454727 |title=J. Patrick Rooney |date=19 September 2008 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Stefano Rosso, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.{{cite news|title=Deceduto il cantautore Stefano Rosso, della scuola romana anni '70|url=http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/08_settembre_16/stefano_rosso_cantautore_8119fdac-83d5-11dd-8a6a-00144f02aabc.shtml|access-date=15 November 2012|newspaper=Corriere della Sera|date=16 Sep 2008}}
Richard Wright, 65, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) and songwriter ("The Dark Side of the Moon"), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/16/pinkfloyd.popandrock1 |title=Richard Wright: Keyboard player and founder member of Pink Floyd |last=Sweeting |first=Adam |author-link=Adam Sweeting |date=16 September 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Verlie Abrams, 87, American football player.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33978706/the-tennessean/|title = Clipped from the Tennessean|newspaper = The Tennessean|date = September 26, 2008|pages = B5}}
Jack Alderman, 57, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.{{cite news|url=https://www.savannahnow.com/2008-09-16/murder-convict-alderman-executed |title=Murder convict Alderman executed |first=Jan |last=Skutch |date=16 September 2008 |newspaper=Savannah Morning News |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Avraham Biran, 98, Israeli archaeologist, natural causes.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.bib-arch.org/news/biran-obit.asp |title=The Remarkable Avraham Biran (1909–2008) |date=21 October 2008 |magazine=Biblical Archaeology Review |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706030853/https://www.bib-arch.org/news/biran-obit.asp |archive-date=6 July 2010}}
Elizabeth Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, 92, British peeress.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4770033.ece |title=Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton dies at 92 |first=Shân |last=Ross |date=17 September 2008 |newspaper=The Scotsman |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919160448/http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Elizabeth-Duchess-of-Hamilton-dies.4498082.jp |archive-date=19 September 2008}}
John Fancy, 95, British World War II RAF airman.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3131228/John-Fancy.html |title=John Fancy |date=3 October 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}
David Laycock, 61, English cricketer{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16490.html |title=David Laycock |website=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Andrei Volkonsky, 75, Russian composer.{{cite web |url=https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/composer/sov/30708/bio/ |title=Андрей Волконский |date=30 October 2015 |website=Kino-Teatr |language=ru |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Charles Whitebread, 65, American professor of law, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://law.usc.edu/news/article.cfm?newsID=3117 |title=Remembering Charlie Whitebread |date=17 September 2008 |website=USC Gould School of Law |access-date=17 October 2018 |archive-date=September 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924072442/http://law.usc.edu/news/article.cfm?newsID=3117 |url-status=dead }}
Norman Whitfield, 68, American Motown songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine") and record producer, diabetes.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-whitfield18-2008sep18,0,7855302.story |title=Motown producer, songwriter won 2 Grammys |first=Randy |last=Lewis |date=18 September 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Princess Luluwah bint Abdulaziz Al Saud, 80, Saudi member of the royal family, sister of King Abdullah.{{cite web |url=http://www.spa.gov.sa/English/details.php?id=591029 |title=Princess Luluwah bint Abdulaziz passed away |date=17 September 2008 |website=Saudi Press Agency |access-date=17 October 2018}}
James Crumley, 68, American crime writer, complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-crumley20-2008sep20,0,1931721.story |title=Author of gritty but poetic crime novels |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=20 September 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Didier Dagueneau, 52, French winemaker, plane crash.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/world/europe/19dagueneau.html |title=D. Dagueneau, Winemaker, Dies at 52 |last=Asimov |first=Eric |date=18 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
José María Cirarda Lachiondo, 91, Spanish bishop of the Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela (1978–1993).{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcirl.html |title=Archbishop José María Cirarda Lachiondo |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Anna Langford, 90, American politician, first African American woman to serve on the Chicago City Council, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/1171010,CST-NWS-xlangford18.article |title=1st black female alderman dies |last=Donovan |first=Lisa |date=18 September 2008 |newspaper=Chicago Sun-Times |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920100546/http://www.suntimes.com/news/1171010,CST-NWS-xlangford18.article |archive-date=20 September 2008}}
Michael Omondi, 46, Kenyan field hockey player, after short illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.eastandard.net/sports/InsidePage.php?id=1143995242&cid=38& |title=Long-serving player Omondi dies |first=Oscar |last=Pilipili |date=21 September 2008 |newspaper=The Standard |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921115047/http://www.eastandard.net/sports/InsidePage.php?id=1143995242&cid=38& |archive-date=21 September 2008}}
Humberto Solás, 66, Cuban filmmaker, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/cuban-moviemaker-humberto-solas-dies-at-66/86164/ |title=Cuban Moviemaker Humberto Solas Dies at 66 |date=19 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Sun |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Robert Steinberg, 61, American physician, co-founder of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, lymphoma.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/23/BARP132SR3.DTL |title=Physician, chocolatier Robert Steinberg dies |first=Carolyn |last=Jones |date=23 September 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Ekaterina Andreeva, 66, Uzbek arachnologist.{{Cite web |url=http://arthropodaselecta.britishspiders.org.uk/articles/17_3%20215_224_proszynski.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=January 30, 2022 |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307163158/http://arthropodaselecta.britishspiders.org.uk/articles/17_3%20215_224_proszynski.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Mauricio Kagel, 76, Argentine-born German composer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903900.html |title=Mauricio Kagel, 76; Avant-Garde Composer |first=Anne |last=Midgette |date=20 September 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Peter Kastner, 64, Canadian actor, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2008/09/20/peter_kastner_64_actor_recalled_for_role_as_rebel.html |title=Peter Kastner, 64: Actor recalled for role as rebel |first=Martin |last=Knelman |date=20 September 2008 |newspaper=Toronto Star |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Ron Lancaster, 69, American Canadian Football League quarterback and coach, heart attack.{{cite web |url=https://www.tsn.ca/story/?id=249878 |title=Ron Lancaster |website=The Sports Network |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604024555/https://www.tsn.ca/story/?id=249878 |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Howard Mann, 85, American actor and comedian, cancer.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/scene/news/comic-actor-howard-mann-dies-1117993928/ |title=Comic, actor Howard Mann dies |date=13 October 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Sherman Parker, 37, American politician, member of Missouri House of Representatives (2003–2006), brain aneurysm.{{cite web |url=http://mopns.com/2008/09/29/politician-leaves-legacy-of-caring-for-people-gop/ |title=Politician Leaves Legacy of Caring for People, GOP |last=Brown Jr. |first=Sylvester |date=29 September 2008 |website=Missouri Political News Service |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Fabiola Salazar, 42, Peruvian congresswoman since 2006, car accident.{{cite web |url=http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=oPSLYMCW/3s= |title=Peru's congresswoman Fabiola Salazar dies in car accident |date=18 September 2008 |website=Andina |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724004114/http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=oPSLYMCW%2F3s%3D |archive-date=24 July 2011}}
Henry Z. Steinway, 93, American businessman (Steinway & Sons).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/music/19steinway.html |title=Henry Z. Steinway, Piano Maker, Dies at 93 |last=Barron |first=James |date=18 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Don Ultang, 91, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/sports/football/27ultang.html |title=Don Ultang, Pioneer in Aerial Photography, Dies at 91 |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=26 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Florestano Vancini, 82, Italian film director and screenwriter, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/attori-registi/florestano-vancini/185431/ |title=Florestano Vancini |website=TrovaCinema |access-date=17 October 2018 |archive-date=October 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017043057/http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/attori-registi/florestano-vancini/185431/ |url-status=dead }}
John Webb, 82, American judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1986–1998), Parkinson's disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1224718.html |title=Former state Supreme Court Justice John Webb dies |last1=Christensen |first1=Rob |last2=Ruffin |first2=Jane |date=19 September 2008 |newspaper=The News & Observer |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923060158/http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1224718.html |archive-date=23 September 2008}}

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Ernie Andres, 90, American college baseball coach and Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox).{{cite news |url=http://newsandtribune.com/localsports/x519384608/Jeff-Hall-of-Famer-Ernie-Andres-dies |title=Jeff Hall of Famer Ernie Andres dies |first=Mike |last=Hutsell |date=20 September 2008 |newspaper=News and Tribune |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222012205/http://newsandtribune.com/localsports/x519384608/Jeff-Hall-of-Famer-Ernie-Andres-dies |archive-date=22 February 2013 }}
Marcel Dierkens, 83, Luxembourgish cyclist.{{cite web |url=http://www.cyclingarchives.com/coureurfiche.php?coureurid=8230 |title=Marcel Dierkens |website=Cycling Archives |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Ned Harkness, 89, American ice hockey coach, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/sports/hockey/22harkness.html |title=Ned Harkness, Title-Winning Hockey Coach, Is Dead at 89 |date=21 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Jun Ichikawa, 59, Japanese film director.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/news/jun-ichikawa-dies-at-59-1117992497/ |title=Jun Ichikawa dies at 59 |first=Mark |last=Schilling |date=18 September 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=17 October 2018}}
David Jones, 74, British theatre and film director.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/sep/23/theatre.television |title=David Jones |first=Michael |last=Billington |date=22 September 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Dave Needham, 57, British bantamweight boxing champion (1974–1975).{{cite web |url=http://www.britishboxing.net/news_3820-Dave-The-Artful-Dodger-Needham-RIP.html |title=Dave 'The Artful Dodger' Needham RIP |date=19 September 2008 |website=BritishBoxing.net |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922062504/http://www.britishboxing.net/news_3820-Dave-The-Artful-Dodger-Needham-RIP.html |archive-date=22 September 2008}}
Earl Palmer, 83, American rhythm and blues drummer, after long illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/arts/music/22palmer.html |title=Earl Palmer, 84, a Jazz Session Drummer, Dies |date=22 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Robert Royston, 90, American landscape architect.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/20/BAD4131V54.DTL |title=Robert Royston, landscape architect, dies |date=21 September 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Dick Sudhalter, 69, American jazz trumpeter, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=23252 |title=Richard Sudhalter, R.I.P. |date=19 September 2008 |website=All About Jazz |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921220241/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=23252 |archive-date=21 September 2008}}

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Nappy Brown, 78, American blues singer.{{cite web |url=http://www.piedmonttalent.com/news.cfm?ID%3D135 |title=Nappy Brown Passes On |date=21 September 2008 |website=Piedmont Talent |access-date=22 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601015718/http://www.piedmonttalent.com/news.cfm?ID=135 |archive-date=1 June 2009}}
Francis A. Dennis, Liberian diplomat.{{cite web |title=Francis Dennis Obituary (2008) - Washington, DC - The Washington Post |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=francis-dennis&pid=118265100 |website=www.legacy.com |access-date=August 10, 2022|language=en}}
William Fox, 97, British actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3042991/William-Fox.html |title=William Fox |date=21 September 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, literary critic and designer, professor emeritus of visual communication (Nottingham Trent).{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/duncan-glen-poet-publisher-editor-designer-and-excavator-of-scottish-literature-948530.html |title=Duncan Glen: Poet, publisher, editor, designer, and excavator of Scottish literature |first=Alan |last=Riach |author-link=Alan Riach |date=2 October 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206020214/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/duncan-glen-poet-publisher-editor-designer-and-excavator-of-scottish-literature-948530.html |archive-date=6 December 2008}}
Steve Gray, 64, British musician.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/31/steve-gray-obituary |title=Steve Gray |first=John |last=Fordham |date=31 October 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Ken Harris, 45, American member of Baltimore City Council (1999–2007), shot.{{cite news |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-te.md.harris21sep21,0,2948187.story |title=Harris' killing stuns residents, colleagues |first=Gus G. |last=Sentementes |date=21 September 2008 |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518002715/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-te.md.harris21sep21,0,2948187.story |archive-date=18 May 2013}}
Arne Haugestad, 73, Norwegian Supreme Court lawyer, Arne Treholt's defender.{{cite news |url=http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/09/24/547924.html |title=Arne Haugestad er død |date=24 September 2008 |newspaper=Dagbladet |language=no |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Johnny H. Hayes, 67, American fundraiser for Al Gore's presidential campaigns, stomach cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/article/20402371/johnny-hayes-succumbs-to-cancer-at-age-67 |title=Johnny Hayes succumbs to cancer at age 67 |date=20 September 2008 |website=NashvillePost.com |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Willi Heidel, 92, Romanian Olympic field handball player.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/willi-heidel-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418003543/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/willi-heidel-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Willi Heidel |website=Sports Reference |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Paul Howell, 57, British member of the European Parliament (1979–1994), plane crash.{{cite news |url=http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id%3D848901 |title=Death call from Beira |last1=Swart |first1=Werner |last2=Nair |first2=Nivashni |date=23 September 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925232828/http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=848901 |archive-date=25 September 2008}}
George Larson, 96, Canadian Olympic swimmer.{{cite news |url=http://www.thespec.com/article/439633 |title=Steeltown's George Larson was a star in several sports |first=John |last=Kernaghan |date=23 September 2008 |newspaper=The Hamilton Spectator |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210065928/http://www.thespec.com/article/439633 |archive-date=10 December 2008}}
Ed Sutton, 73, American football player, complications following heart bypass surgery.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsobserver/obituary-preview.aspx?pid=117862970 |title=Edward Wike Sutton Obituary |date=23 September 2008 |newspaper=The News & Observer |via=Legacy.com |access-date=17 October 2018}}
John Taylor, 87, American military archivist at National Archives and Records Administration, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/us/24taylor1.html |title=John Taylor, 87, Specialist on Military at Archives, Is Dead |first=Scott |last=Shane |date=23 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Frank Valenti, 97, American mob boss (Rochester crime family).{{cite web |url=http://www.tributes.com/obituary/read/Frank-J.-Valenti-84194651 |title=Death of Frank J. Valenti |website=Tributes.com |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Ivo Žďárek, 47, Czech ambassador to Vietnam (2004–2008) and Pakistan (2008), suicide bombing.{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/21/pakistan.islamabad.marriott.blast/ |title=Official: Hotel blast 'biggest attack' in 7 years for Pakistan |date=21 September 2008 |website=CNN |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Mary Garber, 92, American sportswriter.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/sports/23garber.html |title=Mary Garber, Sportswriter, Dies at 92 |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=22 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}

*Carlos González Cruchaga, 87, Chilean bishop of the Diocese of Talca (1967–1996).{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4957211.ece |title=The Right Rev Carlos González: Chilean bishop |date=17 October 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524172632/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4957211.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010}}

Nancy Hicks Maynard, 66, American journalist, advocate for diversity in journalism, organ failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/22/BA0T132AII.DTL |title=Journalist Nancy Hicks Maynard dies |first=Meredith |last=May |date=22 September 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Sir Brian Pippard, 88, British physicist, Cavendish Professor of Physics (1971–1984).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3069588/Professor-Sir-Brian-Pippard.html |title=Professor Sir Brian Pippard |date=23 September 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Barefoot Sanders, 83, American federal judge, natural causes.{{cite news |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/092108dnmetbarefootobit.9b94e971.html |title=Legendary Dallas federal judge Barefoot Sanders dies at 83 |last=Farwell |first=Scott |date=21 September 2008 |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922074723/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/092108dnmetbarefootobit.9b94e971.html |archive-date=22 September 2008}}
Paul Tansey, 59, Irish economics editor (The Irish Times).{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0922/tanseyp.html |title=Irish Times' Paul Tansey dies suddenly |date=22 September 2008 |website=RTÉ News |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Brian Thomsen, 49, American author and editor, heart attack.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2008/News_Obit_BrianThomsen.html |title=Obituary: Brian Thomsen |date=22 September 2008 |magazine=Locus |access-date=17 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107095331/http://www.locusmag.com//2008/News_Obit_BrianThomsen.html |archive-date=January 7, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 92, Sri Lankan prime minister (1989–1993), president (1993–1994), after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/21/content_10086664.htm |title=Former Sri Lankan President dies |date=21 September 2008 |website=Xinhua News Agency |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922144233/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/21/content_10086664.htm |archive-date=22 September 2008}}

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Michael Andreevich, 88, Russian prince.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/a-prince-among-men-but-few-really-knew-it/2008/09/30/1222651084382.html |title=A prince among men, but few really knew it |first=Andrew |last=West |date=1 October 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Plato Andros, 86, American National Football League player (Chicago Cardinals), Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |url=http://michaelminn.net/andros/andros/plato/ |title=Plato Andros (1922-2008) |website=MichaelMinn.net |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Olli Auero, 82, Finnish diplomat.{{Cite web|title=Olli Johannes Auero 1926 - 2008 BillionGraves Record|url=https://fi.billiongraves.international/grave/Olli-Johannes-Auero/34565499|access-date=21 July 2021|website=BillionGraves|language=en}}
H. Dale Cook, 84, American federal judge since 1974, cancer.{{cite web |url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379466 |title=Cook, Harold Dale |website=Federal Judicial Center |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Thomas Dörflein, 44, German zookeeper, surrogate parent of the polar bear Knut, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/knut-s-keeper-thomas-doerflein-found-dead-a-579812.html |title=Knut's Keeper: Thomas Dörflein Found Dead |date=22 September 2008 |website=Spiegel Online |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Connie Haines, 87, American singer, myasthenia gravis.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/arts/music/25haines.html |title=Connie Haines, Peppy Singer, Dies at 87 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=25 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Guillermo López Langarica, 40, Mexican YouTube celebrity, car accident.{{cite news |url=http://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/541489.html |title=Muere El Canaca, estrella de You Tube |date=25 September 2008 |newspaper=El Universal |language=es |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Buddy McDonald, 85, American child actor (Our Gang), heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvcrime/2008/09/our-gangs-buddy-was-quite-a-ch.html |title='Our Gang's' Buddy was quite a character |first=Frank |last=Girardot |date=25 September 2008 |website=CrimeScene |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Petrus Schaesberg, 41, German art historian, suicide by jumping.{{cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/columbia-professor-commits-suicide/86490/ |title=Columbia Professor Commits Suicide |first=Bari |last=Weiss |date=24 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Sun |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Mona Abul-Fadl, 62–63, Egyptian orientalist, breast cancer.{{Cite web|url=https://ruhsa.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/dr-mona-abul-fadl-passed-away/|title=Dr Mona Abul-Fadl passed away|date=September 24, 2008}}
José Martins Achiam, 64, Portuguese karate coach, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://aksm.weebly.com/ |title=Home |website=aksm.weebly.com}}
Esther Figueiredo Ferraz, 92, Brazilian Minister of Education (1982–1985) and first female minister, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u448203.shtml |title=Morre Esther Ferraz, a primeira mulher a ocupar cargo de ministra no Brasil |date=24 September 2008 |website=Folha Online |language=pt |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Richard Henyard, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/florida-executes-man-who-killed-two-young-sisters-after-raping-their-mother |title=Florida Executes Man Who Killed Two Young Sisters After Raping Their Mother |date=24 September 2008 |website=Fox News Channel |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001210652/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426721,00.html |archive-date=1 October 2008}}
Wally Hilgenberg, 66, American National Football League player (Minnesota Vikings), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.{{cite news |url=http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/29627104.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiU9PmP:QiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU |title=Ex-Vikings linebacker Hilgenberg dies at 66 |date=23 September 2008 |newspaper=Star Tribune |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927104249/http://www.startribune.com/sports/vikings/29627104.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiU9PmP%3AQiUiD3aPc%3A_Yyc%3AaUU |archive-date=27 September 2008}}
Rudolf Illovszky, 86, Hungarian footballer and manager, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://www.budapesttimes.hu/content/view/9254/159/ |title=Former captain of Hungary's national 11, Rudolf Illovszky, dies |date=23 September 2008 |newspaper=The Budapest Times |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926162950/http://www.budapesttimes.hu/content/view/9254/159/ |archive-date=26 September 2008}}
Peter Leonard, 66, Australian broadcaster, mesothelioma.{{cite news |url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/tributes-for-newsreader-leonard/1280744.aspx |title=Tributes for newsreader Leonard |first=Claire |last=Low |date=24 September 2008 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004150820/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/tributes-for-newsreader-leonard/1280744.aspx |archive-date=4 October 2011}}
Pedro Masó, 81, Spanish film director and producer, natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www.europapress.es/cultura/cine-00128/noticia-pedro-maso-hombre-cine-espanol-muere-madrid-81-anos-20080924115144.html |title=Pedro Masó, el "hombre del cine español", muere en Madrid, a los 81 años |date=24 September 2008 |website=Europa Press |language=es |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930122404/http://www.europapress.es/cultura/cine-00128/noticia-pedro-maso-hombre-cine-espanol-muere-madrid-81-anos-20080924115144.html |archive-date=30 September 2008}}
Brock McElheran, 90, Canadian conductor and composer.{{cite web |url=http://northcountrynow.com/obituaries/view.asp?a%3DObituaries%26id%3D3488 |title=Brock McElheran, 90, Potsdam |website=North Country Now |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005051601/http://northcountrynow.com/obituaries/view.asp?a=Obituaries&id=3488 |archive-date=5 October 2008}}
Loren Pope, 98, American education consultant, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603547.html |title=College Consultant Loren Pope; Commissioned a Wright House |first=Carol |last=Hutchinson |date=27 September 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Sonja Savić, 47, Serbian actress, heroin overdose.{{cite web |url=http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/3670/46/ |title=Serbian Actress Sonja Savic dies |date=24 September 2008 |website=MacedoniaOnline.eu |access-date=17 October 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711034753/http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/3670/46/ |archive-date=July 11, 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Ellen Tarry, 101, American children's author.{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2977 |title=Ellen Tarry |first=James C. |last=Hall |date=22 November 2010 |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |access-date=17 October 2018}}
William Woodruff, 92, British historian and author.{{cite news |url=http://www.gainesville.com/article/20080923/NEWS/809240300/-1/NEWS05?Title=William_Woodruff__a_UF_professor__author_dies_at_91 |title=William Woodruff, a UF professor, author dies at 91 |first1=Diane |last1=Chun |first2=Karen |last2=Voyles |date=23 September 2008 |newspaper=The Gainesville Sun |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Bengt Anderberg, 88, Swedish poet, novelist, editor and playwright.{{cite web |url=http://www.bornholms-kunstmuseum.dk/oplev/museumsbiograf/film-mest-for-voksne/astrid-anderberg-keramiker.aspx |title=Astrid Anderberg - Keramiker - Bornholms Kunstmuseum |website=www.bornholms-kunstmuseum.dk |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306144351/http://www.bornholms-kunstmuseum.dk/oplev/museumsbiograf/film-mest-for-voksne/astrid-anderberg-keramiker.aspx |archive-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}

*Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, 56, Ghanaian finance minister since 2005, after short illness.{{cite web |url=http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLO368381.html |title=Ghana's finance minister dies in South Africa |first=Kwasi |last=Kpodo |date=24 September 2008 |website=Reuters |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928071749/http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLO368381.html |archive-date=28 September 2008}}

Oliver Crawford, 91, American television writer blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303320.html |title=Writer Oliver Crawford, 91; Was Blacklisted in Red Scare |date=4 October 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Irene Dailey, 88, American actress (Five Easy Pieces, The Amityville Horror, Another World), colon cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/theater/07dailey.html |title=Irene Dailey, Actress of Stage and TV, Dies at 88 |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=6 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Sir Peter Derham, 83, Australian businessman and philanthropist, stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/high-achiever-who-never-said-never-20080925-4o4t.html |title=High achiever who never said never |first=Sally |last=Stewart |date=26 September 2008 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Uno Laht, 84, Estonian writer.{{cite news |url=http://www.postimees.ee/?id=36417 |title=Suri kirjanik Uno Laht KGB-karjääri teinud kirjamehe nekroloog Eesti Kirjanike Liidult! |first=Raul |last=Sulbi |date=26 September 2008 |newspaper=Postimees |language=et |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Dick Lynch, 72, American football player and radio announcer (New York Giants), leukemia.{{cite news |url=http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/ny-splynch0925,0,5513359.story |title=Giants broadcaster Dick Lynch dead at 72 |first=Neil |last=Best |date=24 September 2008 |newspaper=Newsday |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927034032/http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/ny-splynch0925,0,5513359.story |archive-date=27 September 2008}}
Maurits van Nierop, 25, Dutch international cricketer, fall.{{cite web |url=http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES2/articles/000044/004488.shtml |title=Maurits van Nierop dies in South Africa |last=Lyall |first=Rod |date=24 September 2008 |website=CricketEurope Netherlands |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927040744/http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES2/articles/000044/004488.shtml |archive-date=27 September 2008}}
Thiago Jotta da Silva, 24, Brazilian footballer, shot.{{cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/soccer/09/25/brazilian.murdered/index.html |title=Brazilian player brutally murdered |last=Sormani |first=Anthony |date=25 September 2008 |website=Sports Illustrated |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008111606/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/soccer/09/25/brazilian.murdered/index.html |archive-date=8 October 2008}}
Cherry Smith, 65, Jamaican singer (The Wailers), heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/10/12/cherry_1013.html?imw=Y |title=Ermine Cherry Dempsey-Barker, former member of the Wailers, dies |last=Isger |first=Sonja |date=12 October 2008 |newspaper=The Palm Beach Post |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715043416/http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/10/12/cherry_1013.html?imw=Y |archive-date=15 July 2011}}
Mickey Vernon, 90, American baseball player, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3607455 |title=Senators batting champ Vernon dies at age 90 |first=William |last=Weinbaum |date=25 September 2008 |website=ESPN |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Vice Vukov, 72, Croatian singer and politician.{{cite web |url=http://dalje.com/en-croatia/video--vice-vukov-was-a-great-artist/185541 |title=Vice Vukov was a great artist |date=24 September 2008 |website=Dalje.com |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126223152/http://dalje.com/en-croatia/video--vice-vukov-was-a-great-artist/185541 |archive-date=26 January 2013}}
Claude Wilton, 89, Irish politician and solicitor.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/7635549.stm |title=Derry lawyer and campaigner dies |date=25 September 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Ruslan Yamadayev, 46, Chechen warlord and member of Russian State Duma, shot.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

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Glenn Andrews, 99, American politician, Representative (1965–1967), oldest surviving member of the House of Representatives.{{cite web |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000204 |title=Andrews, Arthur Glenn, (1909–2008) |website=Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Brian Donnelly, 59, New Zealand diplomat and politician, MP (1996–2008).{{cite web |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/4705677a6160.html |title=Former MP Brian Donnelly passes away |date=25 September 2008 |website=Stuff.co.nz |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Edward Klima, 77, American linguist, complications from brain surgery.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/04klima.html |title=Edward S. Klima, Sign Language Expert, Dies at 77 |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=3 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Horațiu Rădulescu, 66, Romanian composer, spectral music pioneer.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4886771.ece |title=Horatiu Radulescu: Romanian composer |date=5 October 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524032015/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4886771.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010}}
Ralph Sazio, 86, Canadian football coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl-legend-ralph-sazio-dies-1.753608 |title=CFL legend Ralph Sazio dies |date=26 September 2008 |website=CBC Sports |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103114440/http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2008/09/26/ralph-sazio.html |archive-date=3 November 2012}}
Jimmy Sirrel, 86, British football manager (Notts County), after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Notts-County-legend-Jimmy-Sirrel-dies-aged-86/article-352720-detail/article.html |title=Notts County legend Jimmy Sirrel dies, aged 86 |date=25 September 2008 |website=ThisIsNottingham.co.uk |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928223011/http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Notts-County-legend-Jimmy-Sirrel-dies-aged-86/article-352720-detail/article.html |archive-date=28 September 2008}}
Roger Vanderfield, 80, Australian rugby union referee, IRB chairman and ARU president.{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/high-achiever-on-and-off-the-field-20081002-gdsx7h.html |title=High achiever on and off the field |first=Tony |last=Stephens |date=2 October 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Bernadette Greevy, 68, Irish mezzo-soprano, after short illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2008/0929/greevyb.html |title=Tributes to Bernadette Greevy |date=29 September 2008 |website=RTÉ News |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Joli Jászai, 101, Hungarian actress.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.fn.hu/kultura/20080929/elhunyt_jaszai_joli_neni/ |title=Elhunyt Jászai Joli néni |date=29 September 2008 |magazine=Figyelő |language=hu |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001020545/http://www.fn.hu/kultura/20080929/elhunyt_jaszai_joli_neni/ |archive-date=1 October 2008}}
Géza Kalocsay, 95, Hungarian football player and manager.{{cite news |url=http://www.nemzetisport.hu/magyar_valogatott/20080926/elhunyt_dr_kalocsai_geza_a_magyar_valogatott_labdarugok_doyenje |title=Elhunyt dr. Kalocsai Géza, a magyar válogatott labdarúgók doyenje |date=26 September 2008 |newspaper=Nemzeti Sport |language=hu |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Aggie Kukulowicz, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers), heart failure.[https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-141246/KUKULOWICZ_ADOLF Adolf (Aggie) Kukulowicz]
Phyllis Welch MacDonald, 95, American theater and film actress.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings7-2008oct07,0,7413803.story |title=Phyllis Welch MacDonald: From Broadway to one film role |date=7 October 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010025939/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings7-2008oct07,0,7413803.story |archive-date=10 October 2008}}
Raymond Macherot, 84, Belgian cartoonist.{{cite web |url=http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=9550 |title=Raymond Macherot passed away at 84 |date=26 September 2008 |website=Forbidden Planet.co.uk |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211042819/http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2008/from-our-continental-correspondent-raymond-macherot-passed-away-at-84/ |archive-date=11 February 2012}}
Stanisław Marucha, 71, Polish Olympic shooter.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/stanislaw-marucha-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418095235/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/stanislaw-marucha-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Stanisław Marucha |website=Sports Reference |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Jan Mazur, 88, Polish bishop of Siedlce.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmazurj.html |title=Bishop Jan Mazur |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Marian McQuade, 91, American founder of National Grandparents Day, heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_270234746.html |title=Grandparents Day founder dies at 91 |last=Porterfield |first=Mannix |date=26 September 2008 |newspaper=The Register-Herald |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101133147/http://www.register-herald.com/local/local_story_270234746.html |archive-date=1 November 2008}}
Ernest Meissner, 71, Canadian Olympic diver.[http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/45991 Ernest Meissner]
Marc Moulin, 66, Belgian jazz musician and journalist, throat cancer.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/genre/e3id843b4becda8766f8ccb123acedf2de8 |title=Jazz Musician Marc Moulin Dies Aged 66 |first=Marc |last=Maes |date=1 October 2008 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004071445/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/genre/e3id843b4becda8766f8ccb123acedf2de8 |archive-date=4 October 2008}}
Paul Newman, 83, American actor (The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, The Color of Money) and entrepreneur, Oscar winner (1987), lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/movies/28newman.html |title=Paul Newman, a Magnetic Titan of Hollywood, Is Dead at 83 |first=Aljean |last=Harmetz |author-link=Aljean Harmetz |date=27 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Cirio H. Santiago, 72, Filipino filmmaker and producer, complications from lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080927-163319/Filmmaker-Cirio-Santiago-passes-away |title=Filmmaker Cirio Santiago passes away |last=Cruz |first=Marinel |date=7 September 2008 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=1 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930060816/http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080927-163319/Filmmaker-Cirio-Santiago-passes-away |archive-date=30 September 2008}}
Yonty Solomon, 71, South African pianist, brain tumour.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/nov/19/classical-music-yonty-solomon-obituary |title=Yonty Solomon |first=Barry |last=Millington |date=19 November 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Len Browning, 80, British footballer.{{cite news |url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/leedsunited/Obituary-Len-Browning.4544846.jp |title=Obituary: Len Browning |date=1 October 2008 |newspaper=Yorkshire Evening Post |access-date=17 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111044815/http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/leedsunited/Obituary-Len-Browning.4544846.jp |archive-date=January 11, 2009 |url-status=dead }}
John Houston, 78, British painter.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-houston-painter-and-teacher-whose-greatest-subject-was-the-scottish-landscape-965486.html |title=John Houston: Painter and teacher whose greatest subject was the Scottish landscape |last=Long |first=Philip |date=18 October 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=17 August 2017}}
Mahendra Kapoor, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Singer_Mahendra_Kapoor_passes_away/articleshow/3535573.cms |title=Singer Mahendra Kapoor passes away |date=28 September 2008 |newspaper=The Times of India |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Mario Maya, 71, Spanish dancer and choreographer, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/arts/dance/04maya.html |title=Mario Maya, Interpreter of Flamenco Style, Is Dead at 71 |first=Anna |last=Kisselgoff |author-link=Anna Kisselgoff |date=3 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Jimmy Murray, 72, British footballer, prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.birminghammail.net/news/black-country/black-country-news/2008/09/29/wolverhampton-wanderers-legend-jimmy-murray-dies-97319-21923783/ |title=Wolverhampton Wanderers legend Jimmy Murray dies |first=Tony |last=Deeley |date=29 September 2008 |newspaper=The Birmingham Mail |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930174903/http://www.birminghammail.net/news/black-country/black-country-news/2008/09/29/wolverhampton-wanderers-legend-jimmy-murray-dies-97319-21923783/ |archive-date=30 September 2008}}
Henri Pachard, 69, American pornographic film director, throat cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.famousdeaddb.com/henri-pachard/ |title=Henri Pachard |website=Famous Dead |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112210431/http://www.famousdeaddb.com/henri-pachard/ |archive-date=12 January 2009}}
Olaf Poulsen, 88, Norwegian president of the International Skating Union (1980–1994).{{cite web |url=http://www.n-s-f.no/filarkiv/admin/2008/minneord_2008-09-29.htm |title=Olaf Poulsen til minne |last=Gjerde |first=Arild |date=29 September 2008 |website=Norwegian Skating Association |language=no |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721173014/http://www.n-s-f.no/filarkiv/admin/2008/minneord_2008-09-29.htm |archive-date=21 July 2011}}
Gerald Small, 52, American football player (Miami Dolphins).{{cite web |url=http://www.sjsuspartans.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID%3D5600%26ATCLID%3D1597425 |title=Gerald Small (1956–2008) |date=5 October 2008 |website=San Jose State Spartans |access-date=20 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928021405/http://www.sjsuspartans.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5600&ATCLID=1597425 |archive-date=28 September 2011}}

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Georges Adda, 92, Tunisian politician, heart attack.[https://archive.today/20130418151219/http://www.businessnews.com.tn/BN/BN-lirearticle.asp?id=1080946 Business News]
Andrzej Badeński, 65, Polish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) athlete.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvn24.pl/12691,1616521,0,1,polski-olimpijczyk-zmarl-rok-temu-syn-nie-wiedzial,wiadomosc.html |title=Polski olimpijczyk zmarł rok temu. Syn nie wiedział |date=26 August 2009 |website=TVN24 |language=pl |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Osborn Elliott, 83, American editor of Newsweek (1961–1976), complications from cancer.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080928/ap_on_re_us/obit_elliott |title=Longtime Newsweek Editor Elliott dies in NYC at 83 |date=28 September 2008 |website=Yahoo! News |access-date=14 January 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003212837/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080928/ap_on_re_us/obit_elliott |archive-date=3 October 2008}}
Jack Faulkner, 82, American football coach and administrator.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/NFL/NFC/NFC%20West/St.%20Louis/Features/2008/holbrook092908.htm |title=Longtime pro football executive Faulkner passes away |date=29 September 2008 |magazine=Pro Football Weekly |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120151126/http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/NFL/NFC/NFC%2BWest/St.%2BLouis/Features/2008/holbrook092908.htm |archive-date=20 November 2008 }}
Margot Gayle, 100, American historic preservationist and author.{{cite news |url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/remembering-a-pioneer-of-the-preservation-movement/ |title=Remembering a Pioneer of the Preservation Movement |first=David W. |last=Dunlap |date=29 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Malalai Kakar, 41, Afghan senior policewoman, shot.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taliban-murders-afghanistans-top-policewoman-945288.html |title=Taliban murders Afghanistan's top policewoman |first=Kim |last=Sengupta |date=29 September 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205173133/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taliban-murders-afghanistans-top-policewoman-945288.html |archive-date=5 December 2008}}
Konstantin Pavlov, 75, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, after long illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/books/30pavlov.html |title=Konstantin Pavlov, Bulgarian Poet, Is Dead at 75 |date=30 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Athos Tanzini, 95, Italian Olympic fencer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ta/athos-tanzini-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418003657/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ta/athos-tanzini-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Athos Tanzini |website=Sports Reference |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Thomas Thewes, 76, American businessman, co-owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, leukemia.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=3616037 |title=Hurricanes co-owner Thewes dies at 76 |date=29 September 2008 |website=ESPN |access-date=17 October 2018}}

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Youssef Sabri Abu Taleb, 79, Egyptian general.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/16/world/mubarak-ousts-defense-chief-making-him-aide.html|title = Mubarak Ousts Defense Chief, Making Him Aide|newspaper = The New York Times|date = April 16, 1989|last1 = Cowell|first1 = Alan}}
Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/books/01carruth.html |title=Hayden Carruth, Poet and Critic, Dies at 87 |first=William |last=Grimes |date=1 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Richard Clayton, 93, American actor and talent agent (Burt Reynolds, James Dean), heart failure.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/news/actor-agent-richard-clayton-dies-1117993144/ |title=Actor-agent Richard Clayton dies |date=30 September 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Miguel Córcega, 79, Mexican actor and director.{{cite web |url=http://entertainment.oneindia.in/hollywood/news/2008/miguel-corcega-died-stroke-300908.html |title=Miguel Corcega dies from stroke in Mexico |first=Shekhar H. |last=Hooli |date=30 September 2008 |website=Oneindia |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708033708/http://entertainment.oneindia.in/hollywood/news/2008/miguel-corcega-died-stroke-300908.html |archive-date=8 July 2012}}
Milt Davis, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-01-me-davis1-story.html |title=All-Pro defensive back for Colts and L.A. schoolteacher, counselor |last=Noland |first=Claire |date=1 October 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Tim Fortescue, 92, British politician, MP (1966–1974).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3104465/Tim-Fortescue.html |title=Tim Fortescue |date=29 September 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Elinor Guggenheimer, 96, American philanthropist and author.{{cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/obituaries/elinor-guggenheimer-96-consumer-advocate/86867/ |title=Elinor Guggenheimer, 96, Consumer Advocate |first=Stephen |last=Miller |date=30 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Sun |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Louis Guss, 90, American actor (Moonstruck, Highlander, The Godfather).{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/news/actor-louis-guss-dies-at-90-1117995194/ |title=Actor Louis Guss dies at 90 |date=3 November 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Stan Kann, 83, American organist and Tonight Show regular, complications from heart procedure.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-04-me-kann4-story.html |title=Organist got swept up in a vacuum cleaner fixation |first=Jon |last=Thurber |date=4 October 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, 72, Indian politician.{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/Salahuddin-Owaisi-passes-away/article15313220.ece |title= Salahuddin Owaisi passes away |date=30 September 2008 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Antônio Sarto, 82, Brazilian bishop of Barra do Garças.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsarto.html |title=Bishop Antônio Sarto |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Glen Sheil, 78, Australian medical practitioner and politician, Senator (1974–1981, 1984–1990).{{cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/former-senator-sheil-dies-aged-79-20081006-4uku.html |title=Former senator Sheil dies aged 79 |date=6 October 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Anthony Spero, 79, American financier, leader of Bonanno crime family, after short illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nymob025866607oct02,0,6177734.story |title=Anthony Spero, leader of Bonanno crime family, dead at 79 |first=Anthony M. |last=DeStefano |date=2 October 2008 |newspaper=Newsday |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028162448/http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nymob025866607oct02,0,6177734.story |archive-date=28 October 2008}}

*Relus ter Beek, 64, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1989–1994), abolished conscription, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/politicus-relus-ter-beek-overleden~b13e4cb7/ |title=Politicus Relus ter Beek overleden |date=29 September 2008 |newspaper=de Volkskrant |language=nl |access-date=17 October 2018}}

Jock Wilson, 105, British soldier, UK's oldest D-Day veteran.{{cite news |url=http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Oldest-Normandy-veteran-dies-aged.4540108.jp |title=Oldest Normandy veteran dies aged 105 |first=Liam |last=Paterson |date=30 September 2008 |newspaper=The Scotsman |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001192329/http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Oldest-Normandy-veteran-dies-aged.4540108.jp |archive-date=1 October 2008}}

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Henry Adler, 93, American drummer, teacher of Buddy Rich.{{cite web |url=https://www.namm.org/news/articles/remembering-henry-adler-1915-2008 |title=Remembering Henry Adler 1915–2008 |website=National Association of Music Merchants |access-date=17 October 2018 |archive-date=October 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017082147/https://www.namm.org/news/articles/remembering-henry-adler-1915-2008 |url-status=dead }}
Ed Brinkman, 66, American baseball player and coach, lung cancer.{{cite web |url=http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/content/printer_friendly/cws/y2008/m09/d30/c3576363.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716145706/http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/content/printer_friendly/cws/y2008/m09/d30/c3576363.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |title=Former White Sox coach and scout Eddie Brinkman passes away |date=30 September 2008 |website=Major League Baseball |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Sam Calder, 92, Australian politician and World War II fighter pilot, MP (1966–1980).{{cite news |url=http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/10/02/6991_ntnews.html |title=PM rejects state funeral for NT hero |last=Bourchier |first=Daniel |date=2 October 2008 |newspaper=Northern Territory News |access-date=17 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212191611/http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/10/02/6991_ntnews.html |archive-date=12 February 2012}}
J. L. Chestnut, 77, American civil rights lawyer, kidney failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/us/01chestnut.html |title=J.L. Chestnut Jr., Early Leader in Civil Rights Movement, Is Dead at 77 |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=30 September 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=17 October 2018}}
Richard Haine, 91, British Royal Air Force officer.{{cite web |title=Group Captain Dickie Haine |website=The Daily Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228143340/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3264112/Group-Captain-Dickie-Haine.html |archive-date=2021-02-28 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3264112/Group-Captain-Dickie-Haine.html}}
J. B. Jeyaretnam, 82, Singaporean politician, MP (1981–1986), NCMP (1997–2001), heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7643379.stm |title=Singapore opposition leader dies |date=30 September 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=17 October 2018}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2008-09-01,2008-09-30&adult=include List of September 2008 deaths] at IMDb

*2008-09