deaths in October 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 2008

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Ian Collier, 65, British singer and actor (Doctor Who).{{cite web |url=http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkFFApEuEvxUXXoDM&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyle |title=Ian Collier |last=Lyon |first=Shaun |date=7 October 2008 |website=Outpost Gallifrey |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009224047/http://www.gallifreyone.com/cgi-bin/viewnews.cgi?id=EkkFFApEuEvxUXXoDM&tmpl=newsrss&style=feedstyle |archive-date=9 October 2008}}
Robert Couturier, 103, French sculptor.{{cite web |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxiPk6lTcfAD7acw846UCFmXSM-Q |title=Mort du sculpteur Robert Couturier, disciple de Maillol, à l'âge de 103 ans |date=2 October 2008 |website=Agence France-Presse |language=fr |access-date=4 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201105623/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxiPk6lTcfAD7acw846UCFmXSM-Q |archive-date=1 December 2008}}
J. Don Ferguson, 74, American actor (Norma Rae, Maximum Overdrive, Major League: Back to the Minors), leukemia.[https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2008/10/03/j-don-ferguson-actor-never-left-savannah/13368617007/ J. Don Ferguson: Actor never left Savannah]
Bill Flagg, 79, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Peru (1973–1977).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3211601/The-Right-Reverend-Bill-Flagg.html |title=The Right Reverend Bill Flagg |date=16 October 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Daphney Hlomuka, 59, South African actress, kidney cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Insight/Article.aspx?id%3D856275 |title=Daphney Hlomuka: Much-loved actress |date=5 October 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=26 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107135535/http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Insight/Article.aspx?id=856275 |archive-date=7 January 2009}}
Val Jansante, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/postgazette/obituary.aspx?n=valerio-r-jansante-val&pid=118272421 |title=Valerio R. "Val" Jansante |date=2 October 2008 |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |via=Legacy.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Detlef Lewe, 69, German canoeist, 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, after brief illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/schwerte/2008/10/1/news-80677537/detail.html |title=Die Kanu-Legende lebt nicht mehr |last=Westerhoff |first=Friedrich |date=1 October 2008 |newspaper=Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung |language=de |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005050148/http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/schwerte/2008/10/1/news-80677537/detail.html |archive-date=5 October 2008}}
House Peters, Jr., 92, American actor (Mr. Clean), pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://ap.google.com:80/article/ALeqM5gjJByrFKgrYqZ-hscJEBr359frjgD93I5EO80 |title=Mr. Clean actor House Peters Jr. dead at 92 |first=Raquel Maria |last=Dillon |date=5 October 2008 |website=Associated Press |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005103904/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gjJByrFKgrYqZ-hscJEBr359frjgD93I5EO80 |archive-date=5 October 2008}}
Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio), acute respiratory disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.kingstontrio.com/html/kt_news.htm |title=News: We've Lost Nick |website=The Kingston Trio |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005073508/http://www.kingstontrio.com/html/kt_news.htm |archive-date=2008-10-05 }}
Arlene Sherman, 61, American television producer (Sesame Street).{{cite web |url=http://www.awn.com/news/passing/sesame-workshop-producer-arlene-sherman-passes-away |title=Sesame Workshop Producer Arlene Sherman Passes Away |first=Annemarie |last=Moody |date=31 October 2008 |website=Animation World Network |access-date=8 October 2018}}
LeJuan Simon, 27, Trinidadian athlete, complications of pulmonary hypertension.{{cite news |url=http://sun-weekend.com/paper/?asw=view&asw=view&sun=101539086010032008&an=150815087110032008&ac=Sports |title=T&T; Athlete LeJuan Simon dies |date=3 October 2008 |newspaper=Antigua Sun |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005103045/http://sun-weekend.com/paper/?asw=view&asw=view&sun=101539086010032008&an=150815087110032008&ac=Sports |archive-date=5 October 2008}}
Poornam Viswanathan, 88, Indian actor, multiple organ failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/Poornam-Viswanathan-dead/article15315194.ece |title= Poornam Viswanathan dead |date=2 October 2008 |newspaper=The Hindu |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Boris Yefimov, 108, Russian political cartoonist.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/europe/05yefimov.html |title=Boris Yefimov, Sharp Russian Cartoonist Who Was Beloved by Stalin, Dies at 109 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=4 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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George Anselevicius, 85, Lithuanian-born American architect.https://www.abqjournal.com/obits/profiles/23852330347obitsprofiles10-23-08.htm {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}
Bonnie Bluh, 82, American feminist writer, aortic dissection.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=bonnie-bluh&pid=118521026 |title=Bonnie Bluh |date=7 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |via=Legacy.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}

*Choi Jin-sil, 39, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/02/DDUK13ADDN.DTL |title=South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil found dead |first=Jean H. |last=Lee |date=3 October 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=8 October 2018}}

Rob Guest, 58, British-born New Zealand actor and singer, stroke.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24434440-661,00.html |title=Theatre great Rob Guest dies after suffering a stroke |date=2 October 2008 |newspaper=Herald Sun |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002224257/http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24434440-661,00.html |archive-date=2 October 2008}}
Anna Hagemann, 89, German Olympic athlete.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/anna-hagemann-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417222319/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/anna-hagemann-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Anna Hagemann |website=Sports Reference |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Shaharom Husain, 88, Malaysian historian.{{cite web |url=http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=362319 |title=Historian Dr Shaharom Husain Dies |date=2 October 2008 |website=Bernama |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604012908/http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=362319 |archive-date=4 June 2011}}
Kataejar Jibas, 55, Marshallese politician, mayor of Bikini Atoll since 2007, injuries from a car accident.{{cite web |url=https://www.bikiniatoll.com/Kataejar%20Jibas%20Memorial%20Page.html |title=The Life and Funeral of Hon. Bikinian Mayor Kataejar Jibas |website=Bikini Atoll |access-date=8 October 2018}}
John Sjoberg, 67, British footballer (Leicester City F.C.).{{cite web |url=http://www.thisisannouncements.co.uk/5860563 |title=John Sjoberg |date=8 October 2008 |website=ThisIsAnnouncements.co.uk |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Zulfiqar Ahmed, 82, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C10%5C04%5Cstory_4-10-2008_pg2_7 |title=Former Test cricketer Zulfiqar passes away |date=4 October 2008 |newspaper=Daily Times |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005014045/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C10%5C04%5Cstory_4-10-2008_pg2_7 |archive-date=5 October 2008}}
Mahir al-Zubaydi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot.{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/04/iraq.main/index.html |title=U.S. military says al Qaeda in Iraq mastermind dead |date=4 October 2008 |website=CNN |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Geoffrey Davis, 74, Australian doctor.{{cite web |url=http://www.priyoaustralia.com.au/community-news/21795-friend-of-bangladesh-dr-geoffrey-davis-passes-away.html |title=Friend of Bangladesh Dr Geoffrey Davis passes away |first=Kamrul Ahsan |last=Khan |date=8 October 2008 |website=Priyo Australia |access-date=8 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820001325/http://www.priyoaustralia.com.au/community-news/21795-friend-of-bangladesh-dr-geoffrey-davis-passes-away.html |archive-date=August 20, 2013 |url-status=dead }}
Jean Foyer, 87, French politician, Minister of Justice (1962–1967) and Minister of Health (1972–1973).{{cite news |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2008/10/03/01011-20081003FILWWW00406-mort-de-jean-foyer-ministre-de-de-gaulle.php |title=Mort de Jean Foyer, ministre de de Gaulle |date=3 October 2008 |newspaper=Le Figaro |language=fr |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Frederick Charles Hurrell, 80, British Royal Air Force officer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3205032/Air-Vice-Marshal-Freddie-Hurrell.html|title=Air Vice-Marshal Freddie Hurrell|website=The Telegraph }}
Hugo Ironside, 90, British soldier.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3550917/Brigadier-Hugo-Ironside.html |title=Brigadier Hugo Ironside |date=4 December 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Johnny "J", 39, American hip-hop producer, apparent suicide by jumping.{{cite web |url=http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/10/04/20553711.aspx |title=Tupac Producer Johnny J Dead of Apparent Suicide |last=Moore |first=Morris |date=4 October 2008 |website=AllHipHop |access-date=23 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005161119/http://allhiphop.com/stories/news/archive/2008/10/04/20553711.aspx |archive-date=5 October 2008}}
Rajendra Singh Lodha, 66, Indian accountant, chairman of the Birla Corporation, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News_by_Industry/R_S_Lodha_dies_in_London/articleshow/3558504.cms |title=R. S. Lodha passes away in London |date=4 October 2008 |newspaper=The Economic Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, 87, British businessman and journalist, MP (1952–1973), viral infection.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7652321.stm |title=Former minister Lord Thomson dies |date=4 October 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Harry Bath, 83, Australian National Rugby League player and coach, after long illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/harry-bath-rugby-league-player-who-twice-won-the-challenge-cup-with-warrington-957909.html |title=Harry Bath: Rugby league player who twice won the Challenge Cup with Warrington |last=Hadfield |first=Dave |date=11 October 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ted Briggs, 85, British sailor, last survivor of the sinking of {{HMS|Hood|51|6}}.{{cite web |url=http://www.hmshood.com/crew/biography/tedbriggs_bio.htm |title=Lieutenant A.E.P. "Ted" Briggs, MBE |first=Frank |last=Allen |website=HMS Hood Association |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Craig Fertig, 66, American football player and coach, kidney failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/sports/ncaafootball/07fertig.html |title=Craig Fertig, Mainstay at U.S.C., Dies at 66 |date=6 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Al Gallodoro, 95, American jazz musician, after brief illness.{{cite news |url=http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/10/08/jazz-legend-with-deep-birmingham-connection-dies/ |title=Jazz great Al Gallodoro, who grew up in Birmingham, dies |last=Chambers |first=J. |date=8 October 2008 |newspaper=Birmingham Weekly |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081118004804/http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/10/08/jazz-legend-with-deep-birmingham-connection-dies/ |archive-date=18 November 2008}}
Derek Jones, 81, British colonial official, Hong Kong Secretary for Economic Services (1973–1976), Environment (1976–1981).{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetimes-uk/obituary-preview.aspx?pid=118594461 |title=Derek John Claremont Jones CMG |newspaper=The Times |via=Legacy.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Saul Laskin, 90, Canadian politician, first mayor of Thunder Bay, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://lakesuperiornews.info/News/SaulLaskin90Dies/tabid/748/Default.aspx |title=Saul Laskin dies at 90 |date=5 October 2008 |website=Lake Superior News |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090110194617/http://lakesuperiornews.info/News/SaulLaskin90Dies/tabid/748/Default.aspx |archive-date=10 January 2009}}
Peter Vansittart, 88, British writer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-vansittart-influential-figure-in-english-literary-life-who-brought-an-air-of-seriousness-to-the-historical-novel-955431.html |title=Peter Vansittart: Influential figure in English literary life who brought an air of seriousness to the historical novel |first=D. J. |last=Taylor |author-link=D. J. Taylor (writer) |date=9 October 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Ernest Beutler, 80, American hematologist, lymphoma.{{cite news |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20081007/news_1m7beutler.html |title=Dr. Ernest Beutler; Scripps institute researcher was hematology pioneer |last=Darcé |first=Keith |date=7 October 2008 |newspaper=The San Diego Union-Tribune |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010194218/http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20081007/news_1m7beutler.html |archive-date=10 October 2008}}
Beth A. Brown, 39, American NASA astrophysicist, pulmonary embolism.
Kim Chan, 90, Chinese-born American actor (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Fifth Element, Lethal Weapon 4).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/arts/television/10chan.html |title=Kim Chan, Who Had Roles in TV and 'King of Comedy,' Is Dead |first=William |last=Grimes |date=9 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Leopoldo Elia, 82, Italian legal scholar, President of the Constitutional Court, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994).{{cite news |url=https://www.corriere.it/cronache/08_ottobre_06/leopoldo_elia_02814504-9375-11dd-8968-00144f02aabc.shtml |title=Consulta, è morto Leopoldo Elia |date=6 October 2008 |newspaper=Corriere della Sera |language=it |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Servando González, 85, Mexican documentary film director.{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/mexican-director-servando-gonzalez-dies-85-article-1.303615 |title=Mexican director Servando Gonzalez dies at 85 |date=7 October 2008 |newspaper=New York Daily News |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012060116/http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/mexican-director-servando-gonzalez-dies-85-article-1.303615 |archive-date=12 October 2012}}
Mohamed Moumou, 43, Iraqi al-Qaeda second-in-command, shot.{{cite web |url=http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-10-15-voa11.cfm |title=Coalition Kills Number Two al-Qaida Leader in Iraq |first=Al |last=Pessin |date=15 October 2008 |website=VOA News |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081018203343/http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-10-15-voa11.cfm |archive-date=18 October 2008}}
Howard G. Munson, 84, American judge.{{cite news |url=http://obits.syracuse.com/obituaries/syracuse/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=118573165 |title=Howard G. Munson |date=8 October 2008 |newspaper=The Post-Standard |via=Legacy.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Iba N'Diaye, 80, Senegalese painter, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/arts/15ndiaye.html |title=Iba Ndiaye, African Modernist Painter, Is Dead at 80 |first=Holland |last=Cotter |author-link=Holland Cotter |date=15 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ken Ogata, 71, Japanese actor (The Ballad of Narayama), liver cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/oct/07/worldcinema |title=Ballad of Narayama's Ken Ogata dies aged 71 |first=Ben |last=Child |date=7 October 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Hans Richter, 89, German actor and director (Emil and the Detectives).{{cite web |url=http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/die-feuerzangenbowle-schauspieler-hans-richter-ist-tot-a-582287.html |title='Die Feuerzangenbowle': Schauspieler Hans Richter ist tot |date=5 October 2008 |website=Spiegel Online |language=de |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Lloyd Thaxton, 81, American television personality, multiple myeloma.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-thaxton8-2008oct08,0,2214593.story |title=Zany host of popular television dance show |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=8 October 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010010236/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-thaxton8-2008oct08,0,2214593.story |archive-date=10 October 2008}}

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Murad Abro, 42, Pakistani politician, road accident.{{cite web |url=http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54742&Itemid=2%2F |title=Associated Press of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency ) - Former minister dies in a road accident |website=www.app.com.pk |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318115136/http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=54742&Itemid=2%2F |archive-date=18 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}
Peter Avery, 85, British scholar and Iranian specialist.{{cite web |url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008100903 |title=Peter Avery OBE (1923–2008) |date=9 October 2008 |website=University of Cambridge |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606203144/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008100903 |archive-date=6 June 2011}}
Larry Belcher, 61, American politician, member of Kentucky House of Representatives (1999–2002, since 2006), car accident.{{cite web |url=https://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/30549484.html |title=KY Lawmaker Killed In Crash |date=6 October 2008 |website=WKYT-TV |access-date=8 October 2018 |archive-date=October 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009013139/https://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/30549484.html |url-status=dead }}
Paul Clark, 68, British judge.{{cite news |url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/community/obituaries/obits/3761384.Paul_Clark/ |title=Paul Clark |date=15 October 2008 |newspaper=Oxford Mail |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Peter Cox, 82, Australian politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/minister-considered-one-of-the-best/2008/10/12/1223749840440.html |title=Minister considered one of the best |date=13 October 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Paavo Haavikko, 77, Finnish poet and playwright, after long illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.yle.fi/news/id103711.html |title=Author Paavo Haavikko Dies at 77 |date=13 October 2008 |newspaper=Yle |access-date=8 October 2018 |archive-date=October 8, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008100150/http://www.yle.fi/news/id103711.html |url-status=dead }}
Olga Kaljakin, 57, American art director and film poster artist (The Last Samurai, Field of Dreams, Moonstruck), emphysema.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=118641397 |title=Olga Kaljakin |date=10 October 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |via=Legacy.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Nadia Nerina, 80, South African ballerina.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3155126/Nadia-Nerina.html |title=Nadia Nerina |date=7 October 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Janaka Perera, 62, Sri Lankan general and politician, bomb blast injuries.{{cite news |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/324264 |title=Lanka opposition leader dies in attack |date=7 October 2008 |newspaper=Dawn |location=Pakistan |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Anne Margrethe Strømsheim, 94, Norwegian resistance member.{{cite news |url=http://www.bladet.no/nyheter/article3834506.ece |title=Lotten fra Hegra Festning er død |last=Haugen |first=Martin |date=7 October 2008 |newspaper=Stjørdalens Blad |language=no |access-date=13 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009022027/http://www.bladet.no/nyheter/article3834506.ece |archive-date=9 October 2008}}
Sir John Young, 88, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Victoria (1974–1991), Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria (1974–1995).{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/traditionalist-faithful-to-spirit-of-the-law-20081009-4xlc.html |title=Traditionalist faithful to spirit of the law |date=10 October 2008 |newspaper=The Age |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Peter Copley, 93, British actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/oct/11/theatre-television |title=Peter Copley |first=Paul |last=Unwin |date=11 October 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Cozzene, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.{{cite web |url=http://news.bloodhorse.com/article/47445.htm |title=Archived copy |website=news.bloodhorse.com |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010092756/http://news.bloodhorse.com/article/47445.htm |archive-date=10 October 2008 |url-status=dead}}
Bruce Dal Canton, 66, American baseball player, esophageal cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/sports/baseball/11dalcanton.html |title=Bruce Dal Canton, Teacher Turned Pitcher, Is Dead at 66 |date=10 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Leslie Hardman, 95, British Army Jewish chaplain at liberation of Bergen-Belsen.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3155068/The-Reverend-Leslie-Hardman.html |title=The Reverend Leslie Hardman |date=7 October 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
George Kissell, 88, American baseball coach (St. Louis Cardinals), car accident.{{cite web |url=http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/C8A40753ED4823BC862574DC00170C66?OpenDocument |title=George Kissell: 1920–2008 |last=Goold |first=Derrick |date=8 October 2008 |newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009115808/http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/C8A40753ED4823BC862574DC00170C66?OpenDocument |archive-date=2008-10-09 }}
Ivar Mathisen, 88, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) sprint canoer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/ivar-mathisen-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418034325/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/ivar-mathisen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Ivar Mathisen |website=Sports Reference |access-date=8 October 2018}}
DeWayne McKinney, 47, American ATM entrepreneur wrongfully convicted of murder, traffic accident.{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=5987657&page=1 |title=DeWayne McKinney Dies In Mo-ped Accident |last1=Fulginiti |first1=Mary |last2=Redmond |first2=Lynn |last3=Johnson |first3=Sylvia |last4=Caron |first4=Christina |name-list-style=amp |date=8 October 2008 |website=ABC News |access-date=8 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008175130/https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=5987657&page=1 |archive-date=October 8, 2018 |url-status=dead }}
George Emil Palade, 95, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1974).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/health/10palade.html |title=George Palade, Nobel Winner for Work Inspiring Modern Cell Biology, Dies at 95 |first=Andrew |last=Pollack |date=9 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Princess Rooney, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.{{cite web | last=Deckard | first=Leslie | title=Champion Princess Rooney Dead | website=BloodHorse.com | date=7 October 2008 | url=https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/151832/champion-princess-rooney-dead | access-date=3 October 2023}}
Miles Richmond, 85, British painter.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/miles-richmond-painter-who-followed-his-teacher-david-bomberg-on-an-uncompromising-artistic-path-981773.html |title=Miles Richmond: Painter who followed his teacher David Bomberg on an uncompromising artistic path |first=Paul |last=Trewhela |date=1 November 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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David Akutagawa, 71, Japanese Canadian martial artist, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.renshikan.com/ |title=Home |website=renshikan.com}}
Chicão, 59, Brazilian footballer.{{cite web |url=http://www.national-football-teams.com/player/19106/Chicao.html |title=Chicão |first=Benjamin |last=Strack-Zimmermann |website=National Football Teams |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Jim Drake, 77, British rugby league player.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/jim-drake-tough-rugby-league-prop-for-hull-and-great-britain-997960.html |title=Jim Drake: Tough rugby league prop for Hull and Great Britain |first=Dave |last=Hadfield |date=7 November 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Bob Friend, 70, British newscaster, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Bob-Friend-Former-Sky-News-Presenter-Dies-Aged-70-After-Suffering-From-Cancer/Article/200810115115343 |title=Sky News Loses Its Best Friend |first=Anna |last=Botting |date=9 October 2008 |website=Sky News |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309113539/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Bob-Friend-Former-Sky-News-Presenter-Dies-Aged-70-After-Suffering-From-Cancer/Article/200810115115343 |archive-date=9 March 2010}}
Gidget Gein, 39, American bassist (Marilyn Manson), drug overdose.{{cite web |url=http://www.undercover.fm/news/6462-original-marilyn-manson-bass-player-ods |title=Original Marilyn Manson Bass Player ODs |first=Paul |last=Cashmere |date=11 October 2008 |website=Undercover.fm |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813221930/http://www.undercover.fm/news/6462-original-marilyn-manson-bass-player-ods |archive-date=13 August 2011}}
Pete Goegan, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars, New York Rangers).[https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/chroniclejournal/name/peter-goegan-obituary?pid=174130584 Peter John Goegan]
Tanya Halesworth, 73, Australian television news presenter, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/tv-presenter-led-many-lives/2008/10/19/1224351052228.html |title=TV presenter led many lives |first=Tony |last=Stephens |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Eileen Herlie, 90, British-born American actress (Hamlet, All My Children), complications of pneumonia.{{cite news |url=http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/telebuddy/archives/2008/10/rip_all_my_chil.shtml |title=RIP: 'All My Children' actress dies |last=Morrow |first=Terry |date=9 October 2008 |newspaper=Knoxville News Sentinel |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013194655/http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/telebuddy/archives/2008/10/rip_all_my_chil.shtml |archive-date=13 October 2008}}
Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld, 70, British politician, MP (1979–1997), cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7659745.stm |title=Death of Labour peer from cancer |date=8 October 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Cliff Malone, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), heart failure.[https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/clifford-malone-obituary?pid=189932085 Clifford Malone]
Les McCrabb, 93, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).{{cite news |url=http://obits.lancasteronline.com/index.php?p%3D2208735 |title=Obituary of Lester W. McCrabb |newspaper=LNP |access-date=11 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010231817/http://obits.lancasteronline.com/index.php?p=2208735 |archive-date=10 October 2008}}

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Karl Albert, 87, German philosopher and professor.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gardez.de/htm-dateien/biographien/albert.htm |title=Gardez |access-date=January 29, 2022 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055552/http://www.gardez.de/htm-dateien/biographien/albert.htm |url-status=dead }}
Albert Hall, 74, American hammer throw champion, complications from Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/10/17/al_hall_74_four_time_olympian_in_hammer_throw_was_from_hanson/ |title=Al Hall, 74; four-time Olympian in hammer throw was from Hanson |first=Marvin |last=Pave |date=17 October 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Milan Kymlicka, 72, Czech-born Canadian composer and conductor.{{cite news |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20081011.93172424/BDAStory/BDA/deaths |title=Deaths: Milan Kymlicka (1936–2008) |date=11 October 2008 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116015252/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20081011.93172424/BDAStory/BDA/deaths |archive-date=16 January 2009}}
David Lett, 69, American winemaker, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/dining/14lett1.html |title=David Lett, Oregon Wine Pioneer, Dies at 69 |last=Asimov |first=Eric |author-link=Eric Asimov |date=13 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Bert Loxley, 74, British footballer and manager, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/lincoln_city/7663061.stm |title=Former Lincoln boss Loxley dies |date=10 October 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ardeshir Mohasses, 70, Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/design/20mohassess.html |title=Ardeshir Mohassess, Iranian Cartoonist, Is Dead at 70 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Judith Wachs, 70, American musician (Voice of the Turtle) and promoter of Sephardic music, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/10/19/judith_wachs_70_brought_new_life_to_sephardic_music/ |title=Judith Wachs, 70; brought new life to Sephardic music |first=Bryan |last=Marquard |date=19 October 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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James Benson, 63, American entrepreneur (SpaceDev), brain tumor.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503271.html |title=James Benson; Inventor Led Computer, Space Firms |first=Patricia |last=Sullivan |date=16 October 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Alton Ellis, 70, Jamaican singer, lymphatic cancer.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7665594.stm |title=Rocksteady star Ellis dies at 70 |date=11 October 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Sid Hudson, 93, American baseball player.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102303270.html |title=Sid Hudson, 93; Pitched For Senators in 1940s |last=Holley |first=Joe |date=24 October 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak, 100, Pakistani politician and diplomat, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D55299%26Itemid%3D2 |title=Aslam Khattak dies after protracted illness |date=10 October 2008 |website=Associated Press of Pakistan |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017081844/http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55299&Itemid=2 |archive-date=17 October 2008}}
Gerald Leeman, 86, American wrestler, Olympic silver medallist (1948).{{cite news |url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081013/SPORTS020703/81013031 |title=Gerald "Germ" Leeman |date=12 October 2008 |newspaper=The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425202626/https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/sunday/gerald-germ-leeman/article_e08fccd6-76fb-5b44-b30c-91374fd74415.html |archive-date=25 April 2016}}
Kazuyoshi Miura, 61, Japanese businessman, murder suspect, suicide by hanging.{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/11/kazuyoshi-miura-japanese_n_133857.html |title=Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese Businessman Accused of Murder Plot, Found Dead |last=Deutsch |first=Linda |author-link=Linda Deutsch |date=11 October 2008 |website=Huffington Post |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014041822/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/11/kazuyoshi-miura-japanese_n_133857.html |archive-date=14 October 2008}}
Javad Nurbakhsh, 81, Iranian spiritual leader.{{cite web |url=http://www.nimatullahi.org/our-order/history/dr-javad-nurbakhsh.php |title=Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh |website=The Nimatullahi Sufi Order |access-date=8 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004012957/http://www.nimatullahi.org/our-order/history/dr-javad-nurbakhsh.php |archive-date=October 4, 2018 |url-status=dead }}
Jiřina Petrovická, 85, Czech actress.{{cite web |url=http://www.csfd.cz/herec/25752-jirina-petrovicka/ |title=Jiřina Petrovická |website=Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze |language=cs |access-date=8 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228010959/http://www.csfd.cz/herec/25752-jirina-petrovicka/ |archive-date=December 28, 2010 |url-status=dead }}
Alexey Prokurorov, 44, Russian cross-country skier, car accident.{{cn|date=March 2023}}
Leo Rosner, 90, Polish-born Australian musician, Holocaust survivor in Schindler's List, complications of Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24515276-661,00.html |title=Oskar Schindler survivor dies in Melbourne |first=James |last=Campbell |date=19 October 2008 |newspaper=Herald Sun |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081109061752/http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24515276-661,00.html |archive-date=9 November 2008}}
Summing, 30, American thoroughbred racehorse and sire, natural causes.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Families/Family1g.htm|title = Thoroughbred Bloodlines - Problem - Family 1-g}}
Kurt Weinzierl, 77, Austrian actor.{{cite web |url=http://www.austriantimes.at/index.php?id%3D9087 |title=Austrian actor Kurt Weinzierl dies at 77 years of age |date=13 October 2008 |website=Austrian Times |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531200905/http://www.austriantimes.at/index.php?id=9087 |archive-date=31 May 2011}}

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Vija Artmane, 79, Latvian actress, complications from strokes.{{cite web |url=https://www.efis.ee/et/varamu/biograafiline-leksikon/vija-artmane |title=Vija Artmane 1929–2008 |website=Eesti Filmi Andmebaas |language=et |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Daniel Awdry, 84, British politician, MP for Chippenham (1962–1979).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3255800/Daniel-Awdry.html |title=Daniel Awdry |date=24 October 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
William Claxton, 80, American photographer, complications of heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-claxton13-2008oct13,0,4633702.story |title=William Claxton dies at 80; photographer helped make Chet Baker famous |first=Jon |last=Thurber |date=13 October 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016085157/http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-claxton13-2008oct13,0,4633702.story |archive-date=16 October 2008}}
Kevin Foster, 39, American baseball player, renal cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=118820114 |title=Kevin Foster 1969–2008 |date=14 October 2008 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |via=Legacy.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Jörg Haider, 58, Austrian politician, Governor of Carinthia (1989–1991, since 1999), leader of the FPÖ and BZÖ, car accident.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7664846.stm |title=Austria's Haider dies in accident |date=11 October 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Russ Hamilton, 76, British singer.{{cite web |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/10/17/russ-hamilton-s-lonely-death-91466-22054166 |title=Russ Hamilton's lonely death |first=Darren |last=Devine |date=17 October 2008 |website=Wales Online |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021100439/http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/10/17/russ-hamilton-s-lonely-death-91466-22054166/ |archive-date=21 October 2008}}
Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, 42, Surinamese-born Dutch television producer, car accident.{{cite news |url=http://www.parool.nl/buitenland/rtl-presentator-hasselbach-verongelukt~a36800/ |title=RTL-presentator Hasselbach verongelukt - Buitenland |date=11 October 2008|newspaper=Het Parool |language=nl |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Neal Hefti, 85, American composer ("Batman Theme", "The Odd Couple Theme"), heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3198193/Neal-Hefti.html |title=Neal Hefti |date=14 October 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
William J. Higginson, 69, American poet and translator.{{cite web |url=http://tobaccoroadpoet.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/bill-higginson-has-died.html |title=Bill Higginson has died |first=Curtis |last=Dunlap |date=11 October 2008 |website=Tobacco Road Poet |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Randy Johnston, 20, American male model, accidental drug overdose.{{cite magazine |url=http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/10/ford_model_randy_johnston_pass.html |title=Ford Model Randy Johnston Passes Away |last=Odell |first=Amy |date=14 October 2008 |magazine=New York |access-date=8 October 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://jezebel.com/5537856/suicidal-models-are-fashions-worst-trend |title=Suicidal Models Are Fashion's Worst Trend |last=Sauers |first=Jenna |date=13 May 2010 |website=Jezebel |access-date=8 October 2018 |archive-date=July 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714122314/http://jezebel.com/5537856/suicidal-models-are-fashions-worst-trend |url-status=dead }}
Hayley Marie Kohle, 26, Canadian fashion model, suicide by jumping.{{cite web |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=0d762cbe-e356-4078-9cf5-a2468589452d |title=Manitoba model's family grapples with alleged suicide in Italy |date=18 October 2008 |website=Canada.com |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110152922/http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=0d762cbe-e356-4078-9cf5-a2468589452d |archive-date=10 November 2012}}
Badar Munir, 68, Pakistani actor, complications of cardiac arrest.{{cite web |url=http://www.geo.tv/10-11-2008/26686.htm |title=Pushto film actor Badar Munir dies |date=11 October 2008 |website=Geo TV |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012042902/http://geo.tv/10-11-2008/26686.htm |archive-date=12 October 2008}}
Scarlett, 13, American stray cat, name source of the Scarlett Award for Animal Heroism, animal euthanasia.{{cite web |url=http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/scarlett.html |title=Scarlett the cat, blaze heroine |website=Purr-n-Fur UK |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Mark Shivas, 70, British film and television producer, Head of BBC Drama (1988–1993).{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mark-shivas-film-and-television-producer-who-worked-with-an-unmatched-range-of-writers-and-directors-964177.html |title=Mark Shivas: Film and television producer who worked with an unmatched range of writers and directors |first=Keith |last=Dewhurst |date=17 October 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Allan Spear, 71, American politician, first openly gay member of Minnesota Senate (1973–2000), complications of heart surgery.{{cite news |url=http://www.startribune.com/politics/30874424.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUncacyi8cyaiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU |title=Longtime state senator Allan Spear dies |last=Tevlin |first=Jon |date=13 October 2008 |newspaper=Star Tribune |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607014650/http://www.startribune.com/politics/30874424.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUncacyi8cyaiUiD3aPc%3A_Yyc%3AaUU |archive-date=7 June 2011}}
Gil Stratton, 86, American television and radio sportscaster (Los Angeles Rams, Santa Anita Racetrack), heart failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-stratton13-2008oct13,0,7894390.story |title=Anchor and sportscaster was also an actor |first=Jon |last=Thurber |date=13 October 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015034515/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-stratton13-2008oct13,0,7894390.story |archive-date=15 October 2008}}
Nelson Symonds, 75, Canadian jazz guitarist, heart attack,{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/montreal-jazz-guitarist-nelson-symonds-dies-at-75-1.734395 |title=Montreal jazz guitarist Nelson Symonds dies at 75 |date=16 October 2008 |website=CBC News |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Sukha Bose, 77, Indian cricket umpire.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/27547.html |title=Sukha Bose |website=ESPN CricInfo |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Lenvil Elliott, 57, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals), heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/18/SP5713K12N.DTL |title=Lenvil Elliott: 1951-2008 |date=18 October 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Chuck Evans, 41, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc2news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id%3Db4f80fc8-96da-461b-8da6-3a29a75db4ab |title=Former Raven Chuck Evans Dies |date=October 2008 |website=WMAR-TV |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014233940/http://www.abc2news.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=b4f80fc8-96da-461b-8da6-3a29a75db4ab |archive-date=14 October 2008}}
Sir Dick Franks, 88, British Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (1979–1982).{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4973918.ece |title=Sir Dick Franks: Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524022832/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4973918.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010}}
Roy K. Moore, 94, American FBI agent known for civil rights investigations, pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/19/AR2008101901796.html |title=Roy K. Moore, 94; FBI Agent Probed Civil Rights Killings |first=Patricia |last=Sullivan |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Cliff Nobles, 67, American pop musician, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid%3D20166394%26BRD%3D1306%26PAG%3D740%26dept_id%3D624456%26rfi%3D6 |title=Montgomery Life obituaries for Oct. 17: Clifford Nobles |date=16 October 2008 |website=ZWire.com |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107132557/http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20166394&BRD=1306&PAG=740&dept_id=624456&rfi=6 |archive-date=7 January 2009}}
Rudolf Pangsepp, 87, Estonian book designer and artist.{{cite web |url=http://www.galerii24.ee/?view=article&action=viewarchive&ID=360 |title=In memoriam Rudolf Pangsepp |date=16 October 2008 |website=Galerii24.ee |language=et |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720125329/http://www.galerii24.ee/?view=article&action=viewarchive&ID=360 |archive-date=20 July 2011}}
James E. Reilly, 60, American soap opera writer, complications from cardiac surgery.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvguide.com/Soaps/James-Reilly-dead-26497.aspx |title=Soaps Scribe James E. Reilly Dies at 60 |first=Matt |last=Mitovich |date=14 October 2008 |website=TV Guide |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017033447/http://www.tvguide.com/Soaps/James-Reilly-dead-26497.aspx |archive-date=17 October 2008}}
John R. Reilly, 80, American lawyer, adviser to six Democratic presidential candidates, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302448.html |title=John R. Reilly; Democratic Adviser |first=Patricia |last=Sullivan |date=14 October 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Allan Rosenfield, 75, American physician, dean of Columbia University School of Public Health (1986–2008), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/nyregion/16rosenfield.html |title=Dr. Allan Rosenfield, Women's Health Advocate, Dies at 75 |first=H. Roger |last=Segelken |date=16 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Emil Steinberger, 79, American physician, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://jhvonline.com/houston-loses-physician-researcher-and-author-p5494.htm |title=Houston loses physician, researcher and author Emil Steinberger, M.D. |date=16 October 2008 |newspaper=Jewish Herald-Voice |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Khryss Adalia, 62, Filipino film, television and stage director, colorectal cancer.{{cite news |url=http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20081013-166143/Director-Khryss-Adalia-passes-away |title=Director Khryss Adalia passes away |date=13 October 2008 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=13 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016070547/http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20081013-166143/Director-Khryss-Adalia-passes-away |archive-date=16 October 2008}}

*Pablo Barrachina Estevan, 95, Spanish bishop of Orihuela-Alicante (1954–1989).{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbarest.html |title=Bishop Pablo Barrachina Estevan |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=8 October 2018}}

Alexei Cherepanov, 19, Russian ice hockey player, acute cardiomyopathy.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/sports/hockey/15rangers.html |title=Death of Rangers Prospect Prompts Inquiry |first=Jeff Z. |last=Klein |date=14 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Arthur J. Crowns, 86, American politician and academic lawyer.{{cite web |url=http://www.downingandlahey.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=618258 |title=Life Legacy: Crowns, Jr., Arthur J. |website=Downing & Lahey Mortuary |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083442/http://www.downingandlahey.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=618258 |archive-date=4 March 2016}}
Guillaume Depardieu, 37, French actor, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/guillaume%20depardieu%20died%20at%2038_1083358 |title=Guillaume Depardieu dead at 38 |date=13 October 2008 |website=Contactmusic.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}

*Antonio José González Zumárraga, 83, Ecuadorian cardinal, stomach cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgonzum.html |title=Cardinal Antonio José González Zumárraga |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=8 October 2018}}

Luciana Pignatelli, 73, Italian socialite, suicide by drug overdose.{{cite web |url=https://www.macleans.ca/uncategorized/who-will-give-in-to-despair-is-a-mystery/ |title=Who will give in to despair is a mystery |first=Barbara |last=Amiel |author-link=Barbara Amiel |date=25 February 2009 |website=Macleans.ca |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Matthew John Rinaldo, 77, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1973–1993), Parkinson's disease.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101402821.html |title=Matthew J. Rinaldo, 77; 10-Term Representative |first=Lauren |last=Wiseman |date=15 October 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Paul Rogers, 87, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1957–1979), lung cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/10/15/paul_rogers_congressman_from_florida/ |title=Paul Rogers, congressman from Florida |date=15 October 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Frank Rosenthal, 79, American gaming executive, sports handicapper, inspiration for the 1995 film Casino, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.lvrj.com/news/30982809.html |title=Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal dead at age 79 |first=John L. |last=Smith |date=14 October 2008 |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081018043030/http://www.lvrj.com/news/30982809.html |archive-date=18 October 2008}}
Eduardus Sangsun, 65, Indonesian bishop of Ruteng, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucanews.com/2008/10/13/ruteng-bishop-dies-of-heart-attack/ |title=Uskup Ruteng Meninggal Akibat Serangan Jantung |trans-title=Bishop Ruteng died as a result of heart attack |date=13 October 2008 |website=Union of Catholic Asian News |language=id |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Françoise Seigner, 80, French comedian and actress, pancreatic cancer.{{cite web |url=https://themovieplanet.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/rip-guillaume-depardieu-1971-2008-francoise-seigner-1928-2008-ken-ogata-1937-2008/ |title=RIP: Guillaume Depardieu (1971-2008), Françoise Seigner (1928-2008) & Ken Ogata (1937-2008) |author=Mr. Hollywood |date=13 October 2008 |website=The Movie Planet |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Eduardo Serrano, 97, Venezuelan musician, conductor and composer.{{cite web |url=http://www.chacao.gov.ve/noticiasdetail.asp?Id=175 |title=Alcalde Leopoldo López develó Busto del compositor Eduardo Serrano |date=October 2000 |website=Chacao.gov.ve |language=es |access-date=7 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927021738/http://www.chacao.gov.ve/noticiasdetail.asp?Id=175 |archive-date=27 September 2007}}
Adam Watene, 31, Cook Islands rugby league player, heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyleague/3191276/Adam-Watenes-death-from-heart-attack-stuns-Wakefield-Trinity-Wildcats-Rugby-League.html |title=Adam Watene's death from heart attack stuns Wakefield Trinity Wildcats |first=David |last=Burke |date=13 October 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Christopher Wicking, 65, British screenwriter.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/06/obituary-christopher-wicking |title=Christopher Wicking |first=Gavin |last=Gaughan |date=6 February 2009 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Barrington J. Bayley, 71, British science fiction author, complications of colorectal cancer.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2008/News_Obit_BarringtonBayley.html |title=Obituary: Barrington J. Bayley |date=15 October 2008 |magazine=Locus |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Richard Cooey, 41, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.{{cite web |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/14/toofat.execution/ |title=Inmate executed after Supreme Court rejects obese argument |first=Bill |last=Mears |date=14 October 2008 |website=CNN |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Robert Furman, 93, American spy during World War II, foreign intelligence chief for Manhattan Project, metastatic melanoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/us/30furman.html |title=R. R. Furman, 93, Dies; Led Bomb-Project Spying |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=29 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Antonio Iannucci, 94, Italian archbishop of Pescara-Penne (1959–1990).{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/biannucci.html |title=Archbishop Antonio Iannucci |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ray Lowry, 64, British cartoonist and illustrator, after long illness.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/40454 |title=NME/Clash artist Ray Lowry passes away |date=15 October 2008 |magazine=NME |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Anne Mackenzie-Stuart, 78, British political activist.{{cite news |url=http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Lady-MackenzieStuart.4702702.jp |title=Lady Mackenzie-Stuart |date=17 November 2008 |newspaper=The Scotsman |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020172118/http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/lady-mackenzie-stuart-1-1147170 |archive-date=20 October 2012}}
Pat Moss, 73, British rally driver, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/oct/27/pat-moss-carlsson-obituary |title=Pat Moss |first=Alan |last=Henry |date=26 October 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, 82, British peer, activist for the disabled.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3387170/Viscount-Ingleby.html |title=Viscount Ingleby |date=5 November 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Kazys Petkevičius, 82, Lithuanian basketball player and coach.{{cite web |url=http://www.eurobasket.lt/lt/naujienos/36894/1 |title=Mirė legendinis Kauno "Žalgirio" žaidėjas ir treneris K. Petkevičius |date=15 October 2008 |website=Eurobasket.lt |language=lt |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019033628/http://www.eurobasket.lt/lt/naujienos/36894/1 |archive-date=19 October 2008}}
Dame Daphne Purves, 99, New Zealand educator.{{cite web |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/4731905a11.html |title=Dame Daphne Purves dies in Dunedin |date=18 October 2008 |website=Stuff.co.nz |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Edie Adams, 81, American actress (Li'l Abner, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Apartment), Tony winner (1957), pneumonia and cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/movies/16adams.html |title=Edie Adams, Actress and Singer (and Flirt With a Cigar), Dies at 81 |first=Bruce |last=Weber |date=16 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, 94, Turkish poet, chronic renal failure.{{cite news |url=http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load%3Ddetay%26link%3D156014%26bolum%3D101 |title=Dağlarca, inventor of modern-day epic Turkish poetry, dies |date=16 October 2008 |newspaper=Today's Zaman |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091007060238/http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=156014&bolum=101 |archive-date=7 October 2009}}
Nathan Davis, 91, American actor (Thief, Holes, Risky Business).{{cite web |url=http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/the_theater_loop/2008/10/nate-davis-chic.html |title=Nathan Davis, Chicago actor ~ 1917–2008 |first=Chris |last=Jones |date=16 October 2008 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214141651/http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/the_theater_loop/2008/10/nate-davis-chic.html |archive-date=14 February 2012}}
Chris Mims, 38, American football player.{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2008-10-15-mims-obit_N.htm?csp=34 |title=Ex-Chargers lineman Chris Mims found dead |date=15 October 2008 |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Jack Narz, 85, American game show host (Concentration), complications from strokes.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/10/veteran_game_show_host_narz_de.php |title=Veteran Game Show Host Narz Dead at 85 |first=Tom |last=Gilbert |date=15 October 2008 |website=TV Week.com |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129185031/http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/10/veteran_game_show_host_narz_de.php |archive-date=29 January 2009}}
Suzzanna, 66, Indonesian actress, complications of diabetes.{{cite news |url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/10/16/horror-film-queen-dies-aged-66.html |title=Horror film queen dies aged 66 |date=16 October 2008 |newspaper=The Jakarta Post |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024112932/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/10/16/horror-film-queen-dies-aged-66.html |archive-date=24 October 2008}}
Eddie Thompson, 68, British businessman, chairman of Dundee United, prostate cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?tm%3D2%26nid%3D3032%26cd%3D2008 |title=Chairman Loses Battle |date=15 October 2008 |website=Dundee United F.C. |access-date=15 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081018042732/http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?tm=2&nid=3032&cd=2008 |archive-date=18 October 2008}}
Des Townson, 74, New Zealand yacht designer, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/4729548a1823.html |title=Sailing pioneer passes away |date=16 October 2008 |website=Stuff.co.nz |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Tom Tresh, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers), heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2008/10/15/sports/doc48f6488003692821930060.txt |title=CMU player, coach, Yankee shortstop Tom Tresh dies at 71 |first=Jim |last=Lahde |date=15 October 2008 |newspaper=Morning Sun |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218081527/http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2008/10/15/sports/doc48f6488003692821930060.txt |archive-date=18 February 2012}}
Roderick Walker, 76, British SAS commander.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5050334.ece |title=Brigadier 'Rory' Walker: SAS commander |date=31 October 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523210221/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5050334.ece |archive-date=23 May 2010}}
Wang Yung-ching, 91, Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire, founder of Formosa Plastics.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/formosaplastcs-idUSTP27650920081016 |title=Taiwan's 3rd richest man, petrochem giant, dies |date=16 October 2016 |website=Reuters |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Germán Abad Valenzuela, 89, Ecuadorian radiologist.{{cite news |url=http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/10/18/0001/1199/63BA6700E5B54253AA4960E20E837348.html |title=Sentido deceso: Germán Abad Valenzuela |date=18 October 2008 |newspaper=El Universo |language=es |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ere Kokkonen, 70, Finnish film director, after illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/a/200810168435975 |title=Ere Kokkonen on kuollut |date=16 October 2008 |newspaper=Iltalehti |language=fi |access-date=8 October 2018}}
David Lee, 70, Canadian sound engineer.{{cite magazine |url=http://playbackonline.ca/2008/10/27/lee-20081027/ |title=David Lee 1938-2008 |first=James |last=Careless |date=27 October 2008 |magazine=Playback |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Paul L. Montgomery, 72, American journalist and reporter (The New York Times), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/nyregion/18montgomery.html |title=Paul Montgomery, Former New York Times Reporter, Is Dead at 72 |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=17 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Dagmar Normet, 87, Estonian writer and translator.{{cite web |url=http://www.postimees.ee/?id=41718 |title=Suri lastekirjanik Dagmar Normet |first=Hanneli |last=Rudi |date=17 October 2008 |newspaper=Postimees |language=et |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Jack Reynolds, 71, American professional wrestling announcer (WWWF/WWF), complications from surgery.{{cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2008/10/17/7123191.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130120201826/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2008/10/17/7123191.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |title=Jack Reynolds: A 'believer' who convinced the fans |first=Steven |last=Johnson |date=17 October 2008 |website=SLAM! Wrestling |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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George M. Keller, 84, American oil executive, founder of Chevron Corporation, complications from orthopedic surgery.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/business/18keller.html |title=George M. Keller, Whose Wager Created Chevron, Is Dead at 84 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=17 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, 95, German prince, member of the House of Wittelsbach.{{Cite news |url=https://www.welt.de/welt_print/article2603063/Wittelsbacher-trauern-um-Ludwig-Prinz-von-Bayern.html |title=Wittelsbacher trauern um Ludwig Prinz von Bayern |date=21 October 2008 |agency=Deutsche Presse-Agentur |newspaper=Die Welt |language=de |access-date=28 October 2017}}
Urmas Ott, 53, Estonian journalist and television host, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/21572/ |title=Prominent journalist dies in hospital |date=17 October 2008 |newspaper=The Baltic Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Santo Bartolomeo Quadri, 88, Italian archbishop of Modena-Nonantola (1983–1996).{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bquadri.html |title=Archbishop Santo Bartolomeo Quadri |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Bill Reilly, 70, American publisher, founder of Primedia, bone and prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/business/media/21reilly.html |title=Bill Reilly, Magazine Publishing Executive, Dies at 70 |first=Bruce |last=Weber |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Levi Stubbs, 72, American vocalist (The Four Tops), complications of cancer and stroke.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1043752/four-tops-vocalist-levi-stubbs-dies-at-72 |title=Four Tops Vocalist Levi Stubbs Dies At 72 |first=Gary |last=Graff |date=17 October 2008 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Nick Weatherspoon, 58, American basketball player, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.cantonrep.com/x1196570143/Illinois-notebook-Former-basketball-star-Weatherspoon-dies |title=Former basketball star Weatherspoon dies |last=Supinie |first=John |date=19 October 2008 |newspaper=The Repository |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ben Weider, 85, Canadian bodybuilding promoter and Napoleon scholar.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/sports/othersports/21weider.html |title=Ben Weider, 85, a Bodybuilding Pioneer |first=William |last=Grimes |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Raymond Delacy Adams, 97, American neurologist and neuropathologist, heart failure.http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/10./26/dr_raymond_d_adams_97_mass_general_neurology_chief_coauthored_textbook/ {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}
Daniel Aguillón, 24, Mexican boxer, brain death caused by knockout.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/sports/22sportsbriefs-MEXICANFEATH_BRF.html |title=Mexican Featherweight Dies |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=21 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}

*Evelyn Ay Sempier, 75, American beauty pageant winner, Miss America (1954), colorectal cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20081022_Evelyn_Sempier__former_Miss_America_from_Pa___dies.html |title=Evelyn Sempier, former Miss America from Pa., dies |last=Naedele |first=Walter F. |date=22 October 2008 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115084745/http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20081022_Evelyn_Sempier__former_Miss_America_from_Pa___dies.html |archive-date=15 January 2009}}

Salvatore Boccaccio, 70, Italian bishop of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bboccs.html |title=Bishop Salvatore Boccaccio |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Albert Boime, 75, American art historian, myelofibrosis.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02boime.html |title=Albert Boime, Leading Art Historian, Dies at 75 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=2 November 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Alfredo E. Evangelista, 82, Filipino archaeologist, discovered the Laguna Copperplate Inscription.{{cite news |url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20081021-167699/Expert-on-past-dies-82 |title=Expert on past dies; 82 |date=21 October 2008 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |access-date=17 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024114447/http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20081021-167699/Expert-on-past-dies-82 |archive-date=24 October 2008}}
Charley Fox, 88, Canadian pilot credited with strafing Erwin Rommel's car, car accident.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3381986/Flight-Lieutenant-Charley-Fox.html |title=Flight Lieutenant Charley Fox |date=4 November 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Peter Gordeno, 69, British actor, singer and dancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/oct/30/obituary |title=Peter Gordeno |first=Terry |last=Monaghan |date=29 October 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Tormod Haugen, 63, Norwegian children's author, after long illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/litteratur/article2722683.ece |title=Tormod Haugen er død |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=Aftenposten |language=no |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023074415/http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/litteratur/article2722683.ece |archive-date=23 October 2008}}
E. K. Mawlong, 62, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2000–2001).{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081019/jsp/frontpage/story_9989062.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022094903/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081019/jsp/frontpage/story_9989062.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 22, 2008 |title=E.K. Mawlong passes away |date=18 October 2008 |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Dave McKenna, 78, American jazz pianist, lung cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/music/20mckenna.html |title=Dave McKenna, Pianist Known for Solo Jazz Work, Dies at 78 |first=Peter |last=Keepnews |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ralph Hanover, 28, Standardbred colt, euthanized.{{Cite web|url=http://www.standardbredcanada.ca/news/champion-pacer-ralph-hanover-euthanized.html|title = Champion Pacer Ralph Hanover Euthanized}}
James J. Rhoades, 66, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate since 1981, car accident.{{cite news |url=http://www2.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=110399 |title=Longtime state Sen. James J. Rhoades dead after traffic accident |date=19 October 2008 |newspaper=Reading Eagle |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Dee Dee Warwick, 66, American soul singer, sister of Dionne Warwick, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gZwT021JKviyJAeyXwJW73sOHrhgD93TSOJ80 |title=Soul singer Dee Dee Warwick dies in NJ at age 63 |date=24 October 2008 |website=Associated Press |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024034157/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gZwT021JKviyJAeyXwJW73sOHrhgD93TSOJ80 |archive-date=24 October 2008}}
Xie Jin, 84, Chinese film director.{{cite web |url=http://english.sina.com/entertainment/2008/1017/192508.html |title=Renowned Chinese film director Xie Jin dies |date=18 October 2008 |website=SINA English |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Nazir Ahmed, 93, Indian scholar, writer, and teacher.{{cite web |url=http://www.professorrehanakhatoon.org/about-rehana-khatoon.html |title=:: Professor Rehana Khatoon :: |website=www.professorrehanakhatoon.org |access-date=5 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006113600/http://www.professorrehanakhatoon.org/about-rehana-khatoon.html |archive-date=6 October 2014 |url-status=dead}}
Richard Blackwell, 86, American fashion critic ("Mr. Blackwell's Ten Worst Dressed Women"), intestinal infection.{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/20/richard-blackwell-of-mr-b_n_136100.html |title=Richard Blackwell, of Mr. Blackwell's Worst Dressed List, Dies At 86 |last=Thomas |first=Bob |date=20 October 2008 |website=The Huffington Post |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023030716/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/20/richard-blackwell-of-mr-b_n_136100.html |archive-date=23 October 2008}}
John A. Campbell, 67, Australian-born American lumber executive, president and CEO of Pacific Lumber Company, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/business/24campbell.html |title=John Campbell, Logging Chief, Dies at 67 |first=Bruce |last=Weber |date=23 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Tony Dean, 67, American outdoors broadcaster, complications from appendectomy.{{cite web |url=http://www.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/31359679.html |title=Outdoors broadcaster Tony Dean dies |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=Star Tribune |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025065922/http://www.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/31359679.html |archive-date=25 October 2008}}
Marilyn Ferguson, 70, American writer (The Aquarian Conspiracy), heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-ferguson2-2008nov02-story.html |title=Marilyn Ferguson, 70, dies; writer's 'The Aquarian Conspiracy' was pivotal in New Age movement |first=Elaine |last=Woo |date=2 November 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Hal Kant, 77, American lawyer for the Grateful Dead, pancreatic cancer.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1043701/grateful-dead-lawyer-hal-kant-dies |title=Grateful Dead Lawyer Hal Kant Dies |date=22 October 2008 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Lia Maivia, 81, Samoan wrestling promoter, wife of Peter Maivia, grandmother of Dwayne Johnson.{{cite web |url=http://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2008/1022/358138.shtml |title=Leah Maivia Passes Away, 800th RAW Update Inside, & Lots More News |last=Clark |first=Ryan |date=22 October 2008 |website=Wrestling Inc. |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025062352/http://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2008/1022/358138.shtml |archive-date=25 October 2008}}
Harry T. Mangurian, Jr., 82, American businessman and horse breeder, former owner of the Boston Celtics, leukemia.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=3655447 |title=Ex-Celtics owner, horse breeder Mangurian dies |date=21 October 2008 |website=ESPN |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Mireille Marokvia, 99, French writer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/arts/27marovkia.html |title=Mireille Marokvia, 99, Memoirist, Dies |first=William |last=Grimes |date=27 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Rudy Ray Moore, 81, American comedian and actor (Dolemite), complications from diabetes.{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2008/10/21/2008-10-21_dolemite_comedian_rudy_ray_moore_inspira-3.html |title='Dolemite' comedian Rudy Ray Moore, inspiration to hip hop culture, dead at 81 years old |first=David |last=Hinckley |date=21 October 2008 |newspaper=New York Daily News |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205181259/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/dolemite-comedian-rudy-ray-moore-inspiration-hip-hop-culture-dead-81-years-old-article-1.303143 |archive-date=5 February 2017}}
Robert B. Nett, 86, American Medal of Honor recipient, after brief illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/us/25nett.html |title=Robert B. Nett, Awarded Medal of Honor, Dies at 86 |date=25 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Nigel Plews, 74, British cricket umpire, renal cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nigel-plews-police-officer-international-umpire-and-expert-on-the-laws-of-cricket-1024524.html |title=Nigel Plews: Police officer, international umpire and expert on the laws of cricket |first=Kenneth |last=Shenton |date=19 November 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Gianni Raimondi, 85, Italian lyric tenor.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gianni-raimondi-tenor-who-sang-with-maria-callas-during-a-long-career-at-la-scala-974434.html |title=Gianni Raimondi: Tenor who sang with Maria Callas during a long career at La Scala |first=Elizabeth |last=Forbes |date=27 October 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Gail Robinson, 62, American soprano, complications from rheumatoid arthritis.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/music/21robinson.html |title=Gail Robinson, Soprano Who Sang at the Metropolitan Opera, Dies at 62 |first=Anthony |last=Tommasini |date=21 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Arthur Sendas, 72, Brazilian supermarket magnate, shot.{{cite news |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/cotidian/ff2110200801.htm |title=Empresário Arthur Sendas é assassinado |last=Nogueira |first=Italo |date=21 October 2008 |newspaper=Folha de S.Paulo |language=pt |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Lou Stringer, 91, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox).{{cite news |url=http://obits.ocregister.com/obituaries/orangecounty/obituary.aspx?n=lou-stringer&pid=119245551 |title=Lou Stringer |date=23 October 2008 |newspaper=Orange County Register |via=Legacy.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Doreen Wilber, 78, American archer, 1972 Olympic gold medallist, Alzheimer's disease.{{cite news |url=http://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/state/iowa-s-first-woman-olympic-gold-medalist-dies/article_29ddee33-456f-52ef-9fcb-a9a8cceb4374.html |title=Iowa's first woman Olympic gold medalist dies |date=21 October 2008 |newspaper=Iowa State Daily |access-date=8 October 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Emmanuelle Cinquin, 99, French religious sister, natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7679487.stm |title=Slum charity nun Emmanuelle dies |date=20 October 2008 |website=BBC News |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Shamsiah Fakeh, 84, Malaysian independence activist, lung infection.{{cite news |url=http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/10/20/nation/20081020143111&sec=nation |title=Veteran communist leader Shamsiah Fakeh, 84, dies |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=The Star |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020223220/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=%2F2008%2F10%2F20%2Fnation%2F20081020143111&sec=nation |archive-date=2008-10-20 }}
Vittorio Foa, 98, Italian politician, journalist and writer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/world/europe/22foa.html |title=Vittorio Foa, Anti-Fascist, Labor Leader and Italian Senator, Dies at 98 |first=Rachel |last=Donadio |date=21 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
James Gleeson, 92, Australian art critic and surrealist painter.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/20/2396333.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021023432/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/20/2396333.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 21, 2008 |title=Surrealist painter James Gleeson dies |date=20 October 2008 |website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=8 October 2018}}
William Headline, 76, American CNN bureau chief, fall.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102203378.html |title=William W. Headline; Led CNN's Washington Bureau |last=Wiseman |first=Lauren |date=23 October 2008 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Gene Hickerson, 73, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=3653974 |title=Hickerson, Browns Hall of Fame guard, dies at 73 |date=20 October 2008 |website=ESPN |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Pat Kavanagh, 68, British literary agent, wife of Julian Barnes, brain tumour.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/22/publishing-kavanagh-julian-barnes |title=Pat Kavanagh |first=Carmen |last=Callil |date=22 October 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Joe Lutz, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns), after long illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20081025/ARTICLE/810250348 |title=Former ballplayer served as mentor in a varied career |first=Mark |last=Zaloudek |date=25 October 2008 |newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |access-date=8 October 2018 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201244/http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20081025/ARTICLE/810250348 |url-status=dead }}
David Myers, 37, British rugby league player (Widnes and England), car accident.{{cite web |url=http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Rugby-Player-David-Myers-Died-In-M6-Crash/Article/200810315125626?lpos%3DUK_News_Carousel_Region_1%26lid%3DARTICLE_15125626_Rugby_Player_David_Myers_Died_In_M6_Crash |title=Rugby Star Dies In M-Way Crash |date=21 October 2008 |website=Sky News |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100506120027/http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Rugby-Player-David-Myers-Died-In-M6-Crash/Article/200810315125626?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15125626_Rugby_Player_David_Myers_Died_In_M6_Crash |archive-date=6 May 2010}}
John Ringham, 80, British actor (Just Good Friends, Doctor Who, V for Vendetta).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3374315/John-Ringham.html |title=John Ringham |date=3 November 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Bobi Sourander, 79, Finnish-born Swedish journalist and author.{{cite web |url=http://www.sydsvenskan.se/familj/dodsfall/article380901/Utlandskorrespondent-dod.html |title=Utlandskorrespondent död |last=Wikner |first=Hans |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=Sydsvenskan |language=sv |access-date=17 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024140338/http://sydsvenskan.se/familj/dodsfall/article380901/Utlandskorrespondent-dod.html |archive-date=24 October 2008}}
C. V. Sridhar, 73, Indian filmmaker, cardiac arrest.{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Veteran-filmmaker-Sridhar-passes-away/articleshow/3619970.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022035237/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-10-20/chennai/27892019_1_sridhar-tamil-film-aiadmk-chief-jayalalithaa |url-status=live |archive-date=22 October 2012 |title=Veteran filmmaker Sridhar passes away |date=20 October 2008 |newspaper=The Times of India |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Krzysztof Zaleski, 60, Polish actor, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114873,5829189,Zmarl_aktor_Krzysztof_Zaleski.html |title=Zmarł aktor Krzysztof Zaleski |date=20 October 2008 |website=Gazeta.pl |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Muhammad Abdullah, 76, Bangladeshi academic.{{Cite web|url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Abdullah,_Muhammad|title=Abdullah, Muhammad - Banglapedia|website=en.banglapedia.org}}
Sonja Bernadotte, 64, German-born Swedish countess, breast cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.thelocal.se/15112/20081021/ |title=Widow of Swedish count dies in southern Germany |date=21 October 2008 |website=The Local |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025110115/http://www.thelocal.se/15112/20081021/ |archive-date=25 October 2008}}
Alex Close, 86, Belgian road bicycle racer, winner of Tour of Belgium (1955) and Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1956).{{cite news |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2008/10/23/01011-20081023FILWWW00409-deces-de-l-ancien-cycliste-alex-close.php |title=Décès de l'ancien cycliste Alex Close |date=23 October 2008 |newspaper=Le Figaro |language=fr |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Jake Crawford, 80, American Major League Baseball player.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/DFW/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=119210882 |title=Rufus "Jake" Crawford |date=23 October 2008 |newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram |via=Legacy.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
George Edwards, 87, British footballer (Wales).{{cite web |url=http://www.blues.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10412~1429756,00.html |title=In Memory of George Edwards |date=October 2008 |website=Birmingham City Football Club |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113073723/http://www.blues.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C10412~1429756%2C00.html |archive-date=13 January 2009}}
Richard J. Keane, 75, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly.{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/buffalonews/name/richard-keane-obituary?id=4847375|title=Richard J. Keane Obituary (2008) Buffalo News|website=Legacy.com}}
Peter Levinson, 74, American music industry biographer, fall.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-23-me-levinson23-story.html |title=Publicist wrote biographies of three big-band legends |first=Jon |last=Thurber |date=23 October 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ram Ruhee, 81, Mauritian founder of the National Olympic Committee, IOC member, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.gmanews.tv/story/128916/Former-Olympic-Committee-member-Ram-Ruhee-dies |title=Former Olympic Committee member Ram Ruhee dies |date=23 October 2008 |website=GMA News TV |access-date=8 October 2018}}
James John Skinner, 85, Irish-born Zambian jurist and politician.{{cite news |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/dublin-born-lawyer-who-became-first-white-minister-in-independent-zambia-1.904289 |title=Dublin-born lawyer who became first white minister in independent Zambia |date=1 November 2008 |newspaper=The Irish Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Robert Adlard, 92, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ad/bob-adlard-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035632/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ad/bob-adlard-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Bob Adlard |website=Sports Reference |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Robert C. Cannon, 91, American jurist.{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/jsonline/obituary.aspx?n=robert-c-cannon&pid=119270435&fhid=5691 |title=Honorable Robert C. Cannon |date=24 October 2008 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |via=Legacy.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
William Warren Conolly, 87, Caymanian politician.{{cite web |url=http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID%3D1034640 |title=Warren Conolly dies |last=Connolly |first=Norma |date=23 October 2008 |website=Cayman Compass |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025194917/http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1034640 |archive-date=25 October 2008}}
Lou Dorfsman, 90, American television graphic designer, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/nyregion/26dorfsman.html |title=Lou Dorfsman, Design Chief at CBS, Dies at 90 |first=Steven |last=Heller |date=25 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
David Evans, 73, British politician, MP (1987–1997), cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/oct/24/conservatives |title=David Evans |last=Pearce |first=Edward |date=24 October 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Jan Hijzelendoorn, 79, Dutch Olympic cyclist.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hi/jan-hijzelendoorn-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418114952/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hi/jan-hijzelendoorn-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Jan Hijzelendoorn |website=Sports Reference |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ernest Kombo, 67, Congolese bishop of Owando, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkombo.html |title=Bishop Ernest Kombo |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=8 October 2018}}
David Lloyd Meredith, 74, British actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/feb/05/david-lloyd-meredith-obituary |title=David Lloyd Meredith |date=5 February 2009 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-access=subscription }}
Paritosh Sen, 90, Indian artist, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.sindhtoday.net:80/health/30687.htm |title=End of a golden age: Artist Paritosh Sen passes away |date=23 October 2008 |website=Sindh Today |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081026141152/http://www.sindhtoday.net/health/30687.htm |archive-date=26 October 2008}}

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Gianluigi Braschi, 45, Italian film producer (Life Is Beautiful), after long illness.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/news/producer-gianluigi-braschi-dies-1117994958/ |title=Producer Gianluigi Braschi dies |first=Nick |last=Vivarelli |date=30 October 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Derek Brewer, 85, British mediaevalist.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3368297/Professor-Derek-Brewer.html |title=Professor Derek Brewer |date=2 November 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Oszkár Csuvik, 83, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic silver medalist (1948).{{cite news |url=http://www.mno.hu/portal/593104 |title=Elhunyt Csuvik Oszkár |date=24 October 2008 |newspaper=Magyar Nemzet |language=hu |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081027153311/http://www.mno.hu/portal/593104 |archive-date=27 October 2008}}
Danny Dill, 83, American songwriter ("Long Black Veil").{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jan/19/obituary-danny-dill-songwriter-music |title=Danny Dill: Songwriter famed for Long Black Veil |last=Russell |first=Tony |date=19 January 2009 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Kevin Finnegan, 60, British former European middleweight champion boxer.{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kevin-finnegan-champion-middleweight-boxer-976805.html |title=Kevin Finnegan: Champion middleweight boxer |last=Bunce |first=Steve |date=29 October 2008 |website=The Independent |access-date=8 October 2018}}
E. Roger Muir, 89, American television producer, stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/television/28muir.html |title=E. Roger Muir, 89, Dies; Backed Howdy Doody |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=28 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ivo Pukanić, 47, Croatian newspaper editor, assassination by car bomb.{{cite web |url=http://www.emportal.rs/en/news/region/66776.html |title=Ivo Pukanic, the owner of Croatian Nacional weekly, assassinated |date=23 October 2008 |website=EMportal.rs |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728011433/http://www.emportal.rs/en/news/region/66776.html |archive-date=28 July 2011}}
F. W. Walbank, 98, British scholar of Greek history.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-frank-walbank-classical-scholar-who-defined-and-dominated-the-field-of-hellenistic-history-for-half-a-century-975465.html |title=Professor Frank Walbank: Classical scholar who defined and dominated the field of Hellenistic history for half a century |date=28 October 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202154642/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-frank-walbank-classical-scholar-who-defined-and-dominated-the-field-of-hellenistic-history-for-half-a-century-975465.html |archive-date=2 December 2008}}

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Moshe Cotel, 65, American pianist and composer, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/arts/music/03cotel.html |title=Rabbi Moshe Cotel, Composer, Dies at 65 |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=2 November 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Howard French, 95, British newspaper editor.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/dec/05/obituary-howard-french-daily-mail |title=Howard French |first=Roy |last=Greenslade |date=5 December 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Milton Katselas, 74, American film director, heart failure.{{cite magazine |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/markets-festivals/acting-teacher-milton-katselas-dies-1117994731/#! |title=Acting teacher Milton Katselas dies |first=Pat |last=Saperstein |date=27 October 2008 |magazine=Variety |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Premasiri Khemadasa, 71, Sri Lankan musician and composer.{{cite web |url=http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items08/261008-1.html |title=Sri Lanka Music Legend Premasiri Kemadasa Dies |first=Walter |last=Jayawardhana |date=26 October 2008 |website=LankaWeb |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Geoffrey McLean, 77, British police officer.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}
Merl Saunders, 74, American keyboardist (The Grateful Dead), complications from a stroke.{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saunders-idUSTRE49Q6HE20081027 |title=Former Grateful Dead keyboardist Saunders dies at 74 |date=27 October 2016 |website=Reuters |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Xiao Ke, 101, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army, illness.{{cite web |url=http://english.sina.com/china/2008/1024/194054.html |title=Veteran army leader dies at 102 |date=24 October 2008 |website=Xinhua News Agency |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Helmut Zilk, 81, Austrian politician, Mayor of Vienna (1984–1994), heart failure.{{cite web |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE49N2BY20081024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111142833/http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE49N2BY20081024 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 11, 2009 |title=Ex-Vienna mayor targeted by letter bomb dies at 81 |date=24 October 2008 |website=Reuters |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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John Axon, 48, British actor (The Royal), grandson of John Axon, heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1075902_royal_star_john_dies |title=Royal star John dies |first=Ian |last=Wylie |date=25 October 2008 |newspaper=Manchester Evening News |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130114004433/http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1075902_royal_star_john_dies |archive-date=14 January 2013}}
Allen Blanchard, 79, Australian politician.{{cite web |url=http://www.aph.gov.au/Hansard/senate/dailys/ds111108.pdf |title=Condolences: Mr Cecil Allen Blanchard |date=11 November 2008 |website=Senate Official Hansard |access-date=1 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505054046/http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/dailys/ds111108.pdf |archive-date=5 May 2010}}
Gerard Damiano, 80, American adult film director (Deep Throat), stroke.{{cite web |url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gzz5DrcnBKR0FVJSoHf1Azqt7jPQD9438OIO0 |title=Gerard Damiano, 'Deep Throat' director, dead at 80 |last=Larimer |first=Sarah |date=28 October 2008 |website=Associated Press |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101155846/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gzz5DrcnBKR0FVJSoHf1Azqt7jPQD9438OIO0 |archive-date=1 November 2008}}
Colm Farrelly, 55, Irish record producer who discovered Sinéad O'Connor and The Pale, after short illness.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.hotpress.com/music/columb-farrelly-dies-in-kerry-4991595 |title=Columb Farrelly Dies In Kerry |date=27 October 2008 |magazine=Hot Press |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Bob Gambold, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles).{{cite web |url=http://www.tributes.com/obituary/read/Bob-Gambold-84436912 |title=Obituaries: Bob Gambold |website=Tributes.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Irwin Gunsalus, 96, American biochemist, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/health/22gunsalus.html |title=Irwin C. Gunsalus, Vitamin Biochemist, Dies at 96 |first=H. Roger |last=Segelken |date=21 November 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Amos E. Joel, Jr., 90, American inventor, pioneer of the cellphone.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/technology/28joel.html |title=Amos E. Joel Jr., Cellphone Pioneer, Dies at 90 |first=Andrew |last=Martin |date=27 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Federico Luzzi, 28, Italian tennis player, leukemia.{{cite web |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/tennisNews/idUKLP24366620081025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028025558/http://uk.reuters.com/article/tennisNews/idUKLP24366620081025 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 28, 2008 |title=Tennis - Italy's Luzzi dies of leukemia at 28 |first=Mark |last=Meadows |date=25 October 2008 |website=Reuters |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Muslim Magomayev, 66, Azerbaijani singer.{{cite web |url=http://english.pravda.ru/russia/history/25-10-2008/106621-Muslim_Magomayev-0 |title=Soviet pop legend Muslim Magomayev dies at 66 |first=Dmitry |last=Sudakov |date=25 October 2008 |website=Pravda.ru |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ian McColl, 81, British footballer, team manager for Scotland, natural causes.{{cite web |url=http://www.rangers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,5~1431821,00.html |title=Gers Lose A Legend |last=Herron |first=Lindsay |date=October 2008 |website=Rangers F.C. |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028082045/http://www.rangers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C5~1431821%2C00.html |archive-date=28 October 2008}}
Anne Pressly, 26, American television news anchor (KATV), injuries during home invasion.{{cite web |url=http://www.katv.com/news/stories/1008/564436.html |title=Anne Pressly: 1982-2008 |date=27 October 2008 |website=KATV |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029033935/http://www.katv.com/news/stories/1008/564436.html |archive-date=29 October 2008}}
Regal Intention, 23, Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.{{Cite web |url=http://www.canmorfarms.ca/ |title=Hastings paddock sale | British Columbia | Mark Cloutier |access-date=January 27, 2022 |archive-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508185146/https://www.canmorfarms.ca/ |url-status=dead }}
Estelle Reiner, 94, American singer and actress (When Harry Met Sally...).{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/movies/30reiner.html |title=Estelle Reiner, 94, Comedy Matriarch, Is Dead |first=Bruce |last=Weber |date=29 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Hal Roth, 81, American sailor and author, lung cancer.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/news/hal-roth-dies-16862 |title=Hal Roth dies |date=30 October 2008 |magazine=Yachting Monthly |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Tahereh Saffarzadeh, 72, Iranian poet and academic, cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=180895 |title=Woman Scholar of the Islamic World dies at 72 |date=25 October 2008 |newspaper=Tehran Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Maurice Stonefrost, 81, British civil servant.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/nov/05/local-government-london-thatcher-maurice-stonefrost|title=Obituary: Maurice Stonefrost|date=November 5, 2008|website=the Guardian}}

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Abu Ghadiya, 29-30, Syrian militant, shot.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/world/middleeast/31syria.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=As if on Cue, Syrians Protest U.S. Incursion on Their Soil|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 30, 2008|last1=Bowley|first1=Graham}}
Delfino Borroni, 110, Italian last known World War I veteran from Italy.{{cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24557283-12377,00.html |title=Italy's last WWI vet dies aged 110 |date=27 October 2008 |newspaper=The Australian |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102141346/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24557283-12377,00.html |archive-date=2 November 2008}}
Gábor Delneky, 76, Hungarian Olympic fencer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/gabor-delneky-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418043232/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/gabor-delneky-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Gábor Delneky |website=Sports Reference |access-date=8 October 2018}}
P. Cameron DeVore, 76, American First Amendment attorney, apparent heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008319363_webdevoreobit27m.html |title=Obituary: Cameron DeVore, 76, First Amendment expert |last=Gilmore |first=Susan |date=27 October 2008 |newspaper=The Seattle Times |access-date=4 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101021830/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008319363_webdevoreobit27m.html |archive-date=1 November 2008}}
Eileen Donaghy, 78, Irish singer, cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.tyronetimes.co.uk/village/Folk-icon-Eileen-Donaghy-provided.4654989.jp |title=Folk icon Eileen Donaghy provided ballads for a generation |date=31 October 2008 |website=Tyrone Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Thomas Dunn, 82, American conductor, heart failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/arts/music/10dunn.html |title=Thomas Dunn, an Early-Music Conductor, Is Dead at 82 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=10 November 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Tony Hillerman, 83, American mystery writer, pulmonary failure.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/books/28hillerman.html |title=Tony Hillerman, Novelist, Dies at 83 |first=Marilyn |last=Stasio |date=27 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
S. D. Jones, 63, Antiguan professional wrestler, stroke.{{cite web |url=http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2008/10/26/7213751.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120722173910/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2008/10/26/7213751.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |title=S.D. Jones dies in Antigua |first=Greg |last=Oliver |date=26 October 2008 |website=SLAM! Wrestling |access-date=8 October 2018 }}
Pablo Montes, 62, Cuban athlete, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=48151.html |title=News: Pablo Montes dies |first=Javier Clavelo |last=Robinson |date=27 October 2008 |website=IAAF.org |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003054937/http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=48151.html |archive-date=3 October 2009}}
Delmar Watson, 82, American child actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), prostate cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-oct-28-me-watson28-story.html |title=Child actor turned photographer: Delmar Watson, 1926–2008 |first=Valerie J. |last=Nelson |date=28 October 2008 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Dean Barnett, 41, American columnist and blogger, complications from cystic fibrosis.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/regional_editions/globe_west/west/2008/10/dean_barnett_a.html |title=Dean Barnett, conservative blogger, dead at 41 |date=27 October 2008 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Chris Bryant, 72, British screenwriter and actor.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4015682/Christopher-Dobson.html |title=Christopher Dobson: Screenwriter whose credits included Nicolas Roeg's film 'Don't Look Now' |date=29 December 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Richard Carr-Gomm, 86, British soldier and philanthropist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5041041.ece |title=Richard Carr-Gomm: founder of the Abbeyfield and Morpeth charities |date=30 October 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523054918/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5041041.ece |archive-date=23 May 2010}}
Charles Dubin, 87, Canadian Chief Justice of Ontario (1990–1996), head of the Dubin Inquiry into drugs in sport, pneumonia.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/charles-dubin-who-headed-inquiry-on-drugs-in-sports-dies-at-87-1.697004 |title=Charles Dubin, who headed inquiry on drugs in sports, dies at 87 |date=27 October 2008 |website=CBC News |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Ray Ellis, 85, American musician, conductor and television producer, complications from melanoma.{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/composer-ray-ellis-dies-at-122157 |title=Composer Ray Ellis dies at 85 |first=Mike |last=Barnes |date=31 October 2008 |newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Jack Houston, 90, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1957–1980).{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=2438409542 |title=Former Members Register |website=Queensland Parliament |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Karl Kassulke, 67, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), heart attack.{{cite news |url=http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/11601560/ |title=Karl Kassulke |date=29 October 2008 |newspaper=Star-Tribune |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Heinz Krügel, 87, German footballer and coach, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://www.mdr.de/sport/5873445.html |title=Magdeburgs Meistertrainer Krügel tot |date=15 November 2008 |website=Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk |language=de |access-date=27 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206104931/http://www.mdr.de/sport/5873445.html |archive-date=6 December 2008}}
Ed Levy, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees).{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/orlandosentinel/obituary.aspx?n=edward-levy-whitner&pid=119801655 |title=Edward Levy Whitner |date=6 November 2008 |newspaper=Orlando Sentinel |via=Legacy.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Es'kia Mphahlele, 88, South African writer and academic, natural causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/nov/24/obituary-eskia-mphahlele-uncle-zeke |title=Es'kia Mphahlele: Huge figure in modern African literature |last=Adenekan |first=Shola |date=24 November 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Frank Nagai, 76, Japanese singer.{{cite web |url=http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/singer-frank-nagai-dead-at-76 |title=Singer Frank Nagai dead at 76 |date=6 November 2008 |website=Japan Today |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605131556/http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/singer-frank-nagai-dead-at-76 |archive-date=5 June 2011}}
Bernard W. Rogers, 87, American general, Commander of the US European Command (1979–1987).{{cite web |url=http://www.eucom.mil/english/FullStory.asp?art%3D1875 |title=Former EUCOM Commander Dies |date=1 November 2008 |website=European Command Public Affairs |access-date=1 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081111214905/http://www.eucom.mil/english/FullStory.asp?art=1875 |archive-date=11 November 2008}}
Louis Secco, 81, Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) ice hockey player.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/louis-secco-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417161758/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/se/louis-secco-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Louis Secco |website=Sports Reference |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Roy Stewart, 83, Jamaican-born British actor (Live and Let Die, Doctor Who).{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/feb/04/roy-stewart-obituary |title=Roy Stewart: One of the most prolific black actors of his day |last=Gaughan |first=Gavin |date=4 February 2009 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Andy Young, 83, Scottish footballer (Raith Rovers).{{cite web |url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/andy-young-footballer-1-1138030 |title=Andy Young: Footballer |date=21 October 2008 |newspaper=The Scotsman |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Buck Adams, 52, American pornographic actor and director, complications from heart failure.{{cite magazine |url=https://avn.com/business/articles/video/avn-hall-of-famer-buck-adams-dies-55560.html |title=AVN Hall of Famer Buck Adams Dies |date=28 October 2008 |magazine=AVN |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Dina Cocea, 95, Romanian actress, heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/celebrity-news/2008/10/29/180831/Dina-Cocea.htm |title=Dina Cocea, well-known Romanian actress, dies |date=29 October 2008 |newspaper=The China Post |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305162455/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/celebrity-news/2008/10/29/180831/Dina-Cocea.htm |archive-date=5 March 2012}}

*Kung Te-cheng, 88, Chinese-born Taiwanese 77th generation descendant of Confucius, heart and respiratory failure.{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/28/content_10269542.htm |title=Confucius' 77th main-line descendant dies in Taiwan |date=28 October 2008 |website=Xinhua News Agency |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112071648/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/28/content_10269542.htm |archive-date=12 January 2009}}

Alexander Lowen, 97, American psychotherapist.{{cite web |url=http://www.lowenfoundation.org/about-alexander-lowen |title=Alexander Lowen, M.D. (1910–2008) |website=The Center of Bioenergetic Analysis |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Bill Martin, 65, American realist painter, complications of lymphoma.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Mendocino-realist-painter-Bill-Martin-dies-3185273.php |title=Mendocino realist painter Bill Martin dies |first=Jesse |last=Hamlin |date=13 November 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Eric Nenno, 47, American murderer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.{{cite news|date=October 29, 2008|title=Texas executes rapist, killer of 7-year-old girl|work=NBC News|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27427159}}

*Pak Song-chol, 95, North Korean politician, Premier (1976–1977), after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/29/content_10276070.htm |title=DPRK senior official dies |date=29 October 2008 |website=Xinhua News Agency |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102162800/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/29/content_10276070.htm |archive-date=2 November 2008}}

Paul Pesthy, 70, American Olympic modern pentathlete and fencer.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/paul-pesthy-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418043314/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/paul-pesthy-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Paul Pesthy |website=Sports Reference |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Augusto Petró, 90, Brazilian bishop of Uruguaiana (1964–1995), complications from Alzheimer's disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bpetro.html |title=Bishop Augusto Petró |first=David M. |last=Cheney |website=Catholic Hierarchy |access-date=8 October 2018}}
John Ripley, 69, American Marine war hero.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/washington/04ripley.html |title=Col. John W. Ripley, Marine Who Halted Vietnamese Attack, Dies at 69 |first=Dennis |last=Hevesi |date=4 November 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Allan Scott, 85, Australian businessman and road transport magnate, complications from diabetes and heart condition.{{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24564199-5006301,00.html |title=Mt Gambier business magnate Allan Scott dies |first=Lechelle |last=Earl |date=28 October 2008 |newspaper=The Advertiser |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201032146/http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24564199-5006301,00.html |archive-date=1 December 2008}}
George Sopkin, 94, American cellist, natural causes.{{cite news |url=http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituaries/33703049.html |title=Cellist Sopkin lived for music: From teens until 90s, he performed, taught |first=Amy Rabideau |last=Silvers |date=1 November 2008 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224072821/http://www.jsonline.com/news/obituaries/33703049.html |archive-date=24 December 2008}}
Ilus Vay, 85, Hungarian actress.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891384/ |title= Ilus Vay (1925–2008) |website=Internet Movie Database |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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William Addison, 74, American chess player.{{Cite web |url=http://chessjournalism.org/2009entries/pdf/Cat10_WilliamAddison.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-date=June 30, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630011143/http://chessjournalism.org/2009entries/pdf/Cat10_WilliamAddison.pdf |url-status=dead }}
Shirwa Ahmed, 26, Somali-American bomber, detonation.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/12somalis.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all|title=A Call to Jihad, Answered in America|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 11, 2009|last1=Elliott|first1=Andrea}}
Gerald Arpino, 85, American dancer and choreographer, after long illness.{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/arts/chi-gerald-arpino-dead,0,6506942.story |title=Gerald Arpino dies |last=Smith |first=Sid |date=29 October 2008 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081101024944/http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/arts/chi-gerald-arpino-dead,0,6506942.story |archive-date=1 November 2008}}
Mike Baker, 45, American singer (Shadow Gallery), heart attack.{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108016 |title=Shadow Gallery Vocalist Michael A. Baker Dead at 45 |date=31 October 2008 |website=Roadrunner Records |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103070553/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=108016 |archive-date=3 November 2008}}
Cor Brom, 76, Dutch footballer and coach, Parkinson's disease.{{cite web |url=http://www.rnw.nl/internationaljustice/news/international/6031168/Dutch-football-trainer-Cor-Brom-dies |title=Dutch football trainer Cor Brom dies |date=30 October 2008 |website=Radio Nederland Wereldomroep |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081102063014/http://www.rnw.nl/internationaljustice/news/international/6031168/Dutch-football-trainer-Cor-Brom-dies |archive-date=2 November 2008}}
Anita Ellis, 88, Canadian-born American singer and actress, complications from Alzheimer's disease. (Death announced on this date).{{cite web |url=http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/social-diary/2008/getting-colder |title=Getting Colder |date=29 October 2008 |website=NewYorkSocialDiary.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}{{Failed verification|date=October 2018}}
Yiannis Koskiniatis, 25, Greek footballer, suicide by jumping.{{cite news |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/z-redesign/archive-sport/player-dropped-commits-suicide/news-story/b3e6ffc8a4513e8816e50790bc2ef53d?nk=9dfd0d0fd129df3e028fdd533ea9e6fa-1538998691 |title=Player dropped, commits suicide |date=29 October 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Mae Mercer, 76, American blues singer.{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/14/BAGE143HP2.DTL |title=Mae Mercer - blues singer, actress - dies |first=Dennis |last=McLellan |date=14 November 2008 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=8 October 2018}}
William Wharton, 82, American painter and novelist (Birdy), infection.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/books/31wharton.html |title=William Wharton, Author, Dies at 82 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=30 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Edith Evans Asbury, 98, American journalist (The New York Times), after long illness.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/nyregion/31asbury.html |title=Edith Evans Asbury, 98, Veteran Times Reporter, Is Dead |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=30 October 2008 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Fred Baron, 61, American trial lawyer and political fundraiser, multiple myeloma.{{cite news |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/103108dnmetbaron.164c3b4a4.html |title=Democratic fundraiser, famed tort king Fred Baron dies |last=Simnacher |first=Joe |date=31 October 2008 |newspaper=The Dallas Morning News |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103072250/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/103108dnmetbaron.164c3b4a4.html |archive-date=3 November 2008}}
Robert H. Barrow, 86, American general, 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps (1979–1983).{{cite news |url=http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/10/marine_barrow_dies_103008w/ |title=Former commandant Barrow dies at 86 |first=Dan |last=Lamothe |date=30 October 2008 |newspaper=Marine Corps Times |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223222110/http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/10/marine_barrow_dies_103008w/ |archive-date=February 23, 2012}}
Cundo Bermúdez, 94, Cuban artist.{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5182631.ece |title=Cundo Bermúdez: Cuban artist |date=19 November 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524141338/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5182631.ece |archive-date=24 May 2010}}
Valentin Bubukin, 75, Russian footballer, after long illness.{{cite web |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldFootballNews/idUKLU74480020081030 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111220548/http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldFootballNews/idUKLU74480020081030 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 11, 2009 |title=Sports news in brief from around the world |date=30 October 2008 |website=Reuters |access-date=8 October 2018}}
John Cuckney, Baron Cuckney, 83, British financier and industrialist.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3332038/Lord-Cuckney.html |title=Lord Cuckney |date=31 October 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
David Jeaffreson, 76, British colonial official, Hong Kong Secretary for Security (1982–1988), ICAC Commissioner (1988–1991).{{cite web |url=http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200810/30/P200810300272.htm |title=CE grieved at death of David Jeaffreson |date=30 October 2008 |website=Chief Executive of Hong Kong |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Tom Moody, 78, American politician. Mayor of Columbus, Ohio (1972–1984).{{cite web |url=http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2008/10/31/story_moody.html |title=Former Mayor Tom Moody Dies |date=30 October 2008 |website=10TV News |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Julius Neave, 89, British insurance executive.{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/julius-neave-general-manager-of-mercantile-and-general-20r05s8h890 |title=Julius Neave: general manager of Mercantile & General |date=17 November 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=8 October 2018}}

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Jonathan Bates, 68, British sound engineer (Gandhi, Flash Gordon, Cry Freedom).{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/dec/03/obituary-jonathan-bates-sound-editor |title=Jonathan Bates |first=Mick |last=Monks |date=3 December 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 October 2018}}
John Daly, 71, British film producer, cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3777139/John-Daly.html |title=John Daly: Rock band manager who became a Hollywood film mogul with 13 Academy Awards to his credit |date=15 December 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Frank Navetta, 46, American guitarist (Descendents).{{cite web |url=http://www.punknews.org/article/31088 |title=In Memoriam: Frank Navetta of the Descendents (-2008) |website=PunkNews.org |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Sir John Page, 89, British politician, MP for Harrow West (1960–1987).{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3374408/Sir-John-Page.html |title=Sir John Page |date=3 November 2008 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=8 October 2018}}
John Pearse, 69, British guitarist.{{cite web |url=http://www.jpstrings.com/mem-index.htm |title=John Melville Pearse 1939–2008 |website=JP Strings.com |access-date=8 October 2018}}
Studs Terkel, 96, American broadcaster and author (The Good War), complications from a fall.{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-studs-terkel-dead,0,2321576.story |title=Studs Terkel dies |first=Rick |last=Kogan |date=31 October 2008 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207011837/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-studs-terkel-dead,0,2321576.story |archive-date=7 December 2008}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=2008-10-01,2008-10-31&adult=include List of October 2008 deaths] at IMDb

*2008-10