The following is a list of notabledeaths in December 2008.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Thomas R. Adams, 87, American librarian.^[1]
• Paul Benedict, 70, American television actor (The Jeffersons).^[2]
• James Bree, 85, British actor (On Her Majesty's Secret Service,Satan's Slave,Doctor Who).^[3]
• Beverly Dustrude, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)^[4]
• Betty Goodwin, 85, Canadian artist.^[5]
• Jodami, 23, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, injury.^[6]
• Tom Kirby, 61, Irish darts player, pancreatic cancer.^[7]
• Siegfried Knappe, 91, German Wehrmacht artillery and General Staff officer, author (Soldat).^[8]
• Mikel Laboa, 74, Spanish Basque singer and songwriter.^[9]
• Raymond Lederer, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1977–1981), lung cancer.^[10]
• Lav Mantula, 79, Yugoslavian football player and coach.^[11]
• Emanuel Rackman, 98, American Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University.^[12]
• H. Sridhar, 50, Indian sound engineer, heart attack.^[13]
• Dorothy Sterling, 95, American writer and historian.^[14]
• Sir John Wall, 78, British jurist and blind rights campaigner.^[15]
• Joseph B. Wirthlin, 91, American Mormon prelate, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, natural causes.^[16]

• Carlos María Abascal Carranza, 59, Mexican public official, Secretary of the Interior (2005–2006), cancer.^[17]
• Kathleen Baskin-Ball, 50, American minister (United Methodist Church), cancer.^[18]
• Frank Crean, 92, Australian politician, Treasurer (1972–1974), Deputy Prime Minister (1975), after short illness.^[19]
• Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 81, American writer, filmmaker and scholar, after long illness.^[20]
• Leïla Karam, 80, Lebanese actress, after long illness.^[21]
• Margarita Karapanou, 62, Greek author, respiratory problems.^[22]
• Pyotr Latyshev, 60, Russian politician, presidential envoy toUrals Federal District.^{[citation needed]}
• Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, 97, British aristocrat and politician.^[23]
• Henry Molaison, 82, American amnesiac, subject of brain science study, respiratory failure.^[24]
• Odetta, 77, American folk singer and human rights activist, heart disease.^[25]
• Edward S. Rogers Jr., 75, Canadian businessman, CEO ofRogers Communications and owner of theToronto Blue Jays, heart failure.^[26]

• William Pierson, Jr., 97, American art historian.^[27]
• Oliver Selfridge, 82, British-born American computer scientist, pioneer ofartificial intelligence, injuries from a fall.^[28]
• William Spoelhof, 98, American academic,President of Calvin College (1951–1976), complications from a fall.^[29]
• Ignacio Uría Mendizábal, 71, Spanish businessman, shot.^[30]
• Elmer Valentine, 85, American nightclub owner.^[31]
• Derek Wadsworth, 69, British composer and jazz trombonist.^[32]
• Alex Widmer, 52, Swiss executive, CEO ofJulius Baer bank.^[33]
• Robert Zajonc, 85, Polish-born American psychologist, pancreatic cancer.^[34]

• Forrest J. Ackerman, 92, American science fiction expert, heart failure.^[35]
• Steve Bradley, 32, American wrestler.^[36]
• Ophélie Bretnacher, 22, French murder victim.
• Jan Kemp, 59, American academic, exposed bias in passing college football players, complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[37]
• Warren M. Robbins, 85, American art collector, complications from a fall.^[38]
• Richard Van Allan, 73, British opera singer, lung cancer.^[39]

• A. Bernard Ackerman, 72, American dermatopathologist, heart failure.^[40]
• Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, 79, Estonian-born Russian primate of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1990, heart failure.^[41]
• Jimmy Anderson, 55, American rodeo clown, heart disease.^[42]
• George Brecht, 82, American artist (Fluxus), natural causes.^[43]
• Martyn Crook, 52, Australian footballer and coach, heart attack.^[44]
• Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, 80, Romanian politician, cancer.^[45]
• Nina Foch, 84, Dutch-born American actress (Executive Suite,Spartacus,The Ten Commandments) and drama instructor,myelodysplasia.^[46]
• Joseph Gardner, 38, American convicted murderer and fugitive, execution by lethal injection.^[47]
• Beverly Garland, 82, American actress (My Three Sons), after long illness.^[48]
• Paris Herouni, 75, Armenian scientist and professor.^[49]
• Sir Basil Kelly, 88, British politician and jurist, after short illness.^[50]
• Rawson Macharia, 96, Kenyan perjurer againstJomo Kenyatta, traffic accident.^[51]
• Jean-Pierre Nguema, 76, Gabonese politician, member of the Senate of Gabon.^[52]
• Anca Parghel, 51, Romanian jazz singer, metastatic breast cancer.^[53]
• Richard Topus, 84, American World War II messenger pigeon trainer and business executive, kidney failure.^[54]
• Dick Vertlieb, 78, American baseball and basketball executive.^[55]
• Wild Again, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.^[56]

• Tamar Adar, 69, Israeli children's author and poet.^[57]
• John Cumming, 78, Scottish footballer (Hearts,Scotland).^[58]
• Larry Devlin, 86, American CIA agent, emphysema.^[59]
• Sir Curtis Keeble, 86, British diplomat,Ambassador to the USSR (1978–1982).^[60]
• Gérard Lauzier, 76, French cartoonist and film director, after long illness.^[61]
• Elliot Manyika, 53, Zimbabwean politician, road accident.^[62]
• Richard Marsland, 32, Australian radio host, apparent suicide.^[63]
• Lloyd Ohlin, 90, American criminologist, complications of Shy–Drager syndrome.^[64]
• Ivan Semedi, 87, Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop ofMukacheve.^[65]
• Sunny von Bülow, 76, American heiress, cardiopulmonary arrest.^[66]
• Peter Wardle, 77, New Zealand botanist.^[67]

• Abul Ahsan, 71, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, cardiac arrest.^[68]
• Marky Cielo, 20, FilipinoIgorot actor, suspected acute pancreatitis.^[69]
• Jimmy Gourley, 82, American jazz guitarist.^[70]
• Herbert Hutner, 99, American chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts (1982–1990).^[71]
• George Kuzma, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of theByzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys.^[72]
• Kerryn McCann, 41, Australian Olympic athlete, breast cancer.^[73]
• Georges Nguyen Van Loc, 75, French police officer, writer and actor.^[74]
• James H. Pomerene, 88, American electrical engineer.^[75]
• Roger Sonnabend, 83, American hotelier.^[76]
• John Ellis Williams, 84, British author.^[77]
• Dennis Yost, 65, American singer (Classics IV), respiratory failure.^[78]
• Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, 79, Pakistani journalist and philatelist, paralysis.^[79]

• Maurice Andrieux, 83, French politician.^[80]
• Manzoor Hussain Atif, 81, Pakistani field hockey player and administrator, after long illness.^[81]
• Frank K. Edmondson, 96, American astronomer.^[82]
• Xavier Perrot, 76, Swiss auto racer.^[83]
• Oliver Postgate, 83, British animator (Bagpuss,Clangers).^[84]
• Robert Prosky, 77, American actor (The Natural,Broadcast News,Hill Street Blues), complications following heart surgery.^[85]
• Bob Spiers, 63, British television director (Absolutely Fabulous,Fawlty Towers).^[86]
• William S. Stevens, 60, American lawyer, heart attack.^[87]
• Hillary Waugh, 88, American mystery writer.^[88]

• Jonathan Bailey, 69, British Angelican prelate,Bishop of Derby (1995–2005) andClerk of the Closet (1997–2005).^[89]
• Emmanuel Bitanga, 55, Cameroonian Olympic sprinter.^[90]
• Ibrahim Dossey, 36, Ghanaian footballer, car accident.^[91]
• James Fergason, 74, American inventor.^[92]
• Yuri Glazkov, 69, Russian cosmonaut.^[93]
• Dražan Jerković, 72, Croatian football player and manager, heart failure.^[94]
• José María Larrauri Lafuente, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop ofVitoria.^[95]
• Howard Pack, 90, American businessman, shipping magnate, heart failure.^[96]
• William Neff Patman, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative for Texas (1981–1985), cancer.^[97]
• Pentti Rummakko, 65, Finnish Olympic runner.^[98]
• George Turman, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (1981–1989), natural causes.^[99]

• Henning Christiansen, 76, Danish composer.^[100]
• Mildred Constantine, 95, American curator (Museum of Modern Art), heart failure.^[101]
• Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan, 44, Indian politician, car accident.^[102]
• Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet (The Monkey's Mask), breast cancer.^[103]
• Didith Reyes, 60, Filipino singer, heart attack and rupture of the pancreas.^[104]
• Chris Richardson, 28, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), brain aneurysm.^[105]
• Owen Wade, 87, British medical researcher and physician.^[106]
• Mizuki Yamada, 80, Japanese Olympic sailor.^[107]
• Sal Yvars, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants), amyloidosis.^[108]

• Ali Alatas, 76, Indonesian politician, Foreign Minister (1988–1999), heart attack.^[109]
• Maddie Blaustein, 48, American voice actress (Pokémon,Yu-Gi-Oh!,Chaotic), stomach virus.^[110]
• Ron Carey, 72, American labor leader (Teamsters), lung cancer.^[111]
• Robert Chandler, 80, American CBS executive, heart failure.^[112]
• Elie Amsini Kiswaya, 80, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop ofSakania-Kipushi.^[113]
• Angeliki Laiou, 67, Greek historian, anaplastic thyroid cancer.^[114]
• Bettie Page, 85, American pin-up model and actress, complications from a heart attack.^[115]
• Robert Shepherd, 71, American academic lawyer.^[116]
• Yeh Shih-tao, 83, Taiwanese writer, colorectal cancer.^[117]

• David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 96, British aristocrat and public servant.^[118]
• Paddy Dooley, 82, Irish Olympic rower.^[119]
• Avery Dulles, 90, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal.^[120]
• Max Elbin, 88, American golfer, president of thePGA (1965−1968), heart failure.^[121]
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 85, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1976).^[122]
• Sigitas Geda, 65, Lithuanian poet.^[123]
• Van Johnson, 92, American actor (Battleground,The Caine Mutiny,Brigadoon).^[124]
• Emmanuel Kasonde, 72, Zambian economist and politician, Finance Minister (1967−1971).^[125]
• Tassos Papadopoulos, 74, Cypriot politician, President (2003−2008), small cell lung carcinoma.^[126]
• Maksym Pashayev, 20, Ukrainian footballer, car accident.^[127]
• Amalia Solórzano, 97, Mexican First Lady (1934–1940), respiratory complications.^[128]
• Robin Toner, 54, American journalist (The New York Times), colon cancer.^[129]

• Doris Totten Chase, 85, American painter and sculptor.^[130]
• Christmas Past, 29, American Thoroughbred racehorse, infirmities of old age.^[131]
• Sir David Clutterbuck, 95, British admiral.^[132]
• John Drake, 49, New Zealand rugby union player.^[133]
• Mario Álvarez Dugan, 77, Dominican journalist and newspaper editor, heart problems.^[134]
• Otto Felix, 65, American actor (Up in Smoke), amyloidosis.^[135]
• Vince Karalius, 76, British rugby league player, cancer.^[136]
• David Margolis, 78, American industrialist, cardiac arrest.^[137]
• Maurice Meersman, 86, Belgian cyclist.^[138]
• Kjartan Slettemark, 76, Norwegian political artist, heart failure.^[139]
• Kathy Staff, 80, British actress (Last of the Summer Wine,Crossroads,Mary Reilly), brain tumour.^[140]
• Horst Tappert, 85, German actor (Derrick).^[141]

• Véronique Ahoyo, 69, Beninese politician, car accident.^[142]
• K. P. Appan, 72, Indian literary critic.^[143]
• Mike Bell, 37, American professional wrestler (WWF,ECW), heart attack.^[144]
• Hank Goldup, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.^[145]
• Henri G. Hers, 85, Belgian biochemist.^[146]
• William Kaufmann, 90, American nuclear strategist, adviser to seven Defense Secretaries, Alzheimer's disease.^[147]
• Carl Kotchian, 94, American aviation executive, president ofLockheed.^[148]
• Gastón Parra Luzardo, 75, Venezuelan academic and banker, after long illness.^[149]
• Candida Tobin, 82, British music educator.^[150]
• Nick Willhite, 67, American baseball pitcher, cancer.^[151]

• Hassib Ben Ammar, 84, Tunisian politician and journalist/editor.^[152]
• Valentin Berlinsky, 83, Russian cellist, after long illness.^[153]
• Mike Blum, 65, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts,Hamilton Tiger-Cats), cerebral hemorrhage.^[154]
• Carlo Caracciolo, 83, Italian publisher (La Repubblica).^[155]
• León Febres Cordero, 77, Ecuadorian president (1984–1988), complications from pulmonary emphysema.^[156]
• Davey Graham, 68, British guitarist, lung cancer.^[157]
• Wanda Koczeska, 71, Polish actress.^[158]
• David Lieber, 83, Polish-born American biblical scholar, lung ailment.^[159]
• John W. Powell, 89, Chinese-born American journalist tried for sedition, complications from pneumonia.^[160]
• Gian Franco Romagnoli, 82, Italian chef, author, television personality.^[161]
• Clyde Sproat, 78, American musician.^[162]
• Anne-Cath. Vestly, 88, Norwegian children's writer and actress.^[163]
• John Webster, 95, Australian activist.^[164]
• Jay E. Welch, 83, American musician, founder of theMormon Youth Symphony and Chorus.^[165]

• Claudio Apollonio, 87, Italian ice hockey player.^[166]
• Peg Batty, 88, New Zealand cricketer.^[167]
• Evelyn Bonaci, 92, Maltese politician,MP.^[168]
• Sam Bottoms, 53, American actor (Apocalypse Now,The Last Picture Show,The Outlaw Josey Wales), glioblastoma multiforme.^[169]
• Richard Coleman, 78, British actor.^[170]
• George Constantinou, 75, Cypriot-born Papua New Guinean businessman, aggravated assault during carjacking.^[171]
• Serigne Lamine Diop, 74, Senegalese statistician and politician.^[172]
• Julius Fast, 89, American writer.^[173]
• Harold Gramatges, 90, Cuban composer and pianist.^[174]
• Joe Krol, 89, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts).^[175]
• Norberto Raffo, 69, Argentinian football player and manager (Banfield).^[176]
• John E. Sprizzo, 73, American jurist, organ failure.^[177]
• Zlatko Šugman, 76, Slovenian actor, illness.^[178]

• Elizabeth Abrahams, 83, South African political activist and trade unionist.^[179]
• Turgun Alimatov, 85, Uzbek musician.^[180]
• Ismet Bajramović, 42, Bosnian reputed organized crime figure and wartime commander, suicide by gunshot.^[181]
• Sammy Baugh, 94, American football player (Washington Redskins) and member of thePro Football Hall of Fame.^[182]
• Freddy Breck, 66, German schlager singer, cancer.^[183]
• Ved Prakash Goyal, 82, Indian politician, brain tumor.^[184]
• Paul Greco, 53, American actor (The Warriors,Broadway Danny Rose,The Cable Guy), lung cancer.^[185]
• Gregoire, 66, Congolese African-born primate, oldest known chimpanzee.^[186]
• Ai Iijima, 36, Japanese media personality and AIDS activist, former adult film actress, pneumonia.^[187]
• Justin Levens, 28, American mixed martial art fighter, possible suicide by gunshot.^[188]
• Luis Félix López, 76, Ecuadorian writer and politician, Secretary of Government, cancer.^[189]
• Willoughby Sharp, 72, American artist, art dealer, curator and impresario, throat cancer.^[190]
• Dave Smith, 53, American baseball pitcher (Houston Astros), heart attack.^[191]
• Feliciano Vierra Tavares, 88, American musician and singer, father of theTavares Brothers, prostate cancer.^[192]
• Henry Ashby Turner, 76, American historian, melanoma.^[193]
• Nina Varlamova, 54, Russian politician, mayor ofKandalaksha, stabbed.^[194]

• Majel Barrett, 76, American actress (Star Trek), leukemia.^[195]
• Peter Malam Brothers, 91, British Royal Air Force pilot,Battle of Britain ace.^[196]
• Pete Case, 67, American football player (New York Giants), after long illness.^[197]
• John Costelloe, 47, American actor (The Sopranos,Kazaam,Die Hard 2), suicide by gunshot.^[198]
• Jack Douglas, 81, British comedy actor (Carry On films), pneumonia.^[199]
• Mark Felt, 95, American public official, deputy director of the FBI, "Deep Throat" in theWatergate scandal, heart failure.^[200]
• Hannah Frank, 100, British sculptor.^[201]
• Nahla Hussain al-Shaly, 37, Iraqi women's rights activist, shot and decapitated.^[202]
• Robert Jonquet, 83, French footballer, after long illness.^[203]
• Ian MacMillan, 67, American author.^[204]
• Mellory Manning, 27, New Zealand murder victim.
• Conor Cruise O'Brien, 91, Irish politician, writer and academic.^[205]
• Ivan Rabuzin, 87, Croatian painter.^[206]
• Harold Snyder, 86, American pharmaceuticals magnate, pioneer ofgeneric drugs, respiratory failure.^[207]
• Paul Weyrich, 66, American conservative activist, co-founder ofThe Heritage Foundation think tank, diabetes.^[208]

• James Bevel, 72, American civil rights leader, pancreatic cancer.^[209]
• Page Cavanaugh, 86, American jazz pianist and singer, kidney failure.^[210]
• Carol Chomsky, 78, American linguist, wife ofNoam Chomsky, cancer.^[211]
• Michael Connell, 45, American political strategist, plane crash.^[212]
• Kenny Cox, 68, American jazz musician, lung cancer.^[213]
• Sir Bernard Crick, 79, British political theorist, cancer.^[214]
• Dock Ellis, 63, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), cirrhosis.^[215]
• Vi Hilbert, 90, American tribal leader.^[216]
• Neal Kenyon, 79, American theater director.^[217]
• Joe L. Kincheloe, 58, American professor, heart attack.^[218]
• Matt Kofler, 49, American football player (Buffalo Bills,Indianapolis Colts).^[219]
• Derek Stanford, 90, British poet and critic.^[220]
• Sam Tingle, 87, Zimbabwean racing driver.^[221]

• Samuele Bacchiocchi, 70, Italian theologian, liver cancer.^[222]
• Joseph Conombo, 91, Burkinabé politician, Prime Minister of Upper Volta (1978–1980).^[223]
• Jack Kuehler, 76, American electrical engineer, president ofI.B.M. (1989–1993), Parkinson's disease.^[224]
• Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso, 83, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the diocese ofSantiago de Chile.^[225]
• Olga Lepeshinskaya, 92, Ukrainian-born Russianballerina.^[226]
• Joel Mandelstam, 89, British biochemist and microbiologist.^[227]
• Adrian Mitchell, 76, British poet, heart attack.^[228]
• Robert Mulligan, 83, American film director (To Kill a Mockingbird), heart disease.^[229]
• Albin Planinc, 64, Slovenian chess grandmaster, after long illness.^[230]
• Dorothy Sarnoff, 94, American opera singer, actress and self-help consultant.^[231]
• Igor Troubetzkoy, 96, Russian auto racer.^[232]

• Chayben Abou-Nehra, 34, Belizean businessman, suicide by gunshot.^[233]
• Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, 92, British noble.^[234]
• James Fulton, 58, Canadian politician, MP forSkeena (1979–1993), colon cancer.^[235]
• Teddy Gueritz, 89, British Royal Navy admiral.^[236]
• Christopher Hibbert, 84, British historian.^[237]
• Ron Hornaday, Sr., 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.^[238]
• Al Meyerhoff, 61, American lawyer, complications from leukemia.^[239]
• Carlos Manuel Santiago, 82, Puerto Rican baseball player (Negro leagues), heart failure.^[240]
• Dale Wasserman, 94, American playwright (Man of La Mancha), heart failure.^[241]
• Maurice Zilber, 88, Egyptian horse trainer, cancer.^[242]

• Yoshiro Asakuma, 94, Japanese Olympic athlete.^[243]
• Anand Babla, 54, Fijian politician, MP (1992–2006), after long illness.^[244]
• Coy Bacon, 66, American football player (Los Angeles Rams,Cincinnati Bengals,Washington Redskins).^[245]
• Lansana Conté, 74, Guinean politician, President of Guinea since 1984, after long illness.^[246]
• Norm Cook, 53, American basketball player (Kansas Jayhawks,Boston Celtics).^[247]
• Ossie Dawson, 89, South African cricketer.^[248]
• Jani Lehtonen, 40, Finnish pole vaulter.^[249]
• Robert J. Marshall, 90, American minister, president of theLutheran Church in America (1968–1978), heart failure.^[250]
• Hugh Myers, 78, American chess player and author.^[251]
• Erkki Puolakka, 83, Finnish Olympic runner.^[252]
• Alfred Shaheen, 86, American textile manufacturer, popularized theHawaiian shirt, complications of diabetes.^[253]
• Guy Warren, 85, Ghanaian jazz musician, illness.^[254]

• Clint Ballard, Jr., 77, American songwriter ("You're No Good").^[255]
• Manuel Benitez, 39, American child actor and FBI fugitive, shot.^[256]
• Narciso Bernardo, 71, Filipino basketball player, cardiac arrest.^[257]
• Thomas Congdon, 77, American editor, Parkinson's disease and heart failure.^[258]
• Frank Krog, 54, Norwegian actor.^[259]
• Mitsugu Saotome, 82, Japanese author.^[260]
• Héctor Thomas, 70, Venezuelan Olympic decathlete, cancer.^[261]
• Ron Unsworth, 85, British Olympic hurdler.^[262]
• Thierry de la Villehuchet, 65, French money manager and businessman, apparent suicide by drug overdose andexsanguination.^[263]
• Eric Charles Twelves Wilson, 96, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.^[264]
• Arnold Jacob Wolf, 84, American rabbi, heart attack.^[265]

• Ian Ballinger, 83, New Zealand sport shooter,1968 Olympic medallist.^[266]
• Ray Deakin, 49, British footballer (Bolton Wanderers,Burnley), brain cancer.^[267]
• Stanley Eveling, 83, British playwright.^[268]
• Gordon Fairweather, 85, Canadian politician, MP forRoyal,New Brunswick (1962–1977).^[269]
• Ralph Harris, 87, British journalist, respiratory failure.^[270]
• Samuel P. Huntington, 81, American political scientist, heart failure and complications of diabetes.^[271]
• Harold Pinter, 78, British playwright (The Homecoming), recipient of theNobel Prize for Literature (2005), throat cancer.^[272]
• Rik Renders, 86, Belgian cyclist.^[273]
• Alf Robertson, 67, Swedish singer and composer.^[274]
• Ruhlmann, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, aneurism.^[275]

• Edd Cartier, 94, American illustrator (The Shadow).^[276]
• Alvah Chapman, Jr., 87, American publisher and philanthropist, pneumonia.^[277]
• Justin Eilers, 30, American mixed martial artist, shot.^[278]
• Olívio Aurélio Fazza, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Diocese ofFoz do Iguaçu.^[279]
• Leo Frankowski, 65, American science fiction author.^[280]
• William Glendon, 89, American attorney.^[281]
• Lars Hollmer, 60, Swedish musician.^[282]
• Eartha Kitt, 81, American singer and actress (Batman,The Emperor's New Groove,Holes), colon cancer.^[283]
• Ann Savage, 87, American actress (Detour), complications from stroke.^[284]
• Robert Ward, 70, American blues singer and guitarist.^[285]
• Colin White, 57, British naval historian, cancer.^[286]

• Jaroslav Fikejz, 81, Czech Olympic athlete.^[287]
• Israel Horowitz, 92, American record producer.^[288]
• Eberhard Kneisl, 92, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.^[289]
• Gösta Krantz, 83, Swedish actor.^[290]
• Mikhail Krichevsky, 111, Ukrainian supercentenarian.^[291]
• Alan W. Lear, 55, Scottish writer.^[292]
• George Miller, 69, British footballer and manager (Falkirk FC,Wolverhampton Wanderers), cancer.^[293]
• Sir Kenneth Stoddart, 94, British Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside (1979–1989).^[294]
• Dick Voris, 86, American football player and coach.^[295]
• J. Lamar Worzel, 89, American oceanographer, heart attack.^[296]
• Wyvetter H. Younge, 78, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives since 1975, surgical complications.^[297]

• Arild Andresen, 80, Norwegian footballer and ice hockey player (Vålerenga).^[298]
• Rodrigo Arango Velásquez, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Diocese ofBuga.^[299]
• Delaney Bramlett, 69, American songwriter and record producer, complications fromgallbladder surgery.^[300]
• Sailor Brown, 93, British footballer and manager.^[301]
• Roque Cordero, 91, Panamanian-born American composer.^[302]
• John Fenton, 87, British Anglican priest and New Testament scholar.^[303]
• Robert Graham, 70, Mexican-born American sculptor, husband of actressAnjelica Huston, after long illness.^[304]
• Ian Harland, 76, British Anglican prelate,Bishop of Carlisle (1989–2000), after long illness.^[305]
• Michael Hicks, 80, British army general.^[306]
• Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, 86, Malaysian King (1994–1999), Great Ruler ofNegeri Sembilan since 1967.^[307]
• Patricia Kneale, 83, British actress.^[308]
• Iain MacLean, 55, Australian politician,Western Australian MLC forNorth Metropolitan (1994–1996) andMLA forWanneroo (1996–2001).^[309]
• Christine Maggiore, 52, American AIDS denialist, pneumonia.^[310]
• Sahu Mewalal, 82, Indian footballer, natural causes.^[311]
• Alfred Pfaff, 82, German footballer,1954 FIFA World Cup winner.^[312]

• Quentin C. Aanenson, 87, American fighter pilot, cancer.^[313]
• A. O. L. Atkin, 83, American mathematician, complications from a fall.^[314]
• Willie Clark, 90, Scottish footballer (Hibernian,St Johnstone).^[315]
• Vincent Ford, 68, Jamaican reggae songwriter ("No Woman, No Cry"), complications from diabetes.^[316]
• Donald Gleason, 88, American physician, creator of prostate cancer test, heart attack.^[317]
• Sir Michael Levey, 81, British art historian, Director of theNational Gallery (1973–1986).^[318]
• Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, 92, American architect and industrial designer, created the United Nations logo, prostate cancer.^[319]
• Haralamb Zincă, 85, Romanian writer, Alzheimer's disease.^[320]

• Manjit Bawa, 67, Indian painter, after long illness.^[321]
• William Ellis Green, 85, Australian cartoonist.^[322]
• Jim Horne, 91, American model, heart failure.^[323]
• Freddie Hubbard, 70, American jazz trumpeter, complications from a heart attack.^[324]
• Victor H. Krulak, 95, American Marine Corps officer.^[325]
• Vladislav Lalicki, 73, Serbian production designer.^[326]
• Ted Lapidus, 79, French fashion designer, respiratory failure.^[327]
• Daniel Nagrin, 91, American choreographer and dancer.^[328]
• Alan Sargeson, 78, Australian chemist.^[329]
• Harlington Wood Jr., 88, American lawyer.^[330]
• Yang Jinzong, 76, Chinese chemical engineer.^[331]

• Roy Boehm, 84, American Navy SEAL commander.^[332]
• Stewart Cleveland Cureton, 78, American pastor, President of theNational Baptist Convention (1999).^[333]
• Richard Genelle, 47, American actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,Power Rangers: Zeo), heart attack.^[334]
• Bernie Hamilton, 80, American actor (Starsky and Hutch), cardiac arrest.^[335]
• Paul Hofmann, 96, Austrian writer, informant against the Nazis.^[336]
• Peter Karmel, 86, Australian economist.^[337]
• Roy Saari, 63, American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (1964).^[338]

• Stan Kielty, 83, English rugby league player (Halifax,national team).^[339]
• Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player, after long illness.^[340]
• Kazbek Pagiyev, 49, Russian politician, mayor ofVladikavkaz, shot.^[341]
• Brad Sullivan, 77, American actor (Slap Shot,The Prince of Tides,The Sting), liver cancer.^[342]
• Vic Washington, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).^[343]
• Donald E. Westlake, 75, American mystery writer, heart attack.^[344]

• List of December 2008 deaths atIMDb

• December 2008
• 2008 deaths
• Lists of deaths in 2008

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