The Recently Dead List 2008

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Celebrity
Died
Age
Comments
George MacDonald Fraser
2 jan 2008
82
Novelist.
Sir John Harvey-Jones
9 jan 2008
83
Former chairman of ICI
Sir Edmund Hillary
10 jan 2008
88
First person to climb Everest.
Brad Renfro
14 jan 2008
25
American actor.
Bobby Fischer
17 jan 2008
64
Former world chess champion.
John Stewart
19 jan 2008
68
Singer/songwriter.
Heath Ledger
22 jan 2008
28
Australian actor.
Jeremy Beadle
30 jan 2008
59
TV presenter. Co-hosted Game for a Laugh
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
5 feb 2008
91
Indian guru and one time friend of the Beatles.
Roy Scheider
10 feb 2008
75
American actor.
Steve Fossett
15 feb 2008
61
Adventurer. Flew around the world by balloon with Richard Branson.
Norman Smith
3 mar 2008
85
Legendary record producer.
Carol Barnes
8 mar 2008
63
ITV Newsreader.
Mark Speight
13 mar 2008
42
Childrens TV presenter.
Anthony Minghella
18 mar 2008
54
Writer and director. Directed the film 'The English Patient'
Arthur C Clarke
19 mar 2008
90
Science fiction author and inventor of the geostationary satellite.
Paul Scofield
19 mar 2008
86
Actor. Won an oscar for the film 'A Man for all Seasons'.
Brian Wilde
20 mar 2008
86
Actor - played Foggy in 'Last of the Summer Wine'
Charlton Heston
5 apr 2008
84
Actor and gun nut. Appeared in the original Planet of the Apes film
Edward Lorenz
16 apr 2008
90
Scientist. Pioneer of Chaos Theory.
Humphrey Lyttleton
25 apr 2008
86
Jazz musician and compere of Radio 4's
Albert Hofmann
29 apr 2008
102
Swiss chemist. Inventor of LSD.
Sidney Pollack
26 may 2008
73
Film director/producer and occasional actor.
Harvey Korman
29 may 2008
81
Comedy actor.
Yves Saint Laurent
01 jun 2008
71
Fashion Designer
Bo Diddley
2 jun 2008
79
Early Rock and Roll musician. Real name Ellas Otha Bates.
Stan Winston
15 jun 2008
62
Film special effects guy.
Cyd Charisse
17 jun 2008
86
Dancer and film Actress from the 50s
George Carlin
22 jun 2008
71
American Comedian and actor
Estelle Getty
22 jul 2008
84
Actress and star of The Golden Girls
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3 aug 2008
89
Russian writer.
Isaac Hayes
10 aug 2008
65
Singer - best known for the Theme from Shaft
Bill Cotton
11 aug 2008
80
Former controller of BBC1.
Andre Young Jr.
26 aug 2008
20
Son of Dr Dre.
Geoffrey Perkins
29 aug 2008
55
Producer on various radio and TV comedy.
Ken Campbell
2 sep 2008
66
Actor. Best known for playing Alf Garnett's neighbour in
Don LaFontaine
2 sep 2008
68
Voiceover artist for films and adverts.
Rick Wright
15 sep 2008
65
Founder member of Pink Floyd.
Paul Newman
27 sep 2008
83
Film actor - starred in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Levi Stubbs
17 oct 2008
72
Lead singer of the Four Tops.
Michael Crichton
4 nov 2008
66
Novelist. Wrote the Jurassic Park books.
Mitch Mitchell
12 nov 2008
61
Drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Reg Varney
16 nov 2008
92
Actor. Appeared in 'On The Buses' in the 1970s
V. P. Singh
27 nov 2008
77
Former Prime Minister of India.
Oliver Postgate
8 dec 2008
83
Creator (or co-creator) of many favourite children's tv shows
Bob Spiers
08 dec 2008
63
Director of TV comedy programmes.
Kathy Staff
14 dec 2008
80
Actress. Real name Minnie Higginbottom. Best remembered for playing Norah Batty
Harold Pinter
24 dec 2008
78
British Playwright.
Eartha Kitt
25 dec 2008
81
Singer and actress.

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