The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.
June 2008
1 Anne d'Harnoncourt, 64, American chief executive of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, natural causes. Brian Doyle, 77, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) rower. Maurizio Galli, 75, Italian Roman Catholic bishop, Bishop of Fidenza (1998–2007).Bishop Maurizio Galli † Al Jones, 62, British folk singer. Terry Keane, 68, Irish columnist and fashion journalist, long illness. Alton Kelley, 67, American graphic designer and psychedelic artist, after long illness. Tommy Lapid, 76, Israeli journalist and politician, deputy prime minister (2003–2004), cancer. Pat Regan, 53, British anti-gun activist, stabbing. Yves Saint Laurent, 71, French fashion designer, founder of Yves Saint Laurent brand, brain cancer. Jon Vickers, 82, British trade union leader. Alicia Zubasnabar de De la Cuadra, 92, Argentine human rights activist, first President of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
2 Nasser bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 41, Emirati royal, helicopter crash. Sheela Basrur, 51, Canadian health administrator, Toronto medical officer of health during SARS crisis, leiomyosarcoma. Sheriff Mustapha Dibba, 71, Gambian politician, first Vice President (1965–1975), speaker (2002–2006), heart attack. Bo Diddley, 79, American rock and roll and blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist, heart failure. Nodar Dzhordzhikiya, 86, Georgian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) basketball player. () Ferenc Fejtő, 98, Hungarian-born French historian and journalist, after long illness. Hiroshi Inoue, 90, Japanese entomologist Ángel Malvicino, 87, Argentine Olympic rower. Ken Naganuma, 77, Japanese football player and manager. Mel Ferrer, 90, American actor, film director and producer heart failure (War and Peace, Lili). Lois Roisman, 70, American philanthropist and playwright, heart failure. Paul Sills, 80, American theater director and comedian, co-founder of The Second City improv troupe, pneumonia. Frank Tsosie Thompson, 87, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran.
3 Ken Aitken, 79, Australian footballer. John A. Choi Jae-seon, 96, South Korean Bishop of Pusan (1957–1973). John Creaney, 74, Northern Irish barrister. Pat Egan, 90, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (Boston Bruins). Trevor Kaine, 80, Australian chief minister of the ACT (1989–1991). Tadeusz Kotz, 94, Polish World War II fighter ace. Grigory Romanov, 85, Russian first secretary of the Leningrad obkom (1970–1983), Politburo member (1976–1985). Carl H. Stevens Jr., 78, American evangelist, heart failure.
4 Travis Alexander, 30, American motivational speaker, homicide by stabbing. John Armitt, 82, New Zealand wrestler. Matthew J. Bruccoli, 76, American professor of English at University of South Carolina, expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jack Byrne, 57, Canadian member of Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, mayor of LB-MC-OC (1986–1993). Ruby Chow, 87, American Chinese restaurateur. Bill Finegan, 91, American jazz arranger and bandleader, pneumonia. Ivan Herasymov, 87, Ukrainian politician, oldest member of the Verkhovna Rada. John Long, 94, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Ely (1970–1981). Harriet McBryde Johnson, 50, American attorney and disability rights activist. Agata Mróz-Olszewska, 26, Polish international volleyball player, myelodysplastic syndrome. Frank Muller, 57, Dutch-born American actor and audiobook narrator. Curtis Osborne, 38, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. Jonathan Routh, 80, British co-star of UK Candid Camera. Nikos Sergianopoulos, 55, Greek actor, homicide by stabbing. James Young, 78, American White House physician (John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson).
5 Rajendra Agnihotri, 70, Indian politician. Frank Blackmore, 92, British traffic engineer and inventor of the mini-roundabout. Angus Calder, 66, British historian and writer, lung cancer. Dick Evans, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1969–1978).Mr Richard Kelynack Evans (1922–2008) Colin Kay, 82, New Zealand Mayor of Auckland (1980–1983), stroke. Misha Lajovic, 86, Slovenian-born Australian politician, Senator for New South Wales (1975–1985). Jacklyn H. Lucas, 80, American World War II veteran, youngest marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor, cancer. Eugenio Montejo, 70, Venezuelan poet, essayist and ambassador, stomach cancer. Bruce Purchase, 69, New Zealand-born British actor. Rubén Váldez, 85, Peruvian Olympic shooter. Vic Wilson, 87, British cricketer, captain of Yorkshire, Wisden Cricketer of the Year (1961).
6 Bobby Anderson, 75, American actor (It's a Wonderful Life), cancer. Jimmy Croll, 88, American Hall of Fame thoroughbred race horse trainer. David Mark Hill, 48, American spree killer. Saeko Himuro, 51, Japanese novelist and essayist, lung cancer. Ray Mallouf, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). Gene Persson, 74, American theatrical and film producer (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown). László Péter, 78, Hungarian historian. Ferenc Sánta, 81, Hungarian author. Ed Tchorzewski, 65, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan finance minister and Legislative Assembly member, cancer. Paul Tessier, 90, French plastic surgeon. Victor Wégria, 71, Belgian football player (Belgium, RFC Liège). Dwight White, 58, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), complications from back surgery. Francisco José Ynduráin, 67, Spanish physicist.
7 Ed Beatty, 76, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers). Jimmy Bonthrone, 76, Scottish footballer and manager (Aberdeen F.C.). Bill Coday, 66, American singer, stroke. Nasteh Dahir, 36, Somali journalist, vice-president of the National Union of Somali Journalists, shot. Thomas Erskine, 91, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1970–1978). Rudy Fernandez, 55, Filipino action movie star, periampullary cancer. Joseph Kabui, 53–54, Papua New Guinean secessionist, first president of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, heart attack. Mustafa Khalil, 87, Egyptian prime minister (1978–1980), architect of the Camp David Accords peace treaty. Roelof Koops, 98, Dutch Olympic speed skater. Jim McKay, 86, American sportscaster (Wide World of Sports, 12 Olympic Games), natural causes. Dino Risi, 91, Italian film director (Il Sorpasso, Profumo di donna), natural causes. Horst Skoff, 39, Austrian tennis player, heart attack. Erick Wujcik, 57, American game designer, pancreatic cancer.
8 Šaban Bajramović, 72, Serbian Romani musician, heart attack. Charles-Noël Barbès, 93, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament (1957–1958). Florența Crăciunescu, 53, Romanian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1984) discus thrower. Gene Damschroder, 86, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1973–1983), plane crash. Jake Flake, 72, American politician, Arizona representative (1997–2005) and senator since 2005, heart attack. Michitaka Kinami, 87, Japanese Olympic hurdler. Ruslana Korshunova, 20, Kazakh supermodel, suicide by jumping. Danilo Lagbas, 56, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives since 2004, lung and liver cancer. Abdul Samad Rohani, 25, Afghan journalist, shot. Peter Rühmkorf, 78, German writer, cancer. Edith Derby Williams, 90, American historian, granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt.
9 Karen Asrian, 28, Armenian chess grandmaster, heart attack. Algis Budrys, 77, American science fiction writer. Peter Jon de Vos, 69, American diplomat. Nan Hoover, 77, American-born Dutch artist. Alton W. Knappenberger, 84, American Medal of Honor recipient. Esteban Mellino, 63, Argentine actor, heart attack. Josef Minsch, 66, Swiss Olympic alpine skier. Elly M. Peterson, 94, American first female chair of Michigan Republican Party (1965–1969).
10 Chinghiz Aitmatov, 79, Kyrgyzstani writer (The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years), respiratory and renal failure. Gesner Armand, 71, Haitian painter. Eliot Asinof, 88, American writer (Eight Men Out), pneumonia. Ralph Bacerra, 70, American ceramic artist, lung cancer. David Brierly, 73, British actor, (Doctor Who), cancer. Tyrone Jones, 46, American Canadian football linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer. Kipkalya Kones, 56, Kenyan politician, plane crash. Lorna Laboso, 47, Kenyan politician, plane crash. John Rauch, 80, American football coach and player.
11 Lamidi Adedibu, 80, Nigerian politician. Ove Andersson, 70, Swedish rally driver and principal of the Toyota F1 racing team, rally crash. Reid Bryson, 88, American meteorologist. Brian Budd, 56, Canadian soccer player. Jean Desailly, 87, French actor. Mitch Frerotte, 43, American football player (Buffalo Bills), heart attack. Sir Frank Hassett, 90, Australian head of the Australian Defence Force (1975–1977). Taras Kermauner, 78, Slovenian literary historian, philosopher and playwright. Adam Ledwoń, 34, Polish footballer, suicide by hanging. Anne Clark Martindell, 93, American politician and diplomat, ambassador to New Zealand (1979–1981). Mickey McMahan, 77, American big band musician (Les Brown and Lawrence Welk orchestras), neuropathy. James Reaney, 81, Canadian playwright. Gunnar Solum, 78, Norwegian politician. *Võ Văn Kiệt, 85, Vietnamese politician, reformist, prime minister (1991–1997).
12 Ward Boston, 84, American Navy attorney, investigated USS Liberty incident, complications from pneumonia. Danny Davis, 83, American country musician and trumpet player, cardiac arrest. Miroslav Dvořák, 56, Czech ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers), throat cancer. Charlie Jones, 77, American sportscaster, heart attack. Dan Kuykendall, 83, American politician, representative from Tennessee (1967–1975). Stewart Rawlings Mott, 70, American philanthropist, cancer. Gunther Stent, 84, German molecular biologist, pneumonia. Derek Tapscott, 75, British football international (Arsenal, Cardiff City, Wales).
13 Mel Krause, 80, American college baseball coach and player, myeloid leukemia. Maryon Lane, 77, South African ballerina. Bruce Lester, 96, British actor. John Malcolm, 72, Scottish actor. Tim Russert, 58, American journalist and television host (Meet the Press), coronary thrombosis. Sir Dennis Weatherstone, 77, British banker, cancer.
14 *Baldev Singh Khiala, 73, Indian Politician, member of legislative assembly. Syed Wajid Ali, 97, Pakistani business magnate, member of the IOC. Jerry M. Anderson, 74, American academic administrator.Libraries bsu.edu Charles Albert Buswell, 94, American Roman Catholic bishop of Pueblo (1959–1979). *Chu Fu-sung, 93, Taiwanese foreign minister (1979–1987). Kees Fens, 78, Dutch essayist. Jamelão, 95, Brazilian samba singer, multiple organ failure. Alan Johnston, Lord Johnston, 66, British judge, heart attack. Rafael del Pino, 87, Spanish businessman. Emilio Óscar Rabasa, 84, Mexican secretary of foreign affairs (1970–1975), heart failure. (Spanish) Esbjörn Svensson, 44, Swedish jazz musician, diving accident. Werner Vetterli, 79, Swiss Olympic modern pentathlete.
15 Mel Agee, 39, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack. Thangamma Appakutty, 83, Sri Lankan social activist and educator.Thangamma Appakutty dies at 83 Franklin Otis Booth Jr., 84, American billionaire, Los Angeles Times executive, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. John Buzhardt, 71, American baseball player (1958–1968). Ray Getliffe, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, liver cancer. Johnathan Goddard, 27, American football player, motorcycle accident. Billy Muffett, 77, American baseball pitcher. Walter Netsch, 88, American architect, pneumonia. Ole-Jørgen Nilsen, 72, Norwegian actor and theatre director, Bechterew's disease.