The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
August 2008
1
Leopoldo Alas Mínguez, 45, Spanish writer, poet and editor. Carlos Aponte, 69, Colombian footballer. Rolf Bae, 33, Norwegian mountaineer, climbing accident. Pauline Baynes, 85, British illustrator (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings). Peter Jackson, 80, Australian fashion designer, prostate cancer. Ashok Mankad, 61, Indian cricketer. Chief Mqalo, 91, South African Chief of the AmaKhuze Tribe, Alice. Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 92, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. Butch White, 72, British cricketer (Hampshire, Glamorgan, England).
2
Fujio Akatsuka, 72, Japanese manga artist, pneumonia. Frederic Apcar, 93, Russian-born French acrobatic dancer and producer/impresario. Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde, 81, British aristocrat and banker. Geoffrey Ballard, 76, Canadian businessman and fuel cell scientist, founder of Ballard Power Systems. Pérez Celis, 69, Argentine plastic artist, leukaemia. Affonso Évora, 89, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) basketball player. Helga Gitmark, 78, Norwegian politician. Christopher González, 65, Jamaican sculptor and painter, cancer. Kåre Grøndahl Hagem, 93, Norwegian politician. Allen Kolstad, 76, American politician, lieutenant governor of Montana (1988–1991), cancer. Ger McDonnell, 37, Irish mountaineer, first Irishman to reach K2 summit, climbing accident. Peter Rodman, 64, American foreign policy expert, leukemia. John F. Seiberling, 89, American politician, representative from Ohio (1971–1987), respiratory failure.
3
Anton Allemann, 72, Swiss footballer (PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Nürnberg, Grasshopper Zürich), heart attack. Skip Caray, 68, American broadcaster for baseball (Atlanta Braves) and basketball (Hawks), son of Harry Caray, bronchitis. Erik Darling, 74, American songwriter, folk musician, lymphoma. Roger Dean, 65, British guitarist, brain cancer. Babatunde Jose, 82, Nigerian journalist and newspaper editor. Jeffrey S. Medkeff, 39, American astronomer and science writer, liver cancer. Robert Montgomery, 78, American lawyer. Aurelius H. Piper Sr., 92, American hereditary chief of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation since 1959, natural causes. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian novelist and historian, Nobel Prize winner (1970), heart failure. Louis Teicher, 83, American classical pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), heart failure.
4
Alberto Achacaz Walakial, 79, Chilean craftsman, one of the last full-blooded Alacaluf, blood poisoning. Sally Insul, 92, American actress, heart failure. Craig Jones, 23, British motorcycle racer, head injuries from a race crash. Peter Kass, 85, American actor, director and teacher. Eri Kawai, 43, Japanese pop and classical singer, liver cancer. Victor McCaffery, 89, Australian cricketer. Robert Maheu, 90, American businessman, aide to Howard Hughes. Nicola Rescigno, 92, American opera conductor, complications from broken femur. Johnny Thio, 63, Belgian football player and coach, myocardial rupture. Greg Weld, 64, American racing driver and businessman, heart attack.
5
Aziz Abdullah Ahmed, 80-81, Iraqi Kurdish judge, Alzheimer's disease. Jaroslav Alexa, 59, Czech Olympic athlete. Bruno Dallansky, 79, Austrian actor. Robert Hazard, 59, American musician and songwriter ("Girls Just Want to Have Fun"), pancreatic cancer. Jack Kamen, 88, American comic book artist (Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror), cancer. Reg Lindsay, 79, Australian country music singer and songwriter, pneumonia. Shelby Linville, 78, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats), cancer. José Medellín, 33, Mexican convicted murderer, execution in Texas by lethal injection. Gary Mooney, 78, American animator (Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, George of the Jungle), cancer. Daniel L. Norris, 73, Canadian commissioner of the Northwest Territories (1989–1994), heart failure. Eva Pflug, 79, German actress (Raumpatrouille Orion). Manuel de Almeida Trindade, 90, Portuguese bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aveiro (1962–1988).