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). 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
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 (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). 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). 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).