List of Famous people who died in 2008

Hassan Sheikh Mumin was a Somali poet, playwright, broadcaster, actor and composer.

Daniel Van Ryckeghem was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer.

Geoffrey Howard Perkins was a British comedy producer, writer and performer. Best known as the BBC head of comedy (1995–2001), he produced the first two radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and is one of the people credited with creating the bizarre panel game Mornington Crescent for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. In December 2008 he posthumously received an Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award.

Luciano Pigozzi, also known professionally as Alan Collins, was an Italian character actor. A long-time staple of Italian genre cinema, Pigozzi was noted for his resemblance to Peter Lorre and appeared in such films as Human Cobras, Yor, the Hunter from the Future, Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman, Blood and Black Lace, Libido and perhaps his goriest role in Baron Blood.

Ramón Torres Martínez was a Mexican architect.

Murray Harold Protter was an American mathematician and educator, known for his contributions to the theory of partial differential equations, as well as his well-selling textbooks in Calculus.

Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera was a Mexican Cardinal Priest in the Roman Catholic Church who also served as Bishop of Tepic, Tlalnepantla and Archbishop of Monterrey.

Jan Mazur was the Polish bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Siedlce from August 6, 1968 until his retirement on March 25, 1996. He remained the Bishop Emeritus of Siedlce until his death in 2008 at the age of 88.