List of Famous people who died in 2008

Donald William Montrose was the Bishop of the Diocese of Stockton in northern California from 1986 to 1999.

Witold Woyda was a Polish fencer who won four Olympic medals in the foil between 1964 and 1972, including two gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was named the Polish Sportspersonality of the Year for 1972 by readers of Przegląd Sportowy. Born in Poznań, he immigrated to the United States in the late 1970s, settling in Bronxville, New York, and worked for an Italian packaging company. He had lung cancer for two years prior to his death at his Bronxville home at age 68, five days shy of turning 69.

Ottavio Cogliati was an Italian cyclist who won a gold medal in the team time trial at the 1960 Summer Olympics. After that he turned professional and rode the 1962 and 1963 Tour de France. He retired in 1964, and later worked as a salesman of alcoholic beverages.

Erik Ortvad was a painter and a creator of many drawings. He debuted as a painter in 1935. He is mostly known for colorful surrealistic paintings.. He also created several hundred satiric drawings about the modern way of life under the pseudonym Enrico.

Burton Norval Hatlen was an American literary scholar and professor at the University of Maine. Hatlen worked closely with Carroll F. Terrell, an Ezra Pound scholar and co-founder of the National Poetry Foundation, to build the Foundation into an internationally known institution.

Charles Fernley Fawcett was a wrestler, resistance worker, soldier, airman, film star, film maker, and co-founder of the International Medical Corps. He was a recipient of the French Croix de Guerre and the American Eisenhower medal.

Horațiu Rădulescu was a Romanian-French composer, best known for the spectral technique of composition.

Fred Haines was an American screenwriter and film director.