List of Famous people who died in 2008
Qiu Fazu
Qiu Fazu was a Chinese surgeon and politician. He was a saviour of Jewish prisoners. In the People's Republic of China, he is considered the father of modern Chinese surgery.
Edward Norton Lorenz
Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology. He is best known as the founder of modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.
Rodrigo Arango Velásquez
Rodrigo Arango Velásquez was the second Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buga, Colombia, South America. He was the first Colombian Bishop of the Sulpician order.
Smaran Ghosal
Bruce Gardner
Frank Banuscher
Marijan Oblak
Mons. Marijan Oblak was a Croatian archbishop of the Archdiocese of Zadar in the Catholic Church.
Pamela Hamilton
Oemar Dachlan
H. Sridhar
H. Sridhar was a sound engineer from India and known for his work with the Indian Musician A R Rahman.