List of Famous people who died in 2008

Barthélémy Djabla was the Ivorian Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gagnoa, based in Gagnoa, Côte d'Ivoire.

Prince Jameson Mbilini Dlamini was Prime Minister of Swaziland from 4 November 1993 to 8 May 1996.

Marco Allen Chapman was a convicted murderer who was the most recent person executed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He was executed on November 21, 2008 at 8:34 p.m. EST by lethal injection at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville, Kentucky. Chapman was executed for a series of murders he committed on August 23, 2002 in Warsaw, Kentucky on Weldon Way, killing two children, Chelbi Sharon, 7, and Cody Sharon, 6, by stabbing after he had raped and stabbed their mother, Carolyn Marksberry, the city clerk of Warsaw at the time, over 15 times. 10-year-old Courtney Sharon played dead after she had also been stabbed by Chapman several times, and escaped.

Kenneth H. Wood, Jr. was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, author and editor. Since 1980 he served as chairman of the Ellen G. White Estate board of trustees. By virtue of this position he also served as an ex officio member of the General Conference Executive Committee.

Horst Walter Stein was a German conductor.