List of Famous people who died in 2008

Simon Hantaï is a painter generally associated with abstract art.

Algimantas Masiulis was a Lithuanian film and theatre actor.

Josef Mikl was an Austrian abstract painter of the Informal style.

Robert Channing Seamans Jr. was an MIT professor who served as NASA Deputy Administrator and 9th United States Secretary of the Air Force.

Adele Palmer was an American costume designer who worked on more than 300 films during her long career. She was nominated for one Oscar. This was for the film The Best of Everything, in the category of Best Costumes-Color during the 32nd Academy Awards.

Gastone Mojaisky Perrelli was an Italian Catholic archbishop. He served as Apostolic Delegate to the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi and then to British East Africa and British West Africa, during which time he held the Titular Archbishopric of Amida. He later served as Archbishop-Bishop of Nusco and as Archbishop of Conza-Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi-Bisaccia.