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2008 (MMVIII ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar , the 2008th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini 3rd millennium , the 8th year of the 21st century , and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.
First-ever photograph of the "unseen side" of Mercury , taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft on January 14 January 1 – Cyprus and Malta adopt the euro .[ 1] [ 2] January 1 – A suicide bombing occurs in Zayouna , Baghdad , killing over 25 people during a funeral over the deaths from the preceding attack.[ 3] January 2 – The price of petroleum hits $ 100 per barrel for the first time.January 3 – A car bomb detonates, killing at least 4 and injuring 68, in Diyarbakır , Turkey . Police blame Kurdish rebels .[ 4] January 8 – An attempted assassination of Maldivian president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is thwarted after a Boy Scout grabs the attacker's knife. The Boy Scout is injured, but after a scuffle police arrest the attacker.[ 5] January 12 – A Macedonian Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in thick fog southeast of Skopje , killing all 11 military personnel on board.[ 6] January 14 – At 19:04:39 UTC , the MESSENGER space probe is at its closest approach during its first flyby of the planet Mercury .[ 7] January 15 – The Federal Court of Australia orders a Japanese whaling company to stop research whaling within their Exclusive Economic Zone .[ 8] January 21 – Stock markets around the world plunge amid growing fears of a U.S. recession , fueled by the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis .[ 9] January 22 – Russia stages the largest naval exercise since the fall of the Soviet Union in the Bay of Biscay . The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov , along with 11 support vessels and 47 long-range bomber aircraft, practises strike tactics off the coast of France and Spain , and test-launches nuclear-capable missiles in foreign waters.[ 10] January 23 – Polish Air Force EADS CASA C-295 crashes on approach to the 12th Air Base near Mirosławiec . All 20 personnel on board die.[ 11] January 23 – Thousands of Palestinians cross into Egypt , as the border wall with Gaza in Rafah is blown up by militants .[ 12] January 24 – A peace deal ends the Kivu war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .[ 13] January 25 – China 's worst snowstorm since 1954 kills 133, delays traffic, and causes massive power outages in central and southern parts of the country.[ 14] January 29 – Iran 's judiciary sentences to prison 54 Bahá'í Faith followers for 'anti-regime propaganda'.[ 15] [ 16] Raúl Castro February 2 – Rebels attack the capital of Chad , N'Djamena .[ 17] February 4 – Iran opens its first space center and launches a rocket into space.[ 18] February 4 – A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 1 and wounds 13 in a Dimona , Israel shopping center.[ 19] February 5 – U.S. stock market indices plunge more than 3% after a report shows signs of economic recession in the service sector. The S&P 500 fall 3.2%, The Dow Jones Industrial Average 370 points.[ 20] February 5 –6 – A tornado outbreak , the deadliest in 23 years, kills 58 in the Southern United States .[ 21] February 7 – STS-122 Space Shuttle Atlantis launches to deliver the European-built Columbus science laboratory to the International Space Station .[ 22] February 10 – The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun , the first National Treasure of South Korea .[ 23] February 11 – President of East Timor José Ramos-Horta is seriously wounded in an attack on his home by rebel soldiers. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed by Ramos-Horta's security guards during the attack.[ 24] February 12 – PDVSA , a state oil company in Venezuela , suspends sales of crude oil to ExxonMobil , in response to a legal challenge by them.[ 25] February 12 – Bridgestone , under investigation for an alleged price-fixing cartel, uncovers improper payments of at least 150 million Japanese yen to foreign governments and withdraws from the marine hose business.[ 26] February 13 – Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia delivers a formal apology to the Stolen Generations .[ 27] February 17 – Kosovo formally declares independence from Serbia , with support from some countries but opposition from others.[ 28] February 18 – The British government introduces emergency legislation temporarily to nationalize Northern Rock , the 5th largest mortgage bank in the UK, due to the bank's financial crisis.[ 29] February 18 – A general election is held in Pakistan , delayed from January 8 due to riots in the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto . Opposition parties, including Bhutto's, take more than half of the seats, while President Pervez Musharraf 's party suffers a huge defeat.[ 30] February 19 – Fidel Castro announces his resignation as President of Cuba, effective February 24.[ 31] February 20 – The United States Navy destroys a spy satellite containing toxic fuel, by shooting it down with a missile launched from the USS Lake Erie Pacific Ocean .[ 32] February 20 – A total lunar eclipse crosses North and South America , Europe , Africa , and Southwest Asia .[ 33] February 22 – Former building society Northern Rock is the first bank in Europe to be taken into state control, due to the U.S. subprime mortgage financial crisis.[ 34] February 22 – No survivors are found after a rescue helicopter discovers the wreckage of Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 just northeast of Mérida , Venezuela . The commercial plane had 46 people on board, including crew.[ 35] February 24 – Raúl Castro is unanimously elected as President of Cuba by the National Assembly .[ 36] February 27 -- Microsoft release operating system Windows Server 2008 on worldwideEuropean Jules Verne ATV docked the to International Space Station March –April – Rising food and fuel prices trigger riots and unrest in the Third World .March 1 – In Gaza Strip , at least 52 Palestinians and 2 Israeli soldiers are killed in the most intense Israeli air strikes since 2005.[ 37] March 2 – 2008 Andean diplomatic crisis : Venezuela and Ecuador move troops to the Colombian border, following a Colombian raid against FARC guerrillas inside Ecuador's national territory, in which senior commander Raúl Reyes is killed.[ 38] [ 39] March 6 – Eight Israeli civilians are killed and 9 wounded when a Palestinian attacker opens fire at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem .[ 40] March 9 – The first European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle , a cargo spacecraft for the International Space Station , launches from Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana .[ 41] March 14 – Demonstrations by Tibetan separatists turn violent as rioters target government and Han Chinese -owned buildings.March 15 – A gun factory explosion in Gërdec , Albania kills more than 30. Over the following week, Albania , Kosovo , and some surrounding countries supply and support Gërdec 's population with food, blood, etc.March 19 – An exploding star halfway across the visible universe becomes the farthest known object ever visible to the naked eye.[ 42] March 24 – Bhutan holds its first-ever general elections .[ 43] March 25 – A 414 square kilometer (160 sq. mi.2 ) chunk of Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegrates, leaving the entire shelf at risk.March 25 – African Union and Comoros forces invade the rebel-held island of Anjouan .March 29 – Presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Zimbabwe .[ 44] An earthquake in Sichuan , China killed nearly 80,000 people May 3 – Over 133,000 in Burma /Myanmar are killed by Cyclone Nargis , the deadliest natural disaster since the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004 .May 7 – Dmitry Medvedev takes office as President of Russia , replacing Vladimir Putin .May 8 – Start of armed clashes and fighting in Lebanon .May 11 – Burma /Myanmar holds a constitutional referendum .May 12 – Over 69,000 are killed in central south-west China by the Wenchuan quake , an earthquake measuring 7.9 Moment magnitude scale . The epicenter is 90 kilometers (55 miles) west-northwest of the provincial capital Chengdu , Sichuan province .May 13 – A series of bomb blasts kills at least 63 and injures 216 in Jaipur , India .May 14 – NASA announces the discovery of Supernova remnant G1.9+0.3 .May 15 – An oil pipeline explosion in Ijegun, Nigeria kills 100.May 23 – The Union of South American Nations , a supranational union ,[ 52] Andean Community and Mercosur .May 23 – The International Court of Justice awards Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca to Singapore , ending a 29-year territorial dispute between the 2 countries.May 25 – NASA's Phoenix spacecraft becomes the first to land on the northern polar region of Mars .[ 53] May 28 – The Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is established after the Assembly votes overwhelmingly in favor of abolishing the country's 240-year-old monarchy . Girija Prasad Koirala becomes temporary head of state .May 30 – The Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted in Dublin.[ 54] June 1 – A fire at Universal Studios Hollywood destroys 118,000 to 175,000 copies of master tapes.June 2 – A car bomb explodes outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad , Pakistan , killing at least five.June 8 – In the Akihabara area of Tokyo , Japan , a 25-year-old man stabs seven to death and wounds 10 , before being arrested.June 10 – Fire engulfs Sudan Airways Flight 109 after it lands in Khartoum , killing 44.June 11 – The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope is launched.June 11 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologizes to Canada's First Nations for the Canadian residential school system .June 12 – Ireland votes to reject the Treaty of Lisbon , in the only referendum to be held by a European Union member state on the treaty.June 14 – A 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Iwate Prefecture , Japan , kills 12 and injures more than 400.June 14 – September 14 – Expo 2008 is held in Zaragoza , Spain , with the topic of "Water and sustainable development" .June 22 – Typhoon Fengshen hits the Philippines and capsizes the ferry MV Princess of the Stars June 27 – President Robert Mugabe is reelected with 85.5% of the vote in the second round of the controversial Zimbabwean presidential election .June 27 – After three decades as the Chairman of Microsoft Corporation , Bill Gates steps down from daily duties to concentrate on philanthropy .[ 55] [ 56] 34th G8 summit heads of delegations in Tōyako , Japan July 2 – Íngrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages are rescued from FARC by Colombian security forces.July 7 – A suicide-bomber drives an explosives-laden automobile into the front gates of the Indian embassy in Kabul , Afghanistan , killing 58 and injuring over 150.July 7 –9 – The 34th G8 summit is held in Tōyako, Hokkaidō , Japan .July 10 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges, by a UN Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.July 15 –20 – World Youth Day takes place in Sydney , Australia . Pope Benedict XVI appears at the event.[ 57] July 21 – Radovan Karadžić , the first president of the Republika Srpska , is arrested in Belgrade , Serbia on allegations of war crimes, following a 12-year long manhunt .[ 58] July 22 – The United Progressive Alliance -led government in India survives a crucial no-confidence vote , based on disagreements between the Indian National Congress and Left Front , over the Indo-US nuclear deal .July 23 – Ram Baran Yadav is sworn in as the first President of Nepal .[ 59] July 25 – A series of seven bomb blasts rock Bangalore , India , killing two and injuring 20; the next day, a series of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad , Gujarat , India , kills 45 and injures over 160 people.July 27 – At least 17 are killed and over 154 wounded in 2 blasts in Istanbul .July 28 – At least 48 are dead and over 287 injured after bombs explode in Baghdad and Kirkuk , Iraq .[ 60] [ 61] August 1 – A total eclipse of the Sun is visible from Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China.[ 62] August 1 – George Tupou V is crowned as the new King of Tonga , an event that had been delayed for over two years following the 2006 Nuku'alofa riots .[ 63] August 3 – A stampede at a Hindu temple at Naina Devi in Bilaspur , Himachal Pradesh , India kills 162 and injures 400.August 4 – Two members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement , which had threatened to attack the Beijing Olympics , kill 16 and injure another 16 officers at a police station in Kashgar , Xinjiang , China .[ 64] [ 65] August 6 – President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi of Mauritania is deposed in a military coup d'état .August 7 – The 2008 South Ossetia war begins, as Georgia and Russia launch a major offensive inside the separatist region of South Ossetia after days of border skirmishes between the two sides.August 8 –24 – The 2008 Summer Olympics take place in Beijing , China .[ 66] August 15 – Pushpa Kamal Dahal (known as Prachanda ) is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal , after the Nepalese monarchy was abolished in May .[ 67] August 17 – Michael Phelps surpasses Mark Spitz in Gold Medals won at a single Olympics , winning eight.[ 68] August 18 – Pervez Musharraf resigns as President of Pakistan , under impeachment pressure from the coalition government.[ 69] August 19 – Taliban insurgents kill 10 and injure 21 French soldiers in an ambush in Afghanistan .[ 70] August 19 – A suicide bomber rams a car into an Algerian military academy, killing 43 and injuring 45.[ 71] August 20 – Spanair Flight 5022 , from Madrid to Gran Canaria , skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport with 172 on board. Of them, 154 die and 18 survive.[ 72] August 21 – At least 60 die following twin suicide bombings outside the Pakistan Ordnance Factories in Wah , Pakistan .August 22 – Pirates hijack German , Iranian , and Japanese cargo ships off the coast of Somalia , in seven such attacks since June 20 .[ 73] August 24 – An aircraft crashes in Guatemala , killing 10, including four Americans on a humanitarian mission .[ 74] August 24 – Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 crashes upon takeoff near Manas International Airport in Bishkek , Kyrgyzstan , killing 68.[ 75] August 26 – Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia .[ 76] August 26 – September 1 – Hurricane Gustav makes landfall on Louisiana as Category 2 and kills seven in the United States , after making landfall on western Cuba as Category 4 , and killing 66 in Haiti , eight in the Dominican Republic , and 11 in Jamaica .[ 77] [ 78] August 28 – September 7 – Hurricane Hanna kills seven in the United States , and 529 in Haiti , mostly due to floods and mudslides .[ 79] September 1 –14 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on Texas as Category 2 and kills 27 in the United States , after killing four in Cuba , one in the Dominican Republic , and 75 in Haiti .[ 80] [ 81] September 2 – Prime Minister of Japan Yasuo Fukuda resigns, less than a year after taking office following Shinzo Abe 's resignation.[ 82] September 2 – Political crisis in Thailand : Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej of Thailand declares a state of emergency in Bangkok .[ 83] September 3 – Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani of Pakistan survives an assassination attempt near Islamabad , while on his way to meet British Leader of the Opposition David Cameron .September 3 – President's Dimitris Christofias and Mehmet Ali Talat hold peace talks in Nicosia , aimed at reunifying Cyprus.[ 84] [ 85] September 6 – Asif Ali Zardari is elected President of Pakistan by the Electoral College of Pakistan .[ 86] September 6 – At least eight boulders dislodge from a cliff near Cairo , Egypt , killing at least 90 and burying an estimated 500 people.[ 87] September 9 – Political crisis in Thailand : The Constitutional Court of Thailand orders Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to resign, after he is paid for appearing on a television cooking show .[ 88] September 10 – The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider , the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator , located at CERN , near Geneva , under the Franco-Swiss border.[ 89] [ 90] September 12 – A Metrolink train collides head-on into a freight train in Los Angeles, California , killing 25 and injuring 130.[ 91] September 14 – Aeroflot Flight 821 crashes near the city of Perm , Russia , killing all 88 on board.[ 92] September 15 – Following negotiations , President Robert Mugabe and opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara sign a power-sharing deal, making Tsvangirai the new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe .September 15 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.September 17 – The International Astronomical Union classifies Haumea as the 5th dwarf planet in the Solar System .[ 93] September 19 –25 – Typhoon Hagupit kills 17 in China , eight in the Philippines , one in Taiwan , and 41 in Vietnam .[ 94] September 20 – A suicide truck bomb explosion destroys the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad , Pakistan , killing at least 60 and injuring 266.[ 95] [ 96] [ 97] September 21 – President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa resigns after accepting a call by the African National Congress .[ 98] September 24 – The Diet of Japan elects Taro Aso as the new Prime Minister of Japan .[ 99] September 25 – Kgalema Motlanthe is elected by the National Assembly of South Africa as the President of South Africa , succeeding Thabo Mbeki .[ 100] September 25 – Shenzhou 7 , the third manned Chinese spaceflight and the first with three crew members, is successfully launched. China becomes the third country ever to conduct a spacewalk .[ 101] September 28 – SpaceX Falcon 1 becomes the world's first privately developed space launch vehicle to successfully make orbit .[ 102] [ 103] September 30 – A Jodhpur temple stampede in western India kills over 224 people, and injures 400.[ 104] [ 105] October 3 – Global financial crisis : U.S. President George W. Bush signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law, creating a 700 billion dollar Treasury fund to purchase failing bank assets .[ 106] October 6 – NASA 's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second of three flybys of Mercury , decreasing the velocity for orbital insertion on March 18, 2011.[ 107] [ 108] October 6 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude kills at least 65 in Kyrgyzstan .[ 109] October 7 – Global financial crisis : Russia agrees to provide Iceland with a four-billion-euro loan.[ 110] [ 111] October 7 – The meteoroid 2008 TC3 impacts Earth , becoming the first such object to be discovered prior to impact .[ 112] October 9 – Global financial crisis : Following a major banking and financial crisis in Iceland, the Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority takes control of the three largest banks in the country: Kaupthing Bank ,[ 113] [ 114] Landsbanki ,[ 115] [ 116] Glitnir .[ 117] [ 118] October 17 – The United Nations General Assembly elects Turkey , Austria , Japan , Uganda , and Mexico to two-year terms on the Security Council .[ 119] October 21 – The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially inaugurated . It is a collaboration of over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories .[ 120] [ 121] [ 122] [ 123] October 22 – The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches theChandrayaan-1 spacecraft on a lunar exploration mission.[ 124] [ 125] October 29 – Global financial crisis : Hungary 's currency and stock markets rise on the news that it will receive an international economic bailout package worth $25 billion from the IMF , European Union , and World Bank .[ 126] October 29 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines , forming the world's largest commercial carrier.[ 127] Barack Obama November 4 – United States presidential election, 2008 : Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States and Joe Biden is elected the 47th Vice President . Barack Obama becomes the first African-American President-elect .[ 128] [ 129] [ 130] November 6 – King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan is crowned, having ascended to the throne in 2006 .[ 131] November 7 – The 2008 Pétionville school collapse kills at least 92 in Pétionville , Haiti .November 8 – An accident aboard Russian submarine K-152 Nerpa kills 20.November 11 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her last voyage from Southampton , UK to Dubai , UAE . She will become a floating hotel at Palm Jumeirah .[ 132] [ 133] November 14 – STS-126 Space Shuttle Endeavour uses the MPLM Leonardo to deliver experiment and storage racks to the International Space Station . There will be only three more launches of Space Shuttle Endeavour after this mission.[ 134] November 19 – Claudia Castillo of Spain becomes the first person to have a successful trachea transplant using a tissue-engineered organ .[ 135] November 20 – The 2008 Prairie meteoroid falls over Canada .November 22 – 23 – The APEC Peru 2008 Summit is held in Lima .November 24 – The 2008 Santa Catarina floods in Santa Catarina , Brazil kill 126 and force the evacuation of over 78,000 people.November 25 – Greenland holds a referendum for increased autonomy from Denmark . The vote is over 75% in favour.[ 136] November 25 – Political crisis in Thailand : Protesters from the People's Alliance for Democracy party storm into Suvarnabhumi Airport and block flights from taking off. More protesters seize control of Don Mueang Airport the following day.November 25 – A car bomb in St. Petersburg , Russia , kills three people and injures one.November 26 – November 29 – A series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai , India by Pakistan -based Islamic militants kills 195, and injures at least 250.November 27 – The longest serving Ocean Liner in history, QE2 is retired from service.November 29 – Riots in Jos, Nigeria kill 381, and injure at least 300.December 1 – A triangular conjunction formed by a new Moon, Venus and Jupiter is a prominent object in the evening sky.[ 137] December 2 – Political crisis in Thailand : After weeks of opposition -led protests, the Constitutional Court of Thailand dissolves the governing People's Power Party and two coalition member parties, and bans leaders of the parties, including Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat , from politics for five years. As such, Wongsawat promptly resigns and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Chaovarat Chanweerakul as caretaker Prime Minister.[ 138] December 3 – The Convention on Cluster Munitions opens for signature in Oslo.[ 54] December 4 – Political crisis in Canada : Governor General Michaëlle Jean grants the request of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to prorogue Parliament until January 26, 2009, averting a motion of no-confidence by the new opposition coalition led by the Leader of the Opposition Stéphane Dion , and the New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton , with Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe as a coalition partner.[ 139] December 5 – Human remains found in 1991 are identified as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia , using DNA analysis .[ 140] December 6 – Riots spread across Greece after a 15-year-old boy is shot dead by a special guard of the Greek Police .[ 141] December 10 – The Channel Island of Sark , a British crown dependency , holds its first fully democratic elections under a new constitutional arrangement, becoming the last European territory to abolish feudalism .[ 142] December 12 – Switzerland becomes the 25th European country to join the Schengen Agreement , whereby cross-border passport checks will be abolished.[ 143] December 12 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth , called perigee , at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle . The Moon appears to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the year's other full moons. The next time these two events coincide will be in 2016.[ 144] December 16 – Ruins of an ancient Wari city are discovered in northern Peru .December 18 – The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda convicts Théoneste Bagosora and two other senior Rwandan army officers of genocide , crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentences them to life imprisonment .[ 145] December 21 – Gwadar port , Pakistan becomes fully operational.[ 146] December 23 – A military coup d'état is announced in Guinea shortly after the death of long-time President Lansana Conté .[ 147] December 27 – Israel initiates a series of airstrikes followed by an invasion in Gaza Strip , killing at least 1300 (including at least 416 children)[ 148] December 29 – Bangladesh holds its general elections after two years of political unrest over the interim government .[ 149] December 31 – An extra leap second (23:59:60) is added to end the year. The last time this occurred was in 2005 .Edmund Hillary Bobby Fischer Heath Ledger January 3 – Yo-Sam Choi , Korean boxer (b. 1972 )January 10 – Maila Nurmi , Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. 1921 )January 11 – Edmund Hillary , New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist (b. 1919 )January 15 – Brad Renfro , American actor (b. 1982 )January 16 – Nikola Kljusev , Macedonian Prime Minister (b. 1927 )January 17 – Bobby Fischer , American-Icelandic chess grandmaster (b. 1943 )January 19 – Suzanne Pleshette , American actress (b. 1937 )January 22 – Heath Ledger , Australian actor (b. 1979 )January 22 – Claude Piron , Swiss linguist and psychologist (b. 1931 )January 26 – George Habash , Palestinian politician (b. 1926 )January 27 – Gordon B. Hinckley , American Mormon leader (b. 1910 )January 28 – Christodoulos , Archbishop of Athens (b. 1939 )Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Roy Scheider Janez Drnovšek February 2 – Joshua Lederberg , American molecular biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925 )February 5 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , Indian spiritual leader (b. 1917 )February 7 – Andrew Bertie , British Grand Master of the Order of Malta (b. 1929 )February 9 – Baba Amte , Indian social activist (b. 1914 )February 10 – Roy Scheider , American actor (b. 1932 )February 11 – Alfredo Reinado , East Timorese rebel (b. 1967 )February 11 – Tom Lantos , American politician (b. 1928 )February 12 – Imad Mughniyah , Lebanese militant (b. 1962 )February 12 – Badri Patarkatsishvili , Georgian businessman and politician (b. 1955 )February 13 – Kon Ichikawa , Japanese movie director (b. 1915 )February 13 – Henri Salvador , French singer (b. 1917 )February 18 – Alain Robbe-Grillet , French writer and movie maker (b. 1922 )February 19 – Natalia Bessmertnova , Russian ballerina (b. 1941 )February 19 – Yegor Letov , Russian singer (b. 1964 )February 21 – Sufi Abu Taleb , Egyptian politician (b. 1925 )February 23 – Janez Drnovšek , Slovenian President and Prime Minister of (b. 1950 )February 23 – Paul Frère , Belgian racing driver (b. 1917 )February 27 – William F. Buckley, Jr. , American writer and conservative commentator (b. 1925 )February 27 – Ivan Rebroff , German singer (b. 1931 )Giuseppe Di Stefano Arthur C. Clarke Paul Scofield March 1 – Raúl Reyes , Colombian guerrilla (b. 1948 )March 2 – Jeff Healey , Canadian musician (b. 1966 )March 3 – Giuseppe Di Stefano , Italian operatic tenor (b. 1921 )March 3 – Norman Smith , English singer and record producer (b. 1923 )March 4 – Gary Gygax , American writer and game designer (b. 1938 )March 6 – Peter Poreku Dery , Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918 )March 5 – Joseph Weizenbaum , German-American writer and computer scientist (b. 1923 )March 14 – Chiara Lubich , Italian Catholic activist (b. 1920 )March 18 – Anthony Minghella , English movie director and screenwriter (b. 1954 )March 19 – Arthur C. Clarke , English writer, inventor, and futurist (b. 1917 )March 19 – Hugo Claus , Flemish writer, painter and movie director (b. 1929 )March 19 – Paul Scofield , English actor (b. 1922 )March 22 – Adolfo Suárez Rivera , Mexican cardinal (b. 1927 )March 24 – Neil Aspinall , British record producer and business executive (b. 1942 )March 24 – Richard Widmark , American actor (b. 1914 )March 26 – Manuel Marulanda , Colombian guerrilla (b. 1930 )March 27 – Jean-Marie Balestre , French sports executive (b. 1921 )March 30 – Dith Pran , Cambodian-American photojournalist (b. 1942 )March 31 – Jules Dassin , American movie director (b. 1911 )Charlton Heston Patrick Hillery April 3 – Hrvoje Ćustić , Croatian footballer (b. 1983 )April 5 – Charlton Heston , American actor (b. 1923 )April 10 – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada , Mexican cardinal (b. 1919 )April 12 – Patrick Hillery , 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923 )April 13 – John Archibald Wheeler , American theoretical physicist (b. 1911 )April 14 – Ollie Johnston , American animator (b. 1912 )April 15 – Benoît Lamy , Belgian movie writer-director (b. 1945 )April 16 – Edward Norton Lorenz , American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917 )April 17 – Aimé Césaire , French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913 )April 29 – Albert Hofmann , Swiss chemist and writer, discoverer of LSD (b. 1906 )Anthony Mamo Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo Irena Sendler Sydney Pollack May 1 – Anthony Mamo , 1st President of Malta (b. 1909 )May 2 – Philipp von Boeselager , German military officer (b. 1917 )May 3 – Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo , Spanish Prime Minister of (b. 1926 )May 8 – François Sterchele , Belgian footballer (b. 1982 )May 10 – Leyla Gencer , Turkish soprano (b. 1928 )May 12 – Robert Rauschenberg , American pop artist (b. 1925 )May 12 – Irena Sendler , Polish humanitarian (b. 1910 )May 13 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930 )May 13 – Bernardin Gantin , Beninese cardinal (b. 1922 )May 15 – Willis Lamb , American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913 )May 23 – Cornell Capa , Hungarian-American photographer (b. 1918 )May 24 – Rob Knox , British actor (b. 1989 )May 26 – Sydney Pollack , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1934 )May 28 – Sven Davidson , Swedish tennis player (b. 1928 )May 29 – Luc Bourdon , Canadian Hockey player (b. 1987 )Dino Risi Chinghiz Aitmatov Cyd Charisse George Carlin June 1 – Yves Saint Laurent , French fashion designer (b. 1936 )June 1 – Tommy Lapid , Israeli television presenter, journalist, and politician (b. 1931 )June 2 – Bo Diddley , American musician (b. 1928 )June 2 – Mel Ferrer , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1917 )June 4 – Agata Mróz-Olszewska , Polish volleyball player (b. 1982 )June 7 – Dino Risi , Italian director (b. 1916 )June 8 – Šaban Bajramović , Serbian musician (b. 1936 )June 9 – Algis Budrys , Lithuanian-American science fiction writer (b. 1931 )June 9 – Karen Asrian , Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1980 )June 10 – Chinghiz Aitmatov , Kyrgyzstani writer (b. 1928 )June 11 – Ove Andersson , Swedish rally driver (b. 1939 )June 11 – Võ Văn Kiệt , Vietnamese prime minister (b. 1922 )June 13 – Tim Russert , American journalist (b. 1950 )June 15 – Stan Winston , American special effects and makeup artist (b. 1946 )June 17 – Cyd Charisse , American actress and dancer (b. 1922 )June 18 – Jean Delannoy , French movie director (b. 1908 )June 22 – George Carlin , American writer, actor, and comedian (b. 1937 )June 23 – Arthur Chung , President of Guyana (b. 1918 )June 24 – Leonid Hurwicz , American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917 )June 27 – Sam Manekshaw , Field Marshall of Indian Army (b.1914 )June 28 – Ruslana Korshunova , Kazakhstani model (b. 1987 )June 29 – Don S. Davis , American actor (b. 1942 )Jesse Helms July 4 – Jesse Helms , American politician (b. 1921 )July 4 – Evelyn Keyes , American actress (b. 1916 )July 5 – René Harris , President of Nauru (b. 1947 )July 9 – Seamus Brennan , Irish politician (b. 1948 )July 11 – Michael E. DeBakey , American surgeon and inventor (b. 1908 )July 12 – Tony Snow , American political commentator (b. 1955 )July 13 – Bronisław Geremek , Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932 )July 15 – György Kolonics , Hungarian canoeist (b. 1972 )July 22 – Estelle Getty , American actress (b. 1923 )July 23 – Kurt Furgler , Swiss politician (b. 1924 )July 25 – Johnny Griffin , American saxophonist (b. 1928 )July 25 – Randy Pausch , American writer and computer scientist (b. 1960 )July 27 – Youssef Chahine , Egyptian movie director (b. 1926 )July 29 – Mate Parlov , Croatian boxer (b. 1948 )Bernie Mac Levy Mwanawasa Hua Guofeng August 1 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet , Indian politician (b. 1916 )August 3 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918 )August 9 – Yodrak Salakjai , Thai male singer (b. 1956 )August 9 – Bernie Mac , American actor and comedian (b. 1957 )August 9 – Mahmoud Darwish , Palestinian poet (b. 1941 )August 10 – Isaac Hayes , African-American musician (b. 1942 )August 11 – Fred Sinowatz , Austrian politician (b. 1929 )August 13 – Henri Cartan , French mathematician (b. 1904 )August 15 – Jerry Wexler , American music producer (b. 1917 )August 16 – Ronnie Drew , Irish singer (b. 1934 )August 16 – Masanobu Fukuoka , Japanese microbiologist (b. 1913 )August 19 – Levy Mwanawasa , President of Zambia (b. 1948 )August 20 – Hua Guofeng , Chinese premier (b. 1921 )August 22 – Rubens de Falco , Brazilian actor (b. 1931 )August 23 – Thomas Huckle Weller , American virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915 )August 28 – Phil Hill , American race car driver (b. 1927 )Paul Newman Jörg Haider October 1 – Boris Efimov , Russian political cartoonist (b. 1900 )October 6 – Paavo Haavikko , Finnish poet (b. 1931 )October 8 – George Emil Palade , Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912 )October 10 – Kazuyoshi Miura , Japanese businessman (b. 1947 )October 10 – Alexey Prokurorov , Russian cross-country skier (b. 1964 )October 11 – Jörg Haider , Austrian politician (b. 1950 )October 13 – Guillaume Depardieu , French actor (b. 1971 )October 13 – Antonio José González Zumárraga , Ecuadorian cardinal (b. 1925 )October 13 – Alexei Cherepanov , Russian Hockey Player (b. 1989 )October 20 – Sœur Emmanuelle , Belgian-born French nun (b. 1908 )October 25 – Muslim Magomayev , Azerbaijani singer (b. 1942 )October 26 – Tony Hillerman , American writer (b. 1925 )October 31 – Studs Terkel , American writer and liberal commentator (b. 1912 )Michael Crichton Vishwanath Pratap Singh November 1 – Jacques Piccard , Swiss explorer and engineer (b. 1922 )November 1 – Yma Sumac , Peruvian soprano (b. 1922 )November 4 – Michael Crichton , American writer and producer (b. 1942 )November 4 – Juan Camilo Mouriño , Mexican politician (b. 1971 )November 10 – Kiyoshi Itō , Japanese mathematician (b. 1915 )November 10 – Miriam Makeba , South African singer (b. 1932 )November 12 – Mitch Mitchell , English drummer (b. 1946 )November 13 – Paco Ignacio Taibo I , Mexican writer and journalist (b. 1924 )November 14 – Tsvetanka Khristova , Bulgarian athlete (b. 1962 )November 22 – Ibrahim Nasir , Maldivian President (b. 1926 )November 27 – Vishwanath Pratap Singh , Indian Prime Minister (b. 1931 )November 29 – Jørn Utzon , Danish architect (b. 1918 )Alexy II Bettie Page Tassos Papadopoulos León Febres Cordero Mark Felt Freddie Hubbard December 1 – Mikel Laboa , Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934 )December 2 – Odetta , American singer (b. 1930 )December 5 – Alexy II , Russian Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1929 )December 5 – Nina Foch , Dutch-born American actress (b. 1924 )December 9 – Yuri Glazkov , Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939 )December 9 – Dražan Jerković , Croatian football player and manager (b. 1936 )December 11 – Daniel Carleton Gajdusek , American physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923 )December 11 – Bettie Page , American pin-up model (b. 1923 )December 12 – Avery Dulles , American Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1918 )December 12 – Van Johnson , American actor (b. 1916 )December 12 – Tassos Papadopoulos , 5th President of Cyprus (b. 1934 )December 13 – Horst Tappert , German actor (b. 1923 )December 15 - León Febres Cordero , 46th President of Ecuador (b. 1931 )December 18 – Majel Barrett , American actress (b. 1932 )December 18 – Mark Felt , American FBI agent, "Deep Throat" from the Watergate scandal (b. 1913 )December 20 – Olga Lepeshinskaya , Russian ballerina (b. 1916 )December 20 – Robert Mulligan , American director (b. 1925 )December 22 – Lansana Conté , President of Guinea (b. 1934 )December 24 – Harold Pinter , English playwright (b. 1930 )December 24 – Samuel P. Huntington , American political scientist (b. 1927 )December 25 – Eartha Kitt , American singer and actress (b. 1927 )December 29 – Freddie Hubbard , American jazz trumpeter (b. 1938 )Nobel Prize January 7 – Christmas in Eastern Christianity January 10 – Islamic New Year by Lunar calendar February 5 – Carnival (Shrove Tuesday )February 6 – Ash Wednesday , observance of Lent beginsFebruary 7 – Chinese New Year March 1 – Saint David's Day , celebrated in Wales and the United States .March 15 – Saint Patrick's Day , celebrated in Ireland , the United States , and most of the English-speaking world. (Held on March 15 instead of the usual 17th to avoid the second day in Holy Week ).[ 150] March 17 will be the last one to fall within Holy Week until 2160.[ 151] March 20 – March Equinox , also known as Ostara March 20 – Purim March 21 – Nowruz (Iranian New Year holiday )March 21 – Good Friday March 22 – Holi March 23 – Easter Sunday, the earliest Easter has fallen since 1913 April 13 – Vaisakhi April 20 – Passover , Palm Sunday in Eastern ChristianityApril 27 – Pascha (or Easter) in Eastern ChristianityMay 1 – Ascension of Jesus in Western Christianity May 1 – Beltane , a Cross-quarter day May 19 or May 20 – Vesak (the birthday of the Buddha ) in Buddhism June 5 – Ascension of Jesus in Eastern ChristianityJune 9 – Shavuot June 15 – Pentecost in Eastern ChristianityJune 20 – June Solstice , also known as Midsummer or Litha June 22 – All Saints' Day in Eastern ChristianityJuly 5 – Saints Cyril and Methodius day in Eastern ChristianityAugust 1 – Lammas , a Cross-quarter day August 15 – Assumption of Mary August 16 – Raksha Bandhan September 1 – New Liturgical Year in Eastern ChristianitySeptember 2 – Start of Ramadan September 4 - Janmastami -Birth of Lord Krishna September 22 – September Equinox , also known as Mabon September 30 – Rosh Hashanah October 1 – Eid ul-Fitr October 9 – Yom Kippur October 13 – Sukkot October 28 – Diwali November 1 – Samhain , a Cross-quarter day and Neopagan new yearDecember 8 – Immaculate Conception December 8 – Eid al-Adha December 21 – Hanukkah begins at sundownDecember 21 – December Solstice , also known as Yule December 25 – Christmas in Western Christianity
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