Obits 2008

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From the BBC's website and others:-

Sir John Harvey-Jones (Jan 08)

Ex-President Suharto of Indonesia (Jan 08)

Suzanne Pleshette (Jan 08)

Heath Ledger (Jan 08)

Jeremy Beadle (Jan 08)

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Feb 08)

Lord Francis Pym (Mar 08)

Carol Barnes (Mar 08)

Sir Arthur C Clarke (Mar 08)

Julie Ege (Apr 08)

Mel Ferrer (Jun 08)

Yves Saint-Laurent (Jun 08)

Stan Winston (Jun 08)

Cyd Charisse (Jun 08)

Kermit Love (Jun 08)

George Carlin (Jun 08)

Lyall Watson (Jun 08)

Don S Davis (Jun 08)

Bernie Mac (Aug 08)

Isaac Hayes (Aug 08)

Sir Bill Cotton (Aug 08)

Ken Campbell (Aug 08)

Don laFontaine (Sep 08)

Bill Meléndez (Sep 08)

Paul Newman (Sep 08)

Joerg Haider (Oct 08)

Studs Terkel (Oct 08)

Michael Crichton (Nov 08)

Reg Varney (Nov 08)

Madelyn Dunham, President-elect Obama's grandmother, just shy of his election (Nov 08)

Oliver Postgate (Dec 08)

Bettie Page (Dec 08)

Jack Douglas (Dec 08)

Bernie Hamilton (Dec 08)

Donald E Westlake (Dec 08)

Conor Cruise O'Brien (Dec 08)

Mark "Deep Throat" Felt (Dec 08)

Harold Pinter (Dec 08)

Eartha Kitt (Dec 08)

The list's incomplete. There are others who passed this last year. It's just that beyond a certain point the sheer number of people who've passed just ... gets on top of you.