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| - | * [[January 10]] - [[Maila Nurmi]], Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 17]] - [[Bobby Fischer]], American-Icelandic chess grandmaster (b. [[1943]]) | + | |
| - | * [[January 22]] - [[Heath Ledger]], Australian actor (b. [[1979]]) | + | |
| - | * [[February 10]] - [[Roy Scheider]], American actor (b. [[1932]]) | + | |
| - | * [[February 13]] - [[Henri Salvador]], French singer (b. [[1917]]) | + | |
| - | *[[February 18]] - [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], French writer and filmmaker (b. [[1922]]) | + | |
| - | *February 18 - [[Teo Macero]], American record producer | + | |
| - | *[[February 21]] - [[Joe Gibbs]], Jamaican record producer | + | |
| - | *[[March 15]] - [[Mikey Dread]], Jamaican singer | + | |
| - | *[[March 19]] - Sir [[Arthur C. Clarke]], English science fiction author and inventor (b. [[1917]]) | + | |
| - | * March 19 - [[Hugo Claus]], Belgian Writer (b. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | *[[March 21]] - [[Klaus Dinger]], 61, [[German]] [[musician]] of [[Neu!]] (b. [[1946]]) | + | |
| - | *[[March 24]] - [[Rafael Azcona]], 81, [[Spain|Spanish]] [[scriptwriter]] (b. [[1926]]) | + | |
| - | *[[April 5]] - [[Charlton Heston]], 84, [[United States|American]] actor | + | |
| - | *[[April 15]] - [[Hazel Court]], 82, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[actor|actress]] ''([[The Masque of the Red Death (film)|The Masque of the Red Death]], [[The Raven (1963 film)|The Raven]])'', [[heart attack]]. | + | |
| - | *[[April 17]] - [[Aimé Césaire]], 94, [[France|French]] [[Martinique|Martiniquan]] [[poet]] and [[politician]]. | + | |
| - | *[[April 20]] - [[Louis and Bebe Barron|Bebe Barron]], 82, [[United States|American]] [[composer]], pioneer of [[electronic music]]. | + | |
| - | *[[April 29]] - [[Albert Hofmann]], 102, [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[research]]er, [[chemist]] and discoverer of [[LSD]]. | + | |
| - | *[[May 12]] - [[Robert Rauschenberg]], 82, [[United States|American]] [[pop artist]]. | + | |
| - | *[[May 13]] - [[John Phillip Law]], 70, [[United States|American]] [[actor]] (''[[Barbarella]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[May 23]] - [[Cornell Capa]], 90, [[United States|American]] [[photography|photographer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[May 26]] - [[Sydney Pollack]], 73, [[United States|American]] [[actor]] and [[film director]], [[cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[May 29]] - [[Harvey Korman]], 81, [[United States|American]] [[actor]] and [[comedian]] (''[[Blazing Saddles]]''). | + | |
| - | *[[June 1]] - [[Yves Saint-Laurent (designer)|Yves Saint-Laurent]], 71, [[France|French]] [[fashion designer]] | + | |
| - | *[[June 2]] - [[Bo Diddley]], 79, [[United States|American]] [[Rock and roll|rock and roll]] and [[Blues|blues]] [[singer]], [[songwriter]], and [[guitarist]]. | + | |
| - | *June 2 - [[Mel Ferrer]], 90, [[United States|American]] [[actor]], [[film director]] and [[film producer|producer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[June 7]] - [[Dino Risi]], 91, [[Italy|Italian]] [[film director]] (''[[Il Sorpasso]]'', ''[[Profumo di donna]]''), [[death by natural causes|natural causes]]. | + | |
| - | *[[July 4]] - [[Thomas M. Disch]], 68, [[United States|American]] [[science fiction author]] (''[[Camp Concentration]]'', ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]''), [[suicide]]. | + | |
| - | *[[July 6]] - [[Bobby Durham (Jazz musician)|Bobby Durham]], 71, [[United States|American]] [[jazz drumming|jazz drummer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[July 7]] - [[Bruce Conner]], 74, [[United States|American]] [[artist]], [[natural causes]]. | + | |
| - | *'''July 7''' - [[Hugh Mendl]], 88, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[record producer]]. | + | |
| - | *'''July 7''' - [[Dorian Leigh]], 91, [[United States|American]] [[Model (person)|model]]. | + | |
| - | *[[July 14]] - [[Björn Berg]], 84, [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[graphic artist]], [[illustrator]] of [[Astrid Lindgren]]'s books. | + | |
| - | *[[August 10]] - [[Isaac Hayes]], 65, [[United States|American]] [[Soul Music|soul]] and [[funk]] [[musician]], [[actor]] (''[[South Park]]''), [[stroke]]. | + | |
| - | *[[August 15]] - [[Jerry Wexler]], 91, [[United States|American]] [[record producer]], [[heart failure]]. | + | |
| - | *[[August 17]] - [[Manny Farber]], 91, [[United States|American]] [[film critic]] and [[painter]]. | + | |
| - | *[[August 31]] - [[Jean-Marie Berckmans]], 54, [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[writer]], [[lung disease]]. | + | |
| - | *[[September 1]] - [[Don LaFontaine]], 68, [[United States|American]] [[voice acting|voice-over artist]] | + | |
| - | *[[September 4]] -[[Alain Jacquet]], 69, [[France|French]] [[Pop art|pop artist]], [[cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[September 5]] - [[Robert Giroux]], 94, [[United States|American]] [[editor]] and [[publisher]] ([[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]). | + | |
| - | *[[September 8]] - [[Hector Zazou]], 60, [[France|French]] [[composer]] and [[record producer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[September 12]] - [[David Foster Wallace]], 46, [[United States|American]] [[author]] and [[essay]]ist, [[suicide]] by [[hanging]]. | + | |
| - | *[[September 12]] - [[Norman Whitfield]], 65, [[United States|American]] [[Motown]] [[songwriter]] ("[[I Heard It Through the Grapevine]]"), [[diabetes]]. | + | |
| - | *[[September 17]] - [[James Crumley]], 68, [[United States|American]] [[crime writer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[September 18]] - [[Mauricio Kagel]], 76, [[Argentina|Argentinian]] [[composer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[September 19]] - [[Jun Ichikawa]], 59, [[Japan]]ese [[film director]]. | + | |
| - | *[[September 26]] - [[Paul Newman]], 83, [[United States|American]] [[Academy Award]]-winning [[actor]] and [[philanthropist]], [[cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[September 26]] - [[Marc Moulin]], 66, [[Belgian]] [[musician]], [[cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[October 11]] - [[Alton Ellis]], 68, [[Jamaica]]n singer, [[lymphatic cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[October 11]] - [[William Claxton (photographer)|William Claxton]], 80, [[United States|American]] [[photographer]], complications of [[congestive heart failure]]. | + | |
| - | *[[October 17]] - [[Levi Stubbs]], 72, [[United States|American]] [[vocalist]] ([[The Four Tops]]), complications of [[cancer]] and [[stroke]]. | + | |
| - | *[[October 25]] - [[Gerard Damiano]], 80, [[United States|American]] [[pornographic film|adult film]] [[film director|director]] (''[[Deep Throat (film)|Deep Throat]]''), [[stroke]]. | + | |
| - | *[[November 1]] - [[Yma Sumac]], 86, [[Peru]]vian [[soprano]], [[cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[November 4]] - [[Byron Lee]], 73, [[Jamaica]]n [[musician]] and [[record producer]], [[bladder cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[November 9]] - [[Miriam Makeba]], 76, [[South Africa]]n [[singer]], [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Mitch Mitchell]], 61, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[drummer]] ([[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]]), [[natural causes]]. | + | |
| - | * [[François Caradec]], 84, [[France|French]] [[writer]], member of [[Oulipo]] and Collège de [[’Pataphysics|'pataphysique]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Guy Peellaert]] 74, [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[painting|painter]], [[illustrator]] and [[photographer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Jørn Utzon]], 90, [[Denmark|Danish]] [[architect]] ([[Sydney Opera House]]), [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Odetta]], 77, [[United States|American]] [[folk singer]] and [[human rights activist]], [[heart disease]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Sunny von Bülow]], 76, [[United States|American]] [[heiress]], [[cardiopulmonary arrest]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Forrest J Ackerman]], 92, [[United States|American]] [[science fiction fandom|science fiction expert]], [[heart failure]]. | + | |
| - | *[[George Brecht]], 82, [[United States|American]] [[artist]] ([[Fluxus]]), [[Death by natural causes|natural causes]]. | + | |
| - | *[[December 11]] - [[Bettie Page]], 85, [[United States|American]] [[pin-up girl]], complications from a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Harold Pinter]], 78, [[United Kingdom|British]] [[playwright]], recipient of the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] (2005), [[liver cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Eartha Kitt]], 81, [[United States|American]] [[singer]] and [[actor|actress]], [[colon cancer]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Ann Savage (actress)|Ann Savage]], 87, [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]] (''[[Detour (1945 film)|Detour]]''), complications following a series of [[strokes]]. | + | |
| - | *[[Freddie Hubbard]], 70, [[United States|American]] [[jazz]] [[trumpeter]], complications of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]]. | + | |
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Art and culture
- Seduced, Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now, exhibition
- Collapse Volume IV: 'Concept Horror', issue of journal of contemporary philosophy
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
- Eros au secret was the title of an exhibition which is held from December 2007 to March 2008.
- Cliff Richard's earliest material will enter the public domain in the United Kingdom assuming there are no changes to copyright law.
- If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy we Would Be
- PopEye [1] with work by Guy Peellaert from May 7 until June 15 in Hasselt
- Camille Claudel in Paris at the Musée Rodin retrospective from April 15 to July 20.
- J. G. Ballard. Autopsy of the new millennium in Barcelona
- HOKUSAI “mad about his art” From Edmond de Goncourt to Norbert Lagane. 21 May – 4 August
- Jess Franco retrospective [2] at the Parisian Cinémathèque française from June 18 to July 31.
- Theanyspacewhatever
- Diana und Actaeon - Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit
Music
Literature
Film
Expected films and books
- A film adaptation[3] of Thérèse Raquin by Charlie Stratton is expected in 2008. ...
- Bathory (Juraj Jakubisko)
- Hippie Hippie Shake, a film based on Richard Neville's memoir
- Ways of Hearing by David Toop.
Births
Deaths
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