2008
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Art and culture
- Eros au secret is 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.
- Linkeroever
Expected films
- A film adaptation[1] of Therese Raquin by Charlie Stratton is expected in 2008. ...
- Bathory (Juraj Jakubisko)
- The Countess (Julie Delpy)
- Hippie Hippie Shake, a film based on Richard Neville's memoir
- Ways of Hearing by David Toop.
Births
Deaths
- 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 24 - Rafael Azcona, 81, Spanish scriptwriter (b. 1926)
- April 5 - Charlton Heston, 84, American actor
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