2008
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Art and culture
- 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.
Film
Expected films and books
- A film adaptation[1] 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
- 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, Spanish scriptwriter (b. 1926)
- April 5 - Charlton Heston, 84, American actor
- April 15 - Hazel Court, 82, British actress (The Masque of the Red Death, The Raven), heart attack.
- April 17 - Aimé Césaire, 94, French Martiniquan poet and politician.
- April 20 - Bebe Barron, 82, American composer, pioneer of electronic music.
- April 29 - Albert Hofmann, 102, Swiss researcher, chemist and discoverer of LSD.
- May 12 - Robert Rauschenberg, 82, American pop artist.
- May 13 - John Phillip Law, 70, American actor (Barbarella).
- May 23 - Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer.
- May 26 - Sydney Pollack, 73, American actor and film director, cancer.
- May 29 - Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles).
- June 1 - Yves Saint-Laurent, 71, French fashion designer
- June 2 - Bo Diddley, 79, American rock and roll and blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
- June 2 - Mel Ferrer, 90, American actor, film director and producer.
- June 7 - Dino Risi, 91, Italian film director (Il Sorpasso, Profumo di donna), natural causes.
- July 7 - Bruce Conner, 74, American artist, natural causes.
- July 7 - Hugh Mendl, 88, British record producer.
- Dorian Leigh, 91, American model.
- Bobby Durham, 71, American jazz drummer. [2]
- Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author (Camp Concentration, The Brave Little Toaster), suicide.
- Evelyn Keyes, 91, American actress (Gone With the Wind), uterine cancer. [3]
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