Famous people who died in 2008
The year 2008 saw the death of dozens of famous people - actors and singers, former presidents, celebrated writers, the world's best-known mountaineer and one of the giants of chess.
Click here for obituaries of key personalities in the worlds of film, television and music. For full obituaries of those listed below, click on their names.
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The first man to step on the summit of Mount Everest, closely followed by Sherpa Tenzing, in 1953.
Died: 11 January, in New Zealand, aged 88.
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US chess genius who beat Russia's Boris Spassky in 1972, in the "chess match of the century".
Died: 18 January, in Iceland, aged 64.
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Founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Died: 26 January, in Jordan, aged 81.
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President of Indonesia from 1967 to 1998, ousted after the Asian financial crisis triggered a wave of unrest.
Died: 27 January, in Indonesia. aged 86.
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Indian guru credited with introducing the Beatles and other stars to ancient Hindu meditation methods.
Died: 5 February, in the Netherlands, at an estimated age of 91.
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British science fiction pioneer who foresaw the arrival of space shuttles and satellite communications networks.
Died: 19 March in Sri Lanka, aged 90.
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Designer who introduced short skirts and trouser suits in the 1960s and built a vast fashion and perfume empire.
Died: 2 June in Paris, aged 71.
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One of the most one most vocal conservatives in the US Congress, dubbed "Senator No" by his critics.
Died: 4 July in North Carolina, aged 86.
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Veteran BBC correspondent, who covered the Hungarian Uprising and the assassination of Martin Luther King.
Died: 4 July in London, aged 85
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Russian Nobel-prize-winning novelist who documented Stalin's labour camps in the Gulag Archipelago.
Died: 4 August in Moscow, aged 89.
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Zambian president who led African criticism of Ugandan leader Robert Mugabe.
Died: 19 August in Paris, aged 59
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Austrian far-right leader whose far-right Freedom Party entered government in 2000, triggering EU sanctions.
Died: 11 October in Austria, aged 58.
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Author of classic American oral history, jazz lover and host of long-running Chicago radio programme.
Died: 31 October in Chicago, aged 96.
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Alexei Ridiger, a Russian Orthodox priest with links to the KGB, was elected Patriarch Alexiy II in 1990.
Died: 5 December in Moscow, aged 79.
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FBI agent Mark Felt was Deep Throat, who helped the Washington Post expose the Watergate scandal.
Died: 19 December in California, aged 95.
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