page_title: 2008 in Italy
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 in Italy / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: screenshot from the film Tormento d'anime (1951)
context_page_description: Events during the year 2008 in Italy.
context_section_description: 5 January – Giovanni Rinaldo Coronas, politician, police chief and Interior Minister (b. 1919).
  6 January – Vittorio Tomassetti, Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola (b. 1930).
  17 January – Giuliana Penzi, dancer and choreographer (b. 1918).
  18 January –
  Pier Miranda Ferraro, opera tenor (b. 1924).
  Ugo Pirro, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1920).
  20 January – Duilio Loi, boxer (b. 1929).
  3 February – Ernesto Illy, food chemist and businessman (b. 1925)
  11 February – Carolina Tronconi, gymnast, Olympic silver medalist (b. 1913).
  13 February – Michele Greco, Mafia boss (b. 1924).
  16 February –
  Vittorio Lucarelli, fencer (b. 1928).
  Fabio Presca, basketball player (b. 1930).
  17 February – Nicola Agnozzi, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1911).
  22 February – Nunzio Gallo, singer (b. 1928).
  3 March – Giuseppe Di Stefano, operatic tenor (b. 1921).
  4 March – Tina Lagostena Bassi, lawyer and politician (b. 1926).
  7 March – Leonardo Costagliola, footballer (b. 1921).
  12 March – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-born French veteran of World War I (b. 1897).
  14 March – Chiara Lubich, Catholic activist (b. 1920).
  18 March – Oreste Rizzini, voice actor (b. 1940).
  24 March – Dina Sassoli, actress (b. 1920).
  14 April – Marisa Sannia, singer (b. 1942).
  23 July – Anna Maria Cantù, sprinter (b. 1923).
  27 July – Marisa Merlini, actress (b. 1923).
  14 August – Luigi Grossi, Olympic sprinter (b. 1925).
  5 September – Mila Schön, fashion designer (b. 1916).
  5 October – Leopoldo Elia, politician (b. 1925).
  20 December – Samuele Bacchiocchi, theologian (b. 1938).
caption: Marisa Merlini
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