page_title: 2008 in the United States
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 in the United States / Deaths / February
caption_attribution_description: Actor Roy Scheider in 2007
context_page_description: Events from the year 2008 in the United States of America.
context_section_description: February 1 – Shell Kepler, actress (b. 1958)
  February 2
  Earl Butz, 18th United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1971 till 1976. (b. 1909)
  Joshua Lederberg, Nobel molecular biologist and college administrator (b. 1925)
  February 4
  Harry Richard Landis, World War I soldier (b. 1899)
  Sheldon Brown, bicycle mechanic and writer (b. 1944)
  February 6 – John McWethy, journalist (b. 1947)
  February 8 – Phyllis A. Whitney, Japanese-born American writer (b. 1903)
  February 10 – Roy Scheider, American actor and boxer (b. 1932)
  February 11 – Tom Lantos, Hungarian-American United States Representative from California from 1981 till 2008. (b. 1928)
  February 12 – Oscar Brodney, screenwriter and lawyer (b. 1907)
  February 13 – Roger Voisin, French-born American musician (b. 1918)
  February 15 – Johnny Weaver, wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1935)
  February 21 – Ben Chapman, actor (b. 1928)
  February 24 – Larry Norman, musician, singer, songwriter, record label owner, and record producer (b. 1947)
  February 26 – Buddy Miles, musician (b. 1947)
  February 27
  William F. Buckley Jr., writer and commentator (b. 1925)
  Boyd Coddington, automobile producer and television host (b. 1944)
  Myron Cope, American football sportscaster (b. 1929)
  February 28 – Joseph M. Juran, Romanian-born American management consultant and engineer (b. 1904)
caption: Roy Scheider
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