page_title: 2008
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: (* 4. April 1979 in Perth, Western Australia, Australien † 22. Januar 2008 in New York)Heath Ledger
context_page_description: 2008 was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar
context_section_description: January 3 – Yo-Sam Choi, Korean boxer (b. 1972)
  January 10 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress and television personality (b. 1921)
  January 11 – Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist (b. 1919)
  January 15 – Brad Renfro, American actor (b. 1982)
  January 16 – Nikola Kljusev, Macedonian Prime Minister (b. 1927)
  January 17 – Bobby Fischer, American-Icelandic chess grandmaster (b. 1943)
  January 19 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)
  January 22 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
  January 22 – Claude Piron, Swiss linguist and psychologist (b. 1931)
  January 26 – George Habash, Palestinian politician (b. 1926)
  January 27 – Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon leader (b. 1910)
  January 27 – Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
  January 28 – Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens (b. 1939)
caption: Heath Ledger
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