page_title: 2008
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: Español: Encuentro de amigos. Foto escaneada del original (analogica)
context_page_description: 2008 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2008th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 8th year of the 3rd millennium, the 8th year of the 21st century, and the 9th year of the 2000s decade.
  2008 was designated as:
  International Year of Languages
  International Year of Planet Earth
  International Year of Sanitation
  International Year of the Potato
context_section_description: March 1 – Raúl Reyes, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1948)
  March 2
  Sofiko Chiaureli, Georgian actress (b. 1937)
  Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
  March 3
  Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1921)
  Norman Smith, English singer and record producer (b. 1923)
  March 4 – Gary Gygax, American writer and game designer (b. 1938)
  March 5 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (b. 1923)
  March 6 – Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918)
  March 12 – Howard Metzenbaum, American politician (b. 1917)
  March 14 – Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist (b. 1920)
  March 16 – Ivan Dixon, American actor (b. 1931)
  March 18 – Anthony Minghella, English film director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
  March 19
  Arthur C. Clarke, English author, inventor, and futurist (b. 1917)
  Hugo Claus, Flemish writer, painter and film director (b. 1929)
  Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
  March 21 – Klaus Dinger, German musician (b. 1946)
  March 22 – Adolfo Suárez Rivera, Mexican cardinal (b. 1927)
  March 24
  Neil Aspinall, British record producer and business executive (b. 1942)
  Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
  March 26 – Manuel Marulanda, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1930)
  March 27 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French sports executive (b. 1921)
  March 30 – Dith Pran, Cambodian-American photojournalist (b. 1942)
  March 31 – Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)
caption: Giuseppe Di Stefano
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