This is a list of famous peoplemeeting established criteria for significance (see Wikipedia: Criteria for the significance of personalities ) who died in May 2008 .
The cause of death is indicated only in exceptional cases (homicide, suicide, traffic accident or accident). In other cases, it is not indicated .
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List
- May 1 - Bözelager, Philip von (90) - former German Army officer , the last living participant in the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944 . [one]
- May 1 - Alexey Levitsky (77) - opera singer, bass.
- May 2 - Ilyas Malayev (72) - Soviet-Uzbek poet, composer, and playwright.
- May 2 - Isold Pustylnik (70) - Soviet astronomer, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences.
- May 3 - Yuri Grishin (82) - Full Knight of the Order of Glory.
- May 3 - Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo and Bustelo (82) - Spanish politician, Prime Minister from February 1981 to December 1982 . [2]
- May 4 - Mironova, Zoya Sergeevna (94) - Soviet skater, founder of sports traumatology in the USSR, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR [3]
- May 5 - Pavel Gudz (88) - Doctor of Military Sciences, professor of the Academy of Armored Forces.
- May 5 - Dneprov, Anatoly Semenovich (61) - Russian songwriter (chanson), singer. [four]
- May 5 - Robbins, Irvine (90) - along with his brother-in-law Burton Baskin, was the founder of Baskin-Robbins , one of the most popular ice cream chains. [5]
- May 6 - Alla Masevich (89) - Soviet astronomer.
- May 8 - Heinz Felfe (90) - Soviet intelligence officer. [6]
- May 8 - Sterchel, Francois (26) - Belgian footballer ; car accident . [7]
- May 8 - Eddie Arnold (89) - American country singer and musician.
- May 9 - Leonid Pochivalov (84) - Russian and Soviet writer, journalist.
- May 9 - Pascal Sevran (62) - French television producer, singer, writer. [8]
- May 10 - Jacobs, Jessica (17) - Australian actress, singer and bass player.
- May 10 - Smorchkov, Boris Fedorovich (63) - theater actor, known for his role in the film “ Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears ” (Nikolai, Antonina’s husband, who said, “Here, such a man!”). [9]
- May 11 - Vyacheslav Vinogradov (77) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- May 11 - Fedor Safonov (85) - Soviet attack pilot, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- May 12 - Pelikh, Alexander Petrovich (59) - Hero of Russia
- May 12 - Mikhail Romanov (85) - Hero of the Soviet Union
- May 12 - Sendler, Irena (98) - Polish resistance activist who saved 2,500 children from the ghetto [1]
- May 13 - Nedbaylo, Anatoly Konstantinovich (85) - Soviet pilot, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union [10]
- May 13 - Ganten, Bernardin (86) - Benin Cardinal, the only Negro to ever be part of the top leadership of the Catholic Church. [11] (inaccessible link)
- May 13 - Lowe, John Phillip (70) - American film actor . [12]
- May 14 - Druzhnikov, Yuri Ilyich (75) - Russian writer [13]
- May 14 - Rytkheu, Yuri Sergeyevich (78) - Chukchi writer. [fourteen]
- May 14 - Mashovets, Nikolai Petrovich (60) - Russian writer, journalist, publisher, director of the Russian Family Publishing House. [15] [16]
- May 14 - Sokolov, Evgeny Nikolaevich (87) - one of the leading psychologists in Russia , professor of the psychology department of Moscow State University , academician of the Russian Academy of Education . [17] (inaccessible link)
- May 15 - Burns, Tommy (51) - Scottish footballer, coach [18]
- May 15 - Natalia Botvinnik (64) - Soviet and Russian Latin scholar.
- May 16 - Alexander Kolbeev (92) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- May 16 - Gromushkin, Pavel Georgievich (94) - artist, Soviet intelligence officer. [19]
- May 17 - Ivan Shevtsov (88) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- May 19 - Eduard Agadzhanov (55) - Armenian political and statesman.
- May 19 - Kazakova, Rimma Fedorovna (76) - Russian poetess. [twenty]
- May 19 - Saakov, Leonid Ishkhanovich (52) - Soviet football player.
- May 20 - Bortsov, Victor Andreevich (73) - Russian actor. [21]
- May 20 - Hyuuaz Dospanova (86) - the only Kazakh pilot of the Great Patriotic War, navigator-shooter. The heroine of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- May 22 - Asprin, Robert Lin (61) - American science fiction writer. [22]
- May 22 - Tropanets, Boris Yakovlevich (44) - Moldavian footballer KAMAZA , coach of the Moldavian youth football team . [23]
- May 22 - Esterlis, Mikhail Isaevich (85) - sports journalist . [24] (inaccessible link)
- May 22 - Savosin, Oleg Ivanovich (80) - a veteran of Russian stuntmen, film actor. [25]
- May 23 - Capa, Cornell (90) - American photographer . [26]
- May 24 - Gaetano Cimarosa (86) - Italian actor. [27]
- May 24 - Gurgenidze, Bukhuti Ivanovich (74) - Georgian grandmaster , honored trainer of the USSR . [28]
- May 25 - Simplat, John Richard (99) - billionaire , creator of French fries . [29]
- May 26 - Pollack, Sidney (73) - film director ; cancer [thirty]
- May 29 - Izyaslav Kerzhner (72) - Russian entomologist, chief researcher at the Zoological Institute.
- May 28 - Vladimir Bolotin (82) - Soviet and Russian mechanical scientist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
- May 29 - Ryabtsevich, Valentin Naumovich (71) - Belarusian historian, numismatist and archaeologist. Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences.
- May 29 - Harvey Corman (81) - American actor . [31]
- May 30 - Boris Diev (83) - Soviet and Russian composer.
- May 30 - Alexander Zaitsev (50) - Russian musician, poet.
- May 30 - Odom, William Eldridge (75) - American Lieutenant General, former head of the National Security Agency . [32]
- May 30 - Shakhlin, Boris Anfiyanovich (76) - Soviet gymnast . [33]
- May 31 - Bulatov, Rustem Talgatovich (34) - Russian football player , defender . Player of the clubs “Rubin” (Kazan) , CSKA (Moscow) , etc. [34]
- May 31 - Palkin, Vyacheslav Sergeevich (72) - professor, head of the department of choral conducting of Kharkiv State University of the Arts named after I.P. Kotlyarevsky.
Date is unknown or requires clarification.
- Sergey Alekseev (86) - Russian Soviet writer .
- Presumably May - Alexander Zaitsev (50) - a Russian musician, songwriter, who gained the greatest fame by playing keyboards in the Time Machine group; killed, circumstances of death are not fully understood. [35]