Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 2008

Boris Valerianovich Chirikov was a Soviet and Russian physicist. He was the founder of the physical theory of Hamiltonian chaos and made pioneering contributions to the theory of quantum chaos. In 1959, he invented the Chirikov criterion which gives an analytical estimate for the overlap of resonances and provides the conditions for transition from integrability to global chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems.

Percy Newbold "Peter" Coe was a British athletics coach, author, translator and coach of his son Sebastian Coe.

Malcolm Carnegie McKenna fue un paleontólogo estadounidense. Fue conservador emérito del Museo Americano de Historia Natural, y profesor emérito de Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medioambiente en la Universidad de Columbia.

Pehr Henrik Nordgren was a Finnish composer.

Francis Daniel Crean was an Australian politician who served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1951 to 1977, representing the Labor Party. He was a minister in the Whitlam Government, including as Treasurer from 1972 to 1974 and Deputy Prime Minister for a few months in 1975.

Inga Nielsen fue una soprano danesa de gran versatilidad, capaz de abordar roles de Mozart, Strauss y obras contemporáneas.

Georgia van der Rohe was a German dancer, actress, and director.