This is from the GLOBE tabloid: Those Who Left Us In 2008.
Excerpts:
Jan.11 '08.
SIR EDMUND HILLARY. Leader of the first expedition to scale Mt. Everest. Died in New Zealand from heart attack, age 88.

Jan. 16 '08.
BOBBY FISCHER, controversial chess champion, from kidney disease, in his apt. in Iceland, at 64 years of age.

Jan. 22 '08.
HEATH LEDGER, actor, from accidental overdose of prescription drugs, in his Manhattan apt. Age 28.

Jan. 25, '08
CHRISTIAN BRANDO, from double pneumonia, in L.A. Marlon Brando's troubled son was 49 years old.

Jan. 29, '08
MARGARET TRUMAN, author and concert singer; daughter of Harry Truman, died at at assisted living facility in Chicago at age 83.

Apr. 6, '08
CHARLTON HESTON, Oscar winning actor died at his home in Beverly Hills with Lydia, wife of 64 years at his side. He suffered from Alzheimer's for many years. He was 84 years old.

May 26, '08
SYDNEY POLLACK,Oscar winning film maker and actor, of stomach cancer at 73 years of age.

June 2, '08
MEL FERRER, actor and Audrey Hepburn's ex husband,from heart failure, age 90.

June 2, '08
YVES ST. LAURENT, fashion guru, died at age 71 from brain cancer at his home in Paris. A few days before his death the gay recluse married his longtime partner.

June 17, '08
CYD CHARISSE, actress and dancer, born Tula Finklea, from a heart attack at age 86, in an L.A. hospital.

June 22, '08
GEORGE CARLIN,71 year old stand up comic who battled drug and alcohol problems, from heart failure, in a Santa Monica hospital.

July 22, '08
ESTELLE GETTY, 84 year old actress who suffered from dementia, at her home in Hollywood.

Aug. 3, '08
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN, prize winning novelist, at his home near Moscow from heart failure. He was 89.

Aug. 13, '08
SANDY ALLEN, world's tallest woman at 7foot7, in an Indiana hospital from multiple health problems at age 53.

Sept. 26, '08
PAUL NEWMAN, actor, from lung cancer, at his home in Conn. at age 83.

Oct. 19, '08
RICHARD BLACKWELL, fashion critic died in a hospital in L.A. from intestinal infection. (no age given). His annual "Ten Worst Dressed Women's List" became legendary in Hollywood.

Dec. 6, '08
MARTHA "SUNNY" von BULOW, died at age 76 after 28 years in a coma. Her second husband, Claus von Bulow was acquitted of trying to murder her.