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Events 2008   Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec 
Events in December 2008

Dec. 5 Russian Patriarch Alexei II (79), the iconic religious leader who restored the church from a post-Soviet shell to an institution of power and privilege aat his Moscow home. Full Story
Dec. 11 Bettie Mae Page (85), one of America’s most photographed pin-up girls during the 1950s of pneumonia in Los Angeles.
Dec. 14 Saraswathi Gandhi (86), veteran freedom fighter and widow of Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Kantilal Gandhi, at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram. Full Story
Dec. 18 H.N. Nanje Gowda (74) former Irrigation Minister in the Devaraj Urs Ministry and an expert on inter.State river disputes iin Bangalore. Full Story
Mark Felt (95) the man known as Deep Throat, the secret informant in the Watergate scandal that led to the downfall of President Richard Nixon in 1974 at a California hospice.
Dec. 19 Carol Chomsky (78) wife of Noam Chomsky known for her work in psycholinguistics of cancer at her Lexington home. Full Story
Dec. 20 Robert Mulligan (83), director of the Academy award winning film “To Kill A Mockingbird”, at his home in Lyme, Connecticut of heart disease. Full Story
Dec. 24 Harold Pinter (78), the Nobel prize winning British playwright after a prolonged illness. Full Story
Samuel Huntington (81), political scientist in Martha’s Vineyard, Harvard University. Full Story
Dec. 25 Eartha Kitt (81), the versatile American singer and actor of colon cancer.
Dec. 28 Tuanku Jaafar Tuanku Abdul Rahman (86), Malaysia’s former king in Kuala Lumpur. Full Story
Dec. 29 Manjit Bawa (67) renowned painter in New Delhi. Full Story
Agnihotram Ramanuja Thathachariar (100) renowned Vedic scholar in Chennai. Full Story
Freddie Hubbard (70) jazz legend at a hospital in California, of complications from a heart attack. Full Story

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