Africa

• 2 March 2008: South African sprinter Philip Rabinowitz dies at age 104
• 21 October 2007: South African reggae star Lucky Dube shot dead in attempted hijacking
• 16 July 2007: Erica Powell, Nkrumah's private secretary dies
• 17 June 2007: First Somali president Aden Abdulle Osman Daar dies
• 1 November 2006: PW Botha, apartheid leader, dead at 90
• 30 October 2006: Sokoto mourns after plane crash that killed Sultan

Asia

• 19 March 2008: Visionary and author Arthur C. Clarke dead at age 90
• 27 January 2008: Former Indonesian President Suharto dies at 86
• 27 December 2007: Benazir Bhutto killed in suicide attack
• 30 June 2007: Former Japan Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa dies at 87
• 22 May 2007: Thai puppeteer Sakorn Yang-keawsot dies at 85
• 28 April 2007: Russian cellist Rostropovitch dies at 80

Europe

• 29 April 2008: Pioneer chemist Albert Hofmann dies at age 102
• 20 April 2008: French anthropologist Germaine Tillion dies at 100
• 5 April 2008: Steve Sinnott, leader of the National Union of Teachers, dies aged 56
• 19 March 2008: Visionary and author Arthur C. Clarke dead at age 90
• 13 March 2008: German actor Erwin Geschonneck dies at 101
• 6 March 2008: Obituaries: March 5-6, 2008

Middle East

• 16 January 2007: Saddam's co-defendant decapitated while being hanged
• 6 January 2007: Saddam Hussein executed by hanging
• 8 June 2006: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed in airstrike
• 4 January 2006: Dubai leader Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum dead
• 26 December 2005: Iranian Baha'i dies in jail
• 13 December 2005: Journalist Gebran Tueni murdered

South America

• 11 December 2006: Former Chilean dictator Pinochet dies at 91
• 14 July 2005: Heart attack kills brother of Brazilian president
• 2 July 2005: Brazilian physicist who discovered the pion dies

North America

United States

• 16 April 2008: Disney animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95
• 14 April 2008: Physicist John Wheeler dies at age 96
• 6 April 2008: Hollywood legend Charlton Heston dies at age 84
• 2 April 2008: Hser Nar Moo, missing Utah girl, found dead
• 7 March 2008: University of North Carolina student body president murdered
• 5 March 2008: Obituaries:March 5, 2008

Canada

• 3 March 2008: Canadian musician Jeff Healey dies of cancer
• 19 February 2008: National Hockey League news: February 19, 2008
• 24 December 2007: Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson dies at 82
• 1 November 2007: Wikinews Shorts: October 31, 2007
• 25 August 2007: Quebec City mayor dies unexpectedly
• 11 July 2007: Canadian merchant Ed Mirvish Dies at 92

Oceania

• 11 January 2008: Sir Edmund Hillary dead at 88
• 4 November 2007: Peter Andren, Australian MP dies aged 61
• 12 July 2007: Australian radio personality Stan Zemanek dies aged 60
• 11 June 2007: New Zealand meteorologist Auer dies
• 30 May 2007: New Zealander on oxygen machine dies after power disconnection
• 11 November 2006: Belinda Emmett, wife of Rove McManus, dies