2008 in The People's Republic of China - Deaths

Deaths

• January 7 – Wei Wenhua, 41, Chinese blogger, beaten.
• January 16 – Chen Xilu, 80, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Hengshui, organ failure.
• January 26 – Zhang Hanzhi, 72, Chinese diplomat and linguist, English tutor for Mao, Nixon interpreter for 1972 visit, lung-related illness.
• February 21 – Tian Bao, 92, Chinese government official, one of the first ethnic Tibetans to join Mao Zedong's army and embrace Communism.
• February 25 – Charles Chan, 93, Chinese patriarch, father of actor Jackie Chan, prostate cancer.
• April 4 – Wu Xueqian, 87, Chinese politician, foreign minister (1982–1988).
• April 5 – Wang Donglei, 23, Chinese footballer, car accident. (Chinese)
• June 24 – Shao Hua, 69, Chinese photographer, PLA major general, daughter-in-law of Mao Zedong.
• August 20 – Hua Guofeng, 87, Chinese premier (1976–1980), chairman of the Communist Party of China (1976–1981).
• August 24 – Wei Wei, 88, Chinese poet and writer, liver cancer.
• September 14 – Mu Tiezhu, 59, Chinese basketball player, heart attack.
• September 23 – Li Shiming, c. 60, Chinese official, stabbed.
• October 5 – Kim Chan, 93/94?, Chinese-born American actor.
• October 18 – Xie Jin, 84, Chinese film director.
• October 24 – Xiao Ke, 101, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army, illness.
• October 28 – Kung Te-cheng, 88, Chinese-born Taiwanese 77th generation descendant of Confucius, heart and respiratory failure.
• November 1 – Tan Jiazhen, 99, Chinese geneticist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• November 10 – Li Ximing, 82, Chinese leader of Beijing Communist Party.
• November 26 – Yang Jia, 28, Chinese mass murderer, executed.
• November 28 – Wo Weihan, 59, Chinese biochemist, executed.
• December 15 – John W. Powell, 89, Chinese-born American journalist tried for sedition, complications from pneumonia.