The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.

* 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( d. 2008 )

* 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian artist and photographer ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.

* 1914 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1923 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver ( d. 2008 )

* 1932 – Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager ( d. 2008 )

* 1970 – Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d ' état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

* 2008 – Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament.

* 1955 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( d. 2008 )

* 1965 – Mark Speight, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1935 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress ( d. 2008 )

* 1976 – Mark Priestley, Australian actor ( d. 2008 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

Over half of the tax revenues in the January – August 2008 time period were generated from value-added taxes ( VAT ).

* 2008 – South Ossetian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.

* 1931 – Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Jake Warren, Canadian diplomat ( b. 1921 )

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

** Graham Higman, British mathematician ( d. 2008 )

* 23 January 2008 – Graham Medal of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, awarded after he gave his lecture " DNA Profiling ; Past, present and future ", which was nominated as the Graham Lecture.

* British — Graham, Matthew, and Ashley Pharaoh: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 TV series ; main character, Alex Drake, is haunted by Pierrot like that in David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes ); Mahoney, Brian: Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders ( 1970 film written and performed by David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp, adapted from their stage-play of the same title and produced by Scottish Television also # Songs, albums, and rock musicals | Songs, albums, and rock musicals below ).

* Graham Priest, An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is, 2nd Edition, CUP, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-67026-5

In 2008 Graham Turner at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ( CSIRO ) in Australia published a paper called " A Comparison of ` The Limits to Growth ` with Thirty Years of Reality ".

On 23 October 2008, 15 years after his death, a bronze statue of Dawson, by sculptor Graham Ibbeson, was unveiled by his widow Tracy and daughter Charlotte.

In 2008 the city built a memorial at Graham Park to remember the deaths of the 13 people.

* James W. Carraway ( 1923 – 2008 ) was a Christian musician long affiliated with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

* Graham Harrell, award-winning Texas Tech Red Raiders quarterback ( 2007 – 2008 ) was born in Brownwood, but grew up in Ennis near Dallas.

In 2008 two academics from UEA, Professor of Development Studies Katrina Brown and Professor of Economic Behaviour and Decision Theory Graham Loomes, were among six scholars in the UK chosen to receive fellowships from the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) to allow them to carry out cutting-edge research in social science.

George Graham Winterton ( 15 December 1946 – 6 November 2008 ) was Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney.

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A documentary film about Bud Shank, Bud Shank " Against the Tide " Portrait of a Jazz Legend, was produced and directed by Graham Carter of Jazzed Media and released by Jazzed Media as a DVD ( with a companion CD ) in 2008.

On April 8, 2008, in his first merged IndyCar Series event, Graham Rahal drove his Newman / Haas Racing entry to victory in the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, marking the first win by a merged team.

Rae returned to the Canadian House of Commons on March 31, 2008 as a Liberal MP after winning a March 17, 2008 by-election holding the riding that had previously been held by Liberal Bill Graham.

To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro, Cornwall, had an exhibition devoted to his life and works ( Poldark's Cornwall: The Life and Times of Winston Graham ) from mid-June to mid-September 2008, coinciding with re-publication of the Poldark novels by Pan Macmillan.

* 2008 in art-Death of William Brice, Enrico Donati, Paul Wonner, Robert Rauschenberg, Will Elder, Cornell Capa, John Plumb, Bruce Conner, Manny Farber, John Russell, Alain Jacquet, Grace Hartigan, Willoughby Sharp, Robert Graham

On July 23, 2008 it was announced that BMO signed a one-race deal with IndyCar team Newman / Haas / Lanigan Racing to appear on the No. 06 car of Graham Rahal in the first-ever IRL-sanctioned Canadian IndyCar race at Edmonton.

In September 2008 Graham Davies of CIX Online Ltd. announced that the API behind CIX Forums would be available in October 2008 allowing interested parties to create additional user add-ons.

Architektin, featuring Helen Morse, Ksenja Logos, Craig Behenna, Duncan Graham, Antje Guenther, Michael Habib and Nick Pelomis, produced by the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and directed by Adam Cook, had its Opening Night on 2 September 2008 at the Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, South Australia.