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 )

* From the New Deal to the New Right: race and the southern origins of modern conservatism / Joseph E Lowndes., 2008

* 1904 – Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist ( d. 2008 )

* Rosen, Joseph ( 2008 ) Symmetry Rules: How Science and Nature are Founded on Symmetry.

* 1923 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist ( d. 2008 )

Joseph Weizenbaum ( 8 January 1923, Berlin-5 March 2008, Ludwigsfelde-Gröben near Berlin ) was a German-American author and professor emeritus of computer science at MIT.

In 2008, Millsaps quarterback Juan Joseph was awarded the Conerly Trophy, which goes to the best football player in the state of Mississippi.

* Joseph Pine II about Multiverse, Presentation at Mobile Monday Amsterdam, 2008

Eurasiatic, a similar but not identical grouping, was proposed by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 ) and endorsed by Merritt Ruhlen: it is taken as a subfamily of Nostratic by Bomhard ( 2008 ).

* 1920 – Joseph Gelineau French composer ( d. 2008 )

* 1910 – Joseph Tal, Israeli composer ( d. 2008 )

The end of the decade was characterized by a Keynesian resurgence, while the influence and media popularity of left-wing economists Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman ( Nobel Prize recipients in 2001 and 2008, respectively ) did not stop growing during the decade.

* February 17 – Joseph Conombo, Prime Minister of Upper Volta ( d. 2008 )

* September 15 – Joseph Pevney, American director ( d. 2008 )

* December 24 – Joseph M. Juran, American engineer and philanthropist ( d. 2008 )

** Joseph Gelineau, French composer ( d. 2008 )

In 2008, Joseph Biden of Delaware was elected Vice President and was re-elected U. S. Senator, as Johnson had done in 1960.

Books for younger readers both have historical settings: Joseph Bruchac's The Arrow Over the Door ( 1998 ) ( grades 4-6 ) is set in 1777 ; and Beth Kanell's young adult novel, The Darkness Under the Water ( 2008 ), concerns a young Abenaki-French Canadian girl during the time of the Vermont Eugenics Project, 1931-1936.

In July 2008, at the San Diego Comic-Con International, he appeared in a teaser for Tron: Legacy, shot as concept footage for director Joseph Kosinski ; this developed into a full 3D feature release in 2010.

Current well-known economists include 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Paul Krugman, a public intellectual and advocate of modern liberal policies ; Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, critic of inequality and the governance of globalization, and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

George Maw, Joseph Hooker and the genus Crocus, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Volume 25 Issue 2, Pages 176-187, 2008

" Joseph Meredith died in 2008 at age 39 of complications from lupus.

A research study published by Joseph Piotroski of Stanford University and Suraj Srinivasan of Harvard Business School titled " Regulation and Bonding: Sarbanes Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings " in the Journal of Accounting Research in 2008 found that following the act's passage, smaller international companies were more likely to list in stock exchanges in the U. K. rather than U. S. stock exchanges.

In May 2008, it was announced that Morales would play the role of Joseph Adama in the science fiction television series Caprica – Syfy's prequel to the series Battlestar Galactica.

In a 2008 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, prominent musicologist Joseph Horowitz asserts that African-American spirituals were a major influence on the ninth symphony, quoting Dvořák from an 1893 interview in the New York Herald as saying, " In the negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.