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 )

This practice was initially proposed as a long research paper in a workshop organized by Philippe Kruchten and Steve Adolph ( See APSO workshop at ICSE 2008 ) and yet it is the only proposed and applicable method for customizing XP.

A French language adaptation, translated by Philippe Gobeille, opened in Montreal, Quebec in March 2008.

* 2008 – 2014: Philippe Duron, PS

by Philippe Contamine & Jacques Paviot, Paris, Société de l ’ histoire de France, 2008.

) avec Magali Delavenne, Jean-Claude Fombaron, Philippe Nivet, Yann Prouillet, La Grande Guerre dans les Vosges: sources et état des lieux, Actes du colloque tenu à Epinal du 4 au 6 septembre 2008, Conseil général des Vosges, 2009, 348 pages.

* Julien B, Philippe C, Pascal C and Pierre C ( 2008 ) " Safeguarding, Integrating and Disseminating Knowledge on Exploited Marine Ecosystems: The Ecoscope " International Marine Data and Information Systems, IMDIS-2008.

One of his direct descendants, Philippe Lannes de Montebello, was until 2008 the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She was Caen's first woman mayor and was defeated in March 2008 by Philippe Duron, a member of the Socialist Party.

Although France 2 initially won a case against one of those critics, Philippe Karsenty, that judgment was overturned on appeal in May 2008.

* Philippe Bernold, Alexandre Tharaud, The Solo Flute in the 20th Century ( 2008 ), Harmonia Mundi Musique d ' Abord HMA1951710

On 19 February 2008, Philippe Douste-Blazy was appointed as by the United Nations Secretary-General as Special Adviser on Innovative Financing for Development, with the rank of UN Under-Secretary-General, following his experience as chairman of the Executive Board of UNITAID, the International Drug Purchase Facility hosted by the World Health Organization.

* Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics, Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-521-89806-4, Free online version of the book.

* The sailing yacht Bristolian, a Philippe Briand-designed superyacht built by Yachting Developments Limited ( New Zealand ) and launched in 2008.

* Tretiack, Philippe Megalomania: Too Much is Never Enough ( 2008 )

Philippe Karsenty, a French media commentator, was sued for libel by France 2 for suggesting this ; a ruling against him was overturned by the Paris Court of Appeal in May 2008 who agreed that some scenes did not seem genuine and that he had presented a " coherent mass of evidence ".

* 2008 – present: Philippe Nauche

* Digital Cinema Project-GAUMONT ( Philippe Binant, Paris, France, 2000 – 2008 ).

* 2008: La Frontière de l ' aube, directed by Philippe Garrel

* Philippe Duval ( 2008 -)

Philippe Garrel ( 2008 )

Philippe Duron has also been the mayor of Louvigny ( Calvados ), and was elected mayor of Caen on 16 March 2008.

** commissioned by the Kravis Center for the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, who premièred the work under Philippe Entremont in Vienna, 2008.

Nelson Philippe returned to race with Minardi / HVM Racing in the 2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.

In 2008, Nelson Philippe drove in the inaugural Superleague Formula season for the Borussia Dortmund team.