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Arrivals, departures and weddings of 2008
Births February 22: Actress Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony, twins – a boy and a girl, Max and Emme.
February 22: Actress Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony, twins – a boy and a girl, Max and Emme.
March 16: Actress Halle Berry and boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, a daughter, Nahla Ariela.
April 7: England cricketer Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff and wife Rachael Wools, a son, Rocky.
May 26: Status Quo rocker Rick Parfitt and wife Lyndsay Whitburn, twins Lily Rose and Tommy Oswald.
June 10: Radio One DJ Edith Bowman and boyfriend Tom Smith, a son, Rudy Brae.
July 12: Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, twins – a boy and a girl, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.
August 16: Take That's Mark Owen and girlfriend Emma Ferguson, a son, Elwood Jack.
September 25: Newsreader Natasha Kaplinsky and husband Justin Bower, a son, Arlo.
October 21: Actress Billie Piper and husband Laurence Fox, a son, Winston James.
November 2: Comedian Adam Sandler and wife Jackie, a daughter, Sunny Madeline.
December:Ugly Betty star Eric Mabius and wife Ivy Sherman, a son, Rylan Jaxson.
Deaths
January 11: Sir Edmund Hillary, 88, New Zealand mountaineer and explorer and the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, after a brief illness, 88.
February 5: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, transcendental meditation guru and spiritual healer to the Beatles, 91.
March 19: Sir Arthur C Clarke, 90, British science fiction author, inventor and futurist, heart failure.
April 5: Charlton Heston, 84, Oscar-winning actor, pneumonia.
May 28: Beryl Cook, 81, British painter. died peacefully at home in Plymouth.
June 1: Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, 71.
July 3: Clive Hornby, 63, British actor (Emmerdale), hypoxia.
August 3: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, 89, heart failure.
September 26: Paul Newman, 83, American Academy Award-winning actor and philanthropist, cancer
October 18: Peter Gordeno, British actor, singer, dancer and choreographer, 69.
November 4: Michael Crichton, 66, American writer (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, ER), cancer.
December 8: Oliver Postgate (creator of Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine), 83.
Marriages
January 1: Actor Eddie Murphy married Tracey Edmonds on a private island off Bora Bora in French Polynesia.
February 2: Model Carla Bruni and French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
April 19: Golfer Colin Montgomerie and Gaynor Knowles in Loch Lomond.
May 19: Actress Jessica Alba and Cash Warren, in Beverly Hills.
June 21: Singer Olivia Newton-John secretly wed John Easterling in Peru, then had a beachfront wedding in Malibu on June 30.
July 18:Pop Idol runner-up Gareth Gates and dancer Suzanne Mole, at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire.
August 30:The Sopranos star James Gandolfini and former model Deborah Lin in Honolulu, Hawaii.
September 27: Scarlett Johansson and actor Ryan Reynolds, in Canada.
October 19: Strictly Come Dancing contestant Tom Chambers and Clare Harding in Repton, Derbyshire.
December 4: Designer Pearl Lowe and Supergrass member Danny Goffey, in Somerset.
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