2008 in Italy

Incumbents

• President: Giorgio Napolitano
• Prime Minister:

  Events

• 24 January – Start of the 2008 Italian political crisis
• 8 May – Silvio Berlusconi takes over as prime minister, succeeding Romano Prodi

  Deaths

• 5 January – Giovanni Rinaldo Coronas, politician, police chief and Interior Minister.
• 6 January – Vittorio Tomassetti, Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola.
• 17 January – Giuliana Penzi, dancer and choreographer.
• 18 January –
• 20 January – Duilio Loi, boxer.
• 3 February – Ernesto Illy, food chemist and businessman
• 11 February – Carolina Tronconi, gymnast, Olympic silver medalist.
• 13 February – Michele Greco, Mafia boss.
• 16 February –
• 17 February – Nicola Agnozzi, Roman Catholic prelate.
• 22 February – Nunzio Gallo, singer.
• 3 March – Giuseppe Di Stefano, operatic tenor.
• 4 March – Tina Lagostena Bassi, lawyer and politician.
• 7 March – Leonardo Costagliola, footballer.
• 12 March – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-born French veteran of World War I.
• 14 March – Chiara Lubich, Catholic activist.
• 18 March – Oreste Rizzini, voice actor.
• 24 March – Dina Sassoli, actress.
• 14 April – Marisa Sannia, singer.
• 23 July – Anna Maria Cantù, sprinter.
• 27 July – Marisa Merlini, actress.
• 14 August – Luigi Grossi, Olympic sprinter.
• 5 September – Mila Schön, fashion designer.
• 5 October – Leopoldo Elia, politician.
• 20 December – Samuele Bacchiocchi, theologian.