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2008 is the 137th year after the founding of the City of Birmingham.

January: The former HealthSouth corporate headquarters and incomplete HealthSouth digital hospital was sold to the Daniel Corporation for $43.5 million.
January: Nightclub The Station closed.
January 25: Nightclub Zen opened.
February: Book store and publisher GreencupBooks opened.
February: The Harbert family sold Regions-Harbert Plaza.
February 9: Red Mountain Market opened.

January 4: Tom Jernigan, founder and CEO of the Marathon Corporation
January 4: Doc Soul Stirrer, entertainer and newspaper columnist
January 6: Geoff Stone, police officer
January 8: Ace Trammell, labor activist
January 11: Stead Baxendale, real estate broker
January 13: Bik Lonnie, music and video producer
January 19: Bronner Burgess, son of Rick Burgess
February 4: Glynn West, business manager
February 15: Morris Mayer, marketing professor
February 16: Lee McGriff, insurance executive and former Mayor of Mountain Brook
February 16: Reverend James Orange
February 22: Don Cornutt, educator and musician
February 27: Bishop Ruby Kile
March 4: Jack Voorhies, voice actor and announcer
March 10: Dennis Irwin, jazz musician
March 15: Henry Aizenman, Holocaust survivor
March 15: Sam Pointer, Jr, retired federal judge
March 22: Joe Joseph, developer
March 25: Victor Ellis, newspaper editor
March 28: Anne Woodward, age 99
March 31: Alfonzo Scales, minister and local SCLC leader
April 7: Bobby Hoppe, former Auburn football player
April 10: Helen Davis, the first female Architect licensed in Alabama
April 11: Babec, Birmingham Zoo gorilla
April 12: Joseph Campbell, former Birmingham News editor
April 15: Billy Martin, advertising executive
April 20: Charles Todel, longtime minister in Gate City
May 3: C. Paul Perry, physician
May 13: Randy Mixon, Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service Captain
May 13: Al O'Brien, painter
May 14: Brandee Skinner
May 27: Willie Scoggins, high school basketball coach

See also List of Birmingham homicides in 2008 and List of Jefferson County homicides in 2008

June 30: Bill Cleveland replaced the retiring Jodi Newton as superintendent of Homewood City Schools.
Dicky Barlow became assistant superintendent of Mountain Brook Schools.
Vic Wilson replaced Dicky Barlow as principal of Mountain Brook High School.
Kevin Maddox replaced Vic Wilson as principal of Homewood High School.
Ben Hudson replaced the retiring Garry Rickard as principal of Mountain Brook Junior High School.

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 === Promotions and retirements ===
-* [[June 30]]: [[Jodi Newton]] retired as superintendent of [[Homewood City Schools]]; [[Bill Cleveland]] was named as her replacement.
+* [[June 30]]: [[Bill Cleveland]]  replaced the retiring [[Jodi Newton]] as superintendent of [[Homewood City Schools]].
 * [[Dicky Barlow]] became assistant superintendent of [[Mountain Brook Schools]].
-* [[Vic Wilson]] became principal of [[Mountain Brook High School]].
+* [[Vic Wilson]] replaced Dicky Barlow as principal of [[Mountain Brook High School]].
-* [[Kevin Maddox]] became principal of [[Homewood High School]].
+* [[Kevin Maddox]] replaced Vic Wilson as principal of [[Homewood High School]].
-* [[Ben Hudson]] became principal of [[Mountain Brook Junior High School]].
+* [[Ben Hudson]] replaced the retiring [[Garry Rickard]] as principal of [[Mountain Brook Junior High School]].
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