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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2008.
August 2008[edit]
- Carlos Aponte, 69, Colombian footballer. [1] (Spanish)
- Pauline Baynes, 85, British illustrator (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings). [2]
- Peter Jackson, 80, Australian fashion designer, prostate cancer. [3]
- Ashok Mankad, 61, Indian cricketer. [4]
- Chief Mqalo, 91, South African Chief of the AmaKhuze Tribe, Alice. [5]
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 92, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. [6]
- Butch White, 72, British cricketer (Hampshire, Glamorgan, England). [7]
- Fujio Akatsuka, 72, Japanese manga artist, pneumonia. [8]
- Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde, 81, British aristocrat and banker. [9]
- Rolf Bae, 33, Norwegian mountaineer, fall from K2. [10]
- Geoffrey Ballard, 76, Canadian businessman and fuel cell scientist, founder of Ballard Power Systems. [11]
- Pérez Celis, 69, Argentine plastic artist, leukaemia. [12]
- Affonso Évora, 89, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) basketball player. [13]
- Helga Gitmark, 78, Norwegian politician. [14] (Norwegian)
- Christopher González, 65, Jamaican sculptor and painter, cancer. [15]
- Kåre Grøndahl Hagem, 93, Norwegian politician. [16] (Norwegian)
- Allen Kolstad, 76, American politician, lieutenant governor of Montana (1988–1991), cancer. [17]
- Ger McDonnell, 37, Irish mountaineer, first Irishman to reach K2 summit, climbing accident. [18]
- Peter Rodman, 64, American foreign policy expert, leukemia. [19]
- John F. Seiberling, 89, American politician, representative from Ohio (1971–1987), respiratory failure. [20]
- Anton Allemann, 72, Swiss footballer (PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Nuremberg, Grasshopper Zürich), heart attack. [21] (German)
- Skip Caray, 68, American broadcaster for baseball (Atlanta Braves) and basketball (Hawks), son of Harry Caray, bronchitis. [22]
- Erik Darling, 74, American songwriter, folk musician, lymphoma. [23]
- Roger Dean, 65, British guitarist, brain cancer. [24]
- Babatunde Jose, 82, Nigerian journalist and newspaper editor. [25]
- Jeffrey S. Medkeff, 39, American astronomer and science writer, liver cancer. [26]
- Robert Montgomery, 78, American lawyer. [27]
- Aurelius H. Piper Sr., 92, American hereditary chief of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation since 1959, natural causes. [28]
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian novelist and historian, Nobel Prize winner (1970), heart failure. [29]
- Louis Teicher, 83, American classical pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), heart failure. [30]
- Alberto Achacaz Walakial, 79, Chilean craftsman, one of the last full-blooded Alacaluf, blood poisoning. [31]
- Sally Insul, 92, American actress, heart failure. [32]
- Craig Jones, 23, British motorcycle racer, head injuries from a race crash. [33]
- Peter Kass, 85, American actor, director and teacher. [34]
- Eri Kawai, 43, Japanese pop and classical singer, liver cancer. [35]
- Robert Maheu, 90, American businessman, aide to Howard Hughes. [36]
- Nicola Rescigno, 92, American opera conductor, complications from broken femur. [37]
- Johnny Thio, 63, Belgian football player and coach, myocardial rupture. [38]
- Greg Weld, 64, American racing driver and businessman, heart attack. [39]
- Bruno Dallansky, 79, Austrian actor. [40] (German)
- Robert Hazard, 59, American musician and songwriter ("Girls Just Want to Have Fun"), pancreatic cancer. [41]
- Jack Kamen, 88, American comic book artist (Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror), cancer. [42]
- Reg Lindsay, 79, Australian country music singer and songwriter, pneumonia. [43]
- José Medellín, 33, Mexican convicted murderer, execution in Texas by lethal injection. [44]
- Gary Mooney, 78, American animator (Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, George of the Jungle), cancer. [45]
- Daniel L. Norris, 73, Canadian commissioner of the Northwest Territories (1989–1994), heart failure. [46]
- Eva Pflug, 79, German actress (Raumpatrouille Orion). [47] (German)
- Manuel de Almeida Trindade, 90, Portuguese bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aveiro (1962–1988). [48] (Portuguese)
- Robert Nason Beck, 80, American scientist, myelodysplasia. [49]
- John K. Cooley, 80, American author (Unholy Wars), journalist and expert of Middle East affairs, cancer. [50]
- Princess Francine of Montenegro, 58, Montenegrin fashion designer, wife of Prince Nicholas of Montenegro. [51]
- Gene Galusha, 66, American actor and narrator. [52]
- Simon Gray, 71, British playwright, abdominal aortic aneurysm. [53]
- Karl Kuehl, 70, American baseball scout, coach and manager (Montreal Expos), pulmonary fibrosis. [54]
- Anthony Russo, 71, American whistleblower (Pentagon Papers). [55]
- Jud Taylor, 68, American television director and actor, kidney failure. [56]
- Reg Whitehouse, 75, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders). [57]
- Bernie Brillstein, 77, American film producer, chronic pulmonary disease. [58]
- Juan Bustos, 72, Chilean politician, liver cancer. [59]
- Ralph Klein, 77, Israeli basketball player and coach, intestinal cancer. [60]
- Andrea Pininfarina, 51, Italian businessman, CEO of Pininfarina, motorcycle accident. [61]
- Clarence Rost, 94, Canadian ice hockey player. [62]
- Ralph Edward Dodge, 101, American bishop of the Methodist Church. [63]
- Antonio Gava, 78, Italian politician, minister of the interior (1988–1990), after long illness. [64]
- Orville Moody, 74, American professional golfer, winner of 1969 U.S. Open. [65]
- Eleo Pomare, 70, Colombian modern dance choreographer, cancer. [66]
- Henk Starreveld, 94, Dutch Olympic canoer. [67]
- Sir Stanley Bailey, 81, British chief constable of Northumbria Police (1975–1991). [68]
- Peter Coe, 88, British athletics coach, father of Sebastian Coe. [69]
- Colm Condon, 87, Irish lawyer, Attorney General (1965–1973). [70]
- Bob Cunis, 67, New Zealand cricketer. [71]
- Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet, complications from open heart surgery. [72]
- Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott, 85, British judge. [73]
- Ken Griffiths, 78, English footballer (Port Vale). [74]
- Jacob Landau, 74, American journalist, attorney, co-founder of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, after long illness. [75]
- Bernie Mac, 50, American comedian and actor (The Bernie Mac Show, Bad Santa, Friday), complications from pneumonia. [76]
- Gilbert Morand, 85, French military patrol runner. [77] (French)
- Greg Urwin, 61, Australian diplomat, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (2004–2008), cancer. [78]
- Denis Vetchinov, 32, Russian army major, recipient of Hero of the Russian Federation award, killed in action. [79]
- Vivian Shun-wen Wu, 95, Taiwanese entrepreneur, chairwoman of Yulon Motor, heart failure. [80]
- Lee Clark, 71, Canadian politician, MP for Brandon—Souris (1983–1993). [81]
- John Esmonde, 71, British television writer, half of Esmonde and Larbey (Please Sir!, The Good Life). [82]
- Isaac Hayes, 65, American soul and funk musician ("Theme from Shaft"), actor (South Park), stroke. [83]
- William A. Knowlton, 88, American general. [84]
- Howard G. Minsky, 94, American film producer (Love Story). [85]
- Terence Rigby, 71, British actor, lung cancer. [86]
- Alexander Slobodyanik, 65, Ukrainian pianist, meningitis. [87]
- František Tikal, 75, Czech ice hockey player. [88] (German)
- David Nigel de Lorentz Young, 76, British Bishop of Ripon (1977–1999). [89]
- Agneta Bolme Börjefors, 67, Swedish television presenter and royal reporter. [90] (Swedish)
- Henry B. R. Brown, 82, American investment banker, aneurysm. [91]
- John S. Bull, 73, American NASA astronaut. [92]
- Sir Bill Cotton, 80, British television executive. [93]
- George Deem, 75, American artist, lung cancer. [94]
- George Furth, 75, American playwright, actor and librettist, collaborator with Stephen Sondheim. [95]
- Don Helms, 81, American steel guitarist. [96]
- James Hoyt, 83, American soldier, member of the Buchenwald liberation team. [97]
- Anatoly Khrapaty, 45, Kazakh Olympic weightlifter (USSR and Kazakhstan), motorcycle accident. [98]
- Günther Schifter, 84, Austrian journalist and radio presenter. [99] (German)
- Fred Sinowatz, 79, Austrian politician, chancellor of Austria (1983–1986). [100]
- Darren Taylor, 42, American gang member turned peacemaker, cancer. [101]
- Rhoshii Wells, 31, American boxer, Olympic medallist, shot. [102]
- Christie Allen, 53, Australian pop singer, pancreatic cancer. [103]
- Michael Baxandall, 74, British art historian, Parkinson's disease. [104]
- Gilles Bilodeau, 53, Canadian NHL and World Hockey Association player. [105]
- Mick Clough, 80, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1976–1988, 1991–1999). [106]
- Dottie Wiltse Collins, 84, American AAGPBL baseball pitcher (Fort Wayne Daisies). [107]
- Donald Erb, 81, American avant-garde composer. [108]
- George Gick, 92, American Major League Baseball player (Chicago White Sox). [109]
- Rust Hills, 83, American fiction editor (Esquire), cardiac arrest. [110]
- Lester Hogan, 88, American physicist, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [111]
- Vilma Jamnická, 101, Austro-Hungarian-born Slovakian actress and astrologer. [112] (Slovak)
- Francis Lacassin, 76, French editor. [113] (France)
- Herm Schneidman, 94, American football player. [114]
- Stan Storimans, 39, Dutch photojournalist and cameraman, mortar fire. [115]
- Bill Stulla, 97, American children's television show host. [116]
- Sandy Allen, 53, American tallest woman in the world (according to Guinness World Records). [117]
- Henri Cartan, 104, French mathematician. [118]
- Bill Gwatney, 48, American politician, Arkansas state senator (1992–2002), Democratic Party of Arkansas chairman, shot. [119]
- John MacDougall, 60, British politician, MP for Glenrothes since 2005 and Central Fife (2001–2005), mesothelioma. [120]
- Missy, 40, American pornographic actress, accidental overdose of prescription medication. [121]
- Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish guitarist and vocalist (Dissection). [122]
- Nollaig Ó Gadhra, 64, Irish language activist, journalist and historian, co-founder of Teilifís na Gaeilge. [123]
- Dino Toso, 39, Italian automotive engineer, Renault F1 director of aerodynamics, cancer. [124]
- Jack Weil, 107, American founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear, oldest working CEO. [125]
- Stuart Cary Welch, 80, American scholar and collector of Indian and Islamic art. [126]
- Seiji Aochi, 66 Japanese ski jumper, stomach cancer. [127]
- Allen Bares, 71, American member of the Louisiana State Legislature (1972–1992), French language proponent, stroke. [128]
- Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, 66, British politician and local government leader, cancer. [129]
- Ralph Feigin, 70, American pediatrician, lung cancer. [130]
- Percy Irausquin, 39, Aruban fashion designer, cerebral hemorrhage. [131]
- Carlton John, 92/93, West Indian cricket umpire. [132]
- Marius Maziers, 93, French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. [133]
- Michael Anthony Rodriguez, 45, American murderer, member of the Texas Seven, execution by lethal injection. [134]
- Lita Roza, 82, British singer, first British female to top the UK singles chart. [135]
- Bob Worthington, 72, American honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States (1985–2008). [136]
- Carlos Meglia, 50, Argentine comic book artist. [137]
- James Orthwein, 84, American businessman, cancer. [138]
- Gladys Powers, 109, British-born last World War I veteran living in Canada, served with the WAAC and WRAF. [139]
- Leroy Sievers, 53, American journalist, colon cancer. [140]
- Vic Toweel, 79, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion (1952–1954). [141]
- Jerry Wexler, 91, American record producer, heart failure. [142]
- Darrin Winston, 42, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, 1997–1998), leukemia. [143]
- Hugh Butt, 98, American physician. [144]
- Dorival Caymmi, 94, Brazilian songwriter and singer, multiple organ failure. [145]
- Roberta Collins, 63, American actress, drug overdose. [146]
- Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, 72, Tahitian archbishop of Papeete (1973–1999), ruptured aneurysm. [147]
- Ronnie Drew, 73, Irish singer, founding member of The Dubliners, after long illness. [148]
- Masanobu Fukuoka, 95, Japanese microbiologist, pioneer of no-till grain cultivation. [149]
- Elena Leuşteanu, 73, Romanian gymnast and three-time Olympic medalist, pancreatic cancer. [150]
- Fanny Mikey, 78, Argentine-born Colombian theatre actress, renal failure. [151]
- Johnny Moore, 70, Jamaican trumpeter, founding member of The Skatalites, cancer. [152]
- Alfred Rainer, 20, Austrian Nordic combined skier, paragliding accident. [153]
- Helge Uuetoa, 71, Estonian stage designer, beaten. [154] (Estonian)
- Marie Fisher, 77, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1978–1988). [155]
- Dave Freeman, 47, American author (100 Things To Do Before You Die), injuries from fall. [156]
- Maudie Hopkins, 93, American last certified Civil War widow. [157]
- Philip Saffman, 77, American mathematician. [158]
- Franco Sensi, 82, Italian businessman, president of A.S. Roma since 1993, respiratory failure. [159]
- Jeannette Eyerly, 100, American author and columnist. [160]
- Manny Farber, 91, American film critic and painter. [161]
- Genuine Risk, 31, American racehorse, 1980 Kentucky Derby winner. [162]
- Pervis Jackson, 70, American R&B bass singer (The Spinners), cancer. [163]
- Jumoke, 18, American western lowland gorilla, complications of early pregnancy. [164]
- Floyd Peters, 72, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [165]
- Leo Abse, 91, British politician, MP (1958–1987), reformer of laws on homosexuality and divorce. [166]
- Julius Carry, 56, American actor (The Last Dragon), pancreatic cancer. [167]
- Binyamin Gibli, 89, Israeli head of military intelligence. [168]
- Bob Humphrys, 56, British BBC sports presenter, lung cancer. [169]
- Algimantas Masiulis, 77, Lithuanian actor. [170] (Russian)
- Habib Miyan, 140?, Indian claimant to title of world's oldest person. [171]
- LeRoi Moore, 46, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band), complications from ATV accident. [172]
- Mikhail Mukasei, 101, Russian spy. [173]
- Levy Mwanawasa, 59, Zambian politician, president since 2002, complications from stroke. [174]
- Diane Webber, 76, American model and actress. [175]
- Mario Bertok, 79, Croatian chess grandmaster and journalist, drowned. [176] (Croatian)
- Marshall Brown, 90, American basketball player and coach. [177]
- Chao Yao-dong, 92, Taiwanese minister of economic affairs, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [178] (Chinese)
- Ed Freeman, 80, American U.S. Army helicopter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor, complications of Parkinson's disease. [179]
- Phil Guy, 68, American blues guitarist, brother of Buddy Guy, pancreatic cancer. [180]
- Larry Hennessy, 79, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors, Syracuse Nationals). [181]
- Hua Guofeng, 87, Chinese premier (1976–1980), chairman of the Communist Party of China (1976–1981). [182]
- Clair Isbister, 92, Australian paediatrician. [183]
- Edward Jaworski, 82, American Olympic water polo player (1952). [184]
- Dick Jones, 97, American politician, Wyoming state senator (1955–1974), complications from surgery. [185]
- Eric Longworth, 90, British actor (Dad's Army). [186]
- Leopoldo Serran, 66, Brazilian screenwriter, liver cancer. [187]
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, American member of the House of Representatives from Ohio since 1999, cerebral hemorrhage. [188]
- Gene Upshaw, 63, American NFL player (Oakland Raiders), executive director of NFLPA, pancreatic cancer. [189]
- Fred Crane, 90, American film and television actor (Gone with the Wind), complications from surgery. [190]
- Iosif Constantin Drăgan, 91, Romanian businessman and historian. [191]
- Jerry Finn, 39, American record producer (Blink-182, Green Day, Morrissey), cerebral hemorrhage. [192]
- Don Fox, 72, British rugby league player (Wakefield). [193]
- Buddy Harman, 79, American session musician, heart failure. [194]
- Lee Eon, 27, South Korean actor and model, motorcycle accident. [195]
- Laurence Urdang, 81, American lexicographer, heart failure. [196]
- Wolfgang Vogel, 82, German lawyer, negotiator in prisoner exchange programs during the Cold War. [197]
- Frank Cornish, 40, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), apparent heart attack. [198]
- James H. Faulkner, 92, American publisher, politician and educator. [199]
- Jeff MacKay, 59, American film and television actor, (Magnum, P.I., Tales of the Gold Monkey), liver complications. [200]
- Mike J. Manning, 65, Australian-born Papua New Guinean anti-corruption activist and economist, heart attack. [201]
- Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, 94, American abstract expressionist art collector, natural causes. [202]
- Ralph Young, 90, American singer (Sandler and Young). [203]
- Jimmy Cleveland, 82, American jazz trombonist. [204]
- Ruth Cohen, 78, American actress and extra (Seinfeld), heart attack. [205]
- Leo Elter, 78, American football player, heart failure. [206]
- Steve Foley, 49, American drummer (The Replacements, Bash & Pop), drug overdose. [207]
- Doris Gibson, 98, Peruvian journalist, founder of Caretas magazine. [208]
- Ian Hibell, 74, British cyclist, hit and run car crash. [209]
- Yuri Nosenko, 81, Soviet-born Ukrainian KGB agent who defected to United States, after a long illness. [210]
- John Russell, 89, British-born American art critic and author. [211]
- Thomas Huckle Weller, 93, American virologist, Nobel Prize winner (Medicine, 1954). [212]
- Gerard W. Ford, 83, American co-founder of Ford Modeling Agency, endocarditis. [213]
- Riitta Immonen, 90, Finnish fashion designer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Marimekko. [214]
- Tad Mosel, 86, American Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright (All the Way Home). [215]
- Morris Sullivan, 91, American co-founder of Sullivan Bluth Studios (An American Tail, The Land Before Time). [216]
- Wei Wei, 88, Chinese poet and writer, liver cancer. [217]
- Randa Chahal, 54, Lebanese film maker, cancer. [218]
- Marpessa Dawn, 74, American actress (Black Orpheus), heart attack. [219]
- Kevin Duckworth, 44, American NBA basketball player, heart failure resulting from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. [220]
- Ahmed Faraz, 74, Pakistani poet. [221]
- Hardwicke Knight, 97, New Zealand historian. [222]
- Pavle Kozjek, 49, Slovenian mountaineer, climbing accident. [223]
- Jabir Herbert Muhammad, 79, American businessman, long-time manager of Muhammad Ali, complications from heart surgery. [224]
- Vassili Nesterenko, 73, Belarusian physicist. [225] (French)
- Pehr Henrik Nordgren, 64, Finnish composer, after long illness. [226] (Finnish)
- Mario Peña, 56, Peruvian congressman, lymphoma. [227]
- Josef Tal, 97, Israeli composer, natural causes. [228] (German)
- John Thoday, 91, British geneticist. [229]
- Pierre Colas, 32, German Mayanist scholar, assistant professor in anthropology at Vanderbilt University, shot. [230]
- Bob Mountford, 56, British footballer (Port Vale, Rochdale), cancer. [231]
- Edgardo Vega Yunqué, 72, Puerto Rican novelist. [232]
- Hazel Warp, 93, American stuntwoman (Gone with the Wind). [233]
- Barbara Warren, 65, American triathlete, bicycle crash. [234]
- Del Martin, 87, American gay rights activist, first legal same-sex marriage in California, complications from bone fracture. [235]
- Isa Meireles, 76, Portuguese journalist and writer. [236] (Portuguese)
- Chittaranjan Mitra, 82, Indian scientist and administrator.[237]
- Abie Nathan, 81, Israeli peace activist, founder of Voice of Peace radio station. [238]
- Mark Priestley, 32, Australian actor (All Saints), suicide. [239]
- Olavo Setúbal, 85, Brazilian politician and banker, mayor of São Paulo (1975–1979), heart failure. [240]
- İlhan Berk, 89, Turkish poet. [241]
- Harold Challenor, 86, British war hero (Operation Speedwell) and corrupt Metropolitan police officer. [242]
- Bobby Cummings, 72, English footballer (Aberdeen, Newcastle United). [243] (death reported on this date)
- Phil Hill, 81, American racing driver, 1961 Formula One world champion, complications of Parkinson's disease. [244]
- Ralph Kovel, 88, American antiques expert and author, complications of broken hip. [245]
- Gilbert Moorer, 67, American rhythm & blues singer (The Esquires), complications from throat cancer. [246]
- Swami Chidananda Saraswati, 91, Indian spiritual leader, president of the Divine Life Society. [247]
- Sigurbjörn Einarsson, 97, Icelandic bishop of the Church of Iceland (1959–1981). [248] (Icelandic)
- Wonderful Smith, 97, American comedian, natural causes. [249]
- Michel Vastel, 68, Canadian journalist and columnist, throat cancer. [250]
- Bridget Cracroft-Eley, 74, British Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire since 1995. [251]
- Jayshree Gadkar, 66, Indian actress. [252]
- David Lumsden of Cushnie, 75, British Garioch Pursuivant. [253]
- Geoffrey Perkins, 55, British comedy producer, writer and performer, head of comedy for BBC, road accident. [254]
- Peter Snow, 81, British artist and theatre designer. [255]
- Krishna Kumar Birla, 89, Indian industrialist and politician, after brief illness. [256]
- Tommy Bolt, 92, American professional golfer, 1958 U.S. Open champion, liver failure. [257]
- Robin Bullough, 78, British mathematical physicist. [258]
- Brian Hambly, 71, Australian rugby league player. [259]
- Killer Kowalski, 81, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack. [260]
- Eldon Rathburn, 92, Canadian composer, after brief illness. [261]
- Gilberto Rincón Gallardo, 69, Mexican politician, presidential candidate. [262]
- William Howard Wriggins, 90, American academic, ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives (1977–1979). [263]
- Meir Avizohar, 84, Israeli politician and academic. [264]
- Jean-Marie Berckmans, 54, Belgian writer, lung disease. [265] (Dutch)
- Ken Campbell, 66, British actor. [266]
- Jamie Dolan, 39, British footballer (Motherwell F.C.), heart attack. [267]
- Edwin O. Guthman, 89, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, amyloidosis. [268]
- Ike Pappas, 75, American CBS journalist, broadcast murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, heart failure. [269]
- Victor Yates, 69, New Zealand rugby footballer. [270]
- Magomed Yevloyev, 37, Ingush journalist and owner of the opposition news website Ingushetiya.ru, shot. [271]