Deaths in August 2008

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

August 2008

1

• Leopoldo Alas Mínguez, 45, Spanish writer, poet and editor.
• Carlos Aponte, 69, Colombian footballer.
• Rolf Bae, 33, Norwegian mountaineer, climbing accident.
• Pauline Baynes, 85, British illustrator.
• Peter Jackson, 80, Australian fashion designer, prostate cancer.
• Ashok Mankad, 61, Indian cricketer.
• Chief Mqalo, 91, South African Chief of the AmaKhuze Tribe, Alice.
• Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 92, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Butch White, 72, British cricketer.

2

• Fujio Akatsuka, 72, Japanese manga artist, pneumonia.
• Frederic Apcar, 93, Russian-born French acrobatic dancer and producer/impresario.
• Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde, 81, British aristocrat and banker.
• Geoffrey Ballard, 76, Canadian businessman and fuel cell scientist, founder of Ballard Power Systems.
• Pérez Celis, 69, Argentine plastic artist, leukaemia.
• Affonso Évora, 89, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning basketball player.
• Helga Gitmark, 78, Norwegian politician.
• Christopher González, 65, Jamaican sculptor and painter, cancer.
• Kåre Grøndahl Hagem, 93, Norwegian politician.
• Meherban Karim, 29, Pakistani mountaineer, climbing accident.
• Allen Kolstad, 76, American politician, lieutenant governor of Montana, cancer.
• Ger McDonnell, 37, Irish mountaineer, first Irishman to reach K2 summit, climbing accident.
• Peter Rodman, 64, American foreign policy expert, leukemia.
• John F. Seiberling, 89, American politician, representative from Ohio, respiratory failure.

3

• Anton Allemann, 72, Swiss footballer, heart attack.
• Skip Caray, 68, American broadcaster for baseball and basketball, bronchitis.
• Erik Darling, 74, American songwriter, folk musician, lymphoma.
• Roger Dean, 65, British guitarist, brain cancer.
• Babatunde Jose, 82, Nigerian journalist and newspaper editor.
• Jeffrey S. Medkeff, 39, American astronomer and science writer, liver cancer.
• Robert Montgomery, 78, American lawyer.
• Aurelius H. Piper Sr., 92, American hereditary chief of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation since 1959, natural causes.
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian novelist and historian, Nobel Prize winner, heart failure.
• Louis Teicher, 83, American classical pianist, heart failure.

4

• Alberto Achacaz Walakial, 79, Chilean craftsman, one of the last full-blooded Alacaluf, blood poisoning.
• Sally Insul, 92, American actress, heart failure.
• Craig Jones, 23, British motorcycle racer, head injuries from a race crash.
• Peter Kass, 85, American actor, director and teacher.
• Eri Kawai, 43, Japanese pop and classical singer, liver cancer.
• Victor McCaffery, 89, Australian cricketer.
• Robert Maheu, 90, American businessman, aide to Howard Hughes.
• Nicola Rescigno, 92, American opera conductor, complications from broken femur.
• Johnny Thio, 63, Belgian football player and coach, myocardial rupture.
• Greg Weld, 64, American racing driver and businessman, heart attack.

5

• Aziz Abdullah Ahmed, 80-81, Iraqi Kurdish judge, Alzheimer's disease.
• Jaroslav Alexa, 59, Czech Olympic athlete.
• Bruno Dallansky, 79, Austrian actor.
• Robert Hazard, 59, American musician and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Jack Kamen, 88, American comic book artist, cancer.
• Reg Lindsay, 79, Australian country music singer and songwriter, pneumonia.
• Shelby Linville, 78, American basketball player, cancer.
• José Medellín, 33, Mexican convicted murderer, execution in Texas by lethal injection.
• Gary Mooney, 78, American animator, cancer.
• Daniel L. Norris, 73, Canadian commissioner of the Northwest Territories, heart failure.
• Eva Pflug, 79, German actress.
• Manuel de Almeida Trindade, 90, Portuguese bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aveiro.

6

• Bertil Ahlin, 81, Swedish boxer.
• Robert Nason Beck, 80, American scientist, myelodysplasia.
• John K. Cooley, 80, American author, journalist and expert of Middle East affairs, cancer.
• Ela-Mana-Mou, 32, British Thoroughbred race horse and sire, euthanized.
• Gene Galusha, 66, American actor and narrator.
• Roy Howard, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Karl Kuehl, 70, American baseball scout, coach and manager, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Tony Russo, 71, American whistleblower.
• Jud Taylor, 68, American television director and actor, kidney failure.
• Reg Whitehouse, 75, Canadian football player.

7

• Bernie Brillstein, 77, American film producer, chronic pulmonary disease.
• Juan Bustos, 72, Chilean politician, liver cancer.
• Simon Gray, 71, British playwright, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• Ralph Klein, 77, Israeli basketball player and coach, intestinal cancer.
• Andrea Pininfarina, 51, Italian businessman, CEO of Pininfarina, motorcycle accident.
• Clarence Rost, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.

8

• Ann-Mari Aasland, 93, Norwegian politician.
• Rio Alex Bulo, 30, Indonesian Serial Killer
• Ralph Edward Dodge, 101, American bishop of the Methodist Church.
• Antonio Gava, 78, Italian politician, minister of the interior, after long illness.
• Orville Moody, 74, American professional golfer, winner of 1969 U.S. Open.
• Eleo Pomare, 70, Colombian modern dance choreographer, cancer.
• Henk Starreveld, 94, Dutch Olympic canoer.

9

• Giorgi Antsukhelidze, 23, Georgian soldier, shot.
• Sir Stanley Bailey, 81, British chief constable of Northumbria Police.
• Peter Coe, 88, British athletics coach, father of Sebastian Coe.
• Colm Condon, 87, Irish lawyer, Attorney General.
• Bob Cunis, 67, New Zealand cricketer.
• Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet, complications from open heart surgery.
• Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott, 85, British judge.
• Ken Griffiths, 78, English footballer.
• Jacob Landau, 74, American journalist, attorney, co-founder of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, after long illness.
• Bernie Mac, 50, American comedian and actor, complications from pneumonia.
• Gilbert Morand, 85, French military patrol runner.
• Roy Simmonds, 79, Australian rules footballer, cancer.
• Greg Urwin, 61, Australian diplomat, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, cancer.
• Denis Vetchinov, 32, Russian army major, recipient of Hero of the Russian Federation award, killed in action.
• Vivian Shun-wen Wu, 95, Taiwanese entrepreneur, chairwoman of Yulon Motor, heart failure.

10

• Louise Armstrong, 71, American children's writer.
• Sir William Christie, 95, North Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast.
• Lee Clark, 71, Canadian politician, MP for Brandon—Souris.
• John Esmonde, 71, British television writer, half of Esmonde and Larbey.
• Isaac Hayes, 65, American soul and funk musician and actor, Oscar winner, stroke.
• Cezmi Kartay, 88, Turkish civil servant and politician.
• William A. Knowlton, 88, American general.
• Howard G. Minsky, 94, American film producer.
• Terence Rigby, 71, British actor, lung cancer.
• Alexander Slobodyanik, 65, Ukrainian pianist, meningitis.
• František Tikal, 75, Czech ice hockey player.
• David Young, 76, British Bishop of Ripon.

11

• Arase Nagahide, 59, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.
• Agneta Bolme Börjefors, 67, Swedish television presenter and royal reporter.
• Sheikh Abdul Aziz, 55–56, Kashmir politician, shot.
• Henry B. R. Brown, 82, American investment banker, aneurysm.
• John S. Bull, 73, American NASA astronaut.
• Sir Bill Cotton, 80, British television executive.
• George Deem, 75, American artist, lung cancer.
• George Furth, 75, American playwright and actor.
• Don Helms, 81, American steel guitarist.
• James Hoyt, 83, American soldier, member of the Buchenwald liberation team.
• Anatoly Khrapaty, 45, Kazakh Olympic weightlifter, motorcycle accident.
• Günther Schifter, 84, Austrian journalist and radio presenter.
• Fred Sinowatz, 79, Austrian politician, chancellor of Austria.
• Darren Taylor, 42, American gang member turned peacemaker, cancer.
• Rhoshii Wells, 31, American boxer, Olympic medallist, shot.

12

• Christie Allen, 53, Australian pop singer, pancreatic cancer.
• Michael Baxandall, 74, British art historian, Parkinson's disease.
• Gilles Bilodeau, 53, Canadian NHL and World Hockey Association player.
• Mick Clough, 80, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
• Dottie Wiltse Collins, 84, American AAGPBL baseball pitcher.
• Leon Dorsey, 32, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Donald Erb, 81, American avant-garde composer.
• George Gick, 92, American Major League Baseball player.
• Rust Hills, 83, American fiction editor, cardiac arrest.
• Lester Hogan, 88, American physicist, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Vilma Jamnická, 101, Austro-Hungarian-born Slovakian actress and astrologer.
• Francis Lacassin, 76, French editor.
• Patricia W. Malone, 84, American naval officer.
• Aditya Prakash, 84, Indian architect.
• Herm Schneidman, 94, American football player.
• Stan Storimans, 39, Dutch photojournalist and cameraman, mortar fire.
• Bill Stulla, 97, American children's television show host.

13

• Sandy Allen, 53, American tallest woman in the world.
• Henri Cartan, 104, French mathematician.
• Bill Gwatney, 48, American politician, Arkansas state senator, Democratic Party of Arkansas chairman, shot.
• John MacDougall, 60, British politician, MP for Glenrothes since 2005 and Central Fife, mesothelioma.
• Nollaig Ó Gadhra, 64, Irish language activist, journalist and historian, co-founder of Teilifís na Gaeilge.
• Roy Prosser, 66, Australian international rugby union player, heart attack.
• Dino Toso, 39, Italian automotive engineer, Renault F1 director of aerodynamics, cancer.
• Jack Weil, 107, American founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear, oldest working CEO.
• Stuart Cary Welch, 80, American scholar and collector of Indian and Islamic art.

14

• Seiji Aochi, 66, Japanese ski jumper, stomach cancer.
• Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, 66, British politician and local government leader, cancer.
• Ralph Feigin, 70, American pediatrician, lung cancer.
• Luigi Grossi, 83, Italian Olympic sprinter.
• Percy Irausquin, 39, Aruban fashion designer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Carlton John, 92-93, Trinidadian West Indian cricket umpire.
• Marius Maziers, 93, French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Michael Anthony Rodriguez, 45, American murderer, member of the Texas Seven, execution by lethal injection.
• Lita Roza, 82, British singer, first British female to top the UK singles chart.
• Bob Worthington, 72, American honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States.

15

• Carlos Meglia, 50, Argentine comic book artist.
• James Orthwein, 84, American businessman, cancer.
• Gladys Powers, 109, British-born last World War I veteran living in Canada, served with the WAAC and WRAF.
• Leroy Sievers, 53, American journalist, colon cancer.
• Vic Toweel, 79, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion.
• Jerry Wexler, 91, American record producer, heart failure.
• Darrin Winston, 42, American baseball player, leukemia.

16

• Hugh Butt, 98, American physician.
• Dorival Caymmi, 94, Brazilian songwriter and singer, multiple organ failure.
• Roberta Collins, 63, American actress, drug overdose.
• Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, 84, Tahitian archbishop of Papeete, ruptured aneurysm.
• Ronnie Drew, 73, Irish singer, founding member of The Dubliners, throat cancer.
• Jack Dunham, 98, American animator and television producer, creator of the St. Hubert Chicken.
• Masanobu Fukuoka, 95, Japanese microbiologist, pioneer of no-till grain cultivation.
• Elena Leușteanu, 73, Romanian gymnast and three-time Olympic medalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Fanny Mikey, 78, Argentine-born Colombian theatre actress, renal failure.
• Johnny Moore, 70, Jamaican trumpeter, founding member of The Skatalites, cancer.
• Alfred Rainer, 20, Austrian Nordic combined skier, paragliding accident.
• Helge Uuetoa, 71, Estonian stage designer, beaten.

17

• Marie Fisher, 77, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
• Dave Freeman, 47, American author, injuries from fall.
• Maudie Hopkins, 93, last certified American Civil War widow.
• Sir Edwin Nixon, 83, English businessman, chief executive of IBM UK.
• Philip Saffman, 77, American mathematician.
• Franco Sensi, 82, Italian businessman, president of A.S. Roma since 1993, respiratory failure.

18

• Kazys Abromavičius, 80, Lithuanian painter.
• Jeannette Eyerly, 100, American author and columnist.
• Manny Farber, 91, American film critic and painter.
• Bob Humphrys, 56, British BBC sports presenter, lung cancer.
• Genuine Risk, 31, American racehorse, 1980 Kentucky Derby winner.
• Pervis Jackson, 70, American R&B bass singer, cancer.
• Jumoke, 18, American western lowland gorilla, complications of early pregnancy.
• Floyd Peters, 72, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

19

• Leo Abse, 91, British politician, MP, reformer of laws on homosexuality and divorce.
• Carlos Arguelles, 90, Filipino architect.
• Julius Carry, 56, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Binyamin Gibli, 89, Israeli head of military intelligence.
• Algimantas Masiulis, 77, Lithuanian actor.
• LeRoi Moore, 46, American saxophonist, complications from ATV accident.
• Mikhail Mukasei, 101, Russian spy.
• Levy Mwanawasa, 59, Zambian politician, president since 2002, complications from stroke.
• Diane Webber, 76, American model and actress.

20

• Tunku Abdullah, 83, Malaysian businessman.
• Mario Bertok, 79, Croatian chess grandmaster and journalist, drowned.
• Marshall Brown, 90, American basketball player and coach.
• Chao Yao-tung, 92, Taiwanese minister of economic affairs, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Ed Freeman, 80, American U.S. Army helicopter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Phil Guy, 68, American blues guitarist, brother of Buddy Guy, pancreatic cancer.
• Larry Hennessy, 79, American basketball player.
• Hua Guofeng, 87, Chinese premier, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.
• Clair Isbister, 92, Australian paediatrician.
• Edward Jaworski, 82, American Olympic water polo player.
• Dick Jones, 97, American politician.
• Eric Longworth, 90, British actor.
• Leopoldo Serran, 66, Brazilian screenwriter, liver cancer.
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, American member of the House of Representatives from Ohio since 1999, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Gene Upshaw, 63, American NFL player, executive director of NFLPA, pancreatic cancer.

21

• Robert E. Armstrong, 82, American politician.
• Fred Crane, 90, American film and television actor, complications from surgery.
• Iosif Constantin Drăgan, 91, Romanian businessman and historian.
• Jerry Finn, 39, American record producer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Don Fox, 72, British rugby league player.
• Buddy Harman, 79, American session musician, heart failure.
• Lee Eon, 27, South Korean actor and model, motorcycle accident.
• Ágústa Þorsteinsdóttir, 66, Icelandic Olympic swimmer.
• Laurence Urdang, 81, American lexicographer, heart failure.
• Wolfgang Vogel, 82, German lawyer, negotiator in prisoner exchange programs during the Cold War.

22

• Kenny Ailshie, 59, American horse trainer, suicide by gunshot.
• Frank Cornish, 40, American football player, apparent heart attack.
• James H. Faulkner, 92, American publisher, politician and educator.
• Jeff MacKay, 59, American actor, liver complications.
• Michael J. Manning, 65, Australian-born Papua New Guinean anti-corruption activist and economist, heart attack.
• Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, 94, American abstract expressionist art collector, natural causes.
• Robert Pintenat, 60, French football player.
• Ralph Young, 90, American singer.

23

• Jimmy Cleveland, 82, American jazz trombonist.
• Ruth Cohen, 78, American actress, heart attack.
• Leo Elter, 78, American football player, heart failure.
• Steve Foley, 49, American drummer, drug overdose.
• Doris Gibson, 98, Peruvian journalist, founder of Caretas magazine.
• Ian Hibell, 74, British cyclist, hit and run car crash.
• Yuri Nosenko, 81, Soviet-born Ukrainian KGB agent who defected to United States, after a long illness.
• John Russell, 89, British-born American art critic and author.
• Thomas Huckle Weller, 93, American virologist, Nobel Prize winner.

24

• Gerard W. Ford, 83, American co-founder of Ford Modeling Agency, endocarditis.
• Riitta Immonen, 90, Finnish fashion designer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Marimekko.
• Tad Mosel, 86, American Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright.
• Morris Sullivan, 91, American film producer.
• Peter Sutton, 65, British sound engineer, Oscar winner, leukemia.
• Wei Wei, 88, Chinese poet and writer, liver cancer.

25

• Elmer H. Antonsen, 78, American philologist.
• Randa Chahal Sabag, 54, Lebanese film maker, cancer.
• Marpessa Dawn, 74, American actress, heart attack.
• Kevin Duckworth, 44, American NBA basketball player, heart failure resulting from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
• Ahmad Faraz, 74, Pakistani poet.
• Hardwicke Knight, 97, New Zealand historian and photographer.
• Pavle Kozjek, 49, Slovenian mountaineer, climbing accident.
• Jabir Herbert Muhammad, 79, American businessman, long-time manager of Muhammad Ali, complications from heart surgery.
• Vassili Nesterenko, 73, Belarusian physicist.
• Pehr Henrik Nordgren, 64, Finnish composer, cancer.
• Mario Fernando Peña Angulo, 56, Peruvian congressman, lymphoma.
• Josef Tal, 97, Israeli composer, natural causes.
• John Thoday, 91, British geneticist.

26

• Pierre Colas, 32, German Mayanist scholar, assistant professor in anthropology at Vanderbilt University, shot.
• Bobby Cummings, 72, English footballer.
• Bob Mountford, 56, British footballer, cancer.
• Edgardo Vega Yunqué, 72, Puerto Rican novelist.
• Hazel Warp, 93, American stuntwoman.
• Barbara Warren, 65, American triathlete, bicycle crash.

27

• Sally Abston, 74, American surgeon and scientist, kidney failure and hypertension.
• Del Martin, 87, American gay rights activist, first legal same-sex marriage in California, complications from bone fracture.
• Isa Meireles, 76, Portuguese journalist and writer.
• Chittaranjan Mitra, 82, Indian scientist and administrator.
• Abie Nathan, 81, Israeli peace activist, founder of Voice of Peace radio station.
• Mark Priestley, 32, Australian actor, suicide by jumping.
• Olavo Setúbal, 85, Brazilian politician and banker, mayor of São Paulo, heart failure.

28

• İlhan Berk, 89, Turkish poet.
• Harold Challenor, 86, British war hero and corrupt Metropolitan police officer.
• Phil Hill, 81, American racing driver, 1961 Formula One world champion, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Ralph Kovel, 88, American antiques expert and author, complications of broken hip.
• Chidananda Saraswati, 91, Indian spiritual leader, president of the Divine Life Society.
• Sigurbjörn Einarsson, 97, Icelandic bishop of the Church of Iceland.
• Wonderful Smith, 97, American comedian, natural causes.
• Michel Vastel, 68, Canadian journalist and columnist, throat cancer.

29

• William Appling, 75, American conductor, pianist, educator and arranger.
• Bridget Cracroft-Eley, 74, British Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire since 1995.
• Jayshree Gadkar, 66, Indian actress.
• David Gordon Allen d'Aldecamb Lumsden, 75, British Garioch Pursuivant.
• Bela E. Kennedy, American politician, 90, Michigan state legislator.
• Geoffrey Perkins, 55, British comedy producer, writer and performer, head of comedy for BBC, road accident.
• Peter Snow, 81, British artist and theatre designer.

30

• K. K. Birla, 89, Indian industrialist and politician, after brief illness.
• Tommy Bolt, 92, American professional golfer, 1958 U.S. Open champion, liver failure.
• Robin Bullough, 78, British mathematical physicist.
• Brian Hambly, 71, Australian rugby league player.
• Killer Kowalski, 81, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Eldon Rathburn, 92, Canadian composer, after brief illness.
• Gilberto Rincón Gallardo, 69, Mexican politician, presidential candidate.
• William Howard Wriggins, 90, American academic, ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives.

31

• Cynthia Ahearn, 55, American echinodermologist and museum specialist.
• Meir Avizohar, 84, Israeli politician and academic.
• Jean-Marie Berckmans, 54, Belgian writer, lung disease.
• Ken Campbell, 66, British actor.
• Jamie Dolan, 39, British footballer, heart attack.
• Harmohinder Singh Gill, 75, Indian-born American scientist.
• Edwin O. Guthman, 89, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, amyloidosis.
• Ike Pappas, 75, American CBS journalist, broadcast murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, heart failure.
• Victor Yates, 69, New Zealand rugby footballer.
• Magomed Yevloyev, 36, Ingush journalist and owner of the opposition news website Ingushetiya.ru, shot.