Deaths in August 2011

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

  August 2011

1

• Concha Alós, 85, Spanish writer.
• Stan Barstow, 83, English novelist.
• Joe Caffie, 80, American baseball player.
• Carmela Marie Cristiano, 83, American Roman Catholic nun, first nun to seek political office in New Jersey.
• Florentina Gómez Miranda, 99, Argentine lawyer and women's rights activist.
• Gamini Goonesena, 80, Sri Lankan cricketer.
• Chieko N. Okazaki, 84, American Mormon women's leader, first non-Caucasian woman to hold a senior position in the LDS church, heart failure.
• Ken Payne, 60, American football player.
• Alex Pitko, 97, American baseball player.
• Zhanna Prokhorenko, 71, Russian film actress.

  2

• Leslie Esdaile Banks, 51, American author, adrenal cancer.
• Baruj Benacerraf, 90, Venezuelan-born American immunologist, Nobel laureate.
• Ralph Berkowitz, 100, American composer.
• Igor Chepusov, 61, Soviet and American producer, script writer and director.
• Meldric Daluz, 90, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning field hockey player.
• Al Federoff, 87, American baseball player.
• Asadullo Gulomov, 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Andrey Kapitsa, 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok.
• Clarence E. Miller, 93, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio, pneumonia.
• Attilio Pavesi, 100, Italian Olympic cyclist, oldest living Olympic champion.
• Richard Pearson, 93, Welsh actor.
• José Sanchis Grau, 79, Spanish comic book artist.
• James Ford Seale, 76, American murderer, Ku Klux Klan member.
• Markku Yli-Isotalo, 58, Finnish Olympic wrestler

  3

• Rudolf Brazda, 98, German concentration camp prisoner, last known survivor of pink triangle homosexual deportation.
• Richard Cates, 85, American lawyer.
• Annette Charles, 63, American actress, complications from lung cancer.
• Antonio Diaz, 83, Filipino politician, Representative from Zambales.
• Jackie Hudson, 76, American nun and peace activist.
• Ingrid Luterkort, 101, Swedish actress.
• Simona Monyová, 44, Czech writer, stabbed.
• Ray Patterson, 89, American basketball executive.
• Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, stroke.
• José Ignacio Rivero, 90, Cuban journalist.
• William Sleator, 66, American science fiction writer.
• Bubba Smith, 66, American football player and actor.
• Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi, 87, Iranian Shi'ite Muslim marja, heart attack.
• Allan Watkins, 89, Welsh cricketer, after short illness.

  4

• David B. Barrett, 83, American professor.
• Alan Blackshaw, 78, English mountaineer and civil servant, cancer.
• Michael Bukht, 69, British radio executive, television personality and chef who worked as Michael Barry.
• Mark Duggan, 29, British crime suspect, shot.
• Naoki Matsuda, 34, Japanese footballer, suspected heart attack.
• Conrad Schnitzler, 74, German musician, stomach cancer.
• Erika Thijs, 51, Belgian politician, Senator, cancer.
• Sherman White, 82, American basketball player.

  5

• Jean-Claude Bajeux, 79, Haitian activist and scholar, lung cancer.
• Gerry Davidson, 90, American masters athlete, stroke.
• Erol Erduran, 78, Cypriot educator and writer.
• Dudley E. Faver, 94, American Air Force major general and academic.
• Marion D. Hanks, 89, American Mormon leader.
• Grahame Jarratt, 82, New Zealand rower.
• Hazel Johnson-Brown, 83, American Army nurse and general, Alzheimer's disease.
• Andrzej Lepper, 57, Polish politician, suspected suicide by hanging.
• Elphas Mukonoweshuro, 58, Zimbabwean academic and politician.
• Gary Nixon, 70, American motorcycle racer, complications from a heart attack.
• Francesco Quinn, 48, Italian-born American actor, heart attack.
• Aziz Shavershian, 22, Australian bodybuilder and model, heart attack.
• Adi Talmor, 58, Israeli journalist and news presenter, assisted suicide.
• Stan Willemse, 86, British footballer.

  6

• Bernadine Healy, 67, American cardiologist, director of the National Institutes of Health, brain cancer.
• Fred Imus, 69, American songwriter and radio talk show host.
• Kuno Klötzer, 89, German football coach.
• Fe del Mundo, 99, Filipino pediatrician, National Scientist of the Philippines, heart attack.
• Roman Opałka, 79, French-born Polish painter.
• John W. Ryan, 81, American academic administrator, President of Indiana University.
• Jerry Smith, 80, American football player and coach.
• John Wood, 81, English actor, Tony winner.

  7

• Eric Anthony Abrahams, 71, Jamaican public servant.
• Joseph Candolfi, 89, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Basel.
• Hugh Carey, 92, American politician, Governor of New York and U.S. Representative.
• Rocco Colonna, 77, American politician, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
• Charles Coventry, 52, Zimbabwean cricket umpire.
• Cornelius Elanjikal, 92, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Verapoly.
• Eddie Gibbins, 85, English footballer.
• Marshall Grant, 83, American double bassist.
• F. M. Hardacre, 96, American academic and college football coach.
• Mark Hatfield, 89, American politician, Governor of Oregon and U.S. Senator.
• Harri Holkeri, 74, Finnish politician, Prime Minister, after long illness.
• Paul Meier, 87, American mathematician, complications from a stroke.
• George Naghi, 59, Romanian businessman, founder of Aldis SRL, boating accident.
• Tom Radney, 79, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate, after long illness.
• Jiří Traxler, 99, Czech-born Canadian jazz pianist.
• Nancy Wake, 98, New Zealand-born Australian French Resistance leader, chest infection.
• Charles Wyly, 77, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Michaels Stores, automobile accident.
• Joe Yamanaka, 64, Japanese rock singer, lung cancer.

  8

• Neal Abberley, 67, English cricketer, heart and lung condition.
• Ray Anderson, 77, American entrepreneur, cancer.
• Mike Barrett, 67, American Olympic and professional basketball player.
• Ruth Brinker, 89, American AIDS and nutrition activist, founder of Project Open Hand, vascular dementia.
• Royal Copeland, 86, Canadian football player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Cem Erman, 64, Turkish actor and composer.
• Fred Ingaldson, 78, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
• Kurt Johansson, 97, Swedish Olympic sport shooter.
• Anastasios Peponis, 87, Greek politician and author, heart problems.
• Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada, 89, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ayacucho/Huamanga.
• Hind Rostom, 81, Egyptian actress, heart attack.
• Jiřina Švorcová, 83, Czech actress and pro-Communist activist.
• Chandrashekhar Vijay, 77, Indian Jain Monk.
• Harry H. Wellington, 84, American lawyer, Dean of Yale Law School and New York Law School, brain tumor.
• Guillermo Zarur, 79, Mexican actor, complications of kidney and heart disease.

  9

• Wendy Babcock, 32, Canadian advocate for the rights of prostitutes, suspected suicide.
• Roberto Busa, 97, Italian Jesuit priest, pioneer in Digital Humanities.
• Adolphe-Maria Gustave Hardy, 91, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beauvais.
• Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, 85, Japanese Olympic swimmer, heart failure.
• Jimmy Harris, 76, American football player, natural causes.
• Kolapo Ishola, 77, Nigerian politician, Governor of Oyo State.
• Eleanor Josaitis, 79, American activist, co-founder of Focus: HOPE, peritoneal cancer.
• Julian Kenny, 81, Trinidadian zoologist, environmentalist and politician, Senator.
• Mimi Lee, 91, American chemist, First Lady of Maryland, heart failure.
• Werner W. Wallroth, 81, German film director.

  10

• P. C. Alexander, 90, Indian politician, Governor of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Goa.
• Moraíto Chico II, 54, Spanish musician, cancer.
• Arnaud Desjardins, 86, French philosopher.
• Norton Fredrick, 73, Sri Lankan cricketer, illness.
• Billy Grammer, 85, American country singer.
• Selwyn Griffith, 83, Welsh poet.
• Oldřich Machač, 65, Czech Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning ice hockey player, heart failure.
• Babak Masoumi, 39, Iranian futsal player and coach, blood cancer.
• Lilia Michel, 85, Mexican actress.
• Mark Sinyangwe, 31, Zambian footballer.

  11

• Agustín Romualdo Álvarez Rodríguez, 88, Spanish-born Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Machiques.
• V. R. Athavale, 92, Indian singer.
• Robert Breer, 84, American experimental filmmaker.
• Don Chandler, 76, American football player.
• George Devol, 99, American inventor, creator of Unimate, the first industrial robot.
• Ignacio Flores, 58, Mexican football player, shot.
• Mateo Flores, 89, Guatemalan Olympic athlete.
• Noach Flug, 86, Polish-born Israeli economist, advocate for rights of Holocaust survivors.
• Richard Floyd, 80, American politician and lawmaker.
• Clair George, 81, American CIA officer, cardiac arrest.
• David Holbrook, 88, English writer and academic.
• Jani Lane, 47, American musician, acute alcohol poisoning.
• Scott LeDoux, 62, American boxer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Karen Overington, 59, Australian politician, Victorian MLA for Ballarat West.
• Bob Shamansky, 84, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio.
• Johann Traxler, 52, Austrian Olympic cyclist.
• Joe Trimble, 80, American baseball player.
• Paul Wilkinson, 74, British academic, expert on the study of terrorism.
• Bob Will, 80, American baseball player.

  12

• Patricia Acioli, 47, Brazilian judge and feminist, shot.
• Austin-Emile Burke, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Halifax.
• Ernie Johnson, 87, American baseball player and broadcaster.
• Karl Kittsteiner, 91, German cyclist and National Champion.
• Charles P. Murray Jr., 89, American Army colonel, Medal of Honor recipient, heart failure.
• Robert Robinson, 83, English radio and television presenter.
• Francisco Solano López, 83, Argentine comics artist, complications from a stroke.
• Pierpaolo Spangaro, 69, Italian Olympic swimmer.