Deaths in August 2012

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

  August 2012

1

• Ülkü Adatepe, 79, Turkish adoptee, adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, traffic collision.
• Shehzad Ahmed, 80, Pakistani Urdu poet.
• Archie Baxter, 90, Australian footballer.
• Joan Bernard, 94, British academic, first Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham.
• Dorothy D'Anna, 94, American actress.
• Sami Damian, 82, Romanian-born Jewish literary critic and essayist.
• Don Erickson, 80, American baseball player.
• David Eyton-Jones, 88, British Army officer.
• Liselotte Funcke, 94, German politician.
• Aldo Maldera, 58, Italian footballer.
• Riccardo Ruotolo, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo.
• Abel Salinas, 82, Peruvian politician.
• Douglas Townsend, 90, American composer and musicologist.
• Barry Trapnell, 88, English cricketer and headmaster.
• Keiko Tsushima, 86, Japanese actress, stomach cancer.
• Gustavo Vassallo, 92, Argentine fencer.

  2

• Thor Axelsson, 91, Finnish sprint canoer.
• Alistair Bell, 82, British judge and politician.
• Jacques Caufrier, 70, Belgian Olympic water polo player.
• Ruy de Freitas, 95, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning basketball player, multiple organ failure.
• Felix De Smedt, 88, Belgian pioneer judo teacher.
• Amos Hakham, 91, Israeli Bible scholar, first winner of the International Bible Contest.
• Sir Gabriel Horn, 85, British biologist.
• Magnus Isacsson, 64, Canadian documentary filmmaker, cancer.
• Jimmy Jones, 82, American pop singer.
• Sir John Keegan, 78, British military historian and journalist.
• Giovanni Lucchi, 69, Italian bow maker.
• Jacques Marty, 72, French Olympic boxer.
• Bernd Meier, 40, German footballer, heart attack.
• Jean Merrill, 89, American children's author, cancer.
• Marguerite Piazza, 90, American singer, heart failure.
• Cesare Pinarello, 79, Italian Olympic dual bronze medallist racing cyclist.
• Gilbert Prouteau, 95, French poet and film director.
• William Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden, 82, British peer, cancer.
• Jacques-Raymond Tremblay, 88, Canadian politician.
• Mihaela Ursuleasa, 33, Romanian pianist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Herman van Ham, 81, Dutch head chef.

  3

• Jan Muhammad Baloch, 60, Pakistani Olympic boxer.
• John Berry, 67, English speedway promoter and national team manager.
• Garth Burkett, 85, Australian football player.
• Fernando Cavaleiro, 95, Portuguese Olympic equestrian.
• Chang Do-yong, 89, South Korean general, politician and professor, dementia.
• Al Conway, 82, American football player and official.
• Frank Evans, 90, American Negro league baseball player.
• Martin Fleischmann, 85, Czech-born British chemist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Giorgi Gomiashvili, 39, Georgian business executive and diplomat, suicide by gunshot.
• Paul McCracken, 96, American economist, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
• John Pritchard, 85, American basketball player.
• George Shanard, 86, American politician and agribusinessman.

  4

• István Andrássy, 85, Hungarian nematologist.
• Johnnie Bassett, 76, American blues musician, cancer.
• Josy Braun, 74, Luxembourgish writer, journalist and translator.
• Abdul Matin Chowdhury, 78, Bangladeshi politician, old age complications.
• Giuseppe Coco, 76, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
• Brian Crozier, 94, British author and journalist.
• Metin Erksan, 83, Turkish film director, renal failure.
• Hanley Funderburk, 81, American academic administrator, President of Auburn University.
• Con Houlihan, 86, Irish sports journalist.
• John J. Phelan Jr., 81, American financier and chief executive.
• Bud Riley, 86, American CFL coach.
• Arnie Risen, 87, American Hall of Fame basketball player, complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer.
• Henry Scholberg, 91, American bibliographer.
• Jimmy Thomson, 75, Scottish footballer.

  5

• Erwin Axer, 95, Polish theatre director.
• Michel Daerden, 62, Belgian politician, heart attack.
• Benjamin W. Heineman, 98, American railroad executive.
• Fred Matua, 28, American football player, heart failure.
• Martin E. Segal, 96, Russian-born American entrepreneur.
• Sister Boom Boom, 57, American gay rights activist, member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, liver cancer.
• Kirk Urso, 22, American soccer player, heart failure.
• Chavela Vargas, 93, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter, respiratory arrest.
• Roland Charles Wagner, 51, French author, traffic collision.
• Péter Zwack, 85, Hungarian businessman, philanthropist, diplomat and U.S. ambassador.
• Manie van Zyl, 83, South African Olympic wrestler.

  6

• Míne Bean Uí Chribín, 84, Irish conservative campaigner.
• Celso Blues Boy, 56, Brazilian singer and guitarist, laryngeal cancer.
• Valentin Chernykh, 77, Russian screenwriter.
• Douglas Alan Clark, 95, American pilot.
• Richard Cragun, 67, American ballet dancer, heart attack.
• Marvin Hamlisch, 68, American composer and arranger, EGOT winner, lung failure.
• Robert Hughes, 74, Australian art critic and writer.
• Gerry Kearby, 65, American businessman, traffic collision.
• Sir Bernard Lovell, 98, British astronomer.
• Mark O'Donnell, 58, American playwright and author, respiratory arrest.
• Boris Razinsky, 79, Russian football player.
• Ruggiero Ricci, 94, American violinist, heart failure.
• Dan Roundfield, 59, American basketball player, drowning.
• Shunpei Ueyama, 91, Japanese philosopher.
• Frits Vandenboer, 78, Belgian footballer.
• Eleftherios Veryvakis, 77, Greek politician.
• Gregor W. Yeates, 68, New Zealand soil zoologist and ecologist.

  7

• Murtuz Alasgarov, 83, Azerbaijani politician, Speaker of the National Assembly.
• Fritzi Jane Courtney, 89, American actress.
• George Crawford, 86, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Jika Jika.
• Judith Crist, 90, American film critic.
• Luc de Heusch, 85, Belgian filmmaker and academic.
• Sabahattin Kalender, 93, Turkish composer.
• Vladimir Kobzev, 52, Russian football player and coach, stroke.
• Donald C. Paup, 73, American badminton player and academic.
• Anna Piaggi, 81, Italian fashion writer.
• Ranking Trevor, 60, Jamaican reggae musician, traffic collision.
• Veljko Rogošić, 71, Croatian Olympic long-distance swimmer.
• Hans Hammond Rossbach, 80, Norwegian politician.
• Samala Sadasiva, 84, Indian writer.
• Sir John Joseph Swaine, 80, Hong Kong politician and barrister, President of the Legislative Council.
• Marvin Lee Wilson, 54, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Mayer Zald, 81, American sociologist.
• Dušan Zbavitel, 87, Czech Indologist.

  8

• Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, 86, German-born American physicist.
• Japie Basson, 94, South African politician.
• Hans Camenzind, 78, Swiss electronics engineer.
• Aung Shwe Prue Chowdhury, 98, Bangladeshi politician.
• Lou Costello, 76, English footballer.
• András Domahidy, 92, Hungarian-Australian novelist and librarian.
• Ruth Etchells, 81, English poet and college principal.
• Sancho Gracia, 75, Spanish actor, lung cancer.
• Azizul Haque, 93, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.
• Georgios Katsifaras, 77, Greek politician.
• Surya Lesmana, 68, Indonesian football player and manager, heart attack.
• Kurt Maetzig, 101, German film director.

  9

• José Aruego, 80, Filipino children's book author and illustrator.
• Harry G. Barnes Jr., 86, American diplomat.
• Ralph W. Beiting, 88, American priest.
• Max Bound, 87, Australian environmental activist and trade unionist.
• Gerard J. Campbell, 92, American Jesuit and academic, President of Georgetown University.
• Carnegie, 21, British-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, euthanized.
• Paule Castaing, 101, French chef.
• Ananda Dassanayake, 92, Sri Lankan politician.
• Carl Davis, 77, American record producer, lung disease.
• Tom Dockrell, 88, American ice hockey player and coach.
• Pyotr Fomenko, 80, Soviet and Russian film and theater director, teacher, and artistic director.
• Gene F. Franklin, 85, American control theorist, professor emeritus of electrical engineering.
• Al Freeman Jr., 78, American actor and professor.
• Dale Olson, 78, American publicist, cancer.
• David Rakoff, 47, Canadian-born American writer and actor, cancer.
• Hjalte Rasmussen, 71, Danish academic.
• Carmen Belén Richardson, 81, Puerto Rican actress and comedian.
• Jan Sawka, 65, Polish-born American artist and architect, heart attack.
• Mel Stuart, 83, American film director, cancer.
• Erol Togay, 62, Turkish footballer.

  10

• James Lloyd Abbot Jr., 94, American U.S. Navy rear admiral.
• Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar, 72, Jordanian academic.
• Altay Sarsenuly Amanzholov, 78, Kazakh Turkologist.
• Art Andrew, 81, United States Virgin Islands Olympic sailor.
• William G. Bade, 88, American mathematician.
• Robert C. Becklin, 86, American businessman and politician.
• Billy Bootle, 86, English footballer.
• Philippe Bugalski, 49, French rally driver, injuries from fall.
• Suresh Dalal, 79, Indian poet and writer in Gujarati language, heart attack.
• Amjad Hameed Khan Dasti, 94, Pakistani politician.
• Ioan Dicezare, 95, Romanian WWII fighter pilot ace.
• Joe Douse, 82, American Negro League baseball player.
• Irving Fein, 101, American film and television producer, manager of Jack Benny and George Burns.
• Madeleine Leininger, 87, American nursing theorist.
• William W. Momyer, 95, American air force general, heart ailment.
• Carlo Rambaldi, 86, Italian special effects artist, Oscar winner.