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Deaths in 2011
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:...

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Deaths in December 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2010.-31:...

 - January
Deaths in January 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2011.-31:...

- February
Deaths in February 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2011.-28:*Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author and radio personality....

 - March
Deaths in March 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2011.-31:...

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Deaths in April 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2011.-30:...

 - May
Deaths in May 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2011.-31:*Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player....

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Deaths in June 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2011.-30:...

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Deaths in July 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2011.-31:...

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Deaths in September 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2011.-30:...

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Deaths in October 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2011.-31:...

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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2011.

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  • Ayala Zacks Abramov, 99, Israeli art patron. http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=236084
  • John Bancroft
    John Bancroft (architect)
    John Bancroft was a British architect noted for his Brutalist designs for the Greater London Council.He joined the Architects’ Department of the GLC in 1957 and led the project to build Pimlico School from 1964 to 1970....

    , 82, British architect. http://m.bdonline.co.uk/news/john-bancroft-(1928-2011)/5024108.article
  • David "Honeyboy" Edwards, 96, American blues guitarist and singer, heart failure. http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/music/7352665-421/chicago-blues-great-honeyboy-edwards-dies-at-95.html
  • Khamis Gaddafi, 28, Libyan seventh son of Muammar Gaddafi
    Muammar Gaddafi
    Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Gaddafi or "September 1942" 20 October 2011), commonly known as Muammar Gaddafi or Colonel Gaddafi, was the official ruler of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then the "Brother Leader" of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011.He seized power in a...

    , commander of the Khamis Brigade
    Khamis Brigade
    The Khamis Brigade, formally the 32nd Reinforced Brigade of the Armed People, was a special forces brigade of the Libyan military loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, the de-facto leader of Libya since 1969...

    , airstrike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thURLSzjiIE (Arabic)
  • R. B. McDowell
    R. B. McDowell
    Robert Brendan McDowell MA, PhD, Litt.D, LLD, MRIA, FTCD, was an Irish historian. He was a Fellow Emeritus and a former Associate Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin. He was born in Belfast...

    , 97, Irish historian. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0831/1224303237246.html
  • Mark Ovendale, 37, English footballer (Luton Town
    Luton Town F.C.
    Luton Town Football Club is an English professional football club based since 1905 at Kenilworth Road, Luton, Bedfordshire. The club currently competes in the fifth tier of English football, the Conference National, for the third consecutive season during the 2011–12 season.Formed in 1885, it was...

    , Bournemouth
    A.F.C. Bournemouth
    A.F.C. Bournemouth is an English football club currently playing in Football League One. The club plays at Dean Court in Kings Park, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset and have been in existence since 1899....

    ), cancer. http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/9221636.Cherries__Ovendale_loses_cancer_battle/
  • David P. Reynolds
    David P. Reynolds
    David P. Reynolds was Chairman emeritus of Reynolds Metals Co. and an owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses. He is the son of Richard S. Reynolds, Sr...

    , 96, American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse breeder. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/business/david-reynolds-leader-of-metals-company-dies-at-96.html
  • Abdullah Senussi
    Abdullah Senussi
    Abdullah Senussi is a Libyan national who was the intelligence chief and brother-in-law of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. He was married to Gaddafi's sister-in-law....

    , 61/62, Libyan brother-in-law of Muammar Gaddafi, airstrike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thURLSzjiIE (Arabic)
  • Junpei Takiguchi
    Junpei Takiguchi
    , better known by the stage name , was a Japanese voice actor and narrator from Chiba Prefecture.Besides his many narration and dubbing roles, he was also known for his roles in Time Bokan , Yatterman , Mazinger Z , Tekkaman: The Space Knight and for his narration roles in Burari Tochūgesha no...

    , 80, Japanese voice actor and narrator (Dragon Ball
    Dragon Ball
    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama. It was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995; later the 519 individual chapters were published into 42 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. Dragon Ball was inspired by the classical Chinese novel Journey to the...

    , Yatterman
    Yatterman
    is a Japanese anime television series broadcast from January 1, 1977 to January 27, 1979, comprising 108 episodes. It is the second and longest show in the Time Bokan series by Tatsunoko Productions...

    , Mazinger Z
    Mazinger Z
    , known briefly as Tranzor Z in United States, is a Super Robot manga and anime series created by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later continued in Kodansha TV Magazine from October 1973 to September 1974. In...

    ), stomach cancer. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-08-29/voice-actor/narrator-junpei-takiguchi-passes-away

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  • Billy Drake
    Billy Drake
    Group Captain Billy Drake DSO, DFC & Bar was a British air ace. He scored 20 enemy aircraft confirmed destroyed, six probable and nine damaged with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War...

    , 93, British fighter pilot. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/8729626/Group-Captain-Billy-Drake.html
  • Bernie Gallacher
    Bernie Gallacher
    Bernard "Bernie" Gallacher was a professional footballer who played predominantly at left-back.-Career:Born in Johnstone, Scotland, Gallacher joined Aston Villa as a 16-year-old apprentice on leaving school in 1983...

    , 44, British footballer (Aston Villa). http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~2435896,00.html
  • Bruno Gamberini
    Bruno Gamberini
    Bruno Gamberini was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Campinas, Brazil....

    , 61, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Campinas
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Campinas
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Campinas is an archdiocese located in the city of Campinas in Brazil.-History:* June 7, 1908: Established as Diocese of Campinas from the Diocese of São Paulo...

     (since 2004). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgambe.html
  • Len Ganley
    Len Ganley
    Len Ganley MBE was a Northern Irish snooker referee. He visited England in 1971 to spend a ten-day holiday with his sister in Burton-upon-Trent, and remained in England....

    , 68, Northern Irish snooker referee. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/snooker/14704328.stm
  • George Green
    George Green (songwriter)
    George Michael Green was an American songwriter. His compositions included the Top 10 Billboard hits "Crumblin' Down" and "Hurts So Good" , as well as another Canadian Number 1 hit in "Key West Intermezzo ".- Biography :Green was John Mellencamp's long-time writing...

    , 59, American songwriter ("Hurts So Good
    Hurts So Good
    "Hurts So Good" is a song from 1982 by the American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, then performing as John Cougar. The song was a number two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for the singer. It was the first of three major hit singles from his 1982 album American Fool...

    ", "Crumblin' Down
    Crumblin' Down
    "Crumblin' Down" is a rock song co-written and performed by John Cougar Mellencamp, released as the lead single from his 1983 album Uh-Huh. It was a top-ten hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Mainstream Rock charts.- Details :...

    "), lung cancer. http://www.newswest9.com/story/15367047/mellencamp-songwriter-george-green-dies-at-59
  • Leonard Harris
    Leonard Harris (actor)
    Leonard Harris was an American critic, author, and actor. He played Senator Charles Palantine in the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver and the mayor in Hero at Large....

    , 81, American actor, arts and theater critic (WCBS-TV
    WCBS-TV
    WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building, both in Midtown Manhattan....

    ), complications of pneumonia. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/arts/television/leonard-harris-tv-critic-with-star-turn-dies-at-81.html
  • Leonidas Kyrkos
    Leonidas Kyrkos
    Leonidas Kyrkos was a Greek leftist politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament.-Life:...

    , 87, Greek politician, after short illness. http://news.in.gr/greece/article/?aid=1231125474 (Greek)
  • Dmitri Royster, 87, American hierarch (Orthodox Church in America
    Orthodox Church in America
    The Orthodox Church in America is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in North America. Its primate is Metropolitan Jonah , who was elected on November 12, 2008, and was formally installed on December 28, 2008...

    ), Archbishop of the Diocese of the South
    Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the South
    The Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the South is a diocese of the Orthodox Church in America . Its territory includes parishes, monasteries, and missions located in fourteen states in the Southern and Southwestern United States – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana,...

     (1978–2009). http://oca.org/news/headline-news/the-repose-of-his-eminence-archbishop-dmitri
  • Tony Sale, 80, British computer scientist. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14720180

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  • A. A. Birch, Jr.
    A. A. Birch, Jr.
    Adolpho A. Birch, Jr. was an American lawyer and judge who was the first African American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.-Early life:...

    , 78, American lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court
    Tennessee Supreme Court
    The Tennessee Supreme Court is the state supreme court of the state of Tennessee. Cornelia Clark is the current Chief Justice.Unlike other states, in which the state attorney general is directly elected or appointed by the governor or state legislature, the Tennessee Supreme Court appoints the...

    . http://www.tntribune.com/?p=131
  • Donna Christanello
    Donna Christanello
    Mary Alfonsi , better known by her ring name Donna Christanello , was a professional wrestler trained by The Fabulous Moolah...

    , 69, American professional wrestler, heart attack. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2011/08/29/18613276.html
  • Jyles Coggins
    Jyles Coggins
    Jyles Jackson Coggins was an American politician who served in the North Carolina General Assembly as a state representative and senator. He was elected as the 31st Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina in 1975, serving one, two-year term...

    , 90, American politician, Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina
    Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina
    The mayor of Raleigh is the mayor of Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina, in the United States. Raleigh operates with council-manager government, under which the mayor is elected separately from Raleigh City Council, of which he is the eighth member....

     (1975–1977). http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/08/27/1439507/former-raleigh-mayor-coggins-dies.html
  • Lazar Mojsov
    Lazar Mojsov
    Dr. Lazar Mojsov was a Macedonian journalist, politician and diplomat from SFR Yugoslavia.Mojsov received his doctoral degree from the University of Belgrade's Law School. He fought for the anti-fascist partisans in World War II and continued to rise through the ranks of the Communist Party after...

    , 90, Macedonian politician, President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1987–1988). http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/naslovna/aktuelno.69.html:342801-Sahranjen-Lazar-Mojsov (Serbian)
  • Eugene Nida
    Eugene Nida
    Eugene A. Nida was the developer of the dynamic-equivalence Bible-translation theory.- Life :Nida was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on November 11, 1914...

    , 96, American linguist and bible translator. http://www.unitedbiblesocieties.org/news/794-eugene-nida-dies/
  • Ruth Thomas
    Ruth Thomas (children's writer)
    Ruth Thomas was a children's fiction author. Her debut book The Runaways won the 1988 Guardian Children's Fiction Award....

    , 84, British writer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/23/ruth-thomas

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  • Frank DiLeo
    Frank DiLeo
    Frank Michael DiLeo was an American music industry executive and actor, known for his portrayal of gangster Tuddy Cicero in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas. For five years in the late 1980s, and again in 2009, he was Michael Jackson's manager.-Career:Frank DiLeo graduated from Central Catholic High...

    , 63, American music industry executive and actor (Goodfellas
    Goodfellas
    Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese...

    , Wayne's World
    Wayne's World (film)
    Wayne's World is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris and starring Mike Myers in his film debut as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar, hosts of the Aurora, Illinois-based Public-access television cable TV show Wayne's World...

    ), heart complications. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/arts/music/frank-dileo-michael-jacksons-manager-dies-at-63.html
  • Esther Gordy Edwards
    Esther Gordy Edwards
    Esther Gordy Edwards was a staff member and associate of her younger brother Berry Gordy's fabled Motown label during the 1960s. Edwards created the Motown Museum, Hitsville U.S.A., by preserving the label's Detroit studio. She also served as President of the Motown Museum.-Biography:Esther Gordy...

    , 91, American Motown executive, creator of Hitsville U.S.A.
    Hitsville U.S.A.
    "Hitsville U.S.A." is the nickname given to Motown's first headquarters. A former photographers' studio located at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan, it was purchased by Motown founder Berry Gordy in 1959 and converted into both the record label's administrative building and recording...

    . http://www.detnews.com/article/20110825/OBITUARIES/108250447/Motown-leader--museum-founder-Esther-Gordy-Edwards-dies-at-91
  • Seyhan Erözçelik
    Seyhan Erözçelik
    Seyhan Erözçelik was a Turkish poet.-Biography:He was born in 1962 in Bartın, Turkey, a town in the Black Sea region. He studied psychology at Boğazici University and Oriental languages at Istanbul University. In 1986, he co-founded the Siir Ati publishing house, which published over forty titles...

    , 49, Turkish poet. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/08/seyhan-erozcelik-1962-2011/
  • Mike Flanagan, 59, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles
    Baltimore Orioles
    The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...

    , Toronto Blue Jays
    Toronto Blue Jays
    The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....

    ), suicide by gunshot. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110824&content_id=23719698&vkey=news_bal&c_id=bal
  • Jenő Gerbovits
    Jenő Gerbovits
    Jenő Gerbovits was a Hungarian politician and member of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1990 and 1994. He served as Minister without portfolio for Compensation in the cabinet of József Antall. He was a member of the Independent Smallholders, Agrarian Workers and Civic Party.Gerbovits died...

    , 86, Hungarian politician, minister without portfolio
    Minister without Portfolio
    A minister without portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister that does not head a particular ministry...

     (1990–1991), tractor accident. http://index.hu/belfold/2011/08/24/traktorbalesetben_elhunyt_gerbovits_jeno_volt_tarca_nelkuli_miniszter/ (Hungarian)
  • Paul Harney
    Paul Harney
    Paul Harney was an American professional golfer and golf course owner who spent part of his career as a full-time PGA Tour player, but mostly was a club professional, part-time Tour player, and owner-operator of his own course....

    , 82, American golfer. http://www.pgatour.com/2011/r/08/25/harney/index.html
  • Jack Hayes
    Jack Hayes
    Jack J. Hayes was an American composer and orchestrator.He was twice nominated for an Academy Award, for The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 1964 and for The Color Purple in 1985....

    , 92, American composer and orchestrator (The Color Purple
    The Color Purple (film)
    The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director , and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous...

    , The Unsinkable Molly Brown), natural causes. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118041892?categoryid=13&cs=1&cmpid=RSS|News|FilmNews
  • Clemente Isnard
    Clemente Isnard
    Clemente José Carlos de Gouvea Isnard, O.S.B. was a Brazilian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.Isnard was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1917 and was ordained a priest on December 19, 1942 of the Order of Saint Benedict. He was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Nova Friburgo on April 23,...

    , 94, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nova Friburgo
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Nova Friburgo
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nova Friburgo is a diocese located in the city of Nova Friburgo in the Ecclesiastical province of Niterói in Brazil....

     (1960–1992). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bisnard.html
  • George Knight
    George Knight (footballer)
    George Knight was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward.Despite being on the books at Burnley for nine years, he played just nine league games as his career was interrupted by the Second World War.George played for Burnley's first team at the age of 17 but wartime and...

    , 90, British footballer. http://www.burnleycitizen.co.uk/news/9242412.Burnley___s_last_pre_war_player_laid_to_rest/
  • Joyce McDougall
    Joyce McDougall
    Joyce McDougall was a New Zealand-French psychoanalyst.McDougall wrote four major books in the field of psychoanalysis: Plea for a Measure of Abnormality , In Theatre of the Mind: Illusion and Truth On the Psychoanalytical Stage , Theatre of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic...

    , 91, New Zealand-French psychoanalyst. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/oct/24/joyce-mcdougall-obituary?newsfeed=true
  • Graeme Moody
    Graeme Moody
    Graeme Moody was a New Zealand sports broadcaster. He worked for the Newstalk ZB and Radio Sport networks for 35 years covering a range of major events, including the Olympic Games, rugby world cups, Commonwealth Games and America's Cup yachting...

    , 60, New Zealand sports broadcaster, drowned. http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/5503262/Broadcaster-Graeme-Moody-dies-in-surfing-accident
  • Alfons Van Brandt
    Alfons Van Brandt
    Alfons Van Brandt , nicknamed Fons, was a Belgian football player who won the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1955 while at Lierse....

    , 84, Belgian footballer. http://www.sporza.be/permalink/1.1095344 (Dutch)

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  • Atiyah Abd al-Rahman
    Atiyah Abd al-Rahman
    Atiyah Abd Al Rahman was reported by the US State Department to be a senior member of al-Qaeda and a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and Ansar al-Sunna...

    , 40, Libyan-born Afghan Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...

     leader. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/27/al-qaida-two-killed-pakistan
  • Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
    Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani
    Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani was a Yemeni politician who served as Prime Minister of Yemen from 1994 to 1997, under President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Ghani was a member of the General People's Congress party....

    , 72, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Yemen
    The Prime Minister of the Republic of Yemen is the head of government in that country. The current Prime Minister, Ali Muhammad Mujawar, has held the position since 7 April 2007. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President...

     (1994–1997). http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/22/yemen-death-idUSL5E7JM1RX20110822
  • Ray Abruzzese
    Ray Abruzzese
    Raymond Lewis Abruzzese, Jr. , was an American college and professional football player.Abruzzese was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

    , 73, American football player (Buffalo Bills
    Buffalo Bills
    The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , New York Jets
    New York Jets
    The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ). http://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1242793&fh_id=13599
  • Nickolas Ashford, 70, American R&B singer (Ashford & Simpson
    Ashford & Simpson
    Nickolas Ashford , and Valerie Simpson , were a husband and wife songwriting/production team and recording artists....

    ) and songwriter ("Ain't No Mountain High Enough
    Ain't No Mountain High Enough
    "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is an R&B/soul song written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson in 1966 for the Tamla Motown label. The composition was first successful as a 1967 hit single recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, becoming a hit again in 1970 when recorded by former Supremes...

    "), throat cancer. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-nick-ashford-20110824,0,1896038.story
  • Vicco von Bülow
    Vicco von Bülow
    Bernhard Victor Christoph Carl von Bülow , more commonly known under the pseudonym Loriot, was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer.He is most well known for his cartoons, the sketches from his 1976 television series...

    , 87, German cartoonist and actor. http://www.diogenes.ch/leser/aktuell/news/709 (German)
  • John Howard Davies
    John Howard Davies
    John Howard Davies was an English television director and producer and former child actor.Davies was born in Paddington, London, the son of the scriptwriter Jack Davies...

    , 72, English television producer and director (Fawlty Towers
    Fawlty Towers
    Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Twelve television program episodes were produced . The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom played major characters...

    , The Good Life), former child actor (Oliver Twist
    Oliver Twist (1948 film)
    Oliver Twist is the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following the success of his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dicken's 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony...

    ), cancer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8718897/John-Howard-Davies.html
  • Kamal el-Shennawi
    Kamal el-Shennawi
    Mohammed Kamal el-Shennawi was an Egyptian film and television actor, director and producer. Maternal uncle of Egyptian American actor Haythem Noor and Amr Youssri.- Filmography :...

    , 89, Egyptian actor. http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2011/08/rip-kamal-shennawi-1921-2011.html
  • Jesper Klein, 66, Danish actor, liver cancer. http://www.b.dk/nationalt/jesper-klein-er-doed (Danish)
  • Jack Layton
    Jack Layton
    John Gilbert "Jack" Layton, PC was a Canadian social democratic politician and the Leader of the Official Opposition. He was the leader of the New Democratic Party from 2003 to 2011, and previously sat on Toronto City Council, serving at times during that period as acting mayor and deputy mayor of...

    , 61, Canadian politician, Leader of the Official Opposition (2011) and New Democratic Party
    New Democratic Party
    The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

     (2003–2011), cancer. http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110822/ndp-leader-jacklayton-obit/
  • Jerry Leiber, 78, American songwriter ("Stand By Me
    Stand by Me (song)
    "Stand by Me" is the title of a song originally performed by Ben E. King and written by King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller, based on the spiritual "Lord Stand by Me,", plus two lines rooted in Psalms 46:2-3...

    ", "Hound Dog
    Hound Dog (song)
    "Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton in 1952. Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues, country, and rock and roll in the mid-1950s. The 1956 remake by Elvis Presley is the best-known...

    ", "Jailhouse Rock
    Jailhouse Rock (song)
    "Jailhouse Rock" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that first became a hit for Elvis Presley. The song was released as a 45rpm single on September 24, 1957, to coincide with the release of Presley's motion picture, Jailhouse Rock...

    ", "Kansas City"), cardiopulmonary failure. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/source-songwriter-jerry-leiber-dies-at-78-20110822
  • Samuel Menashe
    Samuel Menashe
    Samuel Menashe was an American poet. Born in New York City as Samuel Menashe Weisberg, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Menashe grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, and graduated from Townsend Harris High School and Queens College. During World War II he served in the US Army infantry, and in...

    , 85, American poet, natural causes. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/08/samuel-menashe.html
  • Žarko Nikolić
    Žarko Nikolic
    Žarko Nikolić was a Serbian footballer.-External links:*...

    , 74, Serbian footballer. http://sport.blic.rs/Fudbal/Domaci-fudbal/201989/Preminuo-kapiten-Vosine-sampionske-generacije-Zarko-Nikolic (Serbian)
  • Casey Ribicoff
    Casey Ribicoff
    Casey Ribicoff was an American philanthropist, socialite and the second wife and widow of United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and later United States Senator from Connecticut, Abraham Ribicoff...

    , 88, American socialite and philanthropist, lung cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/nyregion/casey-ribicoff-widow-of-senator-dies-at-88.html
  • Michael Showers, 45, American actor (Treme
    Treme (TV series)
    Treme is an American television drama series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer that premiered on April 11, 2010 on HBO. It takes its name from Tremé, a neighborhood of New Orleans...

    , Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad
    Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White , a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series...

    , The Vampire Diaries
    The Vampire Diaries
    The Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels written by L. J. Smith. The story centers around Elena Gilbert, a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers. The series was originally a trilogy published in 1991, but pressure from readers led Smith to write a fourth...

    ), drowned. http://www.avclub.com/articles/treme-actor-found-dead-in-the-mississippi-river,60928/
  • Thomas Syme, 83, British Olympic ice hockey player. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=thomas-w-syme&pid=153274018

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  • Reza Badiyi
    Reza Badiyi
    Reza Sayed Badiyi was an Iranian-American film director. Badiyi was well known for directing episodes of many popular television series...

    , 81, Iranian-born American television director (Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...

    , The Six Million Dollar Man
    The Six Million Dollar Man
    The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for the OSI...

    ). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-reza-badiyi-20110822,0,7589597.story
  • Ross Barbour
    Ross Barbour (singer)
    Ross Edwin "Ross" Barbour was an American singer with the vocal quartet The Four Freshmen.The Four Freshmen originated in early 1948 when brothers Ross and Don Barbour, then at Butler University's Arthur Jordan Conservatory in Indianapolis, Indiana, formed a barbershop quartet called Hal's...

    , 82, American singer, last founding member of The Four Freshmen
    The Four Freshmen
    The Four Freshmen is a multiple Grammy-nominated American male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmony jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires , The Pied Pipers , and The Mel-Tones , founded in the barbershop tradition...

    , lung cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/arts/music/ross-barbour-a-founding-freshman-dies-at-82.html
  • Fred Fay
    Fred Fay
    Frederick A. Fay was an early leader in the disability rights movement in the United States. Through a combination of direct advocacy, grassroots organizing among the various disability rights communities, building cross-disability coalitions between disparate disability organizations, and using...

    , 66, American leader in the disability rights movement
    Disability rights movement
    The disability rights movement is the movement to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for people with disabilities. The specific goals and demands of the movement are: accessibility and safety in transportation, architecture, and the physical environment, equal opportunities in independent...

    . http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/04/local/la-me-frederick-fay-20110904
  • Charles S. Gubser
    Charles S. Gubser
    Charles Samuel Gubser was a Republican U.S. Representative from California.Born in Gilroy, California, Gubser attended public schools. He graduated from San Jose State Junior College in 1934, the University of California in 1937, and then did two years of graduate work. He taught at Gilroy Union...

    , 95, American politician, U.S. Representative
    United States Congressional Delegations from California
    These are tables of congressional delegations from California in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:- Mid-term changes :-United States House of Representatives:...

     from California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

     (1953–1974). http://www.habingfamily.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1247976&fh_id=10480
  • Rafael Halperin
    Rafael Halperin
    Rafael Halperin was a prominent Israeli businessman and the author of several religious books and an encyclopedia. In the 1950s, he worked in the United States as a professional wrestler in Vince McMahon Sr.'s Capitol Wrestling in the 1950s...

    , 87, Israeli businessman and professional wrestler. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4111460,00.html
  • Patricia Hardy
    Patricia Hardy
    Patricia Hardy was an American television and film actress whose career was most active during the 1950s. She was the wife of actor Richard Egan.Hardy, who was originally from Brooklyn, New York, was of Irish descent...

    , 79, American actress, colon cancer. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/actress-patricia-hardy-dies-at-229496
  • Angelo Maria Rivato
    Angelo Maria Rivato
    Angelo Maria Rivato was the first Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponta de Pedras, Brazil....

    , 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ponta de Pedras
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponta de Pedras
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponta de Pedras is a diocese located in the city of Ponta de Pedras in the Ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará in Brazil.-History:...

     (1967–2002).http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brivato.html
  • Ram Sharan Sharma
    Ram Sharan Sharma
    Ram Sharan Sharma was an eminent historian of Ancient and early Medieval India. He had taught at Patna University, Delhi University and the University of Toronto and was a senior fellow at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; University Grants Commission National Fellow...

    , 91, Indian historian. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-08-21/india/29911647_1_rs-sharma-delhi-university-history-professor
  • Vernon Stratton
    Vernon Stratton
    Vernon Gordon Lennox Stratton was a British Olympic sailor.Stratton was educated at Eton College before doing National Service in the Army...

    , 83, British Olympic sailor. http://www.sail-world.com/Canada/Remembering-past-Olympian-Vernon-Stratton/87633

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  • Samir Chanda
    Samir Chanda
    Samir Chanda was an Indian art director and production designer across Indian cinema, including Hindi, Bengali and Tamil, most known for his work in films like Dil Se , Guru , Omkara , Rang De Basanti , and Raavan .He also directed a Bengali film, Ek Nadir Galpo starring Mithun...

    , 51, Indian art film director, cardiac arrest. http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/69926.html
  • Simon De Jong
    Simon De Jong
    Simon Leendert De Jong was a Canadian parliamentarian. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1979 federal election as an New Democratic Party Member of Parliament from Saskatchewan...

    , 69, Canadian politician, MP for Regina East
    Regina East
    Regina East was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1988.This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Humboldt—Melfort, Melville, Moose Jaw—Lake Centre, QuAppelle, Regina City and Yorkton ridings.It was abolished...

     (1979–1988) and Regina—Qu'Appelle
    Regina—Qu'Appelle
    Regina—Qu'Appelle is a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1968 and since 1988.-Geography:...

     (1988–1997), leukemia. http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/story.html?id=5290783
  • Bill Gray, 88, American football player (Washington Redskins
    Washington Redskins
    The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...

    ). http://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=william-robertson-gray&pid=153270485
  • Johnson
    Johnson (composer)
    Johnson was an Indian film score composer and music director who has given music to some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema, including those for Namukku Parkkan Munthiri Thoppukal, Oru Minnaminunginte Nurunguvettam, Vadakkunokkiyantram, Perumthachan, Amaram, Njan...

    , 58, Indian film music composer, cardiac arrest. http://expressbuzz.com/entertainment/malayalam/music-maestro-johnson-no-more/305552.html
  • Paul Lockyer
    Paul Lockyer
    Paul James Lockyer was an Australian television journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Nine Network who was known for his reporting on rural and regional Australia...

    , 61, Australian journalist, helicopter crash. http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/tvinsider/index.php/theaustralian/comments/three_abc_staff_mourned
  • Herb Pfuhl
    Herb Pfuhl
    Herbert "Herb" Pfuhl Jr. was an American politician and teacher. Pfuhl was the longest serving Mayor of Johnstown, Pennsylvania in history, serving six terms as head of the city from 1971 to 1977 and again from 1982 to his retirement in 1993.Pfuhl faced major challenges during his two decade long...

    , 83, American politician, longest-serving Mayor of Johnstown, Pennsylvania
    Johnstown, Pennsylvania
    Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, west-southwest of Altoona, Pennsylvania and east of Pittsburgh. The population was 20,978 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Cambria County...

     (1971–1977, 1982–1993). http://tribune-democrat.com/local/x2080078605/Former-mayor-Pfuhl-dies
  • Maurice M. Rapport
    Maurice M. Rapport
    Maurice M. Rapport was leading biochemist who described the structure of serotonin...

    , 91, American neuroscience biochemist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/03/health/03rapport.html
  • Scotty Robertson
    Scotty Robertson
    Robert Scott Robertson, III, known as Scotty Robertson , was an American basketball coach of four NBA teams. He was the first coach for the New Orleans Jazz , and he later coached the Chicago Bulls and the Detroit Pistons...

    , 81, American basketball coach (New Orleans Jazz
    Utah Jazz
    The Utah Jazz is a professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They are currently a part of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...

    , Chicago Bulls
    Chicago Bulls
    The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1966. They play their home games at the United Center...

    , Detroit Pistons
    Detroit Pistons
    The Detroit Pistons are a franchise of the National Basketball Association based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills. It was originally founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne Pistons as a member of the National Basketball League in 1941, where...

    ), cancer. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/2011-08-18-scotty-robertson-obit-jazz-bulls-lousiana-tech-pistons_n.htm
  • Jerome J. Shestack
    Jerome J. Shestack
    Jerome Joseph "Jerry" Shestack , was a Philadelphia lawyer and human rights advocate active in Democratic Party politics who served as president of the American Bar Association from 1997 to 1998...

    , 88, American human rights activist and attorney, President of American Bar Association
    American Bar Association
    The American Bar Association , founded August 21, 1878, is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation...

     (1997–1998). http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2011/08/19/statement-of-elisa-massimino-celebrating-the-life-of-human-rights-first-co-founder-jerry-shestack/
  • Jean Tabary
    Jean Tabary
    -Biography:Tabary was born in Stockholm and made his comics debut with Richard et Charlie published in the comics magazine Vaillant on November 5, 1956...

    , 81, French comic strip artist. http://www.leparisien.fr/loisirs-et-spectacles/jean-tabary-le-dessinateur-d-iznogoud-est-mort-19-08-2011-1571626.php (French)
  • Norm Willey
    Norm Willey
    Norman Earle "Norm" Willey was an American football defensive lineman in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles. He went to two Pro Bowls during his eight-year career and was credited with an unofficial 17 sacks in one game...

    , 83, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles
    Philadelphia Eagles
    The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ). http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110820/APS/1108200709

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  • Andrej Bajuk
    Andrej Bajuk
    Andrej Bajuk, also known in Spanish as Andrés Bajuk was a Slovene politician and economist. He served shortly as Prime Minister of Slovenia in the year 2000, and Minister of Economy in the centre right government of Janez Janša between 2004 and 2008...

    , 67, Slovenian politician and economist, Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Slovenia
    There have been six Prime Ministers of Slovenia since that country gained its independence in the breakup of Yugoslavia. Unlike the President of Slovenia, who is directly elected, the Prime Minister is appointed by the National Assembly, and must control a majority there in order to...

     (2000), stroke. http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=1665828
  • Mihri Belli
    Mihri Belli
    Mihri Belli was a prominent leader of the socialist movement in Turkey. He was legendary for having fought on the partisan side in the Greek Civil War....

    , 96, Turkish politician and writer, respiratory failure. http://www.bianet.org/bianet/siyaset/132155-mihri-belli-aramizdan-ayrildi (Turkish)
  • Creed Black
    Creed Black
    Creed Carter Black was an American newspaper executive and publisher of the Lexington Herald-Leader, where he published a series of articles on corruption in Kentucky's coal industry and the University of Kentucky's Wildcats men's basketball team...

    , 86, American newspaper publisher (Lexington Herald-Leader
    Lexington Herald-Leader
    The Lexington Herald-Leader is a newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company and based in the U.S. city of Lexington, Kentucky. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the Herald-Leaders paid circulation is the second largest in the Commonwealth of Kentucky...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/business/media/creed-c-black-newspaper-executive-dies-at-86.html?ref=obituaries
  • Huw Ceredig
    Huw Ceredig
    Huw Ceredig, born Huw Ceredig Jones was a Welsh television actor best known for playing Reg Harries in the Welsh soap opera, Pobol y Cwm.-Personal life:...

    , 69, Welsh actor. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14548635
  • Albert Facchiano
    Albert Facchiano
    Albert Joseph Facchiano , also known as "Chinkie" and "the Old Man", was a Miami mobster with the New York Genovese crime family who was involved in loansharking and extortion in South Florida...

    , 101, American mobster. http://www.tributes.com/show/92209944
  • Akiko Futaba
    Akiko Futaba
    was a Japanese popular music singer. As of the end of the World War II, she was one of the most popular female singers in Japan, competing with Hamako Watanabe and Noriko Awaya. In addition, she had taken part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen 10 times.She was born in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture and...

    , 96, Japanese ryūkōka
    Ryukoka
    - 1914–1927: Origin :In 1914, Sumako Matsui's song "Katyusha's song", composed by Shinpei Nakayama, was used as a theme of the rendition Resurrection in Japan. The record of the song sold 20,000 copies...

     singer. http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/110817/gnj1108170502005-n1.htm (Japanese)
  • Frank Munro
    Frank Munro
    Francis Michael "Frank" Munro was a Scottish international footballer who played as a centre back.Munro played for Dundee United and Aberdeen in his native Scotland before moving to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1968...

    , 63, Scottish footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
    Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
    Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club that represents the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region. They are members of the Premier League, the highest level of English football. The club was founded in 1877 and since 1889 has played at...

    ), heart attack. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/14559724.stm
  • Pete Pihos
    Pete Pihos
    Peter Louis Pihos was a professional American football player in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles. He was a high school junior when his mother moved the family to Chicago. His father was a murder victim, and when a suspect was acquitted, Pete decided to become a lawyer...

    , 87, American Hall of Fame
    Pro Football Hall of Fame
    The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...

     football player (Philadelphia Eagles
    Philadelphia Eagles
    The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ), Alzheimer's disease. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2011/08/hall-of-fame-wr-pete-pihos-passes-away/1
  • Ramesh Saxena
    Ramesh Saxena
    Ramesh Chand Saxena was an Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1967.-First-class Career:...

    , 66, Indian cricketer, brain haemorrhage. http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/527816.html
  • Bernard William Schmitt
    Bernard William Schmitt
    Bernard William Schmitt was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston from March 29, 1989 to December 9, 2004. Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, Schmitt was ordained to the priesthood on March 28, 1955 for the Wheeling Diocese...

    , 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the southern United States comprising the state of West Virginia. It is a conjoined diocese with two centers of worship, one day expected to be split into two separate...

     (1989–2004). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bschmitt.html
  • Aud Talle
    Aud Talle
    Aud Talle was a Norwegian social anthropologist.She graduated as mag.art. from the University of Oslo and as fil. dr. from Stockholm University. She was a research assistant at the University of Bergen from 1975 to 1977, lector at Stockholm University from 1990 to 1995 and professor at the...

    , 65, Norwegian social anthropologist. http://www.nai.uu.se/press/articles/2011/08/18/151328/index.xml

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  • Nenad Bijedić
    Nenad Bijedic
    Nenad Bijedić was a Bosnian and naturalized Turkish football manager and former player.-Club career:Bijedić arrived at Bursaspor at the age of 27...

    , 51, Bosnian football manager, cancer. http://www.ntvspor.net/haber/spor-toto-super-lig/46029/nejat-biyedici-kaybettik (Turkish)
  • Pap Dean
    Pap Dean
    Preston Allen Dean, Jr., known as Pap Dean was an American cartoonist who was employed from 1938 to 1979 as chief illustrator and editorial cartoonist for the Shreveport Times in Shreveport, the largest newspaper in North Louisiana...

    , 95, American political cartoonist. http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/preston_allen_dean_jr_1915_2011/
  • Colin Harvey
    Colin Harvey (writer)
    Colin Harvey was a British science fiction writer, editor, and reviewer who was born in Cornwall, England. Harvey died after having a stroke.-Novels:*Vengeance *Lightning Days...

    , 50, British science fiction writer and editor, stroke. http://angryrobotbooks.com/2011/08/colin-harvey-rip/
  • Michael Legat
    Michael Legat
    Michael Legat was a British writer of writers' guides and romance novels. He was an associate vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association...

    , 88, British author and publisher. http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=153254956
  • Peter Mair
    Peter Mair
    Peter Mair was an Irish political scientist. He was professor of Comparative Politics at the European University Institute in Florence.-Career:...

    , 60, Irish political scientist. http://notices.irishtimes.com/11028925
  • Solomon Mujuru
    Solomon Mujuru
    Solomon Mujuru, also known as Rex Nhongo was a Zimbabwean military officer and politician who led Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War. He was from the Zezuru clan. In post-independence Zimbabwe, he went on to become army chief before leaving government service in 1995...

    , 62, Zimbabwean military officer and politician, injuries from a fire. http://mg.co.za/article/2011-08-16-zimbabwes-general-solomon-mujuru-dies-in-fire
  • Hugo Perié
    Hugo Perié
    Hugo Perié was an Argentine politician and member of the legislature from the year 2003 until his death on the 15 August 2011. Perié died of lung disease aged 67. He was a member of the Front for Victory, and its former component, the Justicialist Party...

    , 67, Argentine politician, MP
    Argentine Chamber of Deputies
    The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Argentine National Congress. This Chamber holds exclusive rights to create taxes, to draft troops, and to accuse the President, the ministers and the members of the Supreme Court before the Senate....

     (since 2003), Montoneros
    Montoneros
    Montoneros was an Argentine Peronist urban guerrilla group, active during the 1960s and 1970s. The name is an allusion to 19th century Argentinian history. After Juan Perón's return from 18 years of exile and the 1973 Ezeiza massacre, which marked the definitive split between left and right-wing...

     militant, lung disease. http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultimas/20-174543-2011-08-15.html (Spanish)
  • Sif Ruud
    Sif Ruud
    Sif Ruud, born Sif Einarsdotter Ruud Fallde was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 140 films.-Selected filmography:* It Rains on Our Love * Port of Call * Thirst...

    , 95, Swedish actress. http://www.svd.se/kultur/sif-ruud-avliden_6392725.svd (Swedish)
  • Rick Rypien
    Rick Rypien
    Rick Joseph Rypien was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who spent parts of six seasons in the National Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks. After a major junior career of four years with the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League, he was signed by the minor professional Manitoba...

    , 27, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks
    Vancouver Canucks
    The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver, :British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Canucks play their home games at Rogers Arena, formerly known as General Motors Place,...

    ), suicide. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/hundreds-attend-funeral-for-nhler-rick-rypien/article2136233/
  • Tōru Shōriki
    Toru Shoriki
    was a Japanese businessman and the owner of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings. He was the eldest son of Matsutarō Shōriki.In 1942, he received his degree from the Faculty of Economics at Keio University....

    , 92, Japanese baseball team owner (Tokyo Giants
    Yomiuri Giants
    The are a professional baseball team based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The team competes in the Central League in Nippon Professional Baseball, the top level of professional play in Japan. They play their home games in the Tokyo Dome, opened in 1988. The English-language press occasionally calls the...

    ), sepsis. http://www.sponichi.co.jp/baseball/news/2011/08/15/kiji/K20110815001418090.html (Japanese)
  • Betty Thatcher
    Betty Thatcher
    Betty Thatcher was an English lyricist, who wrote most of the lyrics for the UK progressive rock band Renaissance.-Early life:...

    , 67, British lyricist (Renaissance
    Renaissance (band)
    Renaissance are an English progressive rock band, most notable for their 1978 UK top 10 hit "Northern Lights" and progressive rock classics like "Carpet of the Sun", "Mother Russia" and "Ashes Are Burning".-Original incarnation :...

    ), cancer. http://renaissancetouring.com/2011/08/betty-thatcher/

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  • Austin-Emile Burke
    Austin-Emile Burke
    Austin-Emile Burke was a Canadian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.Austin-Emile Burke was born in Sluice Point, Nova Scotia, ordained a priest on March 25, 1950. Burke was appointed bishop to the Diocese of Yarmouth on February 1, 1968 and ordained bishop May 14, 1968...

    , 89, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Halifax
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax is a Roman Catholic archdiocese that includes part of the Province of Nova Scotia and includes the suffragan dioceses of Antigonish, Charlottetown, and Yarmouth...

     (1991–1998).http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bburkea.html
  • Geertruida Draaisma
    Geertruida Draaisma
    Geertruida Draaisma was at the time of her death the oldest verified person in the Netherlands. She was born in Makkum, Netherlands, and died in Leeuwarden six months short of her 110th birthday, which would have made her a supercentenarian....

    , 109, Dutch centenarian, oldest verified person in the Netherlands. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2011/08/the_netherlands_oldest_residen_1.php
  • Ernie Johnson
    Ernie Johnson (pitcher)
    Ernest Thorwald Johnson was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 6'4", 195 lb. right-hander was signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent before the season. He played for the Boston Braves , Milwaukee Braves , and Baltimore Orioles .-Playing career:After serving three years in the U.S...

    , 87, American baseball player (Boston/Milwaukee Braves
    Atlanta Braves
    The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....

    , Baltimore Orioles
    Baltimore Orioles
    The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...

    ) and broadcaster (Atlanta Braves
    Atlanta Braves
    The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....

    ). http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-braves-blog/2011/08/12/legendary-braves-broadcaster-johnson-dies/
  • Charles P. Murray, Jr.
    Charles P. Murray, Jr.
    Charles Patrick Murray, Jr., was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.-Early life:...

    , 89, American Army colonel, Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor
    The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

     recipient, heart failure. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/12/idUS229779+12-Aug-2011+PRN20110812
  • Robert Robinson, 83, English radio and television presenter. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14514388
  • Francisco Solano López, 83, Argentine comics artist (El Eternauta
    El Eternauta
    El Eternauta is a science fiction comic created by Argentine comic strip writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld with artwork by Francisco Solano López. It was first published in Hora Cero Semanal from 1957 to 1959....

    ), complications from a stroke. http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultimas/20-174339-2011-08-12.html (Spanish)

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  • Agustín Romualdo Alvarez Rodríguez
    Agustín Romualdo Alvarez Rodríguez
    Agustín Romualdo Alvarez Rodríguez, O.F.M. Cap. was a Spanish bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.Agustín Romualdo Alvarez Rodríguez was born in Renedo de Valdetuéjar, Spain, and was ordained a priest on March 12, 1949 from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin...

    , 88, Spanish-born Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Machiques
    Machiques
    Machiques is a city in Zulia State, Venezuela, located in the northwest portion of the country. It is close to the border with Colombia, and the area's main economic activity is cattle raising.- Transport :...

     (1986–1995). http://revistaecclesia.com/content/view/28230/59
  • Don Chandler
    Don Chandler
    Donald Gene "Don" Chandler was an American college and professional football player who was a punter and placekicker in the National Football League for twelve seasons in the 1950s and 1960s...

    , 76, American football player (New York Giants
    New York Giants
    The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , Green Bay Packers
    Green Bay Packers
    The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...

    ). http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/article.aspx?subjectid=440&articleid=20110811_440_0_Tulsan186848
  • George Devol
    George Devol
    George Charles Devol, Jr. was an American inventor who was awarded the patent for Unimate, the first industrial robot. Devol's patent for the first digitally operated programmable robotic arm represented the foundation of the modern robotics industry.As an inventor he had over 40 patents and was...

    , 99, American inventor, creator of Unimate
    Unimate
    Unimate was the first industrial robot,which worked on a General Motors assembly line at the Inland Fisher Guide Plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey, in 1961.It was created by George Devol in the 1950s using his original patents...

    , the first industrial robot
    Industrial robot
    An industrial robot is defined by ISO as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/business/george-devol-developer-of-robot-arm-dies-at-99.html
  • Karen Drambjan
    Karen Drambjan
    Karen Drambjan was an Armenian-born Estonian lawyer and failed left-wing political candidate. He was shot dead in a firefight with the police in the Estonian Defense ministry building in Tallinn on 11 August 2011, after setting off several explosives.-Life:...

    , 57, Armenian-born Estonian activist, shot. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/08/11/uk-estonia-shooting-idUKTRE77A3AJ20110811
  • Ignacio Flores
    Ignacio Flores
    Ignacio Flores Ocaranza was a Mexican footballer who played at both professional and international levels, as a defender.-Career:Born in Mexico City, Flores spent his entire professional career with Cruz Azul....

    , 58, Mexican football player (Cruz Azul, national team
    Mexico national football team
    The Mexican national football team represents Mexico in association football and is governed by the Mexican Football Federation , the governing body for football in Mexico. Mexico's home stadium is the Estadio Azteca and their head coach is José Manuel de la Torre...

    ), shot. http://www.mediotiempo.com/futbol/mexico/noticias/2011/08/11/recibe-76-impactos-camioneta-de-nacho-flores (Spanish)
  • Mateo Flores
    Mateo Flores
    Mateo Flores, born Doroteo Guamuch Flores , was a Guatemalan long-distance runner who won several international events, including the Boston Marathon in 1952.-Career:...

    , 89, Guatemalan Olympic athlete. http://deportes.terra.com.co/mas-deportes/fallece-leyenda-del-atletismo-guatemalteco-mateo-flores,43dcf132fbab1310VgnVCM4000009bf154d0RCRD.html (Spanish)
  • Noah Flug
    Noah Flug
    Noah Flug was an Israeli economist, diplomat and advocate for the rights of Holocaust survivors.-Biography:Flug was born in Lodz, Poland. During the Second World War he was a resident of the Lodz ghetto, from which he was transferred in 1944 to Auschwitz...

    , 86, Polish-born Israeli economist, advocate for rights of Holocaust survivors. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/united-survivors-in-push-for-benefits-1.378230
  • Richard Floyd
    Richard Floyd
    Richard Edward Floyd was a California State Assemblyman from the 53rd District who served from 1980 until 1992, when he was defeated by Juanita Millender-McDonald, after he was reapportioned into the 55th District. He represented the 55th District again after McDonald was elected to Congress from...

    , 80, American politician and lawmaker. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-richard-floyd-20110814,0,6285825.story
  • Clair George
    Clair George
    Clair Elroy George was a widely respected veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine service who oversaw all global espionage activities for the agency in the mid-1980s...

    , 81, American CIA officer (Iran–Contra affair), cardiac arrest. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/clair-e-george-cia-officer-who-figured-in-iran-contra-scandal-dies-at-81/2011/08/12/gIQAADpzBJ_story.html
  • David Holbrook
    David Holbrook
    David Kenneth Holbrook was a British writer, poet and academic. From 1989 he was an Emeritus Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.-Life:...

    , 88, English writer and academic. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/sep/01/david-holbrook-obituary
  • Jani Lane
    Jani Lane
    Jani Lane , born John Kennedy Oswald, later changed to John Patrick Oswald, was an American recording artist and the lead vocalist, frontman, lyricist and main songwriter for the hard rock band Warrant....

    , 47, American musician (Warrant). http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=161881
  • Scott LeDoux
    Scott LeDoux
    Alan Scott LeDoux, "The Fighting Frenchman," was a politician, professional heavyweight boxer, professional wrestler and referee.-Boxing:...

    , 62, American boxer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/sports/scott-ledoux-gritty-heavyweight-boxing-contender-dies-at-62.html
  • Karen Overington
    Karen Overington
    Karen Marie Overington was an Australian politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2010, representing the electorate of Ballarat West....

    , 59, Australian politician, Victorian
    Parliament of Victoria
    The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of The Queen, represented by the Governor of Victoria; the Legislative Council ; and the Legislative Assembly...

     MLA
    Victorian Legislative Assembly
    The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria in Australia. Together with the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house, it sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Melbourne.-History:...

     for Ballarat West
    Electoral district of Ballarat West
    -See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly-External links:*...

     (1999–2010). http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-11/former-labor-mp-dies/2835266
  • Bob Shamansky
    Bob Shamansky
    Robert Norton Shamansky was an American Democratic politician and attorney from the state of Ohio. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives for a single term from 1981 until 1983.-Early Life:...

    , 84, American politician, U.S. Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from Ohio
    United States congressional delegations from Ohio
    These are complete tables of congressional delegations from Ohio to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-United States House of Representatives:-1803–1813: One seat:...

     (1981–1983). http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/08/14/robert-shamansky-obituary-lawyer-served-term-in-congress.html
  • Joe Trimble
    Joe Trimble
    Joseph Gerard Trimble was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in part of two seasons for the Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates...

    , 80, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox
    Boston Red Sox
    The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

    , Pittsburgh Pirates
    Pittsburgh Pirates
    The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...

    ).
  • Paul Wilkinson, 74, British academic, expert on the study of terrorism (University of St Andrews
    University of St Andrews
    The University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...

    ). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14503770
  • Bob Will
    Bob Will (baseball)
    Robert Lee Will was an American professional baseball player who played outfielder in the Major Leagues between and for the Chicago Cubs.Born in Berwyn, Illinois, Will threw and batted left-handed, stood tall and weighed...

    , 80, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs
    Chicago Cubs
    The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...

    ).

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  • Neal Abberley
    Neal Abberley
    Robert Neal Abberley was an English cricketer. A stalwart county player, he was a right-handed batsman and occasional right arm medium pace bowler...

    , 67, English cricketer, heart and lung condition. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/aug/08/neal-abberley-warwickshire-ian-bell
  • Ray Anderson
    Ray Anderson (entrepreneur)
    Ray C. Anderson was founder and chairman of Interface Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of modular carpet for commercial and residential applications and a leading producer of commercial broadloom and commercial fabrics...

    , 77, American entrepreneur, cancer. http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/08/09/ray-anderson-interface-chairman-and-sustainability-leader-dies-at-77/
  • Mike Barrett
    Mike Barrett (basketball player)
    Michael Thomas "Bird Man" Barrett was an American basketball player.He was reared in Richwood, West Virginia and attended Richwood High School....

    , 67, American Olympic and professional basketball player (Virginia Squires
    Virginia Squires
    The Virginia Squires were a basketball franchise in the former American Basketball Association from 1970 until just before the ABA-NBA merger in 1976.-In Oakland :...

    , San Diego Conquistadors
    San Diego Sails
    The San Diego Sails were an American Basketball Association team based in San Diego, California; the team played an incomplete season only, beginning the 1975-1976 ABA season but folding before its completion.-San Diego Conquistadors:...

    ). http://sundaygazettemail.com/Sports/201108091103
  • Ruth Brinker
    Ruth Brinker
    Ruth Marie Brinker was an American AIDS activist and founder of the nonprofit, Project Open Hand. She began her activism in 1985 by providing food and meals to home-bound AIDS patients in San Francisco who were too ill cook or shop.Brinker was born Ruth Marie Appel on May 1, 1922, in Hartford,...

    , 89, American AIDS and nutrition activist, founder of Project Open Hand
    Project Open Hand
    Project Open Hand is a volunteer agency maintained and operated non-profit organization offering hot meals, grocery service, and nutrition education to those who qualify in both San Francisco and Alameda Counties...

    , vascular dementia. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/us/19brinker.html
  • Royal Copeland, 86, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts
    Toronto Argonauts
    The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...

    ), Alzheimer's disease. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=373491
  • Cem Erman
    Cem Erman
    Cem Erman, born Süleyman Faik Durgun was a Turkish film actor. His father's side was originally from Mersin and his mother's side was from Halep. He had also two more brothers and sisters. He was the youngest in the family. In 2007 he married Sevim Demiroğlu. Shortly after their marriage they got...

    , 64, Turkish actor and composer. http://www.erkekmekani.com/cem-arman-neden-oldu-suleyman-faik-durgun-neden-oldu.html (Turkish)
  • Kurt Johansson
    Kurt Johansson
    Kurt Ivar Björn Johansson was a Swedish shooter who competed at three Summer Olympic Games. In 1948 in London he placed fourth in the Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres event. In 1960 in Rome he finished 19th in the same event and 15th in the Men's 50 metre rifle prone competition...

    , 97, Swedish Olympic sport shooter. http://www.sok.se/aktiva/historisktaktiva/kurtjohansson.5.aad0b10833d63e5c800015162.html (Swedish)
  • Anastasios Peponis
    Anastasios Peponis
    - Life :He was born in 1924 in Athens, Greece. During the Axis Occupation of Greece in the Second World War , Peponis was an active member of two resistance organizations: the Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths and the National Coalition of Higher Education Institutions , being involved...

    , 87, Greek politician and author, heart problems. http://www.tanea.gr/ellada/article/?aid=4648078 (Greek)
  • Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada
    Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada
    Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada, O.F.M. was a Peruvian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada was born in Huanta, Peru, ordained a priest on July 14, 1946 from the religious order of the Order of Friars Minor. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of...

    , 89, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ayacucho/Huamanga (1979–1991). http://www.radioondaazul.com/?c=noticia&id=16346 (Spanish)
  • Hind Rostom, 81, Egyptian actress, heart attack. http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/film/egyptian-screen-legend-seductress-hind-rostom-dies-at-82.html
  • Jiřina Švorcová
    Jiřina Švorcová
    Jiřina Švorcová was a Czech actress and pro-Communist activist. Her acting career lasted more than forty years, but she largely retired after the 1989 Velvet Revolution and devoted herself to advocacy of the Communist Party....

    , 83, Czech actress and pro-Communist activist. http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/kultura/132329-zemrela-herecka-a-komunistka-jirina-svorcova/ (Czech)
  • Harry Hillel Wellington
    Harry Hillel Wellington
    Harry Hillel Wellington was the Dean of Yale Law School from 1975 to 1985 and the dean of New York Law School from 1992 to 2000.- Biography :...

    , 84, American lawyer, Dean of Yale Law School
    Yale Law School
    Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

     (1975–1985) and New York Law School
    New York Law School
    New York Law School is a private law school in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. New York Law School is one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States. The school is located within four blocks of all major courts in Manhattan. In 2011, New York Law School...

     (1992–2000), brain tumor. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/nyregion/harry-h-wellington-former-dean-of-yale-law-school-dies-at-84.html
  • Guillermo Zarur
    Guillermo Zarur
    Guillermo Zarur was a Mexican television actor. His career lasted for more than 54 years, with credits including telenovelas....

    , 72, Mexican actor, complications of kidney and heart disease. http://www.tvnotas.com.mx/2011/08/09/C-16008-murio-el-actor-guillermo-zarur.php/ (Spanish)

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  • Joseph Candolfi
    Joseph Candolfi
    Joseph Candolfi was a Swiss Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.Joseph Candolfi was born in Reconvilier, Switzerland, ordained a priest on July 1, 1947. Candolfi was appointed bishop to the Diocese of Basel as well as Titular Bishop of Frequentium on June 1, 1983 and ordained bishop June 29, 1983...

    , 89, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Basel (1983–1996). http://www.suedostschweiz.ch/politik/ehemaliger-weihbischof-joseph-candolfi-89-jahrig-gestorben (German)
  • Hugh Carey
    Hugh Carey
    Hugh Leo Carey was an American attorney, the 51st Governor of New York from 1975 to 1982, and a seven-term United States Representative .- Early life :...

    , 92, American politician, Governor of New York
    Governor of New York
    The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the State of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military and naval forces. The officeholder is afforded the courtesy title of His/Her...

     (1975–1982) and U.S. Representative
    United States Congressional Delegations from New York
    These are tables of congressional delegations from New York to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.Over the years, New York has demographically changed so that it is hard to consider each district to be a continuation of the same numbered district before...

     (1961–1974). http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/144520/former-governor-hugh-carey-dead-at-92
  • Cornelius Elanjikal
    Cornelius Elanjikal
    Cornelius Elanjikal D.D. Ph.D. DC.L. was an Indian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Kerala, India and was ordained a priest on March 18, 1945. Elanjikal was appointed January 16, 1971 to the Diocese of Vijayapuram and was ordained a bishop on April 4, 1971...

    , 92, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Verapoly
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Verapoly
    The Latin Catholic Archdiocese of Verapoly is located on the Malabar Coast in India. It became a metropolitan see in 1886. Verapoly is now officially named Varapuzha.-History:...

     (1987–1996). http://thatsmalayalam.oneindia.in/news/2011/08/07/india-arch-bishop-cornelius-elanjikal-obit-aid0031.html (Malayalam)
  • Marshall Grant
    Marshall Grant
    Marshall Garnett Grant was the upright bassist and electric bassist of singer Johnny Cash's original backing duo, the Tennessee Two, in which Grant and electric guitarist Luther Perkins played. The group became known as The Tennessee Three in 1960, with the addition of drummer W. S. Holland...

    , 83, American double bass
    Double bass
    The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

    ist (Tennessee Two). http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/rip-marshall-grant
  • F. M. Hardacre
    F. M. Hardacre
    Forrest Marion "Frosty" Hardacre is an American football coach in the United States.-Coaching career:Coach F. M. Hardacre was the head college football coach for the McPherson Bulldogs located in McPherson, Kansas. He held that position for the 1948 and 1949 seasons. His coaching record at...

    , 96, American academic and college football coach. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansascity/obituary.aspx?n=forrest-marion-hardacre&pid=153025103
  • Mark Hatfield
    Mark Hatfield
    Mark Odom Hatfield was an American politician and educator from the state of Oregon. A Republican, he served for 30 years as a United States Senator from Oregon, and also as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee...

    , 89, American politician, Governor of Oregon
    Governor of Oregon
    The Governor of Oregon is the top executive of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. The title of governor was also applied to the office of Oregon's chief executive during the provisional and U.S. territorial governments....

     (1959–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1997). http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/08/mark_o_hatfield_former_oregon.html
  • Harri Holkeri, 74, Finnish politician, Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Finland
    The Prime Minister is the Head of Government of Finland. The Prime Minister is appointed by the President, who is the Head of State. The current Prime Minister is Jyrki Katainen of the National Coalition Party.-Overview:...

     (1987–1991), after long illness. http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2011/08/ex-pm_harri_holkeri_dies_at_74_2774143.html
  • Paul Meier
    Paul Meier (statistician)
    Paul Meier was a statistician who promoted the use of randomized trials in medicine. He is also known for introducing, with Edward L. Kaplan, the Kaplan–Meier estimator, a tool for measuring how many patients survive a medical treatment.-External links:...

    , 87, American mathematician (Kaplan–Meier estimator), complications from a stroke. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/health/13meier.html
  • George Naghi
    George Naghi
    George Naghi was a Romanian businessman and millionaire, founder of Aldis SRL meat products enterprise. He founded the firm together with his wife Alina in the 1990s.Naghi died in a boating accident on 7 August 2011 while on a personal ship cruise with his wife on the Danube Delta...

    , 59, Romanian businessman, founder of Aldis SRL
    Aldis SRL
    Aldis SRL is a Romanian meat and smallgoods processing company based in Călăraşi. The company has a capacity to produce 150 tonnes of products per day. It has an annual turnover of almost €70 million and over 1300 employees....

    , boating accident. http://www.nineoclock.ro/aldis-owner-george-naghi-to-be-buried-in-calarasi-today/
  • Tom Radney
    Tom Radney
    John Tomas Radney was an American Democratic politician and lawyer from Alabama.Born in Wadley, Alabama, Radney graduated from Auburn University and received his law degree from University of Alabama School of Law. He served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army. Radney served...

    , 79, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate
    Alabama Senate
    The Alabama State Senate is the upper house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama. The body is composed of 35 members representing an equal amount of districts across the state, with each district containing at least 127,140 citizens...

     (1967–1971), after long illness. http://www.wsfa.com/story/15224935/fmr-senator-tom-radney-dies-at-age-79
  • Jiří Traxler
    Jiří Traxler
    Jiří "George" Traxler was a Czech Canadian jazz and swing pianist, composer, lyricist and arranger. He is considered a founder and co-creator of the swing music era in the Czechoslovakia. Traxler was the last surviving collaborator of the renowned Czech pre-war composer Jaroslav Ježek...

    , 99, Czech-born Canadian jazz pianist
    Jazz piano
    Jazz piano is a collective term for the techniques pianists use when playing jazz. The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings. Its role is multifaceted due largely to the instrument's combined melodic and harmonic capabilities...

    . http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/kultura/zpravy/ve-veku-99-let-zemrel-v-kanade-skladatel-jiri-traxler/672145 (Czech)
  • Nancy Wake
    Nancy Wake
    Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM , served as a British agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and was one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of the war.-Early life:Born in Roseneath, Wellington, New Zealand in...

    , 98, New Zealand-born Australian French Resistance
    French Resistance
    The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...

     leader, chest infection. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/war-heroine-nancy-wake-dies/story-e6freuy9-1226110701605
  • Charles Wyly
    Charles Wyly
    Charles Wyly Jr. was an American entrepreneur and businessman, philanthropist, civic leader, and a major contributor to Republican causes and Dallas art projects. This included $20 million to build a performing arts center in Dallas. In 2006, Forbes magazine estimated his net worth at $1 billion...

    , 77, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Michaels Stores, automobile accident. http://news.yahoo.com/texas-billionaire-charles-wyly-killed-colo-084619180.html
  • Joe Yamanaka
    Joe Yamanaka
    , better known as Joe Yamanaka, was a half Japanese and half African American singer, known for both his work with Flower Travellin' Band and as a solo musician. He was also an actor and appeared in many movies, such as Takashi Miike's Deadly Outlaw: Rekka and the 1989 version of Zatoichi...

    , 64, Japanese rock singer, lung cancer. http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/f-et-tp0-20110807-816916.html (Japanese).

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  • Bernadine Healy
    Bernadine Healy
    Bernadine Patricia Healy was an American physician, cardiologist, academic and a former head of the National Institutes of Health . She was a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, professor and dean of the College of Medicine and Public Health at the Ohio State University, and served...

    , 67, American cardiologist, director of the National Institutes of Health
    National Institutes of Health
    The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...

     (1991–1993), brain cancer. http://clevelandheights.patch.com/articles/dr-bernadine-healy-loop-who-led-national-institutes-of-health-american-red-cross-and-more-died-saturday-at-67
  • Fred Imus
    Fred Imus
    Frederic Moore Imus was an American radio talk show host and the younger brother of radio talk show host Don Imus. He hosted Trailer Park Bash, a weekly country music program launched on May 6, 2006, on Saturdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. ET on Sirius XM Radio's Outlaw Country channel. His sidekick...

    , 69, American songwriter and radio talk show host, brother of Don Imus
    Don Imus
    John Donald "Don" Imus, Jr. is an American radio host, humorist, philanthropist and writer. His nationally-syndicated talk show, Imus in the Morning, is broadcast throughout the United States by Citadel Media and relayed on television by the Fox Business Network.-Personal life:Imus was born in...

    . http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/2011/08/06/2011-08-06_fred_imus_songwriter_and_brother_of_don_imus_dies_at_69.html (body found on this date)
  • Kuno Klötzer
    Kuno Klötzer
    Kuno Klötzer was a German former football coach who won the 1977 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup with Hamburger SV.Born in Geyer, Germany, Klötzer managed included Arminia Hannover, Hannover 96, Fortuna Düsseldorf, 1. FC Nuremberg, Kickers Offenbach, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC, MSV Duisburg and Werder Bremen...

    , 89, German football coach. http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0,1518,778787,00.html (German)
  • Fe del Mundo
    Fe del Mundo
    Fe del Mundo was a Filipino pediatrician. The first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School, she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines...

    , 99, Filipino pediatrician, National Scientist of the Philippines
    National Scientist of the Philippines
    The rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines is the highest award accorded to Filipino scientists by the Philippine government.The award was created on December 16, 1976 by President Ferdinand Marcos through Presidential Decree Nos. 1003 and 1003-A, which also created the National...

    , heart attack. http://www.gmanews.tv/story/228669/nation/fe-del-mundo-dame-of-phl-pediatrics-dies-at-99
  • Roman Opałka, 79, French-born Polish painter. http://wyborcza.pl/1,75248,10074309,Zmarl_polski_malarz_Roman_Opalka.html (Polish)
  • John W. Ryan
    John W. Ryan
    John William Ryan was an American academic administrator who most notably served as the President of Indiana University for sixteen years.-Early life and career:...

    , 81, American academic administrator, President of Indiana University
    Indiana University
    Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

     (1971–1987). http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/indiana/former-iu-president-john-ryan-dies
  • Jerry Smith
    Jerry Smith (coach)
    Jerome Anthony Smith is a former American football player and coach. After Smith's college football career, which he spent at Wisconsin, the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers selected Smith in the 1952 NFL Draft. He played at left guard for the team in 1952 and 1953. In 1956, he...

    , 80, American football player (San Francisco 49ers
    San Francisco 49ers
    The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...

    ) and coach (Denver Broncos
    Denver Broncos
    The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado. They are currently members of the West Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ). http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/6845670/jerry-smith-former-denver-broncos-interim-head-coach-dies
  • John Wood
    John Wood (English actor)
    John Wood, CBE was an English actor.-Biography:Wood was born in Derbyshire and studied law at Jesus College, Oxford where he was president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. Changing to drama, Wood became known as a stage actor, appearing in numerous West End productions as well as on...

    , 81, English actor (WarGames
    WarGames
    WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War suspense/science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film stars Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy....

    , Chocolat). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14461952

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4

  • Alan Blackshaw
    Alan Blackshaw
    Alan Blackshaw OBE was an English mountaineer, skier and civil servant who was President of the Alpine Club from 2001 to 2004.-Early life:...

    , 78, English mountaineer and civil servant, cancer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/8694127/Alan-Blackshaw.html
  • Michael Bukht
    Michael Bukht
    Mirza Michael John Bukht OBE was a British commercial radio executive. Under the pseudonym Michael Barry, he was a chef and television personality who was a regular co-presenter on the BBC2 television show Food and Drink.-Education and background:Barry was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys'...

    , 69, British radio executive, television personality and chef who worked as Michael Barry. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14446449
  • Naoki Matsuda
    Naoki Matsuda
    was a Japanese footballer who played as a central defender.-Football career:Born in Kiryū, Gunma, Matsuda represented the Yokohama F. Marinos for the vast majority of his career, being promoted to the first team in 1995, at the age of 18...

    , 34, Japanese footballer, suspected heart attack. http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/04082011/58/world-football-former-japan-defender-matsuda-dies.html
  • Conrad Schnitzler
    Conrad Schnitzler
    Conrad Schnitzler was a prolific German experimental musician.Schnitzler was born in Düsseldorf. He was an early member of Tangerine Dream and a founder of the band Kluster. He left Kluster in 1971, first working with his group Eruption and then focusing on solo works...

    , 74, German musician (Tangerine Dream
    Tangerine Dream
    Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...

    , Kluster
    Kluster
    Kluster is a German experimental musical group whose work often resembles later industrial music.The original Kluster was short-lived, existing only from 1969 until mid-1971 when Conrad Schnitzler left and the remaining two members renamed themselves Cluster...

    , Eruption
    Eruption (German band)
    Eruption was a short-lived German krautrock or experimental music super group founded by former Tangerine Dream member and then current Kluster member Conrad Schnitzler.- Core Members :* Conrad Schnitzler * Wolfgang Seidel...

    , Berlin Express
    Berlin Express
    Berlin Express is a black-and-white drama film directed by Jacques Tourneur. Thrown together by chance, a group of people search a city for a kidnapped peace activist. Set in Allied-occupied Germany, it was shot on location in post-World War II Frankfurt-am-Main and Berlin...

    ), stomach cancer. http://alteredzones.com/posts/1756/rip-conrad-schnitzler
  • Erika Thijs
    Erika Thijs
    Erika Arnoldine Cornelia Thijs was a Flemish politician and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party....

    , 51, Belgian politician, Senator
    Belgian Senate
    The Belgian Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral Federal Parliament of Belgium, the other being the Chamber of Representatives. It is considered to be the "upper house" of the Federal Parliament.-History and future:...

     (since 1995), cancer. http://www.nieuwsblad.be/Article/Detail.aspx?articleid=DMF20110804_242 (Dutch)
  • Sherman White
    Sherman White (basketball)
    Sherman White was an American college basketball player at Long Island University who is best remembered for being indicted in a point shaving scandal that resulted in him being stripped of numerous honors and awards, having to serve an 8-month jail sentence, and being prohibited from ever...

    , 82, American basketball player (Long Island University). http://www.northjersey.com/obituaries/127057408_Local_hoops_legend_dies.html

3

  • Rudolf Brazda
    Rudolf Brazda
    Rudolf Brazda was the last known concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality. Brazda spent nearly three years at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where his prisoner uniform was branded with the distinctive pink triangle that the Nazis used to mark men...

    , 98, German concentration camp prisoner, last known survivor of pink triangle
    Pink triangle
    The pink triangle was one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, used to identify male prisoners who were sent there because of their homosexuality. Every prisoner had to wear a downward-pointing triangle on his or her jacket, the colour of which was to categorise him or her by "kind"...

     homosexual deportation. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/06/world/europe/06brazda.html
  • Richard Cates
    Richard Cates
    Richard Lyman Cates was an American Democratic politician and lawyer from Wisconsin.Born in New York City, Cates served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and the Korean War. Cates graduated from Dartmouth College and received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law...

    , 85, American lawyer. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/127096198.html
  • Annette Charles
    Annette Charles
    Annette Charles was an American actress best known for her role as Charlene "Cha Cha" DiGregorio in Grease. She made several appearances on television as well....

    , 63, American actress (Grease
    Grease (film)
    Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...

    ), complications of lung cancer. http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/04/cha-cha-dies-dead-grease-annette-charles-cardona-cancer/
  • Antonio M. Diaz
    Antonio M. Diaz
    Antonio Magsaysay Diaz was a Filippino politician and lawyer. He served in the House of Representatives of the Philippines representing Zambales for three separate tenures - 1969 to 1972, 1992 to 2001, and 2004 until his death on August 3, 2011.Diaz's mother, Mercedes, was the sister for former...

    , 83, Filipino politician, Representative
    House of Representatives of the Philippines
    The House of Representatives of the Philippines is the lower chamber of the...

     from Zambales
    Legislative districts of Zambales
    The Legislative Districts of Zambales, namely the first and second districts, are the current representations of the province of Zambales and the independent city of Olongapo in the Philippine House of Representatives....

     (1969–1972, 1992–2001, 2004–2011). http://interaksyon.com/article/9966/zambales-rep-diaz-83
  • Ingrid Luterkort, 101, Swedish actress. http://www.svd.se/kultur/ingrid-luterkort-ar-dod_6367760.svd (Swedish)
  • Andrew McDermott
    Andrew McDermott
    Andrew "Mac" McDermott was a singer mostly known for his work in the progressive metal band Threshold. He was also the lead singer of Swampfreaks and the German group Sargant Fury.-History:...

    , 45, British singer (Threshold
    Threshold (band)
    Threshold is a progressive metal band, formed in Surrey, UK in the late 1980s.-History:Threshold began their career in 1988, initially playing covers of metal groups like Ratt and Testament. As they continued playing together, they began to write their own songs, and eventually stopped playing...

    ), complications of kidney failure. http://www.rocks-magazin.de/neu/meldungen/artikel/andrew_mac_mcdermott_r.i.p (German)
  • Simona Monyová
    Simona Monyová
    Simona Monyová was a Czech novelist.She wrote more than 20 books and was a bestselling author in the Czech Republic.On 3 August 2011 she was found dead in her house. The police suspect her husband is the murderer....

    , 44, Czech writer, stabbed. http://zpravy.idnes.cz/spisovatelka-simona-monyova-byla-ve-svem-dome-zavrazdena-pmq-/krimi.aspx?c=A110804_113315_brno-zpravy_dmk (Czech)
  • Ray Patterson
    Ray Patterson (basketball)
    Raymond Albert Patterson, Jr. was general manager of the NBA's Houston Rockets from 1972 to 1990. He was named NBA Executive of the Year in 1977, and his Rockets appeared in the NBA Finals in 1981 and 1986. Among his most notable player acquisitions were Ralph Sampson in 1983 and Hakeem Olajuwon...

    , 89, American basketball executive (Milwaukee Bucks
    Milwaukee Bucks
    The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....

    , Houston Rockets
    Houston Rockets
    The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team plays in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1967, and played in San Diego, California for four years, before being...

    ). http://www.chron.com/sports/rockets/article/Ex-Rockets-president-Ray-Patterson-dies-at-89-2079891.php
  • Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR
    People's Artist of the USSR
    People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...

    , stroke. http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/petrov-pianist-virtuoso-conservatory/
  • William Sleator
    William Sleator
    William Warner Sleator III , known as William Sleator, was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers. His books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon related to an element of theoretical science, then...

    , 66, American science fiction writer (Interstellar Pig
    Interstellar Pig
    Interstellar Pig, published in 1984 by Bantam Books, is a science fiction novel for young adults written by William Sleator. It was listed as an ALA Notable Book, a SLJ Best Book of the Year, and a Junior Literary Guild Selection.-Plot introduction:...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/william-sleator-science-fiction-writer-for-young-adults-dies-at-66.html
  • Bubba Smith
    Bubba Smith
    Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith was an American professional football player who became an actor after his retirement from the sport. He first came into prominence at Michigan State University, where he twice earned All-American honors as a defensive end on the Spartans football team...

    , 66, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and actor (Police Academy). http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/bubba-smith-nfl-star-police-academy-actor-found-dead-home.html
  • Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi
    Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi
    Grand Ayatollah Mirza Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja.-Early life:Tabrizi was born on 9 January 1924 in Tabriz, Iran. His father, Ayatollah Mirza Abbas Kochebaghi was also an Grand Ayatollah...

    , 87, Iranian Shi'ite Muslim marja, heart attack. http://www.tabnak.ir/fa/news/181213/یکی-علمای-تبریز-دارفانی-را-وداع-گفت (Persian)
  • Allan Watkins
    Allan Watkins
    Allan Watkins Allan Watkins Allan Watkins (born Albert John Watkins (21 April 1922 – 3 August 2011) was a Welsh cricketer, who played for England in fifteen Tests from 1948 to 1952. He toured India and Pakistan in 1951-2 with the MCC, and also participated in the 1955-6 'A' Tour to Pakistan...

    , 89, Welsh cricketer, after short illness. http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/525932.html

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  • Leslie Esdaile Banks
    Leslie Esdaile Banks
    Leslie Esdaile Banks was an American writer. She wrote in various genres, including African American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction...

    , 51, American author (The Vampire Huntress Legend Series
    The Vampire Huntress Legend Series
    The Vampire Huntress Legend Series is a twelve book series written by Leslie Esdaile Banks under the pen name L.A. Banks. The series centers around a young twenty-something woman named Damali Richards who is a spoken word artist but is also The Neteru, a human who is born every thousand years to...

    ), adrenal cancer. http://www.locusmag.com/News/2011/08/l-a-banks-1959-2011/
  • Baruj Benacerraf
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-born American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and...

    , 90, Venezuelan-born American immunologist, Nobel laureate (1980). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/us/03benacerraf.html
  • Ralph Berkowitz
    Ralph Berkowitz
    Ralph Berkowitz was an American composer, classical musician, and painter.-Biography:Berkowitz was born in New York City, New York in 1910 and grew up in Brooklyn. In 1927, he enrolled at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia where he later became a member of the teaching staff...

    , 100, American composer. http://www.peteramescarlin.com/node/197
  • DeLois Barrett Campbell, 85, American gospel singer (The Barrett Sisters
    The Barrett Sisters
    The Barrett Sisters are an American award-winning gospel trio from Chicago, Illinois. The trio consisted of sisters DeLois Barrett Campbell, Billie Barrett GreenBey and Rodessa Barrett Porter. They have been singing together for more than 40 years.-History:The Barrett Sisters grew up in poverty in...

    ), pulmonary embolism. http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_18601822
  • Al Federoff
    Al Federoff
    Alfred Federoff , nicknamed "Whitey," was a American professional baseball infielder and manager. He spent his career in minor league baseball, except for 76 games spread over the 1951 and 1952 seasons, when he was a member of the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball.Federoff graduated from high...

    , 87, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers
    Detroit Tigers
    The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...

    ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/eastvalleytribune/obituary.aspx?n=alfred-federoff&pid=152885201
  • James M. Flinchum
    James M. Flinchum
    James Maxwell Flinchum, Jr., known as Jim Flinchum , was from 1961 until his retirement in 1985 the editor-in-chief of the Wyoming State Tribune, one of two forerunners of the existing Wyoming Tribune Eagle in Cheyenne, Wyoming.-Early years:Flinchum was born in Caddo in Bryan County in southern...

    , 94, American journalist. http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2011/08/05/news/19local_08-05-11.txt
  • Asadullo Gulomov
    Asadullo Gulomov
    Asadullo Gulomov was a Tajik politician who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan from December 2006 until his death in 2011....

    , 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister (since 2006). http://kp.ru/daily/25730/2720214/ (Russian)
  • Andrey Kapitsa
    Andrey Kapitsa
    Andrey Petrovich Kapitsa was a Russian geographer. His father was Pyotr Kapitsa, and his maternal grandfather was Aleksey Krylov.Kapitsa was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and graduated from Moscow State University in 1953. He is credited with the discovery and naming of Lake Vostok, the...

    , 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok
    Lake Vostok
    Lake Vostok is the largest of more than 140 subglacial lakes found under the surface of Antarctica. The overlying ice provides a continuous paleoclimatic record of 400,000 years, although the lake water itself may have been isolated for 15 to 25 million years. The lake is named after the...

    . http://int.rgo.ru/news/andrey-kapitsa-dies-in-moscow/
  • Clarence E. Miller
    Clarence E. Miller
    Clarence Ellsworth Miller, Jr. was a Republican Congressman from Ohio, serving January 3, 1967 to January 3, 1993....

    , 93, American politician, U.S. Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from Ohio
    United States congressional delegations from Ohio
    These are complete tables of congressional delegations from Ohio to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-United States House of Representatives:-1803–1813: One seat:...

     (1967–1993), pneumonia. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/08/03/Former-Rep-Clarence-Miller-R-Ohio-dies/UPI-55591312418117/
  • Attilio Pavesi
    Attilio Pavesi
    Attilio Pavesi was an Italian cyclist and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, in the Individual Road Race, as well as a gold medal in the Team Road Race. He turned 100 in October 2010. He died at the age of almost 101 years, on August 2 of the next year,...

    , 100, Italian Olympic cyclist, oldest living Olympic champion. http://www.gazzetta.it/Ciclismo/03-08-2011/addio-pavesi-802299438328.shtml (Italian)
  • Richard Pearson
    Richard Pearson (actor)
    Richard de Pearsall Pearson was a Welsh actor. Notable films of his career included Brian Desmond Hurst's Scrooge as well as a brief appearance in John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday and cameo roles in three films by Roman Polanski: Macbeth , Tess and Pirates...

    , 93, Welsh actor (The Yellow Rolls-Royce
    The Yellow Rolls-Royce
    -External links:, a promotional short subject for the film...

    ). http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/aug/02/richard-pearson-obituary
  • Venere Pizzinato, 114, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe
    Europe
    Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

     and third-oldest living person in the world. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-05/europes-oldest-person-dies/2826014/?site=melbourne
  • José Sanchis Grau
    José Sanchis Grau
    José Sanchis Grau was a Spanish comic book writer. He also worked for Editorial Bruguera and Spanish children comics in general. He was the creator of strips like Pumby and Robín Robot .-Early years:...

    , 79, Spanish comic book artist. http://www.ara.cat/cultura/More-Jose-Sanchis-creador-Pumby_0_529147572.html (Valencian)
  • James Ford Seale
    James Ford Seale
    James Ford Seale was a Ku Klux Klan member charged by the U.S. Justice Department on January 24, 2007, and subsequently convicted on June 14, 2007, for the May 1964 kidnapping of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, two African-American young men in Meadville, Mississippi...

    , 76, American murderer, Ku Klux Klan
    Ku Klux Klan
    Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...

     member. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/03/klansman-dies-1964-murders

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  • Stan Barstow
    Stan Barstow
    Stanley "Stan" Barstow FRSL was an English novelist.-Biography:Barstow was born in Horbury, near Wakefield, Yorkshire. His father was a coal miner and he attended Ossett Grammar School, he then worked as a draftsman and salesman for an engineering firm...

    , 83, English novelist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/01/stan-barstow-obituary
  • Joe Caffie
    Joe Caffie
    Joseph Clifford "Rabbit" Caffie is a former baseball player for the Cleveland Indians. He is recorded as weighing 180 pounds, batting left-handed and throwing right-handed. He played 44 Major league games from September 13, 1956 to September 28, 1957. He had previously played for the Cleveland...

    , 80, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians
    Cleveland Indians
    The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...

    , Cleveland Buckeyes
    Cleveland Buckeyes
    The Cleveland Buckeyes were a professional baseball team that played in the Negro Leagues. They were established in 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio . The following season, the team moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where they played their games at League Park...

    ). http://www.vindy.com/news/tributes/2011/aug/07/joe-clifford-caffi/
  • Carmela Marie Cristiano
    Carmela Marie Cristiano
    Sister Carmela Marie Cristiano, S.C., was an American Catholic Religious Sister of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, who served the community as a teacher, social worker and activist. She received public attention for her high-profile battle with then-Jersey City Mayor Thomas J...

    , 83, American Roman Catholic nun (Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth
    Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth
    The Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth are a Roman Catholic apostolic congregation of pontifical right, based in the Convent Station area of Morris Township, New Jersey. The stated purpose of the order is to show the love of Jesus Christ in serving those in need, especially the poor...

    ); first nun to seek political office in New Jersey
    New Jersey
    New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

    . http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/08/nun_who_once_headed_jersey_cit.html
  • Florentina Gómez Miranda
    Florentina Gómez Miranda
    Florentina Gómez Miranda was an Argentine teacher and lawyer. Born in Olavarría in the province of Buenos Aires, she attended the National University of La Plata from which she graduated in 1945. From then on, she was active in the struggle for women's rights. Among the laws she promoted, the...

    , 99, Argentine lawyer and women's rights activist. http://m24digital.com/en/2011/08/01/advocate-of-divorce-florentina-gomez-miranda-passed-away/
  • Gamini Goonesena
    Gamini Goonesena
    Gamini Goonesena , born in Colombo, was a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer prior to his country being granted Test status...

    , 80, Sri Lankan cricketer. http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/story/525680.html
  • Chieko N. Okazaki
    Chieko N. Okazaki
    Chieko Nishimura Okazaki was the first counselor to Elaine L. Jack in the Relief Society general presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1990 to 1997...

    , 84, American Mormon women's leader, first non-Caucasian woman to hold a senior position in the LDS church, heart failure. http://m.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52320992-78/okazaki-lds-women-church.html.csp
  • Ken Payne
    Ken Payne
    Ken Payne is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1974 NFL Draft. He played college football at Langston....

    , 60, American football player (Green Bay Packers
    Green Bay Packers
    The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...

    ). http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSob=c&GSlh=1&GRid=74750262&
  • Alex Pitko
    Alex Pitko
    Alexander "Spunk" Pitko is a former backup outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Phillies and Washington Senators...

    , 97, American baseball player. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=alexander-pitko&pid=152867264
  • Zhanna Prokhorenko
    Zhanna Prokhorenko
    Zhanneta "Zhanna" Trofymovna Prokhorenko was a Ukrainian-born Soviet-era actress, best known to European and North American audiences for her role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier.-Life/career:...

    , 71, Russian film actress (Ballad of a Soldier
    Ballad of a Soldier
    Ballad of a Soldier , is a 1959 Soviet film directed by Grigori Chukhrai and starring Vladimir Ivashov and Zhanna Prokhorenko. While set during World War II, Ballad of a Soldier is not primarily a war film...

    ). http://kommersant.ru/doc/1690040 (Russian)
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