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Deaths in August 2012

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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2012.

Contents

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

  • Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

    • 1

  • Joan Bernard, 94, British academic, first Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham.
  • Don Erickson, 80, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
  • Aldo Maldera, 58, Italian footballer (AC Milan).
  • Riccardo Ruotolo, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo (1995–2004).
  • Abel Salinas, 82, Peruvian politician.
  • Douglas Townsend, 90, American composer and musicologist.
  • Barry Trapnell, 88, English cricketer and headmaster.
  • Keiko Tsushima, 86, Japanese actress (Seven Samurai), stomach cancer. (Japanese)

    • 2

  • Jacques Caufrier, 70, Belgian Olympic water polo player (1960 and 1964)
  • Ruy de Freitas, 95, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) basketball player, multiple organ failure.
  • Felix De Smedt, 88, Belgian judo teacher.
  • Amos Hakham, 91, Israeli Bible scholar, first winner of the International Bible Contest (1958).
  • Sir Gabriel Horn, 85, British biologist.
  • Magnus Isacsson, 64, Canadian documentary filmmaker (Maxime, McDuff & McDo), cancer.
  • Jimmy Jones, 82, American pop singer ("Handy Man", "Good Timin'").
  • Sir John Keegan, 78, British military historian and journalist.
  • Giovanni Lucchi, 69, Italian bow maker.
  • Bernd Meier, 40, German footballer, heart attack.
  • Jean Merrill, 89, American children's author (The Pushcart War), cancer.
  • Marguerite Piazza, 90, American singer, heart failure.
  • Cesare Pinarello, 79, Italian Olympic racing cyclist.
  • Gilbert Prouteau, 95, French poet and film director. (French)
  • William Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden, 82, British peer, cancer.
  • Jacques-Raymond Tremblay, 88, Canadian politician.
  • Mihaela Ursuleasa, 33, Romanian pianist, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Herman van Ham, 81, Dutch chef.

    • 3

  • Marc Alfos, 56, French voice actor.
  • John Berry, 67, English speedway promoter (Ipswich Witches) and national team manager.
  • Al Conway, 82, American football player and official.
  • Frank Evans, 90, American Negro league baseball player.
  • Martin Fleischmann, 85, Czech-born British chemist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
  • Giorgi Gomiashvili, Georgian business executive and diplomat. (death announced on this date)
  • Paul McCracken, 96, American economist, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1969–1971).
  • John Pritchard, 85, American basketball player.

    • 4

  • Johnnie Bassett, 76, American blues musician, cancer.
  • Josy Braun, 74, Luxembourg writer, journalist and translator.
  • Giuseppe Coco, 76, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
  • Brian Crozier, 94, British author and journalist.
  • Metin Erksan, 83, Turkish film director, renal failure.
  • Hanley Funderburk, 81, American academic administrator, President of Auburn University (1980–1983).
  • Con Houlihan, 86, Irish sports journalist.
  • John J. Phelan, Jr., 81, American financier and chief executive (New York Stock Exchange).
  • Bud Riley, 86, American CFL coach (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Hamilton Tiger-cats).
  • Arnie Risen, 87, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Boston Celtics, Rochester Royals), complications from COPD and lung cancer.
  • Jimmy Thomson, 75, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic) (death announced on this date)
  • Gregor W. Yeates, 68, New Zealand soil zoologist and ecologist.

    • 5

  • Erwin Axer, 95, Polish theatre director.
  • Michel Daerden, 62, Belgian politician, heart attack.
  • Benjamin W. Heineman, 98, American railroad executive.
  • Fred Matua, 28, American football player, heart failure.
  • Martin E. Segal, 96, Russian-born American entrepreneur (Film Society of Lincoln Center).
  • Sister Boom Boom, 57, American gay rights activist, member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, liver cancer.
  • Kirk Urso, 22, American soccer player, heart failure.
  • Chavela Vargas, 93, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter, respiratory arrest.
  • Roland Charles Wagner, 51, French author, traffic collision. (French)
  • Péter Zwack, 85, Hungarian businessman.

    • 6

  • Celso Blues Boy, 56, Brazilian singer and guitarist, laryngeal cancer.
  • Valentin Chernykh, 77, Russian screenwriter.
  • Richard Cragun, 67, American ballet dancer, heart attack.
  • Marvin Hamlisch, 68, American composer (The Way We Were, A Chorus Line) and arranger (The Sting), EGOT winner.
  • Robert Hughes, 74, Australian art critic and writer (The Fatal Shore).
  • Gerry Kearby, 65, American businessman, traffic collision.
  • Sir Bernard Lovell, 98, British astronomer.
  • Mark O'Donnell, 58, American playwright (Hairspray, Cry-Baby) and author, respiratory arrest.
  • Boris Razinsky, 79, Russian football player.
  • Ruggiero Ricci, 94, American violinist, heart failure.
  • Dan Roundfield, 59, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks), drowning.
  • Shunpei Ueyama, 91, Japanese philosopher.
  • Godfried van den Boer, 78, Belgian footballer.[3]
  • Eleftherios Veryvakis, 77, Greek politician.

    • 7

  • Murtuz Alasgarov, 84, Azerbaijani politician, Speaker of the National Assembly (1996–2005).
  • George Crawford, 86, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Jika Jika (1985–1992).
  • Judith Crist, 90, American film critic.
  • Luc de Heusch, 85, Belgian filmmaker and academic.
  • Sabahattin Kalender, 93, Turkish composer.
  • Vladimir Kobzev, 52, Russian football player and coach, stroke.
  • Donald C. Paup, 73, American badminton player and academic.
  • Anna Piaggi, 81, Italian fashion writer.
  • Ranking Trevor, 60, Jamaican reggae musician, traffic collision.
  • Veljko Rogošić, 71, Croatian Olympic long-distance swimmer.
  • Hans Hammond Rossbach, 80, Norwegian politician.
  • Samala Sadasiva, 84, Indian writer.
  • Sir John Joseph Swaine, 80, Hong Kong politician and barrister, President of the Legislative Council (1993–1995).
  • Marvin Lee Wilson, 54, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
  • Mayer Zald, 81, American sociologist.
  • Dušan Zbavitel, 87, Czech Indologist.

    • 8

  • Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, 86, German-born American physicist.
  • Ruth Etchells, 81, English poet and college principal.
  • Sancho Gracia, 75, Spanish actor, lung cancer. (Spanish)
  • Azizul Haque, 94, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.
  • Georgios Katsifaras, 77, Greek politician.
  • Surya Lesmana, 68, Indonesian football player and manager, heart attack.
  • Kurt Maetzig, 101, German film director. (German)

    • 9

  • Harry G. Barnes, Jr., 86, American diplomat.
  • Max Bound, 87, Australian environmental activist and trade unionist.
  • Gerard Campbell, 92, American Jesuit and academic, President of Georgetown University (1964–1968).
  • Carnegie, 21, British-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1994), euthanized. (death announced on this date)
  • Ananda Dassanayake, 92, Sri Lankan politician.
  • Carl Davis, 77, American record producer ("Duke of Earl", "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"), lung disease.
  • Gene F. Franklin, 85, American control theorist, professor emeritus of electrical engineering (Stanford University).
  • Al Freeman, Jr., 78, American actor (Malcolm X, My Sweet Charlie, One Life to Live) and professor.
  • Dale Olson, 78, American publicist, cancer.
  • David Rakoff, 47, Canadian-born American writer and actor (Capote, Strangers with Candy), cancer.
  • Hjalte Rasmussen, 71, Danish academic.
  • Carmen Belen Richardson, 81, Puerto Rican actress and comedian.
  • Jan Sawka, 65, Polish-born American artist and architect, heart attack.
  • Mel Stuart, 83, American film director (If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), cancer.
  • Erol Togay, 62, Turkish footballer.

    • 10

  • James Lloyd Abbot, Jr., 94, American U.S. Navy rear admiral.
  • Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar, 72, Jordanian academic.
  • Philippe Bugalski, 49, French rally driver, injuries from fall.
  • Suresh Dalal, 79, Indian poet and writer in Gujarati language, heart attack.
  • Ioan Dicezare, 95, Romanian WWII fighter pilot ace. (Romanian)
  • Joe Douse, 82, American Negro League baseball player.
  • Irving Fein, 101, American film and television producer, manager of Jack Benny and George Burns.
  • Madeleine Leininger, 87, American nursing theorist.
  • William W. Momyer, 95, American air force general, heart ailment.
  • Carlo Rambaldi, 86, Italian special effects artist (Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial).

    • 11

  • Red Bastien, 81, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Carlo Curley, 59, American classical organist.
  • Michael Dokes, 54, American heavyweight boxer, liver cancer.
  • Beverly Milton Dyck, 78, Canadian politician, progressive supranuclear palsy.
  • Hans Einstein, 89, American physician.
  • Von Freeman, 88, American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, heart failure.
  • Lucy Gallardo, 82, Argentine-born Mexican film and telenovela actress (How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  • Heidi Holland, 64, Zimbabwean journalist and author, apparent suicide by hanging.
  • Shafaat Jamil, 72, Bangladesh Army officer.
  • Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, 84, Indian linguist.
  • R. Duncan Luce, American cognitive scientist.
  • Henning Moritzen, 84, Danish actor, heart attack. (Danish)
  • Dame Simone Prendergast, 82, British public servant and philanthropist.
  • Bill Rafferty, 68, American comedian and television host (Blockbusters, Card Sharks, Real People).
  • Stuart Randall, Baron Randall of St Budeaux, 74, British politician, MP for Kingston upon Hull West (1983–1997).
  • Roger Sandall, 79, New Zealand anthropologist and writer.
  • Sid Waddell, 72, British darts commentator and author, bowel cancer.
  • Susan Weiner, 66, American politician, Mayor of Savannah (1992–1996), complications from surgery.

    • 12

  • Eileen Beasley, 91, Welsh teacher and Welsh language campaigner, pancreatic cancer.
  • Jimmy Carr, 79, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
  • Prabuddha Dasgupta, 55, Indian fashion photographer, heart attack.
  • Alex Falconer, 72, Scottish politician, MEP for Mid Scotland and Fife (1984–1999).
  • Pedro Gasset, 88, Spanish field hockey player.
  • Jerry Grant, 77, American race car driver.
  • Dominic Hibberd, 71, English biographer.
  • Joe Kubert, 85, Polish-born American comic book artist (Sgt. Rock, Hawkman).
  • Frank Martin, 73, American defense attorney and politician, Mayor of Columbus, Georgia (1991–1994), pancreatic cancer.
  • Robert W. McNitt, 97, American U.S. Navy rear admiral, dean of admissions at the U.S. Naval Academy, heart failure.
  • Édgar Morales Pérez, Mexican politician, mayor-elect of Matehuala, shooting.
  • Alf Morris, Baron Morris, 84, British politician and disability rights campaigner, MP for Manchester Wythenshawe (1964–1997).
  • Jackie Watters, 92, Scottish footballer (Celtic).

    • 13

  • Hugo Adam Bedau, 85, American philosopher, complications from Parkinson's disease.
  • Helen Gurley Brown, 90, American author, publisher, and businesswoman; editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine (1965–1997).
  • Dan Daniels, 90, American sportscaster.
  • Salvador Escudero, 69, Filipino politician, cancer.
  • Kathi Goertzen, 54, American journalist and television anchor (KOMO-TV), benign brain tumors.
  • Nellie Gray, 88, American pro-life activist and lawyer, natural causes. (body discovered on this date)
  • Ray Jordon, 75, Australian cricketer and football coach, cancer.
  • Deborah Scaling Kiley, 54, American shipwreck survivor.
  • Hervé-Maria Le Cléac'h, 97, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata (1973–1986).
  • W. Michael Mathes, 76, American historian, expert on the history of Baja California.
  • Johnny Munkhammar, 37, Swedish politician, MP (2010–2012) and writer, adenoid cystic carcinoma.
  • Johnny Pesky, 92, American baseball player, manager, and coach (Boston Red Sox).
  • Joan Roberts, 95, American musical theatre actress (Oklahoma!), heart failure.
  • Typhoon Tracy, 6, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Coolmore Classic (2009) and Futurity Stakes (2010).

    • 14

  • Maja Bošković-Stulli, 89, Croatian historian, writer, publisher and academic. (Croatian)
  • Remy Charlip, 83, American dancer, after long illness.
  • Vilasrao Deshmukh, 67, Indian politician, kidney and liver failure.
  • Svetozar Gligorić, 89, Serbian chess grandmaster, stroke.
  • Brian Green, 77, British football coach and player.
  • Svein Hansen, 69, Norwegian ice hockey player.
  • Sergey Kapitsa, 84, Russian physicist, demographer, and television host; son of Pyotr Kapitsa.
  • Billy Kerr, 67, Irish cyclist. [4]
  • Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, 66, American embroidery designer.
  • Charles Maynard, 42, Bahamian politician, chairman of the opposition Free National Movement (since 2012), apparent heart attack.
  • Anna Orso, 73, Italian actress.
  • Ron Palillo, 63, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter), apparent heart attack.
  • Al Rabin, 76, American producer and director (Days of Our Lives).
  • Rosemary Rice, 87, American radio and television actress (Archie Andrews, Mama).
  • Phyllis Thaxter, 92, American actress (Superman, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Zhou Kehua, 42, Chinese criminal, shooting.

    • 15

  • Elson Iazegi Beyruth, 70, Brazilian footballer, complications of diabetes.
  • Bob Birch, 56, American musician (Elton John), apparent suicide by gunshot.
  • Jeffery Boswall, 81, British naturalist and broadcaster, cancer.
  • Richard B. Brewer, 61, American chief executive officer (Myrexis), cancer.
  • Hans R. Camenzind, 78, Swiss electronics engineer. (death announced on this date)
  • Altamiro Carrilho, 87, Brazilian musician and composer, lung cancer.
  • Enzo Cavazzoni, 80, Italian water polo player.
  • Biff Elliot, 89, American actor (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, I, the Jury, The Enemy Below).
  • Punch Gunalan, 68, Malaysian badminton player, liver cancer.
  • Harry Harrison, 87, American science fiction writer (Make Room! Make Room!, The Stainless Steel Rat).
  • Henry Herx, 79, American film critic.
  • Ralph Holman, 94, American biochemist.
  • Matthew Ianniello, 92, American mobster, member of the Genovese crime family.
  • Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski, 99, German graphic artist and postage stamp designer.
  • Müşfik Kenter, 79, Turkish theater actor, lung cancer.
  • Colleen Bushman Lemmon, 85, American Latter Day Saint counselor.
  • Ashok Mehta, 65, Indian cinematographer (Bandit Queen), lung cancer.
  • Carina Moberg, 46, Swedish politician, MP for Stockholm County (1994–2012), cancer.
  • Albert (Peto) Nicholas, 61, Cook Islands politician, heart attack.
  • Burl Osborne, 75, American publisher, chairman of the Associated Press (2002–2007), after short illness.
  • Mitchell Todd, 21, British rugby player (Nottingham), traffic collision.
  • Sir Ray Whitney, 81, British politician, MP for Wycombe (1978–2001).
  • Arben Xhaferi, 64, Macedonian politician and Albanian-rights activist, complications from a stroke.

    • 16

  • Larry R. Brown, 69, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (since 2005), heart attack.
  • Candice Cohen-Ahnine, 34 or 35, French-born former Saudi royal, fall from apartment window.
  • T. G. Kamala Devi, 81, Indian actor and playback singer.
  • Akiva Ehrenfeld, 90, Austrian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi.
  • Martine Franck, 74, Belgian photographer, bone marrow cancer.
  • Jang Hyun-Kyu, 30, South Korean footballer, suspected heart attack.
  • Phil Kelly, 73, Irish footballer.
  • William Kent, 93, American artist.
  • Constance Kgosiemang, 66, Namibian politician, paramount chief of the Tswana people, heart attack.
  • Lalla Amina of Morocco, 58, Moroccan royal, daughter of Mohammed V of Morocco, lung cancer.
  • Marvin Meyer, 64, American biblical scholar, cancer.
  • Abune Paulos, 76, Ethiopian patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, heart attack.
  • Bystrík Režucha, 77, Slovak conductor.
  • William Windom, 88, American actor (Murder She Wrote, To Kill a Mockingbird, Star Trek), heart failure.
  • Katsumi Yamauchi, 100, Japanese politician, mayor of Iwata, Shizuoka, natural causes.

    • 17

  • Aase Bjerkholt, 97, Norwegian politician and government minister, Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs (1956–1963, 1963–1965).
  • Pál Bogár, 84, Hungarian basketball player.
  • Joey Kovar, 29, American reality TV star (The Real World: Hollywood, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew), opiate intoxication.
  • Geoffrey Lees, 92, English cricketer and educator, prolonged illness.
  • John Lynch-Staunton, 82, Canadian politician, Senator (1990–2005), leader of the Conservative Party (2003–2004), heart attack.
  • Willem G. van Maanen, 91, Dutch journalist and writer. (Dutch)
  • Panos Markovic, 87, Greek football coach and player.
  • Lou Martin, 63, Northern Irish musician (Rory Gallagher).
  • Brian Oakley, 84, British civil servant and scientist.
  • Shirley W. Palmer-Ball, 82, American businessman and politician.
  • Veronique Peck, 80, French-born American arts patron, widow of Gregory Peck.
  • Victor Poor, 79, American engineer, co-developer of the microchip and various radio developments, cancer.
  • Patrick Ricard, 67, French entrepreneur (Pernod Ricard), complications from a heart attack.

    • 18

  • Samuel Anderson, 82, Cuban Olympic hurdler.
  • Hisham al-Hayali, Iraqi politician, Governor of Diyala Province (2012), traffic collision.
  • Tayseer al-Mashhadani, Iraqi engineer and politician, traffic collision.
  • Harrison Begay, 94, American painter.
  • George Bowers, 68, American film editor (A League of Their Own, The Country Bears, Harlem Nights).
  • John Kovatch, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins).
  • Scott McKenzie, 73, American singer ("San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)") and songwriter ("Kokomo"), Guillain–Barré syndrome.
  • Ra. Ki. Rangarajan, 85, Indian Tamil language writer.
  • Jesse Robredo, 54, Filipino politician, Mayor of Naga City (1988–1998, 2001–2010), Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (since 2010), plane crash.
  • Eilif Straume, 83, Norwegian writer and critic.

    • 19

  • Ghazi al-Sadiq, Sudanese politician, Minister of Guidance and Religious Endowments, plane crash.
  • Hellmut Geissner, 86, German scholar.
  • Donal Henahan, 91, American music critic.
  • Ivar Iversen, 97, Norwegian Olympic sprint canoeist.
  • Maïté Nahyr, 64, South African-born Belgian actress.
  • Samia Yusuf Omar, 21, Somali runner, drowning. (death announced on this date)
  • Tony Scott, 68, British film director (Top Gun, Unstoppable) and producer (Numb3rs, The Good Wife), suicide by jumping.
  • Edmund Skellings, 80, American poet.

    • 20

  • Seweryn Chajtman, 93, Polish scientist.
  • Phyllis Diller, 95, American comedian and actress (The Pruitts of Southampton), natural causes.
  • Virginia Dwyer, 92, American actress (Another World, As the World Turns, Guiding Light).
  • Juan Edmunds Rapahango, 89, Chilean Rapa Nui politician.
  • Daryl Hine, 76, American poet, editor, and translator, intestinal blockage.
  • Jacob Matijevic, 64, American engineer (NASA).
  • Dom Mintoff, 96, Maltese politician, Prime Minister (1955–1958, 1971–1984), natural causes.
  • Len Quested, 87, English footballer.
  • Kapu Rajaiah, 87, Indian painter, complication of Parkinson's disease.
  • Alexander Saxton, 93, American novelist and historian.
  • Mika Yamamoto, 45, Japanese journalist, shooting.
  • Meles Zenawi, 57, Ethiopian politician, President (1991–1995), Prime Minister (since 1995), liver cancer.

    • 21

  • Vinus van Baalen, 70, Dutch Olympic swimmer. [5]
  • Paul Bassim, 89, Lebanese Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Beirut (1974–1999).
  • Tissa David, 91, Hungarian-born American animator (Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure), cancer.
  • John Davidson, 87, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (1973–1993), natural causes.
  • Hans Josephsohn, 92, Swiss sculptor.
  • Delcia Kite, 88, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1995).
  • Georg Leber, 91, German politician, Minister of Defence (1972–1978).
  • Gary Mara, 50, Australian rugby league player (Balmain Tigers), traffic collision.
  • Taketoshi Naito, 86, Japanese actor.
  • Don Raleigh, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers), complications of a fall.
  • J. Frank Raley, 85, American politician, member of the Maryland Senate (1963–1966), heart attack.
  • Roy Speer, 80, American businessman (Home Shopping Network).
  • Guy Spitaels, 80, Belgian politician, Leader of the Socialist Party (1981–1992), Minister-President of Wallonia (1992–1994), brain tumor.
  • Sergio Toppi, 79, Italian cartoonist, cancer.
  • William Thurston, 65, American mathematician, melanoma.

    • 22

  • Houcine Anafal, 59, Moroccan footballer, heart attack.
  • Nina Bawden, 87, British author (Carrie's War).
  • Larry Carp, 86, American attorney and diplomat.
  • Charles Flores, 41, Cuban-born American jazz bassist, throat cancer.
  • José Foralosso, 74, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marabá (2000–2012), complications from a stroke.
  • Guy Landry Hazoumé, 72, Beninese politician and poet.
  • Paulino Matip Nhial, South Sudanese military leader and politician, complications of diabetes.
  • Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, 88, Taiwanese Roman Catholic cardinal, Bishop of Kaohsiung (1991–2006), pneumonia.
  • Martin Shikuku, 79, Kenyan politician, MP for Butere (1963–1975, 1979–1988, 1992–1997), cancer.
  • Jeffrey Stone, 85, American actor, model for Prince Charming in Cinderella.
  • András József Szennay, 91, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot of the Pannonhalma Archabbey (1973–1991).

    • 23

  • Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang, 96, Taiwanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tainan (1966–1990).
  • Jean-Luc Delarue, 48, French television producer and host, stomach cancer.
  • Aubrey Dunn, Sr., 84, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate (1965–1980), cancer.
  • James Fogle, 75, American author (Drugstore Cowboy), mesothelioma.
  • Byard Lancaster, 70, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, pancreatic cancer.
  • Edith Mastenbroek, 37, Dutch politician, Member of the European Parliament (2004–2008), cardiac arrest.
  • Bob Myrick, 59, American baseball player (New York Mets), heart attack.
  • Merv Neagle, 54, Australian AFL football player (Essendon), traffic collision.
  • Jerry Nelson, 78, American puppeteer (The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock), prostate cancer and COPD.
  • James Serrin, 85, American mathematician.
  • Josepha Sherman, 65, American science fiction author.
  • Steve Van Buren, 91, American Hall of Fame football player (Philadelphia Eagles), pneumonia.

    • 24

  • Dadullah, Pakistani Taliban leader (Bajaur Agency), airstrike.
  • Aleksander Donner, 65, Ukrainian handball coach.
  • Lijon Eknilang, 66, Marshallese anti–nuclear weapons activist. (death reported on this date)
  • Pauli Ellefsen, 76, Faroese politician, Prime Minister (1981–1985). (Faroese)
  • Sir Richard Evans, 84, British diplomat, Ambassador to the People's Republic of China (1984–1988).
  • Félix Miélli Venerando, 74, Brazilian footballer, 1970 FIFA World Cup winner, cardiac arrest.
  • Steve Franken, 80, American actor (Bewitched, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis), cancer.
  • Gerd Greune, 63, German politician.
  • Zygmunt Kiszkurno, 91, Polish Olympic sport shooter.
  • Claire Malis, 69, American actress (One Life to Live, From Here to Eternity, The Facts of Life), heart failure and pneumonia.
  • Dale Sommers, 68, American radio personality, Addison's disease.
  • Maureen Toal, 82, Irish actress.
  • Krum Yanev, 83, Bulgarian Olympic footballer.

    • 25

  • Florencio Amarilla, Paraguayan footballer, coach and actor.
  • Neil Armstrong, 82, American astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon, complications from surgery.
  • R. Palmer Beasley, 76, American physician, public health educator, and epidemiologist, pancreatic cancer.
  • Ray Booty, 79, English cyclist, cancer.
  • Stephen Bradford, 48, English cricket player (Lincolnshire).
  • Stanley Crooks, 70, American tribal leader, Chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (1992–2012), respiratory ailment.
  • Wisse Dekker, 88, Dutch businessman, traffic collision.
  • Georg Feuerstein, 65, German-born Canadian scholar of Hinduism.
  • Roger Fisher, 90, American academic.
  • Vesna Girardi-Jurkić, 68, Croatian archeologist and museologist.
  • Roberto González Barrera, 82, Mexican businessman, founder of Gruma, cancer.
  • Donald Gorrie, 79, Scottish politician, MSP for Central Scotland (1999–2007), MP for Edinburgh West (1997–2001).
  • Aurélio Granada Escudeiro, 92, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Angra (1979–1996), pneumonia.
  • Angkarn Kalayanapong, 86, Thai poet and artist, heart disease and diabetes.
  • Eduardo Koaik, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Piracicaba (1984–2002), cancer. (Portuguese)
  • V. K. Lakshmanan, 80, Indian politician, MP for Coimbatore East (1991–2006).
  • Richard Norris, 80, British field hockey player.
  • Emilio Pacione, 92, Scottish footballer (Dundee United).
  • Manola Saavedra, 76, Spanish-born Mexican actress.
  • Pontus Schultz, 40, Swedish journalist, ravine fall during 2012 Haute Route bicycle race.
  • Juan Valdez, 74, American land rights activist.

    • 26

  • Russ Alben, 82, American advertising executive.
  • Reginald Bartholomew, 76, American diplomat, cancer.
  • Jacques Bensimon, 69, Canadian film executive, cancer.
  • Gérard Bitsindou, 70, Congolese politician.
  • George Gunther, 92, American politician.
  • A. K. Hangal, 95, Indian actor, complications from a fall.
  • Countess Alix de Lannoy, 70, Belgian countess, mother of Stéphanie de Lannoy, stroke.
  • Peter L. Shelton, 67, American architect, cancer.
  • Karsten Anker Solhaug, Norwegian salvationist.
  • Alan Steen, 90, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
  • Krzysztof Wilmanski, 72, Polish physicist, pancreatic cancer.

    • 27

  • Neville Alexander, 75, South African revolutionary and linguist, cancer.
  • Aurora Bautista, 86, Spanish film actress.
  • Malcolm Browne, 81, American journalist and photographer (1964 Pulitzer Prize), complications of Parkinson's disease.
  • Tony Dumper, 88, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dudley (1977–1993).
  • Art Heyman, 71, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers).
  • Allan Horsfall, 84, British gay rights activist.
  • Ivica Horvat, 86, Croatian football player and manager.
  • Richard Keyes, 81, American painter.
  • Sir Richard Kingsland, 95, Australian RAAF pilot and public servant.
  • Gely Korzhev, 87, Russian painter.
  • Karl Lennert, 91, German physician and pathologist.
  • Leonard Linsky, 90, American philosopher.
  • Louis Ncamiso Ndlovu, 67, Swazi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Manzini (1985–2012), heart failure.
  • Antoine Redin, 77, French footballer and football manager. (French)
  • Aboud Rogo, 44, Kenyan Islamic cleric, shooting.
  • Russell Scott, 91, American clown and television host (Blinky's Fun Club), pneumonia.
  • Tomáš Sedláček, 94, Czech general, anti-Nazi resistance member, and political prisoner, melanoma.
  • Tao Wei, 46, Chinese football player and commentator, heart attack. (Chinese)
  • Roger J. White, 71, British-born American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Milwaukee (1985–2003), brain aneurysm.
  • Albert George Wilson, 94, American astronomer.

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  • Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, 74, Russian Muslim Sufi leader, suicide bomb attack.
  • Sir Rhodes Boyson, 87, British educator, author and politician, MP for Brent North (1974–1997).
  • Norm Dussault, 86, American ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).
  • Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli, 93, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Belluno-Feltre (1975–1996).
  • Eva Figes, 80, English author.
  • Shulamith Firestone, 67, Canadian-born American feminist writer (The Dialectic of Sex).
  • William Pascal Kikoti, 55, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mpanda (since 2000), complications of high blood pressure.
  • Dick McBride, 84, American beat poet.
  • Saul Merin, 79, Israeli ophthalmologist.
  • K. Pankajakshan, 84, Indian politician, MLA in Kerala (1971–1977, 1980–1991), cardiac arrest.
  • Alfred Schmidt, 81, German philosopher.
  • Ramón Sota, 74, Spanish golfer, pneumonia.

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  • Said Aburish, 77, Palestinian journalist.
  • Ruth Goldbloom, 88, Canadian philanthropist, co-founder of the Pier 21 museum, cancer.
  • Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 59, British academic and author (The Occult Roots of Nazism), cancer.
  • Shoshichi Kobayashi, 80, Japanese mathematician.
  • Anne McKnight, 88, American opera singer.
  • Les Moss, 87, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
  • Daniel O'Keefe, 84, American author and editor (Reader's Digest), inventor of Festivus.
  • Sergei Ovchinnikov, 43, Russian volleyball coach (women's national team), suspected suicide by hanging.
  • Jeremy Pope, 76, New Zealand activist and lawyer.
  • Donald Edgar Tewes, 96, American businessman and politician, Representative from Wisconsin (1957–1959).
  • Valyra, 3, British-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Prix de Diane (2012), euthanized.

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  • Bernardo Bonezzi, 48, Spanish film music composer.
  • Daire Brehan, 55, Irish broadcaster, actress and barrister, cancer.
  • Paul Friedrichs, 72, German motocross racer.
  • Bill Kini, 75, New Zealand boxer and rugby player, cancer.
  • Igor Kvasha, 79, Russian actor.
  • Carlos Larrañaga, 75, Spanish actor, cardiac decompensation.
  • Chris Lighty, 44, American talent manager, co-founder of Violator Entertainment, suicide by gunshot.
  • Nat Peeples, 86, American professional baseball player.
  • Don Richard Riso, 66, American teacher and author, cancer.
  • Jacek Sempoliński, 85, Polish painter, art professor, critic, and essayist.
  • Anton Skulberg, 90, Norwegian scientist and politician, MP for Østfold (1969–1972, 1974–1977).
  • Vidar Theisen, 79, Norwegian meteorologist and weather presenter, Parkinson's disease.
  • Gabriel Vahanian, 85, French Christian theologian.
  • Xin Kegui, 61, Chinese academic and civil engineer.

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  • Max Bygraves, 89, British singer, variety performer, and TV game show host (Family Fortunes), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
  • Lucas Luis Dónnelly, 91, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate.
  • Kevin Hutchinson, 37, Canadian makeup artist (Dawn of the Dead, Pacific Rim, Total Recall).
  • Tom Keating, 69, American football player (Oakland Raiders), prostate cancer.
  • Alan M. Kriegsman, 84, American dance critic (1976 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism), heart disease.
  • Franz Kieslich, 99, German air force officer, awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
  • Kris Kin, 12, American-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Epsom Derby (2003), cervical fracture. (death announced on this date)
  • Joe Lewis, 68, American martial arts master, actor, brain tumor.
  • Carlo Maria Martini, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (1979–2002), Parkinson's disease.
  • Frank B. McDonald, 87, American astrophysicist.
  • Pedro Medina Avendaño, 96, Colombian poet.
  • Steven Smith Mijiga, 74, Malawian civil servant, Post Master General.
  • A. Mathias Mundadan, 88, Indian priest.
  • Kashiram Rana, 74, Indian politician, MLA for Surat East (1975–1980) and MP for Surat (1989–2009), heart attack.
  • Heraldine Rock, 79, Saint Lucian educator and politician.
  • John C. Shabaz, 81, American district court judge and politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1964–1979).
  • Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, 101, Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union (1984–1987).
  • Theatrical, 30, Irish-bred American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf (1987), euthanized.
  • Edward Vincent, 78, American politician, first African-American Mayor of Inglewood, California (1983–1996), member of the California State Assembly (1996–2000).
  • Norbert Walter, 67, German economist.

    • References

    Deaths in August 2012 Wikipedia
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