Deaths in August 2012

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

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).

August 2012

1

• Ülkü Adatepe, 79, Turkish adoptee, adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, traffic collision.
• Archie Baxter, 90, Australian footballer.
• Joan Bernard, 94, British academic, first Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham.
• Dorothy D'Anna, 94, American actress.
• Sami Damian, 82, Romanian-born Jewish literary critic and essayist.
• Don Erickson, 80, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• David Eyton-Jones, 88, British Army officer.
• Liselotte Funcke, 94, German politician.
• 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.
• Gustavo Vassallo, 92, Argentine fencer.

2

• Thor Axelsson, 91, Finnish sprint canoer.
• Alistair Bell, 82, British judge and politician.
• Jacques Caufrier, 70, Belgian Olympic water polo player (1960 and 1964).
• Ruy de Freitas, 95, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) basketball player, multiple organ failure.
• Felix De Smedt, 88, Belgian pioneer judo teacher.
• Amos Hakham, 91, Israeli Bible scholar, first winner of the International Bible Contest (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.
• Jacques Marty, 72, French Olympic boxer.
• 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 dual bronze medallist racing cyclist (1952, 1956).
• Gilbert Prouteau, 95, French poet and film director.
• William Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden, 82, British peer, cancer.
• Jacques-Raymond Tremblay, 88, Canadian politician.
• Mihaela Ursuleasa, 33, Romanian pianist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Herman van Ham, 81, Dutch head chef.

3

• Jan Muhammad Baloch, 60, Pakistani Olympic boxer.
• John Berry, 67, English speedway promoter (Ipswich Witches) and national team manager.
• Garth Burkett, 85, Australian football player.
• Fernando Cavaleiro, 95, Portuguese Olympic equestrian.
• Chang Do-yong, 89, South Korean general, politician and professor, dementia.
• Al Conway, 82, American football player and official.
• Frank Evans, 90, American Negro league baseball player.
• Martin Fleischmann, 85, Czech-born British chemist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Giorgi Gomiashvili, 39, Georgian business executive and diplomat, suicide by gunshot.
• Paul McCracken, 96, American economist, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1969–1971).
• John Pritchard, 85, American basketball player.

4

• István Andrássy, 85, Hungarian nematologist.
• Johnnie Bassett, 76, American blues musician, cancer.
• Josy Braun, 74, Luxembourgish writer, journalist and translator.
• Abdul Matin Chowdhury, 78, Bangladeshi politician, old age complications.
• Giuseppe Coco, 76, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
• Brian Crozier, 94, British author and journalist.
• Metin Erksan, 83, Turkish film director, renal failure.
• Hanley Funderburk, 81, American academic administrator, President of Auburn University (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 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer.
• Henry Scholberg, 91, American bibliographer.
• Jimmy Thomson, 75, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic).

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.
• Péter Zwack, 85, Hungarian businessman, philanthropist, diplomat and U.S. ambassador.
• Manie van Zyl, 83, South African Olympic wrestler.

6

• Míne Bean Uí Chribín, 84, Irish conservative campaigner.
• Celso Blues Boy, 56, Brazilian singer and guitarist, laryngeal cancer.
• Valentin Chernykh, 77, Russian screenwriter.
• Douglas Alan Clark, 95, American pilot.
• Richard Cragun, 67, American ballet dancer, heart attack.
• Marvin Hamlisch, 68, American composer and arranger (The Way We Were, A Chorus Line, The Sting), EGOT winner, lung failure.
• 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.
• Eleftherios Veryvakis, 77, Greek politician.
• Gregor W. Yeates, 68, New Zealand soil zoologist and ecologist.

7

• Murtuz Alasgarov, 83, Azerbaijani politician, Speaker of the National Assembly (1996–2005).
• Fritzi Jane Courtney, 89, American actress.
• 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.
• Japie Basson, 94, South African politician.
• Hans Camenzind, 78, Swiss electronics engineer.
• Aung Shwe Prue Chowdhury, 98, Bangladeshi politician.
• Lou Costello, 76, English footballer.
• András Domahidy, 92, Hungarian-Australian novelist and librarian.
• Ruth Etchells, 81, English poet and college principal.
• Sancho Gracia, 75, Spanish actor, lung cancer.
• Azizul Haque, 93, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.
• Georgios Katsifaras, 77, Greek politician.
• Surya Lesmana, 68, Indonesian football player and manager, heart attack.
• Kurt Maetzig, 101, German film director.

9

• José Aruego, 80, Filipino children's book author and illustrator.
• Harry G. Barnes, Jr., 86, American diplomat.
• Ralph W. Beiting, 88, American priest.
• Max Bound, 87, Australian environmental activist and trade unionist.
• Gerard 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.
• Tom Dockrell, 88, American ice hockey player and coach.
• Pyotr Fomenko, 80, Soviet and Russian film and theater director, teacher, and artistic director.
• Gene F. Franklin, 85, American control theorist, professor emeritus of electrical engineering (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.
• Altay Sarsenuly Amanzholov, 78, Kazakh Turkologist.
• Art Andrew, 81, United States Virgin Islands Olympic sailor.
• William G. Bade, 88, American mathematician.
• Robert C. Becklin, 86, American businessman and politician.
• Billy Bootle, 86, English footballer.
• Philippe Bugalski, 49, French rally driver, injuries from fall.
• Suresh Dalal, 79, Indian poet and writer in Gujarati language, heart attack.
• Amjad Hameed Khan Dasti, 94, Pakistani politician.
• Ioan Dicezare, 95, Romanian WWII fighter pilot ace.
• Joe Douse, 82, American Negro League baseball player.
• Irving Fein, 101, American film and television producer, manager of Jack Benny and George Burns.
• Madeleine Leininger, 87, American nursing theorist.
• William W. Momyer, 95, American air force general, heart ailment.
• Carlo Rambaldi, 86, Italian special effects artist (Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Oscar winner (1976, 1980, 1983).

11

• Red Bastien, 81, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
• Carlo Curley, 59, American classical organist.
• Michael Dokes, 54, American former WBA heavyweight champion boxer, liver cancer.
• Marco Antonio Dorantes García, 76, Mexican football referee.
• Beverly Milton Dyck, 78, Canadian politician, progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Hans Einstein, 89, American physician.
• Karl Fleming, 84, American journalist, respiratory complications.
• 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.
• Hilary Gardner, 90, South African cricketer.
• 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, 87, American cognitive scientist.
• Henning Moritzen, 84, Danish actor, heart attack.
• Dame Simone Prendergast, 82, British public servant and philanthropist.
• Bill Rafferty, 68, American comedian and television host (Blockbusters, Card Sharks, Real People), heart failure.
• 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.
• Ève Cournoyer, 43, Canadian singer-songwriter.
• 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 Olympic field hockey player.
• Jerry Grant, 77, American race car driver, liver failure and diabetes.
• Dominic Hibberd, 71, English biographer, pneumonia-induced corticobasal degeneration.
• Barbara Kimenye, 82, British-born Ugandan children's author.
• Joe Kubert, 85, Polish-born American comic book artist (Sgt. Rock, Hawkman), multiple myeloma.
• Jakov Labura, 74, Croatian Olympic rower.
• 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 Bedau, 85, American philosopher, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Beverly Bender, 94, American sculptor.
• Helen Gurley Brown, 90, American author, publisher, and businesswoman; editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine (1965–1997).
• Robert Bruce, 96, Scottish composer.
• Jimmy Carr, 79, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
• Dan Daniels, 90, American sportscaster.
• Salvador Escudero, 69, Filipino politician, cancer.
• E. X. Giroux, 88, U.S.-born Canadian writer.
• Kathi Goertzen, 54, American journalist and television anchor (KOMO-TV), benign brain tumors.
• Nellie Gray, 88, American anti-abortion 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, sailor, author, motivational speaker and businesswoman.
• 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.
• Remy Charlip, 83, American dancer.
• Colorspin, 29, French-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare, suspected heart attack.
• 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 Olympic cyclist.
• 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), heart attack.
• Al Rabin, 76, American producer and director (Days of Our Lives).
• Rosemary Rice, 87, American radio and television actress (Archie Andrews, Mama).
• Smoke, American donkey, therapy animal for the United States Marine Corps.
• 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.
• Altamiro Carrilho, 87, Brazilian musician and composer, lung cancer.
• Enzo Cavazzoni, 80, Italian Olympic water polo player.
• Biff Elliot, 89, American actor (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, I, the Jury, The Enemy Below).
• Joaquín Filba, 89, Spanish cyclist.
• 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, complications from liver cancer.
• 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 B. 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).
• Heinz Wittig, 74, German Olympic water polo player.
• Arbën Xhaferi, 64, Macedonian politician and Albanian-rights activist, complications from a stroke.

16

• Peter Joseph Bis, app. 61, American homeless man, heart attack.
• Larry R. Brown, 69, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (since 2005), heart attack.
• Candice Cohen-Ahnine, app. 35, French-born former Saudi royal, fall from apartment window.
• T. G. Kamala Devi, 81, Indian actor and playback singer.
• Evon Dickson, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
• Akiva Ehrenfeld, 90, Austrian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi.
• Martine Franck, 74, Belgian photographer, bone marrow cancer.
• Owsley Brown Frazier, 77, American philanthropist.
• 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

• Joan Bielski, 88, Australian activist.
• Aase Bjerkholt, 97, Norwegian politician and government minister, Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs (1956–1963, 1963–1965).
• Pál Bogár, 84, Hungarian Olympic basketball player.
• Amparo Cuevas, 81, Spanish Roman Catholic seer.
• Axel Edelstam, 88, Swedish diplomat.
• 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.
• 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 Governorate (2012), traffic collision.
• Tayseer al-Mashhadani, Iraqi engineer and politician, traffic collision.
• Alan Bateman, 76, Australian film producer and television screenwriter, cancer.
• Harrison Begay, 94, American painter.
• George Bowers, 68, American film editor (A League of Their Own, The Country Bears, Harlem Nights), complications following heart surgery.
• Lourival Mendes França, Brazilian draughts player.
• Robert B. Gaither, 83, American mechanical engineer.
• Les Kaine, 76, Australian footballer (Hawthorn).
• 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.
• Yuriy Avanesov, 77, Soviet football player and coach.
• Doug Dench, 82, Australian football player.
• Hellmut Geissner, 86, German scholar.
• Donal Henahan, 91, American music critic.
• Ivar Iversen, 97, Norwegian Olympic sprint canoeist.
• Laura Latini, 42, Italian voice actress, cancer.
• Maïté Nahyr, 64, South African-born Belgian actress.
• Samia Yusuf Omar, 21, Somali Olympic runner, drowning. (death announced on this date)
• Tony Scott, 68, British film director (Top Gun, True Romance, Man on Fire) and producer, suicide by jumping.
• Edmund Skellings, 80, American poet.

20

• Agnes World, 17, American-bred, Japanese-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
• 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.
• Paul Bassim, 89, Lebanese Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Beirut (1974–1999).
• Joe Cunningham, 80–81, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer.
• 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.
• Genoveva Dawson, 94, Argentine botanist, curator, teacher, and explorer.
• Hans Josephsohn, 92, Swiss sculptor.
• Delcia Kite, 88, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1995).
• Kyle Larsen, 62, American contract bridge player.
• 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.
• William Thurston, 65, American mathematician, melanoma.
• Sergio Toppi, 79, Italian cartoonist, cancer.
• Ivan the Gorilla, 49–50, gorilla who didn't see his kind for 27 years, chest tumor.

22

• Houcine Anafal, 59, Moroccan footballer, heart attack.
• Bernie Anderson, 71, Australian footballer.
• Nina Bawden, 87, British author (Carrie's War).
• Larry Carp, 86, American attorney and diplomat.
• David K. Cheng, 94, Chinese-born American professor.
• 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.
• Trevor French, Australian Paralympic swimmer.
• Guy Landry Hazoumé, 72, Beninese politician and poet.
• Paulino Matip Nhial, 69–70, 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 Szennay, 91, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot of the Pannonhalma Archabbey (1973–1991).

23

• Col Campbell, 78, Australian gardener, cancer.
• 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.
• Howard Lee, 77, Bermudian Olympic sailor.
• 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

• Henry H. Black, 83, American marine.
• Werner Braun, 86, German musicologist.
• Cornelia Brierly, 99, American architect.
• Bud Chamberlain, 92, American baseball player and realtor.
• Dadullah, app. 47, Pakistani Taliban leader (Bajaur Agency), airstrike.
• Richard William Davis, 70, American child murderer and rapist, natural causes.
• 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).
• 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.
• Bud Goodall, 59, American scholar and writer, pancreatic 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, 77, 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, British Empire and Commonwealth Games gold medallist (1958), cancer.
• Stephen Bradford, 48, English cricket player (Lincolnshire).
• Willard C. Butcher, 85, American banker, cancer.
• Joshua Casteel, 32, American soldier and playwright, lung cancer.
• 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.
• V. K. Lakshmanan, 80, Indian politician, MP for Coimbatore East (1991–2006).
• Richard Norris, 80, British Olympic bronze medallist field hockey player (1952).
• 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.

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• Russ Alben, 82, American advertising executive.
• Reginald Bartholomew, 76, American diplomat, cancer.
• Jacques Bensimon, 69, Canadian film executive, cancer.
• Gérard Bitsindou, 70, Congolese politician.
• Viredo Espinosa, 83, Cuban artist, vascular disease.
• Robert T. Gannett, 94, American politician and lawyer.
• John Goldkamp, 64, American criminologist, multiple myeloma.
• George Gunther, 92, American politician.
• A. K. Hangal, 98, 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, 97, Norwegian salvationist.
• Alan Steen, 90, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
• Krzysztof Wilmanski, 72, Polish physicist, pancreatic cancer.

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• 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.
• Irwin Cohen, 60, American judoka, amyloidosis and myelodysplastic syndromes.
• Tony Dumper, 88, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dudley (1977–1993).
• Richard L. Fisher, 64, American politician and energy executive, heart attack.
• 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.
• Geliy 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.
• 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.
• 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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• Akhlakul Hossain Ahmed, 85, Bangladeshi physician and politician.
• 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).
• Dave Fredrickson, 85, American archaeologist, anthropologist, and folk singer.
• 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.
• Margie Foote, 82, American politician.
• 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.
• L. Macon Epps, 92, American engineer, inventor, author and poet.
• Gaeton Fonzi, 76, American investigative journalist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Kristian Fougner, 93, Norwegian engineer and resistance member.
• 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.
• Christopher Williams, 85, British Olympic bobsledder.
• Xin Kegui, 61, Chinese academic and civil engineer.

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• Cornelis Christiaan Berg, 78, Dutch botanist.
• 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.
• Mark J. Dworkin, 66, Canadian writer.
• Rajvinder Kaur Gill, 40, Canadian banker, strangulation.
• 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 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 judge and politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1964–1979).
• Sergey 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.
• Mahmoud El-Gohary, 74, Egyptian football player and coach, complications of a stroke.

External links

• List of August 2012 deaths at IMDb