The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2010.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 2010
1 Robert F. Boyle, 100, American art director and production designer (North By Northwest, The Birds, Fiddler on the Roof). Bruce Garvey, 70, British-born Canadian journalist, lung cancer. Lolita Lebrón, 90, Puerto Rican nationalist. William MacVane, 95, American surgeon and politician, mayor of Portland, Maine (1971). Stig Mårtensson, 87, Swedish Olympic cyclist. K. M. Mathew, 93, Indian newspaper editor (Malayala Manorama). Eric Tindill, 99, New Zealand cricketer and rugby union player.
2 Ian Castles, 75, Australian public servant, Australian Statistician (1986–1994).The enigmatic 'Mr Numbers' of federal policy James Hunter, 56, American football player (Detroit Lions), apparent heart attack.Former Lion James Hunter Dies At 56 Ole Ivar Lovaas, 83, Norwegian psychologist and researcher (Lovaas technique), Alzheimer's disease. José María Silvero, 78, Argentine footballer. Artemio Villanueva, 64, Paraguayan footballer Jan Wilson, 66, British politician, Leader of Sheffield City Council (1997–1999, 2002–2008), lung cancer. Rumen Yordanov, 51, Bulgarian Olympic wrestler.Rumen Yordanov
3 Kathleen Gemberling Adkison, 93, American abstract painter. Marilyn Buck, 62, American activist and terrorist, uterine cancer. Bruce M. Cohen, 65, American rabbi, cancer. James L. Gray, 84, British engineer. Bobby Hebb, 72, American singer-songwriter ("Sunny"), lung cancer. Antonio Subirana, 78, Spanish Olympic water polo player. Norman Walsh, 77, Zimbabwean air marshal. Edmund Zientara, 81, Polish Olympic footballer.
4 Manuel Ayau, 84, Guatemalan businessman. Robert E. Davis, 70, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (2009–2010). Gary Johnson, 57, American football player (San Diego Chargers), stroke. Jim Kennan, 64, Australian lawyer and politician, Deputy Premier of Victoria (1990–1992), cancer. Henry A. Lardy, 92, American biochemist. Daikirin Takayoshi, 68, Japanese sumo wrestler, pancreatic cancer.
5 Robert Baker Aitken, 93, American Zen Buddhist teacher, pneumonia. Godfrey Binaisa, 90, Ugandan politician, President (1979–1981).Former Ugandan President Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa is dead Francisco María Aguilera González, 92, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate. Sue Napier, 62, Australian politician, Leader of the Tasmanian Opposition (1999–2001), breast cancer. Jürgen Oesten, 96, German seaman, U-boat commander during World War II. Yuri Shishlov, 65, Russian football coach, shot.
6 Ultus Álvarez, 78, Cuban baseball player. Cacilda Borges Barbosa, 96, Brazilian electronic musician. Julian Besag, 65, British statistician. Catfish Collins, 66, American guitarist (James Brown, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parliament-Funkadelic), cancer.Bootsy's brother succumbs to cancer David C. Dolby, 64, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. Fredrik Ericsson, 35, Swedish mountaineer, falling accident on K2. Constantin Guirma, 90, Burkinabé Catholic prelate, bishop of Kaya (1969–1996). Tony Judt, 62, British historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. John Louis Mansi, 83, British actor, lung cancer. Jeff McLean, 62, Australian rugby football player, cancer. Knut Østby, 87, Norwegian sprint canoer, Olympic silver medalist (1948). Jack Phipps, 84, British arts administrator.
7 Roberto Cantoral, 75, Mexican composer, heart attack. Bruno Cremer, 80, French actor (Is Paris Burning?, Sorcerer, Maigret).'Maigret' star Bruno Cremer dies at 80 Keith Drumright, 55, American baseball player (Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics). Jerry Flint, 79, American automotive journalist (Forbes), stroke.Jerry Flint, Dean Of Auto Writers, Dead At 79 Leonid Gorbenko, 71, Russian politician, governor of Kaliningrad Oblast (1996–2000). Alex Johns, 43, American film producer (The Ant Bully) and television producer (Futurama), after long illness. John Nelder, 85, British statistician, President of the Royal Statistical Society (1985–1986). Werner Winter, 86, German linguist.Message 1: Obituary: Professor Werner Winter (1923 – 2010)
8 Sikandar Alam, 71, Indian singer. Aleksandr Bokovikov, 53, Russian politician, governor of Evenk Autonomous Okrug (1997–2001), heart attack.The first governor of the Evenki Autonomous Area dies Ken Boyes, 75, English footballer (York City F.C.). Charlie Davao, 75, Filipino actor, colorectal cancer. David Dixon, 87, American businessman, founder of the United States Football League. Alan Myers, 77, British translator. Patricia Neal, 84, American actress, (Hud, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Day the Earth Stood Still), Oscar winner (1964), lung cancer. Jack Parnell, 87, British musician and bandleader (The Muppet Show), cancer. Bernhard Philberth, 83, German physicist, engineer, philosopher and theologian. Matthew Simmons, 67, American businessman and economist. Massamasso Tchangai, 32, Togolese footballer, after brief illness.
9 Tab Baker, 49, American actor (Save the Last Dance, The Ice Harvest, Prison Break), heart attack. Lech Boguszewicz, 71, Polish Olympic athlete.Lech Boguszewicz George DiCenzo, 70, American character actor (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Helter Skelter) and voice actor (She-Ra: Princess of Power), sepsis. Fernando Fernández, 70, Spanish illustrator and comic artist, after long illness. Robin Warwick Gibson, 66, British art historian. Gene Hermanski, 90, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, 84, American blues bassist and singer. James C. Keck, 86, American physicist ane engineer.James Keck, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dies at 86 Herbert Kirschner, 85, German Olympic sprint canoer. Jay Larkin, 59, American television boxing executive (Showtime), brain tumor. Harry Lindbäck, 83, Swedish Olympic sprint canoer. Paul K. Longmore, 64, American historian and disability activist.Leading disability scholar and activist :Paul K. Longmore dies at 64 Mariam Baharum, 75, Singaporean actress, natural causes. Juan Marichal, 88, Spanish historian. Paul Milstein, 88, American real estate developer. Roy Pinney, 98, American herpetologist, photographer, war correspondent and writer. Ronald Reid-Daly, 83, South African army officer (Rhodesian Army), founder and commander of the Selous Scouts. Ted Stevens, 86, American politician, Senator from Alaska (1968–2009), inventor of the term series of tubes, victim of 2010 Alaska plane crash. Mary Anne Warren, 63, American philosopher and academic. John Yaremko, 91, Canadian politician, MPP for Bellwoods (1951–1975).
10 Ron Allen, 62, American poet and playwright. Gordon Robertson Cameron, 88, Canadian politician, Commissioner of Yukon (1962–1966). Brian Clark, 67, English footballer (Cardiff City F.C.), after long illness. Dana Dawson, 36, American actress and singer, colorectal cancer. Séamus Dolan, 95, Irish politician, Teachta Dála (1961–1965) and Senator (1965–1969, 1973–1982). Marie de Garis, 100, Guernseyan author. Slavko Koletić, 60, Croatian Olympic wrestler.Slavko Koletić Antonio Pettigrew, 42, American athletics coach, 1991 world champion and 2000 Olympic sprinter, suicide by drug overdose. Leo Pinto, 96, Indian field hockey player, Olympic gold medalist (1948). Thelma Pressman, 89, American microwave cooking consultant, opened first microwave cooking school in the United States. Jimmy Reid, 78, Scottish trade unionist and journalist. Armando Robles Godoy, 87, Peruvian film director, heart failure. Radomír Šimůnek Sr., 48, Czech racing cyclist, liver cirrhosis. Adam Stansfield, 31, English footballer (Exeter City F.C.), colorectal cancer. Shirley Thomson, 80, Canadian arts administrator, heart attack. David L. Wolper, 82, American film and television producer (North and South, Roots, The Thorn Birds), heart failure and Parkinson's disease.
11 Gretel Beer, 89, Austrian-born British cookery and travel writer. David Hull, 75, American philosopher, pancreatic cancer.David L. Hull 1935-2010: Top philosopher of science backed gay, lesbian rights *Sir Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, 86, British politician, MP for Holborn and St Pancras South (1959–1964), East Grinstead (1965–1983) and Wealden (1983–2001). Nellie King, 82, American baseball player and public address announcer (Pittsburgh Pirates).Nellie King, Pirates Announcer, Dies at 82 Ger Lagendijk, 68, Dutch footballer (Hermes DVS) and football agent, heart attack.De netste voetbalmakelaar van Nederland Markus Liebherr, 62, Swiss businessman, owner of Southampton F.C. Kanapathy Moorthy, 77, Malaysian judoka.Kanapathy Moorthy Dan Rostenkowski, 82, American politician, Representative from Illinois (1959–1995), lung cancer. Bruno Schleinstein, 78, German actor. Sesenne, 96, Saint Lucian singer. Lou Smit, 75, American police detective, investigated JonBenét Ramsey case, colorectal cancer. James Mourilyan Tanner, 90, British paediatrician. Sir Ron Trotter, 82, New Zealand businessman, cancer. Arnold Zellner, 83, American econometrician and statistician, cancer.Arnold Zellner, 1927-2010, a pioneer of modern econometrics
12 Len Andrews, 87, Australian footballer. Isaac Bonewits, 60, American Neopagan leader and author, colorectal cancer. Guido de Marco, 79, Maltese politician, President (1999–2004), President of the United Nations General Assembly (1990). Laurence Gardner, 67, British writer and academic, lecturer on historical revisionism, after long illness. Richie Hayward, 64, American drummer (Little Feat), liver cancer. Manfred Homberg, 77, German Olympic boxer. André Kim, 74, South Korean fashion designer, pneumonia and colorectal cancer. Victor Kremer, 78, Luxembourgish Olympic shooter. Mario Laguë, 52, Canadian diplomat, Liberal Party communications director, road accident. Artur Olech, 70, Polish boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1964, 1968). Andrew Roth, 91, American-born British biographer and journalist, prostate cancer. Paul Ryan Rudd, 70, American actor (Beacon Hill, The Betsy), pancreatic cancer. Mohammad Ali Taraghijah, 67, Iranian painter. Luis Tascón, 41, Venezuelan politician, member of the National Assembly, colorectal cancer.
13 Colin François Lloyd Austin, 69, British scholar. Panagiotis Bachramis, 34, Greek footballer (Veria F.C.), fishing accident.Σκοτώθηκε από ταχύπλοο ο ποδοσφαιριστής Παναγιώτης Μπαχράμης Helen Berg, 78, American statistician and politician, mayor of Corvallis, Oregon (1994–2006), peritoneal mesothelioma. Lance Cade, 29, American professional wrestler, (WWE, NWA, AJPW, HUSTLE), heart failure. Patrick Cauvin, 77, French novelist, complications from cancer. Jacques Faivre, 76, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Le Mans (1997–2008), heart attack. Alejandro Febrero, 85, Spanish swimmer. Albert Frost, 96, British businessman. Steve Jordan, 71, American accordionist, complications from liver cancer. Edward Kean, 85, American television writer (Howdy Doody), complications from emphysema. Alberto Müller Rojas, 75, Venezuelan military officer and politician, adviser to Hugo Chávez.Former close Chavez adviser Muller dies Edwin Newman, 91, American journalist and newscaster (NBC News), pneumonia. Isaac Passy, 82, Bulgarian philosopher and art historian. Phil Petillo, 64, American luthier and engineer. Jan Reinås, 66, Norwegian businessman, cancer. David Rowland, 86, American industrial designer. Craig Van Tilbury, 53, American guitarist and chess master, heart attack. Janaki Venkataraman, 89, Indian First Lady (1987–1992), after short illness.
14 Mervyn Alexander, 85, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Clifton (1974–2001). Rallis Kopsidis, 81, Greek painter. Herman Leonard, 87, American jazz photographer. Abbey Lincoln, 80, American jazz singer and actress (For Love of Ivy, Nothing But a Man).