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. Shehzad Ahmed, 80, Pakistani Urdu poet. Archie Baxter, 90, Australian footballer. Joan Bernard, 94, British academic, first Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham.Joan Bernard (1918–2012) 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.津島恵子さん死去「七人の侍」などに出演 (Japanese), Nikkan Sports; 3 August 2012 Gustavo Vassallo, 92, Argentine fencer.
2 Thor Axelsson, 91, Finnish sprint canoer. Alistair Bell, 82, British judge and politician.['BELL, His Honour Alistair Watson', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 18 Aug 2015] Jacques Caufrier, 70, Belgian Olympic water polo player (1960 and 1964).Jacques Caufrier 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.Jacques Marty 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. (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 head chef.
3 Jan Muhammad Baloch, 60, Pakistani Olympic boxer.Jan Balouch 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.Obituary: 'Big John' Pritchard squared off against Globetrotters|startribune.com George Shanard, 86, American politician and agribusinessman.
4 István Andrássy, 85, Hungarian nematologist.[Vinciguerra MT (2012). "Obituary". Nematology. 14(8): 1015–1017.] 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.Addio al vignettista Coco 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.Hall of Fame basketball player Arnie Risen dies at age 87|USATODAY.com Henry Scholberg, 91, American bibliographer.Obituary: Henry Scholberg knew hunger and saw the world Jimmy Thomson, 75, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic).
5 Erwin Axer, 95, Polish theatre director. Michel Daerden, 62, Belgian politician, heart attack.Michel Daerden: il aurait caché au public son dernier infarctus, RTL info (in French). 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.Notice of death of "Sister Boom Boom", SF Weekly blog (August 7, 2012) . Kirk Urso, 22, American soccer player, heart failure. Chavela Vargas, 93, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter, respiratory arrest."Muere Chavela Vargas". Roland Charles Wagner, 51, French author, traffic collision."Roland C. Wagner nous a quittés" (French) Péter Zwack, 85, Hungarian businessman, philanthropist, diplomat and U.S. ambassador.Heti Válasz: "Cége közölte a hírt" (in Hungarian). Manie van Zyl, 83, South African Olympic wrestler.Manie van Zyl
6 Míne Bean Uí Chribín, 84, Irish conservative campaigner. Celso Blues Boy, 56, Brazilian singer and guitarist, laryngeal cancer.Morre cantor Celso Blues Boy vítima de câncer de garganta, em Joinville 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).Australian critic Robert Hughes dead|Australian Broadcasting Corporation 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.'Hairspray' co-writer Mark O'Donnell dies at 58|Yahoo! News Boris Razinsky, 79, Russian football player. Ruggiero Ricci, 94, American violinist, heart failure.Ruggiero Ricci obituary, guardian.co.uk Dan Roundfield, 59, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks), drowning. Shunpei Ueyama, 91, Japanese philosopher. Frits Vandenboer, 78, Belgian footballer.Frits Vanderboer 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.Lou Costello András Domahidy, 92, Hungarian-Australian novelist and librarian. Ruth Etchells, 81, English poet and college principal. Sancho Gracia, 75, Spanish actor, lung cancer. (Spanish) Azizul Haque, 93, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.Bangladeshi Ex-IOJ chief Shaikhul Hadith passes away|thedailystar.net Georgios Katsifaras, 77, Greek politician. Surya Lesmana, 68, Indonesian football player and manager, heart attack. Kurt Maetzig, 101, German film director. (German)
9 José Aruego, 80, Filipino children's book author and illustrator. Harry G. Barnes Jr., 86, American diplomat. Ralph W. Beiting, 88, American priest. Max Bound, 87, Australian environmental activist and trade unionist. Gerard J. Campbell, 92, American Jesuit and academic, President of Georgetown University (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).Arc de Triomphe Winner, Sire Carnegie Dies BloodHorse.com Paule Castaing, 101, French chef. Ananda Dassanayake, 92, Sri Lankan politician."Former MP Ananda Dassanayake has passed away at age 92", mylinkenglishnews.blogspot.co.uk Carl Davis, 77, American record producer ("Duke of Earl", "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"), lung disease."Carl Davis, music producer of "The Chicago Sound" dies at 77", Chicago Sun-Times. Tom Dockrell, 88, American ice hockey player and coach. Pyotr Fomenko, 80, Soviet and Russian film and theater director, teacher, and artistic director.https://web.archive.org/web/20120814203908/http://www.tvkultura.ru/news.html?id=1062412&cid=178 Gene F. Franklin, 85, American control theorist, professor emeritus of electrical engineering (Stanford University).Gene F. Franklin, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, dies at 85 , Stanford University School of Engineering 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 Belén Richardson, 81, Puerto Rican actress and comedian. Jan Sawka, 65, Polish-born American artist and architect, heart attack. Mel Stuart, 83, American film director (If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), cancer. Erol Togay, 62, Turkish footballer.Türk futbolunun acı kaybı, ntvspor.net, 9 August 2012
10 James Lloyd Abbot Jr., 94, American U.S. Navy rear admiral. Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar, 72, Jordanian academic.Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar's obituary (in Arabic) 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.Manchester City: 1946/47 – 2013/14 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.