Deaths in August 2009

The following is a list of deaths in August 2009.

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 2009

1

* Jerome Anderson, 55, American basketball player (Boston Celtics) and coach.
*Corazon Aquino, 76, Filipino politician, first female President (1986–1992), colon cancer.
* Devendra Nath Dwivedi, 74, Indian politician, Governor designate of Gujarat.
*Flavia Irwin, 92, British painter.
*Edward D. Ives, 83, American folklorist and professor.
*Keith Macklin, 78, British journalist and broadcaster.
*George Taylor Morris, 62, American radio personality, throat cancer.
* Nicholas D'Antonio Salza, 93, Honduran Bishop of Juticalpa (1963–1977).
* Naomi Sims, 61, American model and author, breast cancer.
*Rana Chandra Singh, 78, Pakistani politician.
*Howard Smit, 98, American film make-up artist (''The Wizard of Oz'').
*Panakkad Sayeed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal, 73, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
*Borka Vučić, 83, Serbian politician and banker, traffic collision.

2

* Shafiq al-Hout, 77, Palestinian politician, co-founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization, cancer.
*Adolf Endler, 78, German writer.
* Hironoshin Furuhashi, 80, Japanese swimmer, Vice President of FINA.
* Mark Green, 92, British prelate, Bishop of Aston (1972–1982).
* Billy Lee Riley, 75, American rockabilly musician, cancer.
* Stanley Robertson, 68, British folk singer and storyteller.
* Michael A. Wiener, 71, American radio mogul ( Infinity Broadcasting) and philanthropist, cancer.
* Sidney Zion, 75, American journalist, cancer.

3

*Subhas Chakraborty, 66, Indian politician.
*Christopher Elrington, 79, English historian, general editor of the Victoria County History.
*Zelik Epstein, 96, American rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
* Charles Gwathmey, 71, American architect, esophageal cancer.
* Keith Kirton, 81, South African cricketer.
*Walter Philip Leber, 90, American Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (1967–1971).
*Nikolaos Makarezos, 90, Greek army officer, leader of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.
* Reiko Ohara, 62, Japanese actress, intracerebral hemorrhage.
*Svend Ove Pedersen, 88, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) rower.
* Zinovy Vysokovsky, 76, Russian actor.

4

*Hirotugu Akaike, 81, Japanese statistician, pneumonia.
* David Ames, 72, American football player ( New York Titans), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
*Svend Auken, 66, Danish politician, prostate cancer.
*Benson, appr. 25, British common carp, voted as Britain's Favourite Carp (death announced on this date).
*George I. Cannon, 89, American church leader ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
* Ross Dufty, 81, Australian cricketer.
*Sir David Haslam, 86, British admiral.
*Jo O-ryeon, 56, South Korean Olympic swimmer.
* Ergash Karimov, 75, Uzbek actor and comedian.
* Amos Kenan, 82, Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Günther Morbach, 81, German classical bass in opera and concert.
*Joseph Msika, 85, Zimbabwean politician, Vice President, stroke.
* Gonzalo Santos, 68, Northern Mariana Island Cabinet member, educator and principal, lung cancer.
* Blake Snyder, 51, American screenwriter (''Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot'', '' Blank Check'') and author ('' Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need''), cardiac arrest.
*Ole A. Sørli, 63, Norwegian manager and record producer.
*Mbah Surip, 60, Indonesian reggae singer, heart attack.
*Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi, 78, American federal judge.
*Martha Ware, 91, American judge, first female judge in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
*James Wiegold, 75, Welsh mathematician, leukemia.

5

*G. A. Cohen, 68, Canadian Marxist political philosopher.
*Jordi Sabater Pi, 87, Spanish ethologist, discovered albino gorilla '' Snowflake''.
* Sheikha Hessa bint Salman Al Khalifa, appr. 76, Bahraini royal, widow of Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, mother of King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah.
* Baitullah Mehsud, appr. 35, Pakistani militant, injuries resulting from a military strike.
* Budd Schulberg, 95, American screenwriter (''On the Waterfront'', ''The Harder They Fall'', '' A Face in the Crowd''), Oscar winner (1955).
* Daljit Singh, 73-74, Indian cricketer.
*Al Tomko, 77, Canadian professional wrestler, pancreatic cancer.

6

*Bahadır Akkuzu, 54, Turkish musician, heart attack.
*Rolf Back, 81, Finnish Olympic sprinter
Rolf Back
*Helen Brotherton, 95, British conservationist.
*Maup Caransa, 93, Dutch property developer.
* Riccardo Cassin, 100, Italian mountaineer.
*Savka Dabčević-Kučar, 85, Croatian politician.
* Willy DeVille, 58, American singer–songwriter ( Mink DeVille), pancreatic cancer.
*Stanley Haidasz, 86, Canadian politician, MP for Trinity (1957–1958) and Parkdale (1962–1978), Senator (1978–1998).
*Charles Harrison, 67, British art historian.
* John Hughes, 59, American film director (''The Breakfast Club'', '' Ferris Bueller's Day Off'') and screenwriter ('' Home Alone''), heart attack.
*Anthony Impreveduto, 61, American corrupt politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1987–2004), lymphoma.
*Jack T. Kirby, 70, American historian, winner of the 2007 Bancroft Prize, heart failure.
*Anilza Leoni, 75, Brazilian actress, emphysema.
*Donald Marshall Jr., 55, Canadian wrongfully convicted of murder, complications from a lung transplant.
* Murali, 55, Indian actor, heart attack.
*Willibrordus S. Rendra, 73, Indonesian poet.
*Sam, 4, Australian koala made famous after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, euthanised.
*Aram Tigran, 75, Armenian singer and oud player.
* Otha Young, 66, American musician and songwriter, cancer.

7

*Jimmy Bedford, 69, American distiller ( Jack Daniel's), heart attack.
*Frank G. Dickey, 91, American educator, president of the University of Kentucky (1956–1963).
*Gibson, 7, American Great Dane therapy dog, recognized by Guinness Book of World Records as world's tallest dog, bone cancer.
* Carleen Hutchins, 98, American violin maker.
* Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, 80, Iraqi politician, Vice President (1975–2003).
*Gulshan Kumar Mehta, 72, Indian songwriter, heart failure.
*John Harber Phillips, 75, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Victoria (1991–2003).
*Danko Popović, 81, Serbian writer.
*Louis E. Saavedra, 76, American politician, Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico (1973; 1989–1993), brain cancer.
* Mike Seeger, 75, American folk musician, folklorist and banjo player, cancer.
*Paul Silver, 60, American seismologist, traffic collision.
*Sergio Stefanini, 87, Italian Olympic basketball player
*Tatiana Stepa, 46, Romanian folk singer, cervical cancer.
* Seiichi Tagawa, 91, Japanese politician, party leader (New Liberal Club).
* Anne Wexler, 79, American political adviser and lobbyist, breast cancer.

8

* Alfonso Calderón, 78, Chilean writer and poet, heart attack.
*Yehuda Cohen, 95, Israeli Supreme Court justice.
*Cal Ermer, 85, American baseball coach and manager (Minnesota Twins).
*Harold Hitchcock, 95, British artist.
*Daniel Jarque, 26, Spanish footballer, heart attack.
* David Hillman, 74, English operatic tenor, brain tumour.
*Pål Kraby, 77, Norwegian barrister and businessman.
*Peter Milton, 80, Australian politician, MP (1980–1990).
* Jone Railomo, 28, Fijian rugby player, member of the Fiji 2007 Rugby World Cup team.
*Barnett Rosenberg, 82, American chemist, discovered cisplatin.
*Raul Solnado, 79, Portuguese actor and comedian, cardiovascular disease.
* Michael Viner, 65, American record producer ( Incredible Bongo Band), cancer.
* Jerry Wisdom, 61, Bahamian Olympic sprinter.

9

* Frank Borth, 91, American comic book artist.
* Tommy Clinton, 83, Irish footballer ( Everton, Republic of Ireland).
*Thierry Jonquet, 55, French writer.
*William Lindsay Osteen Sr., 79, American judge of the District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (1991–2006).
* John Quade, 71, American character actor ('' Every Which Way But Loose'', '' The Outlaw Josey Wales'').
*Rodney Scott Webb, 74, American federal judge, cancer.
* Jasmine You, 30, Japanese bassist ( Versailles), undisclosed causes.

10

* Laurie Bickerton, 92, Australian football player.
* Josef Burg, 97, Ukrainian Yiddish writer, stroke.
* Alik Djabrailov, 42, Russian charity worker, shot.
*Peter Dunnill, 71, British biochemical engineer.
*Albert L. Gordon, 94, American gay rights legal activist.
* Rita Inos, 55, Northern Mariana Island educator and politician, first female candidate for Lieutenant Governor, cancer.
* Andy Kessler, 48, American skateboarder, wasp sting.
* Ede Király, 82, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) figure skater.
*Urpo Korhonen, 86, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) cross-country skier.
* Sylvia Lennick, 93, Canadian actress and comedian, complications from pneumonia.
*Merlyn Mantle, 77, American author, widow of Mickey Mantle, Alzheimer's disease.
*Art McKinlay, 77, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) rower, heart attack.
* Zarema Sadulayeva, 33, Russian activist, head of children's aid organization in Chechnya, shot.
*Renzo Sambo, 67, Italian Olympic gold medal-winning (1968) rower.
*Thomas C. Slater, 68, American politician, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (since 1994), lung cancer.
*Yosef Tamir, 94, Israeli politician and environmental activist, member of the Knesset (1965–1981).
*Francisco Valdés, 66, Chilean footballer, heart failure.

11

* Bektas Abubakirov, 36, Kazakhstani boxer.
*Malik Akhmedilov, 33, Russian journalist, shot.
*Campbell R. Bridges, 71, British gemologist and adventurer, speared.
*Nuala Fennell, 73, Irish politician.
*José Ramón García Antón, 61, Spanish engineer and politician in Valencian Community.
*Tom Hennies, 70, American police officer and politician.
*Valeriu Lazarov, 73, Romanian-born Spanish television producer.
*Aykut Oray, 67, Turkish actor, heart attack.
*Behjat Sadr, 85, Iranian painter, heart attack.
* Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, American activist, founder of the Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy.
* Jan Sillo, 32, South African footballer, traffic collision.
* Kitty White, 86, American jazz vocalist, stroke.
*Margaret Bush Wilson, 90, American lawyer and activist, multiple organ failure.

12

* Rashied Ali, 74, American jazz drummer, heart attack.
*Ruslan Amerkhanov, Russian official, Ingushetia construction minister, shot.
*Howard M. Ervin, 93, American Christian scholar.
*Ruth Ford, 98, American model and actress.
*Gladys Gillem, 88, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
*John Gregson, Baron Gregson, 85, British businessman and politician.
*Stephen MacDonald, 76, British actor, director and playwright.
*Zaw One, 64, Burmese actor and singer, liver disease.
*Nalin Seneviratne, 78, Sri Lankan general, Commander of the Army (1985–1988).
* Karl Von Hess, 90, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
* Shingo Yamashiro, 70, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
*Les Paul, 94, American guitarist and inventor, complications from pneumonia.

13

* John Bentley, 92, British actor (''Crossroads'').
*M. Watt Espy, 77, American researcher and author on capital punishment.
* Lavelle Felton, 29, American basketball player (Paderborn Baskets), shot.
*Brian McLaughlin, 54, British footballer (Celtic, Motherwell).
* Joseph Gilles Napoléon Ouellet, 87, Canadian archbishop of Rimouski.
*Al Purvis, 80, Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning ice hockey player (1952).
*Dobby Walker, 90, American labor lawyer, stroke.

14

* Frank Branston, 70, British politician, Mayor of Bedford, aortic aneurysm.
* John Hughes, 84, British politician, MP for Coventry North East (1987–1992).
* Ted Kennedy, 83, Canadian hockey player ( Toronto Maple Leafs), heart failure.
*Lawrence Lucie, 101, American jazz guitarist.
*Kimani Maruge, 90, Kenyan student, oldest man to start primary school, stomach cancer.
* Philip Saltzman, 80, Mexican-born American television writer and producer (''Columbo'', '' Barnaby Jones'').
*Gerolf Steiner, 101, German zoologist.

15

* Charles Anderson, 91, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1951–1953).
*Kenneth Bacon, 64, American president of Refugees International, Asst Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, melanoma.
*Florin Bogardo, 67, Romanian singer.
*Virginia Davis, 90, American child actress.
* Jim Dickinson, 67, American musician and record producer.
* Joesoef Isak, 81, Indonesian publisher.
*Shūe Matsubayashi, 89, Japanese film director, heart failure.
*Abdel Latif Moussa, 50, Palestinian cleric, leader of Jund Ansar Allah, bomb blast.
*Sammy Petrillo, 74, American comedian, cancer.
*André Prokovsky, 70, French dancer, cancer.
* Louis Rosen, 91, American nuclear physicist ( Manhattan Project), inventor of the atom smasher, subdural hematoma.
*John Stroud, 54, British television director.
*Malcolm Richard Wilkey, 90, American federal judge and diplomat.
*Eleutherius Winance, 100, Belgian-born American monk, philosophy professor, founder of St. Andrew's Abbey, heart attack.

16

* Alistair Campbell, 84, New Zealand poet.
* Mualla Eyüboğlu, 90, Turkish architect, one of the country's first female architects, heart failure.
*Paul Healion, 31, Irish cyclist, traffic collision.
*Warren E. Hearnes, 86, American politician, Governor of Missouri (1965–1973).
*Khalid bin Mahfouz, 60, Saudi Arabian billionaire banker, heart attack.
* Richard Moore, 83, American cinematographer, co-founder of Panavision.
*John Mulagada, 71, Indian Bishop of Eluru, first Dalit to become a bishop.
* Ed Reimers, 96, American character actor (''Star Trek'', ''The Barefoot Executive'').
* Laurie Rowley, 68, British comedy writer ('' The Two Ronnies'', '' Not the Nine O'Clock News''), heart attack.
* Robert Thieme, 91, American dispensationalist theologian.
*Igor Tkachenko, 45, Russian Air Force pilot ( Russian Knights), stunt collision.
*Burl Toler, 81, American football official, first African American official in the NFL.

17

* Paul Hogue, 69, American basketball player, heart and kidney failure.
* Gian Paolo Iraldo, 66, Italian sprinter, car accident.
*Patricia Kippax, 67, British Olympic sprinter.
*Tullio Kezich, 80, Italian film critic.
*Grażyna Miller, 52, Polish poet and translator.
*Gildo Rodrigues, 69, Brazilian association football manager.
* Tiffany Simelane, 21, Swazi beauty pageant contestant, Miss Swaziland 2008, suicide by poisoning.
* Reno Thomas, 87, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
*Davey Williams, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants).
*Viola Wyse, 61, Canadian Coast Salish tribal leader and civil servant.

18

*Mir Maswood Ali, 80, Indian-born Canadian mathematician, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
*Hildegard Behrens, 72, German soprano, aortic aneurysm.
* Charles Bond, 94, American Air Force general, pilot with Flying Tigers, dementia.
* Wilf Diedricks, 64, South African cricket umpire.
*Rose Friedman, 98, Ukrainian-born American economist, widow of Milton Friedman.
* Jason Getsy, 33, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
*Ron Irwin, 85, Australian footballer.
*Dic Jones, 75, Welsh poet.
* Kim Dae-jung, 85, South Korean politician, President (1998–2003), Nobel Peace Prize recipient, heart failure.
*Hugo Loetscher, 79, Swiss author, complications from surgery.
*Jack McGeorge, 60, American munitions analyst and BDSM activist, complications from heart surgery.
*Peter Mui, 56, American fashion designer, heart failure.
* Robert Novak, 78, American conservative author and pundit, brain cancer.
* Fernanda Pivano, 92, Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.
*Rufus Rogers, 96, New Zealand politician.
*Mária Vadász, 59, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning team handball player at 1976 Olympics.
*Geertje Wielema, 75, Dutch swimmer.

19

*Paul Ashbee, 91, British archaeologist.
* Carlos González Nova, 92, Mexican businessman.
* Donald M. Grant, 82, American science fiction publisher.
* Don Hewitt, 86, American television producer, creator of ''60 Minutes'', pancreatic cancer.
*Harry Kermode, 87, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
* John Marek, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
*Anthony Petro Mayalla, 69, Tanzanian archbishop of Mwanza (since 1987).
* Edward Rondthaler, 104, American typographer.
* Vic Snell, 81, English footballer (Ipswich Town).
* Park M. Strader, 64, American politician, cancer.
*Bobby Thomson, 65, British footballer, prostate cancer.

20

* Marcel-André Buffet, 87, French Olympic sailor.
*Semyon Farada, 75, Russian actor.
* Larry Knechtel, 69, American keyboardist (Bread), bassist and session musician ( The Beach Boys, The Doors), heart attack.
*Karla Kuskin, 77, American children's author and illustrator, corticobasal degeneration.
*Dudu Topaz, 62, Israeli actor, suicide by hanging.
* Gordon Woods, 57, American veterinary scientist, created first cloned mule (Idaho Gem).

21

*Ernest Brown, 93, American tap dancer.
* Johnny Carter, 75, American singer (The Flamingos, The Dells), lung cancer.
*Edward Goldsmith, 80, British environmentalist.
*Christopher John Lamb, 59, British biochemist.
* Chris McCubbins, 63, American-born Canadian Olympic athlete, leukemia.
*Leo Obstbaum, 40, Argentine-born Spanish design director for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
*Rex Shelley, 78, Singaporean author, lung cancer.
*Geoffrey Tozer, 54, Australian pianist, liver disease.
* Dean Turner, 37, Australian bassist ( Magic Dirt), lung cancer.
* Pedro Yoma, 82, Chilean Olympic track and field athlete.

22

*David Avadon, 60, American illusionist, heart attack.
* Horst E. Brandt, 86, German film director.
*Vicki Cruse, 40, American aerobatic pilot, air show accident.
*Muriel Duckworth, 100, Canadian feminist and activist, complications from a fall.
* Elmer Kelton, 83, American Western novelist.
*Iftikhar Ali Khan, Pakistani general, Defence Secretary (1997–1999), heart attack.
*Erkki Laine, 51, Finnish ice hockey player, drowned.
*Beryl Sprinkel, 85, American economist, Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome.
* Adrien Zeller, 69, French politician and humanist, heart attack.

23

* Alexander Bozhkov, 58, Bulgarian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1997–1999), cancer.
*Stanley Kaplan, 90, American businessman and scholastic test preparation pioneer, founder of Kaplan, Inc., heart disease.
*Anna-Maria Müller, 60, German luger, 1972 Winter Olympics women's singles gold medalist.
*Pierre Samuel, 87, French mathematician, arms control and environmental activist.
*Jan Sedivka, 91, Australian violinist.
* Edzo Toxopeus, 91, Dutch politician, Minister of the Interior (1959–1965).
* William Williams, 93, American businessman and team owner (Cincinnati Bengals, Cincinnati Reds).

24

*Joseph Corbett Jr., 80, American murderer and kidnapper, suicide by gunshot.
* Sir Harry Fang, 86, Hong Kong orthopaedic surgeon, President of Rehabilitation International (1980–1984), respiratory failure.
* Frank Marcus Fernando, 77, Sri Lankan Bishop of Chilaw.
* Leif Flengsrud, 86, Norwegian Olympic cyclist.
*Janullah Hashimzada, 40, Afghan journalist, Pakistan bureau chief for Shamshad TV, shot.
* Kashin, 40, New Zealand Asian elephant sponsored by ASB Bank, euthanised.
* Joe Maneri, 82, American jazz composer, musician and inventor, complications from heart surgery.
*Eduardo Roquero, 59, Filipino politician, Representative (2004–2007), four-time Mayor of San Jose del Monte.
* Toni Sailer, 73, Austrian ski racer, laryngeal cancer.
* T. J. Turner, 46, American football player ( Miami Dolphins), complications from a stroke.
*Jim Urbanek, 64, American football player ( Miami Dolphins).

25

*Berle Adams, 92, American music industry executive (MCA).
* Bob Carroll, 73, American historian and author.
* William Emerson, 86, American journalist and editor, stroke.
* Nikos Garoufallou, 72, Greek actor, traffic collision.
* Ted Kennedy, 77, American politician, Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009), brain cancer.
*Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, 92, Venezuelan politician, Minister of Agriculture (1945–1947), director of the Human Rights Foundation.
* Carl K. Moeddel, 71, American Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati (1993–2007).
*Ray Ramsey

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