Deaths in August 2014 facts for kids

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2014. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.

August 2014

Barbara Prammer 1954-2014

James Brady 1940-2014

Jesse Leonard Steinfeld 1927-2014

John Woodland Hastings 1927-2014

Menahem Golan 1929-2014

Robin Williams 1951-2014

Lauren Bacall 1924-2014

Eduardo Campos 1965-2014

Jay Adams 1961-2014

Jan Ekier 1913-2014

Jim Jeffords 1934-2014

B. K. S. Iyengar 1918-2014

Emmanuel Kriaras 1906-2014

U. R. Ananthamurthy 1932-2014

Richard Attenborough 1923-2014

Peret 1935-2014

Jacques Friedel 1921-2014

Stan Goldberg 1932-2014

August 1 - Mike Smith, 59, British television and radio presenter (BBC Radio 1), problems from heart surgery.
August 1 - Rod de'Ath, 64, Welsh drummer (Rory Gallagher).
August 1 - Charles T. Payne, 89, American soldier for the 89th Infantry Division during World War II, great-uncle of Barack Obama.
August 1 - Valyantsin Byalkevich, 41, Belarusian football player and coach, blood clot.
August 1 - Jan Roar Leikvoll, 40, Norwegian author.
August 1 - Saeed Saleh, 76, Egyptian actor (Madrast Al-Mushaghebeen), bronchopneumonia.
August 1 - Michael Johns, 35, Australian singer-songwriter (American Idol), blood clot.
August 2 - James Thompson, 49, American-born Finnish crime writer.
August 2 - Pete van Wieren, 69, American sports broadcaster, lymphoma.
August 2 - Barbara Prammer, 60, Austrian politician, Federal Minister for Women's Affairs and Consumer Protection (1997–2000), President of the National Council (since 2006), pancreatic cancer.
August 3 - Lydia Yu-Jose, 70, Filipino political scientist, lymphoma.
August 3 - Miangul Aurangzeb, 86, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan (1997–1999), Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1999).
August 3 - Christian Frémont, 72, French politician, Representative of the French Co-Prince of Andorra (2008–2012).
August 4 - James Brady, 73, American government official, White House Press Secretary (1981–1989), and gun control advocate, survived the attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan, complications from gunshot wound.
August 4 - George Hilton, 89, American historian.
August 4 - Walter Massey, 85, Canadian actor (Arthur).
August 5 - Vladimir Orlov, 77, Russian novelist.
August 5 - Marilyn Burns, 65, American actress (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), heart attack.
August 5 - Harold J. Greene, 55, American military officer, Army commanding general of NSRDEC, shot.
August 5 - Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, 87, American naval officer and physician, Surgeon General (1969–1973), complications from a stroke.
August 5 - Chapman Pincher, 100, British journalist and historian.
August 5 - Dmitri Anosov, 77, Russian mathematician.
August 5 - Scott Ciencin, 52, American novelist, blood clot.
August 5 - Pran Kumar Sharma, 75, Indian cartoonist (Chacha Chaudhary), colon cancer.
August 5 - Hans V. Engström, 65, Swedish actor (Rederiet), liver failure.
August 5 - Elfriede Brüning, 103, German writer, natural causes.
August 6 - Smita Talwalkar, 59, Indian movie actress, producer and director, ovarian cancer.
August 6 - John Woodland Hastings, 87, American biochemist, pioneer in antibiotics research, pulmonary fibrosis.
August 6 - Julien Fourgeaud, 34, French businessman and inventor, BASE jumping accident.
August 7 - Sir Denys Williams, 84, British-Barbadian judge, member and Chief Judge of the Supreme Court, Acting Governor-General (1995–1996).
August 7 - Perry Moss, 88, American football coach (Montreal Alouettes, Orlando Predators) and player (Green Bay Packers), complications from a neuromuscular disease.
August 7 - Víctor Fayad, 59, Argentine politician, Mayor of Mendoza (since 2007), mediastinum cancer.
August 7 - Cristina Deutekom, 82, Dutch coloratura soprano opera singer, complications from a fall.
August 7 - Claude Bertrand, 97, Canadian neurosurgeon.
August 8 - Ralph Bryans, 72, Northern Irish Grand Prix motorcycle racer, World Champion (1965), short-illness.
August 8 - Danny Murphy, 58, American actor (There's Something About Mary, Me, Myself and Irene), cancer.
August 8 - Menahem Golan, 85, Israeli movie director and producer (Golan-Globus).
August 8 - J. J. Murphy, 86, Northern Irish actor (Mickybo and Me, Angela's Ashes, Game of Thrones), natural causes.
August 8 - Peter Sculthorpe, 85, Australian composer.
August 9 - Ed Nelson, 85, American actor (Gunsmoke, Murder, She Wrote, Peyton Place), congestive heart failure.
August 9 - Andriy Bal, 56, Ukrainian football player (USSR) and coach (national team), blood clot.
August 9 - Charles Keating, 72, British Emmy Award-winning actor (All My Children, Another World), cancer.
August 9 - Jerome Ehlers, 55, Australian actor, cancer.
August 10 - Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, 101, British mathematician and politician, education advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
August 10 - Shree Krishna Shrestha, 44, Nepalese actor, pneumonia.
August 10 - Ann Rowan, 85, Irish actress (The Riordans, Father Ted).
August 11 - Vladimir Beara, 85, Yugoslav football player and football manager.
August 11 - Raymond Gravel, 61, Canadian Québécois Roman Catholic priest and politician, MP for Repentigny (2006–2008), lung cancer.
August 11 - Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, 97, Polish artist, writer and blogger.
August 11 - Joe Viskocil, 61, American visual effects artist (Star Wars, Apollo 13), Academy Award winner (Independence Day), complications from multiple organ failure.
August 12 - Lauren Bacall, 89, American actress (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, The Mirror Has Two Faces), stroke.
August 12 - Abel Laudonio, 75, Argentine actor and boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1960), stroke.
August 12 - Arlene Martel, 78, American actress (Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes, The Twilight Zone), heart attack.
August 13 - Eduardo Campos, 49, Brazilian politician and economist, Minister of Science and Technology (2004–2005), Governor of Pernambuco (2007–2014), plane crash.
August 13 - Robert Bruce Smith, IV, 69, American music expert, writer, historian, and poet, traffic collision.
August 13 - Columba Domínguez, 85, Mexican actress (Pueblerina), respiratory failure.
August 14 - Stephen Lee, 58, American actor (The Negotiator, Burlesque, WarGames), heart attack.
August 14 - Mariana Briski, 48, Argentine actress (Primicias), breast and lung cancer.
August 14 - Jay Adams, 53, American skateboarder, heart attack.
August 14 - George V. Hansen, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Idaho's 2nd (1965–1969, 1975–1985).
August 15 - James Cama, 56, American martial artist and teacher.
August 15 - James Freeman Gilbert, 83, American geophysicist.
August 15 - Jan Ekier, 100, Polish pianist and composer.
August 16 - Peter Scholl-Latour, 90, German author and journalist.
August 16 - Fernand St. Germain, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House from Rhode Island's 1st district (1961–1989).
August 17 - Pierre Vassiliu, 76, French singer.
August 17 - Wolfgang Leonhard, 93, German historian, last living member of the Ulbricht Group.
August 17 - Børre Knudsen, 76, Norwegian minister and pro-life activist.
August 17 - Sophie Masloff, 96, American politician, Mayor of Pittsburgh (1988–1994).
August 17 - Ger van Elk, 73, Dutch artist.
August 18 - Jim Jeffords, 80, American politician, United States Representative (1975–1989) and Senator for Vermont (1989–2007), Alzheimer's disease.
August 18 - Don Pardo, 96, American radio and television announcer (Saturday Night Live, Jeopardy!).
August 18 - Levente Lengyel, 81, Hungarian chess player.
August 18 - Gordon Faber, 83, American politician, Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (1993–2001), lung disease.
August 18 - Hashim Khan, 100, Pakistani squash player, congestive heart failure.
August 19 - Simin Behbahani, 87, Iranian writer and poet.
August 19 - Odessa Sathyan, 56, Indian documentary filmmaker, pancreatic cancer.
August 19 - Candida Lycett Green, 71, British author, pancreatic cancer.
August 19 - Samih al-Qasim, 75, Palestinian Druze poet and journalist.
August 19 - Brian G. Hutton, 79, American movie director (King Creole, Kelly's Heroes).
August 19 - Deborah Sussman, 83, American graphic designer and artist, breast cancer.
August 19 - Tom Pevsner, 87, German-British assistant movie director and producer.
August 20 - B. K. S. Iyengar, 95, Indian yoga instructor and writer, founder of Iyengar Yoga, heart attack from complication of renal failure.
August 20 - Sava Stojkov, 89, Serbian painter.
August 20 - Boris Dubin, 67, Russian sociologist and translator.
August 20 - Anton Buslov, 30, Russian blogger, columnist at The New Times magazine, cancer.
August 21 - Albert Reynolds, 81, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1992–1994), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
August 21 - Gerry Anderson, 69, British broadcaster (BBC Northern Ireland), long-illness.
August 21 - Raed al Atar, c. 40, Palestinian military commander (Hamas), missile strike.
August 21 - Jean Redpath, 77, Scottish folk singer-songwriter, cancer.
August 21 - Steven R. Nagel, 67, American astronaut.
August 21 - Lyndam Gregory, 59, Indian-born British actor (The Archers, Coronation Street, EastEnders), lung cancer. (death announced on this date)
August 22 - U. R. Ananthamurthy, 81, Indian writer, cardiac arrest caused by renal failure.
August 22 - Emmanuel Kriaras, 107, Greek lexicographer and philologist, heart attack.
August 22 - John S. Waugh, 85, American chemist and professor (MIT)
August 22 - Jack Harris, 91, Australian golfer, natural causes.
August 23 - Birgitta Stenberg, 82, Swedish author, illustrator and translator, hepatocellular carcinoma.
August 23 - Annefleur Kalvenhaar, 20, Dutch cyclist, European Cyclo-cross under-23 champion (2013), race collision.
August 23 - William Thomson Newnham, 91, Canadian educator, President of Seneca College, natural causes.
August 23 - Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, 24, Cameroonian footballer, head injury from object thrown during game.
August 23 - Hajo Meyer, 90, German physicist and Holocaust survivor, natural causes.
August 23 - Jindřich Pokorný, 87, Czech translator.
August 23 - Jaume Vallcorba Plana, 64, Spanish philologist and publisher.
August 23 - Dan Magill, 93, American college tennis coach.
August 23 - Ahti Pekkala, 89, Finnish politician, Speaker of the Parliament (1978–1979).
August 23 - Marcel Rigout, 86, French politician, Minister of Vocational Training (1981–1984).
August 23 - Philippine de Rothschild, 80, French winemaker and baroness.
August 23 - Inga Juuso, 69, Norwegian singer and actress.
August 24 - Richard Attenborough, 90, English actor (The Great Escape, Jurassic Park) and Academy Award-winning movie director (Gandhi).
August 24 - Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, 86, Brazilian businessman, CEO of the Votorantim Group, heart failure.
August 24 - Leonid Stadnyk, 44, Ukrainian farmer, world's tallest man, brain haemorrhage.
August 25 - Alfredo Martini, 93, Italian cyclist and coach.
August 25 - Jason Curley, 42, Australian bassist (Tumbleweed).
August 25 - Ramón Echarren Istúriz, 84, Spanish Roman Catholic priest, Bishop of Canarias (1978–2005).
August 25 - Marcel Masse, 78, Canadian politician, MP for Frontenac (1984–1993), MNA for Montcalm (1966–1973).
August 26 - Christian Bourquin, 59, French politician, president of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon.
August 26 - Chūsei Sone, 76, Japanese movie director (Angel Guts: Red Classroom), pneumonia.
August 26 - Simon Featherstone, 56, British diplomat.
August 26 - Peter Bacon Hales, 63, American historian and photographer, road accident.
August 26 - Samuel Sadela, 114?, Nigerian pastor, unverified claimant for world's oldest man.
August 26 - Lars Mortimer, 68, Swedish cartoonist and comics artist.
August 27 - Valeri Petrov, 94, Bulgarian poet, screenwriter, playwright and translator, stroke.
August 27 - Peret, 79, Spanish musician, lung cancer.
August 27 - Yehezkel Braun, 92, Israeli composer.
August 27 - Sandy Wilson, 90, British composer and singer.
August 27 - Tim Williams, c. 30, American bassist (Suicidal Tendencies).
August 27 - Jan Groth, 68, Norwegian rock singer and keyboardist, cancer.
August 27 - Benno Pludra, 88, German children's author.
August 27 - Jean-François Beltramini, 66, French footballer.
August 27 - Victor J. Stenger, 79, American scientist, atheism philosopher and educator (University of Hawaii), aortic aneurysm.
August 27 - Jacques Friedel, 93, French physicist, pneumonia.
August 28 - Fernando Zunzunegui, 70, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid).
August 28 - Jack Kraft, 93, American basketball coach.
August 28 - John Anthony Walker, 77, American naval officer convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
August 28 - Glenn Cornick, 67, British guitarist (Jethro Tull), congestive heart failure.
August 28 - Roberto Cairo, 51, Spanish actor (Cuéntame cómo pasó), lung cancer.
August 28 - Bill Kerr, 92, Australian actor and comedian.
August 29 - Brasse Brännström, 69, Swedish actor.
August 29 - Björn Waldegård, 70, Swedish rally driver, World Rally Championship (1979), cancer.
August 29 - Bob Wareing, 84, British Labour and Independent MP for Liverpool West Derby (1983-2010).
August 29 - David Bala, 67, Singaporean comedian and actor, heart disease.
August 29 - Ryūko Seihō, 73, Japanese sumo wrestler and actor.
August 30 - Bipan Chandra, 86, Indian historian.
August 30 - Igor Decraene, 18, Belgian cyclist, UCI world junior men's time trial champion (2013), train accident.
August 30 - Sir David Mitchell, 86, British politician, MP of Basingstoke (1964–1983) and North West Hampshire (1983–1997), father of Andrew Mitchell.
August 30 - Bud Andrews, 74, American radio personality and DJ.
August 30 - Victoria Mallory, 64, American actress and singer, pancreatic cancer.
August 31 - Ștefan Andrei, 83, Romanian communist politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1978–1985).
August 31 - Bapu, 80, Indian movie director, cardiac arrest.
August 31 - Carol Vadnais, 68, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, California Golden Seals, New York Rangers), cancer.
August 31 - Jimi Jamison, 63, American musician (Survivor), heart attack.
August 31 - Stan Goldberg, 82, American comic book artist (Archie), stroke.
August 31 - Yves Carcelle, 66, French businessman, chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton, kidney cancer.

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