Deaths in July 2014 facts for kids

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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2014.

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

July 2014

Chad Brown 1961-2014

Louis Zamperini 1917-2014

Alan J. Dixon 1927-2014

Alfredo Di Stéfano 1926-2014

Eduard Shevardnadze 1928-2014

John Seigenthaler 1927-2014

Tommy Ramone 1949-2014

Nadine Gordimer 1923-2014

Elaine Stritch 1925-2014

Lionel Ferbos 1911-2014

James Garner 1928-2014

Victor G. Atiyeh 1923-2014

Norman Leyden 1917-2014

George Freese 1926-2014

Margot Adler 1946-2014

James Shigeta 1929-2014

Julio Grondona 1931-2014

July 1 - Bob Jones, 59, British police officer, police commissioner for West Midlands Police.
July 1 - Anatoly Kornukov, 72, Soviet-born Russian military officer, commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force (1998–2002).
July 1 - Umaru Dikko, 79, Nigerian politician, stroke.
July 1 - Stephen Gaskin, 79, American counterculture figure, peace activist and commune founder (The Farm).
July 1 - Walter Dean Myers, 76, American author.
July 1 - Jean Garon, 76, Canadian politician.
July 1 - Frederick I. Ordway III, 87, American space scientist.
July 1 - Graeme McMahon, 74, Australian AFL football executive, Chairman of Essendon (1996–2003), pancreatic cancer.
July 2 - Emilio Álvarez Montalván, 94, Nicaraguan ophthalmologist, Foreign Minister (1996–2001), heart attack.
July 2 - Errie Ball, 103, Welsh-American golfer, natural causes.
July 2 - Chad Brown, 52, American professional poker player and actor, iposarcoma.
July 2 - Louis Zamperini, 97, American Olympic long distance runner (1936), motivational speaker, book (Unbroken) and movie figure (Unbroken), pneumonia.
July 3 - Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, 89, Ukrainian-born American rabbi (Jewish Renewal).
July 3 - Volkmar Groß, 66, German footballer.
July 3 - Jini Dellaccio, 97, American photographer.
July 4 - Giorgio Faletti, 63, Italian author, actor and singer, tumor.
July 4 - Alan Alan, 87, British escapologist and magician.
July 4 - C. J. Henderson, 62, American horror and crime author, cancer.
July 4 - Archibald Wilson, 93, Rhodesian-born Australian fighter pilot, flew for the Royal Air Force during World War II, natural causes.
July 5 - Rosemary Murphy, 89, American actress (That Night, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mighty Aphrodite), esophageal cancer.
July 5 - Volodymyr Sabodan, 78, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, head of the UOC-MP (since 1992), internal bleeding.
July 6 - Alan J. Dixon, 86, American politician, United State Senator from Illinois (1981–1993), natural causes.
July 6 - Benedito de Assis da Silva, 61, Brazilian footballer (Fluminense), multiple organ failure.
July 6 - Granville Austin, 87, American historian and academic, leading authority on the Constitution of India, awarded Padma Shri (2011).
July 6 - Dave Legeno, 50, British actor (Harry Potter, Batman Begins), heat stroke.
July 6 - Rogelio Polesello, 75, Argentine muralist, painter and sculptor (Op art), heart attack.
July 7 - Andrew Mango, 88, Turkish-born British journalist (BBC) and biographer (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk).
July 7 - Bora Todorović, 83, Yugoslavian-born Serbian actor (Who's Singin' Over There?, Underground, Balkan Express), complications from a stroke.
July 7 - Eduard Shevardnadze, 86, Soviet-born Georgian politician, President (1992-2003), Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984-1990).
July 7 - Alfredo Di Stéfano, 88, Argentine-Spanish football player and coach (Real Madrid), complications following cardiac arrest.
July 7 - Dick Jones, 87, American actor (Pinocchio), natural causes.
July 7 - Peter Underwood, 76, Australian jurist, Governor of Tasmania (since 2008), member and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, kidney cancer.
July 7 - Lois Johnson, 72, American country music singer.
July 7 - Lammtarra, 22, British Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
July 8 - Ben Pangelinan, 58, American-Guamanian politician, member (since 1994) and Speaker (2003–2005) of the Legislature of Guam, cancer.
July 8 - John V. Evans, 89, American politician, Governor of Idaho (1977–1987).
July 8 - Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, 83, Brazilian politician, activist, and educator, bone cancer.
July 9 - David Azrieli, 92, Polish-born Canadian-Israeli billionaire real estate and finance executive.
July 9 - Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes, 63, Brazilian geologist and mineral dealer.
July 9 - Don Lenhardt, 91, American baseball player and coach (St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox).
July 10 - Zohra Sehgal, 102, Indian actress and choreographer, cardiac arrest.
July 10 - Robert C. Broomfield, 81, American judge, member (since 1985) and Chief Judge (1994–1999) of the U.S. District Court of Arizona, cancer.
July 11 - Charlie Haden, 76, American jazz bassist and bandleader, three-time Grammy Award winner, post-polio syndrome.
July 11 - Sir Howard Cooke, 98, Jamaican politician, Governor-General (1991–2006).
July 11 - John Seigenthaler, 86, American journalist and newspaper editor (The Tennessean, USA Today).
July 11 - Randall Stout, 56, American architect, renal cell carcinoma.
July 11 - Tommy Ramone, 62, Hungarian-born American Hall of Fame record producer and drummer (The Ramones), bile duct cancer.
July 11 - Carin Mannheimer, 79, Swedish author and screenwriter.
July 11 - Ray Lonnen, 74, British actor (Harry's Game, The Sandbaggers), cancer.
July 12 - Nestor Basterretxea, 90, Spanish-Basque artist.
July 12 - Alfred de Grazia, 94, American political scientist and author.
July 12 - Valeriya Novodvorskaya, 64, Soviet-Russian politician and dissident.
July 12 - Emil Bobu, 87, Romanian communist activist and politician, Interior Minister (1973–1975) and Labor Minister (1979–1981), heart attack.
July 12 - Kenneth J. Gray, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois (1955–1974, 1985–1989).
July 12 - Alberto Cassano, 79, Argentine engineer and academic.
July 13 - Lorin Maazel, 84, American conductor, violinist, composer and music director, complications of pneumonia.
July 13 - Jan Nolten, 84, Dutch racing cyclist, brain hemorrhage.
July 13 - Nadine Gordimer, 90, South African writer (The Conservationist) and anti-apartheid activist, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (1991).
July 13 - Gert Voss, 72, German actor, leukemia.
July 14 - Vange Leonel, 51, Brazilian singer, writer, feminist and LGBT activist, ovarian cancer.
July 14 - Alice Coachman, 90, American Olympic champion high jumper (1948), first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
July 14 - Vintage Crop, 27, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, won Melbourne Cup (1993).
July 14 - Martin Richard Hoffmann, 82, American politician, Secretary of the Army (1975–1977), cancer.
July 14 - Tom Rolf, 82, Swedish-American movie editor (Taxi Driver, The Right Stuff), problems from hip surgery.
July 14 - Leopoldo Verona, 82, Argentine actor.
July 15 - James MacGregor Burns, 95, American historian and political scientist, awarded Pulitzer Prize (1971) for Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom.
July 15 - Robert A. Roe, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for New Jersey's 8th district (1969–1993).
July 15 - Vilma Ferrán, 73, Argentine actress.
July 16 - Szymon Szurmiej, 91, Polish-Jewish actor and theatre manager, natural causes.
July 16 - Johnny Winter, 70, American blues guitarist and three-time Grammy Award-winning producer (1978–1980).
July 16 - Heinz Zemanek, 94, Austrian computer engineer pioneer.
July 16 - Manfred Wekwerth, 84, German theatre director (Berliner Ensemble).
July 16 - Hans Funck, 61, German movie editor (Das Experiment, Downfall, Diana), asthma attack.
July 16 - Karl Albrecht, 94, German billionaire grocery executive, co-founder of Aldi.
July 17 - Elaine Stritch, 89, American actress (September, Bus Stop) and double Emmy Award-winner (Law & Order (1992), 30 Rock (2006)).
July 17 - John Walton, 62, Australian actor (The Young Doctors), long-illness.
July 17 - Otto Piene, 86, German artist.
July 17 - Henry Hartsfield, 80, American NASA astronaut and test pilot (Columbia), commander for the Discovery and Challenger missions, problems from back surgery.
July 17 - Andries P Putter, 78, South African naval officer, Chief of the South African Navy, kidney failure.
July 17 - Ross Burden, 45, New Zealand celebrity chef, infection from bone marrow transplant.
July 17 - People killed on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 17:
- Liam Davison, 56, Australian author.
- Pim de Kuijer, 32, Dutch lobbyist and politician.
- Joep Lange, 59, Dutch doctor and researcher, President of the International AIDS Society (2002–2004).
- Shuba Jaya, 38, Malaysian actress.
- Willem Witteveen, 62, Dutch politician and legal scholar, member of the Senate (1999–2007, since 2013).
July 18 - Dietmar Schönherr, 88, Austrian actor and entertainer.
July 18 - James Govan, 64, American singer.
July 18 - João Ubaldo Ribeiro, 73, Brazilian writer, pulmonary embolism.
July 19 - Lionel Ferbos, 103, American jazz trumpeter.
July 19 - Ingemar Odlander, 78, Swedish journalist and news reporter (Rapport).
July 19 - Paul M. Fleiss, 80, American pediatrician.
July 19 - Yehuda Nir, 84, Polish-born Israeli-American psychiatrist and holocaust survivor (The Lost Childhood).
July 19 - Skye McCole Bartusiak, 21, American actress (The Patriot, George Lopez), epileptic seizure.
July 19 - James Garner, 86, American actor (Maverick, The Rockford Files, The Great Escape), massive heart attack.
July 19 - John Fasano, 52, American screenwriter (Another 48 Hrs.) and director (Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare).
July 19 - David Easton, 97, Canadian political scientist.
July 19 - Iring Fetscher, 92, German political scientist.
July 19 - Rubem Alves, 80, Brazilian writer, philosopher and theologian, multiple organ failure due to pneumonia.
July 20 - Kadhal Dhandapani, 71, Indian actor (Kaadhal), cardiac arrest.
July 20 - Victor G. Atiyeh, 91, American politician, Governor of Oregon (1979–1987), complications from renal failure.
July 20 - Álex Angulo, 61, Spanish-Basque actor (Pan's Labyrinth, El día de la bestia), traffic collision.
July 20 - Klaus Schmidt, 61, German archaeologist (Göbekli Tepe), heart attack.
July 20 - Panna Rittikrai, 53, Thai martial arts choreographer, actor and movie director, organ failure.
July 21 - Kevin Skinner, 86, New Zealand rugby union player (national team).
July 21 - John M. Coyne, 97, American politician, Mayor of Brooklyn, Ohio (1948–1999).
July 21 - Hans-Peter Kaul, 70, German judge, member of the International Criminal Court.
July 21 - Dan Borislow, 52, American telecommunications executive, inventor of magicJack, heart attack.
July 21 - Harald Hove, 65, Norwegian politician, heart attack.
July 22 - John Blundell, 61, British economist and policy adviser, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
July 23 - Dora Bryan, 91, British actress (Absolutely Fabulous, Last of the Summer Wine).
July 23 - Louis Lentin, 80, Irish theatre, movie and television director.
July 23 - Saado Ali Warsame, Somali politician and folk singer, MP, shot.
July 23 - Norman Leyden, 96, American conductor, composer and musician.
July 23 - Ariano Suassuna, 87, Brazilian writer, cardiac arrest.
July 24 - Jaan Arder, 62, Estonian singer (Apelsin).
July 24 - Władysław Sidorowicz, 68, Polish politician, Minister of Health (1991).
July 24 - Yoo Chae-yeong, 40, South Korean singer, stomach cancer.
July 24 - Dale Schlueter, 68, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers), cancer.
July 25 - Çolpan İlhan, 77, Turkish actress, heart attack.
July 25 - Bel Kaufman, 103, American teacher and author (Up the Down Staircase).
July 25 - Carlo Bergonzi, 90, Italian operatic tenor.
July 26 - Oleh Babayev, 48, Ukrainian politician, Mayor of Kremenchuk (since 2010), shot.
July 26 - Majid Nizami, 86, Pakistani newspaper journalist and editor (Nawa-i-Waqt), heart disease.
July 26 - Roland Verhavert, 87, Belgian movie director, heart attack.
July 26 - Charles R. Larson, 77, American naval officer, Commanding Admiral of USPACOM, Superintendent of U. S. Naval Academy (1983–1986, 1994–1998), leukemia.
July 27 - George Freese, 87, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
July 27 - Paul Schell, 76, American politician, Mayor of Seattle (1998–2002).
July 27 - Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, 107, Japanese-born American Rinzai Zen teacher.
July 28 - Margot Adler, 68, American journalist (NPR), radio broadcaster (Hour of the Wolf, Justice Talking) and author, endometrial cancer.
July 28 - James Shigeta, 85, American actor (Flower Drum Song, Die Hard, Mulan), respiratory failure.
July 28 - Paul D. McGowan, 67, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (2012–2014).
July 28 - Theodore Van Kirk, 93, American military officer, Army Major, navigator and last surviving crew member on the Enola Gay, natural causes.
July 28 - Monty M. Wyche, 87, American judge.
July 28 - Yvette Lebon, 103, French actress, natural causes.
July 29 - M. Caldwell Butler, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Virginia's 6th (1972–1983), Virginia House of Delegates (1962–1971).
July 29 - Giorgio Gaslini, 84, Italian pianist and composer, complications from a fall.
July 29 - Idris Muhammad, 74, American jazz drummer.
July 29 - Péter Kiss, 55, Hungarian politician, Minister of Social Affairs (2006–2007), member of the National Assembly (2010–2014).
July 29 - Jon R. Cavaiani, 70, American NCO and prisoner of war, Army Special Forces sergeant major, awarded Medal of Honor (1974).
July 29 - María Antonia Iglesias, 69, Spanish writer and journalist.
July 30 - Julio Grondona, 82, Argentine football executive, President of AFA (since 1979), aortic aneurysm.
July 30 - Dick Wagner, 71, American rock guitarist (The Frost, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed) and songwriter ("Only Women Bleed"), lung infection.
July 30 - Dick Smith, 92, American special effects make-up artist.
July 30 - Sir Peter Hall, 82, British urban planner, academic, government adviser, and writer.
July 30 - Manfred Roeder, 85, German extreme-right activist and Wehrmacht soldier.
July 30 - Harun Farocki, 70, German filmmaker.
July 31 - Kenny Ireland, 68, Scottish actor (Benidorm), cancer.
July 31 - Mukku Raju, 83, Indian Tollywood actor.
July 31 - Nabarun Bhattacharya, 66, Indian author, stomach cancer.
July 31 - Jorge Jacobson, 78, Argentine journalist, anchor of Telefe Noticias, heart attack.
July 31 - Warren Bennis, 89, American scholar and author.

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