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Famous People Who Died in August 1996

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  • Aug 1 Frida Boccara, French singer, dies at 55
  • Aug 1 John Lanigan, Australian operatic tenor (Covent Garden), dies at 75
  • Aug 1 Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
  • Aug 1 Mohamed Farrah Aidid, President (ANS-CUS)/Somalia, dies
  • Aug 1 Pierre Lucien Claverie, Algerian-French Bishop of Oran, murdered by Islamic extremists in Algeria at 58
  • Aug 1 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1950 - isolation and discovery of cortisone ), dies at 99 [1]
  • Aug 2 Humphrey Fisher, English born TV Producer, dies at 72
  • Aug 2 Michel Debre, French politician, Prime Minister of France (1959-62), dies at 84
  • Aug 3 Guido Alberti, Italian film actor (Marco the Magnificent), dies at 87
  • Aug 4 Geoff Hamilton, English gardener and journalist (BBC Gardener's World), dies of a heart attack at 59
  • Aug 4 Willard "Home Run" Brown, American Baseball HOF outfielder (NgL World Series 1942; 6 x NgL All-Star Kansas City Monarchs; MLB: St. Louis Browns), dies at 81
  • Aug 5 Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, Zanzibar-born revolutionary, politician and pan-Africanist, dies at 72
  • Aug 5 Bruce Howard Lidington, English actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses), dies at 46
  • Aug 5 Frank Marcus, German playwright and critic, dies at 68
  • Aug 6 Buland al-Haidary, Iraqi poet (Passages to Exile), dies at 69
  • Aug 6 Gerry Gomez, West Indian cricket all-rounder (29 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 101, 58 wickets, BB 7/55; Trinidad), dies from a heart attack at 76
  • Aug 6 Hernán Siles Zuazo, Bolivian politician (President of Bolivia 1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82
  • Aug 6 Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer, dies at 63
  • Aug 6 Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962), dies
  • Aug 6 Ossie Clark, British fashion designer of the Swinging Sixities, stabbed to death by a former lover at 54
  • Aug 6 Richard M. Goodwin, American mathematician and economist (The Dynamics of A Capitalist Economy), dies at 83
  • Aug 7 Anne Kristen, Scottish actress (Truth or Dare, Rachel-Dr Finlay), dies at 59
  • Aug 8 Åke Hermanson, Swedish composer, dies at 73
  • Aug 8 Didi Duprat, French guitarist, dies at 69
  • Aug 8 George Samways, English children's writer (Greyfriars), dies at 101
  • Aug 8 Herbert Huncke, American writer and poet, dies at 80
  • Aug 8 James Whitman McLamore, American businessman and 1st CEO of Burger King who created The Whopper, dies of lung cancer at 70 [1]
  • Aug 8 Julian Stryjkowski, Polish journalist and writer known for his radical leftist leanings, dies at 91
  • Aug 8 Nevill Francis Mott, British physicist (1977 Nobel Prize for Physics for work on amorphous semiconductors), dies at 90
  • Aug 9 Frank Whittle, English RAF engineer air officer and inventor of the turbojet engine, dies at 89 [1]
  • Aug 9 Kenneth Fleetwood, English fashion designer (Hardy Amies, dressed Queen Elizabeth II), dies at 65
  • Aug 9 Ruth Holland, British journalist (BMJ), dies in the Watford rail crash at 54
  • Aug 10 Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78
  • Aug 10 Rex Tucker, British TV writer and director, dies at 83
  • Aug 11 Mel Taylor, American rock drummer (The Ventures, 1962-73 and 1979-96), dies of cancer at 63
  • Aug 11 Rafael Kubelik, Czech conductor (Cornelia Farooli), dies at 82
  • Aug 11 Sigmund Koch, psychologist/philosopher, dies at 79
  • Aug 12 Anthony Parsons, British diplomat (British Ambassador to Iran during Iranian Revolution), dies at 73
  • Aug 12 Victor Ambartsumian, Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50), dies at 87
  • Aug 13 António de Spínola, Portuguese general and conservative President of Portugal (1974), dies of a pulmonary embolism at 86
  • Aug 13 Christopher John Gray, English Anglican priest, murdered in front of his own vicarage in Liverpool at 32 [1] [2]
  • Aug 13 David Randall, British priest, founder of Cara, dies at 49
  • Aug 13 David Tudor, American pianist and composer, dies at 70
  • Aug 13 Louise Talma, American composer (Summer Sounds), dies at 89
  • Aug 13 Tom Mees, American ESPN sports anchor (NHL), drowns at 46
  • Aug 13 W. Gordon Smith, Scottish playwright (Jock), dies at 67
  • Aug 14 Camilla Horn, actress (Rebus, Vertigine, Matinee Idol), dies at 93
  • Aug 14 Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor (Berlin Philharmonic, 1945-57; Munich Philharmonic, 1979-96), and educator, dies at 84
  • Aug 14 Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker, dies at 64
  • Aug 15 Masao Maruyama, Japanese social scientist, dies at 82
  • Aug 16 Eric Cullen, Scottish actor (Rab C. Nesbitt), dies of a heart attack at 31
  • Aug 16 Robert Lynn, Scottish anarchist, dies at 72
  • Aug 17 Edward Digby Baltzell, American Ivy League sociologist (coined term WASP), dies at 80
  • Aug 17 Eric Evans, English dean of St Paul's, dies at 68
  • Aug 18 Geoffrey Dearmer, British poet, dies at 103
  • Aug 18 Hugo Gabriel Gryn, British Reform rabbi, dies at 66
  • Aug 19 Jurriaan Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (Berkshire Symphonies; Les Cloches des Clochards), dies at 70
  • Aug 20 Beverley Whitfield, Australian swimmer (Olympic Gold 1972), dies at 42
  • Aug 20 Rio Reiser, German rock singer ("Ton Steine Scherben"), dies at 46
  • Aug 21 Joyce Plesters, British conservation scientist, dies at 69
  • Aug 21 Mary Two-Axe Earley, Mohawk elder and human rights advocate (fought against women's status under the Indian Act), dies at 84 [1]
  • Aug 22 David Donaldson, Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, dies at 80
  • Aug 22 Mareo Ishiketa, Japanese composer, dies at 79
  • Aug 22 Robin Lorimer, Scottish publisher (New Testament from Greek into Scots), dies at 77
  • Aug 22 William James Millar Mackenzie, Scottish political scientist, dies at 87
  • Aug 24 Émile Noël, French European civil servant (helped bring about European Union), dies at 73
  • Aug 24 John Christopherson, English artist and collector, dies at 75
  • Aug 24 Robert Tewdwr Moss, English journalist and travel writer, found dead at 34
  • Aug 25 Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58
  • Aug 25 Erskine Childers, Irish writer and United Nations civil servant official, dies at 67
  • Aug 25 Sylvia Fisher, Australian operatic soprano (Albert Herring Opera), dies at 86
  • Aug 26 Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, President of Argentina (1971-73), dies at 77
  • Aug 26 Baron Baker, Jamaican-British anti-racism activist, dies at 71
  • Aug 26 Catherine Hall, British nurse who raised the professional profile of nursing and to establish its central role in health care, dies at 73
  • Aug 27 Abram Games, British graphic artist ("Blonde Bombshell" ATS poster), dies at 82
  • Aug 27 Alexander Lanusse, military President of Argentina (1971-73), dies
  • Aug 27 Greg Morris, American actor (Mission: Impossible), dies of a brain tumor at 62
  • Aug 27 Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (Great Plains prehistoric cultures), dies at 87
  • Aug 28 Al Zarilla, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1948; St. Louis Browns), dies of cancer at 77
  • Aug 28 Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50
  • Aug 28 Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer, dies at 89
  • Aug 29 Jean Davies, British naval officer (Director of WRNS), dies at 87
  • Aug 29 Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch composer, dies at 64
  • Aug 30 Christine Pascal, French actress and director (Smile, Elsa), commits suicide at 43
  • Aug 30 José Toribio Merino, Chilean admiral (one of the principal leaders of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état), dies at 80
  • Aug 30 Josef Muller-Brockmann 'Father of Swiss Graphic Design', Swiss graphic designer and writer, dies at 82 [1]
  • Aug 31 David Pollock, Viscount Hanworth, British barrister, dies at 80
  • Aug 31 David Scott, British priest, Chaplain to the Queen, dies at 72
  • Aug 31 Harald Penrose, British test pilot, dies at 92
  • Aug 31 Milt Larkin, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader, dies at 85


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