Deaths in August - 2015
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British television host Cilla Black died August 2 at the age of 72. Her autobiography was called What's It All About?.
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Historian Robert Conquest died August 3 at the age of 98. His books include The Harvest of Sorrow and The Great Terror.
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Fashion designer Arnold Scaasi died August 3 at the age of 85. He wrote Scaasi: A Cut Above and Women I have Dressed (and Undressed!).
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Actor George Cole died August 5 at the age of 90. His memoir was called The Autobiography of George Cole: The World was My Lobster.
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Knopf translator Carol Brown Janeway died August 3 at the age of 71. A few of her translated works include The Reader and Embers.
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Football player and sportscaster Frank Gifford died August 9 at the age of 84. He wrote The Glory Game: how the 1958 Football Championship Changed Football.
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Comic writer David Nobbs died August 8 at the age of 80. His books include The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and The Return of Reginald Perrin.
Former C.I.A. official Tyler Drumheller died August 2 at the age of 63. He wrote On the Brink.
Former C.I.A. official Tyler Drumheller died August 2 at the age of 63. He wrote On the Brink.
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Former NASCAR champion and sportscaster Buddy Baker died August 10 at the age of 74. He wrote Flat Out and Half Turned Over.
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Employed by Little Golden Books and Scholastic, Ann McGovern became a children's author who wrote more than 50 books. She died August 8 at the age of 85. Her books include Stone Soup (a favorite of Captain Kangaroo's), If You Lived in Colonial Times and If You Sailed on the Mayflower.
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Civil rights leader Julian Bond died August 15 at the age of 75. He wrote A Time to Speak, A Time to Act among many other works.
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Physicist Bernard d'Espagnat died August 1 at the age of 93. A few of his books include On Physics and Philosophy, In Search of Reality and Conceptual foundations of quantum Mechanics.
Criminal justice reformer Jerome G. Miller died August 7 at the age of 83. He wrote Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System and Last One Over the Wall.
Criminal justice reformer Jerome G. Miller died August 7 at the age of 83. He wrote Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System and Last One Over the Wall.
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Holy cow Batman, not Bat Girl! Former dancer, religious author and actress best known for her role in the '60s television series Batman, Yvonne Craig died August 17 at the age of 78. Her memoir was called From Ballet to the Batcave and Beyond. :'(
The physics professor who loved tennis, Howard Brody died August 11 at the age of 83. He wrote The Physics and Technology of Tennis and Tennis Science for Tennis Players.
The physics professor who loved tennis, Howard Brody died August 11 at the age of 83. He wrote The Physics and Technology of Tennis and Tennis Science for Tennis Players.
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Computer science professor John Henry Holland died August 9 at the age of 86. His books include Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity and Emergence: From Chaos to Order.
Teacher and poet William Jay Smith died August 18 at the age of 97. His books include Ho for a Hat! and Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense.
Teacher and poet William Jay Smith died August 18 at the age of 97. His books include Ho for a Hat! and Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense.
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Welsh actress Anna Kashfi died August 21 at the age of 80. She is perhaps best known as the first wife of Marlon Brando. Her memoir was called Brando for Breakfast.
Egon Bahr worked towards German reunification through Ostpolitik. He died August 20 at the age of 93. His books include Das musst du erzahlen and Zu meiner Zeit.
Methodist minister and civil rights leader George M. Houser died Augst 19 at the age of 99. He wrote No One Can Stop the Rain: Glimpses of Africa's Liberation Struggle.
Publishing executive Liz Perle died August 20 at the age of 59. She wrote Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions and Cash.
Harvard scholar Svetlana Boym died August 5 at the age of 56. Her books include The Future of Nostalgia and Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia.
Physicist Jacob D. Bekenstein died August 16 at the age of 68. He wrote Buchi neri, comunicazione, energia.
Egon Bahr worked towards German reunification through Ostpolitik. He died August 20 at the age of 93. His books include Das musst du erzahlen and Zu meiner Zeit.
Methodist minister and civil rights leader George M. Houser died Augst 19 at the age of 99. He wrote No One Can Stop the Rain: Glimpses of Africa's Liberation Struggle.
Publishing executive Liz Perle died August 20 at the age of 59. She wrote Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions and Cash.
Harvard scholar Svetlana Boym died August 5 at the age of 56. Her books include The Future of Nostalgia and Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia.
Physicist Jacob D. Bekenstein died August 16 at the age of 68. He wrote Buchi neri, comunicazione, energia.
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Anti-apartheid lawyer Prof. Sir Bob Hepple died August 15 at the age of 81. He wrote Equality: The Legal Framework.
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Poet Cynthia MacDonald died August 3 at the age of 87. Her collections include Living Wills: New and Selected Poems, Alternate Means of Transport and I can't Remember: Poems.
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Crossword puzzle editor Merl Reagle died August 22 at the age of 65. He produced many volumes of his Merl Reagle's Sunday Crosswords.
Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was savagely beaten by police and left for dead in the march on Selma, has died on August 26 at the age of 104. She wrote Bridge Across Jordan.
Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was savagely beaten by police and left for dead in the march on Selma, has died on August 26 at the age of 104. She wrote Bridge Across Jordan.
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Nobel committee member Francis Sejersted died August 25 at the age of 79. One of his many books includes The Age of Social Democracy.
Former NBA player Darryl Dawkins died August 27 at the age of 58. His memoir was called Chocolate Thunder.
Computer science professor Joseph F. Traub died August 24 at the age of 83. His books include Complexity and Information and Iterative Methods for the Solution of Equations.
Former NBA player Darryl Dawkins died August 27 at the age of 58. His memoir was called Chocolate Thunder.
Computer science professor Joseph F. Traub died August 24 at the age of 83. His books include Complexity and Information and Iterative Methods for the Solution of Equations.
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Neurologist Oliver Sacks died August 30 at the age of 82. His many books include The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars.
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British MP Teresa Gorman died August 28 at the age of 83. She wrote No, Prime Minister!.
Medium Colin Fry died August 25 at the age of 53. He wrote Life Before Death and Secrets from the Afterlife.
Horror film director Wes Craven died August 30 at the age of 76. In addition to his many movies he also wrote science fiction including Fountain Society: A Novel.
Economist Ruth L. Sivard died August 21 at the age of 99. She wrote a series of books called World Military and Social Expenditures.
Former Maryland governor Marvin Mandel died August 30 at the age of 95. His memoir was called I'll Never Forget it: memoirs of a Political Accident from East Baltimore.
Electrical engineer James L. Flanagan died August 25 at the age of 89. He wrote Speech Analysis Synthesis and Perception.
Medium Colin Fry died August 25 at the age of 53. He wrote Life Before Death and Secrets from the Afterlife.
Horror film director Wes Craven died August 30 at the age of 76. In addition to his many movies he also wrote science fiction including Fountain Society: A Novel.
Economist Ruth L. Sivard died August 21 at the age of 99. She wrote a series of books called World Military and Social Expenditures.
Former Maryland governor Marvin Mandel died August 30 at the age of 95. His memoir was called I'll Never Forget it: memoirs of a Political Accident from East Baltimore.
Electrical engineer James L. Flanagan died August 25 at the age of 89. He wrote Speech Analysis Synthesis and Perception.
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Self-help author Dr. Wayne Dyer died August 30 at the age of 75. He was a prolific author, but is perhaps best known for Your Erroneous Zone.
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Poet P. J. Kavanagh died August 26 at the age of 84. He was editor of The Oxford Book of Short Poems and of G. K. Chesterton's Anthology and wrote The Perfect Stranger.
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu died August 31 at the age of 89. His memoir was called Wheels within Wheels.
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu died August 31 at the age of 89. His memoir was called Wheels within Wheels.
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Artist and founder of the Underground Museum, Noah Davis died August 29 at the age of 32. His work can be seen in Noah Davis: Seventy Works.
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>19 varielle: Missed that about Oliver Sacks. The Man Who mistook His Wife for a Hat was stunning.
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Long serving captain of the Queen Elizabeth 2, Robert H. Arnott died August 27 at the age of 92. His memoir was called Captain of the Queen.
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Author Rhoda Lerman died August 30 at the age of 79. Her books include The Book of the Night and Eleanor.
Creator of the cartoon Marmaduke, cartoonist Brad Anderson died August 30 at the age of 91. There are many collections of his cartoons including Marmaduke Rides Again.
Creator of the cartoon Marmaduke, cartoonist Brad Anderson died August 30 at the age of 91. There are many collections of his cartoons including Marmaduke Rides Again.
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Publisher and translator Carol Brown Janeway died August 3 at the age of 71. Some of the works she translated include The Reader, Embers and Measuring the World.
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Poet Charles Tomlinson died August 22 at the age of 88. His works include Charles Tomlinson: Selected Poems, Annunciations, and The Way In.
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Shakespeare scholar John Russell Brown died August 26 at the age of 91. His many books include The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre and Shakespeare's Plays in Performance.
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