Deaths in August 2015

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2015. 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 2015

 August 1 - Stephan Beckenbauer, 46, German footballer (FC Bayern Munich).
 August 1 - Bob Frankford, 76, Canadian politician.
 August 1 - Chiara Pierobon, 22, Italian professional cyclist, suspected pulmonary embolism.
 August 1 - Cilla Black, 72, British singer ("Anyone Who Had a Heart", "You're My World"), television presenter (Blind Date, Surprise Surprise) and actress, stroke.
 August 2 - Natalia Molchanova, 53, Russian free diver.
 August 2 - Piet Fransen, 79, Dutch footballer (FC Groningen, national team).
 August 2 - Forrest Bird, 94, American aviator and inventor.
 August 2 - Içami Tiba, 74, Brazilian psychiatrist and writer (Quem ama, Educa!).
 August 2 - Giovanni Conso, 93, Italian jurist, Minister of Justice (1993-1994).
 August 3 - Mel Farr, 70, American professional football running back (Detroit Lions), complications from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
 August 3 - Johanna Quandt, 89, German businesswoman and billionaire.
 August 3 - Margot Loyola, 96, Chilean folk singer and musician.
 August 3 - Robert Conquest, 98, American historian (The Great Terror), respiratory failure.
 August 3 - Coleen Gray, 92, American actress (Nightmare Alley, Kiss of Death, The Killing).
 August 4 - Theo van Els, 79, Dutch linguist.
 August 4 - Achim Hill, 80, German Olympic rower (1960).
 August 4 - Les Munro, 96, New Zealand pilot, last survivor of Operation Chastise.
 August 5 - George Cole, 90, British actor (Minder, St Trinian's, Mary Reilly).
 August 5 - Ellen Vogel, 93, Dutch actress (The Knife, Zonder Ernst, Twin Sisters).
 August 6 - Louise Suggs, 91, American professional golfer, co-founder of LPGA.
 August 6 - Orna Porat, 91, German-born Israeli theater actress.
 August 7 - Terrence Evans, 81, American actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Star Trek, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
 August 7 - Frances Oldham Kelsey, 101, Canadian-born American physician, Food and Drug Administration reviewer.
 August 7 - Manuel Contreras, 86, Chilean military officer, head of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, convicted criminal against humanity, multiple organ failure.
 August 8 - Sean Price, 43, American rapper, member of Heltah Skeltah.
 August 8 - Gus Mortson, 90, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks).
 August 8 - Kayyar Kinhanna Rai, 100, Indian independence activist, author, poet and journalist, pneumonia.
 August 9 - John Henry Holland, 86, American computer scientist.
 August 9 - Fikret Otyam, 89, Turkish painter and journalist, renal failure.
 August 9 - Frank Gifford, 84, American football player (New York Giants) and broadcaster (Monday Night Football), heart attack.
 August 9 - Susan Sheridan, 68, British voice actress (The Black Cauldron, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Noddy's Toyland Adventures).
 August 9 - David Nobbs, 80, British novelist and comedy writer (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Two Ronnies, Fairly Secret Army).
 August 9 - George E. R. Kinnear II, 87, American admiral.
 August 10 - Endre Czeizel, 80, Hungarian geneticist, leukemia.
 August 10 - Fred Eckhardt, 89, American beer expert.
 August 11 - Nour El-Sherif, 69, Egyptian actor and conspiracist, heart attack.
 August 11 - Harald Nielsen, 73, Danish footballer (Bologna, national team).
 August 12 - Jaakko Hintikka, 86, Finnish philosopher and logician.
 August 12 - Meshulim Feish Lowy, 94, Hungarian-born Canadian rabbi, pneumonia.
 August 12 - Stephen Lewis, 88, British comedy actor (On the Buses, Last of the Summer Wine).
 August 13 - Bob Fillion, 95, Canadian ice hockey player. 
 August 14 - Agustín Cejas, 70, Argentine footballer (Racing Club), Alzheimer's disease.
 August 14 - Bob Johnston, 83, American record producer (Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen).
 August 15 - Julian Bond, 75, American civil rights activist and politician, chairman of the NAACP (1998–2010), heart disease.
 August 16 - Shuja Khanzada, 71, Pakistani politician, member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab (2002–2007, since 2008), bombing.
 August 16 - Mile Mrkšić, 68, Yugoslav military officer and convicted war criminal.
 August 17 - László Paskai, 88, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest (1987–2002), Cardinal (1988–2015).
 August 17 - Arsen Dedić, 77, Croatian singer.
 August 17 - Yvonne Craig, 78, American actress (Batman, Star Trek: The Original Series, Olivia), breast cancer.
 August 17 - Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican theoretical physicist.
 August 17 - Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, 82, German football executive (UEFA, VfB Stuttgart) and politician.
 August 17 - Eduardo Guerrero, 87, Argentine rower and Olympic champion (1952), pneumonia.
 August 18 - Suvra Mukherjee, 74, Indian philosopher and dancer, First Lady (since 2012), wife of Pranab Mukherjee, respiratory failure.
 August 18 - Khaled Asaad, 82, Syrian scholar, head of antiquities in Palmyra, beheaded.
 August 18 - Louis Stokes, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio (1969–1999), lung and brain cancer.
 August 18 - William Jay Smith, 97, American poet.
 August 19 - Suharno, 55, Indonesian football player and coach.
 August 20 - Egon Bahr, 93, German politician, co-creator of the Ostpolitik.
 August 20 - Lev Durov, 83, Russian actor.
 August 20 - Lina Morgan, 78, Spanish actress and showgirl.
 August 20 - Harry Volkman, 89, American meteorologist, respiratory failure.
 August 21 - Wang Dongxing, 99, Chinese politician, Vice Chairman of the Communist Party (1977–1980).
 August 21 - Gerry Steinberg, 70, British politician, MP for City of Durham (1987–2005).
 August 21 - Anna Kashfi, 80, British actress (The Mountain, Cowboy, Adventures in Paradise).
 August 22 - Arthur Morris, 93, Australian Test cricketer.
 August 22 - Ieng Thirith, 83, Cambodian politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1975–1979), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 August 22 - Merl Reagle, 65, American crossword maker (Los Angeles Times), acute pancreatitis.
 August 22 - Jörg Schneider, 80, Swiss actor (Usfahrt Oerlike) and comedian, cancer.
 August 22 - Mariem Hassan, 56–57, Western Saharan singer, bone cancer.
 August 23 - Yosi Piamenta, 64, Israeli musician, cancer.
 August 24 - Cees van Kooten, 67, Dutch footballer (Go Ahead Eagles, national team), esophageal cancer.
 August 24 - Justin Wilson, 37, British IndyCar Series driver, head injuries suffered in race collision.
 August 24 - Julián Pastor, 71, Mexican movie director and actor (No One Writes to the Colonel). 
 August 24 - Chico Maki, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
 August 25 - Francis Sejersted, 79, Norwegian history professor, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (1991–1999).
 August 25 - José María Benegas, 67, Spanish politician, cancer.
 August 26 - Amelia Boynton Robinson, 104, American civil rights activist, multiple strokes.
 August 26 - Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, American news reporter and murderer, suicide by gunshot.
 August 26 - Alison Parker, 24, American news reporter, shot.
 August 26 - Adam Ward, 27, American news cameraman, shot.
 August 26 - Peter Kern, 66, Austrian actor and filmmaker (The Last Summer of the Rich).
 August 27 - Darryl Dawkins, 58, American basketball center (Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets) and coach (Newark Express, Pennsylvania ValleyDawgs), heart attack.
 August 27 - Joan Garriga, 52, Spanish motorcycle racer, injuries sustained in motorcycle accident.
 August 28 - Al Arbour, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks) and Hall of Fame coach (New York Islanders).
 August 28 - Józef Wesołowski, 67, Polish defrocked archbishop and Vatican ambassador to the Dominican Republic (2008-2013).
 August 28 - Teresa Gorman, 83, British politician, MP for Billericay (1987-2001).
 August 28 - Nelson Shanks, 77, American painter, prostate cancer.
 August 29 - Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, American actor (Les Miserables), fall. 
 August 29 - Wayne Dyer, 75, American self-help author and motivational speaker, leukemia.
 August 30 - Bart Cummings, 87, Australian racehorse trainer, twelve-time winner of the Melbourne Cup.
 August 30 - Oliver Sacks, 82, British neurologist and author (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat), liver cancer.
 August 30 - M. M. Kalburgi, 76, Indian writer and academic, shot.
 August 30 - Wes Craven, 76, American movie director, writer and producer (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, The Last House on the Left), brain cancer.
 August 30 - Marvin Mandel, 95, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1969–1979), Speaker of the House of Delegates (1964–1969).
 August 30 - Edward Fadeley, 85, American attorney and politician, heart failure.
 August 30 - Hugo Rasmussen, 74, Danish jazz musician.
 August 31 - Edward, Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, 88, English peer, founder of the National Motor Museum, natural causes.

Previous months
 January 2015
 February 2015
 March 2015
 April 2015
 May 2015
 June 2015
 July 2015
 September 2015

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