page_title: 2008
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: Black soul singer en:Isaac Hayes performs at the International Amphitheater in Chicago as part of the annual PUSH [People United to Save Humanity] `Black Expo` in the fall of 1973. October 1973.
context_page_description: 2008 was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar
context_section_description: August 1 – Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916)
  August 3 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
  August 9 – Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (b. 1957)
  August 9 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (b. 1941)
  August 10 – Isaac Hayes, African-American musician (b. 1942)
  August 11 – Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician (b. 1929)
  August 13 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1904)
  August 15 – Jerry Wexler, American music producer (b. 1917)
  August 16 – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (b. 1934)
  August 16 – Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese microbiologist (b. 1913)
  August 19 – Levy Mwanawasa, President of Zambia (b. 1948)
  August 20 – Hua Guofeng, Chinese premier (b. 1921)
  August 23 – Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
  August 28 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (b. 1927)
caption: Isaac Hayes
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