Freeman was known for his work in social networks. He was an emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Freeman was the first to create the metric of Betweenness centrality. He was the founding editor of the journal "Social Networks".
Freeman died on August 17, 2018 in Irvine, California at the age of 91.
Khaira Arby
Khaira Arby, known as The Nightingale of Timbuktu (21 September 1959 – 19 August 2018), was a Malian singer-songwriter. She was born in Timbuktu, Mali Federation.
In 1992, Arby started a career under her own name, the first Malian woman to do so. In 2010, she became globally popular. She toured the United States, performed at Pop Montreal in 2010, and at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 2011.
Arby wrote and sang in the indigenous languages ​​of the region, Songhai, Tamachek, Bambara, and in Arabian.
Arby died on 19 August 2018 in Bamako, Mali from breast cancer at the age of 59.
Russ Heath
Russell Heath, Jr. (September 29, 1926 – August 23, 2018) was an American comic artist. He was born in New York City.
Heath was best known for his comic book work, particularly his DC Comics war stories and his 1960s art for "Playboy" magazine's "Little Annie Fanny" feature.
Heath's drawings of fighter jets in DC Comics' "All-American Men of War" #89 (Feb. 1962) was the basis for pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's best-known oil paintings.
Heath was added into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.
Heath died in Van Nuys, California on August 23, 2018 from prostate cancer, aged 91.
Dieter Thomas Heck
Dieter Thomas Heck (born Carl-Dieter Heckscher; 29 December 1937 – 23 August 2018) was a German television presenter, singer and actor. He was known as the presenter of the TV program "ZDF-Hitparade". As an actor, he starred in the TV play "Das Millionenspiel" in 1970. He was born in Flensburg, Germany.
Heck died from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 23 August 2018 in Berlin at the age of 80.
George Sheldon (politician)
George Sheldon (1947 – August 23, 2018) was an American attorney and politician. He was born in Wildwood, New Jersey.
Sheldon was a member of the Florida House of Representatives, as the Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families, and as the Acting Assistant Secretary at the federal Administration for Children and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services.
Sheldon ran unsuccessfully in the 2014 Florida Attorney General election. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Sheldon died from complications of a fall in Miami, Florida, on August 23, 2018, at the age of 71.
Wildwood, New Jersey
Wildwood is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's year-round population was 5,325.
Franck Venaille
Franck Venaille (1936 – 23 August 2018) was a French poet and writer. His poetry was known by its expressive power, seeking to bring out the animal side of man, his impulses and anxieties. He was born in Paris.
He worked at the magazine "Poetic Action" (1960) and "Orange Export Ltd." (1980). He also founded the journals "Chorus" (1968) and "Mr. Bloom" (1978). From 1974, he worked for France Culture, working in particular with the issue "Les Nuits magnétiques".
Venaille died on 23 August 2018 in Paris, aged 81.
Tom Frost
Tom Frost ( – August 24, 2018) was an American rock climber. He was known for big wall climbing first ascents in Yosemite Valley. He was also a photographer and climbing equipment maker.
Frost died on August 24, 2018 at the age of 80.
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley ( ) is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California. The valley is about 7.5 miles (12 km) long and about 3000–3500 feet deep.
Yosemite Falls is the highest waterfall in North America, and is a big attraction especially in the spring when the water flow is at its peak.
The Valley is the main attraction in the park for the majority of visitors. Yosemite Valley is located on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, 150 miles (240 km) due east of San Francisco.
Tomah, Wisconsin
Tomah is a city in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 9,093 as of the 2010 census.
Tomah was founded by Robert E. Gillett in 1855 and incorporated as a city in 1883 but the charter was not issued until 1894.
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Fitchburg is a city in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 25,260 at the 2010 census. Fitchburg is a suburb of Madison and is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In 1983, Fitchburg became a city.
Robin Leach
Robin Douglas Leach (29 August 1941 – 24 August 2018) was a British entertainment reporter, television presenter and writer. He was best known for hosting the television series "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" from 1984 to 1995. He was known for his signature phrase, "champagne wishes and caviar dreams".
Leach died on 24 August 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada from complications of a stroke at the age of 76.
Princeton Lyman
Princeton Nathan Lyman (November 20, 1935 – August 24, 2018) was an American diplomat. He was born in San Francisco, California. He was the United States Ambassador to Nigeria (1986–89) and South Africa (1992–95), and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1996–98).
Lyman died of lung cancer on August 24, 2018 in Silver Spring, Maryland, aged 82.
Cornville, Arizona
Cornville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. The population as of the 2010 United States Census was 3,280, down from 3,335 at the 2000 census. The Cornville CDP includes the communities of Cornville and Page Springs.
Senator John McCain lived and died in Cornville.
Valentina Rastvorova
Valentyna Ksenofontivna Rastvorova (17 July 1933 – 24 August 2018) was a Soviet fencer. She competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics. She won an team gold and individual silver medals in 1960, and team silver medal in 1964. She also won six gold and two silver medals at the world championships of 1956–1967, mostly in the team foil.
Rastvorova died on 24 August 2018 at the age of 85.
Ciril Zlobec
Ciril Zlobec (4 July 1925 – 24 August 2018) was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and former politician. He was best known for his poems and published several volumes of poetry.
In 1990 he became a member of the Presidency of Slovenia at a critical time for Slovene independence.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he was the editor of the intellectual and cultural journal "Sodobnost".
Zlobec died on 24 August 2018 at the age of 93.
Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta ( ; born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon and medical reporter. He is the associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and as assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine.
He is best known as CNN's multiple Emmy Award-winning chief medical correspondent, hosting the network's weekend health program "Sanjay Gupta, M.D.", and making frequent appearances on their "American Morning", "Larry King Live" and "Anderson Cooper 360°" programs.
In January 2009, it was reported that Gupta was offered the position of Surgeon General of the United States in the Obama administration, but he withdrew his name from consideration.
Novi, Michigan
Novi ( ) is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,224. The city is located about northwest of the center of Detroit. It is about northeast of the center of Ann Arbor.
Don Lemon
Don Lemon (born March 1, 1966) is an American journalist and author. He is a news anchor for CNN in New York City, and hosts "CNN Tonight." He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Lemon won an Emmy Award for a special report on the real estate market in Chicago.
Lemon is openly gay.