page_title: Deaths in 2011
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in 2011 / August
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Loriot, kurz Vicco von Bülow. Ein privates Photo zeigt den Künstler während einer Lesung 2005. Die Aufnahme wurde nach Zusendung an den Künstler handsigniert (rechts unten). Per Bildscanner digitalisiert wird es nun freundlich der Wikipedia und der Allgemeinheit zur freien Verfügung überlassen. English: Vicco von Bülow alias Loriot. The Artist during a reading in 2005 - shown on a private photograph. The print was sent to the artist and hand-signed in the lower right corner. Digitalized by scanning and free for use. Lëtzebuergesch: De Loriot
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context_section_description: August 2 - Baruj Benacerraf, 90, Venezuelan-born American immunologist and Nobel Prize winner.
  August 3 - Nikolay Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, stroke.
  August 3 - Bubba Smith, 66, American football player and actor.
  August 4 - Naoki Matsuda, 34, Japanese footballer, suspected heart attack.
  August 5 - Andrzej Lepper, 57, Polish politician, suicide by hanging.
  August 7 - Hugh Carey, 92, former New York Governor.
  August 7 - Harri Holkeri, 74, 57th Prime Minister of Finland, after long illness.
  August 7 - Nancy Wake, 98, Australian spy in World War II, known as the "White Mouse".
  August 11 - Jani Lane, 47, American musician (Warrant).
  August 14 - Shammi Kapoor, 79, Indian movie actor and director, renal failure.
  August 14 - Albert N. Brown, 105, American soldier, last survivor of the Bataan Death March, heart ailment.
  August 15 - Rick Rypien, 27, Canadian ice hockey player.
  August 16 - Andrej Bajuk, 67, Slovenian banker and politician.
  August 17 - Pierre Quinon, 49, French pole vaulter, suicide.
  August 19 - Raul Ruiz, 70, Chilean movie director, pulmonary infection.
  August 19 - Gun Hägglund, 79, Swedish television journalist.
  August 22 - Jack Layton, 61, Canadian politician, leader of the NDP, cancer.
  August 22 - Jerry Leiber, 78, American songwriter.
  August 22 - Vicco von Buelow (Loriot), 87, German humorist, age-related causes.
  August 25 - Lazar Mojsov, 90, Macedonian politician.
  August 26 - Aloysius Ambrozic, 81, Slovenian-Canadian cardinal, former Archbishop of Toronto.
  August 26 - George Band, 82, British mountaineer.
  August 27 - Stetson Kennedy, 94, American writer and Civil rights activist.
  August 29 - David Honeyboy Edwards, 96, American blues musician.
  August 31 - Wade Belak, 35, Canadian ice hockey player.
  August 31 - Valery Rozhdestvensky, 72, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut.
caption: Loriot 1923-2011
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