page_title: 2008 in the United States
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 in the United States / Deaths / August
caption_attribution_description: Isaac Hayes
context_page_description: Events from the year 2008 in the United States of America.
context_section_description: August 3 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian Nobel writer, died in Moscow, Russia (b. 1918)
  August 9 – Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (b. 1957)
  August 10 – Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor (b. 1942)
  August 11 – George Furth, American librettist, playwright, and actor (b. 1932)
  August 12 – Patricia W. Malone, American naval officer (b. 1924)
  August 13 – Sandy Allen, American tallest woman in the world (according to Guinness World Records) (b. 1955)
  August 15
  James Orthwein, American businessman (b. 1924)
  Leroy Sievers, American journalist (b. 1955)
  Jerry Wexler, American music producer and journalist (b. 1917)
  August 16 – Roberta Collins, American actress (b. 1944)
  August 17 – Philip Saffman, English-American mathematician (b. 1931)
  August 19
  Julius Carry, American actor (b. 1952)
  LeRoi Moore, American musician (b. 1961)
  August 20 – Phil Guy, American blues guitarist (b. 1940)
  August 23 – Thomas Huckle Weller, American Nobel virologist (b. 1915)
  August 28 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (b. 1927)
caption: Isaac Hayes
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