page_title: Deaths in August 2014
section_title: August 2014
hierarchical_section_title: Deaths in August 2014 / August 2014
caption_attribution_description: English: Happy Feet Two Australian premiere with Robin Williams and George Miller at Entertainment Quarter in Sydney, Australia
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2014.
  Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference are added.
context_section_description: August 1 - Mike Smith, 59, British television and radio presenter (BBC Radio 1), problems from heart surgery.
  August 1 - Rod de'Ath, 64, Welsh drummer (Rory Gallagher).
  August 1 - Charles T. Payne, 89, American soldier for the 89th Infantry Division during World War II, great-uncle of Barack Obama.
  August 1 - Valyantsin Byalkevich, 41, Belarusian football player and coach, blood clot.
  August 1 - Jan Roar Leikvoll, 40, Norwegian author.
  August 1 - Saeed Saleh, 76, Egyptian actor (Madrast Al-Mushaghebeen), bronchopneumonia.
  August 1 - Michael Johns, 35, Australian singer-songwriter (American Idol), blood clot.
  August 2 - James Thompson, 49, American-born Finnish crime writer.
  August 2 - Pete van Wieren, 69, American sports broadcaster, lymphoma.
  August 2 - Barbara Prammer, 60, Austrian politician, Federal Minister for Women's Affairs and Consumer Protection (1997–2000), President of the National Council (since 2006), pancreatic cancer.
  August 3 - Lydia Yu-Jose, 70, Filipino political scientist, lymphoma.
  August 3 - Miangul Aurangzeb, 86, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan (1997–1999), Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1999).
  August 3 - Christian Frémont, 72, French politician, Representative of the French Co-Prince of Andorra (2008–2012).
  August 4 - James Brady, 73, American government official, White House Press Secretary (1981–1989), and gun control advocate, survived the attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan, complications from gunshot wound.
  August 4 - George Hilton, 89, American historian.
  August 4 - Walter Massey, 85, Canadian actor (Arthur).
  August 5 - Yoshiki Sasai, 52, Japanese biologist (RIKEN), apparent suicide by hanging.
  August 5 - Vladimir Orlov, 77, Russian novelist.
  August 5 - Marilyn Burns, 65, American actress (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), heart attack.
  August 5 - Harold J. Greene, 55, American military officer, Army commanding general of NSRDEC, shot.
  August 5 - Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, 87, American naval officer and physician, Surgeon General (1969–1973), complications from a stroke.
  August 5 - Chapman Pincher, 100, British journalist and historian.
  August 5 - Dmitri Anosov, 77, Russian mathematician.
  August 5 - Scott Ciencin, 52, American novelist, blood clot.
  August 5 - Pran Kumar Sharma, 75, Indian cartoonist (Chacha Chaudhary), colon cancer.
  August 5 - Hans V. Engström, 65, Swedish actor (Rederiet), liver failure.
  August 5 - Elfriede Brüning, 103, German writer, natural causes.
  August 6 - Smita Talwalkar, 59, Indian movie actress, producer and director, ovarian cancer.
  August 6 - John Woodland Hastings, 87, American biochemist, pioneer in antibiotics research, pulmonary fibrosis.
  August 6 - Julien Fourgeaud, 34, French businessman and inventor, BASE jumping accident.
  August 7 - Sir Denys Williams, 84, British-Barbadian judge, member and Chief Judge of the Supreme Court, Acting Governor-General (1995–1996).
  August 7 - Perry Moss, 88, American football coach (Montreal Alouettes, Orlando Predators) and player (Green Bay Packers), complications from a neuromuscular disease.
  August 7 - Víctor Fayad, 59, Argentine politician, Mayor of Mendoza (since 2007), mediastinum cancer.
  August 7 - Cristina Deutekom, 82, Dutch coloratura soprano opera singer, complications from a fall.
  August 7 - Claude Bertrand, 97, Canadian neurosurgeon.
  August 8 - Ralph Bryans, 72, Northern Irish Grand Prix motorcycle racer, World Champion (1965), short-illness.
  August 8 - Danny Murphy, 58, American actor (There's Something About Mary, Me, Myself and Irene), cancer.
  August 8 - Menahem Golan, 85, Israeli movie director and producer (Golan-Globus).
  August 8 - J. J. Murphy, 86, Northern Irish actor (Mickybo and Me, Angela's Ashes, Game of Thrones), natural causes.
  August 8 - Peter Sculthorpe, 85, Australian composer.
  August 9 - Ed Nelson, 85, American actor (Gunsmoke, Murder, She Wrote, Peyton Place), congestive heart failure.
  August 9 - Andriy Bal, 56, Ukrainian football player (USSR) and coach (national team), blood clot.
  August 9 - Charles Keating, 72, British Emmy Award-winning actor (All My Children, Another World),
caption: Robin Williams 1951-2014
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