Deaths in August 2014

The following is a list of **notable deaths in August 2014**. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".

*Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.

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* 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 (19691973), 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 (19951996).
* 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*), cancer.
* August 9 - Jerome Ehlers, 55, Australian actor, cancer. 
* August 10 - Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, 101, British mathematician and politician, education advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
* August 10 - Shree Krishna Shrestha, 44, Nepalese actor, pneumonia.
* August 10 - Ann Rowan, 85, Irish actress (*The Riordans*, *Father Ted*).
* August 11 - Vladimir Beara, 85, Yugoslav football player and football manager.
* August 11 - Robin Williams, 63, American comedian and Academy Award-winning movie (*Good Will Hunting*), television (*Mork & Mindy*) and voice (*Aladdin*) actor, suicide by hanging.
* August 11 - Raymond Gravel, 61, Canadian Québécois Roman Catholic priest and politician, MP for Repentigny (2006–2008), lung cancer.
* August 11 - Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, 97, Polish artist, writer and blogger.
* August 11 - Joe Viskocil, 61, American visual effects artist (*Star Wars*, *Apollo 13*), Academy Award winner (*Independence Day*), complications from multiple organ failure.
* August 12 - Lauren Bacall, 89, American actress (*To Have and Have Not*, *The Big Sleep*, *The Mirror Has Two Faces*), stroke.
* August 12 - Abel Laudonio, 75, Argentine actor and boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1960), stroke.
* August 12 - Arlene Martel, 78, American actress (*Star Trek*, *Hogan's Heroes*, *The Twilight Zone*), heart attack.
* August 13 - Eduardo Campos, 49, Brazilian politician and economist, Minister of Science and Technology (2004–2005), Governor of Pernambuco (2007–2014), plane crash.
* August 13 - Robert Bruce Smith, IV, 69, American music expert, writer, historian, and poet, traffic collision. 
* August 13 - Columba Domínguez, 85, Mexican actress (*Pueblerina*), respiratory failure.
* August 14 - Stephen Lee, 58, American actor (*The Negotiator*, *Burlesque*, *WarGames*), heart attack.
* August 14 - Mariana Briski, 48, Argentine actress (*Primicias''), breast and lung cancer.
* August 14 - Jay Adams, 53, American skateboarder, heart attack.
* August 14 - George V. Hansen, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Idaho's 2nd (19651969, 19751985).
* August 15 - James Cama, 56, American martial artist and teacher.
* August 15 - James Freeman Gilbert, 83, American geophysicist.
* August 15 - Jan Ekier, 100, Polish pianist and composer.
* August 16 - Peter Scholl-Latour, 90, German author and journalist.
* August 16 - Fernand St. Germain, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House from Rhode Island's 1st district (1961–1989).
* August 17 - Pierre Vassiliu, 76, French singer.
* August 17 - Wolfgang Leonhard, 93, German historian, last living member of the Ulbricht Group.
* August 17 - Børre Knudsen, 76, Norwegian minister and pro-life activist.
* August 17 - Sophie Masloff, 96, American politician, Mayor of Pittsburgh (1988–1994).
* August 17 - Ger van Elk, 73, Dutch artist.
* August 18 - Jim Jeffords, 80, American politician, United States Representative (1975&ndash;1989) and Senator for Vermont (1989–2007), Alzheimer's disease.
* August 18 - Don Pardo, 96, American radio and television announcer (*Saturday Night Live*, *Jeopardy!*).
* August 18 - Levente Lengyel, 81, Hungarian chess player.
* August 18 - Gordon Faber, 83, American politician, Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (1993&ndash;2001), lung disease.
* August 18 - Hashim Khan, 100, Pakistani squash player, congestive heart failure.
* August 19 - Simin Behbahani, 87, Iranian writer and poet.
* August 19 - Odessa Sathyan, 56, Indian documentary filmmaker, pancreatic cancer.
* August 19 - Candida Lycett Green, 71, British author, pancreatic cancer.
* August 19 - James Foley, 40, American photojournalist, beheaded by the Islamic State. (death reported on this date)
* August 19 - Samih al-Qasim, 75, Palestinian Druze poet and journalist. 
* August 19 - Brian G. Hutton, 79, American movie director (*King Creole*, ''Kelly's Heroes*).
* August 19 - Deborah Sussman, 83, American graphic designer and artist, breast cancer.
* August 19 - Tom Pevsner, 87, German-British assistant movie director and producer.
* August 20 - B. K. S. Iyengar, 95, Indian yoga instructor and writer, founder of Iyengar Yoga, heart attack from complication of renal failure.
* August 20 - Sava Stojkov, 89, Serbian painter.
* August 20 - Boris Dubin, 67, Russian sociologist and translator.
* August 20 - Anton Buslov, 30, Russian blogger, columnist at *The New Times'' magazine, cancer.
* August 21 - Albert Reynolds, 81, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1992–1994), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* August 21 - Gerry Anderson, 69, British broadcaster (BBC Northern Ireland), long-illness.
* August 21 - Robert Hansen, 75, American serial killer, illness.
* August 21 - Raed al Atar, c. 40, Palestinian military commander (Hamas), missile strike.
* August 21 - Jean Redpath, 77, Scottish folk singer-songwriter, cancer.
* August 21 - Steven R. Nagel, 67, American astronaut.
* August 21 - Lyndam Gregory, 59, Indian-born British actor (*The Archers*, *Coronation Street*, *EastEnders*), lung cancer. (death announced on this date)
* August 22 - U. R. Ananthamurthy, 81, Indian writer, cardiac arrest caused by renal failure.
* August 22 - Emmanuel Kriaras, 107, Greek lexicographer and philologist, heart attack.
* August 22 - John S. Waugh, 85, American chemist and professor (MIT) 
* August 22 - Jack Harris, 91, Australian golfer, natural causes.
* August 23 - Birgitta Stenberg, 82, Swedish author, illustrator and translator, hepatocellular carcinoma.
* August 23 - Annefleur Kalvenhaar, 20, Dutch cyclist, European Cyclo-cross under-23 champion (2013), race collision.  
* August 23 - William Thomson Newnham, 91, Canadian educator, President of Seneca College, natural causes.
* August 23 - Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, 24, Cameroonian footballer, head injury from object thrown during game.
* August 23 - Hajo Meyer, 90, German physicist and Holocaust survivor, natural causes.
* August 23 - Jindřich Pokorný, 87, Czech translator.
* August 23 - Jaume Vallcorba Plana, 64, Spanish philologist and publisher.
* August 23 - Dan Magill, 93, American college tennis coach.
* August 23 - Ahti Pekkala, 89, Finnish politician, Speaker of the Parliament (1978&ndash;1979). 
* August 23 - Marcel Rigout, 86, French politician, Minister of Vocational Training (1981&ndash;1984). 
* August 23 - Philippine de Rothschild, 80, French winemaker and baroness.
* August 23 - Inga Juuso, 69, Norwegian singer and actress.
* August 24 - Richard Attenborough, 90, English actor (*The Great Escape*, *Jurassic Park*) and Academy Award-winning movie director (*Gandhi*).
* August 24 - Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, 86, Brazilian businessman, CEO of the Votorantim Group, heart failure. 
* August 24 - Leonid Stadnyk, 44, Ukrainian farmer, world's tallest man, brain haemorrhage.
* August 25 - Alfredo Martini, 93, Italian cyclist and coach.
* August 25 - Jason Curley, 42, Australian bassist (Tumbleweed). 
* August 25 - Ramón Echarren Istúriz, 84, Spanish Roman Catholic priest, Bishop of Canarias (1978&ndash;2005).
* August 25 - Marcel Masse, 78, Canadian politician, MP for Frontenac (1984–1993), MNA for Montcalm (1966–1973).
* August 26 - Christian Bourquin, 59, French politician, president of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon. 
* August 26 - Chūsei Sone, 76, Japanese movie director (*Angel Guts: Red Classroom*), pneumonia.
* August 26 - Simon Featherstone, 56, British diplomat.
* August 26 - Peter Bacon Hales, 63, American historian and photographer, road accident.
* August 26 - Samuel Sadela, 114?, Nigerian pastor, unverified claimant for world's oldest man.
* August 26 - Lars Mortimer, 68, Swedish cartoonist and comics artist.
* August 27 - Valeri Petrov, 94, Bulgarian poet, screenwriter, playwright and translator, stroke.
* August 27 - Peret, 79, Spanish musician, lung cancer. 
* August 27 - Yehezkel Braun, 92, Israeli composer. 
* August 27 - Sandy Wilson, 90, British composer and singer. 
* August 27 - Tim Williams, c. 30, American bassist (Suicidal Tendencies).
* August 27 - Jan Groth, 68, Norwegian rock singer and keyboardist, cancer.
* August 27 - Benno Pludra, 88, German children's author.
* August 27 - Jean-François Beltramini, 66, French footballer.
* August 27 - Victor J. Stenger, 79, American scientist, atheism philosopher and educator (University of Hawaii), aortic aneurysm.
* August 27 - Jacques Friedel, 93, French physicist, pneumonia.
* August 28 - Fernando Zunzunegui, 70, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid).
* August 28 - Jack Kraft, 93, American basketball coach.
* August 28 - John Anthony Walker, 77, American naval officer convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
* August 28 - Glenn Cornick, 67, British guitarist (Jethro Tull), congestive heart failure.
* August 28 - Roberto Cairo, 51, Spanish actor (*Cuéntame cómo pasó*), lung cancer.
* August 28 - Bill Kerr, 92, Australian actor and comedian.
* August 29 - Brasse Brännström, 69, Swedish actor.
* August 29 - Björn Waldegård, 70, Swedish rally driver, World Rally Championship (1979), cancer.
* August 29 - Bob Wareing, 84, British Labour and Independent MP for Liverpool West Derby (1983-2010).
* August 29 - David Bala, 67, Singaporean comedian and actor, heart disease.
* August 29 - Ryūko Seihō, 73, Japanese sumo wrestler and actor.
* August 30 - Bipan Chandra, 86, Indian historian.  
* August 30 - Igor Decraene, 18, Belgian cyclist, UCI world junior men's time trial champion (2013), train accident.
* August 30 - Sir David Mitchell, 86, British politician, MP of Basingstoke (1964&ndash;1983) and North West Hampshire (1983&ndash;1997), father of Andrew Mitchell.
* August 30 - Bud Andrews, 74, American radio personality and DJ.
* August 30 - Victoria Mallory, 64, American actress and singer, pancreatic cancer.
* August 31 - Ștefan Andrei, 83, Romanian communist politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1978&ndash;1985).
* August 31 - Bapu, 80, Indian movie director, cardiac arrest.
* August 31 - Carol Vadnais, 68, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, California Golden Seals, New York Rangers), cancer.
* August 31 - Jimi Jamison, 63, American musician (Survivor), heart attack.
* August 31 - Stan Goldberg, 82, American comic book artist (*Archie*), stroke.
* August 31 - Yves Carcelle, 66, French businessman, chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton, kidney cancer.

## See more months
*Deaths in January 2014
*Deaths in February 2014
*Deaths in March 2014 
*Deaths in April 2014
*Deaths in May 2014
*Deaths in June 2014
*Deaths in July 2014
*Deaths in September 2014
*Deaths in October 2014
*Deaths in November 2014
*Deaths in December 2014

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