Deaths in August 2017

The following is a list of **notable deaths in August 2017**. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months". Names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.
* Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.
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## August
### 1
* Ana-Maria Avram, 55, Romanian composer.
* Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, 89, Indian scientist, writer, and administrator, founder of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
* Jeffrey Brotman, 74, American businessman, co-founder of Costco.
* Mariann Mayberry, 52, American actress (*War of the Worlds*, *August: Osage County*, ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''), ovarian cancer.

### 2
* Wanda Chotomska, 87, Polish children's book author (*Jacek i Agatka*).
* Santosh Mohan Dev, 83, Indian politician, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises (2005–2009), stomach cancer.
* Sir John Graham, 82, New Zealand rugby union player (Canterbury, national team), sports administrator, and educator (Auckland Grammar School), cancer.
* Judith Jones, 93, American cookbook (*Mastering the Art of French Cooking*) and literary editor (*The Diary of a Young Girl*).
* Daniel Licht, 60, American composer (*Dexter*, *Silent Hill*, *Children of the Night*) and musician, liposarcoma.
* Jim Marrs, 73, American journalist, author and conspiracy theorist (9/11 Truth movement), heart attack.
* Ara Parseghian, 94, American football player and coach (University of Notre Dame), infection complicated by hip surgery.
* Shen Daren, 89, Chinese politician, Communist Party Chief of Ningxia (1986–1989) and Jiangsu (1989–1993).

### 3
* Bonaventura Duda, 93, Croatian theologian.
* Richard Dudman, 99, American reporter and journalist (*St. Louis Post-Dispatch*, *Bangor Daily News*).
* Ty Hardin, 87, American actor (*Bronco*, *Berserk!*, *Fire!*).
* Robert Hardy, 91, British actor (*All Creatures Great and Small*, *Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years*, *Harry Potter*).
* Dickie Hemric, 83, American basketball player (Boston Celtics).
* Eberhard von Koerber, 79, German manager, Member of the Board of Management of BMW (1984–1986), Chairman of World Organization of the Scout Movement (2003–2006) and co-president of Club of Rome (2007–2012).
* Dejan Miladinović, 68, Serbian opera director (National Opera of Novi Sad).
* Ángel Nieto, 70, Spanish multiple Grand Prix motorcycle roadracing world champion, winner of 13 World Championships, cerebral edema.

### 4
* Laurie Brokenshire, 64, English Royal Navy officer and magician, brain cancer.
* Erling Brøndum, 87, Danish journalist and politician, Minister of Defence (1973–1975).
* Heinz F. Dressel, 87, German theologian and writer.
* Luiz Melodia, 66, Brazilian actor and singer-songwriter, bone marrow cancer.
* Waldemar Schreckenberger, 87, German lawyer, jurist and politician, Minister of Justice (1981–1982) and Chancellery Chief of Staff (1982–1984).

### 5
* Irina Berezhna, 36, Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine (2007–2014), car crash.
* Bruno Canfora, 92, Italian movie composer (*The Man Who Wagged His Tail*, *Fall of the Mohicans*, *Destruction Force*), conductor (1991 Eurovision Song Contest) and jazz music arranger.
* Wojciech Krzemiński, 84, Polish astronomer.
* Hélène Martini, 92, French nightclub owner (Folies Bergères).
* Marcelino Perelló Valls, 73, Mexican activist (Mexico 68) and journalist (Excélsio).
* George Bundy Smith, 80, American lawyer, civil rights activist (Freedom Rider), and judge, member of the New York Supreme Court (1980–1992) and member of the Court of Appeals (1992–2006).
* Dionigi Tettamanzi, 83, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (2002–2011), Genoa (1995–2002), and Ancona-Osimo (1989–1991).
* Mark White, 77, American politician, Governor of Texas (1983–1987), heart attack.

### 6
* Wolfgang H. Berger, 79, German-American oceanographer, geologist and micropaleontologist, emeritus professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
* Nicole Bricq, 70, French politician, Deputy (1997–2002), Senator (2004–2012, since 2014), Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (2012) and Ministry of Foreign Trade (2012–2014), complications from a fall.
* Betty Cuthbert, 79, Australian Hall of Fame athlete, fourfold Olympic champion (1956, 1964), complications from multiple sclerosis.
* Darren Daulton, 55, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Florida Marlins), World Series champion (1997), brain cancer.
* Hinrich Lehmann-Grube, 84, German politician, Mayor of Leipzig (1990–1998), cancer.
* Dick Locher, 88, American cartoonist (*Dick Tracy*), Pulitzer Prize winner, Parkinson's disease.
* Martin Roth, 62, German museologist, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (2011–2016).
* Ernst Zündel, 78, German Holocaust denial publisher and pamphleteer (Samisdat Publishers), heart attack.

### 7
* Don Baylor, 68, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, California Angels, New York Yankees) and manager (Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs), World Series champion (1987), multiple myeloma.
* Haruo Nakajima, 88, Japanese actor (*Godzilla*, *Mothra*, *Seven Samurai*), pneumonia.
* Sigmund Sobolewski, 94, Polish activist and Holocaust survivor, pneumonia complicated by Alzheimer's disease.
* Patsy Ticer, 82, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1996–2011) and Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia (1991–1996), complications from a fall.

### 8
* Blanche Blackwell, 104, Jamaican socialite.
* Eugene Burger, 78, American magician and philosopher, liver cancer.
* Glen Campbell, 81, American country singer ("Rhinestone Cowboy", "Gentle on My Mind", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix") and actor (*True Grit*, *Norwood*, *Rock-a-Doodle*), Grammy winner (1967, 2015), Alzheimer's disease.
* Barbara Cook, 89, American singer ("Songs of Perfect Propriety", "All I Ask of You", "Rainbow Round My Shoulder") and actress (*The Music Man*, *Sondheim on Sondheim*, *Plain and Fancy*), respiratory failure.
* Dick MacPherson, 86, American football coach (UMass, Syracuse, New England Patriots).
* Cathleen Synge Morawetz, 94, Canadian mathematician.
* Rius, 83, Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer (*Cuba for Beginners*, ''It's a Pity, Cuba*).
* Ken Roberts, British rugby league player (Swinton, Halifax, Great Britain).
* Gonzague Saint Bris, 69, French novelist and biographer, Prix Interallié winner (2002), car crash.
* Janet Seidel, 62, Australian singer (*Moon of Manakoora''), pianist and music teacher (Sydney Girls High School), Bell Awards winner (2006), ovarian cancer.

### 9
* Thomas A. Bird, 98, British World War II army officer and architect.
* Patricio Echegaray, 70, Argentine politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Argentina (since 1986), pancreatic cancer.
* Al McCandless, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 37th and 44th congressional district (1983–1995).
* Marián Varga, 70, Slovak organist and composer, heart failure.
* Peter Weibel, 66, German racing cyclist, cancer.

### 10
* Patrick O'Connell, 83, Irish actor (*The Brothers*).
* Ruth Pfau, 87, German-Pakistani nun, physician and activist, founder of the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre, complications from heart disease.

### 11
* Abdulhussain Abdulredha, 78, Kuwaiti actor (*Darb Alzalaq*, *On the fly*, *Downgrade Souad Abdullah*) and writer.
* Segun Bucknor, 71, Nigerian musician (Segun Bucknor and the Assembly) and journalist, complications from multiple strokes.
* Chris Hesketh, 72–73, English rugby league player (Wigan, Salford, national team). (death announced on this date)
* Yisrael Kristal, 113, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian, world's oldest living man.
* Kent Lee, 94, American Vice Admiral of the United States Navy.
* Terele Pávez, 78, Spanish actress (*The Holy Innocents*, *La Celestina*, *El Bar*), Goya winner (2013), stroke.
* Eugenio Polgovsky, 40, Mexican movie director (*Tropic of Cancer*, *Los Herederos*).

### 12
* Heather Heyer, 32, American counter-protestor, vehicular homicide.
* Bryan Murray, 74, Canadian ice hockey coach (Washington Capitals) and general manager (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Florida Panthers, Detroit Red Wings), colon cancer.

### 13
* Aung Shwe, 99, Burmese politician and army general, Chairman of the National League for Democracy (1991–2010).
* Joseph Bologna, 82, American actor (*My Favorite Year*, *Blame It on Rio*, *The Big Bus*) and television writer (*The Carol Burnett Show*), pancreatic cancer.

### 14
* Andrzej Blumenfeld, 66, Polish actor (*The Pianist*, *Delivery Man*, *The Witcher*), cancer.
* Frank Broyles, 92, American college football coach (Arkansas Razorbacks), Alzheimer's disease.
* Franklin Cleckley, 77, American state judge, member of the Supreme Court of West Virginia (19941996).
* Abdelkrim Ghallab, 97, Moroccan political journalist and novelist (''Dafann al-m'd'').
* Lateef Raji, 54, Nigerian politician, State Secretary of the Alliance for Democracy (1999–2006), throat cancer.
* Stephen Wooldridge, 39, Australian cyclist, Olympic (2004) and world champion (2002, 2003, 2004, 2006), suicide.

### 15
* Abdirahman Jama Barre, 79, Somali politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1987–1991), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1990) and Minister of Finance (1987–1991).
* Gunnar Birkerts, 92, Latvian-born American architect (Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Marquette Plaza, Corning Museum of Glass), congestive heart failure.
* Vern Ehlers, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 3rd congressional district (1993–2011), Alzheimer's disease.
* Eberhard Jäckel, 88, German historian.

### 16
* Vera Glagoleva, 61, Russian actress (*Vyyti zamuzh za kapitana*, *Bednaya Sasha*, *Zhenshchin obizhat ne rekomenduyetsya*), People's Artist of Russia (2011), cancer.
* Roger Pinto Molina, 57, Bolivian politician, member of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly (2005–2012), plane crash.
* Jon Shepodd, 92, American actor (*Lassie*).
* David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, 89, British peer, member of the House of Lords (1984–1999).
* Vicente Sota, 93, Chilean politician, Deputy (1965–1969, 1990–1998) and President of the Chamber of Deputies (1994–1995).

### 17
* Sonny Landham, 76, American actor (*Predator*, *48 Hrs.*, *Lock Up*) and politician, congestive heart failure.
* M. T. Liggett, 86, American sculptor, kidney failure and brain cancer.
* Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed, 84, Egyptian politician and scholar.
* Sirkka Selja, 97, Finnish poet (*Still I Live*), pneumonia.
* Fadwa Soliman, 46, Syrian actress (*Inazuma Eleven*, *Digimon Adventure*, *Battle B-Daman*) and activist, cancer.

### 18
* Pertti Alaja, 65, Finnish footballer (Ikast, Malmö, national team), President of the Football Association of Finland (since 2012), cancer.
* Alfonso Azpiri, 69, Spanish comic artist (*Lorna*), heart attack.
* Sonny Burgess, 86, American rockabilly singer ("We Wanna Boogie", "The Razorback Rock & Roll Tapes", "Hittin' That Jug") and guitarist, complications from a fall.
* Dave Creighton, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs).
* Sir Bruce Forsyth, 89, English television presenter (*The Generation Game*, *Play Your Cards Right*, *Strictly Come Dancing*) and entertainer, complications from bronchopneumonia.
* Vicente Iturat, 88, Spanish racing cyclist.
* Mirosława Litmanowicz, 89, Polish chess player.
* Venero Mangano, 95, American bookmaker, racketeer and extortionist (Genovese crime family).
* Duncan Russell, 59, English football manager (Mansfield Town), liver cancer.
* Don Shepherd, 90, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan), vascular dementia.
* Sergio Zaniboni, 80, Italian comics artist (*Diabolik*).

### 19
* Brian Aldiss, 92, British science fiction writer (*Helliconia*) and editor.
* Pyotr Deynekin, 79, Russian military personnel, commander of the Russian Air Force (1992–1998), Hero of the Russian Federation (1997).
* Gérard Férey, 76, French chemist, member of the French Academy of Sciences (since 2003).
* Janusz Głowacki, 78, Polish-American playwright (*Antigone in New York*, *Fortinbras Gets Drunk*, *The Fourth Sister*) and essayist.
* Karl Otto Götz, 103, German artist, filmmaker, and writer.
* Dick Gregory, 84, American comedian, writer (*Nigger*), and civil rights activist, heart failure.
* Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat, 72, Cuban-born American politician and lawyer, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1994–1998) and Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court (2011–2017), prostate cancer.
* Alan Sayers, 101, New Zealand athlete, journalist and writer, British Empire Games bronze medalist (1938).
* Bea Wain, 100, American singer ("Cry, Baby, Cry", "Deep Purple", "Heart and Soul"), congestive heart failure.

### 20
* Margot Hielscher, 97, German singer ("Telefon, Telefon", "Für Zwei Groschen Musik") and actress (*Rivalen der Rennbahn*).
* Wilhelm Killmayer, 89, German composer, conductor, and lecturer.
* Jerzy Leśniak, 60, Polish journalist and historian, heart attack.
* Jerry Lewis, 91, American actor (*The Bellboy*, *The Nutty Professor*, *The King of Comedy*), comedian (Martin and Lewis) and humanitarian (*The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon*), heart disease.
* Sir Colin Meads, 81, New Zealand rugby union player (King Country, national team, Cavaliers), coach (North Island) and manager, pancreatic cancer.
* Nati Mistral, 88, Spanish actress (*Currito of the Cross*, *Cabaret*, *Mis tres amores*) and singer, complications from a stroke.
* Gordon M. Williams, 83, Scottish writer (''The Siege of Trencher's Farm*).

### 21
* James Joseph Dresnok, 74–75, American Korean War military personnel and actor (*Unsung Heroes*, *From 5 p.m. to 5 am*), defected to North Korea and subject of *Crossing the Line*, stroke. (death announced on this date)
* Greg Evers, 62, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (2001–2010) and Senate (2010–2016), car crash.
* Roberto Gottardi, 90, Italian architect (National Art Schools).
* Thomas Meehan, 88, American playwright (*Annie*, *The Producers*, *Hairspray*), Tony winner (1977), complications from surgery and cancer.
* Helmut Piirimäe, 86, Estonian historian.
* Abdur Razzak, 75, Bangladeshi actor (*Behula*, *Ki Je Kori*, *Jogajog*), Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actor winner (1976, 1978, 1982, 1984, 1988).
* Bajram Rexhepi, 63, Kosovar politician, Prime Minister (2002–2004), stroke.
* Boris Spremo, 81, Yugoslavian-born Canadian photojournalist (*Toronto Sun*), complications from multiple myeloma.
* Perch Zeytuntsyan, 79, Egyptian-born Armenian playwright and politician, Minister of Culture (1990–1991).

### 22
* John Abercrombie, 72, American jazz guitarist, heart failure.
* Alain Berbérian, 63, French movie director (*La Cité de la peur*, *Le Boulet*, *The Corsican File*) and screenwriter (*Paparazzi*).
* Tony deBrum, 72, Marshallese politician, Foreign Minister (1979&ndash;1987, 2008&ndash;2009, 2014&ndash;2016).
* Michael J. C. Gordon, 69, British computer scientist (HOL theorem prover), pancreatic cancer.
* Rishang Keishing, 96, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Manipur (1980–1981, 1994–1997), multiple organ failure.
* Matthew Kia Yen-wen, 92, Taiwanese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Taipei (1978–1989), Bishop of Chiayi (1970–1974) and Hualien (1974–1978).
* Pedro Pedrossian, 89, Brazilian politician, Governor of Mato Grosso (1966–1971) and Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul (1980–1983, 1991–1995), heart failure.
* Tom Pritchard, 100, New Zealand cricketer (Wellington, Warwickshire, Kent), complications from pneumonia.
* Jim Whelan, 68, American politician, Mayor of Atlantic City (1990–2002), member of the New Jersey General Assembly (2006–2008) and Senate (since 2008), heart attack complicated by kidney surgery.

### 23
* Eduardo Angeloz, 85, Argentine politician, Governor of Córdoba (1983–1995), complications from a fall.
* Viola Harris, 91, American actress (*Deconstructing Harry*, *The Other Guys*, *Sex and the City 2*).
* Engelbert Jarek, 82, Polish footballer (Odra Opole).
* George A. Keyworth II, 77, American physicist, Director of Office of Science and Technology Policy (1981–1985), prostate cancer.
* Joe Klein, 75, American baseball executive (Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers), complications from heart surgery.
* Izak Parviz Nazarian, 88, Iranian-American businessman (Omninet).
* Jack Rosenthal, 82, Israeli-born American journalist (*The New York Times*), Pulitzer Prize winner (1982), complications from pancreatic cancer.
* Jeannie Rousseau, 98, French Allied intelligence agent.

### 24
* Cecil D. Andrus, 85, American politician, Chair of the National Governors Association (1976–1977), U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1977–1981) and Governor of Idaho (1971–1977, 1987–1995), complications from lung cancer.
* Alan Boswell, 74, English footballer (Walsall, Shrewsbury Town, Bolton Wanderers).
* Kai Linnilä, 75, Finnish writer and editor.
* Charlie Robertson, 83, American politician, mayor of York, Pennsylvania (1994–2002), cancer.
* Jay Thomas, 69, American actor (*Cheers*, *Murphy Brown*, *Love & War*) and radio talk show host (*The Jay Thomas Show*), Emmy winner (1990, 1991), throat cancer.
* Amelyn Veloso, 43, Filipina journalist and broadcaster (CNN Philippines), complications from liver cancer.

### 25
* Margaret Moser, 63, American journalist (Austin Sun) and historian, colorectal cancer.
* Rich Piana, 45, American bodybuilder and internet personality, suspected accidental steroid overdose.

### 26
* Tobe Hooper, 74, American movie director (*The Texas Chain Saw Massacre*, *Poltergeist*, *Salem's Lot*) and novelist (*Midnight Movie'').
* Muzaffer İzgü, 83, Turkish children's writer (*Gecekondu*, *Donumdaki Para*, *İlyas Efendi*), liver cancer.
* Grzegorz Miecugow, 61, Polish television newscaster (*Wiadomości*, *Fakty TVN*) and columnist (*Szkło Kontaktowe*), cancer.
* Josef Musil, 85, Czech volleyball player (national team), Olympic silver medalist (1964) and bronze medalist (1968), heart attack.
* Wilson das Neves, 81, Brazilian percussionist and singer, colorectal cancer.
* Horacio White, 90, Argentine Olympic swimmer (1948).
* Adam Wójcik, 47, Polish basketball player (Gwardia Wrocław, Śląsk Wrocław, Prokom Sopot), leukemia.

### 27
* Lenke Lorán, 90, Hungarian actress (*Nyári játék*, *Entanglement*, *7-es csatorna*), heart failure.
* Yitzhak Pundak, 104, Polish-born Israeli military officer and diplomat.
* Ebrahim Yazdi, 85, Iranian politician and diplomat, Deputy Prime Minister (1979), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1979) and MP for Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr (1980–1984), pancreatic cancer.

### 28
* Senarath Attanayake, 51, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, Livestock, Land and Forestry (2000–2005) and member of the Uva Provincial Council (since 2005), complications from ALS.
* Melissa Bell, 53, singer, former member of Soul II Soul, kidney failure and diabetes.
* Mireille Darc, 79, French actress (*Week End*, *The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe*, *Pouic-Pouic*, *Icy Breasts*), movie director (*La Barbare*), and model, complications from a stroke.
* Tsutomu Hata, 82, Japanese politician, Prime Minister (1994), Deputy Prime Minister (1993–1994), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1993–1994), Minister of Finance (1991–1992) and Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (1985–1986; 1988–1989).
* David Torrence, 31, Peruvian-American Olympic middle-distance runner (2016).

### 29
* Janine Charrat, 93, French ballet dancer (*Ballerina*) and choreographer.
* Dmitri Kogan, 38, Russian violinist, lymphoma.
* Sir David Tang, 63, Hong Kong businessman (Shanghai Tang), liver cancer.

### 30
* Marjorie Boulton, 93, British author (*Preliminaries: Poems*, *Zamenhof: Creator of Esperanto*, *The Anatomy of Poetry*) and poet (*Saying What We Mean*, *Words in Real Life*, *Reading in Real Life*).
* Richard Sui On Chang, 75, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Hawaii (1997-2006), pneumonia.
* Hato Hasbún, 71, Salvadoran politician, Minister of Education (since 2012), heart attack.
* Louise Hay, 90, American motivational author (*You Can Heal Your Life*).
* Abdul Jabbar, 78, Bangladeshi singer ("Tumi Ki Dekhechho Kobhu Jiboner Porajoy", "Salam Salam Hazar Salam", "Joy Bangla, Banglar Joy"), cardiac arrest.
* Károly Makk, 91, Hungarian movie director (*A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda*, *Love*, ''Cat's Play*) and screenwriter (*Another War*, *The Last Manuscript''), President of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts (since 2011), heart attack.
* Rollie Massimino, 82, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Villanova Wildcats, UNLV Runnin' Rebels, Cleveland State Vikings), lung cancer.
* Sam Pivnik, 90, Polish Holocaust survivor and author (*Survivor – Auschwitz*, *The Death March*, *My Fight for Freedom*), complications from pneumonia.
* Sumiteru Taniguchi, 88, Japanese anti-nuclear weapons activist, lung and skin cancer.

### 31
* Richard Anderson, 91, American actor (*The Six Million Dollar Man*, *The Bionic Woman*, *Forbidden Planet*), congestive heart failure.
* Janne Carlsson, 80, Swedish actor (*Exponerad*, *Repmånad*, *Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?*) and jazz and rock drummer (Hansson & Karlsson), liver cancer.
* Mike Cockerill, 56, Australian soccer journalist (Fairfax Media, Fox Sports, C7 Sport), pancreatic cancer.
* Egon Günther, 90, German movie director (*The Dress*, *Her Third*, *Lotte in Weimar*) and screenwriter (*Morenga*).
* Tamara Tchinarova, 98, Romanian ballet dancer and writer (*Dancing into the Unknown: My Life in the Ballets Russes and Beyond*), pneumonia.

## Months
* January 2017
* February 2017
* March 2017
* April 2017
* May 2017
* June 2017
* July 2017

## Related pages
* Deaths in 2014
* Deaths in 2015
* Deaths in 2016

## References
## Other websites
* *The Guardian*, UK obituaries
* Obituaries, *Los Angeles Times*
* Obituaries, *Chicago Tribune*
* *The New York Times*, US obituaries
* *The Sydney Morning Herald*, Australian obituaries
* *The Telegraph* obituaries