Sports
Ali “Hulk Hogan” Bakar - Malaysian soccer star who was a key member of the first Malaysian Olympic team that played in the 1972 games in Munich, who got his nickname because of his resemblance to the American wrestler, died of a heart attack on August 17 while playing in the annual Singapore-Malaysian Veterans Charity Shiled match in Changi, Singapore at age 56.
Bobby Bonds - Major league outfielder who played 14 seasons with 8 ball clubs, who had the most and best years with the San Francisco Giants, who was one of the first baseball players to combine home-run power with base-stealing speed, who became the fourth player ever to hit 30 homers and steal 30 bases in the same season, and the first player to do it twice, and who is the father of baseball superstar Barry Bonds, died August 23 of brain and lung cancer in San Francisco at age 57.
Ken Coleman - Baseball radio and TV broadcaster for the Boston Red Sox from 1966-74 and 1979-89, who teamed up with Ned Martin and Mel Parnell alternating between the TV and radio booths, and who broadcasted games for the Cleveland Indians and Browns from 1952-65 and Cincinnati Reds from 1975-78, died August 21 in Plymouth, MA of bacterial meningitis at age 78.
Jack Dyer - Legendary Australian Football League player, who was nicknamed 'Captain Blood' for his ferocious playing style, who played from 1931 to 1949 and set the record for most games played, who led the Richmond club to numerous titles, and who was in the inaugural class of inductees into the AFL Hall of Fame, died August 23 in Melbourne at age 89.
Howard Marsden - Icon of Australian motorsport who was a an executive, promoter of racing and one of the most successful managers in the history of the sport there, died August 19 of cancer in Adelaide, Australia at age 61.
Leon Rasmussen - Thoroughbred breeding expert and theorist, who was known for popularizing the Dosage Index, a mathematical formula that gauges a thoroughbred's speed and stamina through a study of the animal's bloodlines, and who wrote for the Daily Racing Form for nearly 40 years, died August 15 of cancer in Los Feliz, CA at age 88.
William Swan - President and CEO of First Niagara Bank, who served as chairman of the St. Bonaventure University board of trustees, who was deeply involved in that school's athletics, who served as a spokesman for the school during the recent scandals involving the basketball program that lead to the firing of the school president among others, committed suicide on August 20 at his home in Lockport, NY at age 55.
Jim Theodore - College football star at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1950's, who as a running back was a three-year letter winner and played in two bowl games for the Panthers, and who went on to found the heart-lung transplant program at Stanford University, died August 17 in Palo Alto, CA of stomach cancer at age 67.

Art and Literature
Sarah Clackson - One of the world’s foremost experts in the field of coptology, the study of early Christian Egyptian language and script, who became a well-known presence in her subject both in Europe and the United States, and who wrote the text “Coptic and Greek texts Relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa Apollo”, died August 10 of cancer in Cambridge, England at age 37.
John Coplans - Artist and founder of Artforum magazine, whose work is owned by more than 60 museums, whose art form turned to photography in the 1980's, and who produced his well-known self-portrait photos of his own aging body parts, which were transformed into abstract forms resembling primitive art or nebulous sculptures, died August 21 in New York City at age 83.
John Higham - Cultural historian who studied the notion of America as a melting pot and the interplay of ethnic vs. national identity, among whose books are “Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism” and “Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture”, died July 26 of a cerebral aneurysm in Baltimore at age 82.
Elizabeth Honness - Author who wrote a series of mystery books for older children, with names like "Mystery of the Secret Message" and "Doll Hospital Mystery", died August 12 in Kennett Square, PA at age 99.
Matt S. Meier - Historian who wrote more than a dozen books on Mexican Americans and other Latinos living in the United States, whose best known books are “The Chicanos: A History of Mexican Americans”, “Mexican American Biographies: A Historical Dictionary” and “Bibliography of Mexican American History”, died August 11 of leukemia in Santa Clara, CA at age 86.
Max Putzel - Author and scholar best known for two of his books, "The Man in the Mirror; William Marion Reedy and His Magazine" and "Genius of Place; William Faulkner's Triumphant Beginnings", died August 19 in Captain Cook, HI at age 93.
John Shearman - British-born historian of Italian Renaissance art, who was chairman of the art departments at both Harvard and Princeton, and who wrote numerous texts including "Raphael in Early Modern Sources, 1483-1600" and "Early Italian Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen", died August 11 at age 72.
Dr. Ernest Taves - Psychoanalyst turned fiction writer whose stories appeared in various periodicals during the 1970's, and who wrote several books including two on the history of the Mormon Church, and "The UFO Enigma" a book examining the UFO phenomenon from a psychoanalyst's and astronomer's perspective, died August 16 of a heart attack in Cambridge, MA at age 87.
James T. Whitehead - Novelist and poet whose 1971 novel "Joiner", about life in segregated Mississippi, received critical acclaim, and who also published four books of poetry, died August 15 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm in Fayetteville, AR at age 67.

Politics and Military
Arthur Helton - Attorney and noted expert on humanitarian issues and international law, who devoted most of his professional life to the help and protection of refugees, who served as director of peace and conflict studies for the Council on Foreign Relations, and who was in Iraq to assess conditions there, was killed on August 19 in the bomb attack on U.N. headquarters in Baghdad at age 54.
Frank MacDonald - Australia's oldest World War I veteran and last WW1 veteran to be decorated for bravery, who served with the all-Tasmanian 40th Battalion in France and Belgium, and who was awarded the Legion of Honor from the French government, died August 16 in Burnie, Australia at age 107.
George Marquardt - Pilot of the plane, Necessary Evil, that flew beside the Enola Gay on its mission to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima, Japan during WW2, whose crewmen photographed the atomic blast, died August 15 in Salt Lake City, UT at age 84.
William Orrick - Federal judge appointed by Richard Nixon in 1974 who is best known for taking over the Patty Hearst case in 1977 after the original judge died, and who sentenced Hearst to seven years in prison, died August 15 of natural causes in San Francisco at age 87.
Carlos Roberto Reina - President of Honduras from 1993 to 1997, who for many years before he was elected had fought against the military rule that dominated his country, who spent time in prison on three occasions for his protests, who was elected president under the promise of cracking down on corruption and reducing the role of the military, and who made gradual progress on both endeavors during his tenure, committed suicide on August 19 at his home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to end the suffering from numerous health problems. He was 77.
Ismail Abu Shanab - Top leader in Palestine's Hamas political party, who was considered by many to be a moderate member of Hamas' political wing, and who was an architect of the recent Palestinian cease-fire, was killed on August 21 along with two of his bodyguards when their car was hit by Israeli missiles in Gaza City. His age was unstated.
Sergio Vieira de Mello - High-ranking U.N. official known for his ability to combine tough talk with diplomacy, who served as the U.N.’s crisis pointman in conflict zones from Kosovo to Cyprus to East Timor, who was appointed the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in September 2002, but who left that post to serve as a troubleshooter in Baghdad after war broke out, was killed August 19 in a suicide bombing at the U.N. offices in Baghdad. He was 55 years old.
Lev Ubozhko - Soviet dissident who spent 17 years as a political prisoner for speaking out for democratic reforms in the Soviet Union, and who founded the U.S.S.R.'s first anti-communist party, the Democratic Union party, in 1988, died August 19 in Moscow after a long illness at age 70.
Michael Kijana Wamalwa - Vice president of Kenya and member of parliament of the opposition FORD Kenya party, who became vice-president in December 2002 when voters elected President Mwai Kibaki, ending the 24 year rule of Daniel Moi, died August 23 in London of unspecified causes (rumors persist he had AIDS/HIV) at age 58.
Nadia Younes - Chief of staff for senior U.N. representative Sergio Vieira de Mello, who had served as chief protocol officer under U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, and who was one of the best known and highly regarded U.N. staff members, was killed on August 19 in the bomb attack on U.N. headquarters in Baghdad at age 57.

Social and Religion
Gene Boyer - One of the 28 women who founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1968, who served as that organization's first treasurer, as a finance vice president and as president of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, and who later founded the Wisconsin Women's Network, died August 19 in Madison, WI at age 78.
Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper - Jewish holocaust survivor who worked as a nurse in the Nazi camps where she provided clothing, medicine and food to fellow prisoners, who was the last known person to have seen Anne Frank alive, and who wrote about both her days as a prisoner and Anne Frank's final days before succumbing to typhus at age 15 in 1945, died August 15 in Amsterdam, Netherlands of heart failure at age 86.
Father Raymond Brennan - Roman Catholic priest who founded and operated the Pattaya Orphanage in Thailand, which today has services for up to 750 abandoned children, but who was accused by a British tabloid in January 2003 of taking money to arrange meetings between wealthy pedophiles and children in his care, died August 16 in Pattaya, Thialand of heart failure at age 70.
Louise Franklin-Ramirez - Washington, DC character known for her years and years of involvement in public protests on issues ranging from racial integration to nuclear proliferation to toys that glorified war and violence, who often courted arrest to show her devotion to causes as well as draw attention to due to her advanced age, died August 6 in Manassas, VA of congestive heart failure at age 97.
John Geoghan - Former Roman Catholic priest in the Boston archdiocese who was a central figure in the Catholic church's sex abuse scandal, who has been accused of molesting 130 children during his 30-year career in six parishes, who was shuttled by the Boston Archdiocese from parish to parish despite warnings about his behavior, who was defrocked in 1998, convicted of child molestation in 2002 and sentenced to 9 years in prison, was strangled to death on August 23 by fellow inmate Joseph Druce, who was serving a life term for murder, at the state prison in Shirley, MA. Geoghan was 68 years old.
William Q. Jones - North Carolina man who as an 18-year-old in 1987, entered a convenience store firing a gun and demanding money from the cash register, who got away with nothing when the cash register failed to open, but whose randomly shot bullet killed customer Ed Peebles, was executed by lethal injection on August 23 in Raleigh, NC at age 34.
Irja Lloyd - Los Angeles social activist who spent years fighting against big government machines for populist issues, and who is the subject of the upcoming documentary feature "Sunset Story", which follows the activities of Lloyd and the late activist Lucille Alpert who lived at a L.A. retirement home, died August 19 in Hollywood of heart disease and emphysema at age 83.
Hank Lumpkin - Topeka restaurateur and owner of Boss Hawg's restaurant, who was in the national spotlight in January 2002 appearing on "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire", died of an apparent heart attack August 19 in the freezer at his restaurant. He was 38 years old.
Father Philip Murnion - Catholic priest and sociologist who founded and directed the National Pastoral Life Center in New York, an organization dedicated to supporting pastors, ministers, church personnel and bishops, died August 19 of colon cancer in New York City at age 65.
Hitoshi Nikaidoh - Surgical resident at the Christus St. Joseph Hospital in Dallas, who was a member of the 2003 class of the University of Texas-Houston Medical School and had been a student leader at the school, who had aspired to become a missionary doctor, and who on August 16 was stepping onto an elevator at the hospital and became pinned at the shoulders when the doors closed, was killed when the car began moving, severing his head (a woman stuck in the elevator for 20 minutes with the severed head was treated for shock). He was 35 years old.
Randy Scott - Farmer from Hartwick, Minnesota, who had recently purchased a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and on August 16 rode his new motorcycle to South Dakota to attend his father-in-law's 80th birthday, was killed on the return trip when a car driven by South Dakota congressman Bill Janklow apparently ran a stop sign and collided with the motorcycle driven by Scott near Trent, SD. He was 55 years old.
Connie Douglas Reeves - Legendary cowgirl performer who taught more than 30,000 girls how to ride horses at Texas's Camp Waldemar, and who was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 2002 (and rode a horse in the parade), died August 17 of injuries received from being thrown from a horse in San Antonio at age 101.
Anna Stephan - The oldest person in Germany, died August 3 at age 111.

Business and Science
Mike Duggan - News editor who founded Knight News Service in 1973 with a client list of 25 newspapers, which has evolved into the Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service in 2003 with a client list of more than 500 newspapers, died of a heart attack on August 15 in Fairfax, VA at age 56.
Archie Epps III - Dean of students at Harvard University from 1971 to 1999, who was one of the first high-ranking black administrators at any Ivy League school, and who was a scholar of Islam and edited the book "The Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard", died August 21 following surgery in Cambridge, MA at age 66.
Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick - Dermatologist who developed a breakthrough treatment for psoriasis, who published the landmark textbook "Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General Medicine" in 1971, who also wrote a dozen other books on dermatology and produced more than 250 original scientific articles, and who was one of the first dermatologists to promote the importance of sunscreens, died August 16 in Lexington, MA at the age of 83.
Thomas Kellogg - Engineer who was on the four man team that designed and assembled the futuristic Avanti sports car for Studebaker in 1961, a car that became so popular with enthusiasts that it spurred a network of owners clubs that still exists, and which has been exhibited in art galleries as sculpture, died August 14 after a car accident in Newport Beach, CA at age 71.
Vito Pascucci - Founder and chairman of the G. Leblanc Corp, a manufacturer of musical instruments sold under brand names like Vito, Yanagisawa, and Holton, who was a key figure in reviving music industry sales after WW2, died August 18 in Kenosha, WI at age 80.
Cedric Price - One of the most influential British architects of the 20th century, who is credited with linking the socialist ideals of postwar Britain with the 60's spirit of fun in realizing projects like the London Zoo aviary and the unbuilt Fun Theatre, died August 10 of a heart attack brought on by the extreme heat in England at the age of 68.