We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in August, 2008

8/3/08
Skip Caray, 68, American broadcaster for baseball (Atlanta Braves) and basketball (Hawks), son of Harry Caray, bronchitis.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian novelist and historian, Nobel Prize winner (1970), heart failure.

8/4/08
Sally Insul, 92, American actress, heart failure.

8/5/08
Robert Hazard, 59, American musician and songwriter ("Girls Just Want to Have Fun"), pancreatic cancer.

Gary Mooney, 78, American animator (Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, George of the Jungle), cancer.

8/6/08
Anthony Russo, 71, American whistleblower (Pentagon Papers). [202]

Jud Taylor, 68, American television director and actor, kidney failure.

8/9/08
Bernie Mac, 50, American comedian and actor (The Bernie Mac Show, Bad Santa), complications from pneumonia.

8/10/08
Isaac Hayes, 65, American soul and funk musician ("Theme from Shaft"), actor (South Park), stroke.

Howard G. Minsky, 94, American film producer (Love Story).

8/11/08
Don Helms, 81, American steel guitarist.

Darren Taylor, 42, American gang member turned peacemaker, cancer.

Rhoshii Wells, 31, American boxer, Olympic medallist, shot.

8/13/08
Sandy Allen, 53, American tallest woman in the world (according to Guinness World Records).

Bill Gwatney, 48, American politician, Arkansas state senator (1992–2002), Democratic Party of Arkansas chairman, shot.


8/15/08
Jerry Wexler, 91, American record producer, heart failure.

8/17/08
Dave Freeman, 47, American author (100 Things To Do Before You Die), injuries from fall.

Maudie Hopkins, 93, American last certified Civil War widow.

8/18/08
Jeannette Eyerly, 100, American author and columnist.

Manny Farber, 91, American film critic and painter.

Genuine Risk, 31, American racehorse, 1980 Kentucky Derby winner.

Pervis Jackson, 70, American R&B bass singer (The Spinners), cancer.

Jumoke, 18, American western lowland gorilla, complications of early pregnancy.

8/19/08
Julius Carry, 56, American actor (The Last Dragon), pancreatic cancer.

LeRoi Moore, 46, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band), complications from ATV accident.

Diane Webber, 76, American model and actress

8/20/08
Phil Guy, 68, American blues guitarist, brother of Buddy Guy, pancreatic cancer.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, American member of the House of Representatives from Ohio since 1999, cerebral hemorrhage.

Gene Upshaw, 63, American NFL player (Oakland Raiders), executive director of NFLPA, pancreatic cancer.

8/21/08
Fred Crane, 90, American film and television actor (Gone with the Wind), complications from surgery.

Jerry Finn, 39, American record producer (Blink-182, Green Day, Morrissey), cerebral hemorrhage

8/22/08
Jeff MacKay, 59, American film and television actor, (Magnum, P.I., Tales of the Gold Monkey), liver complications.

Ralph Young, 90, American singer (Sandler and Young).

8/23/08
Jimmy Cleveland, 82, American jazz trombonist.

Ruth Cohen, 78, American actress and extra (Seinfeld), heart attack.

Steve Foley, 49, American drummer (The Replacements, Bash & Pop), drug overdose.

8/24/08
Gerard W. Ford, 83, American co-founder of Ford Modeling Agency, endocarditis

8/25/08
Marpessa Dawn, 74, American actress (Black Orpheus), heart attack.

Kevin Duckworth, 44, American NBA basketball player, heart failure resulting from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

8/27/08
Del Martin, 87, American gay rights activist, first legal same-sex marriage in California, complications from bone fracture.

8/28/08
Wonderful Smith, 97, American comedian, natural causes.

8/31/08
Ike Pappas, 75, American CBS journalist, broadcast murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, heart failure.

Jerry Reed, 71, American country music singer and actor, complications from emphysema.