We Hardly Knew Ye - Those We Lost in August 2010

31st
Vance Bourjaily, 87, American novelist.
Laurent Fignon, 50, French road bicycle racer, winner of 1983 and 1984 Tour de France, lung cancer.
Gail Koff, 65, American lawyer and partner in Jacoby & Meyers, leukemia.
Ken Orsatti, 78, American director of the Screen Actors Guild (1981–2000), pulmonary disease.

30th
J. C. Bailey, 27, American professional wrestler.
Lynn Turner, 42, American murderer.

29th
James Deuter, 71, American actor (Early Edition).
Peter Lenz, 13, American motorcycle racer, collision.

27th
George Hitchcock, 96, American poet and publisher.

26th
William B. Lenoir, 71, American NASA astronaut, head injury.
Jack Pitney, 47, American marketing executive (BMW North America), promoter of the Mini Cooper, tractor accident.

25th
Daniel P. Davison, 85, American banker and chairman (J.P. Morgan, Christie's, Metropolitan Museum, Burlington Northern), pancreatic cancer.

24th
William B. Saxbe, 94, American politician, Senator from Ohio (1969–1974) and Attorney General (1974–1975), pancreatic cancer.

23rd
Natalie Nevins, 85, American singer (The Lawrence Welk Show), complications from hip surgery.
Bill Phillips, 74, American country music singer.
George David Weiss, 89, American composer ("What a Wonderful World", "Can't Help Falling in Love", "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"), natural causes.

21st
Nancy Dolman, 58, Canadian actress (Soap), wife of Martin Short, natural causes.
Harold Dow, 62, American television news correspondent (48 Hours), asthma.

20th
Johnny Bailey, 43, American football player (Chicago Bears, Arizona Cardinals), pancreatic cancer.
Jack Horkheimer, 72, American public television host (Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer), executive director of Miami Planetarium, respiratory ailment.

19th
Michael Been, 60, American musician (The Call) and actor (The Last Temptation of Christ), heart attack.
Ahna Capri, 66, American actress (Enter the Dragon), car accident
Jackson Gillis, 93, American television writer (Columbo, Perry Mason), pneumonia.
Suzanne Grossmann, 72, American actress and television writer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

18th
Martin Dannenberg, 94, American World War II soldier, located the Nuremberg Laws, natural causes.

15th
James J. Kilpatrick, 89, American columnist and grammarian.
Philip Markoff, 24, American murder suspect, suicide.
Robert Wilson, 53, American musician (The Gap Band), heart attack .

14th
Abbey Lincoln, 80, American jazz singer and actress (For Love of Ivy, Nothing But a Man).
Gloria Winters, 78, American actress (The Life of Riley, Sky King), complications from pneumonia.

13th
Edward Kean, 85, American television writer (Howdy Doody), complications from emphysema.
Edwin Newman, 91, American journalist and newscaster (NBC News), pneumonia.

12th
Richie Hayward, 64, American drummer (Little Feat), liver cancer.
Paul Ryan Rudd, 70, American actor (Beacon Hill, The Betsy), pancreatic cancer.

11th
Dan Rostenkowski, 82, American politician, Representative from Illinois (1959–1995), lung cancer.
Lou Smit, 75, American police detective, investigated Jon Benét Ramsey case, colorectal cancer.

10th
Dana Dawson, 36, American actress and singer, colorectal cancer.
David L. Wolper, 82, American film and television producer (North and South, Roots, The Thorn Birds), heart failure and Parkinson's disease.

9th
Tab Baker, 50, American actor (Prison Break), heart attack.
George DiCenzo, 70, American character actor (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Helter Skelter) and voice actor (He Man and the Masters of the Universe).
Ted Stevens, 86, American politician, Senator from Alaska (1968–2009), plane crash.

8th
David Dixon, 87, American businessman, founder of the United States Football League.
Patricia Neal, 84, American actress, 1964 Academy Award winner (Hud), lung cancer. Jack Parnell, 87, British musician and bandleader (The Muppet Show), cancer.

7th
Alex Johns, 43, American film producer (The Ant Bully) and television producer (Futurama), after long illness.

6th
Catfish Collins, 66, American guitarist (James Brown, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parliament-Funkadelic), cancer.
Chris Dedrick, 62, American musician (The Free Design) and composer (Ray Bradbury Theatre), cancer.
David C. Dolby, 64, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.

3rd
Marilyn Buck, 62, American activist and terrorist, uterine cancer.
Bobby Hebb, 72, American singer-songwriter ("Sunny"), lung cancer.

2nd
Makh Daniels, 28, American heavy metal singer (Early Graves), car accident.
Mitch Jayne, 82, American bluegrass bassist (The Dillards) and actor (The Andy Griffith Show), cancer.

1st
Robert F. Boyle, 100, American art director and production designer (North By Northwest, The Birds), natural causes.