Stallone, American actor, film director, producer, and distributor (b. 1976) July 14 – Sixten Jernberg, Swedish cross-country skier (b. 1929) July 15 – Celeste Holm, American actress (b. 1917) July 16 Stephen Covey, American author (b. 1932) Jon Lord, British musician and composer (b. 1941) Kitty Wells, American country music singer (b. 1919) July 18 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor, producer and politician (b. 1942) July 19 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general, diplomat, and intelligence officer (b. 1936) July 23 – Sally Ride, American astronaut and physicist (b. 1951) July 24 Chad Everett, American actor (b. 1937) Sherman Hemsley, American actor (b. 1938) John Atta Mills, President of Ghana (b. 1944) July 26 – Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (b. 1942) July 27 – Jack Taylor, English football referee (b. 1930) July 29 – Chris Marker, French writer and documentary filmmaker (b. 1921) July 30 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author (b. 1939) July 31 – Gore Vidal, American author, playwright, screenwriter, and political activist (b. 1925) August August 2 – Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian classical pianist (b. 1978) August 5 – Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer (b. 1919) August 6 Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and conductor (b. 1944) Bernard Lovell, British physicist and astronomer (b. 1913) August 9 – Al Freeman Jr., American actor (b. 1934) August 14 Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess grandmaster (b. 1923) Ron Palillo, American actor and teacher (b. 1949) August 15 – Harry Harrison, American author (b. 1925) August 16 – William Windom, American actor (b. 1923) August 18 – Scott McKenzie, American singer and songwriter (b. 1939) August 19 – Tony Scott, English film director (b. 1944) August 20 Phyllis Diller, American actress and comedian (b. 1917) Dom Mintoff, 8th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1916) Meles Zenawi, 3rd President and 10th Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1955) August 21 – William Thurston, American mathematician (b. 1946) August 23 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (b. 1934) August 24 Pauli Ellefsen, 6th Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (b. 1936) Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (b. 1937) August 25 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (b. 1930) August 31 Carlo Maria Martini, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (b. 1927) Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Soviet military commander (b. 1911) September September 1 Hal David, American lyricist (b. 1921) Smarck Michel, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1937) September 3 Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (b. 1957) Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader