The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2011. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. August 2011 1 Concha Alós, 85, Spanish writer. Stan Barstow, 83, English novelist. Joe Caffie, 80, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Buckeyes). Carmela Marie Cristiano, 83, American Roman Catholic nun (Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth), first nun to seek political office in New Jersey. *Florentina Gómez Miranda, 99, Argentine lawyer and women's rights activist. Gamini Goonesena, 80, Sri Lankan cricketer. Chieko N. Okazaki, 84, American Mormon women's leader, first non-Caucasian woman to hold a senior position in the LDS church, heart failure. Ken Payne, 60, American football player (Green Bay Packers). Alex Pitko, 97, American baseball player. Zhanna Prokhorenko, 71, Russian film actress (Ballad of a Soldier). 2 Leslie Esdaile Banks, 51, American author (The Vampire Huntress Legend Series), adrenal cancer. Baruj Benacerraf, 90, Venezuelan-born American immunologist, Nobel laureate (1980). Ralph Berkowitz, 100, American composer. Igor Chepusov, 61, Soviet and American producer, script writer and director. Meldric Daluz, 90, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) field hockey player. Al Federoff, 87, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). Asadullo Gulomov, 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister (since 2006). Andrey Kapitsa, 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok. Clarence E. Miller, 93, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1967–1993), pneumonia. Attilio Pavesi, 100, Italian Olympic cyclist, oldest living Olympic champion. Richard Pearson, 93, Welsh actor (The Yellow Rolls-Royce). *José Sanchis Grau, 79, Spanish comic book artist. James Ford Seale, 76, American murderer, Ku Klux Klan member. Markku Yli-Isotalo, 58, Finnish Olympic wrestler 3 Rudolf Brazda, 98, German concentration camp prisoner, last known survivor of pink triangle homosexual deportation. Richard Cates, 85, American lawyer. Annette Charles, 63, American actress (Grease), complications of lung cancer. Antonio Diaz, 83, Filipino politician, Representative from Zambales (1969–1972, 1992–2001, 2004–2011). Jackie Hudson, 76, American nun and peace activist. Ingrid Luterkort, 101, Swedish actress. Andrew McDermott, 45, British singer (Threshold), complications of kidney failure. Simona Monyová, 44, Czech writer, stabbed. Ray Patterson, 89, American basketball executive (Milwaukee Bucks, Houston Rockets). Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, stroke. José Ignacio Rivero, 90, Cuban journalist. William Sleator, 66, American science fiction