boxer (b. 1972) July 13 – Amin al-Hafez, 22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926) July 15 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian human rights activist (b. 1958) July 17 Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician (b. 1921) Walter Cronkite, American newscaster (b. 1916) Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927) Gordon Waller, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945) July 18 Yasmine Belmadi, French actor (b. 1976) Ricardo Londoño, Colombian racing driver (b. 1949) July 19 Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (b. 1930) Henry Surtees, British racing driver (b. 1991) July 24 – José Carlos da Costa Araújo, Brazilian goalkeeper (b. 1962) July 25 Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter (b. 1958) Harry Patch, English war veteran (b. 1898) July 26 – Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (b. 1919) July 30 – Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian Islamist militant leader, founder of Boko Haram (b. 1970) July 31 – Sir Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933) August August 1 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933) August 4 – Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (b. 1927) August 5 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (b. 1914) August 6 John Hughes, American film director and writer (b. 1950) Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1923) Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950) August 8 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983) August 9 – John Quade, American actor (b. 1938) August 10 – Urpo Korhonen, Finnish olympic cross-country skier (b. 1923) August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American founder of the Special Olympics (b. 1921) August 12 – Rashied Ali, American free jazz drummer (b. 1933) August 13 – Les Paul, American musician and inventor (b. 1915) August 18 – Kim Dae-jung, 8th President of South Korea (b. 1924) August 23 – Anna-Maria Müller, German athlete (b. 1949) August 24 – Toni Sailer, Austrian alpine ski racer (b. 1935) August 25 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932) August 26 – Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraqi politician and theologian (b. 1953) August 27 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Soviet-Russian author (b. 1913) August 28 – DJ AM, American DJ (b. 1973) September September 8 – Aage Bohr, Danish Nobel physicist (b. 1922) September 9 – Léon Glovacki, French footballer (b. 1928) September 11 Juan Almeida, Cuban revolutionary and politician (b. 1927) Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician (b. 1949) Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist (b. 1958) September 12 Norman Borlaug, American Nobel agronomist (b. 1914)