camp commander (b. 1921) July 22 – Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923) July 25 Johnny Griffin, American saxophonist (b. 1928) Randy Pausch, American author and computer scientist (b. 1960) July 27 – Youssef Chahine, Egyptian film director (b. 1926) July 28 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1977) July 29 – Mate Parlov, Croatian boxer (b. 1948) August August 1 Pauline Baynes, English illustrator (b. 1922) Harkishan Singh Surjeet, Indian politician (b. 1916) August 3 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1918) August 9 Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (b. 1941) Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (b. 1957) August 10 – Isaac Hayes, American singer, songwriter, and actor (b. 1942) August 11 – Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician (b. 1929) August 13 – Henri Cartan, French mathematician (b. 1904) August 15 – Jerry Wexler, American music producer (b. 1917) August 16 Ronnie Drew, Irish folk singer and actor (b. 1934) Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese microbiologist (b. 1913) August 19 Levy Mwanawasa, 3rd President of Zambia (b. 1948) LeRoi Moore, American saxophonist (b. 1961) August 20 – Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Communist Party and Chinese Premier (b. 1921) August 23 – Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist and Nobel laureate (b. 1915) August 28 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (b. 1927) September September 1 Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (b. 1940) Jerry Reed, American actor and country singer (b. 1937) September 2 – Bill Melendez, Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist, and producer (b. 1916) September 6 – Anita Page, American actress (b. 1910) September 9 Nouhak Phoumsavanh, third president of Laos (b. 1910) Warith Deen Mohammed, American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher, and revivalist (b. 1933) September 12 – David Foster Wallace, American writer (b. 1962) September 15 – Richard Wright, English keyboardist (b. 1943) September 18 – Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (b. 1931) September 19 – Earl Palmer, American R&B Drummer (b. 1924) September 21 – Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, ninth prime minister and fourth president of Sri Lanka (b. 1916) September 26 – Paul Newman, American actor, film director, entrepreneur, and philanthropist (b. 1925) October October 1 – Boris Yefimov, Russian political cartoonist (b. 1900) October 6 – Paavo Haavikko, Finnish poet (b. 1931) October 8 – George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist and Nobel laureate (b. 1912) October 10 – Alexey Prokurorov, Russian cross-country skier (b. 1964) October 11 – Jörg Haider,