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===1901–present=== *[[1903]] – [[Kusumoto Ine]], first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (b. 1827)<ref>{{cite book|editor-last = Tsubota|editor-first = Itsuo|title = Bakumatsu ishin no josei.|script-title = ja:幕末維新の女性|trans-title = Women of the late-Edo and Meiji Restoration periods|publisher = Akatsuki Kyōiku Tosho|year = 1982|oclc = 25252060|series = Nihon hakken jinbutsu shirīzu|volume = 6|page=95}}</ref> *[[1909]] – [[Emil Christian Hansen]], Danish physiologist and mycologist (b. 1842) *[[1922]] – [[Reşat Çiğiltepe]], Turkish colonel (b. 1879) *[[1929]] – [[Herman Potočnik]], Croatian-Austrian engineer (b. 1892) *[[1931]] – [[Frank Harris]], Irish-American journalist and author (b. 1856) * 1931 – [[Willem Hubert Nolens]], Dutch priest and politician (b. 1860) * 1931 – [[Francis Marion Smith]], American miner and businessman (b. 1846) *[[1935]] – [[Childe Hassam]], American painter and academic (b. 1859) *[[1944]] – [[Georg von Boeselager]], German soldier (b. 1915) *[[1945]] – [[Hubert Pál Álgyay]], Hungarian engineer, designed the [[Petőfi Bridge]] (b. 1894) *[[1948]] – [[Charles Evans Hughes]], American lawyer and politician, 11th [[Chief Justice of the United States]] (b. 1862) *[[1950]] – [[Cesare Pavese]], Italian author, poet, and critic (b. 1908) *[[1956]] – [[Pelageya Shajn]], Russian astronomer and academic (b. 1894) *[[1958]] – [[Ernest Lawrence]], American physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1901) *[[1963]] – [[W. E. B. Du Bois]], American sociologist, historian, and activist (b. 1868) * 1963 – [[Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi]], Pakistani mathematician and scholar (b. 1888) *[[1964]] – [[Gracie Allen]], American actress and comedian (b. 1895) *[[1965]] – [[Le Corbusier]], Swiss-French architect and urban planner, designed the [[Philips Pavilion]] (b. 1887) *[[1967]] – [[Brian Epstein]], English businessman and manager (b. 1934) *[[1968]] – [[Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark]] (b. 1906) *[[1969]] – [[Ivy Compton-Burnett]], English author (b. 1884) * 1969 – [[Erika Mann]], German actress and author (b. 1905) *[[1971]] – [[Bennett Cerf]], American publisher, co-founded [[Random House]] (b. 1898) * 1971 – [[Margaret Bourke-White]], American photographer and journalist (b. 1906) *[[1975]] – [[Haile Selassie]], Ethiopian emperor (b. 1892) *[[1978]] – [[Gordon Matta-Clark]], American painter and illustrator (b. 1943) * 1978 – [[Ieva Simonaitytė]], Lithuanian author and poet (b. 1897) *[[1979]] – [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]], English admiral and politician, 44th [[Governor-General of India]] (b. 1900) *[[1980]] – [[Douglas Kenney]], American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947) *[[1981]] – [[Valeri Kharlamov]], Russian ice hockey player (b. 1948) *[[1990]] – [[Avdy Andresson]], Estonian soldier and diplomat (b. 1899) * 1990 – [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1954) *[[1992]] – [[Bengt Holbek]], Danish folklorist (b. 1933)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hansen |first1=William |title=Obituary: Bengt Holbek (1933–1992) |journal=The Journal of American Folklore |date=1993 |volume=106 |issue=420 |pages=184–189 |jstor=541968 |issn=0021-8715}}</ref> *[[1994]] – [[Frank Jeske]], German footballer (b. 1960) *[[1996]] – [[Greg Morris]], American actor (b. 1933) *[[1998]] – [[Essie Summers]], New Zealand author (b. 1912) *[[1999]] – [[Hélder Câmara]], Brazilian archbishop and theologian (b. 1909) *[[2001]] – [[Michael Dertouzos]], Greek-American computer scientist and academic (b. 1936) * 2001 – [[Abu Ali Mustafa]], Palestinian politician (b. 1938) *[[2002]] – [[Edwin Louis Cole]], American religious leader and author (b. 1922) *[[2003]] – [[Pierre Poujade]], French soldier and politician (b. 1920) *[[2004]] – [[Willie Crawford]], American baseball player (b. 1946) *[[2005]] – [[Giorgos Mouzakis]], Greek trumpet player and composer (b. 1922) * 2005 – [[Seán Purcell]], Irish footballer (b. 1929) *[[2006]] – [[Hrishikesh Mukherjee]], Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922) * 2006 – [[Jesse Pintado]], Mexican-American guitarist (b. 1969) *[[2007]] – [[Emma Penella]], Spanish actress (b. 1930) *[[2009]] – [[Sergey Mikhalkov]], Russian author and poet (b. 1913) *[[2010]] – [[Anton Geesink]], Dutch martial artist (b. 1934) * 2010 – [[Luna Vachon]], Canadian-American wrestler and manager (b. 1962) *[[2012]] – [[Neville Alexander]], South African linguist and activist (b. 1936) * 2012 – [[Malcolm Browne]], American journalist and photographer (b. 1931) * 2012 – [[Art Heyman]], American basketball player (b. 1941) * 2012 – [[Ivica Horvat]], Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1926) * 2012 – [[Richard Kingsland]], Australian captain and pilot (b. 1916) * 2012 – [[Geliy Korzhev]], Russian painter (b. 1925)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://russia-ic.com/news/show/14606#.UD2HDUSGRVv |title=Famous Soviet and Russian Artist Gely Korzhev Passes Away |website=Russia IC |date=August 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320150348/http://russia-ic.com/news/show/14606 |archive-date=March 20, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[2013]] – [[Chen Liting]], Chinese director and playwright (b. 1910) * 2013 – [[Bill Peach]], Australian journalist (b. 1935) * 2013 – [[Dave Thomas (golfer)|Dave Thomas]], Welsh golfer and architect (b. 1934) *[[2014]] – [[Jacques Friedel]], French physicist and academic (b. 1921) * 2014 – [[Valeri Petrov]], Bulgarian poet, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1920) * 2014 – [[Benno Pludra]], German author (b. 1925) *[[2015]] – [[Kazi Zafar Ahmed]], Bangladeshi politician, 8th [[List of Prime Ministers of Bangladesh|Prime Minister of Bangladesh]] (b. 1939) * 2015 – [[Pascal Chaumeil]], French director and screenwriter (b. 1961) * 2015 – [[Darryl Dawkins]], American basketball player and coach (b. 1957) *[[2016]] – [[Cookie (cockatoo)|Cookie]], Australian [[Major Mitchell's cockatoo]], oldest recorded parrot (b. 1933)<ref>{{cite web|title=Oldest parrot – living|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-parrot-living|publisher=Guinness World Records|accessdate=20 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704223148/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-parrot-living|archive-date=4 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-brookfield-zoo-cookie-cockatoo-dead-20160829-column.html|title= Cookie the Cockatoo at Brookfield Zoo dies|date= 29 August 2016|publisher=Chicago Tribune|accessdate=20 June 2023}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Bob Carr (Michigan politician)|Bob Carr]], American politician (b. 1943)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Snabes |first=Melissa Nann Burke and Anne |title=Former U.S. Rep. Bob Carr remembered as mentor, advocate for transportation, arts funding |url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/08/28/former-rep-bob-carr-dead-at-81-remembered-as-advocate-for-roads-arts-funding/74974749007/ |access-date=2024-08-30 |website=The Detroit News |language=en-US}}</ref> *2024 – [[Juan Izquierdo]], Uruguayan footballer (b. 1997)<ref>{{cite web|author=Savarese, Mauricio |title=Uruguayan soccer player Juan Izquierdo has died, days after collapsing during a game in Brazil|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/soccer/2024/08/27/izquierdo-dead-nacional-soccer-uruguay/eea43c02-64e7-11ef-a399-4245aabdb0ed_story.html|date=August 27, 2024 |publisher=Washington Post}}</ref> *2024 – [[Charlotte Kretschmann]], German supercentenarian (b. 1909)<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-08-28 |title=Charlotte Kretschmann: Älteste Frau Deutschlands im Alter von 114 Jahren gestorben |url=https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/charlotte-kretschmann-aelteste-frau-deutschlands-im-alter-von-114-jahren-gestorben-a-6fcc7b8d-bb89-4c51-8dd0-35ee8dd2ddc0 |access-date=2024-08-30 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}</ref> *2024 – [[Leonard Riggio]], American businessman (b. 1941)<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 27, 2024 |title=Leonard Riggio, who built Barnes & Noble into a bookselling empire, dies at 83 |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5091174/barnes-noble-leonard-riggio-obituary |access-date=August 28, 2024 |work=[[NPR]]}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.-->
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