Died on This Day (09-Aug)

Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
Takis	Panayiotis Vassilakis , also known as Takis , was a self-taught Greek artist known for his kinetic sculptures.	Greek artist	93	1
Jonathan Ollivier	Jonathan Byrne Ollivier was a British dancer.	British dancer	38	5
Eduardo Falú	Eduardo Falú was a well-known Argentine folk music guitarist and composer.	Argentine folk musician	90	7
Adolphe-Maria Gustave Hardy	Adolphe-Maria Gustave Hardy was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Beauvais, France from 1985 to 1995.	Catholic bishop	91	9
Judith Rossner	Judith Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her acclaimed best sellers Looking for Mr.	Novelist	70	15
Bob Lido	Robert Lido was an American musician and singer who was a regular member of television's The Lawrence Welk Show.	American musician	85	20
Joe Mercer	Joseph Mercer, OBE was an English football player and manager.	English football manager	76	30
Jacqueline Cochran	Jacqueline Cochran was an American pilot and business executive.	Aviator	74	40
John McEwan	John James "Cap" McEwan was an American football player and coach.	American football player and coach	77	50
Samuel Griffith	Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919.	Australian politician	75	100

Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
Gerald Grosvenor	Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, was a British landowner, businessman, philanthropist, Territorial Army general, and peer.	Duke of Westminster	64	4
Michael Brown	On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by 28-year-old white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St.	Poilice black police shooting victim	18	6
David Rakoff	David Benjamin Rakoff was a Canadian-born American writer of prose and poetry based in New York City, who wrote humorous and sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays.	Canadian-born American writer of prose and poetry	47	8
Ted Stevens	Theodore Fulton Stevens, Sr. , was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Alaska from 1968 to 2009.	US Senator	86	10
David Raksin	David Raksin was an American composer who was noted for his work in film and television.	Film score composer	92	16
Jerry Garcia	Jerome John Garcia was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known for being a principal songwriter, the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band the Grateful Dead, of which he was a founding member and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s.	American singer-songwriter and guitarist	53	25
Clive Churchill	Clive Bernard Churchill AM was an Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach in the mid-20th century.	Australian rugby league player and coach	58	35
Dimitri Shostakovich	Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist.	Russian composer	68	45
Harry Hillman	Harry Livingston Hillman Jr. was an American athlete and winner of three gold medals at the 1904 Summer Olympics.	Athletics (sport) competitor	63	75
Anders Erikson Sparrman	Anders Sparrman was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.	Sweidsh ornithologist	72	200

Anniversary Date: 09-Aug

Died on This Day (09-Aug)