Died on This Day (31-Aug)

Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
Alec Holowka	Alec Holowka was a Canadian indie game developer and co-founder of independent game companies Infinite Ammo, Infinite Fall, and Bit Blot.	Canadian video game developer	35	1
Ann Jellicoe	Patricia Ann Jellicoe was a British playwright, theatre director and actress.	British playwright, theatre director and actress	90	3
David Frost	Sir David Paradine Frost was a British television host, journalist, comedian and writer.	English journalist	74	7
Wade Belak	Wade William Belak was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and defenceman.	Canadian ice hockey player	35	9
Michael Sheard	Michael Sheard was a Scottish character actor who featured in many films and television programmes, and was known for playing villains.	Scottish character actor	67	15
Connie Hill	Conrad Ralph "Connie" Hill was a Canadian ice hockey player and professor of journalism and advertising.	Canadian ice hockey player	83	19
David Farrar	David Farrar was an English stage and film actor. His film roles include as the male lead in the Powell and Pressburger films Black Narcissus , The Small Back Room and Gone to Earth .	British actor	87	25
Morris Ginsberg	Morris Ginsberg FBA was a British sociologist, who played a key role in the development of the discipline.	British sociologist	81	50
Stefan Banach	Stefan Banach ; 30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945) was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the world's most important and influential 20th-century mathematicians.	Polish mathematician	53	75
George Rogers Harding	Judge George Rogers Harding was a Queensland judge and the founder of the Ashgrove locality St Johns Wood, in Brisbane, Australia.	Australian judge	56	125

Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
Gloria Jean	Gloria Jean was an American actress and singer who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films from 1939 to 1959, and made numerous radio, television, stage, and nightclub appearances.	American actress and singer	92	2
Lord Montagu	Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu , was an English Conservative politician well known in Great Britain for founding the National Motor Museum, as well as for a pivotal cause célèbre in British gay history following his 1954 conviction and imprisonment for homosexual sex, a charge he denied.	English Conservative politician	88	5
Max Bygraves	Walter William Bygraves , best known by the stage name Max Bygraves , was an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer.	Comedian	89	8
Laurent Fignon	Laurent Patrick Fignon was a French professional road bicycle racer who won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and the Giro d'Italia in 1989.	French cyclist	50	10
Lionel Hampton	Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader.	American jazz musician	94	18
Joan Hartigan	Joan Marcia Bathurst was an Australian Champion tennis player.	Australian tennis player	88	20
Frank Macfarlane Burnet	Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, , usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to immunology.	Australian virologist	85	35
Willi Baumeister	Willi Baumeister was a German painter, scenic designer, art professor, and typographer.	German painter, scenic designer, and typographer	66	65
Wilhelm Wundt	Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the fathers of modern psychology.	German psychologist	88	100
John F. Appleton	John Francis Appleton was a lawyer and Union colonel in the American Civil War from the state of Maine who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers.	Union Army general	32	150

Anniversary Date: 31-Aug

Died on This Day (31-Aug)