page_title: 2018 in the United States
section_title: August
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 in the United States / Deaths / August
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context_page_description: This is a list of events in the year 2018 in the United States.
context_section_description: August 1
  Mary Carlisle, American actress (b. 1914)
  David I. Cleland, American engineer and writer (b. 1926)
  Fakir Musafar, American performance artist (b. 1930)
  Nancy Tuckerman, American secretary (b. 1929)
  Rolf Valtin, American soccer player (b. 1925)
  Taylor Whitley, American football player (b. 1979)
  August 2
  Neil Argo, American composer (b. 1947)
  Bill Wattenburg, American engineer, author, and radio talk show host (b. 1936)
  August 3 – Joseph C. Burke, American educator and academic (b. 1932)
  August 4 – Lorrie Collins, American country singer (b. 1942)
  August 5 – Charlotte Rae, American actress (b. 1926)
  August 6
  Patricia Benoit, television actress and film director, (b. 1927)
  Margaret Heckler, American politician and diplomat (b. 1931)
  Paul Laxalt, American politician (b. 1922)
  Leonard Lewinsohn, American Islamic scholar (b. 1953)
  Robert A. Plane, American chemist, vintner and academic administrator (b. 1928)
  William E. Schluter, American politician (b. 1928)
  Anya Krugovoy Silver, American poet (b. 1969)
  August 7
  Andrew Coburn, American author (b. 1932)
  Arvonne Fraser, American women's rights activist (b. 1926)
  Richard H. Kline, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
  Stan Mikita, Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1940)
  Joel H. Silbey, American historian (b. 1934)
  Gerald Weinberg, American computer scientist (b. 1934)
  Robley Wilson, American writer (b. 1930)
  August 8
  Katie Cannon, American theologian (b. 1950)
  Wendell Erickson, American politician (b. 1925)
  Robert Hugh Ferrell, American historian and author (b. 1921)
  John Glines, American theatre producer (b. 1933)
  Richard Sipe, American sociologist (b. 1932)
  August 9
  Donald F. Holcomb, American physicist (b. 1926)
  Billy Ray Irick, American convicted murderer (b. 1959)
  John Kennedy, American baseball player (b. 1941)
  Carol Springer, American politician (b. 1937)
  August 10
  Peter Berck, American economist (b. 1950)
  William Corbett, American poet (b. 1943)
  Dawn Mabalon, American academic (b. 1973)
  Katherine Nelson, American psychologist (b. 1930)
  A. R. Schwartz, American politician (b. 1926)
  August 11
  Terry A. Davis, American computer programmer (b. 1969)
  Morris G. Hallock, American politician (b. 1926)
  Stanley Keleman, American writer and chiropractor (b. 1932)
  Manch Wheeler, American football player (b. 1939)
  August 12
  Richard Lloyd Anderson, American historian (b. 1926)
  Thomas J. Moran, American executive and humanitarian (b. 1953)
  Steven T. Ross, American military historian (b. 1937)
  August 13
  Mark Baker, 71, American actor (b. 1947)
  John Carter, American film editor (b. 1922)
  Don Garrison, American politician (b. 1925)
  Powell A. Moore, American government official (b. 1938)
  Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
  August 14
  Charles Victor Grahmann, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1931)
  Mela Hudson, American actress (b. 1987)
  Jill Janus, American rock singer (Huntress) (b. 1976)
  August 15
  Kenneth Bowles, American computer scientist (b. 1929)
  Robert Everett, American computer scientist (b. 1921)
  Sterling Stuckey, American historian (b. 1932)
  August 16
  Glen Chin, Chinese-American actor (b. 1948)
  Aretha Franklin, R&B singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
  August 17
  Bob Bass, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1929)
  Leonard Boswell, American politician (b. 1934)
  Linton Freeman, American sociologist (b. 1927)
  Bunky Henry, American golfer (b. 1944)
  Charles D. Lancaster Jr., American politician (b. 1944)
  David McReynolds, American pacifist and magazine editor (b. 1930)
  Paul Naumoff, American football player (b. 1945)
  Danny Pearson, American R&B singer (b. 1953)
  Kurt Walker, American ice hockey player (b. 1954)
  August 18
  Tom Clark, American poet and biographer (b. 1941)
  Jack Costanzo, American percussionist (b. 1920)
  Costas Kondylis, American architect (b. 1940)
  John E. McCarthy, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
  Robert Todd, American filmmaker (b. 1963)
  August 19
  Vaughn Beals, American businessman (b. 1928)
  Louis Gambaccini, American civil servant, commissioner, founding chairman of NJ Transit (b. 1931)
  Darrow Hooper, American shot-putter (b.
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