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Events 2008   Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec 
Events in August 2008

Aug. 1 Harkishan Singh Surjeet (92), former general secretary of the CPI(M) of a massive cardiac arrest at a hospital in Noida. Full Story
Aug. 3 Alexander Solzhenitsyn (89), Nobel Prize-winning Russian author at his home on the outskirts of Moscow. Full Story
Aug. 9 Bernie Mac (50), American comedian of complications due to pneumonia in a Chicago area hospital. Full Story
Mahamud Darwish (67), Palestinian poet in a U.S. hospital from complications following open heart surgery. Full Story
Aug. 10 Issac Hayes (65), symbol of soul music in the 1970s in East Memphis in the U.S.
Aug. 15 C. V. Sundaram (78), former Director of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, after a brief illness in Chennai. Full Story
Aug. 20 Hua Guofeng (87), who succeeded Mao Zedong as Chairman of China’s ruling Communist Party and briefly ruled the country, in Beijing, from an unspecified illness.. Full Story
Aug. 25 Ahmed Faraz (77), revolutionary Pakistani poet in Islamabad. Full Story
Aug. 27 C. R. Mitra, former director of the Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, in New Delhi. Full Story
Aug. 30 K. K. Birla (90), eminent industrialist and a Rajya Sabha MP for 18 years at his Birla Park residence in Kolkata after a brief illness. Full Story
Aug. 31 Placid Rodriguez (67), renowned metallurgist and former director of IGCAR, Kalpakkam, in Chennai. Full Story

Events 2008   Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec 

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