[philo]

Here are some more

Link to celebrity deaths

[F16Fighter]

Gee, how'd we miss this one??

Cold-blooded mass murderer and famed Ugandan cannibal Idi Amin died August 16.

[virgil]

Gertrude Ederle - lady who first swimmed the channel. She got headlines for that. I did not hear about Art Carney

[Lancey Howard]

Great link.
I was surprised to see a few deaths which I had somehow missed during the year - - Edwin Starr, Larry Hovis (Carter from "Hogan's Heroes"), Stanley Farara (Beaver's friend Whitey), Leon Uris.... and a few others.