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Events 2006   Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec 
Events in August 2006

Aug. 2 Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (90), the greatest soprano of the post-war years at her home in Schruns, Austria.
Aug. 4 Nandini Satpathy (75), former Orissa Chief Minister, of cardiac arrest in a Bhubaneswar hospital. Full Story
Aug. 6 Suraj Bhan (78), Chairman of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Commission, at the AIIMS in New Delhi.
Aug. 8 Chandra Prasad Saikia (80), Assamese litterateur, in Guwahati after a prolonged illness. Full Story
Aug. 19 Saraswathi Gora (94), freedom fighter, of lung infection in Vijayawada. Full Story
Aug. 27 Hrishikesh Mukherjee (83), noted film-maker, at Leelavati Hospital in Mumbai. Full Story
Aug. 30 Naguib Mahfouz (94), the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Glenn Ford (90) , Hollywood actor who made his mark in films like Gilda (1946) and The Big Heat (1953) at his Beverly Hills home.

Events 2006   Jan  Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov  Dec 

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