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Celebrities who died on 5 August
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Marilyn Monroe
American actress, model, and singer
Richard Burton
Welsh actor
Toni Morrison
Afro-American writer
Carmen Miranda
Brazilian actress and singer
Paul Brown
American football coach
Cherie Gil
Filipino actress
Alec Guinness
English actor
Charlotte Rae
American actress
Bernard Stiegler
French philosopher
Judith Durham
Australian singer and musician
Pete Hamill
American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator
Clu Gulager
American actor
Richard Trumka
American attorney and organized labor leader
Sadia Dehlvi
author and columnist
Chick Hearn
American basketball sportscaster
Jeff Porcaro
American drummer
Ralph Meeker
American actor
Issey Miyake
Japanese fashion designer
Arnold Horween
American football player and coach
Jeffrey Tarrant
American investor and film producer
Annet Nieuwenhuyzen
Dutch actress
Ana Luísa Amaral
Portuguese poet and professor
Matt Robinson
American actor
George Duke
American musician
Yevhen Marchuk
Ukrainian politician
Alan Rabinowitz
American zoologist
Bjorg Lambrecht
Belgian competitive cyclist
Ali Haydar
Former commander of Syrian Special Forces
Chavela Vargajhɡjɡvɡvɡyv
Costa Rican-born Mexican singer
Hawa Abdi
Somalian physician, activist
Budd Schulberg
American novelist and screenwriter
John Willie
English photographer and bondage artist
Bob Lay
Australian sprinter
Jesse Haines
Major League Baseball pitcher
Judy Canova
American comedienne, actress, singer, and radio personality
Maurice Turnbull
Cricket player of England.
Florian Pittiș
Romanian actor, singer and director
Darrell Porter
American professional baseball player
Shamim Ara
Pakistani actor and film director
Daniel Carroll
Australian rugby union player; USA rugby union player and national coach; Olympic gold medalist
Dick Tooth
Australian rugby union player
Blanca Rodríguez de Pérez
First Lady of Venezuela
Horace Clarke
American baseball player
Tayseer Jabari
Palestinian militant
Marilyn Burns
American actress
Boman Framji Chhapgar
biologist
Gustav von Wangenheim
German politician
Ulises Aurelio Casiano Vargas
Catholic bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico