George Green, American songwriter ("Hurts So Good", "Crumblin' Down"), died from lung cancer he was 59.

George Michael Green was an American songwriter died from lung cancer he was 59.. His compositions included the Top 10 Billboard hits "Crumblin' Down" and "Hurts So Good" (the latter of which was an RPM No. 1 hit in Canada), as well as another Canadian No. 1 hit in "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)."

(January 28, 1952 – August 28, 2011)

Green was John Mellencamp's long-time writing partner; he was a classmate and childhood friend of Mellencamp's from Seymour, Indiana.^[1] In 1985, Green's wife appeared in the video for Mellencamp's Top 10 hit "Lonely Ol' Night".^[1] In addition to writing with Mellencamp, Green also wrote songs recorded by Barbra Streisand, Hall & Oates, Jude Cole, Vanessa Williams, Percy Sledge, and The Oak Ridge Boys among others.^[2] Green died on August 28, 2011 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 59 after suffering from a rapid-forming small cell lung cancer.^[3]

Credits

Green's songwriting credits with Mellencamp include:

• "Dream Killing Town" and "Sad Lady" from Chestnut Street Incident (1976)^[4]
• "Hurts So Good" (#2 Billboard hit)^[5] and "Thundering Hearts" from American Fool (1982)^[6]
• "Crumblin' Down" (#9 Billboard hit)^[5] and "Warmer Place to Sleep" from Uh-Huh (1983)^[7]
• "Rain on the Scarecrow" (#21 Billboard hit)^[5] and "Minutes to Memories" from Scarecrow (1985)^[8]
• "Empty Hands" from The Lonesome Jubilee (1987)^[9]
• "Human Wheels" from Human Wheels (1993)
• "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)" (#14 Billboard hit)^[5] from Mr. Happy Go Lucky (1996)^[10]
• "Your Life Is Now" from John Mellencamp (1998)
• "The Grand Blvd." from "Blue Night" by Percy Sledge (1994) co-written written with Carla Olson

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Leonard Harris, American actor, arts and theater critic (WCBS-TV), died from complications of pneumonia he was 81

Leonard Harris  was an American critic, author, and actor.

(September 27, 1929 – August 28, 2011)

He played Senator Charles Palantine in the Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver and the mayor in Hero at Large.Harris began his career as a print journalist; he spent several years as the arts and entertainment critic for WCBS-TV in New York City. He had three novels published and worked as a television writer later in his career. He served on the Tony Award Nominating Committee in the later 1980s and early 1990s.
In Taxi Driver, Harris played Senator Charles Palantine, the link between anti-hero Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) and Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), the woman Travis is obsessed with who works on the Charles Palantine political campaign. Throughout the film, Palantine's picture can be seen all over New York City.
He died on August 28, 2011 in Hartford, Connecticut, aged 81, from complications of pneumonia.^[1]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Taxi Driver	Senator Charles Palantine
1980	Hero at Large	Mayor

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Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician, died after short illness he was 87.

Leonidas Kyrkos  was a Greek leftist politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament.

(12 October 1924 – 28 August 2011)

Life

Leonidas Kyrkos was born in Irakleio, Crete, to Michail Kyrkos, who, along with Ioannis Pasalidis, formed the United Democratic Left in 1951.^[1] Kyrkos was elected MP to the Greek Parliament in the elections of 1961, 1963 and 1964.^[1] On 21 April 1967, during the coup d'état that installed the military junta, he was arrested and remained imprisoned for five years.^[1] After the restoration of democracy in 1974, he was elected MP in 1974 and 1977, and MEP in 1981 and 1984


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Dmitri Royster, American hierarch (Orthodox Church in America), Archbishop of the Diocese of the South (1978–2009), died he was 87.

Archbishop Dmitri was a hierarch of the Orthodox Church in America died he was 87.. He served as archbishop of the church's Diocese of the South from 1978 to 2009 and was the ruling bishop of the Mexican Exarchate from 1972 to 2008. The territory of the diocese covered fourteen states in the United States – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

(November 2, 1923 – August 28, 2011)

Archbishop Dmitri was born as Robert Royster in Teague, Texas on November 2, 1923 and was raised as a Southern Baptist, converting to Orthodoxy in 1941.

Priesthood and episcopacy

He entered North Texas State University but left in 1943 to join the Army. While in the Army he served as a Japanese language interpreter on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines and Japan.
After leaving the Army he resumed his studies, eventually becoming a Spanish language instructor at Southern Methodist University. He received his Master of Arts in Spanish and became a Spanish literature professor.^[1]
In 1954, Royster was ordained to the priesthood, and served as the rector of St. Seraphim Orthodox Church in Dallas from then until 1969.^[1] On June 29, 1969, he was consecrated as Bishop of Berkeley (the Diocese of San Francisco and the West), making him the first Orthodox convert to be consecrated in America.^{[citation needed]} In 1970, Bishop Dmitri was assigned as Bishop of Washington, auxiliary bishop to Metropolitan Ireney (Bekish). On October 19, 1971, Bishop Dmitri was elected Bishop of Hartford and New England.
In 1978, Bishop Dmitri became the first ruling bishop of the newly created Diocese of the South. He was elevated to the rank of archbishop in 1993. Being a senior bishop in his church, Dmitri was the locum tenens of the Metropolitan's see and temporary head of the OCA from September 4, 2008 until the election of a new primate, Metropolitan Jonah on November 12, 2008. On March 31, 2009 the then 85-year old archbishop was granted retirement from active pastoral duties by the Holy Synod of the OCA.

Death

Archbishop Dmitri died in Dallas on August 28, 2011, on the Julian calendar feast of the Dormition, which was his favorite feast day.



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Tony Sale, British computer scientist, died he was 80.

Anthony Edgar "Tony" Sale,  was an electronic engineer, computer programmer, computer hardware engineer, and historian of computing died he was 80..

(30 January 1931 – 28 August 2011)

 He led the construction of a Colossus computer replica at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in England, completed in 2007.

Life

He was educated at Dulwich College in south London,^[3] During his adolescence he built George the robot out of Meccano, and continued working on it until it reached a fourth version in 1949, when it was given much media coverage.^[4][5] Sale joined the Royal Air Force in 1949, serving until 1952. During his three years in the RAF, Sale gained his commission and reached the rank of Flying Officer. He was an instructor at RAF Officers Radar School at RAF Debden.^[5] Sale worked as an engineer for MI5 under Peter Wright in the 1950s.^[3]
Sale worked with Marconi Research Laboratories, was Technical Director of the British Computer Society and managed the Computer Restoration Project at the Science Museum.^[6]
After becoming interested in computers, he joined the British Computer Society (BCS) in 1965 as Associate Member, being elected to Member in 1967, Fellow in 1988 and Honorary Fellow in 1996.He was elected to the Council of the BCS for the period 1967–70. In 1965, was a founder member of the Bedfordshire branch of the BCS and was named Chairman in 1979.^[6]
In 1989, Sale was appointed a senior curator at the Science Museum in London and worked with Doron Swade to restore some of the museum's computer holdings.^[3] He was part of the group that started the Computer Conservation Society in 1989 and was associated with the Bletchley Park Trust from 1992 onwards.^[7] In 1991, he joined the campaign to save Bletchley Park from housing development.
In 1992, he was Secretary to the newly formed Bletchley Park Trust, later unpaid Museums Director in 1994.^[6] In 1993 he started the Colossus Rebuild Project, inaugurated in 1994,^[8] to rebuild the Colossus computer developed at Dollis Hill in 1943.
As a result of his Colossus rebuild work, he was awarded the Comdex IT Personality of the Year for 1997.^[9] He also received the 2000 Royal Scottish Society of Arts Silver Medal.^[10]
Sale lectured on wartime code breaking in the UK, Europe and the US. He was technical adviser for the 2001 film Enigma.^[11]
Sale's Web site, www.codesandciphers.org.uk is a source of information on aspects of World War II code breaking whilst his booklet Colossus 1943–1996^[12] describes the breaking of the German Lorenz cipher and his rebuild of the Colossus computer.


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Eve Brent, American actress (The Green Mile). died from natural causes she was 82.

Eve Brent  was a Saturn Award-winning American actress died from natural causes she was 82.. She was often billed as Jean Lewis.

(September 11, 1929 – August 27, 2011)
 
Born as Jean Ann Ewers in Houston, Texas in 1929, and raised in Fort Worth, she appeared on radio and television (guest-starring roles and hundreds of commercials), in movies and on the theater stage.^[2]
Some of her early film work includes roles in Gun Girls (1956), Journey to Freedom (1957) and Forty Guns (1957).^[2] She became the twelfth actress to play Jane when she appeared opposite Gordon Scott's Tarzan in the film Tarzan's Fight for Life, (1958). She also played the role in Tarzan and the Trappers 1958, three episodes filmed as a pilot for a proposed Tarzan television series.^[2] She also appeared in the "Girl on the Road" episode of The Veil, a short 1958 Boris Karloff TV series that was never aired.
In 1980 she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Fade to Black. Her best-known recent work in films was in The Green Mile, 1999.^[2] She continued to work in episodic television, and made a guest appearance in 2006 on an episode of Scrubs, and in 2010 on an episode of Community.

Death

Michael Ashe, her fifth husband^[2] died on July 31, 2008. Eve Brent died from natural causes on August 27, 2011, aged 81.^[3]


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Frank Fanovich, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Athletics), died he was 88.

Frank Joseph Fanovich was an American Major League Baseball pitcher died he was 88..

(January 11, 1923 – August 27, 2011

The left-hander played for the Cincinnati Reds during the 1949 season and the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1953 season. During his MLB career, the 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 180 lb (82 kg) Fanovich appeared in 55 games, 51 in relief, and posted a career record of 0–5. He allowed 106 hits in 105 innings pitched, with 65 bases on balls and 64 strikeouts.

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