Famous people died in August - page 17

Ustad Bismillah Khan was a great exponent of Shehnai

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a great Indian freedom fighter, national leader and social reformer who advocated Swaraj or Self Rule

Nobel Prize winner Hugo Theorell was a Swedish scientist

John Gardner was an English novelist, the author who wrote the sequels of the famous ‘James Bond’ novels

Luca Marenzio was a renowned Italian composer and singer belonging to the late Renaissance era

Charles Whiteman was a notorious mass murderer

William Herschel was a German–British composer and astronomer, best known for his discovery of the planet Uranus

Wayne Dyer was an American self-help author and motivational speaker

Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist who won Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in thermal radiation

Kim Dae Jung is a former Korean President and a Nobel Peace prize winner