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Who died in August 2018

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Aleksandr Zakharchenko

Aleksandr Zakharchenko

19762018

Head and Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and a pro-Russian separatist leader

James Mirrlees

James Mirrlees

19362018

Scottish economist and university teacher who won the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize for his work on the economics of asymmetric information and optimal taxation

Stefán Karl Stefánsson

Stefán Karl Stefánsson

19752018

Icelandic actor and singer best known for portraying Robbie Rotten in the children's television series LazyTown

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

19242018

Indian statesman, poet, and journalist who served as Prime Minister from 1998-2004 and co-founded the Bharatiya Janata Party

Eduard Uspensky

Eduard Uspensky

19372018

Russian writer and poet known for creating beloved characters like Cheburashka and Gena the Crocodile, with over 70 books and 60 cartoon adaptations

V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul

19322018

Trinidadian-British Nobel laureate writer known for uniting perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works of fiction and nonfiction