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Deaths in August 2010

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ2668723 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2010.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

August 2010

1

Robert F. Boyle, 100, American art director and production designer (North By Northwest, The Birds, Fiddler on the Roof).

Bruce Garvey, 70, British-born Canadian journalist, lung cancer.

Lolita Lebrón, 90, Puerto Rican nationalist.

William MacVane, 95, American surgeon and politician, mayor of Portland, Maine (1971).

Stig Mårtensson, 87, Swedish Olympic cyclist.

K. M. Mathew, 93, Indian newspaper editor (Malayala Manorama).

Eric Tindill, 99, New Zealand cricketer and rugby union player.

Editorial summary

“Deaths in August 2010” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Deaths, August and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 1971—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Deaths, August and Wikimedia.
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Why this record matters

“Deaths in August 2010” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Deaths, August and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2668723. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in August 2010” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.