CAUSE OF DEATH: CANCER
Laurent Fignon (12 August 1960 – 31 August 2010) was a French professional road bicycle racer. He won the Tour de France twice, in 1983 and 1984 and also missed winning it a third time, in 1989, by 8 seconds, the closest margin ever to decide the tour. He also won the Giro d'Italia in 1989, after having been the runner-up in 1984, and the Milan – San Remo Classic in 1988 and 1989.
CAUSE OF DEATH: COMPLICATIONS FROM ASTHMA
Harold Dow (September 28, 1947 – August 21, 2010) was an American television news correspondent, journalist, and investigative reporter with CBS News.
Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer is a five-minute astronomy show on public television hosted by Jack Foley Horkheimer (born Foley Arthur Horkheimer, June 11, 1938 – August 20, 2010) executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. In the weekly program, Horkheimer informs the viewer of significant astronomical events for the upcoming week, including key constellations, stars and planets, lunar eclipses and conjunctions, as well as historical and scientific information about these events. Episodes usually feature Horkheimer in front of a green screen, where he appears to sit on top of a planetary ring on one side of the screen. Horkheimer then uses the screen to illustrate starfields and diagrams appropriate to his subject. Star Gazer has been in weekly production since 1976, and has produced over 1,500 episodes as of September 2006.
Robert Brown Thomson (October 25, 1923 - August 16, 2010), nicknamed The Staten Island Scot, was a Scottish American Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the New York Giants (1946-53, 1957), Milwaukee Braves (1954–57), Chicago Cubs (1958-59), Boston Red Sox (1960) and Baltimore Orioles (1960).
Antonio Pettigrew (November 3, 1967 in Macon, Georgia – August 10, 2010, in Chatham County, North Carolina) was an American sprint athlete who specialized in the 400 meters. He came to prominence at the 1991 World Championships, where he won the 400 m gold medal and a silver medal in the 4 x 400 meters relay. He admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs between 1997 and 2001, and was stripped of his 1999 World Championship and 2000 Olympic relay gold medals.
CAUSE OF DEATH: PLANE CRASH
Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens (November 18, 1923 – August 9 or 10, 2010) was a United States Senator from Alaska, serving from December 24, 1968, until January 3, 2009. Stevens was President pro tempore in the 108th and 109th Congresses from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007. Stevens is the longest-serving Republican senator in history (Strom Thurmond served in the Senate longer, but was a Democrat until 1964) and seventh longest-serving senator in history. Stevens was Alaska's senior senator all but 10 days of his tenure. Stevens was replaced as President pro tem by Robert Byrd assuming Byrd's previous honorary role of "president pro tempore emeritus". He was only the third senator to hold the title of president pro tempore emeritus, having been preceded in this position by Byrd and Strom Thurmond.