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July 3
— Andy Griffith, 86, who made homespun American Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in “The Andy Griffith Show” and whose career spanned more than a half century on stage, film and television, in coastal North Carolina. No cause of death was given but he had suffered a heart attack and underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 2000.

July 8
— Ernest Borgnine, 95, who won a woman’s love and an Academy Award in one of the great lonely hearts roles in “Marty,” a highlight in a workhorse career that spanned nearly seven decades and more than 200 film and television parts, in Los Angeles of renal failure.

July 10
— Maria Hawkins Cole, 89, widow of jazz crooner Nat “King” Cole and mother of singer Natalie Cole, in Boca Raton, Florida of cancer.

July 16
— Masaharu Matsushita, 99, who helped lead the Japanese electronics company Panasonicfor half a century as it grew into a global brand, in Osaka. No other details were available.

July 23
— Sally Ride, 61, a physicist who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, in La Jolla, California of pancreatic cancer.

July 27
— Tony Martin, 98, the romantic singer who appeared in movie musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s and sustained a career in records, television and nightclubs that spanned 80 years, in Los Angeles of natural causes.

July 31
— Gore Vidal, 86, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia.

Aug. 6
— Marvin Hamlisch, 68, who composed or arranged the scores for dozens of movies including “The Sting” and the Broadway smash “A Chorus Line,” in Los Angeles after a brief illness.
— Bernard Lovell, 98, a pioneering British physicist and astronomer, who developed one of the world’s largest radio telescopes exploring particles in the universe, in Manchester. No cause of death was given.

Aug. 13
— Helen Gurley Brown, 90, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan magazine whose million selling grab-bag book of advice, opinion and anecdote “Sex and the Single Girl” declared the sexual revolution was no longer just for men and made her a celebrity and a foil for feminists, in New York. No cause of death was given.

Aug. 20
— Phyllis Diller, 95, an American housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, and was a staple of night clubs and television for decades, in Los Angeles. No cause of death was released.

Aug. 25
— Neil Armstrong, 82, who commanded the historic landing of the Apollo 11 spacecraft on the moon, July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century’s scientific expeditions and becoming the first man to take “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step onto the moon, in Cincinnati, Ohio, of complications from heart procedures.

Sept. 3
— Sun Myung Moon, 92, a self-proclaimed messiah who founded the Unification Church and turned his religions vision into a worldwide movement and a multibillion dollar corporation stretch from the Korean Peninsula to the United States, in Gapeyeong Country, Korea after being hospitalized for pneumonia His followers around the world cherished him, while his detractors accused him of brainwashing recruits and extracting money from worshippers.

Sept. 25
Andy Williams, 84, a crooner who was part of the soundtrack of the 1960s and ’70s, with easy-listening hits like “Moon River,” the “Love Story” theme and “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” from his beloved Christmas TV specials, in Branston, Missouri. He had bladder cancer.

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