August 28, 2016 Scientists John Ellenby British computer scientist Died on Wednesday August 17th 2016 Other scientistsShaikh Idrees Pakistani Islamic Scholar and politician, member of Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, shot dead at age 64Ion Toderaș Moldovan ecologist and biologist, member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova dead at age 77Herman Branover Russian-Israeli physicist dead at age 94Krzysztof Pawłowski Polish politician, senator dead at age 79Branko Marušič public figure dead at age 88Michel Debost French flutist dead at age 92Finn Wagle Norwegian Church of Norway clergyman, bishop of Nidaros dead at age 84Juliet Winters Carpenter American translator dead at age 77Michael Sollis Australian musician, bowel cancer dead at age 40Stephen Owen American sinologist dead at age 79More from BritainDame Shirley Porter public figure dead at age 95Gary Lydon public figure dead at age 61Moslem Uddin Bangladeshi politician, MP dead at age 88Robyn Woodhouse Australian Olympic high jumper dead at age 82Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth British Anglican clergyman and life peer, bishop of Oxford and member of the House of Lords dead at age 89Gordon Snell public figure dead at age 93Depinder Singh Indian army lieutenant general, commander of the IPKF dead at age 96George Dunn British air force officer dead at age 103Ittai Gradel Israeli-born British antiques dealer, renal cancer dead at age 61Beverley Martyn British singer-songwriter dead at age 79More from August 17, 2016John TimoneyThomas P. G. CholmondeleyJames WoolleyDenis ČabrićArthur HillerRenuka SinhaNachum HeimanBaby DalupanEric JustenDavid Hallett Tags 17 August 2016 2016-08-17 August 17 August 2016 Britain Ellenby John Scientists ←Jiří Tichý Nate Hirsch→