who turns 86 on Aug. 27. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate is being treated for heart problems and a fever in a Calcutta nursing home.
A 3-year-old Brookfield, Ill., boy who fell 18 feet into the city zoo’s gorilla pit on Aug. 16. The boy, whose family wants him to remain anonymous, was rescued by an 8-year-old gorilla, Binti Jua (Swahili for ““Daughter of Sunshine’’). Carrying her own infant on her back, Binti – who was raised by humans – cradled the boy in her arms and placed him near a door where paramedics and zookeepers could reach him. The boy left the hospital on Aug. 20 with cuts, bruises and a broken left hand.
84, after a brief hospitalization for a mild heart attack he suffered several weeks ago.
Singer _B_Melissa Etheridge,b 34, and her partner of eight years, _B_Julie Cypher,b 31. Cypher, divorced from actor _B_Lou Diamond Phillips,b is four months pregnant.
Actor _B_Tony Randall,b 76, and bride _B_Heather,b 26; the first child for both, in April.
_B_DIED: Tsutakiyokomatsu Asaji,b 102, Japan’s oldest geisha and a last link to a fading tradition; of kidney failure, in Tokyo, Aug. 18. Known as a master of tokiwazu bushi, a Japanese song featured in Kabuki plays, she published her autobiography two years ago.
Sociologist _B_E. Digby Baltzell,b 80, who coined ““WASP,’’ for ““white Anglo-Saxon Protestant’’; of a heart attack, in a Boston hospital, Aug. 17. WASP Baltzell first used the term in his 1964 book ““Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America.''
