Deaths in 2009 June 1 - July 5

July 2009

5

• Khan Mohammad, 81, Pakistani cricketer, prostate cancer. [1]

4

• Béla Király, 97, Hungarian general and historian, natural causes. [2]
• Allen Klein, 77, American businessman, Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, Alzheimer's disease. [3]
• Drake Levin, 62, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders), cancer. [4]
• Robert Louis-Dreyfus, 63, French-born Swiss billionaire, leukemia. [5]
• Steve McNair, 36, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens), shot. [6]
• Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, 70, Congolese politician, Minister of State, illness. [7]

3

• Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorian poet and writer. [8] (Spanish)
• Alauddin Al-Azad, 77, Bangladeshi author. [9]
• Frank Devine, 77, New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor. [10]
• Victor Smorgon, 96, Ukrainian-born Australian industrialist. [11]

2

• Pasquale Borgomeo, 76, Vatican director of Radio Vatican, after long illness. [12]
• Steve Brennan, 57, American reporter and editor (The Hollywood Reporter), cancer. [13]
• Susan Fernandez, 52, Filipina activist and singer, ovarian cancer. [14]
• Martin Hengel, 82, German theologian. [15] (German)
• Herbert G. Klein, 91, American journalist, White House Communications Director for President Richard Nixon. [16]
• Tyeb Mehta, 84, Indian painter, heart attack. [17]
• Anna Paitatzi, 86, Greek actress, natural causes. [18] (Greek)
• Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer. [19] (Catalan)

1

• Alexis Argüello, 57, Nicaraguan boxer and politician, mayor of Managua, suspected suicide by gunshot. [20]
• Wilson Baldonaza, 57, Filipino union leader, Kilusang Mayo Uno general secretary, stroke. [21]
• Liam Fairhurst, 14, British fundraiser, synovial sarcoma. [22]
• Lakis Karalis, 66, Greek musician, theatre and artistic director, cancer. [23] (Greek)
• Karl Malden, 97, American Academy Award winning actor (A Streetcar Named Desire), natural causes. [24]
• Anna Karen Morrow, 94, American actress, natural causes. [25]
• Onni Palaste, 91, Finnish soldier and writer, Winter War veteran, natural causes. [26] (Finnish)
• Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court. [27]
• Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), natural causes. [28]
• Rupert Thorneloe, 39, British soldier, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, improvised explosive device. [29]
• Norman Welton, 81, American journalist, photo editor for the Associated Press, colon cancer. [30]
• Takayoshi Yasuda, 89, Japanese jockey and horse trainer. [31] (Japanese)
• Lyudmila Zykina, 80, Russian singer, Hero of Socialist Labor, cardiac arrest. [32]

June 2009

30

• Pina Bausch, 68, German modern dance choreographer, cancer. [33]
• Richard Brown, 47, American trade unionist, President of the NFFE (1998–2009). [34]
• Paquito Cordero, 77, Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer, respiratory disease. [35]
• Ernst Leuenberger, 64, Swiss politician, cancer. [36] (German)
• James F. McNulty, Jr., 83, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arizona (1983–1985), Parkinson's disease. [37]
• Gordon Olson, 84, American academic, President of Minot State University (1967-1992). [38]
• Harve Presnell, 75, American actor, pancreatic cancer. [39]
• Shi Pei Pu, 70, Chinese opera singer, gender-bending spy who was basis for M. Butterfly. [40]
• Joan Wiffen, 87, New Zealand paleontologist. [41]
• Yaroslav Yaroshenko, 63, Russian newspaper editor, traumatic brain injury from beating. [42]

29

• Dave Batters, 39, Canadian politician, MP for Palliser (2004–2008), suicide. [43]
• Sheila Cloney, 83, Irish parent, central figure in the Fethard Boycott. [44]
• Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, cirrhosis. [45]
• Alberto Jimenez, 35, Mexican professional wrestler, poisoned. [46]
• Alejandro Jimenez, 35, Mexican professional wrestler, poisoned. [47]
• Glen Nicoll, 53, Canadian farm writer and photojournalist, brain cancer. [48]
• Bob Petteys, 87, American newspaper publisher (Sterling Journal-Advocate). [49]
• Pauline Picard, 62, Canadian politician, MP for Drummond (1993–2008), lung cancer. [50] (French)
• Jan Rubes, 89, Czech-born Canadian actor and opera singer, stroke. [51]

28

• Manthos Athineos, 84, Greek shadow play artist, stroke. [52] (Greek)
• Terry Black, 62, Canadian singer, multiple sclerosis. [53]
• Huibert Boumeester, 49, Dutch financier, former CFO of ABN Amro, shot. [54]
• Joseph Crowdy, 85, British soldier, Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps. [55]
• Josep Maria Guix Ferreres, 81, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Vic (1983–2003). [56] (Spanish)
• Rita Keane, 86, Irish singer. [57]
• A. K. Lohithadas, 54, Indian screenwriter and film director, heart attack. [58]
• Billy Mays, 50, American pitchman and television host (Pitchmen), hypertensive heart disease. [59].
• Fred Travalena, 66, American comedian and impressionist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [60]
• Lucia Lauria Vigna, 113, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe. [61] (French)
• Yu Hyun-mok, 83, South Korean film director, cerebral infarction. [62]

27

• Levent Akın, 50, Turkish journalist, car accident. [63] (Turkish)
• Frank Barlow, 98, British historian. [64]
• Victoriano Crémer, 102, Spanish poet and journalist, natural causes. [65]
• Mary Lou Forbes, 83, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (1959), breast cancer. [66]
• Spiros Kalogirou, 87, Greek actor, encephalitis. [67] (Greek)
• Willy Kyrklund, 88, Finnish-born Swedish author. [68] (Swedish)
• Nanae Nagata, 53, Japanese marathon runner, colorectal cancer. [69]
• Fayette Pinkney, 61, American musician (The Three Degrees), after short illness. [70]
• Gale Storm, 87, American actress (My Little Margie, The Gale Storm Show). [71]
• Jackie Washington, 89, Canadian blues musician, complications from a heart attack. [72]

26

• Jo Amar, 79, Moroccan-born Israeli singer. [73]
• Homer Delawie, 81, American architect, Parkinson's disease. [74]
• Neera Desai, 84, Indian academic, professor of women's studies, cancer. [75]
• Amnon Kapeliouk, 78, Israeli journalist and author. [76]

25

• Andres Cascioli, 72, Argentine cartoonist, cancer. [77]
• Don Coldsmith, 83, American western author, stroke. [78]
• Farrah Fawcett, 62, American actress (Charlie's Angels), anal cancer. [79]
• Morton Gottlieb, 88, American Broadway theatre producer, Tony Award winner (1971), natural causes. [80]
• James Baker Hall, 74, American poet and academic, Kentucky Poet Laureate (2001-2003), natural causes. [81]
• Michael Jackson, 50, American pop singer–songwriter, cardiac arrest. [82]
• Clifton Johnson, 67, American jurist, North Carolina Superior Court (1978-1982) and Court of Appeals (1982-1996). [83]
• Sylvia Levin, 91, American civic and voter registration activist, stroke. [84]
• Shiv Charan Mathur, 83, Indian politician, Governor of Assam since 2008, Chief Minister of Rajasthan (1988–1989), cardiac arrest. [85]
• Mian Tufail Mohammad, 95, Pakistani politician, cerebral hemorrhage. [86]
• Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 89, Indian singer, widow of singer and composer Hemanta Mukherjee, natural causes. [87]
• Kaleem Omar, 72, Pakistani poet and journalist, heart failure. [88]
• Sky Saxon, 71, American rock musician (The Seeds), heart failure. [89]
• Zinaida Stagurskaya, 38, Belarusian cyclist, road accident. [90]
• Anil Wilson, 62, Indian educator, Principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1991–2007), pancreatic cancer. [91]
• Yasmine, 37, Belgian singer and television presenter, suicide by hanging. [92]

24

• Irv Homer, 85, American talk show host, heart attack. [93]
• Olja Ivanjicki, 78, Serbian painter. [94]
• Tim Krekel, 58, American guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [95]
• Robèrt Lafont, 87, French academic. [96] (French)
• Roméo LeBlanc, 81, Canadian politician (1973–1994), Governor General (1995–1999), Alzheimer's disease. [97]
• Robert B. Pamplin, 97, American executive, President of Georgia-Pacific (1957–1976). [98]
• Ed Thomas, 58, American football coach, NFL High School Football Coach of the Year (2005), shot. [99]

23

• Thurman Adams, Jr., 80, American politician, member of the Delaware Senate since 1972, pancreatic cancer. [100]
• Raymond Berthiaume, 78, Canadian jazz musician, singer and record producer, cancer. [101] (French)
• Phyllis Busansky, 72, American politician, county commissioner and supervisor of elections (Hillsborough County, Florida). [102]
• John Callaway, 72, American journalist (Chicago Tonight), heart attack. [103]
• Harold H. Carstens, 84, American magazine publisher. [104]
• Gegham Ghandilyan, 35, Armenian actor, car accident. [105]
• İsmet Güney, 77, Cypriot artist and cartoonist, designed flag of the Republic of Cyprus, cancer. [106] (Greek)
• Hanne Hiob, 86, German actress, daughter of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht. [107] (German)
• Johny Joseph, 45, Haitian news presenter, cancer. [108] (French)
• Thomas M. King, 80, American Roman Catholic priest and theologian, expert on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, heart attack. [109]
• Matthieu Matondo Mateya, 54, Congolese actor, complications from appendicectomy. [110] (French)
• Ed McMahon, 86, American television host (Star Search) and announcer (The Tonight Show). [111]
• Oleg Meiling, 23, Russian-born German footballer and soldier, shelling. [112] (German)
• Aram Miskaryan, 36, Armenian actor, car accident. [113]
• Jerri Nielsen, 57, American physician, treated herself for breast cancer on Antarctica in 1999, breast cancer. [114]
• Manuel Saval, 53, Mexican actor, laryngeal cancer. [115] (Spanish)
• Jackie Swindells, 72, British footballer. [116]
• Steven Wells, 49, British journalist and author, cancer. [117]

22

• Betty Allen, 82, American operatic mezzo-soprano, kidney disease. [118]
• Bert Bank, 94, American radio pioneer and politician, Bataan Death March survivor. [119]
• Antonio Fernandes de Castro, 111, Portuguese supercentenarian. [120]
• Gilda Galán, Puerto Rican actress. [121] (Spanish)
• Alec Gallup, 81, American pollster, chairman of the Gallup Poll, heart disease. [122]
• June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, 95, British musician and patron of the arts. [123]
• Maj-Len Grönholm, 57, Finnish politician and beauty queen, councilwoman, Miss Finland (1972), cancer. [124] (Finnish)
• Keijo Komppa, 81, Finnish actor, Pro Finlandia award winner (1991). [125] (Swedish)
• Billy Red Lyons, 77, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer. [126]
• Eddie Preston, 80, American jazz trumpeter. [127]
• Steve Race, 88, British broadcaster and musician. [128]
• Philip Simmons, 97, American blacksmith. [129]
• Karel Van Miert, 67, Belgian politician, European Commissioner (1989–1999), cardiac arrest resulting in fall. [130]
• Sam B. Williams, 88, American engineer and inventor. [131]

21

• Lorena Gale, 51, Canadian actress (Battlestar Galactica) and playwright, gastrointestinal cancer. [132]
• José Nicomedes Grossi, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1962-1990). [133] (Portuguese)
• Arthur Luft, 94, Manx politician and deemster. [134]

20

• Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, Iranian student, shot. [135]
• Roseanne Allen, 55, Canadian Olympic cross-country skier. [136]
• Colin Bean, 83, British actor (Dad's Army). [137]
• Aldo Gargani, 76, Italian philosopher. [138] (Italian)
• Nazir Jairazbhoy, 81, British-born American ethnomusicologist. [139]
• Patrick Kombayi, 70, Zimbabwean politician and businessman, complications from 1990 shooting. [140]
• Anne Roberts Nelson, 86, American television executive (CBS), natural causes. [141]
• Godfrey Rampling, 100, British athlete, 1936 Olympic relay champion, NATO commander, father of actress Charlotte Rampling. [142]
• Kenneth L. Reusser, 89, American Marine aviator, decorated veteran of World War II, Korean and Vietnam Wars. [143]

19

• Izzat Abdullah, 45, Iraqi karate coach, shot. [144]
• Alberto Andrade, 65, Peruvian politician, pulmonary fibrosis. [145] (Spanish)
• Giovanni Arrighi, 71, Italian economist. [146] (Italian)
• Sir Derrick Bailey, 90, British cricketer and baronet, son of diamond tycoon and politician Sir Abe Bailey. [147]
• Karyn de Laine Bennett-Lund, 57, American-born Norwegian television presenter. [148] (Norwegian)
• H. A. Boucher, 88, American politician, first elected Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1970–1974). [149]
• Ron Crocombe, 79, New Zealand academic (University of the South Pacific), heart attack. [150]
• Vicente Ferrer Moncho, 89, Spanish philanthropist. [151]
• Shelly Gross, 88, American Broadway producer, bladder cancer. [152]
• Jörg Hube, 65, German actor, cancer. [153] (German)
• Gary Papa, 54, American television sportscaster (WPVI-TV), prostate cancer. [154]
• Ken Roberts, 99, American actor and announcer, pneumonia. [155]
• Herschel Rosenthal, 91, American politician, member of the California Senate (1982–1998). [156]
• Bob Schuler, 66, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate since 2002, cancer. [157]
• Stan Sismey, 92, Australian cricketer. [158]
• Tomoji Tanabe, 113, Japanese supercentenarian, was world's oldest living man, heart failure. [159]

18

• Omar Hashi Aden, Somali politician, Minister of Security, suicide bomb attack. [160]
• Hilary J. Boone, Jr., 91, American Thoroughbred breeder and philanthropist. [161]
• Hortensia Bussi, 94, Chilean First Lady (1970–1973), widow of President Salvador Allende, natural causes. [162] (Spanish)
• Sir Henry Hodge, 65, British jurist, High Court judge since 2004, acute myeloid leukaemia. [163]
• IZ the Wiz, 50, American graffiti artist, heart attack. [164]
• Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Indian sarod player, kidney failure. [165]

17

• Joji Banuve, 69, Fijian politician, Minister for Local Government and the Environment, after short illness. [166]
• Charles A. Barkley, 59, Canadian politician, Mayor of South Dundas, Ontario. [167]
• José Calvário, 58, Portuguese maestro and orchestrator, complications from heart attack. [168]
• Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, 80, German-born British sociologist and politician, cancer. [169]
• Alejandro Doria, 72, Argentine film director, pneumonia. [170] (Spanish)
• Eon, 55, British musician, complications from pneumonia. [171]
• Oscar Ferreiro, 63, Argentine actor, after short illness. [172]
• José Ignacio García Hamilton, 65, Argentine politician and historian. [173]
• Wayne L. Horvitz, 88, American labor mediator, cancer. [174]
• John Houghtaling, 92, American businessman and inventor (Magic Fingers vibrating bed), complications from a fall. [175]
• Derek Lacey, 67, British football commentator (BBC Radio Cumbria), stroke. [176]
• Fernando Peña, 46, Uruguayan comedian and actor, liver cancer. [177]
• Darrell Powers, 86, American soldier, served in the 506th Infantry Regiment (Band of Brothers), natural causes. [178]
• Dusty Rhodes, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants), complications from diabetes and emphysema. [179]
• Hal Riddle, 89, American character actor. [180]
• Ali Said, Somali public servant, chief of police (Mogadishu), shot. [181]
• Perry Salles, 70, Brazilian actor, lung cancer. [182] (Portuguese)
• Shacky Tauro, 49, Zimbabwean footballer, after short illness. [183]
• Tony Wong, 60, Canadian politician. [184]

16

• John Anthony, 76, British Olympic shooter, pneumonia and colorectal cancer. [185]
• Peter Arundell, 75, British racing driver, pulmonary fibrosis. [186]
• Douglas Bunn, 81, British barrister and horse breeder, founder and chairman of the All England Jumping Course. [187]
• Emmanuel Constant, 81, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Les Gonaïves (1966–2003). [188] (French)
• Paul A. Fino, 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1953–1968). [189]
• Charlie Mariano, 85, American jazz alto saxophonist. [190] (German)
• Frank Mason, 88, American artist and teacher. [191]

15

• George Belotti, 74, American football player, complications of a stroke. [192]
• Antonio Bianco, 57, South African diamond cutter, cancer. [193]
• Helen Boosalis, 89, American politician, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska (1975–1983), brain tumor. [194]
• Allan King, 79, Canadian film director (Warrendale, Termini Station, Silence of the North), brain tumor. [195]
• Joseph Klifa, 78, French politician, Mayor of Mulhouse (1981–1989). [196] (French)
• Desmond Moran, 60, Australian criminal, member of Moran family, shot. [197]
• Carolyn Pfeifer-Horchow, 75, American fashion designer and entrepreneur, cancer. [198]
• Ted Tanabe, 46, Japanese professional wrestling referee, heart attack. [199]

14

• Bob Bogle, 75, American guitarist (The Ventures), non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [200]
• Angela Coughlan, 56, Canadian swimmer, bronze medalist (1968 Summer Olympics), multiple myeloma. [201]
• Ivan Della Mea, 68, Italian singer–songwriter and author, after long illness. [202] (Italian)
• Yasuharu Hasebe, 77, Japanese film director, pneumonia. [203]
• William McIntyre, 91, Canadian jurist, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1979-1989), throat cancer. [204]
• Moumouni Adamou Djermakoye, 70, Nigerien politician. [205]
• Tony Kempster, 59, British non-League football statistician, cancer. [206]
• Carlos Pardo, 33, Mexican NASCAR race driver, race crash. [207]
• Edith Ronne, 89, American explorer, first American woman to visit Antarctica, cancer. [208]
• Frederick Sontag, 84, American academic and author, professor of philosophy (Pomona College), heart failure. [209]
• Abel Tador, 24, Nigerian footballer, shot. [210]
• Pyotr Velyaminov, 82, Russian actor. [211] (Russian)
• Hal Woodeshick, 76, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s), after long illness. [212]

13

• Khalil Abi-Nader, 87, Lebanese Maronite prelate, Archbishop of Beirut (1986–1996). [213]
• Christian Albin, 61, Swiss-born American executive chef (The Four Seasons Restaurant), cancer. [214]
• Bashir Aushev, 62, Russian public official, Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia (2002–2008), shot. [215]
• Tom Costello, 77, Irish horse breeder. [216]
• Otilio Galíndez, 73, Venezuelan poet and composer. [217]
• Mitsuharu Misawa, 46, Japanese professional wrestler, spinal cord injury. [218]
• Douglas Quijano, 64, Filipino talent agent. [219]
• John Saville, 93, British Marxist economic and social historian. [220]

12

• Shailaja Acharya, 65, Nepalese politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1998), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia. [221]
• John Crellin, 58, Manx motorcycle racer and civil engineer, race accident. [222]
• Peter Gowan, 63, British academic, professor of international relations (London Metropolitan University), mesothelioma. [223]
• Ivan Lichter, 91, New Zealand physician, pioneer in palliative care. [224]
• Félix Malloum, 76, Chadian politician, President (1975–1979), cardiac arrest. [225] (French)
• Georgy Vainer, 71, Russian writer, after long illness. [226] (Russian)
• Peter Wheeler, 65, British chemical engineer and businessman, owner of TVR, after short illness. [227]

11

• Viacheslav Aliabiev, 75, Ukrainian footballer (Shakhtyor Stalino), USSR Cup winner (1961, 1962), cancer. [228]
• Marian Goliński, 59, Polish politician, car accident. [229] (Polish)
• Jürgen Gosch, 65, German theatre director, cancer. [230] (German)
• Jakob Kjersem, 83, Norwegian Olympic athlete. [231] (Norwegian)
• Frank J. Low, 75, American physicist and astronomer. [232]
• Christel Peters, 93, German actress. [233] (German)
• Carl Pursell, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1977–1993), heart disease. [234]
• Ricardo Rangel, 85, Mozambican photojournalist. [235]
• Roger Terry, 87, American airman (Tuskegee Airmen), heart failure. [236]

10

• Barry Beckett, 66, American record producer, session musician, keyboardist (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section), natural causes. [237]
• Lamana Ould Cheikh, Malian military intelligence officer, shot. [238]
• Jack Eddy, 78, American astronomer. [239]
• Tenniel Evans, 83, British actor. [240]
• Xaver Frick, 96, Liechtensteinian Olympic athlete and cross-country skier. [241]
• Aza Gazgireeva, Russian jurist, senior judge in Ingushetia, shot. [242]
• Shukery Hashim, 55, Malaysian actor, pancreatic cancer. [243]
• Woodie Held, 77, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), brain cancer. [244]
• Huey Long, 105, American singer (The Ink Spots). [245]
• Michel Nguyên Khác Ngu, 100, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Long Xuyen (1960–1997). [246]
• Jack Nimitz, 79, American jazz baritone saxophonist, complications from emphysema. [247]
• Richard Quick, 66, American swimming and diving coach, brain tumor. [248]
• Stelios Skevofilakas, c.69, Greek footballer (AEK Athens), stomach cancer. [249] (Greek)
• Helle Virkner, 83, Danish actress, cancer. [250]

9

• Duke Bainum, 56, American politician (Hawaii House of Representatives, Honolulu City Council), aortic aneurysm. [251]
• Norman E. Brinker, 78, American restaurateur (Brinker International), aspiration pneumonia. [252]
• Ray Hamrick, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Blue Jays). [253]
• Edward Hanrahan, 88, American lawyer, State's Attorney (Cook County, Illinois), leukemia. [254]
• Jean Hugel, 84, French winemaker (Alsace wine), cancer. [255]
• Bill Lillard, 90, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [256]
• Jack Littrell, 80, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease. [257]
• Dick May, 78, American racing driver, after long illness. [258]
• Michael Roof, 32, American actor (xXx, Black Hawk Down, The Dukes of Hazzard), suicide by hanging. [259]
• Dave Simons, 54, American comic book artist, cancer. [260]
• Mal Sondock, 74, American radio personality, after short illness. [261] (German)
• Arne Tovik, 53, Norwegian newspaper editor and journalist. [262] (Norwegian)
• Karl Michael Vogler, 80, German actor. [263] (German)

8

• Omar Bongo, 73, Gabonese politician, President (1967–2009), heart attack. [264]
• Frank Dasso, 91, American baseball player. [265]
• Sheila Finestone, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Mount Royal (1984–1999) and Senator (1999–2002), cancer. [266]
• Aage Rou Jensen, 84, Danish footballer. [267] (Danish)
• Nathan Marsters, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, car accident. [268]
• Harold Norse, 92, American poet. [269]
• Johnny Palermo, 27, American actor, car accident. [270]
• Habib Tanvir, 85, Indian playwright and theatre director, after short illness. [271]

7

• Roy Boe, 79, American businessman, owner of New Jersey Nets (1969–1978), New York Islanders (1972–1979), heart failure. [272]
• Hugh Hopper, 64, British progressive rock bassist and composer (Soft Machine), leukaemia. [273]
• Willie Kilmarnock, 87, British footballer (Motherwell F.C.). [274]
• Gordon Lennon, 26, British footballer (Dumbarton F.C.), car crash. [275]
• Kenny Rankin, 69, American singer-songwriter, lung cancer. [276]
• Sarah Snyder, 51, American newspaper reporter and editor (The Boston Globe), cancer. [277]
• Peter Townsend, 81, British sociologist, pneumonia. [278]
• Baron Vaea, 88, Tongan politician, Prime Minister (1991–2000), after short illness. [279]

6

• Charles Arnold-Baker, 90, British historian. [280]
• Jean Dausset, 92, French immunologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1980). [281] (French)
• Mary Howard de Liagre, 96, American actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Swamp Water). [282]
• Musost Khutiyev, Russian public official, aide to Chechen Deputy Prime Minister, former separatist brigadier general, shot. [283]
• Despina Lelekou-Tataki, 82, Greek author, stroke. [284] (Greek)
• Jim Owens, 82, American college football coach (Washington Huskies), complications from hypertension and heart problems. [285]
• Pio Sagapolutele, 39, American Samoan football player (Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots), aneurysm. [286]

5

• Bernard Barker, 92, Cuban-born American intelligence operative, Watergate burglar, lung cancer. [287]
• Peter L. Bernstein, 90, American economic historian, pneumonia. [288]
• Alan Berkman, 63, American physician and activist, lymphoma. [289]
• Fleur Cowles, 101, American writer, editor and artist. [290]
• Baciro Dabó, 51, Guinea-Bissauan politician, presidential candidate, shot. [291]
• Jeff Hanson, 31, American singer–songwriter, fall. [292]
• Richard Jacobs, 83, American real estate developer, owner of the Cleveland Indians (1986–2001), after long illness. [293]
• Luo Jing, 48, Chinese news presenter, lymphoma. [294]
• Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, 53, Russian general, Interior Minister for the Republic of Dagestan, shot. [295]
• Rajeev Motwani, 47, Indian-born American academic, advisor for Google, Inc.. [296]
• Boris Pokrovsky, 97, Russian opera director, People's Artist of the USSR. [297] (Russian)
• Helder Proença, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Minister of Defense, shot. [298]
• Haydn Tanner, 92, British rugby union player. [299]
• George Edward Wahlen, 84, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, after long illness. [300]

4

• Lev Brovarsky, 60, Ukrainian Soviet-era footballer and coach. [301] (Russian)
• Robert Colescott, 83, American painter, U.S. representative to Venice Biennale (1997). [302]
• Ward Costello, 89, American actor and composer, complications from a stroke. [303]
• Philip D. Curtin, 87, American historian, pneumonia. [304]
• Luc Alfons de Hovre, 83, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels (1982-2002). [305]
• John F. Henning, 93, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to New Zealand (1967–1969). [306]
• Dorothy Layton, 96, American actress (County Hospital). [307]
• Chris O'Brien, 57, Australian oncologist, surgeon on the reality television program RPA, brain tumour. [308]
• Randy Smith, 60, American basketball player (Buffalo Braves), 1978 NBA All-Star Game MVP, heart attack. [309]

3

• Geoffrey Bingham, 90, Australian evangelical Christian writer. [310]
• David Bromige, 75, British-born Canadian poet and academic, winner of the Pushcart Prize, complications from diabetes. [311]
• Sam Butera, 81, American saxophonist, Alzheimer's disease. [312]
• James F. Calvert, 88, American naval officer, 46th Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, heart failure. [313]
• David Carradine, 72, American actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill), hanging. [314]
• Do Kum-bong, 79, South Korean actress. [315]
• Sam George, 56, Canadian activist, native rights campaigner involved with the Ipperwash Crisis, pancreatic and lung cancer. [316]
• Thomas Gill, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1963–1965), after long illness. [317]
• Frank G. Harrison, 69, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1983–1985), natural causes. [318]
• Geir Høgsnes, 58, Norwegian sociologist. [319] (Norwegian)
• Peter J. Landin, British computer scientist, natural causes. [320]
• John Campbell Ross, 110, Australian supercentenarian, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I. [321]
• Shih Kien, 96, Hong Kong actor (Enter the Dragon). [322]
• Koko Taylor, 80, American blues musician, complications from gastrointestinal surgery. [323]
• Moloko Temo, 134?, South African centenarian, claimant to the world's oldest person title. [324]

2

• David Eddings, 77, American fantasy author. [325]
• John Ernsting, 81, British Air Vice-Marshal, expert in aviation medicine. [326]
• FrancEyE, 87, American poet, complications from a hip fracture. [327]
• Alfred Kern, 85, American novelist and academic. [328]
• Tony Maggs, 72, South African racing driver, cancer. [329]
• Palghat R. Raghu, 81, Burmese-born Indian musician, cardiac arrest. [330]
• Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot, 75, Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Adigrat (1985-2001). [331]
• Paul O. Williams, 74. American science fiction author, aortic dissection. [332]

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• Silvio Barbato, 50, Italian-born Brazilian conductor and composer, plane crash. [333]
• Thomas Berry, 94, American cultural historian and ecotheologian. [334]
• Bob Christie, 85, American racing driver. [335]
• Ernest May, 80, American historian (Harvard University), complications from cancer surgery. [336]
• Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu, 37, Turkish classical harpist and academic (Anadolu University in Eskişehir), plane crash. [337]
• Vincent O'Brien, 92, Irish race horse trainer. [338]
• Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza, 26, Brazilian prince, plane crash. [339]
• Alexander S. Potupa, 64, Belarussian politician, physicist, economist and writer. [340]
• Jerry Rosenberg, 72, American jailhouse lawyer, natural causes. [341]
• Parvin Soleimani, 86, Persian actress, brain tumor. [342]
• Dirk du Toit, 65, South African politician, suspected heart failure. [343]