April 2009

30

• Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack. [780520] (Spanish)
• Maxime de la Falaise, 86, British model, socialite, fashion designer, cookbook writer and gastronome, natural causes. [780521]
• Ben Enoch, 19, British golfer, car accident. [780522]
• Harold Fischer, 83, American Air Force officer, Korean War fighter ace and noted PoW, complications from surgery [780523]
• Mallory Horne, 84, American politician, member of Florida House of Representatives, President of Florida Senate, lung cancer. [780524]
• Maurice Lindsay, 90, British poet and broadcaster. [780525]
• McCoy McLemore, 67, American basketball player and television color analyst, cancer. [780526]
• Henk Nijdam, 73, Dutch road bicycle racer, track pursuit world champion (1962). [780527]
• Venetia Phair, 90, British teacher who named Pluto. [780528]
• David Picão, 85, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Santos (1996–2000). [780529] (Portuguese)
• William A. Price, 94, American journalist. [780530]
• Ron Richards, 80, British record producer. [780531]
• Raymond J. Saulnier, 100, American economist. [780532]

29

• Günther Bahr, 87, German Luftwaffe fighter pilot. [780533] (German)
• Jack Lohrke, 85, American baseball player, stroke. [780534]
• Tom McGrath, 68, British poet and playwright, liver cancer. [780535]
• Charles L. Young, Sr., 77, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, heart attack. [780536]

28

• Lota Delgado, 90, Filipina actress. [780537]
• U. A. Fanthorpe, 79, British poet. [780538]
• Vern Gosdin, 74, American country music singer, complications from a stroke. [780539]
• Ekaterina Maximova, 70, Russian ballet dancer. [780540] (Russian)
• Steinar Lem, 57, Norwegian environmentalist and anti-consumerism activist, cancer. [780541] (Norwegian)
• Richard Pratt, 74, Australian businessman, prostate cancer. [780542]
• Valeria Peter Predescu, 62, Romanian singer, heart attack. [780543] (Romanian)
• Ted Reynolds, 84, Canadian sportscaster (CBC Television). [780544]
• Buddy Rose, 56, American professional wrestler. [780545]
• Pearse Wyse, 81, Irish politician. [780546]

27

• Ernie Barnes, 70, American neo-mannerist artist and football player, after short illness. [780547]
• John Crispo, 75, Canadian economist and educator, prostate cancer. [780548]
• Tom Deitz, 57, American science fiction author, heart failure. [780549]
• Miroslav Filip, 80, Czech chess player. [780550] (Czech)
• Frank Gansz, 70, American football coach (Kansas City Chiefs), complications from knee replacement surgery. [780551]
• Glen Gondrezick, 53, American basketball player, complications following heart transplant. [780552]
• Feroz Khan, 69, Indian actor, cancer. [780553]
• Frankie Manning, 94, American dancer and choreographer, pneumonia. [780554]
• Karl Mullen, 82, Irish rugby union player. [780555]
• Greg Page, 50, American boxer, complications from brain injury. [780556]
• Paraluman, 85, Filipina actress. [780557]
• Robley Rex, 107, American World War I-era veteran. [780558]
• Woo Seung-yeon, 25, South Korean actress and model, suicide by hanging. [780559]

26

• Salamo Arouch, 86, Greek-born Israeli boxer and Holocaust survivor.[780560]
• Alan Bristow, 84, British businessman. [780561]
• Hans Holzer, 89, Austrian-born American paranormal investigator and author, after long illness. [780562]
• Geir Hovig, 64, Norwegian radio host, after short illness. [780563] (Norwegian)
• Danny Kladis, 92, American racecar driver. [780564]
• Levan Mikeladze, 52, Georgian diplomat and politician, heart attack. [780565]
• Dominic Motikoe, Lesotho politician, shot. [780566]
• Colwyn Philipps, 3rd Viscount St Davids, 70, British aristocrat and politician. [780567]
• Perez Zagorin, 88, American historian. [780568]

25

• Beatrice Arthur, 86, American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress (Maude, The Golden Girls, Mame), cancer. [780569]
• Yamil Chade, 88, Lebanese-born Puerto Rican sports team owner and manager. [780570] (Spanish]
• John Marchi, 87, American politician, member of the New York State Senate (1957–2006), complications from pneumonia. [780571]

24

• Irving D. Chais, 83, American businessman, owner of the New York Doll Hospital, after long illness. [780572]
• Tim Curry, 70, American attorney, District Attorney for Tarrant County, Texas, (1972–2009), lung cancer. [780573]
• Margaret Gelling, 84, British toponymist. [780574]
• Bo Leuf, 56, Swedish technology writer. [780575] (Swedish)
• John Michell, 76, British author, cancer. [780576]
• Sixto Palavecino, 94, Argentine poet and musician. [780577] (Spanish)
• Michael Parsons, 48, Australian footballer, brain tumour. [780578]
• Orville Howard Phillips, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1963–1999), stroke. [780579]

23

• William F. Barnes, 91, American football coach (UCLA), complications from pneumonia. [780580]
• Kenneth Paul Block, 84, American fashion illustrator. [780581]
• Gordon Gair, 92, Canadian lacrosse player. [780582]
• Don Kiser, 72, American politician, Mayor of Paris, Kentucky (2003–2009), heart attack. [780583]
• Lam Sheung Yee, 74, Hong Kong footballer, coach, announcer and actor. [780584]
• Ivan Madray, 74, Guyanese cricketer, hypertension. [780585]
• Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican archaeologist, curator of the National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest. [780586]
• Timothy Wright, 61, American pastor and gospel singer, car accident. [780587]

22

• Ken Annakin, 94, British film director (The Longest Day, Battle of the Bulge), complications from heart attack and stroke. [780588]
• Jack Cardiff, 94, British cinematographer (A Matter Of Life And Death, Black Narcissus, The African Queen), natural causes. [780589]
• Marilyn Cooper, 74, American actress, after long illness. [780590]
• Bob Hamm, 74, American writer and Cajun humorist, complications related to cancer. [780591]
• David Kellermann, 41, American businessman, CFO of Freddie Mac since 2008, suicide by hanging. [780592]
• Alex Lees, 97, British planner of the Great Escape during World War II. [780593]
• George C. Rawlings, 87, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1964–1969). [780594]
• Heinz Schröder, 80, German puppeteer. [780595] (German)
• Kim Weiskopf, 62, American television writer, pancreatic cancer. [780596]

21

• Iqbal Bano, 74, Indian-born Pakistani singer, after short illness. [780597]
• Robin Gillett, 83, British Lord Mayor of London (1976–1977). [780598]
• Jack Jones, 96, British trade union leader, veteran of the International Brigades. [780599]
• James Byron Moran, 78, American jurist (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois), after long illness. [780600]
• Santha Rama Rau, 86, Indian-born American writer, cardiac arrest. [780601]

20

• Beata Asimakopoulou, 77, Greek actress, after short illness. [780602] (Greek)
• Thomas Hill, 81, American actor. [780603]
• Franco Rotella, 42, Italian footballer, melanoma. [780604] (Italian)

19

• J. G. Ballard, 78, British novelist, prostate cancer. [780605]
• Doc Blanchard, 84, American college football player (Army), Heisman Trophy winner (1945), pneumonia. [780606]
• Tilahun Gessesse, 68, Ethiopian singer. [780607]
• Tony Kett, 57, Irish politician, cancer. [780608]
• Tharon Musser, 84, American lighting designer, after long illness. [780609]
• Ray Nance, 94, American World War II veteran, survivor of D-Day. [780610]
• Dicky Robinson, 82, British footballer (Middlesbrough), after long illness. [780611]
• Terrell Starr, 82, American politician, member of the Georgia State Senate (1968–2006), heart failure. [780612]
• Kiril Vajarov, 21, Bulgarian ice hockey goaltender, member of the national team (2006–2009), stabbed. [780613] (Dutch)

18

• Tissa Abeysekara, 69, Sri Lankan film director, writer and actor, brain haemorrhage. [780614]
• Toi Aukuso Cain, 77, Samoan politician and murderer, liver cancer. [780615]
• Peter Dennis, 75, British actor. [780616]
• Edward George, Baron George, 70, British public official, Governor of the Bank of England (1993–2003), lung cancer. [780617]
• Vernon Malone, 77, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (2003–2009), natural causes. [780618]
• Bill Orton, 60, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives from Utah (1991–1997), ATV accident. [780619]
• Stephanie Parker, 22, British actress (Belonging), apparent suicide by hanging. [780620]
• Charles Peebler, 72, American advertising executive, progressive supranuclear palsy. [780621]
• Whitelaw Reid, 95, American journalist, complications of lung and heart failure. [780622]
• Elías Wessin y Wessin, 84, Dominican politician and general, cardiac arrest. [780623] (Spanish)

17

• Midge Miller, 86, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1971–1985), cancer. [780624]
• Honoré Desmond Sharrer, 88, American artist. [780625]

16

• Patty Costello, 61, American ten-pin bowler, pancreatic cancer. [780626]
• Sal Guarriello, 90, American politician, after short illness. [780627]
• Tengiz Gudava, 55, Georgia-born Soviet dissident and journalist (RFE/RL). [780628] (Russian)
• Timothy Holst, 61, American circus ringmaster, after short illness. [780629]
• James D. Houston, 75, American author, cancer. [780630]
• Jim Lange, 82, American editorial cartoonist (The Oklahoman), after long illness. [780631]
• Svein Longva, 65, Norwegian economist, State Conciliator (2005–2009). [780632] (Norwegian)
• Michel Mondésert, 92, French Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Grenoble. [780633]
• Viktor Paskov, 59, Bulgarian writer, lung cancer. [780634]
• Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, 49, Hungarian journalist, writer, actor and soldier, shot. [780635]
• Saensak Muangsurin, 58, Thai boxer, intestinal complications. [780636]
• Fadel Shana'a, 23, Palestinian photojournalist (Reuters), military strike. [780637]

15

• Ed Blake, 83, American baseball player, after long illness. [780638]
• Sir Clement Freud, 84, German-born British writer, broadcaster and politician, MP (1973–1987). [780639]
• Merle Harmon, 82, American sportscaster, pneumonia. [780640]
• Wisdom Siziba, 28, Zimbabwean cricketer, heart failure. [780641]
• László Tisza, 101, Hungarian-born American physicist. [780642]

14

• Richard Baker, 62, American surf apparel executive (Ocean Pacific), cancer. [780643]
• Maurice Druon, 90, French novelist, Dean of the Académie française (French Academy), and French Resistance fighter. [780644]
• Fuyuko Kamisaka, 78, Japanese historian, author and critic, cancer. [780645]
• Les Keiter, 89, American sportscaster, natural causes. [780646]
• Max Lake, 84, Australian winemaker, fall. [780647]
• Marcus Loane, 97, Australian Anglican Primate (1978–1982), Archbishop of Sydney (1966–1982), after short illness. [780648]
• Peter Rogers, 95, British film producer (Carry On series). [780649]
• Royce Ryton, 84, British playwright. [780650]

13

• John Armitage, 88, Australian politician, MP (1961–1963, 1969–1983). [780651]
• Björn Borg, 89, Swedish swimmer. [780652] (Swedish)
• Stefan Brecht, 84, German poet, son of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, after long illness. [780653]
• Frank Costigan, 78, Australian lawyer and royal commissioner, head of the Costigan Commission. [780654]
• Tony Eckstein, 85, American politician and veterinarian. [780655]
• Mark Fidrych, 54, American baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), suffocation. [780656]
• Jack D. Hunter, 87, American author, cancer. [780657]
• Harry Kalas, 73, American sportscaster, heart attack. [780658]
• Ángel Miguel, 79, Spanish professional golfer. [780659] (Spanish)
• Bruce Snyder, 69, American football coach, melanoma. [780660]
• Kevin Walton, 90, British winner of the Albert Medal. [780661]

12

• Sitara Achakzai, 52, Afghan women's rights activist and politician, shot. [780662]
• Danny Cameron, 85, Canadian politician, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (1991–1995). [780663]
• Marilyn Chambers, 56, American pornographic film actress (Behind the Green Door), erotic dancer, and politician, heart disease. [780664]
• Kent Douglas, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs), cancer [780665]
• Gene Handley, 94, American baseball player. [780666]
• Mike Keen, 69, British footballer, after short illness. [780667]
• Hans Kleppen, 102, Norwegian ski jumper. [780668] (Norwegian)
• Sir Kirby Laing, 92, British civil engineer. [780669]
• Sir John Maddox, 83, British science writer, editor (Nature, 1966–1973, 1980–1995). [780670]
• Stephen Minarik, 49, American politician, chairman of the New York Republican State Committee (2004–2006), heart attack. [780671]
• Ephraim Obot, 72, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Idah since 1977. [780672]
• Franklin Rosemont, 65, American surrealist poet, labor historian and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group.
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 58, American writer and critical theorist, pioneer of queer studies, breast cancer. [780673]
• Derek Weiler, 40, Canadian editor and writer. [780674]
• Zeke Zarchy, 93, American swing music jazz trumpeter. [780675]

11

• James William Brodie, 88, New Zealand geologist, oceanographer and geophysicist. [780676]
• Mickey Cafagna, 65, American politician, mayor of Poway, California, complications from kidney cancer. [780677]
• Simon Channing-Williams, 63, British film producer, cancer. [780678]
• Albert Chernenko, 74, Russian philosopher, son of Konstantin Chernenko. [780679] (Russian)
• Rob Dickson, 45, Australian football player, winner of Australian Survivor, car accident. [780680]
• Gerda Gilboe, 94, Danish actress. [780681][780682] (Danish)
• Judith Krug, 69, American librarian, founder of Banned Books Week, stomach cancer. [780683]
• René Monory, 85, French politician, President of the Senate (1992–1998). [780684]
• Tita Muñoz, 82, Filipino actress, after long illness. [780685]
• Jimmy Neighbour, 58, British footballer (Norwich City, Tottenham Hotspur), heart attack. [780686]
• Vishnu Prabhakar, 97, Indian writer, after long illness. [780687]
• Johnny Roadhouse, 88, British saxophonist. [780688]
• Al Rosenbaum, 82, American sculptor, co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum. [780689]
• Corín Tellado, 81, Spanish novelist, heart failure. [780690]

10

• Richard Arnell, 91, British composer. [780691]
• Richard Fox Cartwright, 95, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Plymouth (1972–1982). [780692]
• Blake Chanslor, 88, American businessman, founder of Blake's Lotaburger. [780693]
• Deborah Digges, 59, American poet, apparent suicide by jumping. [780694]
• Frank Morris, 85, Canadian football player and executive, after long illness. [780695]
• Naum Olev, 70, Russian lyricist. [780696] (Russian)
• Yevgeny Vesnik, 86, Russian actor, stroke. [780697]

9

• Nick Adenhart, 22, American baseball pitcher (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), car accident. [780698]
• Randy Cain, 63, American singer (The Delfonics). [780699]
• Mike Casey, 60, American college basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats) (1967–1971), heart disease. [780700]
• Colin Jordan, 85, British politician and Neo-Nazi activist. [780701]
• Ernest Manirumva, Burundian anti-corruption activist (OLUCOME), stabbed. [780702]
• Shakti Samanta, 83, Indian film director and producer, cardiac arrest. [780703]
• Dale Swann, 61, American character actor, complications of stroke. [780704]

8

• Wally Baker, 111, American supercentenarian. [780705]
• Lennie Bennett, 70, British comedian and game show host (Lucky Ladders), after short illness. [780706]
• Jane Bryan, 90, American actress, after long illness. [780707]
• Henri Meschonnic, 76, French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician. [780708]
• Dan Miller, 67, American television journalist (WSMV, KCBS), heart attack. [780709]
• Piotr Morawski, 32, Polish mountain climber, mountaineering accident. [780710]
• Jean Overton Fuller, 94, British writer and painter. [780711]
• Tam Paton, 70, Scottish music manager and spokesperson for the Bay City Rollers, suspected heart attack. [780712]
• David Winans, 74, American gospel singer, heart attack. [780713]

7

• Dave Arneson, 61, American game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, cancer. [780714]
• Samuel Beer, 97, American academic, expert on British government. [780715]
• Raja Chelliah, 86, Indian economist, founder of Madras School of Economics, after short illness. [780716]
• Stanley Jaki, 84, Hungarian-born America theologian, heart attack. [780717]
• Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, 88, British private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1977–1986). [780718]
• Paddy O'Hanlon, 65, Irish politician and barrister, after short illness. [780719]
• Leo Prieto, 88, Filipino sports executive, PBA Commissioner (1975–1982), stroke. [780720]
• Cecil Skotnes, 82, South African artist, pneumonia. [780721]
• Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley, 79, British jurist, cancer. [780722]
• Michael Stern, 98, American journalist and philanthropist, co-founder of Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, pancreatic cancer. [780723]
• Jack Wrangler, 62, American pornographic film actor, writer, and producer, emphysema. [780724]

6

• Steve Cannon, 81, American radio personality (WCCO), cancer. [780725]
• J. M. S. Careless, 90, Canadian historian. [780726]
• Dwight Crandell, 86, American volcanologist, heart attack. [780727]
• Dorothy Cullman, 91, American philanthropist, complications of brain injury. [780728]
• Russell E. Dunham, 89, American war veteran, Medal of Honor recipient, heart failure. [780729]
• Jacques Hustin, 69, Belgian singer-songwriter. [780730] (French)
• Shawn Mackay, 26, Australian rugby union player (Brumbies), cardiac arrest following car accident. [780731]
• Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, 71, South African Minister of Communications since 1999; acting President (2008), natural causes. [780732]
• Andrzej Stelmachowski, 84, Polish academic and politician. [780733]
• Mari Trini, 61, Spanish pop singer and actress. [780734]
• Svetlana Ulmasova, 56, Uzbekistani athlete. [780735]
• Damouré Zika, 85, Nigerien film actor and traditional healer, after long illness. [780736]

5

• Wouter Barendrecht, 43, Dutch film producer, heart failure. [780737]
• Thomas R. Byrne, 86, American politician, Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota (1966–1970), cancer. [780738]
• Tony D, 42, American hip hop DJ and musician, car accident. [780739]
• I. J. Good, 92, British mathematician, statistician and cryptographer, natural causes. [780740]
• Sir Neil MacCormick, 67, British jurist and Scottish nationalist politician, cancer. [780741]
• Rocco Morabito, 88, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. [780742]
• Nancy Overton, 83, American pop singer (The Chordettes), esophageal cancer. [780743]
• Constantine Papadakis, 63, Greek-born American president of Drexel University, complications from lung cancer. [780744]
• William Tobin, 83, American journalist, esophageal cancer. [780745]
• George Tribe, 88, Australian cricketer. [780746]
• David Wheatley, 59, British film and television director, after long illness. [780747]

4

• Jobie Dajka, 27, Australian track cyclist, 2002 Keirin world champion. [780748]
• Adriano Directo Emperado, 82, American martial artist (kajukenbo). [780749]
• Maxine Cooper Gomberg, 84, American actress (Kiss Me Deadly), natural causes [780750]
• Netherwood Hughes, 108, British fourth-to-last veteran of World War I. [780751]
• Jody McCrea, 74, American actor, son of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, cardiac arrest. [780752]
• Gonzalo Olave, 25, Chilean actor, motorcycle accident. [780753] (Spanish)
• I. Herbert Scheinberg, 89, American doctor, pneumonia. [780754]
• Nelly Sindayen, 59, Filipino journalist, Manila correspondent for Time magazine, complications from diabetic stroke. [780755]
• Armand Tanny, 90, American bodybuilder, natural causes. [780756]
• Marvin Webster, 56, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics), natural causes. [780757]

3

• Ken Anderson, 33, American football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack. [780758]
• James G. Boswell II, 86, American businessman, natural causes. [780759]
• Thomas Braden, 92, American journalist and author (Eight Is Enough), cardiac arrest. [780760]
• Eva Evdokimova, 60, Swiss-born American ballerina, complications of cancer. [780761]
• Charlie Kennedy, 81, American alto saxophonist, pulmonary disease. [780762]
• John King, 55, American ukelele player, heart attack. [780763]
• Victor Millan, 89, American actor and theatre professor. [780764]
• Alexei Parshchikov, 54, Russian poet. [780765] (Russian)
• Crodowaldo Pavan, 89, Brazilian biologist and geneticist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and cancer. [780766] (Portuguese)
• Jerome R. Waldie, 84, American politician, Representative from California (1966–1975). [780767]

2

• Exotic Dancer, 9, French-bred British racehorse, heart attack after race. [780768]
• Guttorm Hansen, 88, Norwegian politician, President of Parliament (1973–1981). [780769] (Norwegian)
• Taj Muhammad Jamali, 70, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (1990–1993). [780770]
• Albert Sanschagrin, 97, Canadian Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (1967–1979). [780771]
• Bud Shank, 82, American alto saxophonist, pulmonary failure. [780772]
• Frank Springer, 79, American comic book artist, prostate cancer. [780773]

1

• Arne Andersson, 91, Swedish middle distance runner. [780774]
• Umberto Betti, 87, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzio since 2007. [780775]
• John Blankenchip, 89, American educator, theater director and designer, after short illness. [780776]
• Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree, 84, British politician, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons (1982–1992). [780777]
• Margreta Elkins, 78, Australian mezzo-soprano, cancer. [780778]
• Duane Jarvis, 51, American singer-songwriter, colon cancer. [780779]
• Marcos Moshinsky, 88, Ukrainian-born Mexican physicist. [780780]
• Daniel Joseph O'Hern, 78, American jurist, member of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1981–2000), melanoma. [780781]
• Elaine Cancilla Orbach, 69, American actress, wife of Jerry Orbach, pneumonia. [780782]
• Lou Perryman, 67, American actor, stabbed. [780783]
• Miguel Ángel Suárez, 69, Puerto Rican actor, esophageal cancer. [780784]
• Ian Tomlinson, 47, British pedestrian assaulted by police at 2009 G-20 London summit protests, abdominal haemorrhage. [780785]