January 2009

31

• Lino Aldani, 82, Italian science fiction writer, lung disease. [746209]
• Sir John Fuller, 91, Australian politician and monarchist, member of New South Wales Legislative Council (1961–1978), cancer. [746210]
• Harry Hill, 92, British bronze medal-winning Olympic cyclist , pneumonia. [746211]
• Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, 80, Canadian politician, after long illness. [746212]
• Eddie Logan, 98, American Negro league baseball player, stroke. [746213]
• Dewey Martin, 68, Canadian-born American drummer (Buffalo Springfield). [746214]
• Nagesh, 75, Indian film comedian, after short illness. [746215]
• Des Newton, 67, British craftsman, maker of model ships in bottles. [746216]
• Clint Ritchie, 70, American actor (One Life to Live), blood clot after heart surgery. [746217]
• Daniel Seligman, 84, American columnist (Fortune), multiple myeloma. [746218]
• Erland von Koch, 98, Swedish composer. [746219] (Swedish)
• Joanna Wiszniewicz, 61, Polish historian. [746220] (Polish)

30

• José de Almeida Batista Pereira, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guaxupé (1964–1976). [746221]
• Hans Beck, 79, German inventor, creator of Playmobil toys. [746222]
• Mike Francis, 47, Italian pop musician, lung cancer. [746223]
• John Gordy, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), pancreatic cancer. [746224]
• H. Guy Hunt, 75, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1987–1993), lung cancer. [746225]
• Safar Iranpak, 61, Iranian footballer, lung cancer. [746226]
• Ingemar Johansson, 76, Swedish world heavyweight boxing champion (1959–1960), complications from pneumonia. [746227]
• Sune Jonsson, 78, Swedish photographer and writer. [746228] (Swedish)
• Teddy Mayer, 73, American motor racing entrepreneur. [746229]
• Milton Parker, 90, American businessman, owner of the Carnegie Deli, respiratory problems. [746230]
• James Schevill, 88, American poet and playwright, stroke. [746231]
• Stephen Zetterberg, 92, American attorney and politician. [746232]

29

• Pawlu Aquilina, 79, Maltese poet and writer. [746233]
• René Berger, 93, Swiss writer, philosopher and art historian. [746234] (French)
• Charles Clews, 89, Maltese comedian. [746235]
• Hank Crawford, 74, American jazz, rhythm and blues saxophonist, complications from a stroke. [746236]
• Bill Frindall, 69, British cricket statistician, Legionnaire's disease. [746237]
• Karl Gass, 91, German documentary filmmaker, natural causes. [746238] (German)
• Hélio Gracie, 95, Brazilian martial artist, creator of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. [746239]
• George Holmes, 81, British historian. [746240]
• John Martyn, 60, British singer and songwriter, pneumonia. [746241]
• Gyula Pálóczi, 46, Hungarian athlete, heart disease. [746242]
• Roy Saunders, 78, British footballer (Liverpool, Swansea City). [746243]
• Charles H. Smelser, 88, American politician, Maryland Delegate (1955–1963) and State Senator (1967–1995). [746244].
• Roy Somlyo, 83, American theatre producer, cancer. [746245]
• François Villiers, 88, French film director. [746246] (French)

28

• Robert S. Barton, 83, American computer engineer. [746247]
• Gene Corbett, 95, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). [746248]
• Glenn Davis, 74, American Olympic gold medal hurdler, after long illness. [746249]
• John Patrick Diggins, 73, American historian, colorectal cancer. [746250]
• Lucille M. Mair, 84, Jamaican diplomat. [746251]
• Vasilij Melik, 88, Slovenian historian. [746252] (Slovenian)
• Billy Powell, 56, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), heart attack. [746253]
• Berta Rosenberg, 112, German-born American supercentenarian, oldest Jewish person. [746254]
• Mira Rostova, 99, Russian-born American acting coach. [746255]
• Peter Serry, 35, Kenyan football player, coach and administrator, fire. [746256]
• Robert L. Stone, 87, American CEO of The Hertz Corporation, heart failure. [746257]
• Angel Wainaina, 25, Kenyan actress, fire. [746258]
• Wendell Wyatt, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon (1964–1975). [746259]

27

• Mamman Bello Ali, 50, Nigerian politician, Senator (1999–2007), Governor of Yobe State since 2007, leukemia. [746260]
• Connie Buckley, 93, Irish hurler. [746261]
• Christian Enzensberger, 77, German anglicist, author and translator. [746262] (German)
• Koji Kakizawa, 75, Japanese politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1994), esophageal cancer. [746263]
• Blair Lent, 79, American author and illustrator (Tikki Tikki Tembo), pneumonia. [746264]
• Michael Majerus, 54, British geneticist. [746265]
• Aubrey Powell, 90, British footballer. [746266]
• Mino Reitano, 64, Italian singer, after long illness. [746267] (Italian)
• Sharat Sardana, 40, British screenwriter (Goodness Gracious Me), streptococcal infection. [746268]
• John Updike, 76, American author (Rabbit Is Rich, The Witches of Eastwick), lung cancer. [746269]
• R. Venkataraman, 98, Indian politician, President (1987–1992), multiple organ failure. [746270]
• Billy Wilson, 81, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer. [746271]

26

• James Brady, 80, American columnist (PARADE, New York Post). [746272]
• Ahmad Hasan Dani, 88, Pakistani archaeologist. [746273]
• Jerry Fowler, 68, American football player (Houston Oilers), Louisiana Elections Commissioner (1980–2000), heart failure. [746274]
• John Isaacs, 93, American basketball player (New York Renaissance), stroke. [746275]
• Roy Johnson, 49, American baseball player, heart attack. [746276]
• Zakan Jugelia, Abkhaz politician, shot. [746277]
• Don Ladner, 60, New Zealand rugby league player, heart attack. [746278]
• Sir Donald Luddington, 88, British High Commissioner for Western Pacific (1973–76), Hong Kong ICAC Commissioner (1978–80). [746279]
• Avraham Ravitz, 75, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1988–2009), heart failure. [746280]
• David Sabiston, 84, American physician, pioneer of heart surgery, stroke. [746281]
• Alan Scott, 72, Australian oven manufacturer, heart failure. [746282]

25

• Mamadou Dia, 98, Senegalese politician, Prime Minister (1957–1962). [746283]
• Leon Klenicki, 78, American rabbi, colorectal cancer. [746284]
• Ewald Kooiman, 70, Dutch organist, cardiac arrest. [746285] (German)
• Ed Lyons, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators). [746286]
• Kim Manners, 58, American television producer and director (The X-Files, Supernatural), lung cancer. [746287]
• John Murray, 93, Australian politician. [746288]
• Hiroshi Oguchi, 58, Japanese artist and musician. [746289]
• Antonio Pagán, 50, American politician, New York City Councilman (1992–1998), Commissioner of Employment (1998–2002). [746290]
• Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, 96, British aristocrat, last heir of the Reuters family, granddaughter-in-law of Paul Reuter. [746291]

24

• Gérard Blanc, 61, French singer and guitarist, cerebral hemorrhage. [746292]
• Fernando Cornejo, 39, Chilean footballer, stomach cancer. [746293]
• Mariana Bridi da Costa, 20, Brazilian model, complications from necrotic septicemia. [746294]
• Olivia Irvine Dodge, 90, American philanthropist. [746295]
• Leonard Gaskin, 88, American jazz bassist. [746296]
• Marie Glory, 103, French actress. [746297] (French)
• Reg Gutteridge, 84, British boxing commentator and journalist, after short illness. [746298]
• Edith Hahn Beer, 95, Austrian Holocaust survivor. [746299]
• Diane Holland, 78, British actress, bronchial pneumonia. [746300]
• Karl Koller, 79, Austrian footballer, Alzheimer's disease. [746301]
• Len Perme, 91, American baseball player. [746302]
• Olga Raggio, 82, Italian-born American art scholar and curator, cancer. [746303]
• Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe, 93, American Bishop of Dallas. [746304]
• Kay Yow, 66, American women's basketball coach (NC State), breast cancer. [746305]

23

• H. J. Blackham, 105, British humanist and writer. [746306]
• Martin Delaney, 63, American HIV activist, complications from liver cancer. [746307]
• Irving Feiner, 84, American freedom of speech advocate, ruptured cerebral aneurysm. [746308]
• Helen Maksagak, 77, Canadian politician, first Inuk Northwest Territories Commissioner (1995–1999) and Nunavut (1999–2000). [746309]
• Sybil Moses, 69, American judge (New Jersey Superior Court) and lawyer, breast cancer. [746310]
• George Perle, 93, American composer, after long illness. [746311]
• Anna Radziwiłł, 69, Polish historian and politician. [746312]
• Robert W. Scott, 79, American politician, Governor of North Carolina (1969–1973), natural causes. [746313]
• Percy Smith, 86, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Northumberland—Miramichi (1968–1974). [746314]

22

• Panapasa Balekana, 79, Fijian-born Solomon Island co-writer of the Solomon Islands national anthem. [746315]
• John Alan Beesley, 81, Canadian diplomat. [746316]
• Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, 103, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister (1962). [746317]
• Bob Doyle, 93, Irish activist, last surviving Irish member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. [746318]
• Bill Herchman, 75, American football player. [746319]
• Vivian Illing, 108, American centenarian, one of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [746320]
• Pentti Kouri, 59, Finnish economist and investor, after long illness. [746321] (Finnish)
• Liang Yusheng, 85, Chinese novelist, natural causes. [746322]
• Clément Pinault, 23, French footballer, heart attack. [746323]
• Darrell Sandeen, 73, American actor (L.A. Confidential), stroke. [746324]
• Louis-Paul-Armand Simonneaux, 93, French bishop of Versailles. [746325]
• Billy Werber, 100, American baseball player, last living teammate of Babe Ruth, oldest living MLB player, natural causes. [746326]
• Mbongeleni Zondi, 39, South African Zulu chief, shot. [746327]

21

• Irina Belotelkin, 96, Russian-born American couturier. [746328]
• Ernie Bourne, 82, Australian actor. [746329]
• Pat Crawford, 75, Australian Test cricketer, after long illness. [746330]
• Vic Crowe, 76, British footballer (Aston Villa, Peterborough) and manager (Aston Villa, Portland Timbers), after long illness. [746331]
• Shane Dronett, 38, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide. [746332]
• Astrid Folstad, 76, Norwegian actress. [746333] (Norwegian)
• Jean Jadot, 99, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate and diplomat, Vatican Ambassador to the US (1974–1980), after long illness. [746334]
• Finn Kobberø, 73, Danish badminton player. [746335]
• Horace R. Kornegay, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina (1961–1969). [746336]
• Kunal Mitra, 44, Indian actor, heart attack. [746337]
• Peter Persidis, 61, Austrian footballer, cancer. [746338]
• Veatrice Rice, 59, American television personality (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), cancer. [746339]
• Daphne Rooke, 94, South African author. [746340]
• Charles H. Schneer, 88, American film producer (Jason and the Argonauts), Alzheimer's disease. [746341]

20

• Chris Chianelli, 58, American hobbyist, writer and television host, natural causes. [746342]
• Constance Cook, 89, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1963–1974). [746343]
• Johnny Dixon, 85, British footballer (Aston Villa), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [746344]
• David S. Dodge, 86, American President of American University of Beirut (1996–1997), cancer. [746345]
• Joe Domnanovich, 89, American football player. [746346]
• Mark Fernando, 67, Sri Lankan jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, cancer. [746347]
• Mickey Gee, 64, British rock and roll guitarist, emphysema. [746348]
• Stéphanos II Ghattas, 89, Egyptian Coptic Catholic prelate, Patriarch of Alexandria (1986–2006). [746349]
• Stan Hagen, 68, Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (1986–1991, since 2001), heart attack. [746350]
• Dante Lavelli, 85, American football player (Cleveland Browns), Hall of Famer (1975), heart failure. [746351]
• David Newman, 75, American jazz saxophonist (Fathead), pancreatic cancer. [746352]
• Dina Vierny, 89, Russian-born French model. [746353]

19

• Anastasia Baburova, 25, Russian journalist, shot. [746354]
• E. Balanandan, 84, Indian politician and trade unionist, lung cancer. [746355]
• Beatrice Farve, 113, American supercentenarian, verified second oldest person in the world. [746356]
• Hugh Lindsay, 81, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. [746357]
• Stanislav Markelov, 34, Russian civil rights lawyer, shot. [746358]
• Dennis Fountain Page, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Lancaster (1975–1985). [746359]
• Raymond Parker, 89, British sprint canoer. [746360]
• Luigi Preti, 94, Italian politician, natural causes. [746361] (Italian)
• José Torres, 72, Puerto Rican boxer, Olympic silver medallist , heart attack. [746362]
• Joop Wille, 88, Dutch footballer (EDO and The Netherlands). [746363] (Dutch)

18

• Max Borges Jr., 90, Cuban architect. [746364]
• Kathleen Byron, 88, British actress (Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death, The House in the Square), after long illness. [746365]
• Holly Coors, 88, American activist and philanthropist, after long illness. [746366]
• Tony Hart, 83, British artist and television presenter. [746367]
• Nora Kovach, 77, Hungarian-born American ballerina, after short illness. [746368]
• Bob May, 69, American actor (Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel), heart failure. [746369]
• Zenonas Petrauskas, 58, Lithuanian lawyer and politician. [746370] (Lithuanian)
• Bal Samant, 85, Indian writer, after long illness. [746371]
• James E. Swett, 88, American fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient, after long illness. [746372]
• Grigore Vieru, 73, Moldovan poet, car accident. [746373]

17

• Tomislav Crnković, 79, Croatian footballer. [746374] (Croatian)
• Susanna Foster, 84, American actress and singer (Phantom of the Opera). [746375]
• Gary Hill, 67, American basketball player. [746376]
• Anders Isaksson, 65, Swedish writer, reporter and historian. [746377] (Swedish)
• Mary Lundby, 60, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate since 1995, cervical cancer. [746378]
• Malcolm MacPherson, 65, American journalist, heart attack. [746379]
• Paul Nicholls, 62, Australian first-class cricketer, cancer. [746380]
• Marjorie Parker Smith, 92, American figure skater. [746381]
• Mike Parkinson, 60, New Zealand rugby union player. [746382]
• Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, 93, British financier and horticulturist. [746383]
• Arthur Weisberg, 77, American bassoonist, pancreatic cancer. [746384]

16

• Sidney Brichto, 72, American-born British Liberal rabbi. [746385]
• Jim Carvin, 79, American political strategist, heart failure. [746386]
• Joe Erskine, 78, American boxer and ultramarathon runner. [746387]
• Judith Hoffberg, 74, American art librarian and archivist, lymphoma. [746388]
• Claudio Milar, 34, Uruguayan footballer, bus crash. [746389]
• Whitey Mitchell, 76, American jazz musician and comedy writer (Get Smart, All in the Family, The Jeffersons), cancer. [746390]
• Sir John Mortimer, 85, British barrister, novelist and dramatist (Rumpole of the Bailey), after long illness. [746391]
• Robert Palmer, 74, American vintner, blood infection. [746392]
• Bogdan Tirnanić, 67, Serbian journalist. [746393] (Serbian)
• Andrew Wyeth, 91, American painter (Christina's World), after short illness. [746394]

15

• Abdirahman Ahmed, Somali politician, shot. [746395]
• Ovini Bokini, 64, Fijian chief and politician. [746396]
• Maurice Chappaz, 92, Swiss author and poet. [746397]
• Olivier Clement, 87, French Eastern Orthodox theologian. [746398] (Romanian)
• William Close, 84, American physician, helped stem 2007 Congo ebola epidemic, father of actress Glenn Close, heart attack. [746399]
• Veronica Dudarova, 92, Russian symphony conductor. [746400]
• Tommy Jones, 54, American baseball player, manager and coach, brain cancer. [746401]
• Tommy Muñiz, 86, Puerto Rican television producer and comedian, after long illness. [746402]
• Said Seyam, 50, Palestinian government official, Interior Minister (2006–2007), airstrike. [746403]
• Tapan Sinha, 84, Indian film director, bronchopneumonia. [746404]
• Craig Stimac, 54, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), suicide. [746405] (Italian)
• Lillian Willoughby, 93, American Quaker activist, founder of Take Back the Night. [746406]

14

• Trammell Crow, 94, American real estate developer. [746407]
• Mike Derrick, 65, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [746408]
• Dušan Džamonja, 80, Croatian sculptor, heart failure. [746409]
• Peter E. Fleming Jr., 79, American criminal defense lawyer, complications from lung surgery. [746410]
• Jan Kaplický, 71, Czech-born British architect. [746411]
• The Mighty Duke, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian, myelofibrosis. [746412]
• Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), heart failure. [746413]
• Angela Morley, 84, British composer and conductor. [746414]
• Aron Moscona, 87, Israeli-born American biologist, heart failure. [746415]
• Leo Rwabwogo, 59, Ugandan boxer, Olympic medallist (1968, 1972). [746416]
• Gennadiy Shatkov, 76, Russian Soviet-era boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1956). [746417]

13

• Ayman Alkurd, 34, Palestinian footballer, airstrike. [746418]
• Pedro Aguilar, 81, American dancer, heart failure. [746419]
• Hortense Calisher, 97, American author. [746420]
• Tommy Casey, 78, British footballer. [746421]
• Mikhail Donskoy, 61, Russian programmer, co-developer of the first world computer chess champion (Kaissa). [746422]
• John Edmondson, 2nd Baron Sandford, 88, British politician and Anglican priest. [746423]
• Mary Ejercito, 103, Filipino mother of former President Joseph Estrada, heart seizure and stomach aneurysm. [746424]
• Preston Gómez, 85, Cuban-born American baseball player, coach and manager (San Diego Padres). [746425]
• Umar Israilov, 27, Russian critic of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, shot. [746426]
• Lanny Kean, 48, American professional wrestler, heart attack. [746427]
• Jean Keene, 85, American bird feeder, natural causes. [746428]
• Gary Kurfirst, 61, American music manager. [746429]
• Sir Dai Llewellyn, 62, British socialite, bone cancer. [746430]
• Patrick McGoohan, 80, American-born Irish actor (The Prisoner, Braveheart), after short illness. [746431]
• James B. Pearson, 88, American politician, member of the United States Senate from Kansas (1962–1978). [746432]
• Mansour Rahbani, 83, Lebanese composer and musician, pneumonia. [746433]
• Nicholas Andrew Rey, 70, Polish-born American diplomat, Ambassador to Poland (1993–1997), lung cancer. [746434]
• William De Witt Snodgrass, 83, American poet, lung cancer. [746435]
• Folke Sundquist, 83, Swedish actor. [746436] (Swedish)
• Richard Tyler, 92, British architect. [746437]
• Eben van Zijl, 77, Namibian politician. [746438] (German)
• Nancy Bird Walton, 93, Australian aviator, natural causes. [746439]
• Peter Ward, 95, British Olympic athlete. [746440]

12

• Claude Berri, 74, French film director (Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources), Academy Award winner, stroke. [746441]
• Russ Craft, 89, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers). [746442]
• Friaça, 84, Brazilian footballer, multiple organ failure. [746443]
• Mick Imlah, 52, British poet, motor neurone disease. [746444]
• David Kerr, 86, British politician, MP for Wandsworth Central (1964–1970). [746445]
• Arne Næss, 96, Norwegian philosopher, founder of deep ecology. [746446]
• Michael Russell, 88, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. [746447]
• Alejandro Sokol, 48, Argentine rock and roll musician, cardio-respiratory failure. [746448] (Spanish)
• B. V. Subbamma, 83, Indian Lutheran theologian. [746449]
• Allen Zwerdling, 86, American theatre director and actor. [746450]

11

• Maurice L. Albertson, 91, American Peace Corps architect, founder of Village Earth. [746451]
• Andy DeMize, 25, American drummer (Nekromantix), car accident. [746452]
• Shigeo Fukuda, 76, Japanese sculptor and graphic artist, subarachnoid hemorrhage. [746453]
• Jack Gifford, 68, American businessman (Maxim Integrated Products), heart attack. [746454]
• Epeli Hau'ofa, 70, Fijian writer and anthropologist, after short illness. [746455]
• Bert Hazell, 101, British politician and trade unionist; MP (1964–1970), oldest modern MP. [746456]
• Bob Kilby, 64, British motorcycle speedway rider, cancer. [746457]
• Pio Laghi, 86, Italian Cardinal for San Pietro in Vincoli, Vatican Ambassador to the US (1980–1990), hematologic disease. [746458]
• Pat Lindsey, 72, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate (1967–1974, since 1982), heart attack. [746459]
• Freddie Mack, 74, British boxer and musician. [746460]
• Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia. [746461] (Spanish)
• François, 9th duc de Noailles, 103, French noble. [746462] (Dutch)
• Tom O'Horgan, 84, American theater director (Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar), complications of Alzheimer's disease. [746463]
• Frederic M. Richards, 83, American biochemist, natural causes. [746464]
• Vivian Ridler, 95, British printer. [746465]
• Lorene Rogers, 94, American educator, President of the University of Texas at Austin (1974–1979). [746466]
• Milan Rúfus, 80, Slovak poet and academic. [746467]
• Daryl Seaman, 86, Canadian businessman, co-owner of the Calgary Flames. [746468]
• Jon Tvedt, 42, Norwegian orienteer and mountain runner, fall. [746469] (Norwegian)
• Victor Vacquier, 101, American geophysicist, pneumonia. [746470]
• David Vine, 74, British sports presenter, heart attack. [746471]

10

• Anabel Bosch, 32, Filipino singer, cerebral aneurysm. [746472]
• Georges Cravenne, 94, French publicity agent, founder of the César Award. [746473]
• Rob Gauntlett, 21, British mountaineer, youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest, climbing accident. [746474]
• Peter Kollock, 49, American sociologist, motorcycle accident. [746475]
• Gil Mains, 79, American football player. [746476]
• Jean Pelletier, 73, Canadian politician, Mayor of Quebec City (1977–1989), Chief of Staff (1993–2001), cancer. [746477]
• Eluned Phillips, 94, British writer, crowned bard at the National Eisteddfod of Wales (1967, 1983), pneumonia. [746478]
• Colin Phipps, 74, British petroleum geologist and MP (1974–1979). [746479]
• Ivor Spencer, 84, British toastmaster. [746480]
• Bill Stone, 108, British World War I veteran. [746481]
• Coosje van Bruggen, 66, Dutch-born American sculptor, wife of Claes Oldenburg, breast cancer. [746482]
• Jack Wheeler, 89, British footballer. [746483]
• Sidney Wood, 97, American tennis player, Hall of Fame (1964), third-youngest winner of Wimbledon (1931). [746484]
• Ray Yoshida, 78, American painter, cancer. [746485]
• Elżbieta Zawacka, 99, Polish World War II freedom fighter. [746486]

9

• Dave Dee, 67, British singer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), prostate cancer. [746487]
• Harry Endo, 87, American actor (Hawaii Five-O), stroke. [746488]
• Jon Hager, 67, American country musician and comedian (Hee Haw). [746489]
• René Herms, 26, German middle distance runner. [746490]
• Joe Hirsch, 80, American horse racing journalist, Parkinson's disease. [746491]
• T. Llew Jones, 93, British Welsh language writer. [746492]
• Peter Lane, Baron Lane of Horsell, 83, British businessman and politician. [746493]
• Pál Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer throw coach, heart failure. [746494]
• Kaarle Ojanen, 90, Finnish chess player. [746495]
• Dave Roberts, 64, American baseball pitcher, lung cancer. [746496]
• Jean Sassi, 91, French army colonel. [746497] (French)
• Jack F. Shaw, 70, American cross country running coach. [746498]
• David Smiley, 92, British SOE officer. [746499]
• Ljubica Sokić, 94, Serbian painter. [746500] (Serbian)
• Tom Van Flandern, 68, American astronomer, colon cancer. [746501]
• Sir Neil Wheeler, 91, British Air Chief Marshal. [746502]
• Frank Williams, 50, American baseball player, heart attack. [746503]

8

• Don Galloway, 71, American actor (Ironside), stroke. [746504]
• Bjorn Haugan, 66, Norwegian operatic lyric tenor. [746505]
• Gaston Lenôtre, 88, French pastry chef and caterer, after long illness. [746506]
• Irene Melikoff, 91, Russian-born French Turkologist. [746507]
• Charles Morgan, Jr., 78, American lawyer, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [746508]
• Richard John Neuhaus, 72, Canadian-born American Roman Catholic priest and theologian, founder of First Things, cancer. [746509]
• Zbigniew Podlecki, 68, Polish motorcycle speedway rider. [746510]
• Deborah Riedel, 50, Australian soprano, cancer. [746511]
• Leonidas Vargas, 60, Colombian drug trafficker, shot. [746512]
• Cornelia Wallace, 69, American First Lady of Alabama (1971–1978), second wife of Governor George Wallace, cancer. [746513]
• Lasantha Wickrematunge, 50, Sri Lankan journalist, shot. [746514]

7

• Yaakov Banai, 89, Israeli Lehi commander. [746515] (Hebrew)
• Don Callender, 81, American businessman, founder of Marie Callender's restaurants. [746516]
• J. D. H. Catleugh, 88, British artist. [746517]
• Alfie Conn, Sr., 82, British footballer. [746518]
• Alex van Heerden, 34, South African musician, car accident. [746519]
• Jacques Littlefield, 59, American owner of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, colon cancer. [746520]
• Robert T. Monagan, 88, American politician, Speaker of the California State Assembly (1969–1970), after long illness. [746521]
• Puck Oversloot, 94, Dutch swimmer, Olympic silver medallist (1932). [746522] (Dutch)
• Anália de Victória Pereira, 67, Angolan politician. [746523]
• Ray Dennis Steckler, 70, American film director (Rat Pfink a Boo Boo), cardiac arrest. [746524]
• Bob Wilkins, 76, American television personality, horror film host, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [746525]

6

• Ron Asheton, 60, American rock guitarist (The Stooges), heart attack (death announced on this date). [746526]
• Nino Bongiovanni, 97, American baseball player. [746527]
• Vivian Della Chiesa, 94, American soprano and Broadway theatre performer. [746528]
• Maria Dimitriadi, 57, Greek singer, lung disease. [746529]
• John T. Elfvin, 91, American federal judge, justice of the Western District of New York since 1974. [746530]
• Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, 113, Spanish supercentenarian, verified oldest person in Europe. [746531]
• Alan Geisler, 78, American condiment inventor and food chemist, protein disorder. [746532]
• Cheryl Holdridge, 64, American actress (The Mickey Mouse Club), lung cancer. [746533]
• John Holt, 90, British physicist. [746534]
• Robert Ilosfalvy, 81, Hungarian opera singer. [746535] (Hungarian)
• Claude Jeter, 94, American gospel music singer. [746536]
• Frank Richard Maloney, 63, American writer and poet. [746537]
• John Scott Martin, 83, British actor (Doctor Who, I, Claudius, Z-Cars), Parkinson's disease. [746538]
• Richard Seaver, 82, American owner of Arcade Publishing, heart attack. [746539]
• Ghulam Mohammad Shah, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1984–1986), after long illness. [746540]
• John Street, 77, British snooker referee, pulmonary disease. [746541]
• Victor Sumulong, 62, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Mayor of Antipolo City since 2007, diabetes. [746542]
• Charlie Thomson, 78, British footballer. [746543]

5

• Griffin Bell, 90, American judge, Fifth Circuit Appeals Court (1961–1976), U.S. Attorney General (1977–1979), pancreatic cancer. [746544]
• Sonny Fai, 20, New Zealand rugby league player (New Zealand Warriors), missing presumed drowned. [746545]
• Gautam Goswami, 43, Indian civil servant accused of corruption, pancreatic cancer. [746546]
• Harry Kinnard, 93, American Army lieutenant general. [746547]
• Dale Livingston, 63, American football player (Green Bay Packers), complications from heart surgery. [746548]
• Mario Magnotta, 66, Italian Internet celebrity, pulmonary embolism. [746549] (Italian)
• Adolf Merckle, 74, German businessman, suicide by train impact. [746550]
• Zakaria Mohieddin, 90, Egyptian Prime Minister (1965–1966). [746551] (Arabic)
• Stanton Parris, 78, Barbadian cricket umpire, after short illness. [746552]
• Roland Piquepaille, 62, French software engineer and technology writer, complications from digestive virus. [746553] (French)
• Carl Pohlad, 93, American banker, owner of the Minnesota Twins. [746554]
• Jimmy Rayner, 73, British footballer. [746555]
• Verna Mae Slone, 94, American author and quilter, complications from a fall. [746556]
• Mircea Stănescu, 39, Romanian politician, MP (2004–2008), apparent suicide by gunshot. [746557]
• Ned Tanen, 77, American executive (Universal Pictures), natural causes. [746558]
• Sam Taylor, 74, American blues musician, complications from heart disease. [746559]

4

• Lei Clijsters, 52, Belgian footballer and coach, father of Kim Clijsters, lung cancer. [746560]

• Betty Freeman, 87, American philanthropist. [746561]
• K. K. Govind, 92, Indian freedom fighter. [746562]
• Gedalio Grinberg, 77, Cuban-born American founder of Movado Group, natural causes. [746563]
• Ivan Gubijan, 85, Croatian hammer thrower, Olympic medalist (1948), after long illness. [746564]
• India, 18, American pet cat of President George W. Bush. [746565]
• Gert Jonke, 62, Austrian writer and poet, cancer. [746566]
• Arvid Knutsen, 64, Norwegian footballer (Viking FK), brain tumor. [746567] (Norwegian)
• Jon Latimer, 44, British historian, heart attack. [746568]
• Bob Lazarus, 52, American comedian, leukemia. [746569]
• Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar, 75, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura (1988–1992), heart attack. [746570]
• John McGillicuddy, 78, American CEO of Manufacturers Hanover (1971–1991), Chemical Banking (1991–1993), prostate cancer. [746571]
• Giselle Salandy, 21, Trinidadian boxer, car accident. [746572]

3

• Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, 49, Palestinian senior Hamas leader, air strike. [746573]
• Charles Camilleri, 77, Maltese composer. [746574]
• John Grindrod, 89, Australian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Brisbane (1980–1989). [746575]
• Pat Hingle, 84, American actor (Splendor in the Grass, Hang 'Em High, Batman), blood cancer. [746576]
• Li Zuopeng, 94, Chinese general and politician. [746577]
• Ulf G. Lindén, 71, Swedish entrepreneur, heart failure. [746578] (Swedish)
• Sam McQuagg, 73, American race car driver, NASCAR Rookie of the Year (1965), cancer. [746579]
• Hisayasu Nagata, 39, Japanese politician, suicide by jumping. [746580]
• Olga San Juan, 81, American actress, kidney failure. [746581]
• Matt Sczesny, 76, American scout for the Boston Red Sox, cancer. [746582]
• Sir Alan Walters, 82, British economist. [746583]

2

• Leonard Andrews, 83, American art patron, prostate cancer. [746584]
• Inger Christensen, 73, Danish poet, novelist and essayist. [746585]
• John DeFrancis, 97, American sinologist. [746586]
• Ralph Gibson, 84, American flying ace of the Korean War. [746587]
• Hank DeZonie, 86, American basketball player. [746588]
• Steven Gilborn, 72, American actor (Ellen), cancer. [746589]
• Valentina Giovagnini, 28, Italian singer, car crash. [746590] (Italian)
• Ian Greaves, 76, British footballer and manager (Mansfield Town, Bolton Wanderers). [746591]
• Tony Gregory, 61, Irish politician, member of Dáil Éireann, cancer. [746592]
• Joe Henry, 78, American baseball player (Memphis Red Sox, Negro Leagues). [746593]
• Ryuzo Hiraki, 77, Japanese footballer, pneumonia. [746594]
• Maria de Jesus, 115, Portuguese supercentenarian, world's verified oldest person, septic shock. [746595]
• John Olav Larssen, 81, Norwegian evangelical preacher. [746596] (Norwegian)
• Rashid III, 78, Emirati ruler of Umm al-Quwain. [746597]
• Nick Scandone, 42, American yachtsman, paralympian gold medallist (2008), Lou Gehrig's disease. [746598]
• Olgierd Zienkiewicz, 87, British civil engineer. [746599]

1

• Aarne Arvonen, 111, Finnish supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of the Finnish Civil War. [746600] (Finnish)
• Todd H. Bullard, 77, American educator, complications from diabetes. [746601]
• Walter Haynes, 80, American steel guitarist. [746602]
• John Morrow, 77, British Presbyterian minister and peace activist. [746603]
• Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam, 32, Kenyan Al-Qaeda leader, allegedly behind Marriott hotel bombings, airstrike. [746604]
• Claiborne Pell, 90, American Senator from Rhode Island (1961–1997), creator of the Pell Grant, Parkinson's disease. [746605]
• Gert Petersen, 81, Danish journalist and politician. [746606] (Danish)
• Robert Prince, 89, American Major, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross. [746607]
• Edmund Purdom, 84, British actor. [746608]
• Nizar Rayan, 49, Palestinian Hamas military and political leader, airstrike. [746609]
• Willard Warren Scott, Jr., 82, American general, head of United States Military Academy (1981–1986), Parkinson's disease. [746610]
• Johannes Mario Simmel, 84, Austrian writer. [746611]
• Henry King Stanford, 92, American academic, president of the University of Miami (1962–1981). [746612]
• Helen Suzman, 91, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP (1953–1989). [746613]
• Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, Kenyan Al-Qaeda leader, airstrike. [746614]