DEATHS IN FEBRUARY 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2006.

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★ James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, NASCAR driver [1]

★ Owen Chamberlain, 85, particle physicist, co-discoverer of the antiproton, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics. Complications from Parkinson's Disease.[2]

★ Travis Claridge, 27, American football player with the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, pneumonia. [3]

★ Hugh McCartney, 86, former Labour Party MP. [4]

★ Push Singh, 33, Artificial Intelligence researcher who did groundbreaking work in the Open Mind Common Sense Project. [5] Suicide

★ J. Tyson Tildon, 74, American neuroscientist did pioneering work in the biochemistry of mental retardation.

★ Arno Wallaard, 26, Dutch cyclist.

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★ Alice Baker, 107, last surviving British woman to serve in the First World War, member of the Royal Flying Corps [6] [7]

★ Ferenc Bene, 61, Hungarian football (soccer) player, fall.

★ Otis Chandler, 78, former publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'', Lewy body disease. [8][9][10]

★ Fahd Faraj al-Juwair, 36, Saudi Arabian alleged head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, killed in foiled bombing attempt. [11]

★ Milton Katims, 96, long-time conductor and leader of the Seattle Symphony

★ Tsakani Mhinga, 27, South African R&B singer, drug overdose. [12]

★ William Musto, 88, former mayor of Union City, New Jersey, convicted of racketeering [13]

★ Pierre Nerini, 90, French violinist.

★ Hans-Georg Possanner, 66, Austrian diplomat.

★ John Prestwich, 67, Longest surviving iron lung patient, complications from surgery. [14]

★ Robert Lee Scott, Jr., 97, retired United States Air Force brigadier general and fighter ace, author (''God is My Co-Pilot''). [15]

★ Linda Smith, 48, British comedian, ovarian cancer. [16]

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★ Dr. E. Russell Alexander, 77, American epidemiologist [17]

★ Georgina Battiscombe, 100, author & biographer [18]

★ Bill Cardoso, 68, American writer and editor, coined the term "gonzo", heart failure. [19]

★ Walter Kerber, 79, German Jesuit and Professor of Ethics [20]

★ Alexis N. Obolensky, 86, White Russian exile, US. State Department negotiator, congestive heart failure. [21]

★ Sir Hans Singer, 95, German-born British economist, helped create the World Food Program and the United Nations Development Program. [22]

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★ Jeff Barnes, 50, professional wrestling announcer, died after falling off a cliff while hiking.

★ Dr. Robin Coombs, 84, British immunologist, developed Coombs Antibody test[23]

★ Kenneth Deane, 45, Canadian police officer convicted in Ipperwash shooting, automobile accident. [24]

★ Thomas Koppel, 61, Danish musician and composer from the band Savage Rose. [25]

★ Darren McGavin, 83, American actor ('', ''A Christmas Story''), natural causes. [26] [27][28]

★ Henry M. Morris, 87, American young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke. [29] [30]

★ Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69, Poet Laureate of Ethiopia, kidney disease. [31][32]

★ Imette St. Guillen 24, Hispanic John Jay College of Criminal Justice Student. Rape Murder

★ Charlie Wayman, 83, English footballer, during the 1940s and 1950s, following a long illness [33]

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★ Octavia Butler, 58, [Black] science fiction author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, head injury. [34]

★ Michael S. Joyce, 63, executive vice president of the John M. Olin Foundation, president of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, liver disease. [35]

★ Don Knotts, 81, American actor (''The Andy Griffith Show'', ''Three's Company''), complications from lung cancer. [36] [37]

★ Roland Kohloff, 71, timpanist, New York Philharmonic, cancer. [38]

★ Charles Leonard, Jr., 92, American Olympic pentathlon silver medalist, heart attack. [39]

★ Danny Perasa, 67, NPR storyteller [40]

★ Andrew Sherratt, 59, British archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, heart failure. [41]

★ Denis Twitchett, 80, Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University 1980-94, creator of the 15 volume ''The Cambridge History of China'', poor health. [42] [43]

★ Dennis Weaver, 81, American actor (''Gunsmoke'', ''McCloud''), complications from cancer. [44][45][46]

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★ Frederick Busch, 64, American author, heart attack. [47]

★ Francis Forster, 94, neurologist, Dean of Georgetown University medical school, treated US President Dwight Eisenhower, heart failure. [48]

★ Luna Leopold, 90, American ecologist and author [49]

★ Dr. Leo Lutwak, 77, American biochemist and nutritionist for the US Food and Drug Administration, raised concerns about fen-phen [50]

★ Machteld Mellink, 88, Netherlands-born American archaeologist of sites in Anatolia [51]

★ Dr. Robert W. Miller, 84, American epidemiologist with the US National Cancer Institute, studied Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings [52]

★ Diane Shalet, 71, American actress and author [53]

★ Gilbert Shoko, 43, Zimbabwean politician in the Movement for Democratic Change [54]

★ Reverend Earl Stallings, 89, Baptist pastor praised by Martin Luther King in the Letter from Birmingham Jail [55]

★ Telmo Zarraonaindía, 85, Spanish football (soccer) player, heart attack. [56][57]

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★ Atwar Bahjat, 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya, abducted and killed in Iraq. [58][59]

★ Anthony Burger, 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance. [60]

★ Said Mohamed Djohar, 87, former President of Comoros. [61][62]

★ Hilde Domin, 96, German poet and writer. [63]

★ Donelson Hoopes, 73, American curator [64]

★ Francis Easterly Little, 69, opera tenor and educator, complications from a cardiac arrest. [65]

★ Edward Nalbandian, 78, owner of Zachary All Clothing in Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease. [66]

★ Larry Neill, 87, American composer and big band singer, (Paul Whiteman, Shep Fields) pneumonia

★ Flossie Page, 112, American supercentenarian from Kansas. [67]

★ Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, 90, former Second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, heart failure. [68]

★ Romana, 50, Pakistani film, stage and television actress, lung and heart ailments. [69]

★ Bill Tung, 72, Hong Kong actor, horse racing commentator. [70]

★ Richard Wawro, 52, autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer. [71]

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★ Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language. [72]

★ Abraham Cardozo, 91, Dutch-born cantor of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York. [73]

★ Theodore Draper, 93, American historian and political commentator. [74]

★ Ed Franklin, 84, American-born political cartoonist (''The Globe and Mail'') [75]

★ Bruce Hart, 68, American lyricist for TV's ''Sesame Street'', lung cancer. [76]

★ Don Herbert, 44, American firefighter who awoke from a 9-year coma in 2005, pneumonia. [77]

★ Mirko Marjanovic, 68, prime minister of Serbia from 1994 to 2000. [78]

★ Angelica Rozeanu, 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion, cirrhosis. [79]

★ Stefan Terlezki, 78, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983-1987.[80]

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★ Carroll Anderson, 86, American, Surf Ballroom manager, arranged fateful Buddy Holly flight. [81]

★ Hernan Echavarria, 95, Colombian industrialist, part of the Civil Front that forced Gustavo Rojas from office [82]

★ Seymour Furman, 74, American cardiologist, improved artificial pacemaker procedures

★ Lou Gish, 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer. [83]

★ Curt Gowdy, 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia. [84][85][86]

★ Paul Marcinkus, 84, American Catholic archbishop, President of Vatican Bank and Pro-President of Vatican City State. [87]

★ Eli Segal, 63, American businessman, aide to U.S. President Bill Clinton, mesothelioma. [88]

★ Lucjan Wolanowski, 86, Polish journalist, writer and traveller. [89]

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★ James Hinton, 69, American documentary photographer, prostate cancer. [90]

★ Ken Keuffel, 82, American college football coach, prostate cancer. [91]

★ Erna Lazarus, 102, American screenwriter. [92]

★ Kenneth McCabe, 59, NYPD detective who investigated the Mafia [93]

★ Henry Michael, 92, American anthropologist and geographer. [94]

★ Thomas Malcolm Taylor, 63, American money manager, snowmobile accident. [95]

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★ Emer Howard Arbuckle, 80, Successful businessman.

★ Richard Bright, 68, American movie and television actor, pedestrian accident. [96]

★ Eathon Hall, 40, American museum curator [97]

★ Bill Hartley, 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist. [98]

★ Laurel Hester, 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer. [99]

★ Zita James, 102, leader of the 1920s London socialites known as Bright Young Things. [100]

★ Charles Leonard, 92, US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter [101]

★ Alexander Ramati, 86, producer, writer and director

★ Tom Sellers, 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack. [102]

★ James Shively, 63, American former POW in Vietnam and prosecutor. [103]

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★ Ray Barretto, 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure. [104][105]

★ Sybille Bedford, 94, German-born British novelist and memoirist. [106]

★ Paul Carr, 72, American TV and movie actor, lung cancer. [107]

★ Roy Chapman, 79, American race horse owner, complications from emphysema. [108]

★ Bill Cowsill, 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills, emphysema and other ailments. [109][110]

★ Giovanni Gandini, 77, founder of the Italian comics magazine ''Linus''. [111] [112]

★ Harold Hunter, 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie ''Kids'', suspected drug overdose. [113]

★ Bob Lewis, 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure. [114]

★ Lloyd David Lindsey, 88, Anglo-Brazilian chemist.

★ Raymond Mauer, 89, American advertising executive and scriptwriter (''Duck and Cover''). [115]

★ Jorge Pinto Mendonça, 51, Brazilian football (soccer) player, heart attack. [116]

★ Yevgeny Samoilov, 94, Russian actor [117]

★ Bernhard Werner, 89, German athlete.

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★ Paul Avrich, 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease. [118]

★ Benno Besson, 83, Swiss stage director. [119]

★ Michael Durham, aka Johnny Grunge, 39, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications.

★ Sid Feller, 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer. [120]

★ Robert E. Fischer, 88, New York State Supreme Court justice, Attica Prison riots investigator. [121]

★ Susie Gibson, 115, American supercentenarian, heart failure. [122]

★ Dennis Kirkland, 63, British television producer and director, after a short illness. [123]

★ Ernie Stautner, 80, Bavarian-born American Pro Football Hall of Famer, Alzheimer's disease. [124]

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★ Xavier Barquet, 46, American film producer and actor. [125]

★ Philip Coombs, 90, American diplomat [126]

★ Barbara Guest, 85, American poet of the New York School [127]

★ Zodwa Khoza, 30, South African brand manager of Orlando Pirates Football Club, Aids related complications [128]

★ Anna Marly, 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance." [129]

★ Andrei Petrov, 75, Russian composer. [130]

★ Robert E. Rich, Sr., 92, American businessman, creator of first nondairy whipped topping. [131]

★ Sun Yun-suan, 93, former Premier of Republic of China, myocardial infarction. [132]

★ Josip Vrhovec, 79, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia.

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★ Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, 106, Lubavitch storyteller. [133]

★ Darry Cowl, 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer. [134]

★ Shoshana Damari, 83, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia. [135]

★ Joel Dorius, 87, American professor of literature, bone marrow cancer. [136]

★ Michael G. Fitzgerald, 55, American film historian and author. [137]

★ Lynden David Hall, 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma. [138]

★ Hermann Lein, 86, resistance fighter against National Socialism.

★ Sir Peter Masefield, 91, British aviation executive, pilot and author. [139]

★ Benjamin Matthews, 72, bass-baritone opera singer, co-founder of Opera Ebony [140]

★ Don Paarlberg, 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents. [141]

★ Arnold Rogow, 81, author and psychoanalyst [142]

★ Robert Taylor Sr., 89, American businessman, miniature golf pioneer. [143]

★ Putte Wickman, 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer. [144]

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★ John Brooke-Little, 78, English author and officer of arms. [145]

★ Brummet Echohawk, 83, Pawnee artist. [146]

★ Ilan Halimi, French Jew murdered by a gang from Banlieue. Possibly anti-Semitic murder.

★ Andreas Katsulas, 59, American actor, lung cancer. [147]

★ Alan M. Levin, 79, American documentary filmmaker. [148]

★ Edna Lewis, 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine. [149]

★ Lewis "Bud" McFadin, 77, American pro football player and coach. [150]

★ Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, former Kazakhstan cabinet minister, assassinated. [151][152]

★ Sir Peter Strawson, 86, British philosopher. [153]

★ Joseph Ujlaki, 76, Hungarian-born French football player. [154]

★ Wang Xuan, 70, Chinese academic and IT expert. [155]

★ Bettie Wilson, 115, American supercentenarian, complications from congestive heart failure. [156]

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★ Lenny Dee, 83, American organist/composer (''Plantation Boogie'') and club owner. [157][158]

★ Geordie Hormel, 77, American musician and studio owner, heir to the Hormel Foods fortune. [159]

★ Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, Mexican entrepreneur and co-founder of National Action Party.

★ Ken Hart, 88, American composer, playwright, US veteran, lobbyist, journalist, World War II[160]

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★ Peter Benchley, 65, American author best known for ''Jaws'', pulmonary fibrosis. [161] [162]

★ Peggy Cripps Appiah, 84, British-Ghanaian children's author. [163]

★ Ken Fletcher, 65, Australian tennis player, cancer. [164]

★ Patrick Laver, 74, British diplomat, treaty negotiator, auto accident

★ Rickie Layne, 81, American ventriloquist, heart failure. [165][166]

★ Jackie "Mr. TV" Pallo, 79, British professional wrestler, cancer. [167]

★ Robert W. Peterson, 80, American sports historian, lung cancer. [168]

★ Harry Schein, 81, Austrian-born founder of Swedish Film Institute, author and columnist. [169]

★ Jockey Shabalala, 62, South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. [170]

★ Thomas A. Spragens, 88, figure in American higher education, former President of Centre College. [171][172]

★ Harry Vines, 67, American wheelchair basketball coach

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★ John Belluso, 36, American playwright, Engleman-Camurdrie syndrome. [173]

★ Jill Fraser, 59, British theatre director, cancer. [174] [175]

★ Dick Harmon, 58, American golfer and golf instructor. [176]

★ Knut-Olaf Haustein, 71, German physician.

★ Virve Hinnov, 90, Estonian art historian and museologist.

★ John Prentice, 79, Scottish football player and manager. [177]

★ Norman Shumway, 83, American surgeon performed first U.S. heart transplant, lung cancer. [178]

★ Peter Smith, 65, British trade union leader, oesophageal cancer

★ Juan Soriano, 85, Mexican painter and sculptor. [179]

★ André Strappe, 77, French football player. [180]

★ James Yancey, aka J Dilla, 32, American hip hop record producer and MC, lupus nephritis. [181]

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★ Phil Brown, 89, American actor, best known for playing "Uncle Owen" Lars in ''Star Wars''. [182]

★ Ibolya Csák, 91, Hungarian athlete, 1936 Olympic gold medalist in women's high jump. [183]

★ Dai Ailian, 89, Chinese dancer and choreographer, founder of the Beijing Dance Academy. [184]

★ Monsignor John T. Fagan, 79, American social services director, Parkinson's disease. [185]

★ Robert B. Hotz, 91, American aviation expert, complications of Parkinson's disease. [186]

★ Edward G. Jefferson, 84, London-born American businessman, former CEO of DuPont. [187]

★ Sir Freddie Laker, 83, British entrepreneur, founder of Laker Airways. [188]

★ Don Lewis, aka Lewis Gordon, 70, Canadian stage actor, heart attack. [189]

★ Nadira, 75, Indian Bollywood actress. [190]

★ Laurie Z, American musician, of lung cancer [191]

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★ Larry Black, 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics, aneurysm. [192]

★ Elton Dean, 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems. [193]

★ Michael Gilbert, 93, British mystery author and lawyer. [194]

★ Ron Greenwood, 84, British football manager, England national team, West Ham United. [195]

★ Michael "The Bounty" Hunter, 45, American professional boxer, gunshot wound. [196]

★ Akira Ifukube, 91, Japanese film composer, best known for Godzilla film series. [197]

★ Mart Kenney, 95, "Canada's Big Band King," bandleader/musician, complications from a fall.[198]

★ Fritz Leitermeyer, 80, Austrian composer and first violinist at Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 1946 to 1985 [199]

★ Gigi Parrish later known as Katherine Weld, 92, American actress [200]

★ Kuljeet Randhawa, 30, Indian television actress, suicide. [201]

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★ Glenn L. Benner, II, 43, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [202]

★ George Millay, 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, lung cancer. [203]

★ Max Rosenn, 96, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1970-2006. [204]

★ Mitchell Rupe, 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease. [205]

★ Alan Shalleck, 76, American TV writer, director (''Curious George'' animated films), murdered. [206]

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★ John Brightman, Baron Brightman, 94, UK lawyer and former Lord of Appeal.

★ Mario Condello, 53, Australian lawyer and gangland criminal.

★ Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 80, American comedian and actor, cancer. [207][208]

★ Maulana M. Abdul Mannan, 71, politician who collaborated with Pakistani forces during the liberation war of Bangladesh. [209]

★ Barry Martin, 44, African-American dancer and choreographer. [210]

★ Stella Ross-Craig, 99, one of the most prodigious of British flora illustrators. [211]

★ Esther Sandoval, 78, Puerto Rican actress. [212]

★ Karin Struck, 58, German writer, cancer.

★ Kouji Totani, 57, Japanese voice actor, heart failure.

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★ Roland S. Boreham Jr., 81, American businessman, former CEO of Baldor Electric Co. [213]

★ Norma Candal, 75, Puerto Rican comedienne, actress and drama teacher, head injury. [214]

★ Franklin Cover, 77, American TV and movie actor, pneumonia. [215]

★ Ton van Dalen, 60, Dutch soccer agent, heart attack. [216]

★ Martin Feinstein, 84, first executive director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and general manager of the Washington National Opera. [217]

★ Herbert Fischer, 91, German diplomat.

★ Reuven Frank, 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia. [218]

★ Ulrich Klöti, 63, Swiss political scientist.

★ Peter Philp, 85, British dramatist and antiques expert.

★ Jack Taylor, 60, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack. [219]

★ Carl Vogel, 84, German art collector.

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★ George T. Davis, 98, American criminal defense lawyer [220]

★ Friedrich Engel, 97, German, former Nazi SS officer. [221]

★ Betty Friedan, 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure. [222][223]

★ William Augustus Jones Jr., 71, American Civil Rights pioneer. [224]

★ Barbara W. Leyden, 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist.

★ Joe McGuff, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). [225]

★ Elena Carter Richardson, 55, Mexico-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer.

★ Myron Waldman, 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons. [226]

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★ Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin, 71 or 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer.

★ Walerian Borowczyk, 82, Polish-born surrealist filmmaker [227] [228]

★ Jean Byron, 80, American actress, infection following hip replacement surgery. [229]

★ Kurt Emmerich, 76, German radio reporter.

★ Frank Goodman, 89, Broadway press agent. [230]

★ Lou Jones, 74, American Olympic runner. [231]

★ Sonny King, 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante's sidekick, cancer. [232]

★ Duma Kumalo, 48, one of the Sharpeville Six, human rights activist, film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence. [233] [234]

★ Al Lewis, 82, American actor (Grandpa Munster on ''The Munsters''), Green Party political candidate, restauranteur, and radio host. [235]

★ Romano Mussolini, 78, Italian jazz musician and painter, son of Benito Mussolini. [236]

★ Denne Petitclerc, 76, journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway [237]

★ Johnny Vaught, 96, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach. [238]

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★ Jill Chaifetz, 41, American lawyer and executive director of the nonprofit legal group Advocates for Children of New York, ovarian cancer. [239]

★ Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, 77, former prime minister of Bangladesh. [240]

★ Chris Doty, 39, Canadian documentarian and playwright, suicide. [241]

★ Guglielmo Letteri, 80, Italian comic book artist. [242]

★ Pat Rupp, 63, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 USA Olympic ice hockey teams, cancer. [243]

★ Nicholas Swarbrick, 107, last remaining English merchant sailor of World War I.

★ Sir Reginald Swartz, 94, Australian politician, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1966-1969. [244]

★ Chris Walton, 72, English cricketer. [245], [246]

★ Stephen Worobetz, 91, Canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan. [247]

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★ Roy Alon, 63, British film stuntman, heart attack. [248]

★ Dick Bass, 68, American pro football player and radio analyst. [249]

★ Dick Brooks, 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack. [250]

★ Ernest Dudley, 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster. [251]

★ Carlson Gracie, Sr., 72, Brazilian martial artist, complications from kidney stones. [252]

★ Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr., 86, American politician, governor of Arizona 1965-1967. [253]

★ Charles Henry, 78, former chief of the New York City housing police. [254]

★ Jean-Philippe Maitre, 56, former President of the Swiss National Council, brain tumor. [255]

★ Charles John Tottenham, 8th Marquess of Ely, 92, British-born former headmaster of Canada's Trinity College School, member of British House of Lords. [256]

★ John Woollam, 78, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. (Who's Who 2007)