DEATHS IN MAY 2006

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

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★ Ali Jaafar Ali,39, Iraqi sports anchorman, shot dead by unknown gunmen in Baghdad. [1]

★ Ryan Bennett, 35, former UFC announcer and founder of MMAweekly, died in a car crash. [2]

★ Ronald Cranford, 65, neurologist and bioethicist who developed coma standards, complications of kidney cancer. [3]

★ Raymond Davis Jr., 91, American chemist and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, Alzheimer's disease. [4] [5]

★ Bobby Dykes, 77, veteran of 146 boxing matches who fought Kid Gavilan for the welterweight championship, Lou Gehrig's disease. [6]

★ Lula Mae Hardaway, 76, mother of singer Stevie Wonder, natural causes. [7]

★ Flora Gill Jacobs, 87, American founder of the Dolls' House and Toy Museum in Washington D.C, cancer. [8]

★ Ken McIntyre, 63, college basketball player for St. John's, MVP of the 1965 National Invitation Tournament, cancer. [9] [10]

★ Matteo Spinola, 76, Italian actor and press-agent cinema and television actress (Sophia Loren, Serena Grandi) from 1960s with Enrico Lucherini, cancer [11]

★ Miguel Berrocal, 73, Spanish sculptor and puzzle creator; prostate cancer. [12]

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★ Slim Aarons, 89, American photographer, complications of a heart attack and stroke. [13] [14]

★ Hladnik Boštjan, 77, Slovenian film director. [15]

★ Bobby Harden, 70, country singer

★ Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese film director (''Black Rain''), two-time winner of the Palme d'Or. Liver cancer. [16] [17]

★ Bill Kovacs, 56, computer animation pioneer and Academy Award winner, complications of a stroke. [18]

★ David Lloyd, 68, New Zealand botanist, complications from mystery illness, possibly poison. [19]

★ Taylor Major, Liberian Senator and Chair of the Public Utilities Authority. [20]

★ Trobec Metod, Slovenian serial killer, responsible for deaths of several women. Committed suicide in jail.[21]

★ Hugh B. Patterson Jr., 91, publisher of the ''Arkansas Gazette''. [22]

★ Robert Sterling, 88, star of 1950s television show ''Topper'', natural causes. [23]

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★ Neville Amadio, 93, flautist and soloist for Sydney Symphony for 50 years. Series of small heart attacks.[24]

★ Peter Borsari, 67, celebrity photographer, complications from elective knee surgery. [25]

★ Dave Brady (real name Dave Bradley, British folk singer with Swan Arcade, chest infection. [26]

★ James Brolan, 42, CBS News sound technician, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq. [27]

★ Paul Douglas, 48, veteran CBS News cameraman, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq. [28]

★ Steve Mizerak, 61, champion billiards player [29]

★ Omeljan Pritsak, 87, Harvard professor, scholar and authority on Ukraine

★ Johnny Servoz-Gavin, 64, French racing driver.[30]

★ Spencer Witty, 92, American clothier, one of the four Witty Brothers. [31]

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★ Edward Aldwell, 68, music theorist and pianist specializing in Bach, automotive accident. [32]

★ James Archibald, 94, Maine judge for 50 years including service on the Maine Judicial Supreme Court between 1971 and his retirement in 1981. [33]

★ Fermín Chávez, 82, Argentine historian, complications from renal failure. [34], [35], [36], [37]

★ James Conway Sr., 78, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Mister Softee. [38]

★ Sue Fear, 43, Australian mountaineer, climbing accident. [39]

★ Umberto Masetti, 80, motorcycle racer, the first Italian World Champion class 500cc in 1950 and 1952, pulmonary strokes [40]

★ Masumi Okada, 70, Japanese actor, played Brother Michael in ''Shogun'', throat cancer. [41]

★ Tony Sardisco, 73, American footballer, former captain of the Boston Patriots, heart attack. [42]

★ Doris Saunders, 64, first editor of ''Them Days'' magazine and inducted into the Order of Canada for her role in preserving Labrador's history. Alzheimer's disease. [43]

★ Jack Skead, 94, South African ornithologist and natural historian. [44]

★ Arthur Widmer, 91, motion picture special effects pioneer, winner of an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, cancer. [45] [46]

★ Hassan Ali Badran,69 ,cancer

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★ Adeeb, 72, Pakistani actor [47]

★ Harold Falls, 96, American ophthalmologist. [48]

★ Stephen Garner, 60,Chief Executive and President of Tompkins Trust Co. [49]

★ Paul Gleason, 67, American actor, mesothelioma. [50]

★ Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, 39, NFL fullback, complications from a brain tumor. [51]

★ Leslie Hansen Kopp, 53, American dance and music archivist. [52]

★ General Romeo Lucas García, 81, former President of Guatemala. Complications of Alzheimer's disease. [53]

★ Thelma Leeds, 95, American actress, widow of Parkyakarkus

★ James McClatchy, 85, Board Member of The McClatchy Company, infection after surgery. [54]

★ Walter Meyerhof, 84, former head of Stanford University's physics department and son of Nobel Prize-winner Otto Meyerhof, complications of Parkinson's disease. [55]

★ Michael Riffaterre, 81, French-born professor at Columbia University and scholar of French literature. [56]

★ Alex Toth, 77, American comic book artist and cartoonist (Space Ghost, Jonny Quest). [57]

★ Bull Ramos, 71, Northwest US wrestler, shoulder infection[58]

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★ Tamsin Causer, 32, British sky diver, quadruple world record holder, sky diving accident. [59]

★ George Field, 101, American human rights activist, co-founder of Freedom House. [60]

★ Horondino José da Silva, also known as "Dino Sete Cordas", 88, Brazilian virtuouso of the seven-string guitar. [61]

★ General Johann-Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg, 99, German military officer [62]

★ Alan Kotok, 64, American early video game designer (''Spacewar!''), engineer for Digital Equipment. [63]

★ Mahmoud al-Majzoub, also known as Abu Hamza, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader, assassination by bombing. [64]

★ Vincent McAllister, 51, guitarist of Pentagram, 1971-1977. [65] [66]

★ Edouard Michelin, 42, CEO of Michelin, boating accident off the Île de Sein. [67] [68]

★ Kevin O'Flanagan, 86, Irish former association football and rugby union international, and IOC member, heart problems. [69]

★ Anita Roberts, 64, American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute, stomach cancer. [70]

★ Ted Schroeder, 84, American tennis player, winner at Wimbledon (1949) and the U.S. Open (1942), cancer. [71]

★ Raymond Triboulet, 99, member of the French Resistance during World War II, member of the French Parliament and government minister. [72] [73]

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★ Joe Brodsky, 71, former Dallas Cowboys NFL assistant coach, cancer. [74]

★ Sir Julian Bullard, 78, British diplomat [75]

★ Art Espenet Carpenter, 86, master wood craftsman known for his Espenet pieces displayed at the Smithsonian Institution, heart attack. [76]

★ Elizabeth Connelly, 77, former member of the New York State Assembly representing Staten Island. [77]

★ Desmond Dekker, 64, Jamaican ska musician, heart attack. [78][79][80]

★ Lars Gyllensten, 84, Swedish author, physician, and member of the Swedish Academy. [81]

★ Wilber Huston, 93, American scientist and retired NASA mission director. [82]

★ Anthony Li Du'an, 79, Catholic archbishop of Xi'an, liver cancer. [83]

★ Aída Luz, 89, Argentinian film actress (sister of actor Jorge Luz), natural causes [84]

★ Donald Rudolph, 85, US Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II, Alzheimer's disease. [85] [86]

★ Kemoko Sano, mid 70s, Guinean choreographer and founder of Les Merveilles de Guinée. [87]

★ Mari Yonehara, 56, Japanese essayist, ovarian cancer. [88]

★ Tobías Lasser, 95, Venezuelan botanist, founder of the Botanic Garden of Caracas, natural causes [89].

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★ Edgar Beckham, 72, former Connecticut Board of Education chairman and first Black Dean at Wesleyan University, complications of a stroke. [90]

★ Eric Bedser, 87, cricketer for Surrey, and elder twin brother of Sir Alec Bedser. [91]

★ Henry Bumstead, 91, Academy Awards-winning art director (''To Kill a Mockingbird'', ''The Sting''), prostate cancer. [92] [93] [94]

★ Robert Giaimo, 86, Congressman for Connecticut 3rd District 1959-1981, lung ailments. [95]

★ Nabil Hodhod, Palestinian security chief, killed by car bomb. [96]

★ Dick Johnson, 69, veteran Maine radio broadcaster and news reporter, complications of a heart attack. [97]

★ Salem Kadih, 22, member of the Palestinian governing group Hamas, shot by masked gunmen. [98]

★ Fritz Klein, 73, Austrian-born psychiatrist, sex researcher and bisexual activist. [99] [100]

★ Carlos Maeso, 67, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1979-1982) and of Foreign Affairs (1982-1985). [101]

★ Anderson Mazoka, 63, chief opposition leader in Zambia. [102]

★ Bernard Ostry, 78, Canadian civil servant and philanthropist, cancer. [103]

★ Leo Pescarolo, 70, Italian film producer

★ Claude Piéplu, 83. French actor [104]

★ John Wheeldon, 76, former Australian Labor Party Senator and minister in the Whitlam government. [105]

★ Bob Yuma, 55, southwestern US wrestler.[106]

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★ Philippe Amaury, 66, French media owner

★ Clifford Antone, 56, Austin blues club owner, heart attack. [107] [108]

★ Lloyd Bentsen, 85, American Vice-Presidential candidate, Senator, and Treasury Secretary under Clinton. [109] [110]

★ Salvatore Billa, 63, Italian actor. [111]

★ James Carey, 71, American professor of journalism at Columbia University, author. [112] [113]

★ Ian Copeland, 57, American music promoter and agent, older brother of Stewart Copeland of The Police, melanoma. [114] [115]

★ Bracha Eden, 78, Israeli pianist, brain hemorrhage [116]

★ Ángel Fernández, 80, Mexican sports broadcaster, renal failure. [117]

★ Lucina Paquet Gabbard, 84, American English professor, movie actress and author, lung cancer. [118]

★ Kazimierz Górski, 85, former coach of Poland national football team, cancer. [119]

★ Ruben Mettler, 82, American former CEO of TRW. [120]

★ John Nevin, 79, former CEO of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, heart attack. [121] [122]

★ Mary Margaret Smith, 112, Ohio's oldest person [123]

★ Graham Stewart, 19, William Paterson University athlete, vehicular accident [124]

★ Jim Trimble, 87, Philadelphia Eagles coach 1952-55, emphysema. [125]

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★ Tony Campbell, 58, Australian race caller and sports broadcaster, cancer. [126]

★ Spencer Clark, 19, NASCAR Busch Series driver, road accident. [127]

★ Heather Crowe, 61, Canadian anti-smoking activist, lung cancer. [128]

★ Hamza El Din, 76, Nubian oud player. [129] [130] [131]

★ Jack Fallon, 90, jazz double bassist [132]

★ Lee Jong-wook, 61, Director-General of the World Health Organization, brain thrombus [133]

★ Lilia Prado, 78, Mexican actress, multiple organ failure. [134]

★ Philip Thorn, English researcher and statistician. [135]

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★ Onwin Borde, 51, percussionist. [136]

★ Lewis Davis, 80, American architect, co-founder of Davis Brody Bond. [137]

★ Katherine Dunham, 96, American dancer and choreographer. [138]

★ Hans Fantel, 84, Austrian-born writer, home electronics columnist for the ''New York Times''. [139]

★ Richard McIlkenny, 73, member of the Birmingham Six, cancer. [140]

★ Dr. Eduardo Bernabé Ordaz Ducungé, 84, Cuban doctor, participant in the 26th of July Movement, and member of Cuban National Assembly (1976-2003), kidney failure. [141] [142]

★ Sherman Skolnick, 75, Illinois anti-corruption activist, heart attack. [143]

★ Billy Walker, 77, American country music performer and member of the Grand Ole Opry, traffic accident [144]

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★ Cecil Dowell, 45, University of Mississippi basketball player 1980-1984 and Assistant Coach at Mississippi Valley State University, car accident. [145]

★ Anthony Goodman, 74, Reuters United Nations correspondent for 20 years between 1980 and 2000, cancer and lung disease. [146]

★ JoAnna Lund, 61, cookbook author, cancer.[147]

★ Les Olive, 78, Assistant Secretary of Manchester United at time of Munich air disaster [148]

★ P T R Palanivelrajan, 74, Minister in the Tamil Nadu Government and former speaker of the Assembly, heart attack. [149]

★ Rt. Rev. Andy Radford, 62, Bishop of Taunton, brain tumour, [150]

★ Pat Seremet, 58, columnist for the ''Hartford Courant'', brain aneurysm. [151]

★ Cherd Songsri, 75, legendary Thai film director, cancer [152]

★ Annis Stukus, 91, member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Canadian Football League and ice hockey. [153]

★ Sanaa Younes, 60, Egyptian actress, lung cancer [154]

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★ Yitzhak Ben Aharon, 99, founder of the Israeli Labor Party. [155] [156]

★ Marji Bank, 82, American stage actress, complications from an illness [157]

★ Edward Roy Becker, 73, former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. [158]

★ Peter Bryant, 82, British television producer. [159]

★ Alexandrina van Donkelaar-Vink, 111, oldest Dutch citizen [160]

★ Freddie Garrity, 65, singer of the 1960s pop band Freddie and the Dreamers, heart problems [161]

★ Robert Heinecken, 74, American artist and photographer. [162]

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★ James Andrew "Andy" Capps, 37, former drummer of Built to Spill. [163]

★ Jaan Eilart, 73, Estonian biogeographer. [164]

★ Morris Glushien, 96, American lawyer, general counsel for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, argued the US Supreme Court case ''Staub v. the City of Baxley, Georgia''. [165]

★ Hans Horrevoets, 32, Dutch sailor, swept overboard while competing in Volvo Ocean Race. [166]

★ Alex Leibkind, 53, German Olympic judoka and general manager of the Rhein Fire, heart attack. [167]

★ Andrew Martinez, 33, the "Naked Guy" at the University of California, Berkeley, apparent suicide. [168]

★ Vitor Negrete, 38, prominent Brazilian mountaineer, died after reaching the peak of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. [169]

★ Deane Oliver, 71, led Rutgers University to 14 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championships. [170]

★ Michael O'Riordan, 88, chairman of the Communist Party of Ireland and International Brigades veteran. [171]

★ Kiyan Prince, 15, youth team player with English football team Queens Park Rangers, stabbed to death. [172]

★ Kenneth Scott, 70, singer-songwriter elected to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame with The Strikes, complications from a stroke. [173]

★ Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, American novelist. [174]

★ George Sterling, 69, former member of the West Indies Cricket Board. [175]

★ Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese actor (''Tora! Tora! Tora!''). [176]

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★ Eva-Maria Bauer, 82, German actress. [177]

★ Cy Feuer, 95, American Broadway producer and writer (''Guys and Dolls''). [178] [179]

★ Dr Stephen Fleet, 69, Former Registrary, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of Downing College, Cambridge. [180]

★ Eric Forth, 61, British Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister, bone cancer. [181]

★ Captain Nichola Goddard, 26, Canadian Forces, first female Canadian soldier since WW II to be killed in combat. [182]

★ Dan Q. Kennis, 86, American B movie producer. [183]

★ John Marsden, 64, Australian lawyer and civil liberties activist, cancer. [184]

★ Elaine Minacs, 61, founder and executive chairman of Minacs Worldwide business services firm. [185][186]

★ Daniel Owino Misiani, 66, Benga musician from Kenya, car accident [187]

★ Mieczysław Nowak, 69, Polish weightlifter, 1964 Olympic medalist [188]

★ Mustafa Yucel Ozbilgin, 63 prominent Turkish judge sitting in Turkey's highest court, shot dead. [189]

★ Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff, 61, longtime crew member for the Grateful Dead, lung cancer. [190]

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★ Clare Boylan, 58, Irish author of 12 books including 7 novels, ovarian cancer. [191]

★ Frederick Ted Castle, 67, American novelist and art critic. [192]

★ Klaus Dahlen, 68, German actor [193]

★ Martin Dardis, 83, investigator who linked the Watergate burglars to the Committee to Re-elect the President, vascular condition. [194]

★ Herbert Doan, 83, former CEO and president of Dow Chemical (1962-1971). [195] [196]

★ Davie Morrison, 92, veteran Scottish athlete. [197]

★ Jorge Porcel, 69, Argentine actor and comedian, following gall bladder surgery. [198] [199]

★ Dan Ross, 49, former NFL football player (Cincinnati Bengals), suspected heart attack [200]

★ Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese movie and television actor, cerebral infarction [201] [202]

★ Prince Gideon Zulu, 72, member of Zulu royal family, South African politician, minister in Kwazulu-Natal legislature. [203]

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★ Joyce Ballantyne, 88, artist best known for creating the "Coppertone Girl" ad, heart attack. [204] [205]

★ George Blackburn, 93, head football coach at University of Virginia (1965-70). [206]

★ George Crile III, 61, CBS News producer, pancreatic cancer. [207] [208] [209]

★ Eberhard Esche, 73, German actor. [210]

★ Chic Hecht, 77, former Republican Senator for Nevada, prostate cancer. [211] [212]

★ Judith Moore, 66, American author (''). [213]

★ Abdullah Nur, 77, Saudi Arabian journalist and writer [214]

★ Cheikha Rimitti, 83, Algerian singer, heart attack. [215]

★ Bill Strode, 69, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, cancer. [216]

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★ Lew Anderson, 84, American bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on ''The Howdy Doody Show'', prostate cancer. [217] [218]

★ James Botten, 67, South African international test cricketer, complications after colon operations. [219]

★ Steve Cooper, 47, rock singer for Juggernaut and S.A. Slayer [220]

★ Charles Gardner, former head of Royal Crown Cola, complications of diabetes

★ William Ginsberg, 75, American professor of environmental law at Hofstra University and former New York City commissioner of parks and recreation. [221]

★ Reza Hassanzadeh, 33, Iranian professional soccer player with Teraktor Sazi F.C., injuries from car accident. [222]

★ Robert Keith-Reid, 64, Fijian publisher, complications of heart bypass operation. [223]

★ Stanley Kunitz, 100, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate. [224] [225]

★ Jim Lemon, 78, Major League Baseball player, cancer. [226] [227]

★ Paul Marco, approximately 81, American actor (''Plan 9 from Outer Space'') [228] [229]

★ Giancarlo Matteotti, member of Italy's Constituent Assembly and Undersecretary for the Budget. [230]

★ Bruce Merrifield, 84, Nobel Prize-winning chemist [231] [232]

★ Günther Nenning, 84, Austrian journalist, author and political activist [233]

★ Eva Norvind, New York City based dominatrix and former Mexican actress, drowning accident [234]

★ Mary Ritts, 95, founder of the Ritts Family puppet act, Canberra entertainment, natural causes. [235]

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★ Helga Aumere, 83, Estonian musicologist. [236]

★ Dr. Carolyn Shaw Bell, 85, American economist at Wellesley College. [237]

★ Joan Diener, 76, American actress/soprano (''Man of La Mancha''), complications of cancer. [238]

★ Rick Farley, 53, Australian National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive for eight years. [239]

★ Ryan Francis, 19, freshman point guard for the USC basketball team, homicide. [240]

★ Katherine McCarron, 3, autistic child, smothered to death

★ Jaroslav Pelikan, 82, American historian of Christianity, winner of the Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, lung cancer. [241] [242] [243]

★ Grand Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Rosenbaum, 86, Grand Rabbi of Kretschnif-Siget Hassidic Jewish sect in Jerusalem, a scion of the Nadvorna dynasty. [244]

★ Östen Sjöstrand, 80, Swedish poet, translator and member of the Swedish Academy. [245][246]

★ Peter Viereck, 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. [247]

★ Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, R&B musician, founder of Heatwave ("Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever") [248]

★ Jere Witter, 79, Southern California TV news reporter, complications of cancer. [249]

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★ Ted Berkman, 92, author, scriptwriter (''Bedtime for Bonzo''). [250]

★ Richard Brickner, 72, American author. [251]

★ Mony Dalmès, 91, French actress, [252]

★ Hussein Maziq, 88, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya [253]

★ Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, 85, former U.S. representative from Mississippi [254]

★ Breandán Ó Dúill, 70, Irish actor and broadcaster. [255]

★ Arthur Porges, 90, science fiction and fantasy writer.

★ Gustav Trampe, 74, German TV journalist. [256]

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★ Yossi Banai, 74, Israeli singer and actor [257]

★ Bob Duff, 80, played 11 rugby tests for the All Blacks including being captain for two tests against the Springboks in 1956. [258]

★ Melvin Lebetkin, 77, American lawyer convicted in the New York City Parking Violations Bureau scandal of the 1980s. [259]

★ Byron Morrow, 95, American tv and film character actor. [260]

★ Michael O'Leary, 70, former leader of the Irish Labour Party, drowned in a swimming pool. [261]

★ Floyd Patterson, 71, former boxing heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer [262]

★ Ferdinando Tacconi, 83, Italian comics artist. [263]

★ Michael Taliferro, 45, actor and American football player, stroke. [264]

★ Frankie Thomas, 85, American actor ''(Tom Corbett, Space Cadet)'', stroke. [265] [266]

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★ Val Guest, 94, British film writer and director ''(The Quatermass Xperiment, Casino Royale)'' [267]

★ John Hicks, 64, American jazz pianist/composer. [268]

★ James Keogh, 89, former executive editor of ''Time'' and speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon. [269]

★ Georgy Korniyenko, 81, Russian diplomat and deputy to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. [270]

★ Angel Lopez, 44, Puerto Rican, designed Deborah Carthy-Deu's dress when she won the Miss Universe contest, heart attack.[271]

★ Juan Mendez, 41, Puerto Rican writer, complications due to AIDS (heart attack) [272]

★ A.M. Rosenthal, 84, Executive Editor of the ''New York Times'' for 17 years, stroke. [273]

★ Sue Smith, 60s, first woman to host a current affairs program in Australia, mitochondrial myopathy. [274]

★ Soraya, 37, Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger, record producer, and singer, breast cancer. [275]

★ Volkmar Kurt Wentzel, 91, noted National Geographic photographer and archivist, heart attack. [276]

★ Aleksandr Zinovyev, 83, Russian logician, sociologist and writer, brain cancer. [277]

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★ Frank Boos, 70, appraiser on the Public Broadcasting Service version of ''Antiques Roadshow'', complications of vascular disease. [278]

★ Corey Engen, 90, Captain of the U.S. Nordic skiing team at the 1948 Winter Olympics, complications of pneumonia. [279]

★ Jerzy Ficowski, 81, Polish poet, writer and translator.[280]

★ Pietro Garinei, 87, Italian playwright and lyricist of "Arrivederci Roma" and other songs. [281]

★ Ruth Gay, 86, American author of books on Jewish life. [282]

★ Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic. [283]

★ Harold Robinson, first black scholarship American football player for the Kansas State Wildcats and in the Big Seven. [284]

★ Bob Rogers, former Texas A&M basketball coach. [285]

★ Robert Schwartz, 88, American stockbroker and founder of Economists for Peace and Security. [286]

★ Tony Ward, 82, Australian actor and journalist, cancer. [287]

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★ Philip Barberio, 60, visual effects veteran, multiple myeloma [288]

★ Scott Geoffrion, 40, Former NHRA ProStock World Championship runner-up, apparent heart attack. [289]

★ Lovana Jones, 68, Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois House of Representatives, represented the 26th District since 1987, undisclosed causes. [290]

★ John Kimbrough, 87, College Hall of Fame American football player with Texas A&M and state legislator, pneumonia. [291]

★ George Lutz, 59, owner of the Amityville Horror house. [292] [293]

★ Pualani Mossman, 89, expert Hawaiian hula dancer and poster girl, natural causes [294]

★ Pule Patrick "Ace" Ntsoelengoe, 50, South African soccer player with the Minnesota Kicks and Kaizer Chiefs, unknown causes. [295]

★ Barbara Schwartz, 58, American painter. [296]

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★ Steve Bender, 59, record producer and member of Dschinghis Khan.

★ Richard Carleton, 62, Australian television journalist (''60 Minutes''), heart attack. [297] [298]

★ Joan C. Edwards, 87, American philanthropist, liver cancer. [299]

★ Lawrence Lader, 86, American author and abortion rights activist. [300]

★ Stella Sigcau, 69, South African Public Works Minister, heart-related problems. [301]

★ Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 95, United Kingdom minister and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. [302]

★ Machiko Soga, 68, Japanese seiyū and actress and tokusatsu legend (''Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger'', ''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers'', etc), pancreatic cancer[303]

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★ Joe Amsler, 65, kidnapper of Frank Sinatra, Jr. in 1963, liver failure. [304]

★ Lillian Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the ''Titanic'' sinking, died in sleep. [305]

★ Konstantin Beskov, 85, Soviet/Russian footballer and manager. [306]

★ Wing Commander John Coxen, 46, Royal Air Force, most senior British Officer killed in Iraq to date [307]

★ Shigeru Kayano, 79, Japanese Ainu activist [308]

★ Chen Li, 77, former editor of the ''China Daily'' [309]

★ Dick Magoffin, 69, Australian folklorist known for his research on "Waltzing Matilda", cancer. [310]

★ Steven Marshall, 58, American sound engineer and musician, inventor of the Marshall Time Modulator and revectorization. [311]

★ Grant McLennan, 48, lead singer of The Go-Betweens, suspected heart attack. [312]

★ Flt Lt Sarah Mulvihill, 32, first British servicewoman to be killed in action in Iraq. [313]

★ Erdal Oz, 71, Turkish publisher. [314]

★ František Peřina, 95, Czechoslovak fighter pilot who served in the British Royal Air Force during World War II. [315]

★ Herbert Raditschnig, 71, German cameraman and film documentarian [316]

★ Pattabhi Rama Reddy, 87, legendary Indian moviemaker, complications from a prolonged illness [317] [318]

★ Lorne Saxberg, 48, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcaster. [319]

★ Sister Rose Thering, 85, Roman Catholic nun and professor at Seton Hall University. [320]

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★ Naushad Ali, 86, Indian musician. [321]

★ Larry Attebery, 73, Los Angeles television news broadcaster, pancreatic cancer [322]

★ George Frem, 72, former Lebanese cabinet minister, philanthropist, industrialist[323]

★ George Roche III, 70, former President of Hillsdale College, probable heart attack. [324]

★ Atif Yilmaz, 80, Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer [325] [326]

★ Joyce Nsubuga, 59, Ugandan doctor. [327]

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★ Alejandra Boero, 88, Argentine theater actress, director and teacher, pulmonary hypertension. [328], [329]

★ Jim Delsing, 80, American Major League Baseball player. [330]

★ Luba Kadison, 99, Lithuanian-born actress in Yiddish theater. [331]

★ Hossein Kasbian, 73, Iranian film actor. [332]

★ Jack Perlmutter, 86, American artist. [333]

★ Paul Wadham, 63, Australian rules footballer

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★ Karel Appel, 85, Dutch COBRA painter. [334]

★ Rosita Fernandez, 88, Texan singer, member of the Tejano Music Hall of Fame. [335]

★ Lars-Erik Jonsson, 46, Swedish opera tenor [336]

★ Pramod Mahajan, 56, general secretary of India's Bharatiya Janata Party, gunshot wounds. [337]

★ Howard Thomas Markey, 85, American federal judge and U.S. Air Force major general, first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. [338]

★ Earl Woods, 74, father and former coach of U.S. golfer Tiger Woods, prostate cancer [339]

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★ Joseph Lewis Clark, 57, convicted American murderer, executed in Ohio. [340] [341]

★ Luigi Griffanti, 89, Italian footballer, goalkeeper of ACF Fiorentina in the 1940s [342]

★ Rt. Rev. John Khoury, 76, Archpriest of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, heart attack.

★ Sam Mokuahi, Jr., also known as Sammy Steamboat, 71, legendary Hawaiian professional wrestler, complications from Alzheimer's disease [343]

★ Louis Rukeyser, 73, business and economics expert, multiple myeloma. [344]

★ Juan Ramón Salgado, 45, Honduran congressional deputy, gunshot wounds. [345]

★ Professor Norair N. Taschian, 75, Professor of Russian Literature, Russian Language and Comparative Literature at San Francisco State University for 40 years. Cancer.

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★ Jay Presson Allen, 84, American screenwriter, stroke. [346]

★ Ed Casey, 73, former Queensland Labor Party leader. [347]

★ George F. Haines, 82, American Olympic swimming coach, complications from a stroke [348]

★ John Edward Hawkins, known as Big Hawk, 36, Houston-based rapper, shot to death. [349]

★ Joseph S. Iseman, 89, lawyer, educator and former president of Bennington College, cardiac arrest [350]

★ Betsy Jones-Moreland, 76, film and television actress, cancer.

★ Rob Lacey, 43, stage actor and award-winning Christian author, bladder cancer [351]

★ Rauno Lehtinen, 74, Finnish composer [352]

★ Johnny Paris, 65, American saxophonist (Johnny & the Hurricanes) [353]

★ Bruce Peterson, 72, American test pilot and engineer, known for surviving the crash of the M2-F2 and inspiring the TV-series ''The Six Million Dollar Man''. [354]

★ Raúl Francisco Cardinal Primatesta, 87, retired Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina [355]