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EspañolDEATHS IN NOVEMBER 2006
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Deaths in 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →
The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2006.
★ Rafael Buenaventura, 68, former Governor of the Philippines Central Bank, kidney cancer. [1]
★ Colin Cramphorn, 50, former Chief Constable for West Yorkshire, prostate cancer. [2]
★ Leonard Greene, 88, American inventor of aviation safety devices, lung cancer. [3] [4]
★ Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican-born film director (''The Harder They Come'') and author, cancer. [5] [6]
★ Eli Mohar, 58, Israeli lyricist and journalist, cancer. [7][8]
★ Rosalie Bradford, 63, held Guinness World Records for the heaviest woman and most weight lost, complications from obesity [9]
★ Allen Carr, 72, English anti-smoking campaigner, lung cancer. [10]
★ Tom Fexas, 65, American motor yacht designer, illness.[11]
★ Leonard Freed, 77, American photojournalist and member of the Magnum Photography Collective, complications of cancer. [12]
★ Cadet Hand, Jr., 86, expert in invertebrate zoology, cancer. [13]
★ Akio Jissoji, 69, Japanese TV and film director best known for the 1960s TV series "Ultraman" and "Ultra Seven", stomach cancer. [14]
★ Emmett Kelly, Jr., 83, clown and son of Emmett Kelly, complications from pneumonia. [15]
★ John "Doc" Mattei, 83, former trainer with the San Diego Padres, cancer. [16]
★ Nina Milkina, 87, Russian-born British concert pianist.
★ Leon Niemczyk, 82, Polish actor, lung cancer. [17] [18]
★ Bishan Singh, 62, Malaysian social and environmental activist, pulmonary embolism. [19]
★ Hanumant Singh, 67, Indian test cricketer and ICC match referee, organ failure due to dengue fever and hepatitis B. [20]
★ Shirley Walker, 61, film and television composer (''Final Destination'', ''Falcon Crest''), brain aneurysm. [21] [22]
★ Enrico Catuzzi, 60, Italian football coach, heart attack. [23] (Italian) [24] (Bulgarian)
★ Rose Mattus, 90, Polish-born co-founder of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, natural causes. [25] [26]
★ Max Merkel, 87, Austrian football player and coach. [27]
★ Lyubov Polishchuk, 57, Russian actress, spinal disease. [28] [29]
★ Robert Volpe, 63, NYPD art theft detective, heart attack. [30]
★ Elliot Welles, 79, Austrian-born Holocaust survivor and director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League's task force on Nazi war criminals, heart attack. [31] [32]
★ Don Butterfield, 83, American jazz tuba player, played with Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra, stroke-related illness. [33] [34]
★ Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, African-American author (''What You Owe Me'') and mental health advocate, brain cancer. [35][36][37]
★ Casey Coleman, 55, Cleveland sports broadcaster who won 4 Emmy Awards, pancreatic cancer. [38]
★ George Doig, 93, Australian football player. [39]
★ Alan "Fluff" Freeman, 79, former BBC Radio DJ, natural causes. [40]
★ Győző Határ, 92, Hungarian poet and writer. [41] (Hungarian)
★ Larry Henderson, 89, first regular broadcaster on CBC's The National, natural causes. [42]
★ Annie Knight, 111, believed to be the oldest person in Great Britain. [43]
★ J. Keith Mann, 82, American law professor at Stanford University, pneumonia. [44]
★ Eddie Mayo, 96, one of the oldest Major League Baseball players, natural causes. [45]
★ K. Kenneth Paik, 66, award winning photographer turned journalist, acute myelogenous leukemia. [46]
★ Ray T. "Ted" Parfet Jr., 84, American former CEO of Upjohn and owner of the Kalamazoo Wings, acute respiratory distress syndrome. [47] [48]
★ Paul Ernst Ruppel, 93, German composer of Christian music. [49] (German)
★ Jece Valadão, 76, Brazilian actor, complications from heart attack. [50]
★ Babak Bayat, 60, Iranian composer, liver failure. [51]
★ Mário Cesariny, 83, Portuguese surrealist painter and writer, cancer. [52] [53] [54]
★ Leo Chiosso, 86, Italian songwriter for Fred Buscaglione, Mina, Giorgio Gaber and many others, undisclosed causes. [55] (Italian)
★ Dave Cockrum, 63, American comic book artist (''X-men'', ''Legion of Super-Heroes''), complications from diabetes. [56] [57][58]
★ Robert "H-Bomb" Ferguson, 77, American blues singer, complications of emphysema and cardiopulmonary disease. [59]
★ Isaac Gálvez, 31, Spanish cyclist, cycling accident. [60]
★ Stephen Heywood, 37, American subject of the film ''So Much So Fast'', amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [61] [62]
★ Anthony Jackson, 62, British actor, cancer. [63]
★ Abu Khavs (Abu Hafs), Jordanian-born Chechen al-Qaida leader in North Caucasus, shoot-out with police. [64]
★ Giorgio Panto, 65, Italian regional television station owner and separatist politician, helicopter crash, presumed drowned. [65] (Italian)
★ Graham Roope, 60, Surrey and England cricketer, heart attack. [66]
★ Armin Russenberger, 80, Swiss cyclist. [67] (German)
★ Tony Silvester, 65, Panama-born soul singer with The Main Ingredient. [68]
★ Raúl Velasco, 73, Mexican television show host (''Siempre en Domingo''), natural causes. [69] [70]
★ Luciano Bottaro, 75, Italian comic book artist (''Pepito''). [71] (Italian)
★ Valentín Elizalde, 27, Mexican banda singer, shot. [72]
★ David Hermance, 59, American Toyota engineer responsible for the Prius, plane crash. [73]
★ Gianluca Lerici (aka "Professor Bad Trip"), 43, Italian artist and designer. [74] (Italian)
★ Lt. Kenneth Taylor, 86, American Army Air Corps pilot, winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, strangulated hernia. [75][76]
★ Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter. [77]
★ Melvin Webber, 86, American town planner. [78]
★ Jack Werber, 92, Polish-born Holocaust survivor, American manufacturer of coonskin caps during the 1950s craze, heart attack. [79]
★ Walter Booker, 72, jazz bassist with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, cardiac arrest. [80]
★ John Bridgers, 84, former athletic director at the University of New Mexico, congestive heart failure. [81]
★ William Diehl, 81, American author (''Primal Fear'', ''Sharky's Machine''), aortic aneurysm. [82]
★ Phyllis Fraser, 90, American actress, writer, and publisher, complications from fall. [83]
★ Robert Kupperman, 71, American terrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, complications from Parkinson's disease. [84]
★ Juice Leskinen, 56, Finnish singer-songwriter, renal insufficiency, cirrhosis, and diabetes. [85]
★ Frank L. Madla, 69, former Texas State Senator, house fire. [86]
★ Robert McFerrin, 85, first African-American to sing at the New York Metropolitan Opera and father of Bobby McFerrin, heart attack. [87] [88]
★ Mostafa Mesbahzadeh, 98, exiled Iranian newspaper publisher and founder of Kayhan newspaper group, pneumonia [89]
★ Thelma Scott, 93, Australian actress (Claire Houghton in ''Number 96''), heart attack. [90]
★ Maximo Soliven, 77, publisher of ''The Philippine Star'', cardiac arrest. [91]
★ George W. S. Trow, 63, American writer and media critic, natural causes. [92]
★ Zdeněk Veselovský, 78, Czech zoologist, heart failure. [93]
★ Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of ''Zeta'' magazine, stomach cancer. [94]
★ Gerald M. Boyd, 56, African-American former managing editor of ''The New York Times'', lung cancer. [95] [96]
★ Nick Clarke, 58, BBC Radio 4 presenter and journalist, cancer. [97]
★ Richard Clements, 78, British journalist, Editor of Tribune (1961–1982). [98]
★ Betty Comden, 89, lyricist known for writing musicals with Adolph Green including ''Singin' in the Rain'', heart failure. [99]
★ Jack Ferrante, 90, American end for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. [100]
★ Dr Hasan K, father and flawed alibi of four brothers convicted of Ashfield gang rapes in Australia, heart attack. [101]
★ Richard Leopold, 94, American historian at Northwestern University, natural causes. [102]
★ Alexander Litvinenko, 43, former Russian spy and critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, poisoning. [103]
★ Philippe Noiret, 76, French actor (''Il Postino'', ''Cinema Paradiso''), cancer. [104]
★ Anita O'Day, 87, American jazz singer, pneumonia. [105]
★ Willie Pep, 84, American Hall of Fame featherweight boxer, Alzheimer's disease. [106] [107]
★ Chris Sandy, 27, former Harlem Globetrotter, car accident. [108]
★ Boe Tucker, 79, father and manager of country music singer Tanya Tucker, lung cancer. [109]
★ Dr. Jerry Bails, 73, popular culture and comic book historian, heart attack. [110]
★ John Allan Cameron, 67, pioneer of Celtic music in Canada, bone cancer. [111]
★ Muriel Castanis, 80, American sculptor, lung failure. [112]
★ Pat Dobson, 64, American Major League Baseball pitcher, leukemia. [113] [114] [115]
★ Gilles Grégoire, 80, Canadian politician and co-founder of Parti Québécois. [116] (French)
★ Roy Newell, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, cancer. [117]
★ John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, 87, UK Minister of Transport (1970–1974) and MP for Yeovil (1951–1983). [118]
★ Svein Erik Bakke, 59, Norwegian entrepreneur. [119] [120] (Norwegian)
★ Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, 80, Romanian priest, dissident during the rule of Nicolae Ceauşescu, pancreatic cancer. [121]
★ Thomas Courtney Fleming, 98, African-American civil rights leader and co-founder of the ''Sun-Reporter'', congestive heart failure. [122]
★ Pierre Gemayel, 34, Lebanese Minister of Industry, shot. [123] [124]
★ Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 90, first President of Djibouti, natural causes. [125]
★ Robert Lockwood Jr., 91, Mississippi Delta blues guitarist and singer, respiratory failure. [126]
★ Dr. Bernard Rimland, 78, American autism researcher, prostate cancer. [127] [128]
★ Eliezer Waldenberg, 89, Israeli Haredi rabbi. [129]
★ Sir Harold Young, Australian Liberal politician, President of the Senate 1981-83 [130]
★ Robert Altman, 81, American film director (''MASH'', ''Nashville'', ''Short Cuts''), complications from leukemia. [131]
★ Zoia Ceauşescu, 56, daughter of Nicolae Ceauşescu, lung cancer. [132]
★ Paul Vincent Dudley, 79, Retired Roman Catholic Bishop of Sioux Falls, lung disease. [133]
★ William R. P. George, 94, Welsh archdruid, bard, novelist, nephew of WWI British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. [134]
★ Donald Hamilton, 90, American spy fiction writer. [135]
★ Walid Hassan, 47, Iraqi television personality and comedian, shot. [136]
★ Chris Hayward, 81, creator of Dudley Do-Right and co-creator of The Munsters, illness. [137]
★ Hong Xuezhi, 94, Chinese general, unspecified illness. [138] [139]
★ Dr. David Kritchevsky, 86, Ukrainian-born biochemist and nutrition expert. [140]
★ Kevin McClory, 80, film producer best known for 'unofficial' James Bond film Never Say Never Again.[141]
★ Saúl Ubaldini, 69, Argentinian labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist party, lung cancer. [142]
★ Andre Waters, 44, former American football player, most recently Fort Valley State University assistant football coach, suicide. [143] [144]
★ W.G. Beasley, 86, historian who advanced the study of Japan in British universities. [145]
★ Zygmunt Bielawski, 69, Polish actor. [146]
★ Dirk Dirksen, 69, punk rock promoter at San Francisco's North Beach nightclub Mabuhay Gardens, in his sleep. [147]
★ Sir Edward Ford, 96, Assistant Private Secretary to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (1946–1967). [148]
★ Francis Girod, 62, French film director and screenwriter, heart attack. [149]
★ Smith Hempstone Jr., 77, American journalist and US ambassador to Kenya (1989-93), complications from diabetes. [150] [151]
★ Tan Sri Mohd Khir Johari, 83, former Malaysian Education Minister and one of the country's founding fathers, heart attack. [152]
★ Craig Neilsen, 65, CEO and Chairman of Ameristar Casinos, natural causes. [153]
★ Ernest Pusey, 111, Florida's oldest person and last Floridian WWI veteran. [154]
★ Francisco Quirós Hermosillo, Mexican general, cancer. [155]
★ Julio Ramos, 71, Argentinian journalist, director of ''Ámbito Financiero'', leukemia. [156]
★ Jeremy Slate, 80, American actor (''Hell's Angels '69'', ''One Life to Live''), esophageal cancer. [157] [158]
★ Movladi Baisarov, 40, former head of one of Chechnya's security forces, shot. [159]
★ Roger Bolton, 59, General Secretary of BECTU, a British trade union, cancer. [160]
★ Lars Chemnitz, 81, Danish former member of the Parliament of Greenland and chairman of ''Landsrådet'', long illness. [161]
★ Lee Dong-won, 80, foreign minister of South Korea 1964-1966. [162]
★ Maurice W. Graham, 89, known as "King of the Hobos", author of ''Tales of the Iron Road: My Life as a Hobo'', stroke. [163] [164]
★ George V. Odell, 80, American arachnologist later leading the Mexican study of dangerous violin spider antivenom at the Biotechnology Institute IBT. 1926-2006. [165]
★ Keith Rowlands, 70, President of Welsh Rugby Union. [166]
★ Sir John Acland, 77, British general who commanded British forces prior to Rhodesian independence.[167]
★ Ruth Brown, 78, American blues singer, complications following a heart attack and stroke. [168] [169]
★ Marcus Cassel, 23, American football player and former UCLA cornerback, car accident. [170] [171]
★ Bishop Joseph D'Silva, 76, Indian Archbishop of Bellary, India. [172]
★ Bishop Manuel Moreno, 75, Catholic bishop of Tucson, Arizona, brain haemorrhage. [173]
★ Tony Pithey, 73, South African cricketer, pancreatic cancer. [174]
★ Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian former footballer and coach, pneumonia. [175] [176]
★ Flo Sandon's, 82, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1953. [177] (Italian)
★ Bo Schembechler, 77, former University of Michigan football head coach, heart problems. [178] [179] [180]
★ Mário Sottomayor Cardia, 65, Portuguese former minister of Education, cancer. [181] (Portuguese)
★ Ramez Tebet, 70, Brazilian politician and lawyer, cancer. [182] (Portuguese)
★ Curtis Cate, 82, American biographer, melanoma. [183]
★ Frank Durkan, 76, Irish-American lawyer known for his work for members of the Irish Republican Army in the US, lung infection. [184]
★ Milton Friedman, 94, American monetarist and free-market economist, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize, heart failure. [185] [186]
★ Gary Graver, 68, cinematographer and filmmaker, collaborator with Orson Welles (''F for Fake, The Other Side of the Wind''), cancer. [187] [188]
★ Geoff Griffin, 67, South African cricketer, heart attack. [189]
★ Yuri Levada, 76, Russian sociologist and pollster, heart attack. [190]
★ Eustace Lycett, 91, English-born US special effects technician, Academy Award winner for the Disney films ''Mary Poppins'' and ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' [191]
★ Jack Macpherson, 69, a figure in the California surf scene who founded a group that Tom Wolfe based his book "The Pump House Gang", liver and kidney failure. [192]
★ Pablo Shilton, 38, Argentine actor, Car accident. [193] (Spanish)
★ Paris Theodore, 63, American firearms inventor and manufacturer, multiple sclerosis. [194]
★ John Veale, 84, English classical composer, cancer. [195]
★ George G. Blackburn MC, 90, Canadian author of ''Guns of Normandy'', member of the Order of Canada, cancer. [196]
★ John M. Blackburn, 93, Songwriter ("Moonlight in Vermont", "Need You", "Susquehanna"), natural causes [197]
★ Mac E. Hadley, 76, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona, one of the researchers who discovered Melanotan, homicide. [198]
★ Ken Ishikawa, 58, Japanese mangaka, co-creator of Getter Robo anime series, heart failure. [199]
★ Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack. [200] [201]
★ René Sterne, 54 , Belgian comic book artist (''Adler''). [202]
★ Owen Truelove, 69, RAF Air Commodore, glider crash. [203]
★ David K. Wyatt, 69, American historian of Thailand, emphysema and congestive heart failure. [204]
★ Lieutenant General Sipho Binda, 54, second most senior officer in the South African National Defence Force, heart failure. [205]
★ Michele Maxian, 55, Legal Aid Society lawyer who battled New York City courts to arraign suspects within 24 hours, ovarian cancer. [206]
★ Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications of anorexia nervosa. [207]
★ Pete Suder, 90, American baseball player [208]
★ Tiger Conway, 74, former professional wrestler, stroke. [209]
★ Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions. [210]
★ Konrad Fuchs, 109, German man believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran. [211]
★ John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor. [212]
★ Robert McCurry, 83, Chrysler marketer who introduced cash rebates for U.S. car buyers, prostate cancer. [213]
★ G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher, president of several newspaper chains, pneumonia. [214]
★ Kip Bahadun, 65, former executive secretary of UMNO, aortic aneurysm. [215]
★ Alphonse Halimi, 74, French boxer, former World bantamweight champion, pneumonia. [216]
★ Harvey Manning, 81, American conservationist and author. [217]
★ Mario Merola, 72, Italian singer and actor, suffering a series of heart attacks. [218]
★ General Jacob E. Smart, 97, US Air Force general and NASA executive, former deputy C-in-C of the US European Command. [219]
★ Joseph Ungaro, 76, American journalism editor and executive whose question led to Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" response. [220] [221]
★ H. Donald Wilson, 82, founder of LexisNexis, heart attack [222]
★ Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (''Home and Away''), metastatic breast cancer. [223]
★ S. Lane Faison, Jr., 98, American art historian who oversaw the return of artworks from the Nazis. [224] [225]
★ Dr. Albert B. Friedman, 86, American scholar of medieval literature and collector of ballads. [226]
★ Basil ("Joe") Jagger, 93, father of Rolling Stones' vocalist Mick Jagger, pneumonia [227]
★ Jabu Khanyile, 49, South African musician who played at the Johannesburg Live 8 concert, prostate cancer. [228]
★ Ben Kuzmichev, 67, former head of Ballet Idaho and convicted wife killer, cancer. [229]
★ Anthony Lapham, 70, American lawyer, former general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, heart attack. [230]
★ Noella Leclair, 61, Canada's first artificial heart recipient. [231]
★ Esther Lederberg, 83, American Stanford University microbiologist, discovered the lambda phage, pneumonia and congestive heart failure. [232] [233]
★ Rev. Harry Lehotsky, 49, Canadian anti-poverty advocate and newspaper columnist, pancreatic cancer. [234]
★ Ruth Morgenthau, 75, Austrian-born expert on international development, former adviser to Jimmy Carter. [235]
★ Dr. Jeanne Smith, 76, American hematologist, administrator at Harlem Hospital Center and sickle cell anemia expert, complications from stroke. [236]
★ Ronnie Stevens, 81, British comedic actor, causes undisclosed. [237]
★ Florence"Rusty" Tullis, 70, mother of "Rocky" Dennis and portrayed by Cher in ''Mask'', injuries from a motorcycle accident. [238] [239]
★ Anicée Alvina, 53, French actress, cancer.[240]
★ Benny Andrews, 75, American artist, cancer. [241]
★ Diana Coupland, 74, English actress (''Bless This House''), complications following heart surgery. [242]
★ Gabriel Donoso, 46, Chilean polo player, injuries sustained after falling from a horse during a match. [243]
★ Maurice Floquet, 111, France's oldest man on record and combat-wounded WWI veteran. [244]
★ Doug Friedline, 49, American campaign manager for Jesse Ventura and other third party candidates, heart attack. [245]
★ Willy Knupp, 70, German motorsport journalist, cancer. [246] (German)
★ Gerald Levert, 40, American R&B singer and son of The O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, accidental acute intoxication. [247] [248]
★ Chubby Oates, 63, Cockney comedian, heart attack. [249]
★ Jack Palance, 87, Oscar-winning American actor (''Shane'', ''City Slickers''), natural causes. [250] [251]
★ Nicholas Proffitt, 63, American journalist and author, war correspondent for ''Newsweek'', kidney cancer. [252]
★ Nadarajah Raviraj, 44, Tamil National Alliance Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, shot. [253]
★ Igor Sergeyev, 68, ex-Defense Minister of Russia, the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, cancer. [254]
★ Hara Taira, 63, Japanese manga artist, author, and regular contestant on ''Quiz Derby'', liver failure. [255]
★ Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author. [256]
★ Isadore Barmash, 84, American business journalist and author. [257]
★ Ed Bradley, 65, American CBS News journalist and ''60 Minutes'' correspondent, leukemia. [258]
★ Garton del Savio, 92, American baseball player, illness. [259]
★ Marian Marsh (a.k.a. Marilyn Morgan, Marian Henderson), 93, 1930s American film star (''Hell's Angels'', ''Svengali''). [260]
★ Stanley Meltzoff, 89, American diver and painter of undersea life. [261]
★ Sam Stephenson, 72, Irish architect, designed the Central Bank and Wood Quay, complications from heart surgery. [262]
★ David Thaw, 78, opera singer. [263] (German)
★ Walter Williams, 85, legislator in Washington state 1961-1971, complications from Parkinson's disease. [264]
★ Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist, professor, feminist activist and critic, lung cancer. [265]
★ Markus Wolf, 83, former head of East Germany's secret intelligence service, natural causes. [266]
★ G. Robert Crowningshield, 87, American creator of diamond grading system [267]
★ Dr. Rhodes Fairbridge, 92, Australian geologist at Columbia University, supervising editor of ''The Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences'', brain tumor. [268]
★ Sir James Hunt, 63, British judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, brain tumour. [269]
★ Samuel “Eewie” Kambule, 41, South African former football player for Bafana Bafana. [270]
★ Basil Poledouris, 61, American film composer (''Conan the Barbarian'', ''Robocop'', ''Starship Troopers''), cancer. [271]
★ Philip Rauch, 95, American businessman and philanthropist, president of Ideal Corporation, chair of Parker-Hannifin Corporation. [272]
★ Annette Rogers, 93, American athlete, 4 x 100 metres relay gold medalist at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, stroke. [273]
★ Eduardo Sampson, 74, Uruguayan Minister of Transport (1976-1982). [274] (Spanish)
★ Peter Wensberg, 77, American former senior vice president for marketing for Polaroid, popularized the instant camera. [275]
★ Paul Baltes, 67, German developmental psychologist. [276]
★ John Coburn, 81, Australian artist, winner of the 1960 and 1977 Blake Prizes for Religious Art. [277]
★ Guy Degrenne, 81, French industrialist. [278] (French)
★ Nate Gooden, 68, American former vice-president of the United Auto Workers. [279]
★ Buddy Kerr, 84, American baseball shortstop for the New York Giants, natural causes. [280] [281]
★ Jackie Parker, 74, former All-American and a Canadian football player, head coach and general manager, throat cancer. [282]
★ Bryan Pata, 22, American football player for the University of Miami Hurricanes, gunshot (homicide). [283]
★ Johnny Sain, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher, complications from a stroke. [284] [285]
★ Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 82, French journalist and politician, author of ''The American Challenge'', complications from bronchitis. [286] [287]
★ N.N. Sippy, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer, cardiac arrest. [288]
★ Robert Strudler, 64, American businessman, chair of the Lennar Corporation, complications of an infection. [289] [290]
★ Brian Thomson, 87, British chairman of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (1974–2005). [291]
★ Polly Umrigar, 80, former Indian cricket team captain, lymphoma. [292]
★ Robert Jance Garfat, 62, American musician (''Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show''), motorcycle accident. [293]
★ Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, Mexican singer and actor known as "the king of the falsetto", bronchitis. [294]
★ Francisco Fernández Ochoa, 56, Spanish retired alpine skier, gold medallist in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games, cancer. [295]
★ Federico Lopez, 44, represented Puerto Rico in two Olympic Games and three world basketball championships, heart attack. [296]
★ J.T. Rutherford, 85, Democrat United States Representative for Texas (1955–1963), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [297]
★ David Bryan Rogers CB, 76, Former director general of the Inland Revenue, Prostate cancer.
★ Samuel Bowers, 82, former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard, convicted of ordering the murder of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, cardiac arrest. [298]
★ Chuck DeShane, 87, former quarterback with the Detroit Lions. [299]
★ Chen Ding-nan, 63, former Justice Minister of Taiwan, lung cancer. [300]
★ Bülent Ecevit, 81, former Prime Minister of Turkey, complications following a stroke. [301]
★ George Esser, 85, set up the North Carolina Fund to fight poverty in the state in the 1960s at the request of its Governor Terry Sanford. [302]
★ Oscar González, 82, Uruguayan Grand Prix driver. [303] (Spanish)
★ Frank Marsden, 83, British Labour politician and Member of Parliament 1971-74. [304]
★ Pietro Rava, 90, Italian former football player, last surviving member of the 1938 World Cup-winning team, Alzheimer's disease. [305]
★ Hamilton Richardson, 73, American tennis player, US Open doubles winner, diabetes complications. [306]
★ Bobby Shearer, 74, Scottish former footballer who played for Hamilton Academical and Rangers, illness. [307]
★ Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer. [308]
★ William Lee Brent, 75, Black Panther who hijacked a plane to Cuba; pneumonia. [309]
★ Lionel Bryer, 78, South African dentist who founded the Aberdeen International Youth Festival [310]
★ Frank Arthur Calder, 91, aboriginal Canadian politician. [311]
★ Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, co-author of ''Cheaper by the Dozen'', natural causes. [312]
★ Gerhard Goebel, 72, former German Catholic bishop of Tromsø [313]
★ Delfor Medina, 78, Argentine actor. [314] (Spanish)
★ John McManners, 89, English historian, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University (1972-84). [315]
★ Sergi López Segú, 39, footballer for FC Barcelona and Gerard López's brother, suicide by throwing himself under a train. [316]
★ Deron Thorp, 33, former NFL Europa player, cause unconfirmed. [317]
★ Belden Bly, 92, served in Massachusetts legislature for 32 years. [318]
★ Frank Dunham, Jr., 64, US federal public defender, head lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui, brain cancer. [319]
★ Sir Allen Fairhall, 96, member of the Australian House of Representatives (1949-69), Minister for Defence (1966-69). [320]
★ Dr. Fereydoun Hoveyda, 82, Syrian-born former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, cancer. [321]
★ Paul Mauriat, 81, French musician (''L'Amour Est Bleu''). [322]
★ Sputnik Monroe, 77, American professional wrestler, respiratory illness. [323]
★ Malachi Ritscher, 52, American anti-war protester, self-immolation. [324] [325]
★ Marie Rudisill, 95, "Fruitcake Lady" on ''The Tonight Show'', aunt of Truman Capote, natural causes. [326]
★ Stanley Rothenberg, 76, American lawyer and former president of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., complications after surgery for a popliteal aneurism. [327]
★ Arnie Sachs, 78, photojournalist, bone cancer. [328]
★ Alberto Spencer, 68, footballer for Peñarol and Ecuador, all-time highest scorer in Copa Libertadores de América, intestinal infection following heart surgery. [329]
★ Rafael Donato, 69, Filipino President of DLSU-Manila (1991-1994), President of De La Salle Lipa (1995-2003), drowning. [330]
★ Adrien Douady, 71, French mathematician. [331]
★ Wally Foreman, 58, Australian Broadcasting Corporation sports broadcaster, heart attack. [332]
★ Albrecht Graf von Goertz, 92, designer of the BMW 507. [333]
★ Red Hayworth, 91, American baseball player. [334]
★ Carroll Knicely, 77, Kentucky commerce secretary for three governors and publisher. [335]
★ Les Mansfield, 90, played rugby union for Wales and won the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II, illness. [336]
★ Leonard Schrader, 62, American screenwriter (''Kiss of the Spider Woman'', ''), brother of Paul Schrader, heart failure. [337]
★ Milly Vitale, 74, Italian actress, natural causes. [338]
★ Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress (Dr. Maggie Graham in ''Ben Casey''), stroke. [339] [340]
★ Jason DiEmilio, 36, American guitarist (Azusa Plane), overdose. [341]
★ Daniel Garcia, 80, Mexican professional wrestler and film star better known as Huracan Ramirez, heart attack. [342]
★ Buddy Killen, 73, American record producer and founder of Dial Records, pancreatic cancer. [343]
★ Florence Klotz, 86, American Tony-winning costume designer, heart failure. [344] [345]
★ Donka Paprikova, 91, Bulgarian philanthropist, natural causes. [346]
★ Johnny Schofield, 75, footballer for Birmingham City and former manager of Atherstone Town F.C., complications from an illness. [347]
★ Adrienne Shelly, 40, American actress (''Trust'', ''The Unbelievable Truth''), screenwriter, and director, strangulation. [348] [349]
★ William Styron, 81, American writer (''Darkness Visible'', ''Confessions of Nat Turner'', ''Sophie's Choice''), pneumonia. [350]
★ Hilda van Stockum, 98, Dutch Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books, stroke. [351]
★ Silvio Varviso, 82, Swiss conductor of the Vlaamse Opera, illness. [352]
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★ Rafael Buenaventura, 68, former Governor of the Philippines Central Bank, kidney cancer. [1]
★ Colin Cramphorn, 50, former Chief Constable for West Yorkshire, prostate cancer. [2]
★ Leonard Greene, 88, American inventor of aviation safety devices, lung cancer. [3] [4]
★ Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican-born film director (''The Harder They Come'') and author, cancer. [5] [6]
★ Eli Mohar, 58, Israeli lyricist and journalist, cancer. [7][8]
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★ Rosalie Bradford, 63, held Guinness World Records for the heaviest woman and most weight lost, complications from obesity [9]
★ Allen Carr, 72, English anti-smoking campaigner, lung cancer. [10]
★ Tom Fexas, 65, American motor yacht designer, illness.[11]
★ Leonard Freed, 77, American photojournalist and member of the Magnum Photography Collective, complications of cancer. [12]
★ Cadet Hand, Jr., 86, expert in invertebrate zoology, cancer. [13]
★ Akio Jissoji, 69, Japanese TV and film director best known for the 1960s TV series "Ultraman" and "Ultra Seven", stomach cancer. [14]
★ Emmett Kelly, Jr., 83, clown and son of Emmett Kelly, complications from pneumonia. [15]
★ John "Doc" Mattei, 83, former trainer with the San Diego Padres, cancer. [16]
★ Nina Milkina, 87, Russian-born British concert pianist.
★ Leon Niemczyk, 82, Polish actor, lung cancer. [17] [18]
★ Bishan Singh, 62, Malaysian social and environmental activist, pulmonary embolism. [19]
★ Hanumant Singh, 67, Indian test cricketer and ICC match referee, organ failure due to dengue fever and hepatitis B. [20]
★ Shirley Walker, 61, film and television composer (''Final Destination'', ''Falcon Crest''), brain aneurysm. [21] [22]
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★ Enrico Catuzzi, 60, Italian football coach, heart attack. [23] (Italian) [24] (Bulgarian)
★ Rose Mattus, 90, Polish-born co-founder of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, natural causes. [25] [26]
★ Max Merkel, 87, Austrian football player and coach. [27]
★ Lyubov Polishchuk, 57, Russian actress, spinal disease. [28] [29]
★ Robert Volpe, 63, NYPD art theft detective, heart attack. [30]
★ Elliot Welles, 79, Austrian-born Holocaust survivor and director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League's task force on Nazi war criminals, heart attack. [31] [32]
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★ Don Butterfield, 83, American jazz tuba player, played with Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra, stroke-related illness. [33] [34]
★ Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, African-American author (''What You Owe Me'') and mental health advocate, brain cancer. [35][36][37]
★ Casey Coleman, 55, Cleveland sports broadcaster who won 4 Emmy Awards, pancreatic cancer. [38]
★ George Doig, 93, Australian football player. [39]
★ Alan "Fluff" Freeman, 79, former BBC Radio DJ, natural causes. [40]
★ Győző Határ, 92, Hungarian poet and writer. [41] (Hungarian)
★ Larry Henderson, 89, first regular broadcaster on CBC's The National, natural causes. [42]
★ Annie Knight, 111, believed to be the oldest person in Great Britain. [43]
★ J. Keith Mann, 82, American law professor at Stanford University, pneumonia. [44]
★ Eddie Mayo, 96, one of the oldest Major League Baseball players, natural causes. [45]
★ K. Kenneth Paik, 66, award winning photographer turned journalist, acute myelogenous leukemia. [46]
★ Ray T. "Ted" Parfet Jr., 84, American former CEO of Upjohn and owner of the Kalamazoo Wings, acute respiratory distress syndrome. [47] [48]
★ Paul Ernst Ruppel, 93, German composer of Christian music. [49] (German)
★ Jece Valadão, 76, Brazilian actor, complications from heart attack. [50]
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★ Babak Bayat, 60, Iranian composer, liver failure. [51]
★ Mário Cesariny, 83, Portuguese surrealist painter and writer, cancer. [52] [53] [54]
★ Leo Chiosso, 86, Italian songwriter for Fred Buscaglione, Mina, Giorgio Gaber and many others, undisclosed causes. [55] (Italian)
★ Dave Cockrum, 63, American comic book artist (''X-men'', ''Legion of Super-Heroes''), complications from diabetes. [56] [57][58]
★ Robert "H-Bomb" Ferguson, 77, American blues singer, complications of emphysema and cardiopulmonary disease. [59]
★ Isaac Gálvez, 31, Spanish cyclist, cycling accident. [60]
★ Stephen Heywood, 37, American subject of the film ''So Much So Fast'', amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [61] [62]
★ Anthony Jackson, 62, British actor, cancer. [63]
★ Abu Khavs (Abu Hafs), Jordanian-born Chechen al-Qaida leader in North Caucasus, shoot-out with police. [64]
★ Giorgio Panto, 65, Italian regional television station owner and separatist politician, helicopter crash, presumed drowned. [65] (Italian)
★ Graham Roope, 60, Surrey and England cricketer, heart attack. [66]
★ Armin Russenberger, 80, Swiss cyclist. [67] (German)
★ Tony Silvester, 65, Panama-born soul singer with The Main Ingredient. [68]
★ Raúl Velasco, 73, Mexican television show host (''Siempre en Domingo''), natural causes. [69] [70]
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★ Luciano Bottaro, 75, Italian comic book artist (''Pepito''). [71] (Italian)
★ Valentín Elizalde, 27, Mexican banda singer, shot. [72]
★ David Hermance, 59, American Toyota engineer responsible for the Prius, plane crash. [73]
★ Gianluca Lerici (aka "Professor Bad Trip"), 43, Italian artist and designer. [74] (Italian)
★ Lt. Kenneth Taylor, 86, American Army Air Corps pilot, winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, strangulated hernia. [75][76]
★ Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter. [77]
★ Melvin Webber, 86, American town planner. [78]
★ Jack Werber, 92, Polish-born Holocaust survivor, American manufacturer of coonskin caps during the 1950s craze, heart attack. [79]
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★ Walter Booker, 72, jazz bassist with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, cardiac arrest. [80]
★ John Bridgers, 84, former athletic director at the University of New Mexico, congestive heart failure. [81]
★ William Diehl, 81, American author (''Primal Fear'', ''Sharky's Machine''), aortic aneurysm. [82]
★ Phyllis Fraser, 90, American actress, writer, and publisher, complications from fall. [83]
★ Robert Kupperman, 71, American terrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, complications from Parkinson's disease. [84]
★ Juice Leskinen, 56, Finnish singer-songwriter, renal insufficiency, cirrhosis, and diabetes. [85]
★ Frank L. Madla, 69, former Texas State Senator, house fire. [86]
★ Robert McFerrin, 85, first African-American to sing at the New York Metropolitan Opera and father of Bobby McFerrin, heart attack. [87] [88]
★ Mostafa Mesbahzadeh, 98, exiled Iranian newspaper publisher and founder of Kayhan newspaper group, pneumonia [89]
★ Thelma Scott, 93, Australian actress (Claire Houghton in ''Number 96''), heart attack. [90]
★ Maximo Soliven, 77, publisher of ''The Philippine Star'', cardiac arrest. [91]
★ George W. S. Trow, 63, American writer and media critic, natural causes. [92]
★ Zdeněk Veselovský, 78, Czech zoologist, heart failure. [93]
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★ Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of ''Zeta'' magazine, stomach cancer. [94]
★ Gerald M. Boyd, 56, African-American former managing editor of ''The New York Times'', lung cancer. [95] [96]
★ Nick Clarke, 58, BBC Radio 4 presenter and journalist, cancer. [97]
★ Richard Clements, 78, British journalist, Editor of Tribune (1961–1982). [98]
★ Betty Comden, 89, lyricist known for writing musicals with Adolph Green including ''Singin' in the Rain'', heart failure. [99]
★ Jack Ferrante, 90, American end for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. [100]
★ Dr Hasan K, father and flawed alibi of four brothers convicted of Ashfield gang rapes in Australia, heart attack. [101]
★ Richard Leopold, 94, American historian at Northwestern University, natural causes. [102]
★ Alexander Litvinenko, 43, former Russian spy and critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, poisoning. [103]
★ Philippe Noiret, 76, French actor (''Il Postino'', ''Cinema Paradiso''), cancer. [104]
★ Anita O'Day, 87, American jazz singer, pneumonia. [105]
★ Willie Pep, 84, American Hall of Fame featherweight boxer, Alzheimer's disease. [106] [107]
★ Chris Sandy, 27, former Harlem Globetrotter, car accident. [108]
★ Boe Tucker, 79, father and manager of country music singer Tanya Tucker, lung cancer. [109]
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★ Dr. Jerry Bails, 73, popular culture and comic book historian, heart attack. [110]
★ John Allan Cameron, 67, pioneer of Celtic music in Canada, bone cancer. [111]
★ Muriel Castanis, 80, American sculptor, lung failure. [112]
★ Pat Dobson, 64, American Major League Baseball pitcher, leukemia. [113] [114] [115]
★ Gilles Grégoire, 80, Canadian politician and co-founder of Parti Québécois. [116] (French)
★ Roy Newell, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, cancer. [117]
★ John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, 87, UK Minister of Transport (1970–1974) and MP for Yeovil (1951–1983). [118]
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★ Svein Erik Bakke, 59, Norwegian entrepreneur. [119] [120] (Norwegian)
★ Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, 80, Romanian priest, dissident during the rule of Nicolae Ceauşescu, pancreatic cancer. [121]
★ Thomas Courtney Fleming, 98, African-American civil rights leader and co-founder of the ''Sun-Reporter'', congestive heart failure. [122]
★ Pierre Gemayel, 34, Lebanese Minister of Industry, shot. [123] [124]
★ Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 90, first President of Djibouti, natural causes. [125]
★ Robert Lockwood Jr., 91, Mississippi Delta blues guitarist and singer, respiratory failure. [126]
★ Dr. Bernard Rimland, 78, American autism researcher, prostate cancer. [127] [128]
★ Eliezer Waldenberg, 89, Israeli Haredi rabbi. [129]
★ Sir Harold Young, Australian Liberal politician, President of the Senate 1981-83 [130]
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★ Robert Altman, 81, American film director (''MASH'', ''Nashville'', ''Short Cuts''), complications from leukemia. [131]
★ Zoia Ceauşescu, 56, daughter of Nicolae Ceauşescu, lung cancer. [132]
★ Paul Vincent Dudley, 79, Retired Roman Catholic Bishop of Sioux Falls, lung disease. [133]
★ William R. P. George, 94, Welsh archdruid, bard, novelist, nephew of WWI British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. [134]
★ Donald Hamilton, 90, American spy fiction writer. [135]
★ Walid Hassan, 47, Iraqi television personality and comedian, shot. [136]
★ Chris Hayward, 81, creator of Dudley Do-Right and co-creator of The Munsters, illness. [137]
★ Hong Xuezhi, 94, Chinese general, unspecified illness. [138] [139]
★ Dr. David Kritchevsky, 86, Ukrainian-born biochemist and nutrition expert. [140]
★ Kevin McClory, 80, film producer best known for 'unofficial' James Bond film Never Say Never Again.[141]
★ Saúl Ubaldini, 69, Argentinian labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist party, lung cancer. [142]
★ Andre Waters, 44, former American football player, most recently Fort Valley State University assistant football coach, suicide. [143] [144]
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★ W.G. Beasley, 86, historian who advanced the study of Japan in British universities. [145]
★ Zygmunt Bielawski, 69, Polish actor. [146]
★ Dirk Dirksen, 69, punk rock promoter at San Francisco's North Beach nightclub Mabuhay Gardens, in his sleep. [147]
★ Sir Edward Ford, 96, Assistant Private Secretary to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (1946–1967). [148]
★ Francis Girod, 62, French film director and screenwriter, heart attack. [149]
★ Smith Hempstone Jr., 77, American journalist and US ambassador to Kenya (1989-93), complications from diabetes. [150] [151]
★ Tan Sri Mohd Khir Johari, 83, former Malaysian Education Minister and one of the country's founding fathers, heart attack. [152]
★ Craig Neilsen, 65, CEO and Chairman of Ameristar Casinos, natural causes. [153]
★ Ernest Pusey, 111, Florida's oldest person and last Floridian WWI veteran. [154]
★ Francisco Quirós Hermosillo, Mexican general, cancer. [155]
★ Julio Ramos, 71, Argentinian journalist, director of ''Ámbito Financiero'', leukemia. [156]
★ Jeremy Slate, 80, American actor (''Hell's Angels '69'', ''One Life to Live''), esophageal cancer. [157] [158]
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★ Movladi Baisarov, 40, former head of one of Chechnya's security forces, shot. [159]
★ Roger Bolton, 59, General Secretary of BECTU, a British trade union, cancer. [160]
★ Lars Chemnitz, 81, Danish former member of the Parliament of Greenland and chairman of ''Landsrådet'', long illness. [161]
★ Lee Dong-won, 80, foreign minister of South Korea 1964-1966. [162]
★ Maurice W. Graham, 89, known as "King of the Hobos", author of ''Tales of the Iron Road: My Life as a Hobo'', stroke. [163] [164]
★ George V. Odell, 80, American arachnologist later leading the Mexican study of dangerous violin spider antivenom at the Biotechnology Institute IBT. 1926-2006. [165]
★ Keith Rowlands, 70, President of Welsh Rugby Union. [166]
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★ Sir John Acland, 77, British general who commanded British forces prior to Rhodesian independence.[167]
★ Ruth Brown, 78, American blues singer, complications following a heart attack and stroke. [168] [169]
★ Marcus Cassel, 23, American football player and former UCLA cornerback, car accident. [170] [171]
★ Bishop Joseph D'Silva, 76, Indian Archbishop of Bellary, India. [172]
★ Bishop Manuel Moreno, 75, Catholic bishop of Tucson, Arizona, brain haemorrhage. [173]
★ Tony Pithey, 73, South African cricketer, pancreatic cancer. [174]
★ Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian former footballer and coach, pneumonia. [175] [176]
★ Flo Sandon's, 82, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1953. [177] (Italian)
★ Bo Schembechler, 77, former University of Michigan football head coach, heart problems. [178] [179] [180]
★ Mário Sottomayor Cardia, 65, Portuguese former minister of Education, cancer. [181] (Portuguese)
★ Ramez Tebet, 70, Brazilian politician and lawyer, cancer. [182] (Portuguese)
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★ Curtis Cate, 82, American biographer, melanoma. [183]
★ Frank Durkan, 76, Irish-American lawyer known for his work for members of the Irish Republican Army in the US, lung infection. [184]
★ Milton Friedman, 94, American monetarist and free-market economist, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize, heart failure. [185] [186]
★ Gary Graver, 68, cinematographer and filmmaker, collaborator with Orson Welles (''F for Fake, The Other Side of the Wind''), cancer. [187] [188]
★ Geoff Griffin, 67, South African cricketer, heart attack. [189]
★ Yuri Levada, 76, Russian sociologist and pollster, heart attack. [190]
★ Eustace Lycett, 91, English-born US special effects technician, Academy Award winner for the Disney films ''Mary Poppins'' and ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' [191]
★ Jack Macpherson, 69, a figure in the California surf scene who founded a group that Tom Wolfe based his book "The Pump House Gang", liver and kidney failure. [192]
★ Pablo Shilton, 38, Argentine actor, Car accident. [193] (Spanish)
★ Paris Theodore, 63, American firearms inventor and manufacturer, multiple sclerosis. [194]
★ John Veale, 84, English classical composer, cancer. [195]
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★ George G. Blackburn MC, 90, Canadian author of ''Guns of Normandy'', member of the Order of Canada, cancer. [196]
★ John M. Blackburn, 93, Songwriter ("Moonlight in Vermont", "Need You", "Susquehanna"), natural causes [197]
★ Mac E. Hadley, 76, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona, one of the researchers who discovered Melanotan, homicide. [198]
★ Ken Ishikawa, 58, Japanese mangaka, co-creator of Getter Robo anime series, heart failure. [199]
★ Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack. [200] [201]
★ René Sterne, 54 , Belgian comic book artist (''Adler''). [202]
★ Owen Truelove, 69, RAF Air Commodore, glider crash. [203]
★ David K. Wyatt, 69, American historian of Thailand, emphysema and congestive heart failure. [204]
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★ Lieutenant General Sipho Binda, 54, second most senior officer in the South African National Defence Force, heart failure. [205]
★ Michele Maxian, 55, Legal Aid Society lawyer who battled New York City courts to arraign suspects within 24 hours, ovarian cancer. [206]
★ Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications of anorexia nervosa. [207]
★ Pete Suder, 90, American baseball player [208]
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★ Tiger Conway, 74, former professional wrestler, stroke. [209]
★ Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions. [210]
★ Konrad Fuchs, 109, German man believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran. [211]
★ John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor. [212]
★ Robert McCurry, 83, Chrysler marketer who introduced cash rebates for U.S. car buyers, prostate cancer. [213]
★ G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher, president of several newspaper chains, pneumonia. [214]
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★ Kip Bahadun, 65, former executive secretary of UMNO, aortic aneurysm. [215]
★ Alphonse Halimi, 74, French boxer, former World bantamweight champion, pneumonia. [216]
★ Harvey Manning, 81, American conservationist and author. [217]
★ Mario Merola, 72, Italian singer and actor, suffering a series of heart attacks. [218]
★ General Jacob E. Smart, 97, US Air Force general and NASA executive, former deputy C-in-C of the US European Command. [219]
★ Joseph Ungaro, 76, American journalism editor and executive whose question led to Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" response. [220] [221]
★ H. Donald Wilson, 82, founder of LexisNexis, heart attack [222]
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★ Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (''Home and Away''), metastatic breast cancer. [223]
★ S. Lane Faison, Jr., 98, American art historian who oversaw the return of artworks from the Nazis. [224] [225]
★ Dr. Albert B. Friedman, 86, American scholar of medieval literature and collector of ballads. [226]
★ Basil ("Joe") Jagger, 93, father of Rolling Stones' vocalist Mick Jagger, pneumonia [227]
★ Jabu Khanyile, 49, South African musician who played at the Johannesburg Live 8 concert, prostate cancer. [228]
★ Ben Kuzmichev, 67, former head of Ballet Idaho and convicted wife killer, cancer. [229]
★ Anthony Lapham, 70, American lawyer, former general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, heart attack. [230]
★ Noella Leclair, 61, Canada's first artificial heart recipient. [231]
★ Esther Lederberg, 83, American Stanford University microbiologist, discovered the lambda phage, pneumonia and congestive heart failure. [232] [233]
★ Rev. Harry Lehotsky, 49, Canadian anti-poverty advocate and newspaper columnist, pancreatic cancer. [234]
★ Ruth Morgenthau, 75, Austrian-born expert on international development, former adviser to Jimmy Carter. [235]
★ Dr. Jeanne Smith, 76, American hematologist, administrator at Harlem Hospital Center and sickle cell anemia expert, complications from stroke. [236]
★ Ronnie Stevens, 81, British comedic actor, causes undisclosed. [237]
★ Florence"Rusty" Tullis, 70, mother of "Rocky" Dennis and portrayed by Cher in ''Mask'', injuries from a motorcycle accident. [238] [239]
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★ Anicée Alvina, 53, French actress, cancer.[240]
★ Benny Andrews, 75, American artist, cancer. [241]
★ Diana Coupland, 74, English actress (''Bless This House''), complications following heart surgery. [242]
★ Gabriel Donoso, 46, Chilean polo player, injuries sustained after falling from a horse during a match. [243]
★ Maurice Floquet, 111, France's oldest man on record and combat-wounded WWI veteran. [244]
★ Doug Friedline, 49, American campaign manager for Jesse Ventura and other third party candidates, heart attack. [245]
★ Willy Knupp, 70, German motorsport journalist, cancer. [246] (German)
★ Gerald Levert, 40, American R&B singer and son of The O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, accidental acute intoxication. [247] [248]
★ Chubby Oates, 63, Cockney comedian, heart attack. [249]
★ Jack Palance, 87, Oscar-winning American actor (''Shane'', ''City Slickers''), natural causes. [250] [251]
★ Nicholas Proffitt, 63, American journalist and author, war correspondent for ''Newsweek'', kidney cancer. [252]
★ Nadarajah Raviraj, 44, Tamil National Alliance Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, shot. [253]
★ Igor Sergeyev, 68, ex-Defense Minister of Russia, the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, cancer. [254]
★ Hara Taira, 63, Japanese manga artist, author, and regular contestant on ''Quiz Derby'', liver failure. [255]
★ Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author. [256]
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★ Isadore Barmash, 84, American business journalist and author. [257]
★ Ed Bradley, 65, American CBS News journalist and ''60 Minutes'' correspondent, leukemia. [258]
★ Garton del Savio, 92, American baseball player, illness. [259]
★ Marian Marsh (a.k.a. Marilyn Morgan, Marian Henderson), 93, 1930s American film star (''Hell's Angels'', ''Svengali''). [260]
★ Stanley Meltzoff, 89, American diver and painter of undersea life. [261]
★ Sam Stephenson, 72, Irish architect, designed the Central Bank and Wood Quay, complications from heart surgery. [262]
★ David Thaw, 78, opera singer. [263] (German)
★ Walter Williams, 85, legislator in Washington state 1961-1971, complications from Parkinson's disease. [264]
★ Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist, professor, feminist activist and critic, lung cancer. [265]
★ Markus Wolf, 83, former head of East Germany's secret intelligence service, natural causes. [266]
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★ G. Robert Crowningshield, 87, American creator of diamond grading system [267]
★ Dr. Rhodes Fairbridge, 92, Australian geologist at Columbia University, supervising editor of ''The Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences'', brain tumor. [268]
★ Sir James Hunt, 63, British judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, brain tumour. [269]
★ Samuel “Eewie” Kambule, 41, South African former football player for Bafana Bafana. [270]
★ Basil Poledouris, 61, American film composer (''Conan the Barbarian'', ''Robocop'', ''Starship Troopers''), cancer. [271]
★ Philip Rauch, 95, American businessman and philanthropist, president of Ideal Corporation, chair of Parker-Hannifin Corporation. [272]
★ Annette Rogers, 93, American athlete, 4 x 100 metres relay gold medalist at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, stroke. [273]
★ Eduardo Sampson, 74, Uruguayan Minister of Transport (1976-1982). [274] (Spanish)
★ Peter Wensberg, 77, American former senior vice president for marketing for Polaroid, popularized the instant camera. [275]
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★ Paul Baltes, 67, German developmental psychologist. [276]
★ John Coburn, 81, Australian artist, winner of the 1960 and 1977 Blake Prizes for Religious Art. [277]
★ Guy Degrenne, 81, French industrialist. [278] (French)
★ Nate Gooden, 68, American former vice-president of the United Auto Workers. [279]
★ Buddy Kerr, 84, American baseball shortstop for the New York Giants, natural causes. [280] [281]
★ Jackie Parker, 74, former All-American and a Canadian football player, head coach and general manager, throat cancer. [282]
★ Bryan Pata, 22, American football player for the University of Miami Hurricanes, gunshot (homicide). [283]
★ Johnny Sain, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher, complications from a stroke. [284] [285]
★ Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 82, French journalist and politician, author of ''The American Challenge'', complications from bronchitis. [286] [287]
★ N.N. Sippy, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer, cardiac arrest. [288]
★ Robert Strudler, 64, American businessman, chair of the Lennar Corporation, complications of an infection. [289] [290]
★ Brian Thomson, 87, British chairman of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (1974–2005). [291]
★ Polly Umrigar, 80, former Indian cricket team captain, lymphoma. [292]
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★ Robert Jance Garfat, 62, American musician (''Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show''), motorcycle accident. [293]
★ Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, Mexican singer and actor known as "the king of the falsetto", bronchitis. [294]
★ Francisco Fernández Ochoa, 56, Spanish retired alpine skier, gold medallist in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games, cancer. [295]
★ Federico Lopez, 44, represented Puerto Rico in two Olympic Games and three world basketball championships, heart attack. [296]
★ J.T. Rutherford, 85, Democrat United States Representative for Texas (1955–1963), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [297]
★ David Bryan Rogers CB, 76, Former director general of the Inland Revenue, Prostate cancer.
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★ Samuel Bowers, 82, former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard, convicted of ordering the murder of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, cardiac arrest. [298]
★ Chuck DeShane, 87, former quarterback with the Detroit Lions. [299]
★ Chen Ding-nan, 63, former Justice Minister of Taiwan, lung cancer. [300]
★ Bülent Ecevit, 81, former Prime Minister of Turkey, complications following a stroke. [301]
★ George Esser, 85, set up the North Carolina Fund to fight poverty in the state in the 1960s at the request of its Governor Terry Sanford. [302]
★ Oscar González, 82, Uruguayan Grand Prix driver. [303] (Spanish)
★ Frank Marsden, 83, British Labour politician and Member of Parliament 1971-74. [304]
★ Pietro Rava, 90, Italian former football player, last surviving member of the 1938 World Cup-winning team, Alzheimer's disease. [305]
★ Hamilton Richardson, 73, American tennis player, US Open doubles winner, diabetes complications. [306]
★ Bobby Shearer, 74, Scottish former footballer who played for Hamilton Academical and Rangers, illness. [307]
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★ Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer. [308]
★ William Lee Brent, 75, Black Panther who hijacked a plane to Cuba; pneumonia. [309]
★ Lionel Bryer, 78, South African dentist who founded the Aberdeen International Youth Festival [310]
★ Frank Arthur Calder, 91, aboriginal Canadian politician. [311]
★ Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, co-author of ''Cheaper by the Dozen'', natural causes. [312]
★ Gerhard Goebel, 72, former German Catholic bishop of Tromsø [313]
★ Delfor Medina, 78, Argentine actor. [314] (Spanish)
★ John McManners, 89, English historian, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University (1972-84). [315]
★ Sergi López Segú, 39, footballer for FC Barcelona and Gerard López's brother, suicide by throwing himself under a train. [316]
★ Deron Thorp, 33, former NFL Europa player, cause unconfirmed. [317]
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★ Belden Bly, 92, served in Massachusetts legislature for 32 years. [318]
★ Frank Dunham, Jr., 64, US federal public defender, head lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui, brain cancer. [319]
★ Sir Allen Fairhall, 96, member of the Australian House of Representatives (1949-69), Minister for Defence (1966-69). [320]
★ Dr. Fereydoun Hoveyda, 82, Syrian-born former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, cancer. [321]
★ Paul Mauriat, 81, French musician (''L'Amour Est Bleu''). [322]
★ Sputnik Monroe, 77, American professional wrestler, respiratory illness. [323]
★ Malachi Ritscher, 52, American anti-war protester, self-immolation. [324] [325]
★ Marie Rudisill, 95, "Fruitcake Lady" on ''The Tonight Show'', aunt of Truman Capote, natural causes. [326]
★ Stanley Rothenberg, 76, American lawyer and former president of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., complications after surgery for a popliteal aneurism. [327]
★ Arnie Sachs, 78, photojournalist, bone cancer. [328]
★ Alberto Spencer, 68, footballer for Peñarol and Ecuador, all-time highest scorer in Copa Libertadores de América, intestinal infection following heart surgery. [329]
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★ Rafael Donato, 69, Filipino President of DLSU-Manila (1991-1994), President of De La Salle Lipa (1995-2003), drowning. [330]
★ Adrien Douady, 71, French mathematician. [331]
★ Wally Foreman, 58, Australian Broadcasting Corporation sports broadcaster, heart attack. [332]
★ Albrecht Graf von Goertz, 92, designer of the BMW 507. [333]
★ Red Hayworth, 91, American baseball player. [334]
★ Carroll Knicely, 77, Kentucky commerce secretary for three governors and publisher. [335]
★ Les Mansfield, 90, played rugby union for Wales and won the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II, illness. [336]
★ Leonard Schrader, 62, American screenwriter (''Kiss of the Spider Woman'', ''), brother of Paul Schrader, heart failure. [337]
★ Milly Vitale, 74, Italian actress, natural causes. [338]
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★ Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress (Dr. Maggie Graham in ''Ben Casey''), stroke. [339] [340]
★ Jason DiEmilio, 36, American guitarist (Azusa Plane), overdose. [341]
★ Daniel Garcia, 80, Mexican professional wrestler and film star better known as Huracan Ramirez, heart attack. [342]
★ Buddy Killen, 73, American record producer and founder of Dial Records, pancreatic cancer. [343]
★ Florence Klotz, 86, American Tony-winning costume designer, heart failure. [344] [345]
★ Donka Paprikova, 91, Bulgarian philanthropist, natural causes. [346]
★ Johnny Schofield, 75, footballer for Birmingham City and former manager of Atherstone Town F.C., complications from an illness. [347]
★ Adrienne Shelly, 40, American actress (''Trust'', ''The Unbelievable Truth''), screenwriter, and director, strangulation. [348] [349]
★ William Styron, 81, American writer (''Darkness Visible'', ''Confessions of Nat Turner'', ''Sophie's Choice''), pneumonia. [350]
★ Hilda van Stockum, 98, Dutch Newbery Medal-winning author of children's books, stroke. [351]
★ Silvio Varviso, 82, Swiss conductor of the Vlaamse Opera, illness. [352]
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