DEATHS IN APRIL 2006

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

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★ Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist. [1]

★ Barry Driscoll, 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer. [2]

★ Bobby Fetzer, 50, an heir of the Fetzer Vineyards family, river rafting accident. [3]

★ Tyler Fry, 33, American model and boyfriend of Shoshana Bean, in a car accident. [4]

★ Boris Koytchou, 86, Russian-born contract bridge player. [5]

★ Harold "Bunny" Levitt, 96, American basketball player, member of the Harlem Globetrotters. [6]

★ George Mgrdichian, 71, American oud player. [7]

★ Heinz Poll, 80, German-born choreographer and co-founder of the Ohio Ballet. [8]

★ Jean-François Revel, 82, French philosopher [9]

★ Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead [10]

★ William (Bill) Roberts, 105, British First World War veteran [11]

★ Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel [12]

★ Paul Spiegel, 68, Chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes. [13] [14]

★ Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer [15]

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★ Sid Barron, 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it." [16][17]

★ William L. Durkin, 89, U.S. Marine and businessman - best known for rescuing Howard Hughes in 1946 plane crash, heart attack [18]

★ Jiri Frel, 82, Czech-born antiquities curator for the J. Paul Getty Museum. [19]

★ Reuben Falber, 91, former Assistant General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. [20]

★ John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, American economist and author (''The Affluent Society''), natural causes. [21][22]

★ Dr. Lawrence F. Grey, MD, 51 Urologist and leading pioneer specializing in Vasectomy Reversal Surgery. (aka "the Vas Doctor), suicide. [23]

★ Leighton Kerner, 79, American classical music critic for ''The Village Voice''. [24]

★ Bishop James Mote, 84, American Bishop of the breakaway Anglican Catholic Church. [25]

★ Alberta Nelson, 68, American actress known for beach blanket movies of 1960s. [26]

★ Félix Siby, 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister. [27]

★ John Trever, 90, American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. [28] [29]

★ Alvin S. White, 87, American test pilot [30]

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★ Helen Armstrong, 63, American concert violinist. [31]

★ Angel O. Berrios, 69, former mayor of Caguas, Puerto Rico, heart failure [32]

★ Steve Howe, 48, former Major League pitcher, automobile accident [33] [34]

★ Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer [35] [36]

★ MGG Pillai, 67, veteran Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications [37] [38]

★ Harvey Ratner, 79, former owner of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. [39]

★ Burt Todd, 81, American entrepreneur. [40]

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★ Elma "Pem" Gardner Farnsworth, 98, Philo Farnsworth's widow [41]

★ Bogdan Hancu, 28, killed by roadside bomb in Iraq, first Romanian soldier to die in Iraq [42]

★ Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer. [43]

★ Roy Mogg, 77, English Methodist preacher and fraternalist, announced at the 74th National Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose

★ Strini Moodley, 60, founding member of South African Black Consciousness Movement [44]

★ Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler. [45]

★ Julia Thorne, 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry, bladder cancer. [46]

★ Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 76, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967-1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.[47]

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★ Rabbi Moshe Halberstam, 74, Jerusalemite Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem. [48]

★ Helen Hobbs Jordan, 99, American music teacher whose students included Tony Bennett, Melissa Manchester, Bette Midler, and Paul Simon. [49]

★ Daniel McKenna, 54, former guitarist for the band Toby Beau, apparent suicide [50]

★ Peter Millard, 34, American programmer and engineer, assisted with development of Jabber/XMPP and wrote and maintained Exodus. [51]

★ Voldemar Miller, 95, Estonian historian, archivist, book researcher and author of several books for children. [52]

★ Professor Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, and former science minister. [53] [54]

★ Russ Swan, 42, former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall) [55]

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★ Jokin Gorostidi, 62, Spanish leftwing nationalist leader. [56]

★ Joseph Iseman, 89, American lawyer. [57]

★ Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (''The Death and Life of Great American Cities''), stroke. [58]

★ Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM, brain tumor. [59]

★ Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite. [60]

★ Colonel James Swindal, 88, American pilot of Air Force One during the John F. Kennedy assassination. [61]

★ John Kerr, 81, Irish ballad singer.

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★ Erik Bergman, 94, Finnish composer [62]

★ Nasreen Pervin Huq, 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid,from getting hit by a car. [63]

★ Grace Nelsen Jones, 112, Virginia's oldest person. [64] [65]

★ Brian Labone, 66, former Everton and England footballer, heart attack [66]

★ Bonnie Owens, 76, country music singer. [67]

★ Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario. [68]

★ Sibby Sisti, 85, MLB player with the Boston Braves [69]

★ Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heart attack. [70]

★ Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, 91, of Satmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world. [71]

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★ Ghafar Baba, 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister. [72]

★ Susan Browning, 65, American actress. [73]

★ Harvey Bullock, 84, American television writer and producer (''The Love Boat'', ''Love, American Style''). [74] [75]

★ Wing Commander Johnny Checketts, 94, New Zealand World War II Flying ace [76]

★ Willie Finnigan, 93, legendary footballer for Hibernian F.C. [77]

★ Boris Fraenkel, 85, French Trotskyist [78]

★ Barry Gibbs, 73, South Australian cricket official. [79] [80]

★ William Gottlieb, 89, American jazz photographer. [81] [82] [83]

★ John Dunster, 83, British radiation expert [84]

★ Jennifer Jayne, 64, British TV and film actress ("William Tell (tv series)")

★ George Lenchner, 88, American mathematics educator. [85]

★ Florence Mars, 83, American civil rights activist, author of ''Witness in Philadelphia''. [86] [87]

★ Ian Nelson, 50, English saxophone and clarinet musician, died in his sleep. [88]

★ David Peckinpah, 54, television producer and director, heart attack [89].

★ Phil Walden, 66, American founder of Capricorn Records, cancer. [90]

★ Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor. [91]

★ Roger Watkins, 69, English, former editor-in-chief of Variety magazine, cancer.

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★ Henriette Avram, 86, library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format. [92] [93]

★ Alexis Bespaloff, 71, Romanian-born wine columnist for ''New York'' magazine. [94]

★ Ed Davis, 89, former Los Angeles police chief (1969-1978). [95]

★ Kay Finegan, 95, American 1940s big band singer. [96]

★ Bill Kirschner, 97, American inventor of the first commercially successful fiberglass skis, founder of the K2 Corporation, member of the United States National Ski Hall of Fame. [97]

★ Titos Kontopoulos, 45, Greek journalist, cancer. [98]

★ Nobby Lawton, 65, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End, cancer. [99]

★ Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician. Shot during hunting trip. [100]

★ Satyadeow Sawh, 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen. [101] [102] [103]

★ Ronnie Sox, 67, American drag racing pioneer. [104]

★ Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress (''The Third Man''). [105] [106][107]

★ Fausto Vitello, 59, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazine ''Thrasher'', heart attack. [108] [109]

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★ Sir Richard Bayliss, 89, formerly Queen Elizabeth II's physician, former head of the Medical Household and leading thyroidologist. [110]

★ William Boggs, 19, boxer, homicide [111]

★ Willie Brown Jr., 61, executed in North Carolina for a 1983 murder. [112]

★ Fred Burton, 43, Belgian comic book artist. [113] [114]

★ Robert Carleson, 75, official in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan US Presidential administrations. [115]

★ Marianna Christos, 58, American operatic soprano [116]

★ Jacob Kovco, 25, first Australian Defence Forces serviceperson killed in Iraq. [117]

★ Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection. [118]

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★ Kathleen Antonelli, 85, one of the original computer programmers, cancer.

★ Cong Fei, 36, Chinese singer and philanthropist, stomach cancer.

★ Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate. [119]

★ Dennis Duggan, 78, newspaper columnist [120]

★ Stanley Hiller, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer. [121]

★ Sylvia de Leur, 72, Dutch actress, ALS. [122]

★ Ron Mather, 68, Scottish basketball coach. [123]

★ Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director. [124]

★ Anna Svidersky, 17, murdered while working at McDonalds, stabbed. [125]

★ Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster. [126]

★ Robert Wegman, 87, chairman and former CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., philanthropist. [127] [128]

★ Elaine Young, 71, American celebrity real estate broker. [129]

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★ Oscar Acosta, 49, manager of the Gulf Coast Yankees, automobile accident. [130]

★ Scott Crossfield, 84, American X-15 test pilot, plane crash. [131][132]

★ Bob Dove, 85, American NFL defensive lineman and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. [133]

★ Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes. [134] [135]

★ Zola Levitt, 67, Christian broadcaster, messianic Jewish preacher, lung cancer. [136]

★ Humberto Trejo, 38, New York Yankees field coordinator for the Dominican Republic, automobile accident. [137]

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★ John Lyall, 66, former football manager with West Ham United F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C., heart attack. [138] [139]

★ Marcia Martin, 82, American children's author. [140]

★ Grady McWhiney, 77, American historian. [141]

★ Dick Rockwell, 85, American cartoonist, assistant on ''Steve Canyon'', nephew of Norman Rockwell. [142]

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★ Dr. Jean Bernard, 98, French hematologist. [143] [144]

★ Scott Brazil, 50, American television producer and director (''The Shield''), Lou Gehrig's disease. [145] [146]

★ Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK. [147] [148]

★ Elford Albin Cederberg, 88, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953-1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan. [149]

★ Alice Fiske, 88, opened her estate Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island to archeological research. [150]

★ Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (''As the World Turns''). [151] [152][153]

★ Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, 84, scholar of Judaism. [154]

★ Warren Platner, 86, American modernist architect and designer. [155]

★ Rudolf Slánský, Jr., 71, former Czech ambassador to Russia, son of Rudolf Slánský. [156]

★ Rev. Seymour St. John, 94, headmaster of the Choate School for 26 years. [157]

★ Vaishnavi, 20, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide. [158]

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★ Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, car accident. [159]

★ Richard Eckersley, 65, graphic designer. [160]

★ Morton Freedgood, 93, American author (''The Taking of Pelham One Two Three'') under the pseudonym of John Godey. [161] [162]

★ Brett Goldin, 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27. [163]

★ Dimitri Hadzi, 85, American sculptor and professor at Harvard University. [164]

★ Harold Horwood, 82, writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer. [165]

★ Daniel Schaefer, 70, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983-1999, cancer. [166]

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★ Raul Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer [167]

★ Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot), 40, English noble, epilepsy, [168], [169]

★ Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer. [170]

★ Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall. [171]

★ Anthony James Ryan, 84, American photographer, producer, writer, actor and production manager. [172]

★ Louise Smith, 89, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer. [173]

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★ Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician. [174]

★ Edward Broida, 72, American art collector. [175]

★ Dr. Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author. [176]

★ Raúl Quijano, 82, former foreign minister of Argentina [177]

★ Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack. [178]

★ Dr. Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert. [179]

★ Dr. Lynn Smaha, 63, American cardiologist and former president of the American Heart Association, heart attack. [180]

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★ Sir Michael Cobham, 79, chairman of aerospace company Cobham plc, son of founder Sir Alan Cobham. [181] [182]

★ Ed Corbett, 74, American actor. [183]

★ Peter Karches, 54, American executive at Morgan Stanley, lymphocytic leukemia. [184]

★ Ronald B. Rogers, 80, American concert singer and actor. [185]

★ Michael Shir, 83, Israeli writer, founder of children's magazine ''Ezbeoni''. [186]

★ Dame Muriel Spark, 88, British novelist, best known for ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' (1962). [187]

★ Keo Viphakone, 89, Laos Secretary of State for Social Welfare and Commissioner of Rural Affairs, Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient. [188]

★ Bruce Weber, 54, Australian rules football executive who was president of the Port Adelaide Football Club

★ Arthur Winston, 100, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100. [189]

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★ Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces. [190]

★ William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure. [191].

★ Dr. Paulina Kernberg, 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University. [192]

★ Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director [193]

★ Christiane Maybach, 74, German actress [194]

★ Shekhar Mehta, 60, Kenyan rally driver, five-time winner of the Safari Rally & president of the FIA's World Rally Championship commission, illness relating to complications from an old injury. [195]

★ Howard Newman, 85, American executive and investor. [196]

★ Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player. [197]

★ Albert E. Radford, 88, American botanist, senior author of ''Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas'', a landmark flora for North Carolina and South Carolina, which is still the definitive guide, nearly forty years after its publication. [198]

★ Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. [199]

★ William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', professor at Stanford University. [200]

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★ Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor

★ Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member. [201]

★ DeShaun Holton, 32, American rapper better known as Proof of D-12, homicide. [202] [203] [204]

★ Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Sinn Féin politician, cancer. [205]

★ June Pointer, 52, singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters, lung cancer. [206]

★ Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean Film producer, liver problems.[207]

★ Naoki Tominaga, 92, Japanese sculptor [208]

★ Logan Young Jr., 65, central figure in the University of Alabama recruiting scandal. [209]

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★ Joe Faragalli, 76, CFL head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos, unspecified illness. [210]

★ Bonaya Godana, 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash. [211]

★ Bishop Charles Henderson KC
★ HS, 81, retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, cancer. [212]

★ Mirugi Kariuki, 53, Kenyan politician and lawyer, plane crash. [213]

★ Kleitos Kyrou, 85, Greek poet, unspecified respiratory illness. [214]

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★ Charles Doe, 79, founder of Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, cancer. [215]

★ Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia. [216]

★ Billy Hitchcock, 89, Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes. [217] [218]

★ George Minden, 85, Romanian president of the CIA-financed International Literary Center. [219]

★ Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor [220]

★ Jimmy Outlaw, 93, baseball third baseman/outfielder who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Bees and Detroit Tigers between 1937 and 1949 [221]

★ Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister. [222]

★ Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (''I Am Curious (Yellow)''), complications from brain haemorrhage. [223]

★ Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano [224]

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★ Dr.Phillip Harrity, 42, Pathologist at William Beaumont Hospital and Alumnus of the Roeper School, cancer. [225]

★ Elizabeth Maguire, 47, American editor, vice president and publisher of Basic Books. [226]

★ Richard Pearlman, 68, director of the Chicago Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. [227]

★ Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (''The Evenings'', ''The Fourth Man''), Alzheimer's disease. [228] [229][230]

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★ John Blackburn, 82, comics artist and writer. [231]

★ Christian, The Dowager Lady Hesketh, 76, British historian. [232]

★ Denise Morgan, 41, lawyer & professor at New York Law School [233]

★ Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife of Nudie Cohn. [234]

★ Frederick Pough, 99, American mineralogist and author of ''A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals'' (1953). [235]

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★ Jim Clack, 58, NFL offensive guard, heart failure. [236]

★ Maggie Dixon, 28, women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia. [237]

★ Amanda Duff, 92, American actress [238]

★ Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat [239]

★ Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University. [240]

★ Lucie 'Anne' Pere-Pucheu, 112, French supercentenarian. [241]

★ Stefanos Strategos, 83, Greek actor, lung problems [242]

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★ Alain de Boissieu, 92, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle [243]

★ J.B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist. [244]

★ George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.[245]

★ Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes. [246]

★ Ray Krzoska, 87, American men's basketball coach at UW-Milwaukee Star star athlete, natural causes. [247]
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★ Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist. [249]

★ Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, 82, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI. [250] [251]

★ Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist. [252]

★ Ellinor Piipuu, 92, Estonian ceramist. [253]

★ Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease. [254] [255]

★ Marcelo Real, 48, Argentine sportscaster. [256]

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★ Colonel Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II. [257]

★ Eckhard Dagge, 58, German WBC junior middleweight boxer. [258]

★ Denis Donaldson, 55/56, former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home. [259]

★ Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s,from cancer.[260]

★ John de Courcy Ireland, 94, Irish maritime historian and political activist. [261]

★ Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer. [262]

★ Vickery Turner, 66, British actress of the 60's. [263]

★ Charles Wilcox GC, won the George Cross for helping rescue a man trapped high on a building in Birmingham [264]

★ Canon Frederick B. Williams, 66, minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City [265]

★ Tommy Wilson, 72, ex-Reading F.C. & Exeter City F.C. player, and notable figure in Bridgwater, Somerset. [266]

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★ Tom Abercrombie, 75, ''National Geographic ''photographer, complications from open-heart surgery. [267]

★ William E. Bennett, 63, professor of political science at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, KY, lung cancer.

★ Barry Bingham, Jr., 72, former editor and publisher of the ''Louisville Courier-Journal'' and the ''Louisville Times''. [268]

★ Lou Carrol, 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon. [269]

★ Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps. [270]

★ Martin Gilks, 41, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident. [271] [272]

★ Marshall Goldberg, 88, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury. [273] [274]

★ Peter Hadhazy, 62, longtime NFL official, former general manager of the Cleveland Browns. [275] [276]

★ Albert Harker, 95, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team. [277]

★ Frédérique Huydts, 38, Dutch actress, colon cancer. [278]

★ Gwin Kolb, 86, American professor at the University of Chicago and scholar of Samuel Johnson. [279]

★ Antonia Morgan 91, fled the U.S. with granddaughter in Elizabeth Morgan custody battle [280]

★ Genzo Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist. [281]

★ Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress [282]

★ Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer. [283]

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★ Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. [284].

★ William 'John' Jordan, 85, businessman, aviator & motor racing team boss. [285]

★ Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright. [286]

★ Victor Quiñonez, 46, International Wrestling Association (IWA) Promoter and Owner. [287],

★ Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers. [288]

★ Nina von Stauffenberg, 92, widow of Hitler's would-be assassin. [289]

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★ Anthony Ameruso, 68, former New York City transportation commissioner. [290]

★ Daniel Patrick "Gary" Dineen, Canadian hockey player and Olympian [291]

★ Ryusuke Matsumoto, 49, Japanese comedian. [292]

★ In Tam, 89, former Cambodian politician. [293]