DEATHS IN AUGUST 2006

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

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★ Mohamed Abdelwahab, 23, Egyptian international footballer, suspected heart attack. [1]

★ K. Sri Dhammananda, 87, Sri Lankan/Malaysian bhikkhu, stroke. [2].

★ Guy Gabaldon, 80, World War II US Marine, the "Pied Piper of Saipan", heart attack. [3] [4]

★ J.S. Holliday, 82, American historian and expert on California Gold Rush, pulmonary fibrosis. [5]

★ Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver. [6]

★ "Broadway" Charlie Wagner, 93, former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. [7] [8]

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★ Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, 80, New Zealand jurist. [9]

★ Glenn Ford, 90, Canadian-American actor (''Blackboard Jungle'', ''Cimarron''). [10] [11]

★ Bob Gallagher, 83, chairman of Arthur J. Gallagher insurance brokerage. [12]

★ Burt Goldblatt, 82, American jazz album cover designer. [13]

★ Susan L. Hefle, 46, American food scientist, cancer.[14]

★ George Johnson, 112, purported grandson of US president Andrew Johnson, possibly the last Californian World War I veteran, pneumonia. [15]

★ Dr. Olga Jonasson, 72, American transplant surgeon. [16]

★ Igor Kio, 62, Russian illusionist, [17]

★ Uwe Leichsenring, 39, German NPD politician, injuries sustained in a car accident. [18] (German)

★ Bob LeRose, 85, colorist and cover production artist for DC Comics. [19]

★ Ron McKenna, 88, head trainer for the New York Mets 1970-1980, heart attack. [20]

★ Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries sustained in a fall in July. [21]

★ Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, 83, Scottish former Conservative MP and government minister. [22]

★ Mel Sachs, 60, New York City trial lawyer. [23]

★ Dennis Spellmann, 70, President of Lindenwood University. [24]

★ Bill Stumpf, 70, American industrial designer who co-created the Aeron office chair. [25] [26]

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★ Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships. [27]

★ Stefan Blaho, 21, Slovak hockey player drafted by the New York Islanders, car accident. [28]

★ John Cummins, 58, Victorian union official and last secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer. [29]

★ Dr. Robert Gorlin, 83, American oral pathologist. [30]

★ Gerald Green, 84, American author (''The Last Angry Man'') and screenwriter (''Holocaust''). [31]

★ Dorothy Harmsen, 91, co-creator of the Jolly Rancher, author and collector of American Western art, heart attack. [32] [33]

★ Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, murdered in Brussels. [34]

★ Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician. [35]

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★ Ed Benedict, 94, American animator and layout artist, designed Fred Flintstone.[36]

★ Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats. [37] [38] [39]

★ Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, played Marjorie on ''The Great Gildersleeve'', heart failure. [40]

★ Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete, prevented from competing in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics due to Soviet repression. [41] (Estonian), [42] (PDF)

★ Robert McDermott, 86, former dean of the United States Air Force Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke. [43]

★ David Nicholson, 67, British horse racing trainer, suspected heart attack. [44]

★ Pip Pyle, 56, drummer with Gong and Hatfield and the North [45]

★ William F. Quinn, 87, first Governor of Hawaii, pneumonia. [46] [47]

★ Michael Richard, 58, photographer, cancer. [48]

★ Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Bloc Québécois MP, traffic accident. [49]

★ Dr. Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. [50] [51]

★ Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies. [52]

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★ Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116, world's oldest person and the last person known to have been alive in the 1880s, pneumonia. [53] [54] [55]

★ Jon Dough, 43, AVN Hall of Fame pornographic actor, suicide. [56]

★ Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. [57]

★ Iain MacKintosh, 74, Scottish folk musician. [58]

★ Vashti McCollum, 93, American plaintiff in ''McCollum v. Board of Education''. [59]

★ Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Archbishop of Mariana, Brazil, cancer. [60]

★ Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director [61] [62]

★ Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist with Terrorizer and Napalm Death, complications of diabetic coma. [63]

★ Dr. A. James Rowan, 71, neurologist who studied epilepsy. [64]

★ Patrick Smith, 58, board member of Habitat for Humanity International, one of 49 killed on Comair Flight 5191. [65]

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★ Rainer Barzel, 82, former President of the German Bundestag and Chairman of the CDU. [66]

★ Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, Balochistani rebel tribal leader, killed by Pakistani military forces. [67]

★ John Ripley Forbes, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums. [68]

★ William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer. [69]

★ Yosef Hadar, 90, Israeli composer, cancer (in Hebrew)

★ Evgeny Kucherevsky, 65, Ukrainian football coach of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, car crash. [70]

★ Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P., 93, French Dominican priest & founder of the Community of St. John, stroke. [71]

★ Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist. [72]

★ Michael Vestey, 61, former BBC correspondent and radio critic on The Spectator magazine. [73]

★ Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, West Indian cricketer. [74][75]

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★ John Blankenstein, 57, one of the first openly gay Dutch football referees, kidney disease. [76]

★ Noor Hassanali, 88, former President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

★ Morton Holbrook, Jr., 91, led reform of Kentucky court system. [77]

★ Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet. [78]

★ Lena King Lee, 100, educator and attorney, one of the first African-American women elected to the Maryland General Assembly. [79] [80]

★ Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer. [81]

★ Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident. [82][83]

★ Dr. Gail Shapiro, 59, American pediatric allergist. [84]

★ Joseph Stefano, 84, screenwriter (''Psycho''), co-creator of ''The Outer Limits''. [85] [86]

★ Toroku Takagi, 102, Japanese composer. [87]

★ Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident. [88] [89] [90]

★ Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television commentator and radio broadcaster, cancer. [91]

★ John Wilson, 56, ''New York Times'' journalist and founding member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. [92]

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★ Herbert Hupka, 91, German journalist and politician. [93] (in German)

★ Leonard Levy, 83, Canadian-born US constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History. [94]

★ Anthony Malara, 69, former president of CBS Television and former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association. [95]

★ Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. [96] (in Russian)

★ Rocco Petrone, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center. [97]

★ David Plowright, 75, TV executive and producer, former chairman of Granada Television. [98]

★ Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. [99]

★ Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor. [100] [101]

★ James Tenney, 72, experimental composer, cancer.[102]

★ Gene Thompson, 89, baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants. [103]

★ John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian music composer. [104]

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★ Lauren Crowner, 25, news anchor/reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, OH, infection after auto accident. [105]

★ Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpeter, kidney and liver failure. [106] [107][108]

★ Colin Forbes, 82, English novelist.[109]

★ Wasim Raja, 54, former Pakistan Test cricket player, heart attack while playing a match in Marlow, England. [110] [111]

★ David Schnaufer, 53, Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. [112]

★ Andrew J. Sullivan, 74, Air Force Veteran. Served in Korea.

★ Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer. [113]

★ Ed Warren, 79, demonologist, after long illness. [114]

★ Jay Young, 56, one of the original CNN news anchors, heart attack. [115]

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★ Wallace Brown, 76, Australian journalist, political correspondent in Canberra for (Brisbane's) The Courier-Mail 1961-1996. [116]

★ Bruce Gary, 55, American rock musician, drummer with The Knack, lymphoma. [117] [118]

★ Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer who recorded Paul Henderson celebrating his winning goal in the Summit Series. [119]

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★ Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist. [120]

★ George Edwards, 87, American radio host for WQXR. [121]

★ Ustad Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. [122] [123] [124]

★ Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education 1997-2000, cancer. [125]

★ Geff Noblet, 89, Australian Test cricketer 1949-1953. [126]

★ William C. Norris, 95, American engineer and founder of Control Data Corporation. [127]

★ Buck Page, 84, western musician and founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage. [128]

★ Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. [129]

★ S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease. [130]

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★ Dr. George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor who provided steroids to, amongst others, Ben Johnson in the 1980s. [131]

★ Claude Blanchard, 74, French-Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. [132]

★ Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. [133]

★ Alexander Cushing, 92, American founder of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the US. [134]

★ Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer. [135]

★ Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of ''National Lampoon''. [136]

★ James T. "Red" Hudson, 81, founder of Hudson Foods, lung cancer. [137]

★ Jack Laughery, 71, American former CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. [138]

★ Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born professor of economics at Columbia University. [139]

★ Giuseppe Moccia, alias Pipolo, 75, Italian film director with Franco Castellano (Castellano & Pipolo), father of writer Federico Moccia. [140]

★ Joe Rosenthal, 94, Pulitzer Prize winner for photographing United States Marines raising their flag on Iwo Jima, natural causes. [141]

★ Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian State Government Minister for Sport 1982-92, Australian Rules footballer 1949-59 for Geelong, heart attack. [142]

★ Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 95, 6th Baron Deramore and writer of erotic fiction. [143]

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★ Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. [144]

★ Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer [145]

★ Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure. [146]

★ James Lovett Dewar, 94, American banker, founder of Park Avenue Bank. [147]

★ Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure. [148] [149]

★ Omar Oscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer and 1950 FIFA World Cup winner. [150]

★ Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner. [151] [152]

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★ James Clark, Jr., 87, former president of the Maryland State Senate, cancer. [153]

★ Kathryn Frost, 57, retired U.S. Army Major General and one of its highest ranking women, wife of former U.S. Representative Martin Frost, breast cancer. [154]

★ Grace Furukawa, 77, first Japanese-Canadian teacher in Ontario, natural causes. [155]

★ Fernand Gignac, 72, French-Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. [156]

★ Dick Hickox, 68, guard for the University of Miami basketball team, 1959-60. [157]

★ Ken Kearney, 82, dual international for Australia in rugby league and rugby union, heart attack. [158]

★ Robert Mitchell, 77, American Broadway set designer. [159]

★ Jeffrey Tennyson, 54, American artist and collector of hamburger memorabilia, author of ''Hamburger Heaven''. [160]

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★ Tan Sri Kontek Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement. [161] [162]

★ Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer and founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. [163]

★ Ken Goodall, 59, Irish international rugby union player 1967-1970. [164]

★ Masumi Hayashi, 60, Japanese-American photographer, shooting. [165]

★ John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer. [166]

★ Dr. Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born molecular biologist at MIT, discovered the cause of sickle cell anemia. [167]

★ Walter Jagiello, 76, "Li'l Wally", American polka musician and songwriter. [168]

★ Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. [169]

★ Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. [170] [171]

★ Werner Scharff, 90, German-born designer of the Lanz flannel granny nightgown, Parkinson's disease. [172]

★ Sig Shore, 87, film producer (''Superfly''). [173]

★ Evan Harris Walker, 70, physicist and consciousness theorist [174]

★ Guy Weill, 92, Swiss-born collector of Asian art. [175]

★ Yen Ngoc Do, 65, founder of ''Nguoi Viet Daily News'', diabetes and kidney disease. [176] [177]

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★ Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. [178]

★ Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright (''Norm and Ahmed'', ''Rooted''), cancer. [179]

★ Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace. [180]

★ Robert Kreem, 83, Estonian exile activist [181]

★ Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist of melodic black metal band Dissection, convicted of felony murder, suicide. [182][183]

★ Iris Ovshinsky, 79, co-founder of ECD Ovonics, wife of inventor Stanford Ovshinsky. [184]

★ Velda Otsus, 92, Estonian actress [185] [186] [187] (all in Estonian)

★ James A. Reed, 92, lawyer and banker, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury. [188]

★ Alfredo Stroessner, 93, former dictator of Paraguay, complications from hernia surgery. [189]

★ Roy Tobias, 78, American ballet dancer and teacher. [190]

★ Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure following various illnesses [191][192]

★ William Wasson, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury. [193]
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★ Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. [194]

★ Dr. James W. Smith, Jr., 79, American surgeon, author, and collector of early arcade games. [195]

★ Rudi Stern, 69, American multimedia artist. [196]

★ Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, Māori Queen. [197]

★ Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. [198]

★ Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer. [199]

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★ Dr. Paul Beeson, 97, American infectious disease researcher, former chair of the department of medicine at Yale University. [200]

★ Johnny Duncan, 67, country singer and songwriter ("She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime", "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better"), heart attack. [201] [202] [203]

★ Richard J. Farmer, 43, Emmy-award winning cameraman. [204]

★ Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. [205]

★ Milton Kaye, 97, American pianist and arranger. [206]

★ Lord Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. [207] [208]

★ Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (''The Godfather Part II'', ''City Slickers''), complications from leukemia. [209] [210]

★ Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, (''Rockets Redglare!''), motorcycle accident. [211]

★ Lawrence Sacharow, 68, American Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway director. [212]

★ Dr. James Wattenbarger, 84, American educator and University of Florida professor, designed Florida's community college system. [213]

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★ Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1959-1964. [214]

★ Heather Clarke, 39, Wife of Golfer Darren Clarke

★ Kermit L. Hall, 61, President of the University at Albany and member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. [215] [216]

★ Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association Middleweight champion in 1938 and 1939, stroke. [217] [218]

★ Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. [219]

★ Annely Juda, 91, German-born London art gallery owner. [220]

★ Armin Meyer, 92, American ambassador to Lebanon, Iran and Japan, Parkinson's disease. [221] [222]

★ Walter Nurnberg, 78, professional wrestler. [223]

★ Payao Poontarat, 49, Thailand's first Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976) and former World Boxing Council champion, ALS. [224] [225]

★ Diane Shamash, 51, American founder of Minetta Brook, a non-profit art organization. [226]

★ Nathan Sloane, 97, former owner of the Fox Cross Candy Company. [227]

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★ Victoria Gray Adams, 79, African-American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. [228] [229]

★ Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet and academic. [230]

★ Ketheshwaran Loganathan, Tamil peace official, assassination. [231]

★ Camille Loiseau, 114, French , oldest verified person in Western Europe. [232][233] (French)

★ Raska Lukwiya, commander in the Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda and indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. [234]

★ Dr. Monroe Romansky, 95, American academic and physician, developed the Romansky Formula for penicillin administration, Alzheimer's disease. [235] [236]

★ Karl von Stroheim, 78, professional wrestler, heart attack. [237]

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★ John L. Bull, 92, American ornithologist. [238]

★ Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. [239]

★ David Thomas Dawson, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana. [240]

★ Victor del Corral, 84, Cuban restaurateur, founder of New York City's Victor's Cafe. [241]

★ Mike Douglas, 81, American talk-show host and entertainer. [242]

★ Joel Harnett, 80, American civic watchdog and former candidate for Mayor of New York City. [243]

★ Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, 1981-1998. [244]

★ Buffie Johnson, 94, American painter. [245]

★ Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet laureate. [246]

★ Leonard Marks, 90, American communications lawyer and former director of the United States Information Agency. [247]

★ Joe Rebman, 21, sprint car driver, racing accident in Mansfield, OH. [248]

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★ George Dawkes, 86 English cricketer, specialising in wicket keeping, for Derbyshire. [249]

★ Barbara George 63, R&B-singer

★ Irving São Paulo, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure [250]

★ Yasuo Takei, 76, Japan's second-richest man and founder of Takefuji Corporation. [251] [252]

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★ Anga Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player. [253] [254]

★ Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer. [255] [256]

★ Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. [257]

★ Said Abdullo Nuri, 59, leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, cancer.[258]

★ James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure. [259] [260]

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★ William B. Anderson, 82, journalist [261]

★ Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. [262] [263]

★ Marion Cajori, 56, documentary filmmaker. [264]

★ Darrell Ferguson, 28, convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection in Ohio. [265]

★ Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist. [266] [267]

★ Dino Restelli, 81, major league baseball player. [268]

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★ Mary Anderson Bain, 94, New Deal director under FDR and former top aide to Congressman Sid Yates. [269]

★ Sue Bierman, 82, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, car accident. [270]

★ Jim Crooker, 80, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer. [271]

★ Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [272]

★ Robert McCullough, 64, African-American civil rights activist, leader of the Friendship Nine. [273]

★ Bob Miller, 76, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning Detroit Lions, cancer. [274]

★ John Weinberg, 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs, complications from a fall. [275]

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★ Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. [276]

★ Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. [277]

★ Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. [278]

★ Stella Moray, 83, British actress and performer. [279].

★ Jim Pomeroy, 53, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident. [280]

★ Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. [281][282]

★ Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party 1970-1990. [283]

★ Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer. [284]

★ Monsignor Lawrence Wnuk, 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario. [285]

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★ Susan Butcher, 51, four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia. [286][287]

★ Steve Crosno, 66, longtime El Paso radio DJ whose career spanned nearly 50 years, kidney failure. [288]

★ Richard L. Fisher, 65, New York City developer and philanthropist, cancer. [289]

★ William Massee, 87, American wine writer. [290]

★ Hugo Schiltz, 78, Belgian politician. [291]

★ Daniel Schmid, 64, Swiss filmmaker and director (''Il Bacio di Tosca''), cancer. [292] [293]

★ Ed Thrasher, 74, American album cover designer. [294]

★ Rosaline Yeoh (née Chan Yee Hing), 54, former Hong Kong actress and wife of Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Francis Yeoh, cancer. [295][296]

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★ Elden Auker, 95, former American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack. [297] [298]

★ Julio Galán, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter. [299]

★ John Locke, 62, former keyboardist of Spirit. [300]

★ Dr. James F. X. O'Rourke, 86, American eye surgeon, former mayor of Yonkers, New York, and former professional football player. [301]

★ Nandini Satpathy, 75, Chief Minister of Orissa, India 1972-1976, cerebral bleeding. [302]

★ Monroe Clark, 70, American Singer, Actor, Performer of the Violin, Piano, Keytar and Viola.

★ Esther Snyder, 86, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger. [303]

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★ Helmut Bein, 74, German rally driver, Opel Motorsport manager and Formula 3 official [304] [305]

★ Richard T. Greene Sr., 93, Black banker, former director of the Carver Federal Savings Bank. [306]

★ Dr. John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist turned author (''Me and the Arch Kook Petulia''), emphysema. [307] [308]

★ Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love, leukemia. [309] [310]

★ Ken Richmond, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by J. Arthur Rank Studios. [311] [312]

★ Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German born opera soprano, natural causes. [313]

★ Robert Eric Wone, 32, American general counsel to Radio Free Asia, stabbing. [314]

★ Dr N.S. Sridharan, 59, artificial intelligence expert and humanitarian, malaria. [315]

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★ Holger Börner, 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse 1976-1987, cancer. [316]

★ Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., 82, former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers who signed Julius Erving, skin cancer. [317]

★ Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician. [318]

★ David Levy, 79, New York State Supreme Court justice. [319]

★ Kim McLagan, 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon, traffic accident. [320]

★ Luisel Ramos, 22, Uruguayan model, heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa

★ Harold Ronk, 85, American singing ringmaster for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. [321]

★ Ferenc Szusza, 82, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football. [322]

★ Audrey Lindvall, 23, American model and sister of American supermodel Angela Lindvall, traffic accident.

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★ Gay Delanghe, 65, American choreographer, ovarian cancer. [323]

★ Dr. Vincent Dole, 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, ruptured aorta. [324] [325]

★ Rufus Harley, 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer. [326]

★ Gabriel Kaspereit, French politician.

★ Masao Nishimura, 73, Japanese banker, CEO of the Industrial Bank of Japan and founder and CEO of Mizuho Holdings, Inc.. [327]

★ Rev. Bernard Pagano, 81, American Catholic priest charged with and later cleared of armed robbery, stroke. [328]

★ Arlene Raven, 62, feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer. [329]

★ Jason Rhoades, 41, American installation artist, heart failure. [330][331]

★ Bob Thaves, 81, cartoonist, created and illustrated ''Frank and Ernest'', respiratory failure [332]

★ Johannes Cardinal Willebrands, 96, Archbishop of Utrecht 1975-1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church. [333] [334] (English) [335] (Dutch)

★ Iris Marion Young, 57, political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer. [336]