DEATHS IN AUGUST 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2007.
===31===

★ Gay Brewer, 75, American professional golfer, lung cancer. [1]

★ Wlodzimierz Brus, 86, Polish economist teaching at Oxford University. [2] (Polish)

★ Willie Cunningham, 77, British football player. [3]

★ William Hudgins, 100, American banker, led two African-American banks. [4]

★ Kees Klop, 59, Dutch professor of political ethics and former chairman of the NCRV. [5] (Dutch)

★ Karloff Lagarde, 79, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler. [6]

★ Doug Maxwell, 80, Canadian curling innovator, cancer. [7]
===30===

★ Ramrao Adik, 77, Indian former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. [8]

★ Banarsi Das Gupta, 89, Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana. [9]

★ Augustine Harris, 89, British Bishop Emeritus of Middlesbrough, former Auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool. [10]

★ Michael Jackson, 65, British writer and beer expert (''The Beer Hunter''), heart attack. [11]

★ Nancy Littlefield, 77, American film producer, cancer. [12]

★ Morris Metcalfe, 81, American NASCAR official and member of scoring department, natural causes. [13]

★ Charles Vanik, 94, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1955-1981). [14]

★ José Luis de Villalonga, 87, Spanish aristocrat, author and actor (''Breakfast at Tiffany's''). [15]
===29===

★ Kip Anderson, 69, American R & B singer. [16]

★ Sir James Fletcher, 92, New Zealand industrialist (Fletcher Challenge). [17]

★ Richard Jewell, 44, American security guard wrongly accused of the Atlanta Olympics bombing, diabetes. [18]

★ Pierre Messmer, 91, French Prime Minister (1972-1974), Free French fighter, French Academician. [19]

★ Chaswe Nsofwa, 28, Zambian footballer, heart attack. [20]

★ Alfred Peet, 87, American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea. [21]
===28===

★ [Tamika Hampton], age 23, Security Management Student, good friend, nice personality, unknown

★ Anacleto Angelini, 93, Chilean businessman, South America's richest man, emphysema. [22]

★ Rodger DeGarmo Jr., 38, American executive director for USA Weightlifting. [23]

★ David Garcia, 63, American journalist, White House correspondent (ABC), complications of a liver condition. [24]

★ Frances Gershon, 84, American toymaker, leukemia. [25]

★ Arthur Jones, 80, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines. [26]

★ Hilly Kristal, 75, American club owner (CBGB), complications of lung cancer. [27]

★ Smain Lamari, 67, Algerian head of intelligence services, after long illness. [28] [29]

★ Paul MacCready, 81, American aviation pioneer and inventor. [30] [31]

★ Nikola Nobilo, 94, Croatian-born New Zealand winemaker. [32]

★ Antonio Puerta, 22, Spanish footballer (Sevilla FC), ARVD. [33]

★ Georgetta Roush, 92, American NASCAR car owner and mother of Jack Roush. [34]

★ Miyoshi Umeki, 78, Japanese-born Academy Award-winning actress (''Sayonara''), also on ''Courtship of Eddie's Father'', cancer. [35]
===27===

★ Driss Basri, 69, Moroccan Interior Minister (1979–1999). [36]

★ Galina Dzhugashvili, 68, Russian granddaughter of Joseph Stalin, cancer. [37]

★ Eduardo Malapit, 74, American who was first mayor of Filipino American ancestry. [38] [39] [40]

★ Emma Penella, 77, Spanish actress (''El Verdugo'', ''Aqui no hay quien viva''), renal and heart failure. [41] (Spanish)

★ Doug Riley, 62, Canadian musician ("Doctor Music"), heart failure. [42]

★ Hans Ruesch, 94, Swiss racing driver, author and activist against animal testing. [43]

★ Francisco Umbral, 72, Spanish writer. [44]

★ Gad Yaacobi, 72, Israeli former Minister and Labor Party Knesset member, heart failure. [45]

★ Valter Zapashny, 79, Russian circus animal trainer, heart attack. [46] (Russian)
===26===

★ Jerry Andrus, 89, American magician, cancer. [47]

★ Oliver Byrne, 63, Irish, CEO of soccer club Shelbourne F.C., after short illness. [48]

★ Chuck Comiskey, 81, American Chicago White Sox executive in the 1950s, grandson of team founder Charles Comiskey. [49]

★ Roy McLean, 77, South African cricketer, after long illness. [50] [51]

★ Judah Nadich, 95, American rabbi and chaplain, heart attack. [52]

★ Edward Seidensticker, 86, American scholar and translator of Japanese literature, complications from a fall. [53]

★ Gaston Thorn, 78, Luxembourg Prime Minister (1974-1979), President of the European Commission (1981-1985). [54]
===25===

★ Benjamin Aaron, 91, American labor law expert and member of Presidential commissions, cerebral hemorrhage. [55]

★ Raymond Barre, 83, French economist, Prime Minister of France (1976-1981), Mayor of Lyon (1995–2001). [56]

★ Edward Brandt, 74, American doctor and public health official, directed initial response to AIDS, lung cancer. [57]

★ Eduardo Prado Coelho, 63, Portuguese writer and political and cultural critic. [58] (Portuguese)

★ Richard Cook, 50, British jazz writer, cancer. [59]

★ Édouard Gagnon, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic Cardinal. [60]

★ Ray Jones, 18, British footballer (QPR), car accident. [61]

★ Alberto de Lacerda, 80, Portuguese poet, BBC radio presenter, founded ''Portucale'' magazine. [62] (Portuguese)

★ Leon Shull, 93, American political activist Americans for Democratic Action, congestive heart failure. [63]
===24===

★ Abdul Rahman Arif, 91, Iraqi politician, President of Iraq (1966–1968). [64]

★ Mark Birley, 77, British nightclub owner (''Annabel's''), stroke. [65]

★ Andrée Boucher, 70, Canadian politician, mayor of Sainte-Foy (1985–2001) and Quebec City (2005–2007), heart attack. [66]

★ Hansjörg Felmy, 76, German actor (''Buddenbrooks''). [67] (German)

★ Nikos Filaretos, 82, Greek sport official, member (1981–2006) and honorary member (2006–2007) of IOC. [68]

★ Denny Martin Flinn, 59, American screenwriter (''), complications from cancer. [69]

★ William E. McAnulty, Jr., 59, American lawyer, first African American Kentucky Supreme Court Justice, lung cancer. [70]

★ Daniel Morais, 83, Portuguese anti-fascist, heart problems. [71] (Portuguese)

★ Alfredo Murça, 59, Portuguese footballer (FC Porto, CF Belenenses, Portugal), long illness. [72] (Portuguese)

★ Aaron Russo, 64, American movie producer (''Trading Places'', ''The Rose''), cancer. [73]

★ José Sombreireiro, 74, Portuguese pathologist (Sá Carneiro, Joaquim Agostinho), pneumonia. [74] (Portuguese)
===23===

★ Aimé Avignon, 110, France's oldest living man. [75] (French)

★ Cuesta Benberry, 83, American historian known for her studies of quilting, congestive heart failure. [76]

★ Jacek Chmielnik, 54, Polish actor, accidental electrocution. [77] (Polish).

★ William John McKeag, 79, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1970–1976). [78]

★ Martti Pokela, 83, Finnish folk musician. [79]

★ Robert Symonds, 80, American actor (''Dynasty'', ''The Exorcist''), prostate cancer. [80]

★ Dušan Třeštík, 74, Czech historian. [81] (Czech)
===22===

★ Butch van Breda Kolff, 84, American basketball coach (Princeton, Lakers, Pistons, Jazz). [82]

★ Rhys Jones, 11, British murder victim, shot. [83]

★ Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, 80, British aristocrat. [84]

★ Grace Paley, 84, American writer and political activist, breast cancer. [85]
===21===

★ Caroline Aigle, 32, first French female fighter pilot, cancer. [86]

★ Rose Bampton, 99, American opera singer. [87]

★ June Birge, 88, American author, playwright and medical writer, complications of cancer. [88]

★ Frank Bowe, 60, American disability rights activist, author and teacher, cancer. [89]

★ Čabulītis, c72, American alligator considered to be Europe's oldest. [90] (Latvian)

★ Siobhan Dowd, 47, British writer and PEN activist, breast cancer. [91]

★ Roy Gerber, 82, American talent agent, model for Oscar Madison in ''The Odd Couple'', complications of a brain tumor. [92]

★ Elizabeth Hoisington, 88, American Army general, heart failure. [93]

★ Howe Yoon Chong, 84, Singaporean politician. [94]

★ Qurratulain Hyder, 81, Indian novelist. [95]

★ Hana Ponická, 85, Slovak writer and dissident. [96] (French)

★ Franco Rodino, 68, Italian sailing journalist, heart attack. [97] (Italian) [98] (Portuguese)
===20===

★ Richard Belden, 73, American politician, Connecticut state representative (Rep) (1975–2007), heart attack. [99]

★ Berthold Grünfeld, 75, Norwegian psychiatrist. [100] (Norwegian)

★ Wild Bill Hagy, 68, American Baltimore Orioles cheerleader of the 1970s and 1980s. [101].

★ Larry Hartsell, 65, American martial arts instructor, student of Bruce Lee. [102]

★ Leona Helmsley, 87, American hotelier, heart failure. [103]

★ Chas Poynter, 68, New Zealand politician, mayor of Wanganui (1986–2004), lung disease. [104]
=== 19===

★ Pengiran Anak Hajah Damit, 51, Bruneian younger sister of Queen Pengiran Anak Saleha, cancer. [105] [106]

★ Daniel Brewster, 83, U.S. Senator (Democrat) from Maryland (1963–1969), liver cancer. [107]

★ Perry DeAngelis, 43, American team member of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast, scleroderma. [108]

★ Daniel Hansson, 33, Swedish founder of Elektron musical instrument company, car accident. [109]

★ Leo Kanowitz, 81, American law professor who pioneered sex discrimination law, complications of diabetes and heart failure. [110]

★ Roch La Salle, 78, Canadian Progressive Conservative politician, Quebec cabinet minister (1968–1988). [111]

★ Shitsu Nakano, 113, Japan's oldest person and fourth-oldest-validated person in the world, natural causes. [112]
=== 18 ===

★ Stephen Bicknell, 49, British expert on the pipe organ. [113]

★ Michael Deaver, 69, American Deputy White House Chief of Staff (1981–1985), pancreatic cancer. [114]

★ Lucien Jarraud, 84, Canadian radio host. [115]

★ Jon Lucien, 65, American smooth jazz singer/songwriter, respiratory failure and complications of kidney surgery.[116]

★ Magdalen Nabb, 60, British author, stroke.[117]

★ Viktor Prokopenko, 62, Ukrainian footballer and coach (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), thrombus. [118]

★ Sylvia Siegel, 89, American utilities activist. [119]

★ Madeleine Stern, 95, American rare-book dealer, biographer and expert on Louisa May Alcott. [120]

★ Nat Washington, 93, American politician (Washington State Senate). [121]
=== 17 ===

★ Edward Avedisian, 71, American artist. [122]

★ John Belk, 87, American Democratic politician, mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (1969–1977). [123]

★ Jos Brink, 65, Dutch television host, actor, minister of religion and writer, colorectal cancer.

★ Bill Deedes, 94, British journalist, editor of ''The Daily Telegraph'' (1974–1986) and Conservative politician. [124]

★ Carolyn Goodman, 91, American psychologist and civil rights activist. [125]

★ Eddie Griffin, 25, American former Seton Hall, Rockets and Timberwolves basketball player, car accident. [126] [127] [128]

★ Max Hodge, 91, American television writer, creator of Mr. Freeze on the 1960s ''Batman'' series. [129]

★ Tanja Liedtke, 29, German choreographer appointed as Sydney Dance Company artistic director, road accident. [130]

★ Elmer MacFadyen, 64, Canadian politician, PEI Progressive Conservative cabinet minister (1996–2007), heart attack. [131]

★ Alison Plowden, 75, British historian. [132]

★ John Pytlak, 59, American engineer for Eastman Kodak, won 2001 Academy Award for Technical Achievement, cancer. [133]

★ Erzsébet Spéter, 92, Hungarian patron of the arts, founder of the Erzsébet Prize. [134] (Hungarian)
=== 16 ===

★ Bahaedin Adab, 62, Iranian member of parliament, cancer.

★ John Blewett III, 33, American NASCAR driver, racing crash. [135]

★ Jeroen Boere, 39, Dutch football player (West Ham, West Brom, Crystal Palace, Portsmouth, Southend). [136]

★ Will Edwards, 69, British Labour politician, MP for Merioneth (1966–1974). [137] [138]

★ Clive Exton, 77, British television and film writer. [139]

★ Leslie Lukash, 86, American medical examiner identified Josef Mengele's body, lymphoma. [140]

★ Roland Mathias, 91, British poet and literary critic. [141]

★ Vito Pallavicini, 83, Italian lyricist. [142] (Italian)

★ Max Roach, 83, American jazz drummer. [143] [144]

★ Dewey Robertson, 68, Canadian professional wrestler ("The Missing Link"), cancer. [145]
=== 15 ===

★ Rudi Berger, 55, German tennis official, cancer. [146]

★ Richard Bradshaw, 63, British conductor, Canadian Opera Company general director (1998–2007), heart attack. [147]

★ Steven Campbell, 53, British painter, ruptured appendix. [148]

★ Chet Collier, 80, American broadcaster who helped build CNBC, MSNBC and Fox News. [149]

★ Geoffrey Orbell, 98, New Zealand bush walker who rediscovered the Takahē in 1948. [150]

★ Sam Pollock, 81, Canadian former general manager of Montreal Canadiens, Hockey Hall of Famer. [151]

★ Liam Rector, 58, American poet, Folger Shakespeare Library program director, suicide by shotgun. [152] [153]

★ Joel Silveira, 88, Brazilian journalist and writer, prostate cancer. [154] (Portuguese)

★ John Wallowitch, 81, American singer and songwriter, bone cancer. [155]
=== 14 ===

★ John Biffen, 76, British Tory member of the House of Lords, MP (1961–1997), septicaemia. [156]

★ Horace Brearley, 94, British cricketer, father of Mike Brearley. [157]

★ Bob Dotolo, 43, American musician. [158]

★ Jirair S. Hovnanian, 80, Armenian Iraqi-American home builder. [159]

★ Tikhon Khrennikov, 94, Russian composer. [160]

★ Emory King, 76, Belizean historian, author and journalist, cancer. [161]

★ John C. Lanham, 82, American former chief justice of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. [162]

★ Diane Lewis, 54, American reporter (''The Boston Globe''), cancer. [163]

★ Kotozakura Masakatsu, 66, Japanese yokozuna, complications of diabetes. [164]

★ Eduardo Noriega, 90, Mexican actor, heart attack. [165]

★ Sayoko Yamaguchi, 57, Japanese fashion model, pneumonia. [166]

★ Zhang Ziliang, 66, Chinese screenwriter, cerebral haemorrhage. [167] (Chinese)
=== 13 ===

★ Brian "Crush" Adams, 43, American professional wrestler. [168]

★ Brooke Astor, 105, American philanthropist, pneumonia. [169][170]

★ Bill Farr, 97, American pioneer of Colorado-Big Thompson project. [171]

★ Ox Miller, 92, American baseball player (Washington Senators). [172]

★ Yone Minagawa, 114, Japanese woman, recognized as world's oldest person alive, old age. [173] [174]

★ Clifton Neita, 92, Jamaican editor of the ''Jamaica Gleaner'' newspaper (1954–1979). [175]

★ Phil Rizzuto, 89, American baseball player, Hall of Fame inductee and sports broadcaster, pneumonia. [176] [177]
=== 12 ===

★ [Glenda Pena] age 22 shot twice in the back of the head

★ Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, American physicist and college professor, respiratory failure. [178] [179]

★ Richard Blackstone, 85, American politician, Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1969–1979). [180]

★ Ronald N. Bracewell, 86, Australian physicist and radio astronomer, heart failure. [181]

★ Richard Catledge, American pilot who founded the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, complications from pneumonia. [182]

★ Christian Elder, 38, American sports car and Busch Series driver. [183]

★ Merv Griffin, 82, American talk show host, real estate tycoon, creator of ''Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune'', prostate cancer. [184]

★ Asa Hilliard, 73, American educationalist, historian and psychologist, malaria. [185]

★ Ron McGregor, 83, New Zealand rugby league international player and administrator. [186]

★ Elizabeth Murray, 66, American artist, lung cancer. [187]

★ Alwyn Rice Jones, 73, British Archbishop of Wales (1991–1999). [188]

★ Mike Wieringo, 44, American comic book artist, heart attack. [189]
=== 11 ===

★ Franz Antel, 94, Austrian film director. [190] (German)

★ Michael Frede, 67, German professor of Ancient Philosophy, swimming accident. [191]

★ McDonald Gallion, 94, American politician, Attorney General of Alabama (1959–1963, 1967–1971). [192]

★ Joe Jimenez, 81, American professional golfer, won 1978 Senior PGA Championship, renal failure brought on by lung cancer. [193]

★ Bronko Lubich, 81, American professional wrestler and referee for the NWA, WCCW and USWA. [194]

★ Roberto Maidana, 79, Argentine journalist, pneumonia. [195] (Spanish)

★ Herb Pomeroy, 77, American jazz trumpeter (Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra), cancer. [196]

★ Sukadji Ranuwihardjo, 76, Indonesian President of Gadjah Mada University (1973–1981). [197]

★ Madilu System, 57, Congolese musician. [198]

★ Bruce Woolmer, 59, American magazine editor ''Art & Auction'', complications of diabetes. [199]

★ Lluís Maria Xirinacs, 75, Catalan political activist and priest, apparent suicide. [200]

★ Zhang Shuhong, 50, Chinese company co-owner involved in Fisher-Price toy recall, suicide by hanging. [201] [202]
=== 10 ===

★ Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, 82, American civil rights campaigner, member of Tuskegee Airmen, brain injuries following a fall. [203]

★ Sonny Day, 64, New Zealand Maori blues singer (The Sharks, The Sundowners), emphysema. [204]

★ James E. Faust, 87, American second counselor in the First Presidency of the LDS Church. [205]

★ Ruperto Hernandez, 120?, Nicaraguan claimed to be the world's oldest person. [206] (Spanish)

★ Germán Pedro Ibáñez, 79, Cuban guitarist and director of the Septeto Habanero. [207] (Spanish)

★ Irene Kirkaldy, 90, United States civil rights campaigner, complications of Alzheimers disease. [208]

★ Jean Rédelé, 85, French creator of the Alpine automobile brand. [209] (French)

★ Mario Rivera, 68, Dominican Latin jazz saxophonist, performed with Machito, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez orchestras, bone cancer. [210]

★ Tony Wilson, 57, British owner of Factory Records, radio and TV presenter, journalist, heart attack. [211] [212] [213]
=== 9 ===

★ Murray Abbott, 57, New Zealand judge, Christchurch District Court. [214]

★ Richmond Flowers Sr., 88, American Attorney General of Alabama (1963–1967). [215]

★ Timothy Garden, Baron Garden, 63, British Air Marshal and Liberal Democrat peer, cancer. [216]

★ Jean Hogan Hickey, 84, American champion ballroom dancer and Broadway performer, colon cancer. [217]

★ Joe O'Donnell, 85, American presidential photographer, photographed effects of Hiroshima bombing, stroke.[218]

★ Ulrich Plenzdorf, 72, German author. [219]

★ Warren Stute, 85, American horse trainer. [220]
=== 8 ===

★ Nicolau Casaus, 94, Spanish vicepresident of Futbol Club Barcelona. [221] (Spanish)

★ Joybubbles, 58, American phone phreak. [222]

★ Ma Lik, 55, Hong Kong Legislative Council member and chair of the DAB, colon cancer. [223]

★ Arne Myrdal, 71, Norwegian anti-immigration activist and white supremacist. [224] (Norwegian)

★ Melville Shavelson, 90, American film director and screenwriter. [225]

★ Clarence Tex Walker, 61, American rhythm and blues musician, heart attack. [226]

★ Julius Wess, 73, Austrian physicist. [227]
=== 7 ===

★ Ernesto Alonso, 90, Mexican television producer and actor, pneumonia. [228] (Spanish)

★ Hal Fishman, 75, American television news anchor since 1960, ''KTLA Prime News'' anchor since 1975, cancer. [229] [230]

★ Gato Del Sol, 28, American racehorse, won 1982 Kentucky Derby, euthanized. [231]

★ Russell Johnson, 83, American acoustics designer for Jazz at Lincoln Center. [232]

★ Hank Morgenweck, 78, American baseball umpire, cancer. [233]

★ Miklós Páncsics, 63, Hungarian football player (Ferencvárosi TC). [234]

★ Wolfgang Sievers, 93, Australian photographer. [235]

★ Sir Angus Tait, 88, New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman. [236]

★ William F. Walker, 69, American president of Auburn University (2001–2004), complications of cancer. [237]
=== 6 ===

★ Heinz Barth, 86, German SS officer, Nazi war criminal, cancer. [238] [239]

★ Willie Booker, 65, American basketball coach at Florida A&M (1984–1993). [240]

★ Thomas Farrow, 82, American FBI agent, ended hijack at Baltimore airport, heart failure. [241]

★ Moe Fishman, 92, American representative of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, pancreatic cancer. [242]

★ Irving Huie, 78, American transport engineer. [243]

★ Ah Jook Ku, 97, American journalist and writer, first Asian American ''Associated Press'' reporter. [244]

★ Bill McCarroll, 62, British General Secretary of Northern Cricket Union of Ireland, President of Northern Ireland Schools FA. [245]

★ Elie de Rothschild, 90, French banker, member of Rothschild dynasty, heart attack. [246]

★ Paul Rutherford, 67, British trombonist. [247]

★ Atle Selberg, 90, Norwegian-born mathematician, heart failure. [248]
=== 5 ===

★ Joaquim Saraiva Abrantes, 82, Portuguese Roman Catholic Prior of the municipality of São José (Lisbon). [249] (Portuguese)

★ Henri Amouroux, 87, French journalist and historian. [250] (French)

★ Duncan Clark, 96, American public health expert and advocate of fluoridation. [251]

★ Stanley Handelman, 77, American comedian, heart attack. [252]

★ Oliver Hill, 100, American lawyer, lead attorney on the Brown v. Board of Education case. [253]

★ Ernest Loveless, 84, American judge, Maryland seventh judicial circuit (1960–1992). [254]

★ Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, 80, French Jewish-born Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, cancer. [255]

★ Amos Manor, 89, Israeli head of Shin Bet (1953–1963). [256]

★ David Osier, 62, American journalist, cancer. [257]

★ Florian Pittiş, 63, Romanian actor and folk singer, prostate cancer. [258] (Romanian)

★ António "Vini Vini" Venâncio, 48, Angolan singer, diabetes and tuberculosis. [259]
=== 4 ===

★ Lee Hazlewood, 78, American country music singer and songwriter ("These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"), renal cancer. [260]

★ Raul Hilberg, 81, Austrian Jewish Holocaust historian, lung cancer. [261]

★ Frank Mancuso, 89, American major league baseball player, Houston City Councillor. [262]

★ Santos Padilla Ferrer, 50, Puerto Rican mayor of Cabo Rojo, heart attack. [263]
=== 3 ===

★ Jose Miguel Battle, Sr., 77, Cuban founder and nominal leader of the "Cuban Mafia". [264].

★ Ron Brown, 67, British Labour Party Member of Parliament (1979–1992), liver failure. [265]

★ James T. Callahan, 76, American actor (''Charles in Charge''), cancer. [266].

★ John Gardner, 80, British thriller writer and James Bond continuation novelist, suspected heart failure. [267]

★ Nasho Kamungeremu, 34, Zimbabwean golfer, heart attack. [268]

★ Graeme Moodie, 82, British professor, author and political scientist. [269]
=== 2 ===

★ Kafeel Ahmed, 28, Indian terrorist involved in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack, third degree burns. [270]

★ Haitham al-Badri, Iraqi al Qaeda emir of Salahuddin province and Golden Dome bomber, airstrike. [271]

★ Chauncey Bailey, 58, American journalist, editor of ''The Oakland Post'', shot. [272]

★ Ed Brown, 78, American football quarterback Chicago Bears, Pittsburgh Steelers, prostate cancer. [273]

★ Franco Dalla Valle, 62, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Juína. [274] (Portuguese)

★ Evan Enwerem, 71, Nigerian Senate President (1999). [275]

★ Peter Eriksson, 48, Swedish neuroscientist. 361471 (Swedish)

★ Holden Roberto, 84, Angolan founder and leader of the FNLA (1962–1999), after long illness. [276]

★ Frank Rosenfelt, 85, American executive at MGM. [277]

★ Revis Sisney, 94, American newspaper reporter and editor ''Kansas City Star''. [278]
=== 1 ===

★ Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian accused of involvement in attempt by Mehmet Ali Ağca to kill Pope John Paul II. [279]

★ Ryan Cox, 28, South African professional road racing cyclist, ruptured artery following vascular surgery. [280]

★ Veikko Karvonen, 81, Finnish athlete, bronze medalist in the 1956 Summer Olympics marathon. [281]

★ Tommy Makem, 74, Irish folk musician (The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem), lung cancer. [282]

★ Pete Naktenis, 93, American baseball player. [283]

★ Philip S. Paludan, 69, American history professor, authority on Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. [284]

★ Norman Adrian Wiggins, 83, American third president of Campbell University. [285]