DEATHS IN DECEMBER 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2006.
===31===

★ Marv Breeding, 72, American Major League Baseball player for the Orioles and Dodgers. [1]

★ Maurice Cook, 75, English football player. [2]

★ Lida Hensley, 81, American president of the Universal Life Church. [3]

★ Yaacov Hodorov, 79, Israeli football goalkeeper, stroke-related. [4]

★ Kemal Kolenović, 28, Montenegrin middleweight boxer, vehicular homicide. [5]

★ Seymour Lipset, 84, American sociologist, stroke. [6]

★ Tim Maseko, 71, South African High Commissioner to Namibia, heart attack. [7]

★ Liese Prokop, 65, Austrian athlete and Minister of the Interior (2004–2006), aortic dissection. [8]

★ Mercedes Rein, 76, Uruguayan writer, professor and translator. [9] (Spanish)

★ Joe Walton, 81, British football player with Preston North End (1948–61). [10]
===30===

★ David Armstrong, 65, Australian CEO of Community Aid Abroad (1987–92), heart failure. [11]

★ Charles Boswell, 97, American Mayor of Indianapolis (1957–1962). [12]

★ Frank Campanella, 87, American character actor. [13]

★ Chandralekha, 78, Indian dancer and choreographer, cancer. [14]

★ Mitzi Cunliffe, 88, American sculptor. [15]

★ Ron Fineman, 54, Los Angeles-based broadcast journalist, colon cancer. [16]

★ Frances Helm, 83, American actress [17]

★ Saddam Hussein, 69, 5th President of Iraq (1979–2003), execution by hanging. [18] [19][20]

★ Antony Lambton, 84, British Conservative government minister. [21]

★ Donald Murray, 82, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Boston Globe, heart failure. [22]

★ Michel Plasse, 58, Canadian ice hockey player, cardiac arrest. [23] (French)

★ Gerald Washington, 57, American Mayor-elect of Westlake, Louisiana, shot. [24]
===29===

★ Harald Bredesen, 88, American Lutheran pastor and proponent of speaking in tongues, injuries following a fall. [25]

★ Bud Delp, 74, American racehorse trainer inducted into the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame, cancer. [26] [27]

★ Johnny Gibson, 101, American 400 meter hurdles world record holder (1927–28). [28]

★ John Lust, 94, last surviving crewmember of the United States Navy's rigid airship program. [29]

★ Cynthia Steljes, 46, Canadian musician and founder of Quartetto Gelato, pleural mesothelioma. [30] [31]

★ Charlie Tyra, 71, American basketball player, congestive heart failure. [32]
===28===

★ Arthur Chisnall, 81, British concert promoter. [33]

★ Don Edgren, 83, American engineer for Walt Disney parks, hemorrhagic stroke. [34]

★ Jamal Karimi-Rad, 50, Iranian Minister of Justice, car accident. [35]

★ Stanislav Landgraf, 68, Russian actor. [36] (Russian)

★ Thomas Lyson, 58, American sociologist at Cornell University, cancer. [37]

★ Norman "Mandy" Mitchell-Innes, 92, oldest English test cricket player, natural causes. [38]

★ Jack Myers, 93, American science editor of ''Highlights for Children'' magazine, bladder cancer. [39] [40]

★ Jared Nathan, 21, American actor (''ZOOM''), car accident. [41]

★ Tiny Naude, 70, South African Rugby union player, heart condition. [42]

★ Tommy Sandlin, 62, Swedish ice hockey national coach (1978–1980, 1987–1990), heart attack. [43]

★ Gershon Shaked, 77, Israeli professor of Hebrew Literature and author. [44]

★ Aroldo Tieri, 89, Italian actor, natural causes. [45]
===27===

★ Sahib al-Amiri, adviser to Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, shot. [46]

★ James Andelin, 89, American actor, congestive heart failure and emphysema. [47]

★ Richard Dean, 50, American model, fashion photographer and host of TV makeover show ''Cover Shot''; pancreatic cancer. [48]

★ Pierre Delanoë, 88, French lyricist, cardiac arrest. [49]

★ Wais Faizi, Afghan hotelier [50]

★ Scotty Glacken, 62, Georgetown University football coach (1970–1992). [51]

★ Itche Goldberg, 102, Polish-born American writer and Yiddish language preservationist. [52] [53]

★ Boris Gudz, 104, Soviet spy involved in capture of Sidney Reilly. [54]

★ Marmaduke Hussey (Lord Hussey of North Bradley), 83, British newspaper executive and Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors (1986–1996). [55]
===26===

★ Robert Boehm, 92, American lawyer and chairman of the Center for Constitutional Rights. [56]

★ Chris Brown, 45, American baseball player, complications from burns. [57]

★ Andi Engel, 64, German film distributor. [58]

★ Gerald Ford, 93, 38th President of the United States (1974-1977). [59] [60]

★ Ivar Formo, 55, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic Games champion, drowning. [61]

★ John Heath-Stubbs, 88, British poet and translator, lung cancer. [62]

★ Martin Kruskal, 81, American mathematician at Princeton University, stroke. [63]

★ Nelva Méndez de Falcone, 76, Argentinian pioneering member of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, lung disease. [64]

★ Fernand Nault, 85, Canadian ballet dancer and artistic director, Parkinson's disease. [65]
===25===

★ James Brown, 73, American soul singer and bandleader, heart failure related to pneumonia. [66] [67] [68] [69]

★ José Antonio del Busto, 74, Peruvian historian, cancer. [70] [71] (Spanish)

★ John Butcher, 60, British Conservative Member of Parliament (1979–1997), heart attack. [72]

★ Sir Robert Cotton, 91, Australian government minister and ambassador to the United States, illness. [73]

★ Steve Hyde, 46, New Zealand musician, entertainer and technical expert, heart attack. [74]

★ Ingerid Vardund, 79, Norwegian actress. [75] (Norwegian)
===24===

★ Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga ("Braguinha"), 99, Brazilian songwriter, multiple organ failure. [76]

★ Uri Dan, 71, Israeli author and political confidant, cancer. [77]

★ Rev. James N. Loughran, 66, American president of Saint Peter's College, New Jersey, injuries from a fall. [78]

★ Kenneth Sivertsen, 45, Norwegian folk singer, comedian and poet, brain trauma. [79] (Norwegian)

★ Frank Stanton, 98, American CBS President (1946–1971), died in sleep. [80] [81]
===23===

★ Yaakov Besser, 72, Israeli poet, writer, literary editor and founder of the literary monthly Iton 77, cancer. [82] (Hebrew)

★ John Bowman, 59, Black Panther noted for being constantly shadowed by the FBI, liver cancer. [83]

★ Sol Carter, 98, American baseball player. [84]

★ Rudolf de Crignis, 58, Swiss-born American artist, brain tumour. [85]

★ Charlie Drake, 81, British comedian, actor and singer (''My Boomerang Won't Come Back''), stroke-related illness. [86]

★ Wilma Dykeman, 86, American author & journalist, complications after hip fracture. [87]

★ Carter Gilmore, 80, African-American civil rights activist and politician, cancer. [88]

★ Norman "Dutch" Mason, 68, Canadian blues musician, complications from diabetes. [89]

★ Bo Mya, 79, Myanmar rebel leader, complications of heart disease and diabetes. [90]

★ Rosina Raisbeck, 90, Australian operatic soprano. [91]

★ Robert Stafford, 93, American Governor of Vermont (1959–1961) and U.S. Senator, natural causes. [92] [93]

★ Ralph Stebbins, 43, American Mega Millions lottery winner of $208 million, heart attack. [94]

★ Marilyn Waltz, 75, American actress and Playboy model. [95]
===22===

★ Peter Bath, 79, British founder of Palmair and owner of Bath Travel, illness. [96]

★ Richard Boston, 67, British journalist and author, illness. [97]

★ Sam Chapman, 90, American athlete, Alzheimer's disease. [98]

★ Ervin Lázár, 70, Hungarian Kossuth Prize winner, writer and storyteller, lung failure. [99] (Hungarian)

★ Dennis Linde, 63, American songwriter ("Burning Love", "Goodbye Earl"), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. [100] [101]

★ Graham May, 54, New Zealand Commonwealth Games gold medal weightlifter, heart condition. [102]

★ Elena Mukhina, 46, Soviet gymnast, complications of quadriplegia. [103]

★ Daniel Raichel, 71, American mechanical engineer, melanoma. [104]

★ Thomas Shoyama, 90, Canadian politician and academic instrumental in establishing Medicare, congestive heart failure and Parkinson's disease. [105]

★ Dr. Craig Hugh Smyth, 91, American Renaissance art historian, heart attack. [106]

★ Galina Ustvolskaya, 87, Russian composer, natural causes. [107]
===21===

★ Scobie Breasley, 92, Australian jockey, stroke. [108]

★ Dee Johnson, 54, American ex-wife of Gary E. Johnson the Governor of New Mexico (1995–2003), natural causes. [109]

★ Rogério Oliveira da Costa, 30, Brazilian-born Macedonian football player, heart attack. [110]

★ Edwin David Edwards, 62, American banking executive at Citibank, cancer. [111]

★ Lois Hall, 80, American TV and movie actress, heart attack and stroke. [112]

★ Colin Mair, 86, British rector of Kelvinside Academy. [113]

★ Saparmurat Niyazov, 66, President of Turkmenistan, cardiac arrest. [114][115][116]

★ Ramon Obusan, 68, National Artist of the Philippines for Dance, cardiac arrest. [117]

★ Philippa Pearce, 86, British children's author, stroke. [118]

★ Karl Strauss, 94, German-born brewmaster for Pabst and Karl Strauss Brewing Company, natural causes. [119]

★ Nelly Vágó, 69, Hungarian costume designer, ovarian cancer. [120] (Hungarian)

★ Sydney Wooderson, 92, British lawyer and track athlete, world record for mile run (1937–1942), kidney failure. [121] [122]
===20===

★ Yukio Aoshima, 74, Japanese comedian and Governor of Tokyo (1995–99), myelodysplastic syndrome. [123]

★ Clyde Bakkemo, 68, American record company executive instrumental in the formation of the Traveling Wilburys, abdominal aneurysm. [124]

★ John Bishop, 77, American playwright (''The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940'') and screenwriter, cancer. [125]

★ Elkan Blout, 87, American biochemist at Harvard University and the Polaroid Corporation, pneumonia. [126]

★ Anne Rogers Clark, 77, American Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show judge, kidney failure associated with colon cancer. [127]

★ Bent Juel-Jensen, 84, Danish–born bibliophile. [128]

★ Tsepo Letlaka, 80, South African PAC activist and cabinet minister, illness. [129]

★ Ma Ji, 72, Chinese xiangsheng actor, heart attack. [130]

★ Tadayuki Nakashima, 35, Japanese comedian and member of comedic duo Cunning, pneumonia and complications from leukemia. [131]

★ Piergiorgio Welby, 60, Italian poet and euthanasia advocate, removal of life support. [132]

★ Neville Willoughby, 69, Jamaican radio broadcaster, car accident. [133]
===19===

★ Mary Bates Burns, 89, Canadian swing singer, heart failure. [134]

★ Jack Burnley, 95, American comic book artist and illustrator, natural causes. [135]

★ Cristin Keleher, 34, American stalker of George Harrison, shot. [136]

★ Banglan Khan, Pakistani tribal leader, land mine explosion. [137]

★ Galen Martin, 79, American civil rights activist, complications of cycling accident. [138]

★ Maj-Britt Nilsson, 82, Swedish actress known for Ingmar Bergman films (''Summer Interlude'', ''Secrets of Women''). [139]

★ Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, Taliban commander, airstrike. [140]

★ Danuta Rinn, 70, Polish singer, cancer. [141] (Polish)

★ Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley, 82, Austrian-born first female member of the London Stock Exchange. [142]
===18===

★ Sheik Abdul-Ameer al-Jamri, 67, Bahraini Shiite cleric, heart failure and kidney failure. [143]

★ Joseph Barbera, 95, American cartoonist and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions, natural causes. [144] [145]

★ Ruth Bernhard, 101, American photographer, natural causes. [146]

★ Denis Carter, Baron Carter, 74, British Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords (1997–2002), cancer. [147]

★ Mike Dickin, 63, British talkSPORT radio presenter, car accident. [148]

★ Scott Mateer, 46, American Grammy-nominated songwriter and DJ, complications of diabetes and high blood pressure. [149]

★ Mavor Moore, 87, Canadian writer, actor, radio & TV producer and founder of theatrical institutions, illness. [150]

★ Mollie Orshansky, 91, American statistician and economist, cardiac arrest. [151]

★ Daniel Pinkham, 83, American composer, natural causes. [152]

★ Bertie Reed, 63, South African solo yachtsman, liver cancer. [153]
===17===

★ Joe Gill, 87, American comic book writer. [154]

★ Kyoko Kishida, 76, Japanese actress, respiratory failure caused by brain tumour. [155]

★ Esko Nikkari, 68, Finnish actor, pneumonia. [156] (Finnish)

★ Denis Payton, 63, British saxophone player for The Dave Clark Five, cancer. [157]

★ Larry Sherry, 71, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, MVP of the 1959 World Series, cancer. [158]
===16===

★ Luis Bersamin, 62, Philippine congressman representing the province of Abra, shot. [159] [160]

★ Don Jardine, 66, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack and leukemia. [161]

★ Chicho Jesurun, 59, Dutch baseballer and baseball coach from the Netherlands Antilles, heart attack. [162] (Dutch)

★ Goce Nikolovski, 59, Macedonian singer, suicide.[163]

★ Taliep Petersen, South African theatre impresario, shot. [164]

★ John Rae, 75, English educator and writer, Headmaster of Westminster School (1970-1986). [165]

★ Pnina Salzman, 84, Israeli pianist known as the "First Lady of Piano", natural causes. [166]

★ Cecil Travis, 93, American baseball player, natural causes. [167]

★ Yehoshua Yogel, 91, leading Zionist rabbi, illness. [168]

★ Larry Zox, 69, American artist, cancer. [169]
===15===

★ Al Beye, 24, Senegal-born basketball player with Montana State University, car accident. [170]

★ Federico Crescentini, 24, San Marino football player, drowned. [171]

★ Alessio Ferramosca, 17, Italian football player for Juventus F.C. youth team, drowned. [172]

★ Frank Johnson, 63, British journalist, editor of ''The Spectator'' (1995–1999), cancer. [173]

★ Tom McManamon, 39, Irish musician with Shane MacGowan and The Popes, liver failure. [174]

★ Riccardo Neri, 17, Italian football player for Juventus F.C. youth team, drowned. [175]

★ Clay Regazzoni, 67, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1970–1980), car accident. [176]

★ Mary Stolz, 86, American young adult novelist (''Belling the Tiger'', ''The Noonday Friends''), natural causes. [177]

★ Allan Stone, 74, American art dealer, died in sleep. [178]

★ Matt Zunic, 87, American basketball player. [179]
===14===

★ Anton Balasingham, 69, Sri Lankan senior negotiator for LTTE, cancer. [180] [181]

★ John Bridge, 91, recipient of the George Cross and George Medal, natural causes. [182]

★ Hallie D'Amore, 64, makeup artist for Forrest Gump, suicide. [183]

★ Ahmet Ertegün, 83, Turkish-born co-founder of Atlantic Records, head injury from a fall at a Rolling Stones concert. [184] [185]

★ Mike Evans, 57, American actor best known as Lionel Jefferson on the television series ''The Jeffersons'', throat cancer. [186]

★ Kate Fleming, 41, American actress and audiobook producer and narrator, drowning. [187]

★ Joshua Freeman, 42, American real estate developer and part owner of the NHL Washington Capitals, helicopter accident. [188]

★ John Hamilton, 84, British politician and Leader of Liverpool City Council (1983–1986), lung disease. [189]

★ Robert Long, 63, Dutch singer, cancer. [190] (Dutch)

★ Robert Schaefer, 80, American television and comic book writer, collaborator with Eric Freiwald. [191]

★ Flint Schulhofer, 80, American horse trainer of two Belmont Stakes winners, cancer. [192]

★ Sivuca, 76, Brazilian accordionist and composer, cancer. [193]

★ Iraj Zand, 54, Iranian painter and sculptor, cancer. [194]
===13===

★ Henry Beachell, 100, American agriculturalist and recipient of the 1996 World Food Prize, complications from health problems. [195] [196]

★ Eileen Caddy, 89, British co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation, natural causes. [197]

★ Richard Carlson, 45, American author (''Don't Sweat the Small Stuff''), heart attack. [198]

★ Loyola de Palacio, 56, Spanish Vice-President of the European Commission, cancer. [199]

★ Ángel Nieves Díaz, 55, Puerto Rican murderer, capital punishment by lethal injection. [200]

★ Lamar Hunt, 74, American owner of Kansas City Chiefs who coined the term Super Bowl, complications from prostate cancer. [201] [202]

★ Bernard Kleiman, 78, American general counsel to the United Steelworkers of America, heart attack. [203]

★ Charles Peter McColough, 84, Canadian CEO of Xerox Corporation, cardiac arrest.[204]

★ Catherine Pollard, 88, first female Scout leader for the Boy Scouts of America, cancer. [205]

★ "Homesick" James Williamson, 96, African-American blues musician, natural causes. [206]
===12===

★ Paul Arizin, 78, American Basketball Hall of Famer (Philadelphia Warriors), in his sleep. [207]

★ William H. Booth, 84, American jurist, complications of a stroke. [208]

★ Peter Boyle, 71, American actor (''Young Frankenstein'', ''Everybody Loves Raymond''), multiple myeloma. [209]

★ Kenny Davern, 71, American jazz clarinetist, heart attack. [210] [211]

★ Shane Halligan, 16, American student at Springfield Township High School who killed himself at school, suicide by gunshot. [212]

★ Cor van der Hart, 78, Dutch footballer, natural causes. [213]

★ Oscar Klein, 76, Austrian-born jazz trumpeter, heart attack. [214]

★ Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy, 68, Tamil militant leader in Sri Lankan civil war, illness. [215]

★ Ellis Rubin, 81, Miami attorney and author, cancer. [216] [217]

★ Raymond P. Shafer, 89, Governor of Pennsylvania (1967–1971), complications from congestive heart failure. [218] [219]

★ Alan Shugart, 76, American pioneer of the disk drive and co-founder of Seagate Technology, complications from heart surgery. [220] [221]

★ Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray, 83, member of the reformed House of Lords and Conservative Whip, pneumonia. [222]
===11===

★ Elizabeth Bolden, 116, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death, natural causes. [223] [224]

★ Bob Bronzan, 87, American football coach (San Jose State University, Philadelphia Eagles), congestive heart failure and kidney failure. [225]

★ Kenneth Cummins, 106, British veteran of the First World War, natural causes. [226]

★ Tom Gregory, 79, American television news anchor and announcer, heart disease. [227]

★ Homer Ledford, 79, bluegrass music legend, guitar and dulcimer luthier, stroke. [228]

★ Lo Tak Shing, 71, Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, stroke. [229] [230]

★ J. A. Riggs, Jr., 73, American executive vice president of the ''New York Times'', heart attack. [231]

★ Walter Ward, 66, lead singer of The Olympics, unspecified illness. [232]
===10===

★ Samuel Benedict Goldberg, 106, last World War I veteran in Rhode Island, old age. [233]

★ Dr. Mario Llerena, 93, Cuban intellectual, author and former Castro supporter turned critic, natural causes. [234]

★ John Mohawk, 61, Seneca historian and Director of the University at Buffalo Indigenous Studies Program, cancer. [235]

★ Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo, 88, Archbishop of Palermo (1970–1996), natural causes. [236]

★ Augusto Pinochet, 91, ex president of Chile, complications from heart attack. [237]

★ David Yomtoob, 37, American subject of book ''The Gift Of Life'', heart failure during liver transplant. [238]
===9===

★ Alberto D'Aguanno, 42, Italian Mediaset TV sport journalist, complications from illness. [239] [240] (Italian)

★ Peter Derow, 62, American classical scholar, heart attack. [241]

★ Georgia Gibbs, 87, American singer ("Kiss of Fire") known for her work on ''Your Hit Parade'', leukemia. [242] [243]

★ Ralph Gomberg, 85, former principal oboist at the Boston Symphony, primary lateral sclerosis. [244]

★ Johnny Hutch, 93, British acrobat and comedian (''The Benny Hill Show''), natural causes. [245]

★ Andrei Lomakin, 42, Russian ice hockey player, gold medallist at 1988 Winter Olympics, long illness, [246]

★ Fred Marsden, 66, British drummer for Gerry & the Pacemakers, cancer. [247][248]

★ Martin Nodell, 91, American comic book and advertising artist, creator of the Golden Age Green Lantern, natural causes. [249]

★ Francesco Rosetta, 84, Italian football player, cancer. [250] (Italian)

★ Tremayne Rodd (3rd Baron Rennell), 71, Scottish rugby player. [251]
===8===

★ Angelo Cali, 91, American co-founder of the Cali Realty Corporation, now part of the Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, natural causes. [252]

★ Sir Colin Figures, 81, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (1982–1985), natural causes. [253]

★ Ernie Fladell, 81, founder of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, complications following a heart attack. [254]

★ Raúl Marciel Pérez, activist for indigenous peoples of Mexico, shot. [255]

★ Martha Tilton, 91, American jazz and swing singer with Benny Goodman, natural causes. [256] [257]

★ José Uribe, 47, Dominican baseball shortstop, mostly with the San Francisco Giants (1984–1993), car accident. [258]

★ Joan Worth, 72, American artist and producer. [259]
===7===

★ Lyuben Berov, 81, Bulgarian prime minister (1992–1994), cancer. [260]

★ Kevin Berry, 61, Australian gold medal winner in the 200m butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics, brain tumour. [261]

★ Desmond Briscoe, 81, British sound engineer and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, natural causes. [262]

★ Moses Hardy, 113, oldest known man in the United States and last African-American veteran of World War I, natural causes. [263] [264]

★ J. B. Hunt, Sr., 79, American trucking executive and founder of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., head injuries from a fall. [265] [266]

★ Kim Hyung-chil, 47, South Korean equestrian at the 2006 Asian Games, crushed by falling horse. [267] [268].

★ Jeane Kirkpatrick, 80, former American U.N. ambassador, congestive heart failure. [269] [270]

★ Jay McShann, 90, African-American blues/swing pianist, bandleader and singer. natural causes. [271] [272]

★ Ben Ruffin, 64, Chair of the UNC Board of Governors, political advisor; heart attack. [273]

★ John Sieburth, 79, Canadian marine scientist and penguin researcher, complications of dementia. [274]

★ Frank Tremaine, 92, American reporter who broke news of the attack on Pearl Harbor, pulmonary illness. [275]
===6===

★ Khan Akhmedov, 70, Prime Minister of Turkmenistan (1989–1992), heart attack. [276]

★ Darren "Wiz" Brown, 44, British musician and lead singer of Mega City Four, stroke. [277]

★ Russell Buchanan, 106, United States World War I veteran, stroke. [278]

★ Hugo Cores, 69, Uruguayan historian, labor leader and politician, Deputy (1990-1994), stroke. [279] (Spanish)

★ Dr. Samuel Devons, 92, British physicist and historian of science at Columbia University, congestive heart failure. [280]

★ Andy Dill, 39, American gay porn actor and movie producer, meningitis. [281]

★ Jeffery Ede, 88, British Keeper of Public records, natural causes. [282]

★ Andra Franklin, 47, American former NFL player with the Miami Dolphins, congestive heart failure. [283]

★ Leon Mandelbaum, 86, American founder of Mandee and Annie Sez clothing chains, natural causes. [284]

★ Mavis Pugh, 92, British actress (''You Rang M'Lord?''), natural causes. [285]

★ Robert Rosenblum, 79, American art historian, curator, and author, colon cancer. [286]

★ William Salcer, 82, Czechoslovakian-born inventor and Holocaust survivor, leukemia. [287]
===5===

★ Peter Blake, 86, German-born American architect, author, editor, and curator, complications from a respiratory infection. [288]

★ David Bronstein, 82, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster and writer, champion of USSR, natural causes. [289] [290]

★ Eric Cox, 83, Australian rugby league player, referee and administrator, pneumonia and stroke. [291]

★ Michael Gilden, 44, American actor (''NCIS'', ''Return of the Jedi''), apparent suicide. [292]

★ Michael A. Guido, 52, six-term mayor of Dearborn, Michigan and president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, cancer. [293]

★ Gernot Jurtin, 51, Austrian football player, cancer. [294]

★ Yvonne Scarlett-Golden, 80, first black female mayor of Daytona Beach, Florida, cancer. [295]

★ Van Smith, 61, American costume and makeup designer, heart attack. [296]

★ Shahdan Zahari, 33, Malaysian striker for Pahang FA (1993–1996), complications from paralysis. [297]
===4===

★ Sir Peter Gadsden, 77, Lord Mayor of London 1979-80, sudden death. [298]

★ Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 84, Burkinabé politician, natural causes. [299]

★ James Kim, 35, American CNET editor, exposure and hypothermia. [300] [301] [302]

★ Wolfram Kistner, 83, South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist, natural causes. [303]

★ Ronnie Lippin, 59, American publicist and manager, worked with Eric Clapton, Brian Wilson, and Prince, breast cancer. [304]

★ Arthur Shimkin, 84, American Grammy Award-winning producer of children's records, bladder cancer. [305]

★ Len Sutton, 81, American Indianapolis 500 racing driver, cancer. [306]

★ Ruth Webb, 88, American talent agent, cancer. [307]

★ Adam Williams, 82, American actor, lymphoma. [308]
===3===

★ Eleanor Thomas Elliott, 80, American advocate for women's rights and chair of the board of Barnard College, car accident. [309]

★ Craig Hinton, 42, British science fiction author, heart attack. [310]

★ Henry Pearson, 92, American op art painter, natural causes. [311]

★ Logan Whitehurst, 29, American singer/songwriter (The Velvet Teen), brain cancer. [312][313]
===2===

★ Bob Berry, 80, English test cricket player, natural causes. [314]

★ Kari Edwards, 52, American poet, artist and gender activist, heart failure. [315]

★ Kurt Lipstein, 97, German-born British academic, Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge, natural causes. [316]

★ Dave Mount, 59, British drummer for 1970s glam rock band Mud, heart attack. [317] [318]

★ Herbie Nayokpuk, 77, Alaskan Native Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race competitor, complications from stroke. [319]

★ George Tindall, 85, American historian and author, complications of diabetes. [320]

★ Mariska Veres, 59, Dutch singer of Shocking Blue, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970 with "Venus", cancer. [321] [322] (Dutch)

★ Richard Vernon, 53, American operatic bass with the Metropolitan Opera, sudden death. [323]

★ Kurt Wasserfallen, 59, Swiss politician, member of the Swiss National Council, cancer. [324], [325] (German)

★ Dwayne Wilcox, 66, American drag racer during the 1950s and 1960s, renal failure brought on by diabetes. [326]
===1===

★ Robert N. Anthony, 90, American Harvard Business School professor, author and United States Department of Defense comptroller, cancer. [327]

★ Claude Jade, 58, French actress (''Baisers Volés'', ''L'Amour en Fuite'', ''Topaz''), metastatic eye cancer. [328] [329]

★ Dr. Herbert Gursky, 76, American astrophysicist for the Naval Research Laboratory, stomach cancer[330]

★ Geoffrey Guy, 86, British airman and colonial governor. [331]

★ Sid Raymond, 97, American character actor and voice of Baby Huey, complications of a stroke. [332]

★ Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, "Snake King" of Malaysia, venomous snakebite. [333]

★ Edi Sudrajat, 68, Indonesian defense minister (1993–1998), respiratory failure. [334]

★ Rosie Lee Tompkins, 70, African-American quiltmaker, cancer. [335]