DEATHS IN JANUARY 2006

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

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★ Owen Abrahams, 72, former Australian rules footballer, serious illness. [1]

★ John L. Behler, 62, curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo [2]

★ Ruairi Brugha, 88, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, son of Cathal Brugha. [3]

★ Henry S. Coleman, 79, dean at Columbia University. [4]

★ Peter Hamilton, 90, American dancer, complications from Parkinson's disease. [5]

★ Boris Kostelanetz, 94, tax lawyer. [6]

★ Denis McInerney, 80, antitrust lawyer. [7]

★ Jason Sears, 38, American Punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD), drug overdose. [8]

★ Moira Shearer, 80, British ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy, natural causes. [9] [10]

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★ Stew Albert, 66, 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies, liver cancer. [11]

★ Paul Clinton, 53, CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA). [12]

★ Feng Xiliang, 86, Chinese journalist China Daily. [13]

★ Seth Fisher, 33, comic book illustrator, fell from a seven-story building.[14] [15]

★ Arnold Graffi, 95, German Researcher for oncology, long illness. [16]

★ Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., ovarian cancer. [17][18][19][20][21] [22]

★ Norton Kiritz, 70, founder and president of the Grantsmanship Center. [23]

★ Otto Lang, 98, film producer and ski mogul, heart disease. [24].

★ Doris "Dodie" Londen, 75, first female chairman of Arizona state Republican Party, long illness. [25]

★ Metropolitan Nikolaj of Presov, 79, leader of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church. [26]

★ Thomas "Pig Champion" Roberts, 47, 450-lb. guitarist with American punk band Poison Idea. [27]

★ Irving Rosenwater, 73, English statistician. [28]

★ Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright, lymphoma. [29][30]

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★ Andrew Gonzalez, 65, Filipino linguist and educator, complications from diabetes. [31]

★ Emory Hale, 36, professional wrestler, complications from kidney failure [32].

★ Paik Nam-june, 73, South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art, natural causes. [33]

★ George Psychoundakis, 85, Greek Resistance fighter during World War II. [34]

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★ Hertha Glaz, 95, mezzo-soprano and opera teacher [35]

★ Rabbi Yits`haq Kadouri ''zekher tsadiq livrakha'', 106?, renowned Sephardic Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist. [36]

★ Henry McGee, 76, British actor. [37]

★ Helmut Schulz, 93, chemical engineer and inventor [38]

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★ Marvin Bieghler, 58, American convicted murderer, executed in Indiana. [39]

★ Stoffer van der Bijl, 61, architect, designed the renovated Bourtange star fort, cardiac arrest during ice skating marathon.

★ Maurice Colclough, 52, English Rugby Union player, brain tumour. [40]

★ Tana Hoban, 88, photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books [41]

★ Phyllis King, 100, British Wimbledon-winner. [42][43]

★ Carol Lambrino, 86, elder son of King Carol II of Romania. [44]

★ Christopher Lloyd, 84, gardening writer, stroke. [45]

★ Gene McFadden, 56, singer and songwriter, cancer. [46]

★ Johannes Rau, 75, President of Germany (Bundespräsident) from 1999 - 2004. [47]

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★ Dr John Dunwoody CBE, 76, former British Member of Parliament, effects of an accident. [48]

★ Tom Hooper (sculptor), 79, Canadian sculptor. .

★ Morris Silverman, 93, philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. [49]

★ Dave Tatsuno, 92, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film ''Topaz'' [50]

★ Khan Wali Khan, 89, prominent Pakistani opposition Leader and prominent Pashtun leader, heart attack. .

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★ John S. Bainbridge, 90, founder of the Staffing of African Institutions of Legal Education and Research program [51]

★ Dunbar W. Bostwick, 98, harness racing trainer. [52]

★ Richard W. Couper, 83, former President of the New York Public Library, long illness. [53]

★ Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas. [54]

★ Endesha Ida Mae Holland, 61, Black playwright (''From the Mississippi Delta'') [55]

★ Luther Green, 59, former NBA player, lung cancer. .

★ John F. Kerin, professor, reproductive scientist, gynaecologist, farm accident. .

★ Anna Malle, 38, American adult film actress, car accident. [56]

★ Jim Murray, 76, news photographer, photographed aftermath of the JFK assassination, cancer. [57]

★ Herbert Schilder, 77, dental surgeon, improved root canal procedures, Lewy body disease. [58]

★ Sudharmono, 78, Vice President of Indonesia from 1988 - 1993, lung failure. .

★ Allan Temko, 81, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', brief illness. [59]

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★ Zaki Badawi, 84, Islamic religious leader in Britain. [60]

★ Jack Fiske, 88, boxing journalist, Hall of Fame. [61]

★ William B. Graham, 94, CEO of health care company Baxter International, heart failure. [62]

★ Schafik Handal, 75, former Presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN, heart attack. [63]

★ Peter Ladefoged, 80, phonetician, stroke.

★ Carlos (Café) Martínez, 41, former MLB player, complications from a long illness.

★ Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke. [64] [65]

★ Chris Penn, 40, American actor, brother of Sean Penn, cardiomyopathy combined with multiple medication intake. [66] [67]

★ Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukemia. [68]

★ Henry Zapruder, 67, American tax lawyer who helped establish Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts programs, son of Abraham Zapruder, brain cancer. [69]

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★ Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, myocardial infarction brought about by diabetes.

★ Andrea Bronfman, 60, philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman, hit by car. [70]

★ Savino Guglielmetti, 94, Italian gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving Olympic champion. [71]

★ Abu Ahmed Hassouna, 44, Fatah party leader in the West Bank, assassinated by Fatah members. [72]

★ Louanne Hogan, 86, big-band singer and singing double for 40's and 50's films.

★ General Samuel W. Koster, 86, highest ranking United States Army officer charged in My Lai massacre, renal cancer [73]

★ Chris McKinstry, 38, an independent researcher in artificial intelligence, suicide.

★ Olga Marie Mikalsen, 91, Norwegian singer. [74] (Norwegian)

★ Emilie Muse, 98, daredevil, complications from cancer. [75]

★ Joseph M. Newman, 96, American Film Director/Producer, This Island Earth. [76]

★ Bill Rice, 74, American artist. [77]

★ E.M. Smedley-Aston,93, Film Producer, 1950's.

★ Virginia Smith, 94, former Republican United States Representative from Nebraska (1975 - 1991).

★ David Weber, 92, clarinetist. [78]

★ Michael Wharton, 92, British humorist ("Peter Simple").

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★ Janette Carter, 82, last living member of the Carter Family country music group. [79]

★ Alec Coxon, 90, Yorkshire and England cricketer. [80]

★ Sherman Ferguson, 61, jazz drummer [81]

★ Rick van der Linden, 59, keyboardist of symphonic rock group Ekseption, complications of a stroke.

★ Joan Maynard, 77, preservationist. [82]

★ Nellie Y. McKay, 67, African-American literary critic, colon cancer. [83]

★ Albert Morse, 67, lawyer, art collection, publisher, kidney disease. [84]

★ William Rubin, 78, director of the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. [85]

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★ Michael Chan, Baron Chan, 65, British paediatrician and the second peer of Chinese origin. [86]

★ John James Cowperthwaite, 90, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong. [87]

★ Ibrahim Rugova, 61, President of Kosovo, lung cancer. [88]

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★ Andrei Iordan, 71, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.

★ David Maust, 51, serial killer, heart failure after a botched suicide attempt. [89]

★ Johannes Mikkel, 98, Estonian art collector.

★ Richard LaMont "Monte" Mitzelfelt, 36, New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge judge, heart failure.

★ Rose Bouziane Nader, 99, President of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, mother of US Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, congestive heart failure. [90]

★ Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal. [91]

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★ Jovanka Bach, 69, playwright-physician.

★ Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (''Doctor Who'', ''Star Cops''), cancer. [92]

★ Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, stroke. [93]

★ Tom Nugent, 92, football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, congestive heart failure. [94]

★ Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack. [95]

★ Awn Alsharif Qasim, 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar

★ Geoff Rabone, 84, New Zealand cricketer.

★ Franz Seitz, 85, German film director.

★ Jos Staatsen, 62, mayor of Groningen (1985-1991), head of the Professional Football section of the Royal Netherlands Football Association (1993-1997).

★ Fred van der Werff, 90, Dutch retail entrepreneur, founder of the eponymous supermarket chain (founded in 1931, sold and disbanded in 1982).

★ Basil Worgul, 58, Columbia University biologist [96]

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★ Garth Jones, 88, AP newsman, pneumonia.

★ Rose Ellison King, 63, comic strip author (''Flo & Friends'') [97]

★ Norman McCabe, 94, animator and director, famous for ''Tokio Jokio'' and ''The Ducktators'' shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros. [98]

★ Thomas Murphy, 90, former CEO of General Motors. [99]

★ Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature, natural causes. [100]

★ Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet. [101]

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★ Harold R. Collier, 90, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois from 1957-1975

★ Wallace Mercer, 59, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C., cancer. [102]

★ Michael Siegel, 61, estranged son of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, complications from knee surgery. [103]

★ Giles Worsley, 44, British architectural historian and journalist, nephew of the Duchess of Kent, cancer. [104]

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★ Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.

★ Richard P. McCormick, 89, professor at Rutgers University, expert on early American political history and New Jersey history, illness.[105]

★ Arthur T. von Mehren, 83, professor at Harvard Law School, expert in international law. [106]

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★ His Highness Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Emir of Kuwait, brain hemorrhage. [107][108]

★ Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan.

★ Charles Byers, 83, associate dean, College of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder [109]

★ Hilma Contreras, 95, Dominican writer. [110]

★ Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program. [111][112]

★ Inge Merkel, 83, Austrian writer.

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★ Henri Colpi, 84, Swiss film director and cinematographer.

★ Jacques Faizant, 87, French cartoonist (''Le Figaro''). [113]

★ Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. [114]

★ Conrad Hendricks, 27, South African professional football player, car crash. [115]

★ David Ingle, 72, American neuroscientist and experimental psychologist, pneumonia.

★ Richard Johnson, 75, Publisher of the ''Houston Chronicle''. [116] [117]

★ Mullah Khaksar, former Taliban minister who sided with the United States, killed by gunmen. [118][119]

★ Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash. [120]

★ Bob Weinstock, 77, founded independent jazz record label Prestige, complications of diabetes. [121]

★ Shelley Winters, 85, American actress, heart failure. [122][123][124]

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★ Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter. [125]

★ Richard Dalitz, 80, Australian physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quarks.

★ Ron Jessie, 57, former NFL wide receiver, heart attack. [126]

★ Marc Potvin, 38, former NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, suicide.

★ Joan Root, 69, wildlife conservationist, shot to death. [127]

★ Rui José Soares, 43, Brazilian writer.

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★ William M. Byrne Jr., 75, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg, pulmonary fibrosis. [128][129]

★ Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor, died in sleep.

★ Edwin S. Cohen, 91, American tax expert and lawyer. [130]

★ Eldon Dedini, 84, cartoonist, esophageal cancer. [131]

★ Robert Edwin Drake, 82, NSA intelligence analyst, congestive heart failure. [132]

★ Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 15, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash.

★ Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former President of Technische Universität Dresden. [133]

★ Stewart Linder, 74 American Oscar-winning film editor.

★ Anne Meacham, 80, American stage (''Suddenly, Last Summer'') and television actress (''Another World''). [134]

★ Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer. [135]

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★ Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.

★ Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ and prominent figure in trance music, heart attack. [136]

★ Alan Sytner, 70, founder of the Cavern Club, Liverpool. [137]

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★ Ira B. Black, 64, neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, infection related to a tumor. [138]

★ Dave Brown, 52, former National Football League player, heart attack. [139]

★ Sergio Fedriani, 56, Italian artist. [140]

★ Elliot Forbes, 88, Harvard University professor and Beethoven scholar. [141]

★ Sidney Frank, 86, American businessman and philanthropist, heart failure. [142]

★ Alethea Hayter, 94, British writer. [143]

★ Leon Lobel, 77, butcher, author and meat expert. [144]

★ Dennis Marks, 73, animation writer-producer. [145]

★ Joseph Waksberg, 90, survey researcher. [146]

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★ Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania. [147]

★ Patricia Hitt, 87, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Nixon, natural causes. [148]

★ Selwyn Hughes, 77, British fundamentalist evangelical who founded Crusade for World Revival

★ David S. Kruidenier, 84, former publisher of the ''Des Moines Register''. [149]

★ Mikk Mikiver, 68, Estonian stage director and actor.

★ Frank Okamura, 94, bonsai master. [150]

★ W. Cleon Skousen, 92, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.

★ Jack Snow, 62, former National Football League player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection. [151]

★ Don Stewart, 70, actor (Michael Bauer on ''The Guiding Light''), lung cancer. [152]

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★ Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, former British Minister for Sport, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage. [153]

★ Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian football (soccer) player, shot. [154]

★ Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack.

★ Johnny Fortune, 62, Surf guitarist, vocalist, session musician, diabetic-related heart failure.

★ Georg Wilhelm, Prinz von Hannover, Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg, 90, educator and Olympian. [155]

★ Stuart Quan, 43, movie stunt performer and karate instructor, cause unknown. [156]

★ David Rosenbaum, 63, ''New York Times'' reporter, head injury during mugging. [157]

★ Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist, illness. [158]

★ Raatbek Sanatbayev, 36, Kyrgyz Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and candidate for National Olympic Committee president, shot [159]

★ José Luis "Garrafa" Sanchez, 31, Argentine football (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a biking accident.

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★ Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, suicide. [160]

★ James Bastien, 71, American classical pianist, composer, teacher, and author of a series of piano instruction books.

★ Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author. [161][162]

★ Jorge Martinez Segueda, 90, Mexican environmentalist.

★ Marshall A. Robinson, 83, former president of the Russell Sage Foundation, long illness. [163]

★ Richard Urwand, 91, chess master.

★ Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor, heart attack.

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★ Allaire du Pont, 92, thoroughbred enthusiast, owner of Kelso, natural causes. [164]

★ Yoshiro Kato, 80, Japanese cartoonist (''Mappira-kun''), respiratory failure. [165]

★ Roshan Khan, 76, Pakistani squash player, father of Jahangir Khan complications from a heart attack and coma. [166]

★ Alf McMichael, 78, footballer for Northern Ireland & Newcastle United.

★ Józef Milik, 83, Polish Catholic priest and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.

★ Comandante Ramona, 47, Tzotzil Indian Zapatista rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis. [167]

★ Lou Rawls, 72, jazz and blues singer, lung and brain cancer. [168][169][170][171]

★ Hugh Thompson, Jr., 62, Vietnam War helicopter pilot who helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support. [172][173]

★ Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, former Republican United States Representative from Maine from 1961 - 1967.

★ John Webster, 71, advertising writer responsible for commercials such as the Smash Martians, heart attack. [174]

★ Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer (soccer player), probably pulmonary embolism. [175]

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★ Ramona Bell, 47, wife of broadcaster Art Bell, asthma attack. [176]

★ Rod Dedeaux, 91, American college baseball coach, complications from a stroke. [177][178]

★ Sophie Heathcote, 35, Australian actress and founder of skin care range Ki, aneurysm. [179]

★ Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese mountaineer. [180]

★ Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, former British Home Secretary, following a number of falls.

★ Ken Mosdell, 83 Former Montreal Canadiens Hockey player

★ Simon Shanks, 34, linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals in 1995, murdered by home intruder. [181]

★ Rachel Squire, 51, British Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, stroke. [182]

★ Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician, primarily with Captain Beefheart.

★ Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor.

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★ John Bierman, 76, BBC reporter and popular historian. [183]

★ Sultan Bilimkhanov, Deputy Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, injuries sustained in car crash. [184]

★ Phyllis Gates, 80, American ex-wife of actor Rock Hudson, lung cancer.

★ John Hahn-Petersen, 75, Danish actor, heart attack. [185], [186]

★ William Haxby, 56, ocean cartographer. [187]

★ Milton Himmelfarb, 87, Jewish-American essayist. [188]

★ Fred K. Hoehler Jr., 87, founding director of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies of the AFL-CIO. [189]

★ Stan Hunt, 76, American newspaper cartoonist. [190]

★ Irving Layton, 93, Canadian poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [191]

★ Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem, 70, Angolan singer.

★ Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, heart attack. [192]

★ Gretl Schörg, 91, German actress of the 1940s and 1950s.

★ Nel van Vliet, 79, Dutch swimmer, 1948 Olympic Champion 200 m breaststroke. [193]

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★ Robertinho do Acordeon, 67, popular Brazilian country musician.

★ Kasey Davis, 20, freshman kicker at Texas Christian University, shot. [194]

★ Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter who captured Benito Mussolini. [195]

★ Caceres Monteiro, 57, Portuguese journalist, cancer. [196]

★ Steve Rogers, 51, Australian rugby league player and CEO of Cronulla, apparent suicide.

★ Arturo Sergi, 79, American operatic tenor.

★ Sir William Skate, 52, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, stroke.

★ Bruce Wilson, 64, Australian journalist, cancer. [197]

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★ Severino Bottero, 47, French Olympic slalom coach, car accident. [198]

★ Raul Davila, 74, Puerto Rican TV actor and producer, heart attack. [199]

★ Ofelia Fox, 82, owner the Tropicana Club in Havana, cancer. ([200])

★ Carlos Helo, 77, distinguished Chilean comedian, heart attack.

★ Osa Massen, 91, Danish actress, played femme-fatale in several 40's Hollywood movies [201]

★ Philomena, 80, Indian actress.

★ Michael S. Smith, 59, American Jazz drummer.[202]

★ Francis Steinmetz, 91 Dutch author and Colditz Castle escapee. [203]

★ Frank Wilkinson, 91, American civil liberties activist, complications from old age. [204]

★ John Wojtowicz, 60, American bankrobber, was portrayed by Al Pacino in the movie Dog Day Afternoon, cancer. [205]

★ John Woodnutt, 81, British actor. [206]

★ Lidia Wysocka, 89 , Polish actress. [207]

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★ Susan Bergman, 48, American author, sister of actress Anne Heche, brain cancer. [208]

★ Otis Carney, 83, American author and screenwriter, cancer. [209]

★ Frank Cary, 85, former chairman of IBM, died in sleep. [210][211]

★ Mapita Cortés, 75, Mexican actress, cancer. [212]

★ Bryan Harvey, 49, former lead singer of House of Freaks, vocalist for Gutterball, murdered. [213]

★ Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer, widow of Bobby Limb. [214]

★ John Latham, 84, internationally exhibited artist, natural causes. [215]

★ Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease. [216]

★ Dragan Lukić, 77, Serbian writer, complications from a long and hard illness.

★ Harry Magdoff, 92, prominent American socialist and editor of ''Monthly Review'', natural causes. [217]

★ Charles O. Porter, 86, former Democratic United States Representative from Oregon from 1957 - 1961, Alzheimer's disease. [218]

★ Gideon Rodan, 71, biomedical researcher, cancer. [219]

★ Hubert Schoemaker, 55, co-founder of biotech company Centocor, brain cancer. [220]