DEATHS IN JULY 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2006.
★ Dugald Christie, 65, Canadian lawyer who fought for equitable access to legal services, bicycle accident. [1]
★ Paul Eells, 70, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, car accident. [2]
★ Mario Faustinelli, 81, Italian comic book artist. [3]
★ Frederick Kilgour, 92, American librarian, founder of OCLC Online Computer Library Center. [4] [5]
★ Duygu Asena, 60, Turkish writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour. [6] [7]
★ Al Balding, 82, Canadian golfer, cancer. [8]
★ Murray Bookchin, 85, American political essayist, heart failure. [9]
★ Dr. Philip D’Arcy Hart, 106, famed UK medical researcher. [10]
★ J. Palmer Gaillard, 86, mayor of Charleston, South Carolina 1959-1975, following a car crash. [11]
★ Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, concert accordionist, heart failure
★ Akbar Mohammadi, 34, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture. [12]
★ Ferenc Zenthe, 86, Hungarian actor. [13]
★ Hani Awijan, 29, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades, in Nablus, West Bank, killed by gunfire. [14]
★ Guido Dacco, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans, & Champ Cars. [15] [16]
★ David deLisle, classical musician and professor of music at Xavier University for 40 years. [17]
★ Daniel Lev, 72, Indonesian scholar, lung cancer. [18]
★ Dr. Jean Baker Miller, 78, American psychiatrist and author (''Toward a New Psychology of Women''). [19]
★ Jose Lopez Rosario, 30, alleged Puerto Rican drug dealer [20]
★ James Olin, 86, member of the United States House of Representatives 1982-1992. [21]
★ Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage. [22]
★ Louis Winnick, 85, Romanian-born economist for the Ford Foundation. [23] [24]
★ James Harvey Young, 90, American social historian of medicine, professor at Emory University, complications of a stroke. [25]
★ Abdul Rashid Malik, 86, Father of Abdul Mannan Malik (General Manager WAPDA, Pakistan)
★ Patrick Allen, 79, British actor. [26]
★ Rut Brandt, 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt. [27]
★ Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer. [28]
★ Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, 56, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination. [29]
★ Harold Enarson, 87, president of The Ohio State University (1972-81), fired football coach Woody Hayes, hydrocephalus. [30] [31]
★ David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist. [32] [33]
★ Dr. Joel Hedgpeth, 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist. [34]
★ Don Malarkey, 101, American former PGA Tour golfer and oldest living PGA member. [35]
★ Richard Mock, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. [36]
★ Sep Smith, 94, legendary Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player. [37]
★ Billy Walsh, 85, former Manchester City footballer & Grimsby Town manager, who played international football for both Ireland teams, the FAI XI and the IFA XI, and New Zealand. [38]
★ A. Frank Carven III, 54, co-founder and director of the Families of T.W.A. Flight 800 Association. [39]
★ Maryann Mahaffey, 81, former member of Detroit city council, leukemia. [40]
★ Carlos Roque, 70, Portuguese comic book artist. [41]
★ Alexander Safran, 95, former Chief Rabbi of Romania who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War II. [42] [43]
★ Elisabeth Volkmann, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson. [44]
★ Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller, liver cancer. [45]
★ Funsho Williams, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled. [46]
★ Emmeline Brice, 111, oldest Briton. [47]
★ Louise "Miss Lou" Bennett-Coverley, 86, Jamaican folklorist, comedienne, poet. [48] [49]
★ Floyd Dixon, 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure. [50] [51]
★ Vincent J. Fuller, 75, lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr, lung cancer. [52]
★ Jessie Gilbert, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall. [53] [54]
★ Sunil Kumar, 34, Bhopal disaster campaigner against Union Carbide and founder of Children Against Carbide, found hanged.
★ Darrell Martinie, 63, astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer. [55]
★ Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron. [56]
★ Thurl Metzger, 90, former director of Heifer International. [57]
★ Ed O'Herron, Jr, 90, North Carolina politician and businessman who helped to build Eckerd Drugs into one of the biggest drugstore chains in the US. [58]
★ Timotheos III Papoutsakis, 91, Archbishop of Crete. [59] [60]
★ Lydia, Duchess of Bedford, 88, second wife of John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford. [61]
★ Carl Brashear, 75, first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film ''Men of Honor'', heart failure. [62]
★ Chen Jinlang, 45, Singaporean pop singer in Hokkien dialect, colorectal cancer. [63]
★ Ezra Fleischer, 78, Transylvanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize, and professor at Hebrew University. [64]
★ Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 43, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack [65] [66]
★ Karin Hübner, 69, German actress and musical star (played Eliza Doolittle in German adaptation of ''My Fair Lady'') [67]
★ Mati Jostov, 47, Estonian business manager, car accident [68] [69]
★ Bill Meistrell, 77, founder of the Body Glove wet suit company, Parkinson's disease. [70]
★ Aldo Notari, 74, president of the International Baseball Federation. [71]
★ James Schwabacher, 86, founder of San Francisco Opera's Merola Program for young artists, complications of pneumonia. [72]
★ Bob Simpson, 61, retired senior BBC correspondent. [73]
★ Keya Brutalna, 83, Slovakian mathematician, cancer.
★ Janka Bryl, 89, Belarusian writer. [74] [75]
★ Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor. [76]
★ Maha Kanapathipillai, pro-Government Tamil politician in Sri Lanka, presumed shot dead by Tamil Tigers. [77] [78]
★ Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach. [79]
★ Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian. [80]
★ Michael Sellers, 52, British author, son of Peter Sellers, died during heart surgery. [81] [82]
★ Charles E. Brady, Jr., 54, American former astronaut. [83]
★ Charles Bray, 72, American press secretary for the US State Department, deputy director of the USIA, and ambassador to Senegal. [84]
★ Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of ''Les insolences du Frère Untel'', heart attack. [85]
★ Lt. Col. Besby Holmes, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto. [86] [87]
★ John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer. [88]
★ Frederick Mosteller, 89, Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis. [89]
★ Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day. [90]
★ Ewa Sałacka, 49, Polish actress, allergic reaction to wasp sting. [91]
★ Simonetta Stefanelli, 51, Italian actress (Apollonia in ''The Godfather''), cancer. [92]
★ Heather Bratton, 19, American model, car accident. [93]
★ Donald Reid Cabral, 83, former foreign minister of the Dominican Republic. [94]
★ José Antonio Delgado, 41, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, found dead on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. [95]
★ Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease. [96]
★ Jessie Mae Hemphill, 82, award winning blues musician, complications of an infection. [97]
★ Thomas J. Manton, 73, longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985-99), prostate cancer. [98] [99]
★ Dr. Dika Newlin, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg. [100]
★ James E. West, 55, former mayor of Spokane, Washington, colorectal cancer [101]
★ Russell J. York, 84, World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest on November 20, 1944. [102]
★ Walter Allner, 97, German-born art director of ''Fortune''. [103]
★ Ric Campman, 64, artist and co-founder of the River Gallery School, cancer. [104] [105]
★ Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television, and Broadway actor; esophageal cancer [106]
★ John Mazmanian, 80, drag racing pioneer. [107]
★ Bob McCausland, 90, cartoonist for the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer''. [108]
★ Ta Mok, 80, former Khmer Rouge commander, known as "The Butcher." [109]
★ J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, former child actress Heart Attack [110]
★ Palladium, 17, Estonian competition horse, euthanized after breaking leg. [111] [112] [113]
★ Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, car crash. [114]
★ Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, missing since July 5, murder. [115] [116]
★ Bert Slater, 70, Scottish footballer [117]
★ Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian [118]
★ Philipp von Bismarck, 91, German politician of the CDU party. [119]
★ Kevin Brophy, 21, Australian basketball player at the University of Georgia, automobile accident. [120] [121]
★ Madonna Castillo, 31, former Secretary-General of the Anakpawis party in the Philippines, shot. [122]
★ Chung In-yung, 86, founder of Halla Engineering & Construction in South Korea. [123]
★ Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (''Thing From Another World''). [124]
★ Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician [125]
★ Brandon Hedrick, 27, convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair in Virginia [126]
★ Tom Larson, 77, former Federal Highway Administrator and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transport. [127]
★ Lim Kim San, 89, former cabinet minister of Singapore. [128]
★ Frank Nabarro, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics [129]
★ Harry Olivieri, 90, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium. [130]
★ Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director. [131]
★ Theo Sijthoff, 69, Dutch former cyclist and fashion designer [132]
★ Romeo Tan Togonon, 55, editorial cartoonist for the ''Manila Times''. [133]
★ Rev Robert Baumiller, 75, associate dean of health at Xavier University. [134]
★ Mauriceo Brown, 31, executed in Texas for 1996 robbery murder. [135]
★ Troy May, 39, owner of Oshawa Dodgers Baseball Club, sepsis due to injuries from car accident. [136]
★ Sam Neely, 58, singer-songwriter, collapsed while mowing his lawn. [137]
★ Maulvi Yunis Khalis, 87, mujahideen leader in Afghanistan who met with Ronald Reagan in 1988. [138]
★ Dave Walter, 63, Montana historian, heart attack. [139]
★ Jack Warden, 85, Emmy Award-winning American actor, heart and kidney failure. [140]
★ George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science. [141]
★ Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer. [142]
★ Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer. [143]
★ Henry Hewes, 89, former ''Saturday Review'' theater critic and editor of ''Best Plays'' (1960-1964). [144] [145]
★ Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, former Ipswich Town footballer. [146] [147]
★ David Maloney, 72, British television director and producer for ''Doctor Who'' and ''Blake's 7'' [148]
★ V.P. Sathyan, 41, former captain of the Indian national football team, apparent suicide. [149] [150]
★ Rev. Amos Bailey, 88, writer of the syndicated column "Our Daily Bread", thyroid cancer. [151]
★ Billy Firehawk, 40, former professional wrestler, diabetes [152]
★ Galen Fiss, 75, former Cleveland Browns linebacker. [153] [154]
★ Dr. James Jandl, 80, American hematologist at Harvard University, author of ''Blood: Textbook of Hematology''. [155]
★ Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease [156]
★ Mike MacDonald, 65, pioneering Canadian aboriginal video artist. [157]
★ Robert Mardian, 82, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer. [158]
★ Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets; throat cancer. [159] [160]
★ David Skramstad, 74, twice mayor of Olympia, Washington and mystery writer, heart failure. [161]
★ Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, pancreatic cancer. [162] [163] [164]
★ Walter Binaghi, 87, former ICAO Council President. [165]
★ Peter Chew, 82, author and journalist specialising in horse racing, heart attack. [166]
★ Dr. Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion. [167]
★ Martin Gallant, 75, American former vice chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. [168]
★ Kevin Hughes, 53, former British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease. [169] [170]
★ Bob Orton, Sr., 76, former professional wrestler, heart attack. [171]
★ Destiny Norton (date disappeared), 5, American child, kidnapped and murdered.
★ Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956. [172]
★ Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. [173] [174]
★ Harold Scott Jr., 70, American award-winning actor and playwright, first black artistic director of a major American regional theater. [175] [176]
★ Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma. [177] [178]
★ Winston Wilson, 63, co-founder of Winston Daniels Ltd of Napa Valley, wine importer, esophageal cancer. [179]
★ Robert H. Brooks, 69, chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. [180]
★ Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. [181]
★ John Feild, 83, pioneer of affirmative action as executive director of the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity in the administration of John F. Kennedy, heart attack. [182]
★ John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. [183]
★ Howdy Groskloss, 100, was the oldest living former major league baseball player. [184]
★ Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer. [185]
★ Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. [186]
★ Daniel Nickerson, 48, former professional wrestling promoter [187]
★ István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, long illness. [188]
★ Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and former co-husband of bigamist Anais Nin. [189]
★ A.C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir charity for destitute women in India. [190]
★ Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter. [191]
★ David W. Simpson, 51, American Mayor of Bethel, Ohio, aneurysm. [192]
★ Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer. [193] [194]
★ Ted Bilkey, 72, former Chief Operating Officer for DP World. [195] [196]
★ Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage. [197]
★ William Downs, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. [198]
★ Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. [199]
★ Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer [200]
★ William Lash III, 45, former assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide after killing his 12 year old autistic son. [201]
★ Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. [202]
★ Carrie Nye, 69, American actress; lung cancer. [203] [204]
★ June Ormond, 94, produced country music and religious films, complications of a stroke. [205]
★ Eduards Pāvuls, 77, famous Latvian actor [206]
★ Martha Peterson, 90, American president of Barnard College (1967-75). [207]
★ Senne Rouffaer, 80, Flemish actor. [208]
★ Len Teeuws, 79, former offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals. [209]
★ Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. [210]
★ Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine, and massive bleeding. [211] [212]
★ Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease [213] [214] [215]
★ Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [216]
★ Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. [217]
★ Jürgen Kießling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [218]
★ John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the ''Dallas Morning News'', pneumonia. [219]
★ Mark Ryder, 85, American dancer. [220]
★ Jonathan Solomon, 74, Gwich'in tribal leader. [221]
★ Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid [222]
★ Cora T. Walker, 84, African-American lawyer, co-founder and senior partner of Walker & Bailey. [223]
★ Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [224]
★ George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. [225]
★ Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (''Sahara'', ''The Enemy Below''), stroke. [226] [227] [228]
★ Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. [229]
★ Charles H. G. Rees, 84, American media executive, former president of Whitney Communications. [230]
★ Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, death currently under investigation. [231] [232]
★ Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [233]
★ John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [234]
★ Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [235]
★ Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [236]
★ Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [237] [238]
★ Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [239] [240]
★ Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [241] [242]
★ Paul Morden, 31, American musician (The Brickbats, Memphis Morticians, Gitane DeMone, and others), suicide.
★ Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. [243]
★ Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide. [244]
★ William Pryce, 73, United States ambassador to Honduras from 1993 to 1996, pancreatic cancer. [245]
★ Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison [246]
★ Ruth Schonthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer [247] [248] [249]
★ John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer [250] [251] [252]
★ Philippe Takla, 91, former foreign minister of Lebanon. [253] [254]
★ Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [255]
★ Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [256] [257] [258] [259]
★ Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [260]
★ Robert Fumerton, 93, Top scoring Canadian night fighter ace of World War II. "Washington Post", p. B-6, Jul. 27, 2006 [261]
★ The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, responsible for introducing charges to visitors at York Minster, cancer [262] [263]
★ Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [264]
★ Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [265]
★ Ruth Schonthal, 82, American composer. Complications from heart attack. cf July 11 [266]
★ Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant. [267]
★ Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [268]
★ Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [269]
★ Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [270]
★ Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. [271]
★ Professor John Raeburn, 93, agricultural economist responsible for planning the "Dig for Victory" campaign in the United Kingdom during World War II. [272]
★ Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [273]
★ Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [274] [275]
★ Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [276]
★ George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [277] [278]
★ June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [279]
★ Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [280]
★ Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [281]
★ Rolf Braun, 77, German ''Fastnacht'' and TV personality [282]
★ David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [283] [284]
★ Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia. [285]
★ Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flowerpot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks. [286]
★ Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in ''Life'', lung cancer. [287] [288]
★ Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [289]
★ Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (''Kanthapura''). [290] [291]
★ Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure. [292]
★ Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [293]
★ Sabine Dünser, 29, singer for gothic metal band Elis, Cerebral hemorrhage. [294]
★ Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [295] [296]
★ Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, diabetes. [297]
★ Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [298]
★ Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [299]
★ Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [300]
★ Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris. [301]
★ John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [302]
★ Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [303]
★ Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [304]
★ Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [305]
★ Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [306]
★ Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [307]
★ Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [308] [309]
★ Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band. [310]
★ Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [311]
★ Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [312]
★ Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of ''Bien'', the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [313]
★ Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack. [314]
★ Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [315]
★ Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [316]
★ Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [317]
★ John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [318]
★ George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [319]
★ Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [320] [321]
★ Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (''Bewitched'') and motocross racer, stroke. [322] [323] [324]
★ E.S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist. [325]
★ Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [326] [327]
★ Waseem Rashid Malik, 48, Engineer at Pakistan International Airlines, PIA, died due to Meningitis and lake of care of the Authorities.
★ Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [328]
★ Lucien Crump, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [329]
★ Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [330]
★ Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [331]
★ Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [332]
★ Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [333]
★ Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [334]
★ Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [335]
★ Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [336]
★ Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for ''Rolling Stone'' and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [337]
★ Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [338]
★ Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [339] [340]
★ Tongan prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, and princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [341] [342] [343]
★ Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [344]
★ Dean Goodman, 86, American actor, husband of Maria Riva, the daughter of Marlene Dietrich.
★ John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [345]
★ Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [346]
★ Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [347]
★ Sir Leslie Smith, 87, industrialist behind the The BOC Group growth. [348]
★ Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [349]
★ Bashir Al-Mogherbi, 83, first president of Libyan football club Al Ahly Benghazi.
★ Hans Bierbrauer alias ''Oskar'', 84, German caricaturist. [350]
★ Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson.
★ Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [351]
★ Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [352]
★ Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [353]
★ Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD. [354]
★ Arthur Haggerty, 74, American dog trainer. [355]
★ Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (''As the World Turns''), suicide by gunshot. [356] [357]
★ Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [358]
★ Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer. [359] [360]
★ Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [361]
★ Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [362]
★ Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [363]
★ Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of ''You Asked for It'', leukemia. [364] [365]
★ Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [366]
★ Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [367]
★ Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [368]
★ L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [369]
★ Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, former member House of Lords and RAF Group Captain. [370]
★ Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [371]
★ Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [372]
★ Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [373] [374]
★ Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [375]
★ Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1960–1974. [376]
★ Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [377]
★ Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke. [378]
★ Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [379]
★ Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [380]
★ Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [381]
★ Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [382]
★ Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [383]
★ Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [384]
★ Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [385] [386]
★ Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [387]
★ Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [388]
★ Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [389]
★ Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [390]
★ Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician. [391]
★ Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [392]
★ Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of ''The Press Democrat'', pancreatic cancer. [393]
★ Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [394]
★ Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [395]
★ Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [396]
★ Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [397]
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★ Dugald Christie, 65, Canadian lawyer who fought for equitable access to legal services, bicycle accident. [1]
★ Paul Eells, 70, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, car accident. [2]
★ Mario Faustinelli, 81, Italian comic book artist. [3]
★ Frederick Kilgour, 92, American librarian, founder of OCLC Online Computer Library Center. [4] [5]
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★ Duygu Asena, 60, Turkish writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour. [6] [7]
★ Al Balding, 82, Canadian golfer, cancer. [8]
★ Murray Bookchin, 85, American political essayist, heart failure. [9]
★ Dr. Philip D’Arcy Hart, 106, famed UK medical researcher. [10]
★ J. Palmer Gaillard, 86, mayor of Charleston, South Carolina 1959-1975, following a car crash. [11]
★ Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, concert accordionist, heart failure
★ Akbar Mohammadi, 34, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture. [12]
★ Ferenc Zenthe, 86, Hungarian actor. [13]
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★ Hani Awijan, 29, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades, in Nablus, West Bank, killed by gunfire. [14]
★ Guido Dacco, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans, & Champ Cars. [15] [16]
★ David deLisle, classical musician and professor of music at Xavier University for 40 years. [17]
★ Daniel Lev, 72, Indonesian scholar, lung cancer. [18]
★ Dr. Jean Baker Miller, 78, American psychiatrist and author (''Toward a New Psychology of Women''). [19]
★ Jose Lopez Rosario, 30, alleged Puerto Rican drug dealer [20]
★ James Olin, 86, member of the United States House of Representatives 1982-1992. [21]
★ Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage. [22]
★ Louis Winnick, 85, Romanian-born economist for the Ford Foundation. [23] [24]
★ James Harvey Young, 90, American social historian of medicine, professor at Emory University, complications of a stroke. [25]
★ Abdul Rashid Malik, 86, Father of Abdul Mannan Malik (General Manager WAPDA, Pakistan)
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★ Patrick Allen, 79, British actor. [26]
★ Rut Brandt, 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt. [27]
★ Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer. [28]
★ Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, 56, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination. [29]
★ Harold Enarson, 87, president of The Ohio State University (1972-81), fired football coach Woody Hayes, hydrocephalus. [30] [31]
★ David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist. [32] [33]
★ Dr. Joel Hedgpeth, 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist. [34]
★ Don Malarkey, 101, American former PGA Tour golfer and oldest living PGA member. [35]
★ Richard Mock, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. [36]
★ Sep Smith, 94, legendary Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player. [37]
★ Billy Walsh, 85, former Manchester City footballer & Grimsby Town manager, who played international football for both Ireland teams, the FAI XI and the IFA XI, and New Zealand. [38]
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★ A. Frank Carven III, 54, co-founder and director of the Families of T.W.A. Flight 800 Association. [39]
★ Maryann Mahaffey, 81, former member of Detroit city council, leukemia. [40]
★ Carlos Roque, 70, Portuguese comic book artist. [41]
★ Alexander Safran, 95, former Chief Rabbi of Romania who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War II. [42] [43]
★ Elisabeth Volkmann, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson. [44]
★ Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller, liver cancer. [45]
★ Funsho Williams, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled. [46]
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★ Emmeline Brice, 111, oldest Briton. [47]
★ Louise "Miss Lou" Bennett-Coverley, 86, Jamaican folklorist, comedienne, poet. [48] [49]
★ Floyd Dixon, 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure. [50] [51]
★ Vincent J. Fuller, 75, lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr, lung cancer. [52]
★ Jessie Gilbert, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall. [53] [54]
★ Sunil Kumar, 34, Bhopal disaster campaigner against Union Carbide and founder of Children Against Carbide, found hanged.
★ Darrell Martinie, 63, astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer. [55]
★ Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron. [56]
★ Thurl Metzger, 90, former director of Heifer International. [57]
★ Ed O'Herron, Jr, 90, North Carolina politician and businessman who helped to build Eckerd Drugs into one of the biggest drugstore chains in the US. [58]
★ Timotheos III Papoutsakis, 91, Archbishop of Crete. [59] [60]
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★ Lydia, Duchess of Bedford, 88, second wife of John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford. [61]
★ Carl Brashear, 75, first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film ''Men of Honor'', heart failure. [62]
★ Chen Jinlang, 45, Singaporean pop singer in Hokkien dialect, colorectal cancer. [63]
★ Ezra Fleischer, 78, Transylvanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize, and professor at Hebrew University. [64]
★ Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 43, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack [65] [66]
★ Karin Hübner, 69, German actress and musical star (played Eliza Doolittle in German adaptation of ''My Fair Lady'') [67]
★ Mati Jostov, 47, Estonian business manager, car accident [68] [69]
★ Bill Meistrell, 77, founder of the Body Glove wet suit company, Parkinson's disease. [70]
★ Aldo Notari, 74, president of the International Baseball Federation. [71]
★ James Schwabacher, 86, founder of San Francisco Opera's Merola Program for young artists, complications of pneumonia. [72]
★ Bob Simpson, 61, retired senior BBC correspondent. [73]
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★ Keya Brutalna, 83, Slovakian mathematician, cancer.
★ Janka Bryl, 89, Belarusian writer. [74] [75]
★ Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor. [76]
★ Maha Kanapathipillai, pro-Government Tamil politician in Sri Lanka, presumed shot dead by Tamil Tigers. [77] [78]
★ Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach. [79]
★ Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian. [80]
★ Michael Sellers, 52, British author, son of Peter Sellers, died during heart surgery. [81] [82]
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★ Charles E. Brady, Jr., 54, American former astronaut. [83]
★ Charles Bray, 72, American press secretary for the US State Department, deputy director of the USIA, and ambassador to Senegal. [84]
★ Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of ''Les insolences du Frère Untel'', heart attack. [85]
★ Lt. Col. Besby Holmes, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto. [86] [87]
★ John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer. [88]
★ Frederick Mosteller, 89, Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis. [89]
★ Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day. [90]
★ Ewa Sałacka, 49, Polish actress, allergic reaction to wasp sting. [91]
★ Simonetta Stefanelli, 51, Italian actress (Apollonia in ''The Godfather''), cancer. [92]
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★ Heather Bratton, 19, American model, car accident. [93]
★ Donald Reid Cabral, 83, former foreign minister of the Dominican Republic. [94]
★ José Antonio Delgado, 41, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, found dead on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. [95]
★ Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease. [96]
★ Jessie Mae Hemphill, 82, award winning blues musician, complications of an infection. [97]
★ Thomas J. Manton, 73, longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985-99), prostate cancer. [98] [99]
★ Dr. Dika Newlin, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg. [100]
★ James E. West, 55, former mayor of Spokane, Washington, colorectal cancer [101]
★ Russell J. York, 84, World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest on November 20, 1944. [102]
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★ Walter Allner, 97, German-born art director of ''Fortune''. [103]
★ Ric Campman, 64, artist and co-founder of the River Gallery School, cancer. [104] [105]
★ Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television, and Broadway actor; esophageal cancer [106]
★ John Mazmanian, 80, drag racing pioneer. [107]
★ Bob McCausland, 90, cartoonist for the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer''. [108]
★ Ta Mok, 80, former Khmer Rouge commander, known as "The Butcher." [109]
★ J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, former child actress Heart Attack [110]
★ Palladium, 17, Estonian competition horse, euthanized after breaking leg. [111] [112] [113]
★ Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, car crash. [114]
★ Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, missing since July 5, murder. [115] [116]
★ Bert Slater, 70, Scottish footballer [117]
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★ Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian [118]
★ Philipp von Bismarck, 91, German politician of the CDU party. [119]
★ Kevin Brophy, 21, Australian basketball player at the University of Georgia, automobile accident. [120] [121]
★ Madonna Castillo, 31, former Secretary-General of the Anakpawis party in the Philippines, shot. [122]
★ Chung In-yung, 86, founder of Halla Engineering & Construction in South Korea. [123]
★ Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (''Thing From Another World''). [124]
★ Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician [125]
★ Brandon Hedrick, 27, convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair in Virginia [126]
★ Tom Larson, 77, former Federal Highway Administrator and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transport. [127]
★ Lim Kim San, 89, former cabinet minister of Singapore. [128]
★ Frank Nabarro, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics [129]
★ Harry Olivieri, 90, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium. [130]
★ Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director. [131]
★ Theo Sijthoff, 69, Dutch former cyclist and fashion designer [132]
★ Romeo Tan Togonon, 55, editorial cartoonist for the ''Manila Times''. [133]
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★ Rev Robert Baumiller, 75, associate dean of health at Xavier University. [134]
★ Mauriceo Brown, 31, executed in Texas for 1996 robbery murder. [135]
★ Troy May, 39, owner of Oshawa Dodgers Baseball Club, sepsis due to injuries from car accident. [136]
★ Sam Neely, 58, singer-songwriter, collapsed while mowing his lawn. [137]
★ Maulvi Yunis Khalis, 87, mujahideen leader in Afghanistan who met with Ronald Reagan in 1988. [138]
★ Dave Walter, 63, Montana historian, heart attack. [139]
★ Jack Warden, 85, Emmy Award-winning American actor, heart and kidney failure. [140]
★ George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science. [141]
★ Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer. [142]
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★ Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer. [143]
★ Henry Hewes, 89, former ''Saturday Review'' theater critic and editor of ''Best Plays'' (1960-1964). [144] [145]
★ Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, former Ipswich Town footballer. [146] [147]
★ David Maloney, 72, British television director and producer for ''Doctor Who'' and ''Blake's 7'' [148]
★ V.P. Sathyan, 41, former captain of the Indian national football team, apparent suicide. [149] [150]
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★ Rev. Amos Bailey, 88, writer of the syndicated column "Our Daily Bread", thyroid cancer. [151]
★ Billy Firehawk, 40, former professional wrestler, diabetes [152]
★ Galen Fiss, 75, former Cleveland Browns linebacker. [153] [154]
★ Dr. James Jandl, 80, American hematologist at Harvard University, author of ''Blood: Textbook of Hematology''. [155]
★ Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease [156]
★ Mike MacDonald, 65, pioneering Canadian aboriginal video artist. [157]
★ Robert Mardian, 82, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer. [158]
★ Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets; throat cancer. [159] [160]
★ David Skramstad, 74, twice mayor of Olympia, Washington and mystery writer, heart failure. [161]
★ Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, pancreatic cancer. [162] [163] [164]
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★ Walter Binaghi, 87, former ICAO Council President. [165]
★ Peter Chew, 82, author and journalist specialising in horse racing, heart attack. [166]
★ Dr. Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion. [167]
★ Martin Gallant, 75, American former vice chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. [168]
★ Kevin Hughes, 53, former British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease. [169] [170]
★ Bob Orton, Sr., 76, former professional wrestler, heart attack. [171]
★ Destiny Norton (date disappeared), 5, American child, kidnapped and murdered.
★ Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956. [172]
★ Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. [173] [174]
★ Harold Scott Jr., 70, American award-winning actor and playwright, first black artistic director of a major American regional theater. [175] [176]
★ Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma. [177] [178]
★ Winston Wilson, 63, co-founder of Winston Daniels Ltd of Napa Valley, wine importer, esophageal cancer. [179]
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★ Robert H. Brooks, 69, chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. [180]
★ Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. [181]
★ John Feild, 83, pioneer of affirmative action as executive director of the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity in the administration of John F. Kennedy, heart attack. [182]
★ John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. [183]
★ Howdy Groskloss, 100, was the oldest living former major league baseball player. [184]
★ Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer. [185]
★ Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. [186]
★ Daniel Nickerson, 48, former professional wrestling promoter [187]
★ István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, long illness. [188]
★ Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and former co-husband of bigamist Anais Nin. [189]
★ A.C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir charity for destitute women in India. [190]
★ Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter. [191]
★ David W. Simpson, 51, American Mayor of Bethel, Ohio, aneurysm. [192]
★ Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer. [193] [194]
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★ Ted Bilkey, 72, former Chief Operating Officer for DP World. [195] [196]
★ Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage. [197]
★ William Downs, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. [198]
★ Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. [199]
★ Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer [200]
★ William Lash III, 45, former assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide after killing his 12 year old autistic son. [201]
★ Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. [202]
★ Carrie Nye, 69, American actress; lung cancer. [203] [204]
★ June Ormond, 94, produced country music and religious films, complications of a stroke. [205]
★ Eduards Pāvuls, 77, famous Latvian actor [206]
★ Martha Peterson, 90, American president of Barnard College (1967-75). [207]
★ Senne Rouffaer, 80, Flemish actor. [208]
★ Len Teeuws, 79, former offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals. [209]
★ Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. [210]
★ Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine, and massive bleeding. [211] [212]
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★ Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease [213] [214] [215]
★ Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [216]
★ Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. [217]
★ Jürgen Kießling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [218]
★ John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the ''Dallas Morning News'', pneumonia. [219]
★ Mark Ryder, 85, American dancer. [220]
★ Jonathan Solomon, 74, Gwich'in tribal leader. [221]
★ Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid [222]
★ Cora T. Walker, 84, African-American lawyer, co-founder and senior partner of Walker & Bailey. [223]
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★ Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [224]
★ George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. [225]
★ Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (''Sahara'', ''The Enemy Below''), stroke. [226] [227] [228]
★ Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. [229]
★ Charles H. G. Rees, 84, American media executive, former president of Whitney Communications. [230]
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★ Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, death currently under investigation. [231] [232]
★ Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [233]
★ John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [234]
★ Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [235]
★ Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [236]
★ Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [237] [238]
★ Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [239] [240]
★ Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [241] [242]
★ Paul Morden, 31, American musician (The Brickbats, Memphis Morticians, Gitane DeMone, and others), suicide.
★ Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. [243]
★ Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide. [244]
★ William Pryce, 73, United States ambassador to Honduras from 1993 to 1996, pancreatic cancer. [245]
★ Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison [246]
★ Ruth Schonthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer [247] [248] [249]
★ John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer [250] [251] [252]
★ Philippe Takla, 91, former foreign minister of Lebanon. [253] [254]
★ Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [255]
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★ Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [256] [257] [258] [259]
★ Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [260]
★ Robert Fumerton, 93, Top scoring Canadian night fighter ace of World War II. "Washington Post", p. B-6, Jul. 27, 2006 [261]
★ The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, responsible for introducing charges to visitors at York Minster, cancer [262] [263]
★ Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [264]
★ Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [265]
★ Ruth Schonthal, 82, American composer. Complications from heart attack. cf July 11 [266]
★ Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant. [267]
★ Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [268]
★ Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [269]
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★ Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [270]
★ Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. [271]
★ Professor John Raeburn, 93, agricultural economist responsible for planning the "Dig for Victory" campaign in the United Kingdom during World War II. [272]
★ Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [273]
★ Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [274] [275]
★ Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [276]
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★ George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [277] [278]
★ June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [279]
★ Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [280]
★ Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [281]
★ Rolf Braun, 77, German ''Fastnacht'' and TV personality [282]
★ David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [283] [284]
★ Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia. [285]
★ Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flowerpot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks. [286]
★ Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in ''Life'', lung cancer. [287] [288]
★ Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [289]
★ Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (''Kanthapura''). [290] [291]
★ Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure. [292]
★ Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [293]
★ Sabine Dünser, 29, singer for gothic metal band Elis, Cerebral hemorrhage. [294]
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★ Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [295] [296]
★ Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, diabetes. [297]
★ Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [298]
★ Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [299]
★ Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [300]
★ Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris. [301]
★ John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [302]
★ Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [303]
★ Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [304]
★ Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [305]
★ Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [306]
★ Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [307]
★ Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [308] [309]
★ Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band. [310]
★ Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [311]
★ Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [312]
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★ Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of ''Bien'', the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [313]
★ Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack. [314]
★ Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [315]
★ Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [316]
★ Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [317]
★ John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [318]
★ George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [319]
★ Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [320] [321]
★ Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (''Bewitched'') and motocross racer, stroke. [322] [323] [324]
★ E.S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist. [325]
★ Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [326] [327]
★ Waseem Rashid Malik, 48, Engineer at Pakistan International Airlines, PIA, died due to Meningitis and lake of care of the Authorities.
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★ Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [328]
★ Lucien Crump, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [329]
★ Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [330]
★ Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [331]
★ Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [332]
★ Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [333]
★ Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [334]
★ Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [335]
★ Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [336]
★ Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for ''Rolling Stone'' and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [337]
★ Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [338]
★ Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [339] [340]
★ Tongan prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, and princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [341] [342] [343]
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★ Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [344]
★ Dean Goodman, 86, American actor, husband of Maria Riva, the daughter of Marlene Dietrich.
★ John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [345]
★ Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [346]
★ Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [347]
★ Sir Leslie Smith, 87, industrialist behind the The BOC Group growth. [348]
★ Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [349]
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★ Bashir Al-Mogherbi, 83, first president of Libyan football club Al Ahly Benghazi.
★ Hans Bierbrauer alias ''Oskar'', 84, German caricaturist. [350]
★ Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson.
★ Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [351]
★ Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [352]
★ Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [353]
★ Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD. [354]
★ Arthur Haggerty, 74, American dog trainer. [355]
★ Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (''As the World Turns''), suicide by gunshot. [356] [357]
★ Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [358]
★ Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer. [359] [360]
★ Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [361]
★ Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [362]
★ Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [363]
★ Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of ''You Asked for It'', leukemia. [364] [365]
★ Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [366]
★ Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [367]
★ Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [368]
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★ L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [369]
★ Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, former member House of Lords and RAF Group Captain. [370]
★ Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [371]
★ Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [372]
★ Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [373] [374]
★ Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [375]
★ Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1960–1974. [376]
★ Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [377]
★ Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke. [378]
★ Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [379]
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★ Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [380]
★ Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [381]
★ Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [382]
★ Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [383]
★ Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [384]
★ Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [385] [386]
★ Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [387]
★ Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [388]
★ Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [389]
★ Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [390]
★ Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician. [391]
★ Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [392]
★ Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of ''The Press Democrat'', pancreatic cancer. [393]
★ Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [394]
★ Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [395]
★ Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [396]
★ Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [397]
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