DEATHS IN OCTOBER 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.
===31===

★ P. W. Botha, 90, South African politician, Prime Minister (1978–1984), State President (1984–1989), heart attack. [1]

★ Shane Drury, 27, American professional bull rider in the PRCA, Ewing's sarcoma. [2]

★ William Franklyn, 81, English actor, prostate cancer. [3]

★ Peter Fryer, 79, English journalist who reported on the Hungarian Revolution. [4]

★ Michael Genovese, 87, American alleged Mafia boss of Pittsburgh. [5]

★ Mabel Grosvenor, 101, Canadian physician and granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell. [6]

★ Dr. George B. Thomas, 92, American mathematician and author, natural causes. [7]

★ Nicholas John Vine-Hall, 62, Australian genealogist, cancer. [8]
===30===

★ Clifford Geertz, 80, American cultural anthropologist, complications following heart surgery. [9]

★ Jens Christian Hauge, 91, Norwegian World War II resistance leader, and first postwar defence minister, natural causes. [10] [11]

★ Stephen Kaye, 75, American lawyer and author, cancer. [12]

★ Junji Kinoshita, 92, Japanese playwright, pneumonia. [13]

★ Cesar Nazareno, 65, Filipino former head of the Philippine National Police, aneurysm. [14]

★ Ian Rilen, 58, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo), bladder cancer. [15]

★ Aud Schønemann, 83, Norwegian actress best known for comedy roles. [16] (Norwegian)

★ Mose Tolliver, 82, Alabaman folk artist, pneumonia.[17]
===29===

★ Nigel Kneale, 84, English scriptwriter (''The Quatermass Experiment''), stroke. [18]

★ Mohammadu Maccido, 78, Sultan of Sokoto, spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims, aeroplane crash. [19]

★ Silas Simmons, 111, American Negro league baseball player, longest-living known professional baseball player in history. [20] [21]

★ Friedel Stern, 89, German-born Israeli cartoonist. [22]
===28===

★ Robert Anderson, 85, American president and chairman of Rockwell International Corporation. [23]

★ Red Auerbach, 89, American coach of the Boston Celtics (1950–1966), heart attack. [24]

★ Tina Aumont, 60, French actress, pulmonary embolism. [25] (Italian)

★ György Bence, 64, Hungarian philosopher. [26] (Hungarian)

★ Trevor Berbick, 51, Jamaican former heavyweight boxing champion and last boxer to face Muhammad Ali, homicide. [27]

★ Brian Brolly, 70, British co-manager of Wings (1973-78), Managing Director of Really Useful Group (1978-88), co-founder of Classic FM, heart attack. [28]

★ Henry Fok, 83, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist, and CCPPC official, lymphoma. [29]

★ Richard Gilman, 83, American drama and literary critic, lung cancer. [30]

★ Peter Gingold, 90, German anti-fascist. [31] (German)

★ Jack McGinley, 85, American businessman, part owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, cancer. [32]

★ Marijohn Wilkin, 86, American country songwriter, a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, heart failure. [33]
===27===

★ John Raymond Broadbent, 92, Australian Army officer and distinguished lawyer. [34]

★ Ephraim Chamba, 71, Zimbabwean broadcaster, car accident. [35]

★ József Gregor, 66, Hungarian opera singer (bass) and father of actress Bernadett Gregor. [36] [37]

★ Thomas Russell Jones, 93, African-American New York state assemblyman and judge. [38]

★ Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, Pakistani former President, pneumonia. [39]

★ Humphrey Khoza, 58, South African businessman who set up the country's national lottery, car crash. [40]

★ Marlin McKeever, 66, former American football player, head injuries from a fall. [41]

★ Joe Niekro, 61, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm. [42]

★ Muhammad Qasim, 32, goalkeeper for the Pakistani field hockey team, cancer. [43]

★ Albrecht von Goertz, 92, German-born American automobile designer. [44]

★ Bradley Roland Will, 36, American Indymedia reporter, shot dead whilst covering a Mexican teachers' strike. [45]
===26===

★ Gary Coull, 52, Canadian journalist, and co-founder of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange brokerage CLSA, cancer. [46] [47]

★ Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian composer, cancer. [48] (Portuguese)

★ Tillman Franks, 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes. [49]

★ Michel Habib-Deloncle, 84, French politician, former Secretary of State. [50]

★ Ralph R. Harding, 77, former Idaho congressman. [51]

★ Pontus Hultén, 82, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director. [52] (Swedish)

★ John Kentish, 96, English operatic tenor.[53]

★ Charlie Leigh, 60, American kick returner for unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins, lung cancer. [54]

★ Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia. [55] (Japanese)

★ Theodore Taylor, 85, American writer best known for ''The Cay'', heart attack. [56]
===25===

★ Paul Ableman, 79, English playwright and novelist.[57]

★ Gerrard Haworth, 95, founder of office furniture company Haworth. [58]

★ Bernice Kanner, 57, American advertising columnist and journalist, aneurysm. [59] [60]

★ Edward Kenney, Sr., 85, baseball executive in the Boston Red Sox farm system from 1949-91, complications of diabetes.[61]

★ Kintaro Ohki, known professionally as Kim Il, 77, South Korean World Wrestling Association champion, heart attack. [62]

★ Daniel Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [63]

★ Robert Rosenberg, 54, Israeli author, cancer. [64]

★ Gregory Summers, 48, convicted U.S. murderer, executed by lethal injection.[65]

★ Tom Wagoner, 75, responsible for springing open the starting gates each year at the Kentucky Derby. [66]
===24===

★ David Conn, 56, District Attorney in the Menendez Brothers trial, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [67]

★ Ray Johnson, 72, former CFL and Western Mustangs player and coach. [68]

★ Sally Lilienthal, 87, American disarmament activist, founder of the Ploughshares Fund, pneumonia following a bone infection. [69] [70]

★ Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [71]

★ Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, heart failure. [72]

★ Benjamin Meed, 88, Polish-born president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. [73]

★ Jack Radtke, 93, American baseball player [74]

★ Rafael Ramírez Heredia, 67, Mexican writer, lung cancer [75]

★ William Montgomery Watt, 97, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. [76]

★ Daisy (dog), 13, Rudolph Moshammer's dog, often appeared together in the media. [77]
===23===

★ Leonid Hambro, 86, American concert pianist. [78]

★ Dr. Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, 91, American doctor and abortion rights advocate, the only doctor ever convicted in the US of performing an abortion in a hospital. [79]

★ Charles Horton, 81, founder of Physicians for Peace, cancer. [80]

★ Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease. [81] (Italian)

★ Lawrence W. Levine, 73, American cultural historian, cancer. [82]

★ Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident. [83]

★ Mary Murray, 81, Massachusetts Republican representative between 1976 and 2000, cancer. [84]

★ Jack E. Scholl, 80, former head of Dr. Scholl's and executive director of the Dr. Scholl Foundation. [85]

★ Todd Skinner, 48, pioneering free climber, climbing accident. [86] [87]

★ Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist. [88]
===22===

★ Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records, Unknown Causes. [89] [90]

★ Lucho DeCastro, Touring car driver, air crash. [91]

★ Masayuki Fujio, 89, former Japanese Minister of Education. [92]

★ Choe Gyuha, 87, former South Korean president. [93]

★ Arthur Hill, 84, Canadian Tony Award-winning actor (''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Andromeda Strain''), Alzheimer's disease. [94] [95]

★ Lembit Lauri, 77, Estonian journalist

★ Mancs, 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Spider Special Rescue Team of Miskolc, pneumonia [96]

★ William Marquard, 86, former CEO of American Standard Companies. [97]

★ Richard Mayes, 83, English stage and television actor.

★ Michael Mayne, 77, English clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996), cancer of the jaw. [98]

★ Manoj Punj, 36 Indian director. [99]

★ Arnold Sundgaard, 96, American lyricist, librettist and playwright. [100]
===21===

★ Peter Barkworth, 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke. [101][102]

★ Paul Biegel, 81, Dutch writer of children's literature. [103] (Dutch)

★ Pye Chamberlayne, 68, American radio journalist, heart attack. [104]

★ Daryl Duke, 77, Canadian film director ''(The Thorn Birds)'', pulmonary fibrosis. [105]

★ Nersi Gorgia, 68, Iranian film actor. [106]

★ Bryan Hipp, Diabolic and Cradle of Filth guitarist, unknown [107]

★ Bob Mann, 82, American football player, one of the Detroit Lions' first black players. [108]

★ Arthur Peacocke, 81, English scientist and theologian. [109]

★ Milton Selzer, 87, American actor. [110]

★ Erik Walker, 23, Tampa Bay Devil Rays minor league pitcher, drowning. [111]

★ Paul Walters, 59, BBC radio and TV producer. [112]

★ Sandy West, 47, drummer and vocalist with The Runaways, lung cancer. [113]
===20===

★ Maxi Baier, 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Parkinson's disease. [114]

★ Don Burroughs, 75, American football player from 1955–1964, cancer. [115]

★ Takuya Fujioka (), 76, Japanese actor (Daikichi Okakura in the Japanese soap opera ''). [116]

★ Princess Irene Galitzine, 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer. [117] [118]

★ Ted Johnson, 72, founder and former president of the World of Outlaws, lung cancer. [119]

★ Dr. Lawrence Kolb, 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement, natural causes. [120]

★ Eric Newby, 86, British travel writer, natural causes. [121]

★ Mary Gay Taylor, 71, radio journalist for WCBS-AM. [122]

★ Jane Wyatt, 96, American actress ''(Father Knows Best, Star Trek)'', natural causes. [123]

★ Elizabeth Claro, 18, Australia/Australian five-time Australian Gaelic dancing champion
===19===

★ Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross, 81, British founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and life peer, heart attack. [124]

★ Dr. Arthur Holleb, 85, American surgical oncologist and educator, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. [125]

★ Phyllis Kirk, 79, American actress (''House of Wax'', ''The Thin Man''), post cerebral aneurysm. [126] [127]

★ Ernest Maftei, 86, Romanian actor, lung cancer. [128]

★ Dr. Leonard Pepkowitz, 91, American chemist and advisor to the Atomic Energy Commission. [129]

★ Srividya, 53, Indian actress, cancer. [130]
===18===

★ Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist. [131]

★ Oberia Coffin, 122?, American woman who may have been world's oldest person. [132]

★ Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation from 1951–1998, IOC whistleblower, stroke. [133]

★ Dr. Edithe Levit, 79, American doctor and educator, former president of the National Board of Medical Examiners. [134]

★ Achille Millo, 84, Italian actor. [135] (Italian)

★ Lisa Norris, 16, Scottish teenage cancer patient and accidental overdose victim [136]

★ Mario Francesco Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature from 1999–2004, brain hemorrhage. [137] [138] (German)

★ Anna Russell, 94, British/Canadian comedian and classical music satirist. [139] [140]

★ Spoony Singh, 83, Indian born founder of the Hollywood Wax Museum. [141] [142]

★ Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [143] [144]
===17===

★ Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (''The City of Lost Children''). [145]

★ Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (''Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person''), metastatic breast cancer. [146]

★ Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer. [147] [148]

★ Ursula Moray Williams, 95, English children's author. [149]

★ Sandra Regina Arantes do Nascimento, 42, Brazilian politician, daughter of footballer Pelé, breast cancer. [150]

★ Lieuwe Steiger, 82, goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and the Netherlands (1953–1954), natural causes. [151] (Dutch)

★ Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. [152]
===16===

★ Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer. [153]

★ Ross Davidson, 57, former ''EastEnders'' actor, brain tumor. [154]

★ Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer. [155] [156]

★ Richard Duvall, 44, British co-founder of Egg Banking plc and Zopa, cancer. [157]

★ Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992). [158]

★ Harold Gardner, 107, World War I veteran, served a single day prior to the November 11 armistice. [159]

★ Tommy Johnson, 71, session musician best known for his work on the ''Jaws'' theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure. [160]

★ Dr. John Murra, 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar. [161]

★ Valentín Paniagua, 70, former president of Peru, complications from heart surgery. [162]

★ Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism. [163]

★ Ernie Steele, 88, played in two NFL championship games for the Philadelphia Eagles. [164]

★ Sigmund Strochlitz, 89, Polish Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [165]

★ Trebisonda "Ondina" Valla, 90, first Italian female Olympic champion, 80m hurdles, 1936, natural causes. [166]

★ Anatoly Voronin, 55, the business chief of Russian Itar-TASS news agency, apparent murder [167]
===15===

★ Derek Bond, 86, British actor (''Callan'', ''Scott of the Antarctic''). [168]

★ William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages. [169]

★ Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoons editor for ''Playboy''. [170]
===14===

★ Marja Bakker, 59, Dutch-born organizer of the Boston Marathon, only female president of the Boston Athletic Association Running Club. [171]

★ James Barr, 82, Scottish Hebrew Bible scholar. [172]

★ Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox and silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer. [173] [174] (Dutch)

★ Gino Empry, 83, Canadian entertainment publicist and promoter. [175]

★ Freddy Fender, 69, Mexican-American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer. [176]

★ Thomas Hlongwane, former South African football (soccer) player, cancer. [177]

★ Herbert Leonard, 84, American TV and movie producer ''(Route 66, Naked City, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin)''. [178] [179] [180]

★ Soni Pabla, 30, Punjabi singer, heart attack. [181]

★ Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed theologian. [182]

★ Gerry Studds, 69, first openly homosexual U.S. Congressman, Democratic Representative for Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism. [183][184]
===13===

★ Bernard Allen, 69, North Carolina General Assembly member. [185]

★ Mason Andrews, 87, delivered first test tube baby in the United States; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. [186]

★ Deborah Blumer, 64, Massachusetts State Representative, heart attack. [187] [188]

★ Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes. [189] [190]

★ Mayme Clayton, 83, black history archivist, pancreatic cancer. [191]

★ Pál Kállai, 73, Hungarian jockey. [192]

★ Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality. [193]

★ Dino Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household from 1986–1998. [194]

★ Edward Newlands, 64, Scottish oncologist, pioneered etoposide to improve the treatment of testicular and ovarian cancers, temozolomide for astrocytoma. [195]

★ Dr. S. Peter Rosen, 73, British-American physicist. [196]

★ Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip ''Teena''. [197]

★ Wang Guangmei, 85, wife of late Chinese Communist leader Liu Shaoqi. [198]
===12===

★ Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet. [199]

★ Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies. [200] [201]

★ Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 78, American CEO of Pullman Inc.

★ Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965-70). [202]

★ Dr. Saul Farber, 88, American dean of the New York University Medical School, complications from circulatory problems. [203]

★ Richard Hunter, 60, Ngarrindjeri elder and South Australian citizen of the year. [204]

★ Eugène Martin, 91, driver in very first Grand Prix. [205] (French)

★ Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (''The Battle of Algiers''), congestive heart failure. [206]
===11===

★ Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983). [207]

★ Klaus Hiendl, 62, German businessman, injuries from a car crash. [208]

★ Howard Kerzner, 42, South African resort developer, CEO of Kerzner International Ltd., helicopter crash. [209][210]

★ Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher with the New York Yankees, plane crash. [211] [212]

★ Benito Martínez, 126?, claimant to the title of world's oldest person. [213]

★ Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British Judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985). [214]

★ Jimmy Peters, 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens and the Detroit Red Wings. [215]

★ Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach at Boston College. [216]

★ Sheikh Raad Mutar Saleh, Mandaean leader in Iraq, assassination.

★ Norman Salsitz, 86, Polish-born resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor, and author. [217]

★ Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer. [218] (French)

★ John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy. [219]
===10===

★ Norsehah Abu Bakar, 44, Malaysian singer, lung cancer. [220]

★ Jerry Belson, 68, Emmy-winning American television comedy writer (''The Tracey Ullman Show'', ''The Dick Van Dyke Show''), prostate cancer. [221] [222]

★ Francis Berry, 91, English poet and literary critic. [223]

★ Harold Farb, 83, developer who expanded Houston by more than 30,000 apartments over the course of his career, heart attack. [224].

★ Josie Orr, 85, former first lady of Indiana as wife of Gov. Robert D. Orr. [225]

★ Robert Richenburg, 89, abstract expressionist painter. [226]

★ Ian Scott, 72, former Attorney-General of Ontario. [227]

★ Edgar Summerlin, 78, American tenor saxophonist and composer of jazz church music. [228]

★ Lalit Suri, 59, Indian hotelier and parliamentarian, heart attack. [229]
===9===

★ Sedat Alp, 93, first archaeologist in Turkey to specialize in Hittitology. [230] (Turkish)

★ Haris Charalambous, 21, University of Toledo basketball player. [231]

★ Jacqueline-Charlotte Dufresnoy (known as Coccinelle), 75, French transsexual singer, stroke. [232] (French)

★ Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979). [233]

★ Jeff Getty, 49, AIDS activist and first recipient of a cross-species bone marrow transplant, heart failure. [234] [235]

★ Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. [236] (Polish)

★ Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer. [237]

★ Paul Hunter, 27, English snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours. [238]

★ Dr Nelson Leonard, 90, American bioorganic chemist and chloroquine researcher. [239]

★ Sheldon Meyer, 80, American historian and editor at Oxford University Press. [240]

★ Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack. [241]

★ Glenn Myernick, 51, assistant coach of the United States men's national soccer team, heart attack. [242]

★ Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, former CEO of Novell. [243]

★ Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack. [244]

★ Morris Tarshis, 87, American lawyer, former director of the New York City Bureau of Franchises. [245]
===8===

★ Eve Adamson, 68, American theater director, founder of the Jean Cocteau Repertory, daughter of lyricist Harold Adamson. [246]

★ Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for anti-segregation editorials in the ''Chronicle Star''. [247]

★ Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop. [248] (Slovak)

★ Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist for the ''Oldham Chronicle'' and father of actress Anne Kirkbride. [249]

★ Yaakov Maltz, 83, former Supreme Court of Israel Justice and State Comptroller, heart attack. [250] (Hebrew)

★ Ivan Murrell, 63, Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres [251]

★ Mark Porter, 31, New Zealand racing driver, injuries received at the Mount Panorama Circuit. [252]

★ Charlie Bradberry, 24, NASCAR driver, non-racing automobile accident. [253]

★ Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter with 24 Oras, road accident. [254]

★ Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant. [255]

★ Karen Fischer, 30, German journalist, shot dead in Afghanistan. [256]

★ Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish cyclist, suicide. [257]

★ Joseph Lynch, 93, Royal Navy sailor who won the George Cross. [258]

★ Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot dead in Moscow. [259] [260]

★ Peter Rossi, 84, American sociologist who studied homelessness. [261]

★ Christian Struwe, 38, German journalist, shot dead in Afghanistan. [262]
===6===

★ Puck Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics. [263] (Dutch)

★ Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader. [264]

★ Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director. [265] (Spanish)

★ Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues,heart failure and bone marrow cancer. [266]

★ Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker. [267]

★ Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist [268]

★ Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer. [269]
===5===

★ Al Antczak, 84, longtime editor of ''The Tidings'', the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, pneumonia. [270]

★ Robert Dentith, 29, British radio presenter of "The Unsigned Show" on Kerrang! Radio. [271]

★ Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire. [272]

★ George King, 78, college basketball coach. [273]

★ Lieutenant General Liao Hansheng, 95, former Deputy Defence Minister of China. [274]

★ Speedy O. Long, 78, Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972), cousin of Huey Long. [275] [276]

★ Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress who played Lucille Hewitt on ''Coronation Street''. [277]

★ Antonio Peña, 53, promoter of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, heart attack.

★ Jackie Rae, 84, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer. [278]

★ Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm. [279]

★ Dick Wagner, 78, American former President of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash. [280] [281]

★ Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer. [282]
===4===

★ Nigel Angus, 62, Scottish race horse trainer. [283]

★ R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer for ''The New York Times'', thoracic cancer. [284]

★ Tom Bell, 73, British actor (''Wish You Were Here'', ''Prime Suspect''), after short illness. [285]

★ Gary Comer, 78, founder of the clothing chain Lands' End, and philanthropist, prostate cancer. [286]

★ General František Fajtl, 94, Czech World War II fighter pilot, after long illness. [287]

★ Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who held the world altitude record.[288]

★ Ralph Griswold, 72, creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer. [289]

★ Vic Heyliger, 87, Hall of Fame ice hockey coach of the US national team and at three colleges. [290]

★ Gene Janson, 72, Chicago-based character actor, heart attack on stage during a performance. [291]

★ Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer. [292]

★ Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director. [293] (Italian)

★ Katarina Tomasevski, 53, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.[294]
===3===

★ Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist. [295]

★ Vice-Admiral Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic [296]

★ John Crank, 90, English mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation.[297]

★ Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5,795 episodes of the long-running radio serial ''Blue Hills'', after heart trouble. [298]

★ Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete and Olympic silver medalist, heart attack. [299] [300]

★ Danial Shapiro, 48, American dancer and choreographer. [301]
===2===

★ Martha Batista, 82, First Lady of Cuba (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista. [302]

★ Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen. [303] [304]

★ Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident.[305]

★ Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress, star of blaxploitation movie ''Cleopatra Jones'', complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis. [306]

★ Brian Fitzpatrick, 75, former All Blacks rugby union player. [307]

★ Dr. Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician. [308] [309]

★ Arthur L. Jones, 61, award winning journalist and presidential spokesman, complications from leukemia treatment. [310]

★ Goran Mijatović, 36, Serbian businessman and owner of first league soccer club FK Bežanija, car bomb. [311]

★ Paul Richardson, 74, Philadelphia Phillies' longtime organist, prostate cancer. [312]

★ Clyde Vollmer, 85, Major League Baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds [313]

★ Willem Zonggonau, ca. 64, West Papuan independence activist, heart attack. [314]

★ Thoudam Damodar Singh, 69, Founder and Director, Bhaktivedanta Institute, Heart Attack [315]
===1===

★ Frank Beyer, 74, German film director (''Jacob the Liar''). [316] [317]

★ Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall AO, 96, Australian mining industrialist. [318]

★ Atanas Mihaylov, 57, Bulgarian soccer player. [319]

★ Jakob Oeri-Hoffmann, 86, Swiss pharmaceutical executive, director of Roche Holding AG. [320]

★ Judith Pizarro, 41, Puerto Rican actress, cardiac arrest. [321] (Spanish).

★ Rafael Quintero Ibarbia, 66, Cuban-born CIA agent. [322]

★ David Salten, 93, American educator and desegregation expert. [323]

★ André Viger, 54, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner and Paralympian, cancer. [324]

★ Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic and President and co-founder of Comic Market, lung cancer. [325]