DEATHS IN SEPTEMBER 2006

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

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★ Isabel Bigley, 80, American stage actress, Tony Award-winner for ''Guys and Dolls''. [1] [2]

★ Josh Graves, 79, American bluegrass dobro player. [3]

★ Derek Jacobs, 18, American computer prodigy, one of the first people in the world to receive an identification microchip, motorcycle accident. [4]

★ Adolf H. Lundin, 73, Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur, leukemia. 576778 (Swedish)

★ Pino Mlakar, 99, Slovenian ballet dancer. [5] (Slovenian)

★ Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven, 96, American politician, served three terms in the New Mexico State Legislature. [6]

★ André Schwarz-Bart, 78, French novelist. [7]

★ András Sütő, 79, Romanian writer of Hungarian descent, melanoma. [8] (Hungarian)

★ Robert Jackson Thompson, 60, on California's death row since 1983 for murder, heart attack. [9]

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★ Rosamond Carr, 94, American fashion illustrator turned humanitarian and activist. [10] [11] [12]

★ Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer, heart failure. [13] [14] (Norwegian)

★ Peter Grosz, 80, German-born engineer and aviation expert, son of painter George Grosz. [15]

★ Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, stroke. [16]

★ Dr. Joseph Kauffman, 84, American educator, training director of the Peace Corps. [17]

★ Dr. Robert Petersdorf, 80, German-born American infectious diseases expert. [18]

★ Luis Muñoz Rivera, 90, last surviving signatory of the constitution of Puerto Rico. [19]

★ Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, 94, Archbishop Emeritus of Québec and Roman Catholic Primate of Canada. [20]

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★ George Balzer, 91, wrote for Jack Benny's radio and TV shows, natural causes. [21]

★ Olivia Robello Breitha, 90,leprosy patient and author. [22]

★ Virgil Ierunca, 86, Romanian writer. [23]

★ Robert H. Knight, 87, American lawyer and government official. [24]

★ William Whalen III, 66, American director of the US National Park Service under President Carter, heart attack. [25] [26]

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★ Craig Kusick, 57, former first baseman for the Minnesota Twins, leukemia. [27]

★ Bruni Löbel, 85, German actress

★ Arthur Marwick, 70, Historian. First Professor of History at the Open University [28]

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★ Grant Embling, 20, founder of CPCFF [29]

★ Gerhard Behrendt, 77, inventor of Sandmännchen, most successful German children television show character. [30] (German)

★ Giuseppe Bennati, 85, Italian film director. [31]

★ Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese-American convicted, and later pardoned, of being World War II propagandist Tokyo Rose. [32] [33]

★ Alan Maclean, 81, Scottish publisher, brother of Soviet spy Donald Maclean. [34]

★ Byron Nelson, 94, professional golfer. [35] [36]

★ Sir Martin Roth, 88, Hungarian-born British President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. [37]

★ Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television show host (''The $64,000 Challenge''), emphysema. [38]

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★ Safia Ahmed-jan, 65, head of the Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kandahar province since 2001, assassinated. [39]

★ Omar al-Faruq, 35, a senior member of al-Qaeda, shot by British forces in Basra. [40]

★ Jeff Cooper, 86, American small arms expert. [41]

★ Maureen Daly, 85, author of ''Seventeenth Summer'' in 1942 which is credited with launching modern young adult literature. [42]

★ Leo Diehl, 92, former aide to Tip O'Neill. [43]

★ John Milo "Mike" Ford, 49, Sci-fi and fantasy writer, natural causes. [44]

★ Lillian Robinson, 65, American director of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and professor of women's studies at Concordia University. [45]

★ Sir Vijay R. Singh, 75, Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician, cancer. [46]

★ Sir Iain Tennant, 87, Scottish businessman and public servant. [47]

★ Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov, 96, retired First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

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★ John S. Boskovich, 49, artist and screenwriter, "Without You I'm Nothing." Cause undetermined. [48]

★ Joel T. Broyhill, 86, Republican Congressman from northern Virginia, 1953-75, congestive heart failure and pneumonia. [49]

★ Yutaka Egashira, 98, Japanese royalty, grandfather of Crown Princess Masako. [50]

★ Michael Ferguson, 53, Irish Republican politician, testicular cancer. [51]

★ Sally Gray, 90, English actress. [52]

★ Ben Heppner, 63, Canadian politician, prostate cancer. [53]

★ Patrick Quinn, 56, American actor and former president of the Actors' Equity Association, heart attack. [54]

★ Padmini Ramachandran, 74, Indian actress in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films, heart attack. [55]

★ Thomas Stewart, 78, American bass-baritone. [56]

★ Tetsuro Tamba, 84, Japanese actor. [57] (Japanese) [58]

★ Henry Townsend, 96, American blues guitarist, pianist, and songwriter, pulmonary edema. [59]

★ Shelby Walker, 31, American female boxer and Mixed Martial Arts fighter, apparent medicine overdose. [60]

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★ Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, composer, first UK citizen to win an Academy Award for film music, complications from a chest infection.[61]

★ Etta Baker, 93, Piedmont blues guitarist. [62]

★ Sir Charles Cutler, 88, former Deputy Premier of New South Wales, Australia, cancer. [63]

★ Dr. Mortimer Ostow, American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studied anti-Semitism. [64]

★ Aladár Pege, 67, Hungarian jazz musician, dubbed "the Paganini of double bass". [65]

★ Tim Rooney, 59, American actor, son of Mickey Rooney, dermatomyositis. [66]

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★ Edward Albert, 55, American actor, son of actors Margo and Eddie Albert, lung cancer. [67]

★ Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player. [68] [69] [70] [71]

★ Dr. Harris Busch, 83, American biochemist and cancer researcher at Baylor College of Medicine. [72]

★ Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to an abdominal aortic aneurysm. [73]

★ Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader. [74]

★ Mary Orr, 95, American author whose story "The Wisdom of Eve" inspired the film ''All About Eve''. [75]

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★ Boz Burrell, 60, English bassist and vocalist (Bad Company/King Crimson), heart attack. [76][77][78][79]

★ Margaret Ekpo, 92, Nigerian politician and women's rights activist. [80]

★ Alan Fletcher, 75, British graphic designer. [81]

★ Charles Larson, 86, American television writer and Emmy Award-nominated producer (''The F.B.I.''). [82]

★ Charles Rees, 78, British chemist [83]

★ William C. Schultz, 80, American CEO of the Fender Guitar Company. [84]

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★ Henri Jayer, 84, French winemaker. [85] [86]

★ Gilbert Jonas, 76, American fundraiser for the NAACP. [87]

★ Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor. [88] [89]

★ Beth Levine, 91, American shoe designer known as the "America's First Lady of Shoe Design". [90]

★ Alfred Mann, 89, German-born musicologist, professor at Rutgers University and the Eastman School of Music. [91]

★ Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer and two-time Oscar winner. [92]

★ John W. Peterson, 84, American gospel hymn writer ("It Took a Miracle", "Surely Goodness and Mercy"), cancer. [93]

★ Ivan Shabunin, 70, first governor of Volgograd Oblast, natural causes. [94]

★ Don Walser, 72, Texas country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes. [95]

★ Frank "Muddy" Waters, 83, American college football coach at Michigan State University. [96]

★ Dean Wooldridge, 93, American physicist and co-founder of TRW. [97] [98]

★ Pham Xuan An, 78, journalist, and spy for Hanoi during Vietnam war, emphysema. [99]

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★ Elizabeth Allen, 77, American actress (''Donovan's Reef'', ''Do I Hear a Waltz?'', ''The Jackie Gleason Show''). [100] [101]

★ Josh Crouch, 24, actor (''Dawson's Creek'', ''Darktales''), hit-and-run. [102]

★ John. L. Finley, 70, American astronaut under the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program

★ Danny Flores, 77, American saxophonist and vocalist on the Champs' 1958 hit "Tequila", pneumonia. [103] [104] [105]

★ Joe Glazer, 88, American singer-songwriter known as "Labor's Troubador". [106]

★ Martha Holmes, 83, American former ''Life'' photographer, natural causes. [107] [108]

★ Sir Hugh Kawharu, 79, New Zealand academic and Māori leader. [109]

★ Vico Magistretti, 86, Italian architect and designer. [110]

★ Rev. Dr. Kurt Marquart, 72, Estonian-American Lutheran theologian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [111]

★ Evelyn Ortner, 82, American brownstone preservationist. [112]

★ Roy Schuiten, 55, Dutch cyclist. [113]

★ Terry Smith (Australian rules footballer), 47, former player with the Richmond and St Kilda football clubs, cancer. [114]

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★ Lt Col. Seán Clancy, 105, Ireland's oldest War of Independence veteran. [115]

★ Edward J. King, 81, former Democratic Governor of Massachusetts (1979-1983). [116]

★ Philip H. Melanson, 61, academic, expert on assassinations, cancer. [117] [118]

★ Nilton Pereira Mendes, 30, Brazilian football player with FC Shakhtyor Karagandy, heart attack during training. [119]

★ Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist [120]

★ Syd Thrift, 77, former general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles. [121] [122]

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★ Jack Banta, 81, former baseball pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. [123]

★ George Heslop, 66, English football player. [124]

★ Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia. [125] [126]

★ Alexei Loktev, 64, Soviet and Russian actor, car accident.[127]

★ Sr. Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, gunshot wounds. [128]

★ Kazuyuki Sogabe, 58, Japanese anime voice actor (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball) [129]

★ Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, American first director of the US Coast Guard Women's Reserve. [130] [131]

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★ Hélène Deschamps Adams, 85, Chinese-born French-American hero of the French Resistance. [132]

★ Sten Andersson, 83, former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Social Affairs, and Secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, heart attack. [133]

★ Margaret Phipps Boegner, 99, American heiress and founder of Old Westbury Gardens. [134]

★ Roy Brewer, 97, American Hollywood representative of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Motion Picture Machine Operators during the blacklist era. [135]

★ Richard Caleal, 94, American automotive designer. [136]

★ Floyd Curry, 81, four-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens. [137]

★ Zsuzsa Körmöczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won the 1958 French Championships. [138]

★ Dr. Marjorie Lewisohn, 87, American doctor, first female trustee of Johns Hopkins University. [139]

★ Esther Martinez, 94, Tewa storyteller and linguist, car crash. [140]

★ Foad AlMohandess, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure. [141]

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★ Raymond Baxter, 84, British television presenter (''Tomorrow's World''). [142]

★ Oriana Fallaci, 77, Italian journalist and writer, breast cancer. [143]

★ Col. Guy Francois, participated in failed coups in Haiti in 1989 and 2001. [144]

★ Ricky Gibson, 53, former professional wrestler [145]

★ Charles L. Grant, 64, horror and science fiction author and editor, heart attack [146].

★ Douglas Henderson, 71, Scottish politician [147]

★ Jang Keum-song, 29, niece of Kim Jong-il, suicide by overdose. [148]

★ Donald Kimball, 62, American defrocked Catholic priest, convicted in sex abuse scandal [149]

★ Nitun Kundu, 70, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor [150]

★ Evelyn LaBruce, 69, American mezzo-soprano opera singer. [151]

★ Rob Levin, 51, founder of freenode, head injuries resulting from bicycle accident. [152]

★ Ivan Luini, 46, Italian furniture executive and founder of Kartell U.S., plane crash. [153]

★ Dr. David Lykken, 78, American professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. [154]

★ Abe Saffron, 86, Sydney nightclub owner and property developer known as "Mr Sin". [155]

★ Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican actor (''Greetings from Tucson''), plane crash. [156]

★ Sergio Savarese, 48, Italian furniture designer and founder of Dialogica, plane crash. [157]

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★ Norman Brooks, 78, Canadian singer, purveyor of Al Jolson songs, emphysema. [158]

★ Elizabeth Choy, 95, war heroine and Singapore's first female legislator, pancreatic cancer. [159]

★ Mickey Hargitay, 80, Hungarian former Mr. Universe and actor, ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay. [160]

★ Admiral J. William Kime, 72, former commandant of the United States Coast Guard. [161]

★ Andrey Kozlov, 41, First Deputy Chairman of Russia's Central Bank, shot. [162]

★ Peter Ling, 80, British TV writer and creator of ''Crossroads''. [163]

★ Paulo Marques, 58, Brazilian journalist and broadcaster, brain cancer.[164] (in Portuguese)

★ Esme Melville, 87, Australian film and television actress. [165]

★ Terry O'Sullivan, 91, American television actor (''Search for Tomorrow''), pancreatic cancer. [166]

★ Johnny Palmer, 88, American golfer, seven time PGA Tour winner. [167]

★ Dr. Frederic Wakeman, 68, American scholar of Chinese history. [168]

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★ Silviu Brucan, 90, former Romanian ambassador to the United States and an opponent of Nicolae Ceauşescu. [169]

★ Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, former Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer. [170]

★ Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer. [171]

★ Kimveer Gill, 25, gunman of Dawson College shooting, suicide. [172]

★ Peter Madden, 65, Canadian playwright, author of ''The Night No One Yelled'' and other plays

★ Collie Nicholson, 85, American sports information director at Grambling State University. [173]

★ Ann Richards, 73, former Governor of Texas, esophageal cancer. [174]

★ Lou "Boulder" Richards, 35, former guitarist for metalcore band Hatebreed, presumed suicide. [175] [176]

★ Peter Tevis, 69, American musician, Parkinson's Disease. [177]

★ Anastasia De Souza, 18, victim of the Kimveer Gill shooting and Dawson College International Business student. [178]

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★ Private First Class Nicholas A. Madaras,19, soldier in the United States Armed Forces, he was a Wilton High School student, killed by a IED in Iraq

★ Maria da Conceição Luanda, 42, Angolan journalist. [179]

★ Glenda Dawson, 65, Texas State Representative from the 29th District. [180]

★ Marc François, 46, French actor and stage director, suicide. [181] [182] (French)

★ Raymond Mikesell, 93, economist at the Bretton Woods Conference. [183]

★ Emily Perez, 23, United States Army 2nd Lieutenant in Iraq, killed by an improvised explosive device (IED). [184]

★ Edna Staebler, 100, Canadian cookbook and non-fiction author, stroke. [185]

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★ William Auld, 81, Scottish poet, author and supporter of Esperanto. [186]

★ Al Casey, 89, Phoenix-L.A. based rock, country and session guitarist.[187]

★ Peter Clentzos, 97, Olympic competitor for Greece in pole vault. [188]

★ Peter Coppin, 86, leader of the first strike by Australian aboriginal pastoral workers. [189]

★ Pat Corley, 76, American actor (Phil the barkeep on ''Murphy Brown''), congestive heart failure. [190] [191]

★ Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician. (French Wikipedia)

★ Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist. [192]

★ Tyron Garner, 39, plaintiff in ''Lawrence v. Texas'', meningitis. [193] [194][195]

★ Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (''The Desperate Hours''). [196]

★ Kwan Hoi-shan, 81, Hong Kong character actor, natural causes.[197]

★ Dr. Michael Mamakos, 80, American microvascular surgeon, part of the team that reattached a child's leg in 1978. [198]

★ Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office. [199]

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★ Ernestine Bayer, 98, mother of women's rowing, complications from pneumonia. [200]

★ Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [201]

★ Ira Brilliant, 84, American real estate developer, chemist, and founder of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies. [202]

★ Col. Ubiratan Guimarães, 63, Brazilian politician, gunshot wound. [203]

★ Clyde "Holly" Holloman, 47, Musician, Sleep Apnea. [204]

★ Rin Inumaru, 48, Japanese cartoonist (''Ojarumaru''), suicide. [205]

★ Melanie Lomax, 56, civil rights lawyer and former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident. [206]

★ Ted Risenhoover, 71, Democrat Representative for Oklahoma (1975-1979). [207]

★ Bennie Smith, 72, blues guitarist, heart attack while ill with terminal lung cancer. [208]

★ Daniel Smith, 20, son of model Anna Nicole Smith, drug overdose. [209]

★ Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, King of Tonga, after illness. [210]

★ Gábor Vargas, 45, Swedish aerobatics aircraft pilot, midair collison above Marsamxett Harbour, Valletta. [211] [212]

★ James Wilson, 68, Associated Press Chicago bureau chief covered Wounded Knee Incident, cancer. [213]

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★ Gérard Brach, 79, French screenwriter (''The Fearless Vampire Killers'', ''The Name of the Rose)'', cancer. [214]

★ Clair Burgener, 84, California Representative, from 1973-1983, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [215]

★ Richard Dyer, 68, New Zealand actor and singer, heart attack while performing in HMS Pinafore. [216]

★ Navigator Dzinkambani, Malawian football player, eye cancer. [217]

★ Matt Gadsby, 27, Hinckley United footballer, collapsed on pitch during game and died soon after. [218]

★ Lucjan Kydryński, 77, Polish journalist, presenter and TV personality, natural causes. [219]

★ Emilie Mondor, 25, Canadian Olympic distance runner, car accident. [220]

★ Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, American author. [221]

★ Herbert Rudley, 95, American actor. [222]

★ Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, 101, Gujarati founder of VHP, natural causes. [223]

★ Arkady Volsky, 74, Russian founder of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. [224]

★ William B. Ziff, Jr., 76, publishing magnate, prostate cancer. [225] [226]

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★ Hilda Bernstein, 91, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure. [227] [228]

★ Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, injuries sustained in a crash during a rally in Western Australia. [229]

★ Bernard Green, 47, former New Zealand rugby league international, mining accident at the Roa Coal Mine. [230]

★ Thomas Judge, 71, former Governor of Montana, pulmonary fibrosis. [231]

★ Norman Lewis, 93, American author on English grammar. [232]

★ Frank Middlemass, 87, English character actor ''(As Time Goes By)''. [233]

★ Dr. Estelle Ramey, 89, American endocrinologist, physiologist and feminist. [234]

★ Erk Russell, 80, college American football coach for the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern University, stroke. [235]

★ Dr. Fred Noel Spiess, 86, oceanographer and marine explorer, cancer. [236]

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★ Richard Blinder, 71, American architect (Rubin Museum of Art, Ford Center for the Performing Arts). [237]

★ Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack. [238]

★ James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in ''Hernandez v. Texas'', prostate cancer. [239]

★ Joan Donaldson, 60, founding head of the CBC Newsworld TV Network, complications from prior injuries. [240]

★ James Hawthorne, 74, former controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland. [241]

★ Peter Hyndman, 64, former British Columbia minister, cancer. [242]

★ Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones. [243]

★ Lewis Portelli, 76, Maltese veteran sports journalist. [244]

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★ Warren Bolster, 59, American surf and skate photographer, suicide. [245] [246]

★ Steen Bostrup, 67, former Danish television news host. [247] (Danish)

★ Sir John Drummond, 71, former controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms. [248]

★ Lovette George, 44, Broadway singer and actress, Ovarian Cancer. [249]

★ Peter Greenough, 89, American financial columnist for the ''Boston Globe'', husband of Beverly Sills, after illness. [250] [251]

★ Don Lunn, 72, Australian breakfast radio DJ. [252]

★ Gordon Manning, 89, US television news executive at NBC and CBS, heart attack. [253]

★ Sir Michael Marshall, 76, English politician, former MP for Arundel and President of the Chichester Festival Theatre. [254]

★ Agha Shahi, 86, former Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister, after illness. [255]

★ Mohammed Taha, around 50, Sudanese newspaper editor, murdered. [256], [257]

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★ Anne Gregg, 66, former presenter of the BBC programme ''Holiday'', cancer. [258] [259]

★ Hilary Mason, 89, British TV character actress [260]

★ John McLusky, 83, British comic strip artist (''James Bond''). [261]

★ J. Bazzel Mull, 91, American Christian preacher and gospel music promoter. [262]

★ Apostolos Souglakos, 56, Greek wrestler and actor, stroke. [263] (Greek)

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★ Rémy Belvaux, 38, Belgian writer, producer and director of the cult film ''Man Bites Dog'', probable suicide. [264]

★ Ingrid Bjoner, 78, Norwegian soprano. [265]

★ John Conte, 90, American actor, founded TV station KMIR, natural causes. [266] [267]

★ Giacinto Facchetti, 64, Italian former footballer, cancer. [268]

★ James Fee, 56, American photographer, liver cancer. [269]

★ Tamás Fejér, 86, Hungarian film director. [270]

★ Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, killed by friendly fire while serving in Afghanistan. [271]

★ Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist, "The Crocodile Hunter", killed by a stingray barb to the chest [272] [273][274]

★ Norman Kelley, 95, American tenor, Alzheimer's disease. [275]

★ Moses Khumalo, 26, South African jazz saxophonist who won best newcomer at the South African Music Awards of 2002, suicide. [276]

★ Mlondi Mdluli, 25, Alabama A&M football (soccer) player, car crash in his native Swaziland. [277]

★ Giulia Sani-Casagli, 112, Italy's oldest person since Dec 28 2005; 9th-oldest in world [278] (Italian)

★ Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author, heart failure. [279]

★ Astrid Varnay, 88, Hungarian-Swedish-American soprano. [280] [281]

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★ Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist. [282] [283] (French)

★ Eva Knardahl, 79, Norwegian classical pianist. [284]

★ Julia Levien, 94, American dancer and teacher. [285]

★ Jaime Osorio Gómez, 59, Colombian film producer, actor (''Maria Full of Grace''), heart attack. [286]

★ Anna Ringier, 110, Switzerland's oldest person. [287] (German)

★ Tom Suzuki, 76, American graphic designer. [288]

★ Annemarie Wendl, 91, German actress, heart failure. [289] (German)

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★ Bob Mathias, 75, decathlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals, and former United States Representative, cancer. [290]

★ Janet Mikhaiili, 70, Iranian book illustrator, cerebral apoplexy. [291]

★ William Middleton,24,Metro worker, shot in the neck

★ Deforrest Most, 89, helped to establish Muscle Beach in Los Angeles, heart failure. [292]

★ Willi Ninja, 45, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS. [293] [294]

★ Clermont Pépin, 80, Canadian composer in Montréal, liver cancer. [295]

★ Silverio Pérez, 91, Mexican bullfighter, renal illness. [296]

★ Lionel Pickering, 74, former chairman of Derby County Football Club and noted businessman, cancer. [297]

★ Anthony Poon, 61, Singaporean abstract artist, lung cancer.

★ Dewey Redman, 75, American jazz saxophonist, father of Joshua Redman, liver failure. [298] [299]

★ Sandile Sayedwa, 39, South African sports administrator, car accident. [300]

★ Monty Stickles, 68, former tight-end for the San Francisco 49ers, heart failure after illness. [301]

★ Charlie Williams, 77, British comedian and former footballer with Doncaster Rovers, Parkinson's disease. [302] [303]

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★ Charles Aug, 68, American real estate executive. [304]

★ Tommy Chesbro, 66, wrestler and wrestling coach with Oklahoma State University, heart attack. [305] [306]

★ Nellie Connally, 87, widow of Texas Governor and Treasury Secretary John Connally, shared the automobile with John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated. [307]

★ György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator. [308]

★ Rashid Maidin, 89, leader of the Communist Party of Malaya. [309]

★ Ronald Mansbridge, 100, British-born publisher, founded first US branch of Cambridge University Press. [310]

★ Bill McNutt, 81, former president of international fruitcake business the Collin Street Bakery, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. [311]

★ Warren Mitofsky, 72, American pollster, creator of the exit poll, heart failure. [312] [313]

★ Bob O'Connor, 61, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brain cancer. [314]

★ Travis I. Payze, 60, Australian rules footballer, prostate cancer. [315]

★ Jawn Sandifer, 92, American civil rights lawyer, successfully argued ''Henderson v. United States''. [316]

★ Sir Kyffin Williams, 88, Welsh artist, lung and prostate cancer. [317]