Deaths in December 2008
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2008.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
December 2008
[edit]1
[edit]- Thomas R. Adams, 87, American librarian.[1]
- Paul Benedict, 70, American television actor (The Jeffersons).[2]
- James Bree, 85, British actor (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Satan's Slave, Doctor Who).[3]
- Beverly Dustrude, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[4]
- Betty Goodwin, 85, Canadian artist.[5]
- Jodami, 23, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, injury.[6]
- Tom Kirby, 61, Irish darts player, pancreatic cancer.[7]
- Siegfried Knappe, 91, German Wehrmacht artillery and General Staff officer, author (Soldat).[8]
- Mikel Laboa, 74, Spanish Basque singer and songwriter.[9]
- Raymond Lederer, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1977–1981), lung cancer.[10]
- Lav Mantula, 79, Yugoslavian football player and coach.[11]
- Emanuel Rackman, 98, American Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University.[12]
- H. Sridhar, 50, Indian sound engineer, heart attack.[13]
- Dorothy Sterling, 95, American writer and historian.[14]
- Sir John Wall, 78, British jurist and blind rights campaigner.[15]
- Joseph B. Wirthlin, 91, American Mormon prelate, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, natural causes.[16]
2
[edit]- Carlos María Abascal Carranza, 59, Mexican public official, Secretary of the Interior (2005–2006), cancer.[17]
- Kathleen Baskin-Ball, 50, American minister (United Methodist Church), cancer.[18]
- Frank Crean, 92, Australian politician, Treasurer (1972–1974), Deputy Prime Minister (1975), after short illness.[19]
- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 81, American writer, filmmaker and scholar, after long illness.[20]
- Leïla Karam, 80, Lebanese actress, after long illness.[21]
- Margarita Karapanou, 62, Greek author, respiratory problems.[22]
- Pyotr Latyshev, 60, Russian politician, presidential envoy to Urals Federal District.[citation needed]
- Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, 97, British aristocrat and politician.[23]
- Henry Molaison, 82, American amnesiac, subject of brain science study, respiratory failure.[24]
- Odetta, 77, American folk singer and human rights activist, heart disease.[25]
- Edward S. Rogers Jr., 75, Canadian businessman, CEO of Rogers Communications and owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, heart failure.[26]
3
[edit]- William Pierson, Jr., 97, American art historian.[27]
- Oliver Selfridge, 82, British-born American computer scientist, pioneer of artificial intelligence, injuries from a fall.[28]
- William Spoelhof, 98, American academic, President of Calvin College (1951–1976), complications from a fall.[29]
- Ignacio Uría Mendizábal, 71, Spanish businessman, shot.[30]
- Elmer Valentine, 85, American nightclub owner.[31]
- Derek Wadsworth, 69, British composer and jazz trombonist.[32]
- Alex Widmer, 52, Swiss executive, CEO of Julius Baer bank.[33]
- Robert Zajonc, 85, Polish-born American psychologist, pancreatic cancer.[34]
4
[edit]- Forrest J. Ackerman, 92, American science fiction expert, heart failure.[35]
- Steve Bradley, 32, American wrestler.[36]
- Jan Kemp, 59, American academic, exposed bias in passing college football players, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[37]
- Warren M. Robbins, 85, American art collector, complications from a fall.[38]
- Richard Van Allan, 73, British opera singer, lung cancer.[39]
5
[edit]- A. Bernard Ackerman, 72, American dermatopathologist, heart failure.[40]
- Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, 79, Estonian-born Russian primate of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1990, heart failure.[41]
- Jimmy Anderson, 55, American rodeo clown, heart disease.[42]
- George Brecht, 82, American artist (Fluxus), natural causes.[43]
- Martyn Crook, 52, Australian footballer and coach, heart attack.[44]
- Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, 80, Romanian politician, cancer.[45]
- Nina Foch, 84, Dutch-born American actress (Executive Suite, Spartacus, The Ten Commandments), myelodysplasia.[46]
- Joseph Gardner, 38, American convicted murderer and fugitive, execution by lethal injection.[47]
- Beverly Garland, 82, American actress (My Three Sons), after long illness.[48]
- Paris Herouni, 75, Armenian scientist and professor.[49]
- Sir Basil Kelly, 88, British politician and jurist, after short illness.[50]
- Rawson Macharia, 96, Kenyan perjurer against Jomo Kenyatta, traffic accident.[51]
- Jean-Pierre Nguema, 76, Gabonese politician, member of the Senate of Gabon.[52]
- Anca Parghel, 51, Romanian jazz singer, metastatic breast cancer.[53]
- Richard Topus, 84, American World War II messenger pigeon trainer and business executive, kidney failure.[54]
- Dick Vertlieb, 78, American baseball and basketball executive.[55]
- Wild Again, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[56]
6
[edit]- Tamar Adar, 69, Israeli children's author and poet.[57]
- John Cumming, 78, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Scotland).[58]
- Larry Devlin, 86, American CIA agent, emphysema.[59]
- Sir Curtis Keeble, 86, British diplomat, Ambassador to the USSR (1978–1982).[60]
- Gérard Lauzier, 76, French cartoonist and film director, after long illness.[61]
- Elliot Manyika, 53, Zimbabwean politician, road accident.[62]
- Richard Marsland, 32, Australian radio host, apparent suicide.[63]
- Lloyd Ohlin, 90, American criminologist, complications of Shy–Drager syndrome.[64]
- Ivan Semedi, 87, Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Mukacheve.[65]
- Sunny von Bülow, 76, American heiress, cardiopulmonary arrest.[66]
- Peter Wardle, 77, New Zealand botanist.[67]
7
[edit]- Abul Ahsan, 71, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, cardiac arrest.[68]
- Marky Cielo, 20, Filipino Igorot actor, suspected acute pancreatitis.[69]
- Jimmy Gourley, 82, American jazz guitarist.[70]
- Herbert Hutner, 99, American chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts (1982–1990).[71]
- George Kuzma, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys.[72]
- Kerryn McCann, 41, Australian Olympic athlete, breast cancer.[73]
- Georges Nguyen Van Loc, 75, French police officer, writer and actor.[74]
- James H. Pomerene, 88, American electrical engineer.[75]
- Roger Sonnabend, 83, American hotelier.[76]
- John Ellis Williams, 84, British author.[77]
- Dennis Yost, 65, American singer (Classics IV), respiratory failure.[78]
- Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, 79, Pakistani journalist and philatelist, paralysis.[79]
8
[edit]- Maurice Andrieux, 83, French politician.[80]
- Manzoor Hussain Atif, 81, Pakistani field hockey player and administrator, after long illness.[81]
- Frank K. Edmondson, 96, American astronomer.[82]
- Xavier Perrot, 76, Swiss auto racer.[83]
- Oliver Postgate, 83, British animator (Bagpuss, Clangers).[84]
- Robert Prosky, 77, American actor (The Natural, Broadcast News, Hill Street Blues), complications following heart surgery.[85]
- Bob Spiers, 63, British television director (Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers).[86]
- William S. Stevens, 60, American lawyer, heart attack.[87]
- Hillary Waugh, 88, American mystery writer.[88]
9
[edit]- Jonathan Bailey, 69, British Angelican prelate, Bishop of Derby (1995–2005) and Clerk of the Closet (1997–2005).[89]
- Emmanuel Bitanga, 55, Cameroonian Olympic sprinter.[90]
- Ibrahim Dossey, 36, Ghanaian footballer, car accident.[91]
- James Fergason, 74, American inventor.[92]
- Yuri Glazkov, 69, Russian cosmonaut.[93]
- Dražan Jerković, 72, Croatian football player and manager, heart failure.[94]
- José María Larrauri Lafuente, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Vitoria.[95]
- Howard Pack, 90, American businessman, shipping magnate, heart failure.[96]
- William Neff Patman, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative for Texas (1981–1985), cancer.[97]
- Pentti Rummakko, 65, Finnish Olympic runner.[98]
- George Turman, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (1981–1989), natural causes.[99]
10
[edit]- Henning Christiansen, 76, Danish composer.[100]
- Mildred Constantine, 95, American curator (Museum of Modern Art), heart failure.[101]
- Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan, 44, Indian politician, car accident.[102]
- Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet (The Monkey's Mask), breast cancer.[103]
- Didith Reyes, 60, Filipino singer, heart attack and rupture of the pancreas.[104]
- Chris Richardson, 28, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), brain aneurysm.[105]
- Owen Wade, 87, British medical researcher and physician.[106]
- Mizuki Yamada, 80, Japanese Olympic sailor.[107]
- Sal Yvars, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants), amyloidosis.[108]
11
[edit]- Ali Alatas, 76, Indonesian politician, Foreign Minister (1988–1999), heart attack.[109]
- Maddie Blaustein, 48, American voice actress (Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Chaotic), stomach virus.[110]
- Ron Carey, 72, American labor leader (Teamsters), lung cancer.[111]
- Robert Chandler, 80, American CBS executive, heart failure.[112]
- Elie Amsini Kiswaya, 80, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Sakania-Kipushi.[113]
- Angeliki Laiou, 67, Greek historian, anaplastic thyroid cancer.[114]
- Bettie Page, 85, American pin-up model and actress, complications from a heart attack.[115]
- Robert Shepherd, 71, American academic lawyer.[116]
- Yeh Shih-tao, 83, Taiwanese writer, colorectal cancer.[117]
12
[edit]- David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 96, British aristocrat and public servant.[118]
- Paddy Dooley, 82, Irish Olympic rower.[119]
- Avery Dulles, 90, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal.[120]
- Max Elbin, 88, American golfer, president of the PGA (1965−1968), heart failure.[121]
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 85, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1976).[122]
- Sigitas Geda, 65, Lithuanian poet.[123]
- Van Johnson, 92, American actor (Battleground, The Caine Mutiny, Brigadoon).[124]
- Emmanuel Kasonde, 72, Zambian economist and politician, Finance Minister (1967−1971).[125]
- Tassos Papadopoulos, 74, Cypriot politician, President (2003−2008), small cell lung carcinoma.[126]
- Maksym Pashayev, 20, Ukrainian footballer, car accident.[127]
- Amalia Solórzano, 97, Mexican First Lady (1934–1940), respiratory complications.[128]
- Robin Toner, 54, American journalist (The New York Times), colon cancer.[129]
13
[edit]- Doris Totten Chase, 85, American painter and sculptor.[130]
- Christmas Past, 29, American Thoroughbred racehorse, infirmities of old age.[131]
- Sir David Clutterbuck, 95, British admiral.[132]
- John Drake, 49, New Zealand rugby union player.[133]
- Mario Álvarez Dugan, 77, Dominican journalist and newspaper editor, heart problems.[134]
- Otto Felix, 65, American actor (Up in Smoke), amyloidosis.[135]
- Vince Karalius, 76, British rugby league player, cancer.[136]
- Shan Lloyd, 55, British journalist.[137]
- David Margolis, 78, American industrialist, cardiac arrest.[138]
- Maurice Meersman, 86, Belgian cyclist.[139]
- Kjartan Slettemark, 76, Norwegian political artist, heart failure.[140]
- Kathy Staff, 80, British actress (Last of the Summer Wine, Crossroads, Mary Reilly), brain tumour.[141]
- Horst Tappert, 85, German actor (Derrick).[142]
14
[edit]- Véronique Ahoyo, 69, Beninese politician, car accident.[143]
- K. P. Appan, 72, Indian literary critic.[144]
- Mike Bell, 37, American professional wrestler (WWF, ECW), heart attack.[145]
- Hank Goldup, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.[146]
- Henri G. Hers, 85, Belgian biochemist.[147]
- William Kaufmann, 90, American nuclear strategist, adviser to seven Defense Secretaries, Alzheimer's disease.[148]
- Carl Kotchian, 94, American aviation executive, president of Lockheed.[149]
- Gastón Parra Luzardo, 75, Venezuelan academic and banker, after long illness.[150]
- Candida Tobin, 82, British music educator.[151]
- Nick Willhite, 67, American baseball pitcher, cancer.[152]
15
[edit]- Hassib Ben Ammar, 84, Tunisian politician and journalist/editor.[153]
- Valentin Berlinsky, 83, Russian cellist, after long illness.[154]
- Mike Blum, 65, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), cerebral hemorrhage.[155]
- Carlo Caracciolo, 83, Italian publisher (La Repubblica).[156]
- León Febres Cordero, 77, Ecuadorian president (1984–1988), complications from pulmonary emphysema.[157]
- Davey Graham, 68, British guitarist, lung cancer.[158]
- Wanda Koczeska, 71, Polish actress.[159]
- David Lieber, 83, Polish-born American biblical scholar, lung ailment.[160]
- John W. Powell, 89, Chinese-born American journalist tried for sedition, complications from pneumonia.[161]
- Gian Franco Romagnoli, 82, Italian chef, author, television personality.[162]
- Clyde Sproat, 78, American musician.[163]
- Anne-Cath. Vestly, 88, Norwegian children's writer and actress.[164]
- John Webster, 95, Australian activist.[165]
- Jay E. Welch, 83, American musician, founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus.[166]
16
[edit]- Claudio Apollonio, 87, Italian ice hockey player.[167]
- Peg Batty, 88, New Zealand cricketer.[168]
- Evelyn Bonaci, 92, Maltese politician, MP.[169]
- Sam Bottoms, 53, American actor (Apocalypse Now, The Last Picture Show, The Outlaw Josey Wales), glioblastoma multiforme.[170]
- Richard Coleman, 78, British actor.[171]
- George Constantinou, 75, Cypriot-born Papua New Guinean businessman, aggravated assault during carjacking.[172]
- Serigne Lamine Diop, 74, Senegalese statistician and politician.[173]
- Julius Fast, 89, American writer.[174]
- Harold Gramatges, 90, Cuban composer and pianist.[175]
- Joe Krol, 89, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts).[176]
- Norberto Raffo, 69, Argentinian football player and manager (Banfield).[177]
- John E. Sprizzo, 73, American jurist, organ failure.[178]
- Zlatko Šugman, 76, Slovenian actor, illness.[179]
17
[edit]- Elizabeth Abrahams, 83, South African political activist and trade unionist.[180]
- Turgun Alimatov, 85, Uzbek musician.[181]
- Ismet Bajramović, 42, Bosnian reputed organized crime figure and wartime commander, suicide by gunshot.[182]
- Sammy Baugh, 94, American football player (Washington Redskins) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[183]
- Freddy Breck, 66, German schlager singer, cancer.[184]
- Ved Prakash Goyal, 82, Indian politician, brain tumor.[185]
- Gregoire, 66, Congolese African-born primate, oldest known chimpanzee.[186]
- Ai Iijima, 36, Japanese media personality and AIDS activist, former adult film actress, pneumonia.[187]
- Justin Levens, 28, American mixed martial art fighter, possible suicide by gunshot.[188]
- Luis Félix López, 76, Ecuadorian writer and politician, Secretary of Government, cancer.[189]
- Willoughby Sharp, 72, American artist, art dealer, curator and impresario, throat cancer.[190]
- Dave Smith, 53, American baseball pitcher (Houston Astros), heart attack.[191]
- Feliciano Vierra Tavares, 88, American musician and singer, father of the Tavares Brothers, prostate cancer.[192]
- Henry Ashby Turner, 76, American historian, melanoma.[193]
- Nina Varlamova, 54, Russian politician, mayor of Kandalaksha, stabbed.[194]
18
[edit]- Majel Barrett, 76, American actress (Star Trek), leukemia.[195]
- Peter Malam Brothers, 91, British Royal Air Force pilot, Battle of Britain ace.[196]
- Pete Case, 67, American football player (New York Giants), after long illness.[197]
- John Costelloe, 47, American actor (The Sopranos, Kazaam, Die Hard 2), suicide by gunshot.[198]
- Jack Douglas, 81, British comedy actor (Carry On films), pneumonia.[199]
- Mark Felt, 95, American public official, deputy director of the FBI, "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal, heart failure.[200]
- Hannah Frank, 100, British sculptor.[201]
- Nahla Hussain al-Shaly, 37, Iraqi women's rights activist, shot and decapitated.[202]
- Robert Jonquet, 83, French footballer, after long illness.[203]
- Ian MacMillan, 67, American author.[204]
- Conor Cruise O'Brien, 91, Irish politician, writer and academic.[205]
- Ivan Rabuzin, 87, Croatian painter.[206]
- Harold Snyder, 86, American pharmaceuticals magnate, pioneer of generic drugs, respiratory failure.[207]
- Paul Weyrich, 66, American conservative activist, co-founder of The Heritage Foundation think tank, diabetes.[208]
19
[edit]- James Bevel, 72, American civil rights leader, pancreatic cancer.[209]
- Page Cavanaugh, 86, American jazz pianist and singer, kidney failure.[210]
- Carol Chomsky, 78, American linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky, cancer.[211]
- Michael Connell, 45, American political strategist, plane crash.[212]
- Kenny Cox, 68, American jazz musician, lung cancer.[213]
- Sir Bernard Crick, 79, British political theorist, cancer.[214]
- Dock Ellis, 63, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), cirrhosis.[215]
- Vi Hilbert, 90, American tribal leader.[216]
- Neal Kenyon, 79, American theater director.[217]
- Joe L. Kincheloe, 58, American professor, heart attack.[218]
- Matt Kofler, 49, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts).[219]
- Derek Stanford, 90, British poet and critic.[220]
- Sam Tingle, 87, Zimbabwean racing driver.[221]
20
[edit]- Samuele Bacchiocchi, 70, Italian theologian, liver cancer.[222]
- Joseph Conombo, 91, Burkinabé politician, Prime Minister of Upper Volta (1978–1980).[223]
- Jack Kuehler, 76, American electrical engineer, president of I.B.M. (1989–1993), Parkinson's disease.[224]
- Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso, 83, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the diocese of Santiago de Chile.[225]
- Olga Lepeshinskaya, 92, Ukrainian-born Russian ballerina.[226]
- Joel Mandelstam, 89, British biochemist and microbiologist.[227]
- Adrian Mitchell, 76, British poet, heart attack.[228]
- Robert Mulligan, 83, American film director (To Kill a Mockingbird), heart disease.[229]
- Albin Planinc, 64, Slovenian chess grandmaster, after long illness.[230]
- Dorothy Sarnoff, 94, American opera singer, actress and self-help consultant.[231]
- Igor Troubetzkoy, 96, Russian auto racer.[232]
21
[edit]- Chayben Abou-Nehra, 34, Belizean businessman, suicide by gunshot.[233]
- Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, 92, British noble.[234]
- James Fulton, 58, Canadian politician, MP for Skeena (1979–1993), colon cancer.[235]
- Teddy Gueritz, 89, British Royal Navy admiral.[236]
- Christopher Hibbert, 84, British historian.[237]
- Ron Hornaday, Sr., 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.[238]
- Al Meyerhoff, 61, American lawyer, complications from leukemia.[239]
- Carlos Manuel Santiago, 82, Puerto Rican baseball player (Negro leagues), heart failure.[240]
- Dale Wasserman, 94, American playwright (Man of La Mancha), heart failure.[241]
- Maurice Zilber, 88, Egyptian horse trainer, cancer.[242]
22
[edit]- Yoshiro Asakuma, 94, Japanese Olympic athlete.[243]
- Anand Babla, 54, Fijian politician, MP (1992–2006), after long illness.[244]
- Coy Bacon, 66, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins).[245]
- Lansana Conté, 74, Guinean politician, President of Guinea since 1984, after long illness.[246]
- Norm Cook, 53, American basketball player (Kansas Jayhawks, Boston Celtics).[247]
- Ossie Dawson, 89, South African cricketer.[248]
- Jani Lehtonen, 40, Finnish pole vaulter.[249]
- Robert J. Marshall, 90, American minister, president of the Lutheran Church in America (1968–1978), heart failure.[250]
- Hugh Myers, 78, American chess player and author.[251]
- Erkki Puolakka, 83, Finnish Olympic runner.[252]
- Alfred Shaheen, 86, American textile manufacturer, popularized the Hawaiian shirt, complications of diabetes.[253]
- Guy Warren, 85, Ghanaian jazz musician, illness.[254]
23
[edit]- Clint Ballard, Jr., 77, American songwriter ("You're No Good").[255]
- Manuel Benitez, 39, American child actor and FBI fugitive, shot.[256]
- Narciso Bernardo, 71, Filipino basketball player, cardiac arrest.[257]
- Thomas Congdon, 77, American editor, Parkinson's disease and heart failure.[258]
- Frank Krog, 54, Norwegian actor.[259]
- Mitsugu Saotome, 82, Japanese author.[260]
- Héctor Thomas, 70, Venezuelan Olympic decathlete, cancer.[261]
- Ron Unsworth, 85, British Olympic hurdler.[262]
- Thierry de la Villehuchet, 65, French money manager and businessman, apparent suicide by drug overdose and exsanguination.[263]
- Eric Charles Twelves Wilson, 96, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.[264]
- Arnold Jacob Wolf, 84, American rabbi, heart attack.[265]
24
[edit]- Ian Ballinger, 83, New Zealand sport shooter, 1968 Olympic medallist.[266]
- Ray Deakin, 49, British footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Burnley), brain cancer.[267]
- Stanley Eveling, 83, British playwright.[268]
- Gordon Fairweather, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Royal, New Brunswick (1962–1977).[269]
- Ralph Harris, 87, British journalist, respiratory failure.[270]
- Samuel P. Huntington, 81, American political scientist, heart failure and complications of diabetes.[271]
- Harold Pinter, 78, British playwright (The Homecoming), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2005), throat cancer.[272]
- Rik Renders, 86, Belgian cyclist.[273]
- Alf Robertson, 67, Swedish singer and composer.[274]
- Ruhlmann, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, aneurism.[275]
25
[edit]- Edd Cartier, 94, American illustrator (The Shadow).[276]
- Alvah Chapman, Jr., 87, American publisher and philanthropist, pneumonia.[277]
- Justin Eilers, 30, American mixed martial artist, shot.[278]
- Olívio Aurélio Fazza, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu.[279]
- Leo Frankowski, 65, American science fiction author.[280]
- William Glendon, 89, American attorney.[281]
- Lars Hollmer, 60, Swedish musician.[282]
- Eartha Kitt, 81, American singer and actress (Batman, The Emperor's New Groove, Holes), colon cancer.[283]
- Ann Savage, 87, American actress (Detour), complications from stroke.[284]
- Robert Ward, 70, American blues singer and guitarist.[285]
- Colin White, 57, British naval historian, cancer.[286]
26
[edit]- Jaroslav Fikejz, 81, Czech Olympic athlete.[287]
- Israel Horowitz, 92, American record producer.[288]
- Eberhard Kneisl, 92, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.[289]
- Gösta Krantz, 83, Swedish actor.[290]
- Mikhail Krichevsky, 111, Ukrainian supercentenarian.[291]
- Alan W. Lear, 55, Scottish writer.[292]
- George Miller, 69, British footballer and manager (Falkirk FC, Wolverhampton Wanderers), cancer.[293]
- Sir Kenneth Stoddart, 94, British Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside (1979–1989).[294]
- Dick Voris, 86, American football player and coach.[295]
- J. Lamar Worzel, 89, American oceanographer, heart attack.[296]
- Wyvetter H. Younge, 78, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives since 1975, surgical complications.[297]
27
[edit]- Arild Andresen, 80, Norwegian footballer and ice hockey player (Vålerenga).[298]
- Rodrigo Arango Velásquez, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Diocese of Buga.[299]
- Delaney Bramlett, 69, American songwriter and record producer, complications from gallbladder surgery.[300]
- Sailor Brown, 93, British footballer and manager.[301]
- Roque Cordero, 91, Panamanian-born American composer.[302]
- John Fenton, 87, British Anglican priest and New Testament scholar.[303]
- Robert Graham, 70, Mexican-born American sculptor, husband of actress Anjelica Huston, after long illness.[304]
- Ian Harland, 76, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1989–2000), after long illness.[305]
- Michael Hicks, 80, British army general.[306]
- Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, 86, Malaysian King (1994–1999), Great Ruler of Negeri Sembilan since 1967.[307]
- Patricia Kneale, 83, British actress.[308]
- Iain MacLean, 55, Australian politician, Western Australian MLC for North Metropolitan (1994–1996) and MLA for Wanneroo (1996–2001).[309]
- Christine Maggiore, 52, American AIDS denialist, pneumonia.[310]
- Sahu Mewalal, 82, Indian footballer, natural causes.[311]
- Alfred Pfaff, 82, German footballer, 1954 FIFA World Cup winner.[312]
28
[edit]- Quentin C. Aanenson, 87, American fighter pilot, cancer.[313]
- A. O. L. Atkin, 83, American mathematician, complications from a fall.[314]
- Willie Clark, 90, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, St Johnstone).[315]
- Vincent Ford, 68, Jamaican reggae songwriter ("No Woman, No Cry"), complications from diabetes.[316]
- Donald Gleason, 88, American physician, creator of prostate cancer test, heart attack.[317]
- Sir Michael Levey, 81, British art historian, Director of the National Gallery (1973–1986).[318]
- Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, 92, American architect and industrial designer, created the United Nations logo, prostate cancer.[319]
- Haralamb Zincă, 85, Romanian writer, Alzheimer's disease.[320]
29
[edit]- Manjit Bawa, 67, Indian painter, after long illness.[321]
- William Ellis Green, 85, Australian cartoonist.[322]
- Jim Horne, 91, American model, heart failure.[323]
- Freddie Hubbard, 70, American jazz trumpeter, complications from a heart attack.[324]
- Victor H. Krulak, 95, American Marine Corps officer.[325]
- Vladislav Lalicki, 73, Serbian production designer.[326]
- Ted Lapidus, 79, French fashion designer, respiratory failure.[327]
- Daniel Nagrin, 91, American choreographer and dancer.[328]
- Alan Sargeson, 78, Australian chemist.[329]
- Harlington Wood Jr., 88, American lawyer.[330]
- Yang Jinzong, 76, Chinese chemical engineer.[331]
30
[edit]- Roy Boehm, 84, American Navy SEAL commander.[332]
- Stewart Cleveland Cureton, 78, American pastor, President of the National Baptist Convention (1999).[333]
- Richard Genelle, 47, American actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Zeo), heart attack.[334]
- Bernie Hamilton, 80, American actor (Starsky and Hutch), cardiac arrest.[335]
- Paul Hofmann, 96, Austrian writer, informant against the Nazis.[336]
- Peter Karmel, 86, Australian economist.[337]
- Roy Saari, 63, American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (1964).[338]
31
[edit]- Stan Kielty, 83, English rugby league player (Halifax, national team).[339]
- Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player, after long illness.[340]
- Kazbek Pagiyev, 49, Russian politician, mayor of Vladikavkaz, shot.[341]
- Brad Sullivan, 77, American actor (Slap Shot, The Prince of Tides, The Sting), liver cancer.[342]
- Vic Washington, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).[343]
- Donald E. Westlake, 75, American mystery writer, heart attack.[344]
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