Deaths in August 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2006.
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- Mohamed Abdelwahab, 23, Egyptian international footballer, suspected heart attack. [1]
- Dave Arnold, 72, athletics coach to Kelly Holmes for much of her career, cancer. [2]
- K. Sri Dhammananda, 87, Sri Lankan/Malaysian bhikkhu, stroke. [3].
- Guy Gabaldon, 80, World War II US Marine, the "Pied Piper of Saipan", heart attack. [4] [5]
- J.S. Holliday, 82, American historian and expert on California Gold Rush, pulmonary fibrosis. [6]
- Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver. [7]
- "Broadway" Charlie Wagner, 93, former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. [8] [9]
- Bernard Wohl, 76, American social worker, executive director of the Goddard Riverside Community Center. [10]
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- Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, 80, New Zealand jurist. [11]
- Glenn Ford, 90, Canadian-American actor (Blackboard Jungle, Cimarron). [12] [13]
- Bob Gallagher, 83, chairman of Arthur J. Gallagher insurance brokerage. [14]
- Burt Goldblatt, 82, American jazz album cover designer. [15]
- Susan L. Hefle, 46, American food scientist, cancer.[16]
- George Johnson, 112, purported grandson of US president Andrew Johnson, possibly the last Californian World War I veteran, pneumonia. [17]
- Dr. Olga Jonasson, 72, American transplant surgeon. [18]
- Igor Kio, 62, Russian illusionist, [19]
- Uwe Leichsenring, 39, German NPD politician, injuries sustained in a car accident. [20] (German)
- Bob LeRose, 85, colorist and cover production artist for DC Comics. [21]
- Ron McKenna, 88, head trainer for the New York Mets 1970-1980, heart attack. [22]
- Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries sustained in a fall in July. [23]
- Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, 83, Scottish former Conservative MP and government minister. [24]
- Mel Sachs, 60, New York City trial lawyer. [25]
- Dennis Spellmann, 70, President of Lindenwood University. [26]
- Bill Stumpf, 70, American industrial designer who co-created the Aeron office chair. [27] [28]
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- Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships. [29]
- Stefan Blaho, 21, Slovak hockey player drafted by the New York Islanders, car accident. [30]
- John Cummins, 58, Victorian union official and last secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer. [31]
- Dr. Robert Gorlin, 83, American oral pathologist. [32]
- Gerald Green, 84, American author (The Last Angry Man) and screenwriter (Holocaust). [33]
- Dorothy Harmsen, 91, co-creator of the Jolly Rancher, author and collector of American Western art, heart attack. [34] [35]
- Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, murdered in Brussels. [36]
- Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician. [37]
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- Ed Benedict, 94, American animator and layout artist, designed Fred Flintstone.[38]
- Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats. [39] [40] [41]
- Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, played Marjorie on The Great Gildersleeve, heart failure. [42]
- Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete, prevented from competing in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics due to Soviet repression. [43] (Estonian), [44] (PDF)
- Robert McDermott, 86, former dean of the United States Air Force Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke. [45]
- David Nicholson, 67, British horse racing trainer, suspected heart attack. [46]
- Pip Pyle, 56, drummer with Gong and Hatfield and the North [47]
- William F. Quinn, 87, first Governor of Hawaii, pneumonia. [48] [49]
- Michael Richard, 58, photographer, cancer. [50]
- Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Bloc Québécois MP, traffic accident. [51]
- Dr. Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. [52] [53]
- Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies. [54]
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- Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116, world's oldest person and the last person known to have been alive in the 1880s, pneumonia. [55] [56] [57]
- Jon Dough, 43, AVN Hall of Fame pornographic actor, suicide. [58]
- Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. [59]
- Vashti McCollum, 93, American plaintiff in McCollum v. Board of Education. [60]
- Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Archbishop of Mariana, Brazil, cancer. [61]
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director [62] [63]
- Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist with Terrorizer and Napalm Death, complications of diabetic coma. [64]
- Dr. A. James Rowan, 71, neurologist who studied epilepsy. [65]
- Patrick Smith, 58, board member of Habitat for Humanity International, one of 49 killed on Comair Flight 5191. [66]
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- Rainer Barzel, 82, former President of the German Bundestag and Chairman of the CDU. [67]
- Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, Balochistani rebel tribal leader, killed by Pakistani military forces. [68]
- John Ripley Forbes, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums. [69]
- William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer. [70]
- Yosef Hadar, 90, Israeli composer, cancer (in Hebrew)
- Evgeny Kucherevsky, 65, Ukrainian football coach of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, car crash. [71]
- Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P., 93, French Dominican priest & founder of the Community of St. John, stroke. [72]
- Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist. [73]
- Michael Vestey, 61, former BBC correspondent and radio critic on The Spectator magazine. [74]
- Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, West Indian cricketer. [75][76]
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- John Blankenstein, 57, one of the first openly gay Dutch football referees, kidney disease. [77]
- Noor Hassanali, 88, former President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. [78]
- Morton Holbrook, Jr., 91, led reform of Kentucky court system. [79]
- Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet. [80]
- Lena King Lee, 100, educator and attorney, one of the first African-American women elected to the Maryland General Assembly. [81] [82]
- Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer. [83]
- Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident. [84][85]
- Dr. Gail Shapiro, 59, American pediatric allergist. [86]
- Joseph Stefano, 84, screenwriter (Psycho), co-creator of The Outer Limits. [87] [88]
- Toroku Takagi, 102, Japanese composer. [89]
- Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident. [90] [91] [92]
- Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television commentator and radio broadcaster, cancer. [93]
- John Wilson, 56, New York Times journalist and founding member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. [94]
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- Herbert Hupka, 91, German journalist and politician. [95] (in German)
- Leonard Levy, 83, Canadian-born US constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History. [96]
- Anthony Malara, 69, former president of CBS Television and former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association. [97]
- Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. [98] (in Russian)
- Rocco Petrone, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center. [99]
- David Plowright, 75, TV executive and producer, former chairman of Granada Television. [100]
- Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. [101]
- Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor. [102] [103]
- James Tenney, 72, experimental composer, cancer.[104]
- Gene Thompson, 89, baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants. [105]
- John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian music composer. [106]
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- Lauren Crowner, 25, news anchor/reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, OH, infection after auto accident. [107]
- Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpeter, kidney and liver failure. [108] [109][110]
- Wasim Raja, 54, former Pakistan Test cricket player, heart attack while playing a match in Marlow, England. [111] [112]
- David Schnaufer, 53, Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. [113]
- Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer. [114]
- Ed Warren, 79, demonologist, after long illness. [115]
- Jay Young, 56, one of the original CNN news anchors, heart attack. [116]
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- Wallace Brown, 76, Australian journalist, political correspondent in Canberra for (Brisbane's) The Courier-Mail 1961-1996. [117]
- Bruce Gary, 55, American rock musician, drummer with The Knack, lymphoma. [118] [119]
- Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer who recorded Paul Henderson celebrating his winning goal in the Summit Series. [120]
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- Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist. [121]
- George Edwards, 87, American radio host for WQXR. [122]
- Ustad Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. [123] [124] [125]
- Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education 1997-2000, cancer. [126]
- Geff Noblet, 89, Australian Test cricketer 1949-1953. [127]
- William C. Norris, 95, American engineer and founder of Control Data Corporation. [128]
- Buck Page, 84, western musician and founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage. [129]
- Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. [130]
- S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease. [131]
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- Dr. George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor who provided steroids to, amongst others, Ben Johnson in the 1980s. [132]
- Claude Blanchard, 74, French-Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. [133]
- Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. [134]
- Alexander Cushing, 92, American founder of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the US. [135]
- Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer. [136]
- Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon. [137]
- James T. "Red" Hudson, 81, founder of Hudson Foods, lung cancer. [138]
- Jack Laughery, 71, American former CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. [139]
- Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born professor of economics at Columbia University. [140]
- Giuseppe Moccia, alias Pipolo, 75, Italian film director with Franco Castellano (Castellano & Pipolo), father of writer Federico Moccia. [141]
- Joe Rosenthal, 94, Pulitzer Prize winner for photographing United States Marines raising their flag on Iwo Jima, natural causes. [142]
- Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian State Government Minister for Sport 1982-92, Australian Rules footballer 1949-59 for Geelong, heart attack. [143]
- Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 95, 6th Baron Deramore and writer of erotic fiction. [144]
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- Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. [145]
- Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer [146]
- Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure. [147]
- James Lovett Dewar, 94, American banker, founder of Park Avenue Bank. [148]
- Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure. [149] [150]
- Omar Oscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer and 1950 FIFA World Cup winner. [151]
- Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner. [152] [153]
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- James Clark, Jr., 87, former president of the Maryland State Senate, cancer. [154]
- Kathryn Frost, 57, retired U.S. Army Major General and one of its highest ranking women, wife of former U.S. Representative Martin Frost, breast cancer. [155]
- Grace Furukawa, 77, first Japanese-Canadian teacher in Ontario, natural causes. [156]
- Fernand Gignac, 72, French-Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. [157]
- Dick Hickox, 68, guard for the University of Miami basketball team, 1959-60. [158]
- Ken Kearney, 82, dual international for Australia in rugby league and rugby union, heart attack. [159]
- Robert Mitchell, 77, American Broadway set designer. [160]
- Jeffrey Tennyson, 54, American artist and collector of hamburger memorabilia, author of Hamburger Heaven. [161]
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- Tan Sri Kontek Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement. [162] [163]
- Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer and founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. [164]
- Ken Goodall, 59, Irish international rugby union player 1967-1970. [165]
- Masumi Hayashi, 60, Japanese-American photographer, shooting. [166]
- John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer. [167]
- Dr. Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born molecular biologist at MIT, discovered the cause of sickle cell anemia. [168]
- Walter Jagiello, 76, "Li'l Wally", American polka musician and songwriter. [169]
- Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. [170]
- Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. [171] [172]
- Werner Scharff, 90, German-born designer of the Lanz flannel granny nightgown, Parkinson's disease. [173]
- Sig Shore, 87, film producer (Superfly). [174]
- Evan Harris Walker, 70, physicist and consciousness theorist [175]
- Guy Weill, 92, Swiss-born collector of Asian art. [176]
- Yen Ngoc Do, 65, founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News, diabetes and kidney disease. [177] [178]
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- Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. [179]
- Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright (Norm and Ahmed, Rooted), cancer. [180]
- Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace. [181]
- Robert Kreem, 83, Estonian exile activist [182]
- Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist of melodic black metal band Dissection, convicted murderer, suicide. [183][184]
- Iris Ovshinsky, 79, co-founder of ECD Ovonics, wife of inventor Stanford Ovshinsky. [185]
- Velda Otsus, 92, Estonian actress [186] [187] [188] (all in Estonian)
- James A. Reed, 92, lawyer and banker, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury. [189]
- Alfredo Stroessner, 93, former dictator of Paraguay, complications from hernia surgery. [190]
- Roy Tobias, 78, American ballet dancer and teacher. [191]
- Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure following various illnesses [192][193]
- William Wasson, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury. [194]
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- Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. [195]
- Dr. James W. Smith, Jr., 79, American surgeon, author, and collector of early arcade games. [196]
- Rudi Stern, 69, American multimedia artist. [197]
- Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, Māori Queen. [198]
- Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. [199]
- Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer. [200]
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- Dr. Paul Beeson, 97, American infectious disease researcher, former chair of the department of medicine at Yale University. [201]
- Johnny Duncan, 67, country singer and songwriter ("She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime", "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better"), heart attack. [202] [203] [204]
- Richard J. Farmer, 43, Emmy-award winning cameraman. [205]
- Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. [206]
- Milton Kaye, 97, American pianist and arranger. [207]
- Lord Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. [208] [209]
- Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers), complications from leukemia. [210] [211]
- Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, (Rockets Redglare!), motorcycle accident. [212]
- Lawrence Sacharow, 68, American Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway director. [213]
- Dr. James Wattenbarger, 84, American educator and University of Florida professor, designed Florida's community college system. [214]
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- Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1959-1964. [215]
- Heather Clarke, 39, Wife of Golfer Darren Clarke
- Kermit L. Hall, 61, President of the University at Albany and member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. [216] [217]
- Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association Middleweight champion in 1938 and 1939, stroke. [218] [219]
- Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. [220]
- Annely Juda, 91, German-born London art gallery owner. [221]
- Armin Meyer, 92, American ambassador to Lebanon, Iran and Japan, Parkinson's disease. [222] [223]
- Walter Nurnberg, 78, professional wrestler. [224]
- Payao Poontarat, 49, Thailand's first Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976) and former World Boxing Council champion, ALS. [225] [226]
- Diane Shamash, 51, American founder of Minetta Brook, a non-profit art organization. [227]
- Nathan Sloane, 97, former owner of the Fox Cross Candy Company. [228]
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- Victoria Gray Adams, 79, African-American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. [229] [230]
- Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet and academic. [231]
- Ketheshwaran Loganathan, Tamil peace official, assassination. [232]
- Camille Loiseau, 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe. [233][234] (French)
- Raska Lukwiya, commander in the Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda and indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. [235]
- Dr. Monroe Romansky, 95, American academic and physician, developed the Romansky Formula for penicillin administration, Alzheimer's disease. [236] [237]
- Karl von Stroheim, 78, professional wrestler, heart attack. [238]
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- John L. Bull, 92, American ornithologist. [239]
- Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. [240]
- David Thomas Dawson, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana. [241]
- Victor del Corral, 84, Cuban restauranteur, founder of New York City's Victor's Cafe. [242]
- Mike Douglas, 81, American talk-show host and entertainer. [243]
- Joel Harnett, 80, American civic watchdog and former candidate for Mayor of New York City. [244]
- Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, 1981-1998. [245]
- Buffie Johnson, 94, American painter. [246]
- Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet laureate. [247]
- Leonard Marks, 90, American communications lawyer and former director of the United States Information Agency. [248]
- Joe Rebman, 21, sprint car driver, racing accident in Mansfield, OH. [249]
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- George Dawkes, 86 English cricketer, specialising in wicket keeping, for Derbyshire. [250]
- Barbara George 63, R&B-singer [251]
- Irving São Paulo, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure [252]
- Yasuo Takei, 76, Japan's second-richest man and founder of Takefuji Corporation. [253] [254]
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- Anga Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player. [255] [256]
- Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer. [257] [258]
- Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. [259]
- Said Abdullo Nuri, 59, leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, cancer.[260]
- James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure. [261] [262]
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- William B. Anderson, 82, journalist [263]
- Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. [264] [265]
- Marion Cajori, 56, documentary filmmaker. [266]
- Darrell Ferguson, 28, convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection in Ohio. [267]
- Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist. [268] [269]
- Dino Restelli, 81, major league baseball player. [270]
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- Mary Anderson Bain, 94, New Deal director under FDR and former top aide to Congressman Sid Yates. [271]
- Sue Bierman, 82, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, car accident. [272]
- Jim Crooker, 80, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer. [273]
- Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. [274]
- Robert McCullough, 64, African-American civil rights activist, leader of the Friendship Nine. [275]
- Bob Miller, 76, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning Detroit Lions, cancer. [276]
- John Weinberg, 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs, complications from a fall. [277]
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- Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. [278]
- Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. [279]
- Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. [280]
- Stella Moray, 83, British actress and performer. [281].
- Jim Pomeroy, 53, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident. [282]
- Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. [283][284]
- Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party 1970-1990. [285]
- Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer. [286]
- Monsignor Lawrence Wnuk, 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario. [287]
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- Susan Butcher, 51, four-time Iditarod champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia. [288][289]
- Steve Crosno, 66, longtime El Paso radio DJ whose career spanned nearly 50 years, kidney failure. [290]
- Richard L. Fisher, 65, New York City developer and philanthropist, cancer. [291]
- William Massee, 87, American wine writer. [292]
- Hugo Schiltz, 78, Belgian politician. [293]
- Daniel Schmid, 64, Swiss filmmaker and director (Il Bacio di Tosca), cancer. [294] [295]
- Ed Thrasher, 74, American album cover designer. [296]
- Rosaline Yeoh (née Chan Yee Hing), 54, former Hong Kong actress and wife of Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Francis Yeoh, cancer. [297][298]
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- Elden Auker, 95, former American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack. [299] [300]
- Julio Galán, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter. [301]
- John Locke, 62, former keyboardist of Spirit. [302]
- Dr. James F. X. O'Rourke, 86, American eye surgeon, former mayor of Yonkers, New York, and former professional football player. [303]
- Nandini Satpathy, 75, Chief Minister of Orissa, India 1972-1976, cerebral bleeding. [304]
- Monroe Clark, 70, American Singer, Actor, Performer of the Violin, Piano, Keytar and Viola.
- Esther Snyder, 86, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger. [305]
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- Helmut Bein, 74, German rally driver, Opel Motorsport manager and Formula 3 official [306] [307]
- Richard T. Greene Sr., 93, Black banker, former director of the Carver Federal Savings Bank. [308]
- Dr. John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist turned author (Me and the Arch Kook Petulia), emphysema. [309] [310]
- Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love, leukemia. [311] [312]
- Ken Richmond, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by J. Arthur Rank Studios. [313] [314]
- Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German born opera soprano, natural causes. [315]
- Robert Eric Wone, 32, American general counsel to Radio Free Asia, stabbing. [316]
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- Holger Börner, 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse 1976-1987, cancer. [317]
- Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., 82, former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers who signed Julius Erving, skin cancer. [318]
- Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician. [319]
- David Levy, 79, New York State Supreme Court justice. [320]
- Kim McLagan, 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon, traffic accident. [321]
- Harold Ronk, 85, American singing ringmaster for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. [322]
- Ferenc Szusza, 82, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football. [323]
- Audrey Lindvall, 23, American model and sister of American supermodel Angela Lindvall, traffic accident.
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- Gay Delanghe, 65, American choreographer. [324]
- Dr. Vincent Dole, 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, ruptured aorta. [325] [326]
- Rufus Harley, 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer. [327]
- Gabriel Kaspereit, French politician. [citation needed]
- Masao Nishimura, 73, Japanese banker, CEO of the Industrial Bank of Japan and founder and CEO of Mizuho Holdings, Inc.. [328]
- Rev. Bernard Pagano, 81, American Catholic priest charged with and later cleared of armed robbery, stroke. [329]
- Arlene Raven, 62, feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer. [330]
- Jason Rhoades, 41, American installation artist, heart failure. [331][332]
- Bob Thaves, 81, cartoonist, created and illustrated Frank and Ernest, respiratory failure [333]
- Johannes Cardinal Willebrands, 96, Archbishop of Utrecht 1975-1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church. [334] [335] (English) [336] (Dutch)
- Iris Marion Young, 57, political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer. [337]