Deaths in July 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2006.
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- Dugald Christie, 65, Canadian lawyer and legal activist, road accident. [1]
- Paul Eells, 70, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, car accident. [2]
- Mario Faustinelli, 81, Italian comic book artist. [3]
- Frederick Kilgour, 92, American librarian, founder of OCLC Online Computer Library Center. [4] [5]
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- Duygu Asena, 60, Turkish writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour. [6] [7]
- Al Balding, 82, Canadian golfer, cancer. [8]
- Murray Bookchin, 85, American political essayist, heart failure. [9]
- Dr. Philip D’Arcy Hart, 106, famed UK medical researcher. [10]
- J. Palmer Gaillard, 86, mayor of Charleston, South Carolina 1959-1975, following a car crash. [11]
- Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, concert accordionist, heart failure
- Akbar Mohammadi, 34, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture. [12]
- Ferenc Zenthe, 86, Hungarian actor. [13]
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- Hani Awijan, 29, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades, in Nablus, West Bank, killed by gunfire. [14]
- Guido Dacco, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans, & Champ Cars. [15] [16]
- David deLisle, classical musician and professor of music at Xavier University for 40 years. [17]
- Daniel Lev, 72, Indonesian scholar, lung cancer. [18]
- Dr. Jean Baker Miller, 78, American psychiatrist and author (Toward a New Psychology of Women). [19]
- Jose Lopez Rosario, 30, alleged Puerto Rican drug dealer [20]
- James Olin, 86, member of the United States House of Representatives 1982-1992. [21]
- Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage. [22]
- Louis Winnick, 85, Romanian-born economist for the Ford Foundation. [23] [24]
- James Harvey Young, 90, American social historian of medicine, professor at Emory University, complications of a stroke. [25]
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- Patrick Allen, 79, British actor. [26]
- Rut Brandt, 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt. [27]
- Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer. [28]
- Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, 56, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination. [29]
- Harold Enarson, 87, president of The Ohio State University (1972-81), fired football coach Woody Hayes, hydrocephalus. [30] [31]
- David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist. [32] [33]
- Dr. Joel Hedgpeth, 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist. [34]
- Don Malarkey, 101, American former PGA Tour golfer and oldest living PGA member. [35]
- Richard Mock, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. [36]
- Sep Smith, 94, legendary Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player. [37]
- Billy Walsh, 85, former Manchester City footballer & Grimsby Town manager, played international football for Northern Ireland, New Zealand & Republic of Ireland. [38][39]
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- A. Frank Carven III, 54, co-founder and director of the Families of T.W.A. Flight 800 Association. [40]
- Maryann Mahaffey, 81, former member of Detroit city council, leukemia. [41]
- Carlos Roque, 70, Portuguese comic book artist. [42]
- Alexander Safran, 95, former Chief Rabbi of Romania who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War II. [43] [44]
- Elisabeth Volkmann, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson.[45]
- Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller, liver cancer. [46]
- Funsho Williams, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled. [47]
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- Emmeline Brice, 111, oldest Briton.[48]
- Louise "Miss Lou" Bennett-Coverley, 86, Jamaican folklorist, comedienne, poet. [49] [50]
- Floyd Dixon, 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure. [51] [52]
- Vincent J. Fuller, 75, lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr, lung cancer. [53]
- Jessie Gilbert, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall. [54] [55]
- Sunil Kumar, 34, Bhopal disaster campaigner against Union Carbide and founder of Children Against Carbide, found hanged. [56]
- Darrell Martinie, 63, astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer. [57]
- Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron. [58]
- Thurl Metzger, 90, former director of Heifer International. [59]
- Ed O'Herron, Jr, 90, North Carolina politician and businessman who helped to build Eckerd Drugs into one of the biggest drugstore chains in the US. [60]
- Timotheos III Papoutsakis, 91, Archbishop of Crete. [61][62]
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- Lydia, Duchess of Bedford, 88, second wife of John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford. [63]
- Carl Brashear, 75, first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of Honor, heart failure. [64]
- Chen Jinlang, 45, Singaporean pop singer in Hokkien dialect, colorectal cancer. [65]
- Ezra Fleischer, 78, Transylvanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize, and professor at Hebrew University. [66]
- Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 43, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack [67][68]
- Karin Hübner, 69, German actress and musical star (played Eliza Doolittle in German adaptation of My Fair Lady) [69]
- Mati Jostov, 47, Estonian business manager, car accident [70] [71]
- Bill Meistrell, 77, founder of the Body Glove wet suit company, Parkinson's disease. [72]
- Aldo Notari, 74, president of the International Baseball Federation. [73]
- James Schwabacher, 86, founder of San Francisco Opera's Merola Program for young artists, complications of pneumonia. [74]
- Bob Simpson, 61, retired senior BBC correspondent. [75]
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- Janka Bryl, 89, Belarusian writer. [76][77]
- Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor. [78]
- Maha Kanapathipillai, pro-Government Tamil politician in Sri Lanka, presumed shot dead by Tamil Tigers[79][80]
- Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach [81]
- Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian. [82]
- Michael Sellers, 52, British author, son of Peter Sellers, died during heart surgery. [83] [84]
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- Charles E. Brady, Jr., 54, American former astronaut. [85]
- Charles Bray, 72, American press secretary for the US State Department, deputy director of the USIA, and ambassador to Senegal. [86]
- Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère Untel, heart attack [87]
- Lt. Col. Besby Holmes, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto. [88] [89]
- John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer.[90]
- Frederick Mosteller, 89, Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis. [91]
- Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day[92]
- Ewa Sałacka, 49, Polish actress, allergic reaction to wasp sting. [93]
- Simonetta Stefanelli, 51, Italian actress (Apollonia in The Godfather), cancer [94]
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- Heather Bratton, 19, American model, car accident. [95]
- Donald Reid Cabral, 83, former foreign minister of the Dominican Republic. [96]
- José Antonio Delgado, 41, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, found dead on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. [97]
- Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease. [98]
- Jessie Mae Hemphill, 82, award winning blues musician, complications of an infection. [99]
- Thomas J. Manton, 73, longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985-99), prostate cancer. [100][101]
- Dr. Dika Newlin, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg. [102]
- James E. West, 55, former mayor of Spokane, Washington, colorectal cancer [103]
- Russell J. York, 84, World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest on November 20, 1944. [104]
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- Walter Allner, 97, German-born art director of Fortune. [105]
- Ric Campman, 64, artist and co-founder of the River Gallery School, cancer. [106][107]
- Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television, and Broadway actor; esophageal cancer [108]
- John Mazmanian, 80, drag racing pioneer. [109]
- Bob McCausland, 90, cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. [110]
- Ta Mok, 80, former Khmer Rouge commander, known as "The Butcher." [111]
- J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, former child actress [112]
- Palladium, 17, Estonian competition horse, euthanized after breaking leg. [113] [114] [115]
- Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, car crash. [116]
- Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, missing since July 5, murder. [117] [118]
- Bert Slater, 70, Scottish footballer [119]
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- Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian [120] (German)
- Philipp von Bismarck, 91, German politician of the CDU party. [121] (German)
- Kevin Brophy, 21, Australian basketball player at the University of Georgia, automobile accident. [122] [123]
- Madonna Castillo, 31, former Secretary-General of the Anakpawis party in the Philippines, shot. [124]
- Chung In-yung, 86, founder of Halla Engineering & Construction in South Korea. [125]
- Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (Thing From Another World). [126]
- Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician [127]
- Brandon Hedrick, 27, convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair in Virginia [128]
- Tom Larson, 77, former Federal Highway Administrator and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transport. [129]
- Lim Kim San, 89, former cabinet minister of Singapore. [130]
- Frank Nabarro, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics[131]
- Harry Olivieri, 90, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium. [132]
- Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director. [133] [134] [135]
- Theo Sijthoff, 69, Dutch former cyclist and fashion designer [136]
- Romeo Tan Togonon, 55, editorial cartoonist for the Manila Times. [137]
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- Rev Robert Baumiller, 75, associate dean of health at Xavier University. [138]
- Mauriceo Brown, 31, executed in Texas for 1996 robbery murder. [139]
- Troy May, 39, owner of Oshawa Dodgers Baseball Club, heart attack due to injuries from car accident. [140]
- Sam Neely, 58, singer-songwriter, collapsed while mowing his lawn.[141]
- Maulvi Yunis Khalis, 87, mujahideen leader in Afghanistan who met with Ronald Reagan in 1988. [142]
- Dave Walter, 63, Montana historian, heart attack. [143]
- Jack Warden, 85, Emmy Award-winning American actor, heart and kidney failure. [144]
- George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science. [145]
- Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer. [146]
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- Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer. [147]
- Henry Hewes, 89, former Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960-1964). [148] [149]
- Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, former Ipswich Town footballer. [150][151]
- David Maloney, 72, British television director and producer for Doctor Who and Blakes 7 [152]
- V.P. Sathyan, 41, former captain of the Indian national football team, apparent suicide. [153][154]
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- Rev. Amos Bailey, 88, writer of the syndicated column "Our Daily Bread", thyroid cancer. [155]
- Billy Firehawk, 40, former professional wrestler, diabetes [156]
- Galen Fiss, 75, former Cleveland Browns linebacker. [157]; [158]
- Dr. James Jandl, 80, American hematologist at Harvard University, author of Blood: Textbook of Hematology. [159]
- Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease [160]
- Mike MacDonald, 65, pioneering Canadian aboriginal video artist. [161]
- Robert Mardian, 82, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer. [162]
- Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets; throat cancer. [163] [164]
- David Skramstad, 74, twice mayor of Olympia, Washington and mystery writer, heart failure. [165]
- Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, cancer. [166][167][168]
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- Walter Binaghi, 87, former ICAO Council President. [169]
- Peter Chew, 82, author and journalist specialising in horse racing, heart attack. [170]
- Dr. Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion. [171]
- Martin Gallent, 75, American former vice chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. [172]
- Kevin Hughes, 53, former British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease [173] [174].
- Bob Orton, Sr., 76, former professional wrestler, heart attack. [175]
- Destiny Norton (date disapppeared), 5, American child, kidnapped and murdered.
- Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956. [176]
- Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. [177] [178]
- Harold Scott Jr., 70, American award-winning actor and playwright, first black artistic director of a major American regional theater. [179] [180]
- Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma. [181] [182]
- Winston Wilson, 63, co-founder of Winston Daniels Ltd of Napa Valley, wine importer, esophageal cancer. [183]
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- Robert H. Brooks, 69, chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. [184]
- Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. [185]
- John Feild, 83, pioneer of affirmative action as executive director of the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity in the administration of John F. Kennedy, heart attack. [186]
- John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. [187]
- Howdy Groskloss, 100, was the oldest living former major league baseball player. [188]
- Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer. [189]
- Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. [190]
- Daniel Nickerson, 48, former professional wrestling promoter [191]
- István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, long illness. [192]
- Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and former co-husband of bigamist Anais Nin.[193]
- A.C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir charity for destitute women in India. [194]
- Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter. [195]
- David W. Simpson, 51, American Mayor of Bethel, Ohio, aneurysm. [196]
- Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer. [197] [198]
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- Ted Bilkey, 72, former Chief Operating Officer for DP World. [199] [200]
- Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage. [201]
- William Downs, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. [202]
- Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. [203]
- Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer [204]
- William Lash III, 45, former assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide after killing his 12 year old autistic son. [205]
- Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. [206]
- Carrie Nye, 69, American actress; lung cancer. [207][208]
- June Ormond, 94, produced country music and religious films, complications of a stroke. [209]
- Eduards Pāvuls, 77, famous Latvian actor [210]
- Martha Peterson, 90, American president of Barnard College (1967-75). [211]
- Senne Rouffaer, 80, Flemish actor. [212]
- Len Teeuws, 79, former offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals. [213]
- Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. [214]
- Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine, and massive bleeding. [215] [216]
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- Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease [217][218][219]
- Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [220]
- Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. [221]
- Jürgen Kießling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [222]
- John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, pneumonia. [223]
- Mark Ryder, 85, American dancer. [224]
- Jonathan Solomon, 74, Gwich'in tribal leader. [225]
- Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid [226]
- Cora T. Walker, 84, African-American lawyer, co-founder and senior partner of Walker & Bailey. [227]
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- Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [228]
- George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. [229]
- Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy Below), stroke. [230] [231] [232]
- Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. [233]
- Charles H. G. Rees, 84, American media executive, former president of Whitney Communications. [234]
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- Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, death currently under investigation. [235] [236]
- Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [237]
- John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [238]
- Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [239]
- Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [240]
- Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [241] [242]
- Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [243] [244]
- Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [245] [246]
- Paul Morden, 31, American musician (The Brickbats, Memphis Morticians, Gitane DeMone, and others), suicide.
- Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. [247]
- Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide. [248]
- William Pryce, 73, United States ambassador to Honduras from 1993 to 1996, pancreatic cancer. [249]
- Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison [250]
- Ruth Schonthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer [251] [252] [253]
- John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer [254] [255] [256]
- Philippe Takla, 91, former foreign minister of Lebanon. [257][258]
- Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [259]
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- Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [260] [261] [262][263]
- Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [264]
- Robert Fumerton, 93, Top scoring Canadian night fighter ace of World War II. "Washington Post", p. B-6, Jul. 27, 2006 [265]
- The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, responsible for introducing charges to visitors at York Minster, cancer [266][267]
- Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [268]
- Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [269]
- Ruth Schonthal, 82, American composer. Complications from heart attack. cf July 11 [270]
- Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant.[271]
- Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [272]
- Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [273]
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- Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [274]
- Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. [275]
- Professor John Raeburn, 93, agricultural economist responsible for planning the "Dig for Victory" campaign in the United Kingdom during World War II. [276]
- Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [277]
- Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [278] [279]
- Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. [280]
- Anthony Joseph Boneca, 21, Canadian Soldier, reservist with the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment; killed in firefight against Taliban.
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- George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [281] [282]
- June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [283]
- Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [284]
- Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [285]
- Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [286]
- David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [287] [288]
- Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia. [289]
- Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flowerpot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks. [290]
- Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, lung cancer. [291] [292]
- Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [293]
- Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [294] [295]
- Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure. [296]
- Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [297]
- Sabine Dünser, 29, singer for gothic metal band Elis, Cerebral hemorrhage. [298]
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- Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [299] [300]
- Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, pancreatic cancer. [301]
- Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [302]
- Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [303]
- Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [304]
- Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris. [305]
- John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [306]
- Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [307]
- Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [308]
- Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [309]
- Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. [310]
- Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [311]
- Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [312] [313]
- Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band. [314]
- Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [315]
- Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [316]
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- Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [317]
- Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack [318].
- Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [319]
- Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [320]
- Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [321]
- John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [322]
- George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [323]
- Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [324], [325]
- Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. [326],[327],[328]
- E.S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist. [329]
- Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [330] [331]
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- Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [332]
- Lucien Crump, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [333]
- Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [334]
- Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [335]
- Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [336]
- Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [337]
- Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [338]
- Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [339]
- Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [340]
- Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [341]
- Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [342]
- Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [343] [344]
- Tongan prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, and princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [345][346][347]
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- Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [348]
- Dean Goodman, 86, American actor, husband of Maria Riva, the daughter of Marlene Dietrich.
- John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. [349]
- Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [350]
- Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [351]
- Sir Leslie Smith, 87, industrialist behind the The BOC Group growth. [352]
- Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. [353]
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- Bashir Al-Mogherbi, 83, first presedent of Libyan football club Al Ahly Benghazi.
- Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. [354]
- Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson.
- Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [355]
- Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [356]
- Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [357]
- Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD. [358]
- Arthur Haggerty, 74, American dog trainer. [359]
- Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [360] [361]
- Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [362]
- Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer. [363] [364]
- Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [365]
- Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [366]
- Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [367]
- Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [368] [369]
- Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [370]
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [371]
- Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [372]
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- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [373]
- Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, former member House of Lords and RAF Group Captain. [374]
- Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [375]
- Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [376]
- Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [377][378]
- Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [379]
- Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1960–1974. [380]
- Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [381]
- Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke. [382]
- Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [383]
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- Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [384]
- Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [385]
- Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [386]
- Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [387]
- Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [388]
- Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [389] [390]
- Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [391]
- Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [392]
- Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [393]
- Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [394]
- Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician [395]
- Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [396]
- Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [397]
- Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [398]
- Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [399]
- Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [400]
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [401]