Deaths in April 2008
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 2008
[edit]1
[edit]- Mosko Alkalai, 77, Israeli actor (Blaumilch Canal, The Fox in the Chicken Coop, Yana's Friends), respiratory failure.[1]
- Triston Jay Amero, 26, American hotel bomber, pulmonary edema.[2]
- Shosh Atari, 58, Israeli radio presenter and actress, heart attack.[3]
- Péter Baczakó, 56, Hungarian weightlifter, 1980 Olympic champion, cancer.[4]
- Sabin Bălaşa, 75, Romanian painter, heart attack.[5]
- Sherry Britton, 89, American burlesque dancer and actor (Guys and Dolls).[6]
- Audrey Cahn, 102, Australian nutritionist and microbiologist.[7]
- Jim Finney, 83, British football referee.[8]
- Gabriel Mkhumane, Swazi opposition leader, shot.[9]
- Licínio Pereira da Silva, 63, Portuguese last political prisoner of PIDE during Estado Novo, nosocomial infection.[10]
- Floyd Simmons, 84, American decathlon Olympic bronze medallist (1948, 1952) and actor (South Pacific).[11]
- Otto Soemarwoto, 82, Indonesian professor and ecologist, Order of the Golden Ark recipient.[12]
- Marvin Stone, 26, American basketball player for Saudi Arabian Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) team, heart attack.[13]
2
[edit]- Norberto Collado Abreu, 87, Cuban naval officer, helmsman of the yacht Granma which carried Fidel Castro to Cuba in 1956.[14]
- Paul Arden, 67, British creative director and author.[15]
- Johnny Byrne, 72, Irish writer and script editor (Doctor Who, Heartbeat).[16]
- Sir Geoffrey Cox, 97, British founder of ITN News at Ten.[17]
- David Henshaw, 76, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Geelong (1982–1996).[18]
- Ray Poole, 86, American football player (New York Giants), cancer.[19]
- Yakup Satar, 110, Crimean-born supercentenarian, believed to be the last Turkish veteran of World War I.[20]
- Mona Seilitz, 65, Swedish actress and entertainer, breast cancer.[21]
- Livio Spanghero, 88, Italian Olympic sailor.[22]
- Adam Studziński, 97, Polish Roman Catholic Dominican priest, World War II chaplain of Polish forces.[23]
- Taotao, 36, Chinese oldest captive giant panda, brain thrombus and cerebral hemorrhage.[24]
3
[edit]- Percival Allen, 91, British geologist.[25]
- Andrew Crozier, 64, British poet, brain tumour.[26]
- Hrvoje Ćustić, 24, Croatian footballer (NK Zadar), head injury.[27]
- William Denman Eberle, 84, American businessman, U.S. Trade Representative (1971–1974), kidney failure.[28]
- Frosty Freeze, 44, American B-boy, breakdancer and member of the Rock Steady Crew.[29]
- Jeremy R. Knowles, 72, British-born Harvard University dean of Arts and Sciences (1991–2002), prostate cancer.[30]
- Ivan Korade, 44, Croatian general and murder suspect, apparent suicide by gunshot.[31]
- Leslie MacPhail, 55, Belgian Olympic judoka.[32]
- Vladimír Preclík, 78, Czech sculptor and writer.[33]
- Robert Tomasulo, 73, American computer scientist.
4
[edit]- Harley Dickinson, 69, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1982–1992).[34]
- Fay McKay, 78, American entertainer ("The Twelve Daze of Christmas").[35]
- Jerry Rosholt, 85, American journalist and historian.[36]
- Michael White, 59, Australian inventor of narrative therapy, cardiac arrest.[37]
- Wu Xueqian, 87, Chinese politician, foreign minister (1982–1988).[38]
5
[edit]- Giuseppe Attardi, 84, American molecular biologist.[39]
- Iris Burton, 77, American talent agent, pneumonia and complications of Alzheimer's disease.[40]
- Eugene Ehrlich, 85, American lexicographer and author.[41]
- Alex Grasshoff, 79, American documentary filmmaker known for having his Academy Award revoked.[42]
- Charlton Heston, 84, American actor (Ben-Hur, Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes), president of the NRA (1998–2003), Oscar winner (1960), pneumonia.[43]
- Walt Masterson, 87, American baseball player, stroke.[44]
- McKelvey, 9, British race horse, euthanised after fall during Grand National.[45]
- Frank Opsal, 79, Canadian Olympic shooter.[46]
- Steve Sinnott, 56, British general secretary of the National Union of Teachers since 2004, heart attack.[47]
- Wang Donglei, 23, Chinese footballer, car accident.[48]
- Sibte Hasan Zaidi, 89, Indian pathologist and toxicologist.[49]
6
[edit]- James Barrier, 55, American wrestler.[50]
- Lakshman de Alwis, 68, Sri Lankan national athletics coach, suicide bomb attack.[51]
- Tony Davies, 68, New Zealand rugby union player (All Blacks).[52]
- Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, 55, Sri Lankan highways minister, suicide bomb attack.[53][51]
- Abdou Latif Guèye, 52, Senegalese politician, sixth vice-president of the National Assembly (2007–2008), car accident.[54]
- Kuruppu Karunaratne, 47, Sri Lankan Olympic marathon runner, suicide bomb attack.[51]
- Naziur Rahman Manzur, 59, Bangladeshi politician, mayor of Dhaka City Corporation.[55]
- Abraham Osheroff, 92, American social activist, veteran of the Spanish Civil War (Abraham Lincoln Brigade), heart attack.[56]
- Gib Shanley, 76, American radio sportscaster (Cleveland Browns), pneumonia.[57]
- Jeu Sprengers, 69, Dutch chairman of the Royal Dutch Football Association.[58]
- Teoh Chye Hin, 94, Malaysian secretary-general of the Asian Football Confederation (1974–1978).[59]
- Sir Francis Vallat, 95, British international lawyer.[60]
7
[edit]- Ludu Daw Amar, 92, Burmese journalist, writer and activist.[61]
- Kunio Egashira, 70, Japanese chairman of Ajinomoto, pancreatic cancer.[62]
- Ruth Greenglass, 84, American atomic spy for the Soviet Union, wife of David Greenglass, sister-in-law of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.[63]
- Bob Howard, 63, American football player (San Diego Chargers), cancer.[64]
- Sir Frank Little, 82, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Melbourne (1974–1996).[65]
- Mark Speight, 42, British TV presenter (SMart), suicide by hanging.[66]
- Gloria Taylor, 57, British activist and mother of murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor, heart attack.[67]
- Andrei Tolubeyev, 63, Russian actor, pancreatic cancer.[68]
- Esko Tommola, 77, Finnish news anchor, after long illness.[69]
- Phil Urso, 82, American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer.[70]
8
[edit]- Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley, 79, British Green Party member of the House of Lords.[71]
- Cedella Booker, 81, Jamaican mother of Bob Marley, natural causes.[72]
- John Button, 74, Australian senator, minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce (1983–1993), pancreatic cancer.[73]
- Loren Driscoll, 79, American tenor.[74]
- Graham Higman, 91, British mathematician.[75]
- Seaman Jacobs, 96, American television writer (The Red Skelton Show, F Troop, The Jeffersons), cardiac arrest.[76]
- Stanley Kamel, 65, American actor (Monk, Domino, Cagney & Lacey), heart attack.[77]
- Hersh Lyons, 92, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[78]
- Kunio Ogawa, 80, Japanese novelist.[79]
- Nadezhda Rumyantseva, 77, Russian actress, brain tumor.[80]
- Jacqueline Voltaire, 59, British-born Mexican soap opera actress for Televisa, malignant melanoma.[81]
- Kees Wijdekop, 94, Dutch Olympic canoer.[82]
- Herbert Zearfoss, 78, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.[83]
9
[edit]- Ángel Aguiar, 81, Cuban gymnast.[84]
- Abu Ubaidah al-Masri, 40s, Pakistani al-Qaeda senior operative, death from probable hepatitis confirmed on this date.[85]
- George Butler, 76, American record producer and A&R man (Blue Note, Columbia), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[86]
- Herman Carr, 83, American physicist, pioneer of MRI, heart disease.[87]
- Diego Catalán, 80, Spanish philologist, grandson of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, heart disease.[88]
- Paul Dumont, 87, Canadian ice hockey administrator, kidney failure.[89]
- Burt Glinn, 82, American photographer, kidney failure and pneumonia.[90]
- Michael Golomb, 98, American mathematician.[91]
- Erkki Junkkarinen, 78, Finnish singer.[92]
- Bob Kames, 82, American polka musician, songwriter and popularizer of the Chicken Dance, prostate cancer.[93]
- Daniela Klemenschits, 25, Austrian tennis player, abdominal cancer.[94]
- Jacques Morel, 85, French actor, voice of Obelix.[95]
- Choubeila Rached, 75, Tunisian singer.[96]
- Marvin Sylvor, 75, American carousel designer, kidney failure.[97]
10
[edit]- Francis Coleman, 84, Canadian-born British conductor, television producer and director.[98]
- Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, 88, Mexican cardinal, archbishop emeritus of Mexico.[99]
- Peter Dubovský, 86, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Banská Bystrica (1991–1997).[100]
- Robert W. Greene, 78, American investigative journalist, heart failure.[101]
- Dickson Mabon, 82, British Labour and Social Democratic Party MP (1955–1983).[102]
- Jeremiah J. M. Nyagah, 87, Kenyan politician, pneumonia.[103]
- Marcel Pertry, 86, Belgian footballer (Cercle Brugge).[104]
- Gopal Raju, 80, American website pioneer of Indian ethnic media in USA (India Abroad, Indo-Asian News Service), jaundice.[105]
- Kim Santow, 67, Australian judge (NSW Supreme Court), chancellor of the University of Sydney (2001–2007), brain tumour.[106]
- Juan Ramón Sánchez, 51, Spanish actor, singer and artist (Barrio Sésamo), lung cancer.[107]
11
[edit]- Claude Abbes, 80, French football player.[108]
- J. Leon Altemose, 68, American developer and contractor.[109]
- Fraser Colman, 83, New Zealand politician, MP for Pencarrow (1978–1987).[110]
- Clyde Cook, 72, American president of Biola University (1982–2007).[111]
- Raymond E. Dana, 93, American politician.[112]
- Joan Hunter Dunn, 92, British muse of poet John Betjeman.[113]
- Willoughby Goddard, 81, British actor (Young Sherlock Holmes).[114]
- Harry Goonatilake, 78, Sri Lankan Air Force Commander (1976–1981).[115]
- Donald Macfadyen, Lord Macfadyen, 62, Scottish jurist.[116]
- Bob Pellegrini, 73, American football linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles).[117]
- Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson, 91, American author, daughter of Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke, heart failure.[118]
12
[edit]- Duilio Agostini, 82, Italian racer.[119]
- Cecilia Colledge, 87, British figure skater and 1936 Olympic silver medallist.[120]
- Valda Cooper, 92, Australian-born American journalist for the Associated Press.[121]
- Dieter Eppler, 81, German film actor and radio drama director.[122]
- Donald Forbes, 73, British convicted murderer.[123]
- Patrick Hillery, 84, Irish president (1976–1990) and minister (1959–1973), European commissioner for Ortoli Commission.[124]
- Abbas Katouzian, 86, Iranian painter.[citation needed]
- Artur Maurício, 63, Portuguese Constitutional Court president (2004–2007), after long illness.[125]
- Buzz Nutter, 77, American football player (Colts, Steelers), heart failure.[126]
- Augusta Wallace, 78, New Zealand district judge (1975–1990), after long illness.[127]
- Dwaine Wilson, 47, American former Canadian Football League player, drowned.[128]
- Jerry Zucker, 58, Israeli-born American businessman, cancer.[129]
13
[edit]- Elías Amézaga, 86, Spanish writer.[130]
- Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, 51, American kidnapper, heart attack.[131]
- Larry Elliott, 72, American college football coach (Washburn University).[132]
- Robert Greacen, 87, Irish poet.[133]
- Michael Mills, 80, Irish first government ombudsman (1984–1994).[134]
- Kedamangalam Sadanandan, 82, Indian actor.[135]
- John Archibald Wheeler, 96, American physicist who coined the term "black hole", pneumonia.[136]
- Khasan Yandiev, 52, Russian deputy head of Ingushetia Supreme Court, shot.[137]
- Ross Yockey, 64, American Emmy Award-winning author, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.[138]
14
[edit]- Olivia Cenizal, 81, Filipino actress, colon disease.[139]
- Miguel Galván, 50, Mexican actor and comedian, respiratory arrest.[140]
- Werner "Frick" Groebli, 92, Swiss ice skating comedian (Frick and Frack).[141]
- Tommy Holmes, 91, American baseball player (Boston Braves).[142]
- Ollie Johnston, 95, American animator (Cinderella, Pinocchio, Mary Poppins), the last of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men".[143]
- Marisa Sannia, 61, Italian singer.[144]
- Robert Somervaille, 86, Australian lawyer, chairman of the Australian Telecommunications Commission (1987–1991).[145]
- June Travis, 93, American actress.[146]
15
[edit]- Imre Antal, 72, Hungarian pianist, TV personality, actor and humorist, cancer.[147]
- David K. Brown, 79-80, British naval architect.[148]
- David Cass, 71, American economist.[149]
- Sean Costello, 28, American blues guitarist and singer, accidental drug overdose.[150]
- Hazel Court, 82, British actress (The Masque of the Red Death, The Raven), heart attack.[151]
- Cliff Davies, 59, American musician, drummer for Ted Nugent, apparent suicide by gunshot.[152]
- Brian Davison, 65, British musician, drummer for progressive rock band The Nice.[153]
- Parvin Dowlatabadi, 84, Iranian children's author and poet, heart attack.[154]
- Renata Fronzi, 82, Argentine-born Brazilian actress, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[155]
- Hendrik S. Houthakker, 83, American economist.[156]
- Fernand Jaccard, 100, Swiss football midfielder.[157]
- Benoît Lamy, 62, Belgian motion picture writer-director, murdered.[158]
- Madeline Lee, 84, American actress and theatrical producer, wife of Jack Gilford.[159]
- Krister Stendahl, 86, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop.[160]
- Mahinārangi Tocker, 52, New Zealand musician, asthma attack.[161]
16
[edit]- Lou Allen, 83, American football player.
- Joseph Cameron Alston, 81, American badminton player and FBI agent.[162]
- Lucia Cunanan, 80, Filipino restaurateur credited with inventing sisig, murdered.[163]
- Joe Feeney, 76, American tenor (The Lawrence Welk Show), emphysema.[164]
- Edward Norton Lorenz, 90, American professor of meteorology, cancer.[165]
- Fadel Shana'a, 24, Palestinian Reuters cameraman, flechette shell.[166]
- Joseph Solman, 99, American painter with Works Progress Administration.[167]
17
[edit]- Edna Andrade, 91, American abstract artist.[168]
- Aimé Césaire, 94, French Martiniquan poet and politician.[169]
- Richard Chopping, 90, British illustrator (James Bond).[170]
- Gwyneth Dunwoody, 77, British Labour MP for Crewe and Nantwich, following open heart surgery.[171]
- Danny Federici, 58, American keyboardist (Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band), melanoma.[172]
- Nicolette Goulet, 52, American actress (Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, The Guiding Light), breast cancer.[173]
- Zoya Krakhmalnikova, 79, Russian Christian dissident and writer.[174]
- Lloyd Lamble, 94, Australian actor.[175]
- Viktor Nosov, 67, Ukrainian football player and coach.[176]
- George Pollard, 89, American portrait painter (Harry Truman, Muhammad Ali), pneumonia.[177]
- Rosario Sánchez Mora, 88, Spanish female anti-Franco veteran of the Spanish Civil War.[178]
- Mikhail Tanich, 84, Russian poet, kidney problems.[179]
- Su-Lin Young, 96, American explorer.[180]
18
[edit]- Refat Appazov, 87, Soviet-Crimean Tatar rocket scientist.[181]
- Peter Howard, 80, American music director and arranger, complications of Parkinson's Disease.[182]
- Michael de Larrabeiti, 73, British author (The Borrible Trilogy).[183]
- Kay Linaker, 94, American actress and screenwriter (The Blob).[184]
- Joy Page, 83, American actress (Casablanca), complications from a stroke and pneumonia.[185]
- Rosalie Ritz, 84, American courtroom artist (O.J. Simpson Trial, Sirhan Sirhan trial), lung cancer.[186]
- William W. Warner, 88, American biologist and writer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[187]
- Charles S. Minter Jr., 93, Vice Admiral Of United States Navy and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland ( 1964–1965 ) .[188]
19
[edit]- Mohammad Abbas Baig, 90, Pakistani officer.[189]
- Hanan Al-Agha, 59-60, Palestinian-Jordanian writer, poet and plastic artist.[190]
- Bob Bledsaw, 65, American founder of Judges Guild, cancer.[191]
- Alessandro Cevese, 57, Italian ambassador to South Africa, Lesotho, Mauritius and Madagascar, car accident.[192]
- Lawrence Hertzog, 56, American television writer and producer (Nowhere Man), cancer.[193]
- Alfonso López Trujillo, 72, Colombian Catholic archbishop, president of Pontifical Council for the Family, diabetes.[194]
- John Marzano, 45, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), co-host of Leading Off on mlb.com, injuries from a fall.[195]
- Germaine Tillion, 100, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance.[196]
- Constant Vanden Stock, 93, Belgian president of RSC Anderlecht football club.[197]
20
[edit]- Richard Alexander, 73, British politician, Conservative MP for Newark (1979–1997), cancer.[198]
- Bebe Barron, 82, American composer, pioneer of electronic music.[199]
- Frank Michael Beyer, 80, German composer.[200]
- Gazanfer Bilge, 85, Turkish freestyle wrestler, 1948 Olympic champion.[201]
- Farid Chopel, 55, French actor and singer, cancer.[202]
- Monica Lovinescu, 84, Romanian writer.[203]
- Derek McKay, 58, Scottish footballer (Deveronvale, Dundee, Aberdeen, Barrow), heart attack.[204]
- VL Mike, 32, American rapper, shot.[205]
- Nissan Nativ, 86, Israeli director, actor and acting teacher.[206]
- Tariq Niazi, 68, Pakistani field hockey player, member of 1968 Olympic gold medal team, cardiac arrest.[207]
- Geoff Polites, 60, Australian CEO of Jaguar Land Rover.[208]
- William R. Snodgrass, 85, American government official, Comptroller of Tennessee (1955–1999).[209]
- Harry Ulinski, 83, American football player (Washington Redskins), sepsis.[210]
- Geoff Ward, 81, English cricketer (Kent and Essex).[211]
21
[edit]- Michel Allex, 60, French chocolatier and politician.[212]
- Monna Bell, 70, Chilean singer, stroke.[213]
- Fayr Jag, 8, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised.[214]
- Darell Garretson, 76, American professional basketball referee.[215]
- Sharp Cat, 13-14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[216]
- Aaron Shearer, 88, American classical guitarist.[217]
- Carmen Silva, 92, Brazilian actress, multiple organ failure.[218]
- Al Wilson, 68, American soul singer ("Show and Tell"), kidney failure.[219]
22
[edit]- Jack Ansell, 86, English footballer.[220]
- Cameron Argetsinger, 87, American auto racing pioneer.[221]
- Bob Childers, 61, American singer-songwriter, emphysema.[222]
- Ed Chynoweth, 66, Canadian president of the Western Hockey League (1972–1995) and CHL (1975–1995), cancer.[223]
- Paul Davis, 60, American singer ("I Go Crazy", "'65 Love Affair", "Cool Night"), heart attack.[224]
- Safdar Kiyani, 60, Pakistani teacher and pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Balochistan, shot.[225]
- Dora Ratjen, 89, German high jumper, disguised as female to compete for Nazi Germany at 1936 Summer Olympics.[226]
- Francisco Martins Rodrigues, 81, Portuguese anti-Fascist resistant, Marxist-Leninist Committee founder, cancer.[227]
- Daniel Lee Siebert, 54, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.[228]
23
[edit]- Abdellatief Abouheif, 78, Egyptian marathon swimmer.[229]
- Jean-Daniel Cadinot, 64, French film director and producer, heart attack.[230]
- Don Gillis, 85, Canadian-born American sportscaster.[231]
- Martha Kostuch, 58, Canadian environmentalist, multiple system atrophy.[232]
- Cook Lougheed, 86, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.[233]
- Loreto Paras-Sulit, 99, Filipino writer.[234]
- Rustam Sani, 64, Malaysian politician, sociologist, political scientist and blogger.[235]
- Harold Stephenson, 87, British first-class wicketkeeper (Somerset).[236]
- William H. Stewart, 86, American surgeon general (1965–1969), complications from renal failure.[237]
24
[edit]- Lucy Appleby, 88, British traditional cheesemaker.[238]
- Tristram Cary, 82, British film and television composer (Doctor Who, The Ladykillers, Quatermass and the Pit).[239]
- James Day, 89, American television host, respiratory failure.[240]
- Harry Geris, 60, Canadian Olympic wrestler.[241]
- Jimmy Giuffre, 86, American jazz clarinetist, pneumonia.[242]
- Carlos Robalo, 76, Portuguese politician, Secretary of State (1980–1981).[243]
- Trilochan Singh, 85, Indian field hockey player, member of the gold medal-winning 1948 Summer Olympics team.[244]
25
[edit]- Enrico Donati, 99, Italian-born American surrealist painter and sculptor.[245]
- Sonny Grandelius, 79, American football player and coach.[246]
- R. Laird Harris, 97, American Presbyterian minister and Old Testament scholar.[247]
- Humphrey Lyttelton, 86, British jazz trumpeter and chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, following surgery for aortic aneurysm.[248]
- John H. McConnell, 84, American owner of Worthington Industries and the Columbus Blue Jackets.[249]
26
[edit]- Anzar Shah Kashmiri, 80, Indian Islamic scholar, heart and kidney problems.[250]
- Henry Brant, 94, Canadian-born American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.[251]
- Moisey Feigin, 103, Russian artist, Guinness World Record–holder for the oldest professional working artist.[252]
- Wallace Gichere, 53, Kenyan photojournalist.[253]
- Yossi Harel, 90, Israeli captain of Exodus, cardiac arrest.[254]
- Carmen Scarpitta, 74, Italian actress,[255]
27
[edit]- Abraham Adesanya, 85, Nigerian politician, lawyer, and activist.[256]
- Ram Babu Gupta, 72, Indian cricket umpire.[257]
- Art Johnson, 88, American baseball player.[258]
- Ron O'Brien, 56, American disc jockey, pneumonia.[259]
- Mike Patrick, 55, American former NFL punter (New England Patriots).[260]
- Hal Stein, 79, American jazz musician.[261]
- Marios Tokas, 54, Greek Cypriot composer, cancer.[262]
- Sallie Wilson, 76, American ballerina, cancer.[263]
- Frances Yeend, 95, American soprano opera singer.[264]
28
[edit]- Alfredo José Anzola, 33, Venezuelan businessman, plane crash.[265]
- Diana Barnato Walker, 90, British aviator, first British woman to break the sound barrier.[266]
- John Barron, 74, Irish hurler.[267]
- Ivan Caesar, 41, American football player (Boston College, Minnesota Vikings, Portland Forest Dragons), shot.[268]
- Max Cherry, 81, Australian Olympics and Commonwealth Games athletics coach, heart attack.[269]
- Tarka Cordell, 40, British musician, suicide by hanging.[270]
- John Patrick Crecine, 69, American president of Georgia Tech (1987–1994).[271]
- Hans Eder, 81, Austrian Olympic skier.[272]
- Jack Hanrahan, 75, American television writer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Get Smart, Dennis the Menace), Emmy winner (1968).[273]
- Sir Derek Higgs, 64, British chairman of Alliance & Leicester, heart attack.[274]
- Ed Marion, 81, American official in the National Football League from 1960 to 1987.[275]
- Will Robinson, 96, American coach, first African American Division I college basketball (ISU) coach, Detroit Pistons scout.[276]
29
[edit]- Jadesola Akande, 67, Nigerian lawyer, author and academic.[277]
- John Berkey, 75, American science fiction artist.[278]
- Bo Yang, 88, Taiwanese writer.[279]
- Ernesto Bonino, 86, Italian singer.[280]
- Gordon Bradley, 74, British footballer and coach (North American Soccer League), Alzheimer's disease.[281]
- Lewis Croft, 88, American actor (The Wizard of Oz).[282]
- Chuck Daigh, 84, American racing driver, heart and respiratory disease.[283]
- Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, 87, Iranian Anglican Bishop, first ethnic Iranian Christian bishop since the 7th century.[284]
- Julie Ege, 64, Norwegian actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), breast cancer.[285]
- Tatsuo Hasegawa, 92, Japanese automotive engineer, development chief of the first Toyota Corolla.[286]
- Albert Hofmann, 102, Swiss researcher, chemist and discoverer of LSD, heart attack.[287]
- Sir Anthony Kershaw, 92, British Conservative MP (1955–1987).[288]
- Francis Mahoney, 80, American basketball player (Boston Celtics).[289]
- Terlingua, 32, American thoroughbred horse, infirmities of old age.[290]
- Charles Tilly, 78, American sociologist, historian and political scientist.[291]
- Micky Waller, 66, British drummer (Jeff Beck Group, Cyril Davies), liver failure.[292]
30
[edit]- Jean Ancel, 67-68, Romanian-born Israeli author and historian.[293]
- John Cargher, 89, Australian radio broadcaster, hosted Singers of Renown since 1966.[294]
- Juancho Evertsz, 85, Dutch Antillean politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1973–1977).[295]
- Ling Ling, 22, Chinese panda, lived in Ueno Zoo, Tokyo, oldest giant panda in Japan, heart failure.[296]
- M. G. Pandithan, 68, Malaysian politician, leukemia.[297]
- Clarence Ross, 84, American bodybuilder.[298]
- Allan Sparrow, 63, Canadian politician, activist and Toronto city councillor (1974–1980), colorectal cancer.[299]
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