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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2008.
February 2008[edit]
- Hélio Quaglia Barbosa, 66, Brazilian member of the Superior Court of Justice, multiple organ failure. [1] (Portuguese)
- Floyd Boring, 92, American Secret Service agent, helped foil Truman assassination attempt. [2]
- Beto Carrero, 70, Brazilian theme park owner (Beto Carrero World), endocarditis. [3]
- Al DeMao, 87, American football center for the Washington Redskins (1945–1953). [4]
- Ralph DiGia, 93, American World War II conscientious objector and peace activist with War Resisters League. [5]
- Allan Grant, 88, American photojournalist for Life magazine. [6]
- Earl Greenburg, 61, American head of NBC daytime, melanoma. [7]
- Frank Fletcher Hamilton, 86, Canadian World War II pilot and politician. [8]
- Russi Karanjia, 95, Indian journalist, editor of Blitz. [9]
- Władysław Kawula, 70, Polish footballer. [10] (Polish)
- Shell Kepler, 49, American actress (General Hospital), fashion designer (HSC), renal failure. [11]
- Katoucha Niane, 47, French supermodel and women's rights activist, drowning. [12] (French)
- Ralph Wallace, 58, American politician, member of the Texas State House (1977–1992). [13]
- Gus Arriola, 90, American cartoonist (Gordo), Parkinson's disease. [14]
- Billy Balbastro, 67 Filipino journalist and broadcaster, cancer. [15]
- Ahmad Bourghani, 48, Iranian politician, heart failure. [16]
- Earl Butz, 98, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1971–1976). [17]
- Heinrich Dahlinger, 85, German field handball player, entrepreneur, kidney failure. [18] (German)
- Joshua Lederberg, 82, American Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist. [19]
- Barry Morse, 89, British-born Canadian actor (The Fugitive, Space: 1999). [20]
- Daoud Soumain, Chadian general, Army Chief of Staff, killed during the Battle of N'Djamena. [21]
- Roger Testu, 94, French cartoonist. [22] (French)
- Ed Vargo, 79, American baseball umpire. [23]
- Edward Wilson, 60, British actor (When the Boat Comes In), director of the National Youth Theatre, cancer. [24]
- Samuel Boyle, 59, American bureau chief (New York City) of Associated Press (1981–2002), lung cancer. [25]
- Sheldon Brown, 63, American bicycle mechanic and technical authority, heart attack. [26]
- Charles Fernley Fawcett, 92, American adventurer, actor and freedom fighter. [27]
- Ernesto Illy, 82, Italian food chemist and chairman of the illy coffee company. [28]
- Jorge Liderman, 50, Argentine-American composer, apparent suicide by train impact. [29]
- Jackie Orszaczky, 59, Hungarian-born Australian musician, cancer. [30]
- Geoffrey Paish, 86, British tennis player and administrator. [31]
- John Elliott Smart, 91, British submariner. [32]
- Charley van de Weerd, 86, Dutch football player. [33] (Dutch)
- Chris Anderson, 81, American jazz pianist, complications from a stroke. [34]
- Endel Aruja, 96, Estonian physicist. [35] (Estonian)
- Larry Cruz, 66, Filipino journalist and restaurateur, pneumonia and complications from cancer. [36]
- Augusta Dabney, 89, American actress (The Paper). [37]
- Tata Güines, 77, Cuban percussionist, kidney infection. [38]
- Rose Hacker, 101, British activist. [39]
- Harry Richard Landis, 108, American second-to-last World War I veteran. [40]
- Stefan Meller, 65, Polish diplomat, foreign minister (2005–2006). [41]
- Bertha Moss, 88, Argentine actor, cardiac arrest. [42] (Spanish)
- Nikolay Popov, 76, Russian chief designer of T-80 tank, after long illness. [43] (Russian)
- Peter Thomas, Baron Thomas of Gwydir, 87, British Conservative Party chairman (1970–1972), Welsh Secretary (1970–1974). [44]
- Schoolboy Cleve, 82, American blues musician, harmonica and guitar player. [45]
- Kenny Konz, 79, American football defensive back (Cleveland Browns), pneumonia. [46]
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 91?, Indian founder of Transcendental Meditation movement, former guru to The Beatles. [47]
- Vitaliy Ponomarenko, 33, Ukrainian powerlifting champion, heart condition. [48]
- Winston Walls, 65, American musician, heart failure and diabetes. [49]
- John Alvin, 59, American movie poster artist (Star Wars, Blade Runner, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), heart attack. [50]
- Phyllis Barnhart, 85, American animator and cel painter (The Secret of NIMH). [51]
- Charles Borck, 91, Filipino Olympic basketball player and coach. [52]
- Nikol Faridani, 72, Iranian aerial photographer, prostate cancer. [53]
- Oliver Foot, 61, British President of Orbis International. [54]
- John Grimsley, 45, American football linebacker (Houston Oilers, Miami Dolphins), accidental gunshot. [55]
- Neville Holt, 95, Australian Olympic shooter. [56]
- John McWethy, 61, American news correspondent (ABC News), skiing accident. [57]
- Kurt Nemetz, 81, Austrian Olympic cyclist. [58]
- Ruth Stafford Peale, 101, American writer, widow of Norman Vincent Peale. [59]
- Tony Rolt, 89, British racing driver and last living participant in the first F1 World Championship race. [60]
- Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, 78, French leader of the Druids of Brittany. [61] (French)
- Richard Altick, 92, American historian and author. [62]
- Alberto Bustamante Belaunde, 57, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1999–2000), heart attack. [63] (Spanish)
- Andrew Bertie, 78, British Grand Master of the Order of Malta. [64]
- Hoàng Minh Chính, 85, Vietnamese dissident, pancreatic cancer. [65]
- Tamara Desni, 96, German-born British actress. [66]
- Karl Ehrhardt, 83, American New York Mets fan known for his signs in the crowd. [67]
- Andrew Harwood, 62, Australian radio and TV presenter (It's Academic, Jeopardy!), actor (The Paul Hogan Show), asthma attack. [68]
- Helen Mayer, 75, Australian politician, MP (1983–87). [69]
- Benny Neyman, 56, Dutch singer, cancer. [70] (Dutch)
- Guy Severin, 81, Russian academician and engineer. [71] (Russian)
- Frank Wayman, 76, English footballer (Chester City), struck by motorcycle. [72]
- Nicolaas Jan van Strien, 61, Dutch conservationist, cancer [73]
- Ah Meng, 48, Sumatran orangutan, tourist icon at Singapore Zoo. [74]
- John Bartlett, 58, Australian politician. [75]
- Chua Ek Kay, 61, Singaporean painter and Cultural Medallion winner, nose cancer. [76]
- Eva Dahlbeck, 87, Swedish actress and writer, infection. [77]
- Victor Dominguez, 72, Filipino congressman, cardiac arrest. [78]
- Robert Jastrow, 82, American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist, pneumonia. [79]
- Stephen Arusei Kipkorir, 37, Kenyan long-distance runner, car crash. [80]
- Jane Lumb, 66, British model and actress, appeared in Fry's Turkish Delight commercials, breast cancer. [81]
- K. Rajaram, 82, Indian politician. [82]
- Rudie Sypkes, 57, Australian founder of the Chickenfeed retail chain and philanthropist, pulmonary fibrosis. [83]
- Phyllis A. Whitney, 104, American mystery novelist (A Place for Ann), pneumonia. [84]
- Baba Amte, 93, Indian social activist, advocate for lepers, RLA recipient. [85]
- Robert DoQui, 73, American character actor (RoboCop). [86]
- Scot Halpin, 54, American one time drummer for The Who. [87]
- Dorothy Podber, 75, American performance artist, shot Andy Warhol's Shot Marilyns paintings. [88]
- Merril Sandoval, 82, American Navajo Code Talker during World War II. [89]
- Joseph Tyree Sneed III, 87, American senior judge (Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit). [90]
- Guy Tchingoma, 22, Gabonese footballer, on-field collision. [91]
- Mindrolling Trichen, 78, Tibetan ceremonial head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. [92]
- Georgiy Yegorov, 89, Russian Soviet Navy Admiral of the Fleet. [93] (Russian)
- Arne Barhaugen, 76, Norwegian Olympic Nordic combined skier. [94]
- Freddie Bell, 76, American rhythm and blues singer, cancer. [95]
- Kirk Browning, 86, American television director, heart attack. [96]
- Alaa Abdulkareem Fartusi, 29, Iraqi journalist and cameraman, victim of the Balad bomb blast. [97]
- Adeline Jay Geo-Karis, 89, American politician, member of Illinois State Senate (1979–2007), natural causes. [98]
- Steve Gerber, 60, American comic book writer, creator of Howard the Duck, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. [99]
- Ove Jørstad, 37, Norwegian footballer, cardiac arrest. [100] (Norwegian)
- Ron Leavitt, 60, American co-creator of Married... with Children, lung cancer. [101]
- Dario Lodigiani, 91, American baseball player. [102]
- William Long, 85, British politician, MP of Northern Ireland (1962–1972). [103]
- Peter Marginter, 73, Austrian author. [104] (German)
- Inga Nielsen, 61, Danish soprano, cancer. [105]
- Manuel Ortíz, 59, Cuban Olympic fencer. [106]
- Roy Scheider, 75, American actor (The French Connection, Jaws, All That Jazz), staph infection. [107]
- Ramón Daumal Serra, 95, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop. [108]
- Chris Townson, 60, British drummer (John's Children). [109].
- Ray Wu, 79, American biologist and educator.[110]
- Fouad al-Tikerly, 81, Iraqi novelist and judge, pancreatic cancer. [111]
- Emilio Carballido, 82, Mexican playwright, heart attack. [112] (Spanish)
- Tom Lantos, 80, American Representative (California) since 1981, only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress, esophageal cancer. [113]
- Torakichi Nakamura, 92, Japanese professional golfer, natural causes. [114]
- Frank Piasecki, 88, American aeronautical engineer who invented the tandem rotor placement in helicopter design, stroke. [115]
- Rahatullah, 18, Pakistani cricketer for Peshawar and the Under-19 national side, gunshot injury. [116]
- Alfredo Reinado, 40, East Timorese rebel, shot during attack on José Ramos-Horta. [117]
- Zelig Sharfstein, 79, American chief rabbi of Cincinnati, heart condition. [118]
- Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr., 92, American ornithologist and curator emeritus at the Field Museum of Natural History. [119]
- Carolina Tronconi, 94, Italian gymnast, Olympic silver medalist (1928). [120]
- Laura Urdapilleta, 76, Mexican ballerina [121] (Spanish)
- Oscar Brodney, 100, American lawyer and screenwriter (Harvey). [122]
- John Brunious, 67, American jazz trumpeter, heart attack. [123]
- Ron Chippindale, 75, New Zealand chief air accident investigator, car accident. [124]
- Wilson Hermosa González, 64, Bolivian musician and composer (Los Kjarkas). [125] (Spanish)
- David Groh, 68, American actor (Rhoda), kidney cancer. [126]
- Thomas Grosser, 42, German footballer, heart attack during training. [127] (German)
- Preston Hanson, 87, American actor. [128]
- Geoffrey Lewis, 87, British Professor of Turkish at Oxford University. [129]
- Monica Morell, 54, Swiss singer, cancer. [130] (German)
- Imad Mughniyah, 45, Lebanese senior member of Hezbollah, car bomb. [131]
- Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, Georgian business oligarch and 2008 presidential candidate, heart attack. [132]
- Jean Prouff, 88, French footballer and manager. [133] (French)
- Smoky Dawson, 94, Australian country music performer, after a short illness. [134]
- Michele Greco, 83, Italian Mafia boss, lung cancer. [135] (Italian)
- Kon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film director (Tokyo Olympiad, The Burmese Harp), pneumonia. [136]
- Rajendra Nath, 75, Indian film actor, cardiac arrest. [137]
- Henri Salvador, 90, French jazz singer and guitarist, aneurysm. [138]
- Lionel Mark Smith, 62, American actor (Edmond, Homicide), cancer. [139]
- Roger Voisin, 89, American trumpeter. [140]
- Len Boyd, 84, British footballer. [141]
- Jess Cain, 81, American radio personality (WHDH AM), cancer. [142]
- Thurlow Cooper, 74, American football player (New York Titans). [143]
- Werner Giesa, 53, German author. [144] (German)
- Sir Ralph Howell, 84, British Conservative MP (1970–1997). [145]
- Steven Kazmierczak, 27, American mass murderer (Northern Illinois University shooting), suicide by gunshot. [146]
- Sir Desmond Langley, 77, British army general. [147]
- Perry Lopez, 78, American character actor (Chinatown), lung cancer. [148]
- William Modell, 86, American chairman of Modell's Sporting Goods, complications from prostate cancer. [149]
- Pado Mahn Shar, 64, Burmese Secretary General of Karen National Union, gunshot. [150]
- Ayman al-Fayed, 42, Palestinian commander of al-Quds Brigades, explosion. [151]
- Willie P. Bennett, 56, Canadian singer, natural causes. [152]
- Sam Bith, 74, Cambodian former Khmer Rouge commander. [153]
- Ashley Callie, 34, South African actress, car accident. [154]
- Joaquim Costa, 72, Portuguese rock musician. [155] (Portuguese)
- Antoni Heda, 91, Polish Brigadier General, freedom fighter during World War II. [156] (Polish)
- Marcel Hendrickx, 82, Belgian cyclist. [157]
- Amnon Netzer, 73, Iranian Jewish historian. [158]
- Peter Neubauer, 94, American child psychiatrist. [159]
- Marijan Oblak, 88, Croatian Archbishop of Zadar. [160]
- Naziha Salim, 81, Iraqi painter, complications from a stroke. [161]
- Mikhail Solomentsev, 94, Russian Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the SFSR (1971–1983). [162] (Russian)
- Inge Thun, 62, Norwegian footballer (Strømsgodset), stroke. [163] (Norwegian)
- Johnny Weaver, 72, American professional wrestler, natural causes. [164]
- Shelley Beattie, 40, American bodybuilder (American Gladiators). [165]
- Harry Flemming, 74, Canadian journalist, complications from cancer and pneumonia. [166]
- Brendan Hughes, 59, Irish member of the Provisional IRA. [167]
- Jerry Karl, 66, American racing driver, car accident. [168]
- Boris Khmelnitsky, 67, Russian actor in adventure films. [169]
- Hans Leussink, 96, German politician. [170] (German)
- Bobby Lord, 74, American country musician. [171]
- Vittorio Lucarelli, 79, Italian Olympic fencer. [172]
- Per Erik Monsen, 61, Norwegian Member of Parliament (1997–2005), complications from heart attack. [173] (Norwegian)
- James Orange, 65, American civil rights activist. [174]
- Charlie Ryan, 92, American musician and songwriter ("Hot Rod Lincoln"), heart disease. [175]
- Nicola Agnozzi, 96, Italian Roman Catholic prelate. [176]
- Aysel Gürel, 80, Turkish lyric writer and actress, chronic bronchitis. [177]
- Brian Harris, 72, English footballer (Everton, Cardiff City, Newport County). [178]
- Bill Juzda, 87, Canadian ice hockey defenceman, cancer. [179]
- Manna, 44, Bangladeshi film actor. [180]
- Val Ross, 57, Canadian journalist and children's writer, brain cancer. [181]
- Benigno G. Tabora, 92, American survivor of Bataan Death March. [182]
- Winning Colors, 23, American racehorse, won 1988 Kentucky Derby, euthanized. [183]
- Grits Gresham, 85, American conservationist, sportsman and actor, complication of infection and pneumonia. [184]
- Jim Jones, 57, American rock guitarist (Pere Ubu), heart attack. [185]
- Raymond Kennedy, 73, American novelist, complications of a stroke. [186]
- Sir Richard Knowles, 90, British leader of Birmingham City Council (1984–1993), bladder cancer. [187]
- Jack Lyons, 92, British financier and philanthropist. [188]
- Mihaela Mitrache, 52, Romanian actress, cancer. [189] (Romanian)
- Ralph Peck, 95, American civil engineer. [190]
- Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, French writer (Last Year at Marienbad), heart failure. [191]
- Raymond J. Smith, 77, American editor, complications of pneumonia. [192]
- Alec N. Wildenstein, 67, French international art dealer, ex-husband of socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein, cancer. [193]
- Barry Barclay, 63, New Zealand film maker, heart attack. [194]
- Mary Barclay, 91, British actress. [195]
- Jean-Michel Bertrand, 64, French politician. [196] (French)
- Natalia Bessmertnova, 66, Russian prima ballerina, cancer. [197]
- Richard D'Aeth, 95, British scholar. [198]
- Eugene Freedman, 82, American figurine creator [199]
- Bob Howsam, 89, American sports executive (Denver Broncos, Cincinnati Reds), heart condition. [200]
- Yegor Letov, 43, Russian punk rock singer, heart failure. [201]
- Teo Macero, 82, American record producer and saxophonist. [202]
- Emily Perry, 100, British actress. [203]
- Peter Pianto, 78, Australian footballer. [204]
- Lydia Shum, 62, Hong Kong actress, liver cancer. [205]
- David Watkin, 82, British cinematographer, cancer. [206]
- Peter S. Albin, 73, American economist. [207]
- Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, 91, American nurse, cardiovascular disease. [208]
- Larry Davis, 41, American convicted murderer, stabbed. [209]
- D. G. S. Dhinakaran, 73, Indian evangelist. [210]
- Helmut Sturm, 75, German painter. [211] (German)
- Bobby Lee Trammell, 74, American rockabilly singer, Arkansas Representative (1997–2002). [212]
- Paranjape Prakash Vishvanath, 60, Indian Shiv Sena politician, cancer. [213]
- Madalena Barbosa, 66, Portuguese feminist. [214] (Portuguese)
- Paul-Louis Carrière, 99, French Roman Catholic prelate. [215] (French)
- Ben Chapman, 79, American actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon). [216]
- Joe Gibbs, 65, Jamaican reggae producer, heart attack. [217]
- Ana González, 92, Chilean actress, septic shock. [218]
- Archie Hind, 79, British novelist. [219]
- Hans Janitschek, 73, Austrian journalist, heart attack. [220]
- Geoff Leek, 76, Australian footballer with Essendon. [221]
- Sunny Lowry, 97, first British woman to swim the English Channel. [222]
- Evan Mecham, 83, American Governor of Arizona (1987–1988). [223]
- Matthew Mechtel, 39, American candidate for the U.S. House from North Dakota, apparent suicide by gunshot. [224]
- Robin Moore, 82, American author (The French Connection, The Green Berets). [225]
- Billy J. Murphy, 87, American football coach (University of Memphis). [226]
- Emmanuel Sanon, 56, Haitian footballer, pancreatic cancer. [227]
- Sufi Abu Taleb, 83, Egyptian politician; acting President (1981), Speaker of the People's Assembly (1978–1983). [228]
- Tian Bao, 92, Chinese government official, one of the first ethnic Tibetans to join Mao Zedong's army and embrace Communism. [229]
- Richard Baer, 79, American scriptwriter, heart attack. [230]
- Johnnie Carr, 97, American civil rights leader. [231]
- Eagle Day, 75, American football player, after short illness. [232]
- Rubens de Falco, 76, Brazilian telenovela actor (Escrava Isaura), heart failure. [233]
- Nunzio Gallo, 79, Italian singer, represented Italy in the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, brain haemorrhage. [234]
- Dennis Letts, 73, American actor (August: Osage County) and college professor, lung cancer. [235]
- Oswaldo Louzada, 95, Brazilian actor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [236] (Portuguese)
- Stephen Marlowe, 79, American novelist (The Second Longest Night). [237]
- Tsuneyo Toyonaga, 113, oldest living Japanese person. [238]
- Steve Whitaker, 53, British comic book colorist (V for Vendetta). [239]
- Joaquim Pinto de Andrade, 81, Angolan politician, first honorary MPLA President, PRD chairman, after long illness. [240] (Portuguese)
- Janez Drnovšek, 57, Slovenian Prime Minister (1992–2002) and President (2002–2007), cancer. [241]
- Josep Palau i Fabre, 90, Spanish author. [242] (Spanish)
- Douglas Fraser, 91, American president of the United Auto Workers, emphysema. [243]
- Paul Frère, 91, Belgian Formula One driver, 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and automobile journalist. [244]
- Denis Lazure, 82, Canadian politician (NDP), cancer. [245]
- Hubert Lilliefors, 79, American statistician, lung cancer. [246]
- Gentil Ferreira Viana, 72, Angolan politician. [247]
- Lady Darcy de Knayth, 69, British crossbench member of the House of Lords, disability campaigner. [248]
- Alan Dargin, 40, Australian didgeridoo player. [249]
- Floyd Matthews, 105, American oldest living submariner. [250]
- Larry Norman, 60, American Christian rock singer/songwriter, heart failure. [251]
- Shirley Ritts, 87, American interior designer, mother of photographer Herb Ritts, emphysema. [252]
- Laird Stabler, 77, American former Attorney General of Delaware, oral cancer. [253]
- Pearl Witherington, 93, British World War II Secret Service agent. [254]
- Milford Zornes, 100, American watercolor artist, heart failure. [255]
- Charles Chan, 93, Chinese patriarch, father of actor Jackie Chan, prostate cancer. [256]
- Ashley Cooper, 27, Australian V8 Supercar driver, injuries from a race crash. [257]
- Roger Foulon, 84, Belgian writer. [258] (French)
- Genoa Keawe, 89, American performer of Hawaiian music. [259]
- Hans Raj Khanna, 95, Indian Supreme Court judge. [260]
- Alan Ledesma, 29, Mexican telenovela actor, stomach cancer. [261] (Spanish)
- Static Major, 33, American performer, record producer and songwriter, from complications after medical procedure. [262]
- Tyronne Fernando, 66, Sri Lankan politician, Foreign Minister (2001–2004). [263]
- Cabral Ferreira, 56, Portuguese President of C.F. Os Belenenses (2005–2008), cancer. [264] (Portuguese)
- Dick Fletcher, 65, American meteorologist at WTSP Tampa Bay, stroke. [265]
- Robert Kraichnan, 80, American physicist, heart disease. [266]
- Buddy Miles, 60, American drummer (Band of Gypsys, Electric Flag), lead vocalist (California Raisins), heart failure. [267]
- Dan Shomron, 70, Israeli general, Chief of the Defense Forces (1987–1991), stroke. [268]
- Bodil Udsen, 83, Danish actress, after short illness. [269]
- Zbigniew Woźnicki, 49, Polish Olympic cyclist. [270]
- John Yates, 82, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Gloucester (1975–1992). [271]
- Shihab al-Tamimi, 74, Iraqi head of the Journalists Syndicate, heart attack following shooting. [272]
- Anthony Blond, 79, British book publisher. [273]
- William F. Buckley, Jr., 82, American author, conservative political commentator, founder of National Review magazine, emphysema. [274]
- Boyd Coddington, 63, American owner of hot rod shop, star of American Hot Rod on TLC. [275]
- Myron Cope, 79, American radio broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers, inventor of the "Terrible Towel". [276]
- David Edwards, 20, American football player paralyzed during a game in 2003, pneumonia. [277]
- W. C. Heinz, 93, American sportswriter. [278]
- Ernst Hiller, 79, German motorcycle racer. [279] (Dutch)
- Ray Kane, 82, American slack key guitarist. [280]
- Mandi Lampi, 19, Finnish child actress and singer. [281] (Finnish)
- Ivan Rebroff, 76, German singer. [282]
- Barbara Seaman, 72, American writer, journalist and activist, lung cancer. [283]
- Sujatha Rangarajan, 72, Indian author, inventor of the electronic voting machine, multiple organ failure. [284]
- Aharon Amir, 85, Israeli author and translator, natural causes. [285]
- John Bliss, 77, American actor, complications from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. [286]
- Gérard Calvet, 80, French abbot and founder of the Abbey of Le Barroux, heart attack. [287]
- Milt Harradence, 86, Canadian lawyer, judge and former leader of PCAA, cancer. [288]
- Joseph M. Juran, 103, American engineer and philanthropist, stroke. [289]
- Val Plumwood, 67, Australian ecologist and feminist, natural causes. [290]
- Philip Rabinowitz, 104, South African fastest centenarian over 100 metres, complications of a stroke. [291]
- Julian Rathbone, 73, British novelist. [292]
- Mike Smith, 64, British rock and roll singer and keyboardist (The Dave Clark Five), pneumonia. [293]
- André Verhalle, 84, Belgian Olympic fencer. [294]
- Bill Carlson, 73, American news anchor (WCCO, Twin Cities), prostate cancer. [295]
- Buddy Dial, 71, American football player. [296]
- Vitaly Fedorchuk, 89, Russian head of the KGB. [297]
- Jerry Groom, 78, American football player. [298]
- Ralph Hansch, 83, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player. [299]
- Janet Kagan, 62, American writer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [300]
- Mar Paulos Faraj Rahho, 65, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic archbishop, kidnapped on this date and subsequently found dead. [301]