Deaths in January 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2008.

January 2008

1

• Salvatore Bonanno, 75, American mobster, heart attack. [1]
• Peter Caffrey, 58, Irish actor, complications from stroke. [2]
• Pratap Chandra Chunder, 89, Indian Cabinet Minister (1977–1980), heart disease. [3]
• Dennis Clifton, 54, American musician (Cornbread Red) and studio engineer, cancer. [4]
• Harold Corsini, 88, American photographer, stroke. [5]
• Harald Deilmann, 87, German architect and author. [6] (German)
• Len Dockett, 87, Australian footballer. [7]
• Irena Górska-Damięcka, 97, Polish actress. [8] (Polish)
• John Granville, 33, American diplomat, homicide. [9]
• Philip Hogarty, 19, Irish Chess Union president, car accident. [10]
• Erich Kästner, 107, German jurist and last known World War I veteran. [11]
• T. Maheswaran, 47, Sri Lankan politician, Cabinet Minister, assassination by gunshot. [12]
• Lucas Sang, 46, Kenyan runner and 1988 Olympian, homicide. [13]
• Wanda Sieradzka de Ruig, 85, Polish author, poet, journalist and translator. [14] (Polish)
• Oleg Tolmachev, 88, Russian ice hockey player and coach. [15] (Russian)

2

• Henri Andrieux, 76, French Olympic cyclist. [16]
• Yo-Sam Choi, 35, South Korean boxer, WBC Light Flyweight Champion, cerebral hemorrhage. [17]
• Lee S. Dreyfus, 81, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983). [18]
• George MacDonald Fraser, 82, British novelist and non-fiction writer (Flashman series), cancer. [19]
• Brice Mack, 90, American background painter for Walt Disney Animation Studios. [20]
• Ben Marlin, 31, American bassist (Disgorge), cancer. [21]
• Keith McCance, 78, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1979–1989). [22]
• G. G. Njuguna Ngengi, Kenyan politician, homicide. [23]
• Julio Martínez Pradanos, 84, Chilean sports journalist, cancer. [24]
• Robert C. Schnitzer, 101, American actor, producer and educator. [25]
• Günter Schubert, 69, German actor. [26]
• Gerry Staley, 87, American baseball pitcher (Chicago White Sox), natural causes. [27]
• Galyani Vadhana, 84, Thai princess, eldest sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, cancer. [28]
• Edward F. Welch, Jr., 83, American admiral, heart failure. [29]

3

• Aleksandr Abdulov, 54, Russian actor, lung cancer. [30] (Russian)
• Jack Aranson, 83, British actor, pneumonia. [31]
• Henri Chopin, 85, French poet and artist. [32]
• Natasha Collins, 31, British television presenter. [33]
• Werner Dollinger, 89, German politician. [34] (German)
• Petru Dugulescu, 62, Romanian Baptist pastor, poet and politician, heart attack. [35]
• Milt Dunnell, 102, Canadian sportswriter. [36]
• Butch Felker, 62, American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, cancer. [37]
• Joseph Lazarow, 84, American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey. [38]
• Herman Le Compte, 78, Belgian doctor, the 'Vitamin Doctor', heart attack. [39]
• Mary Marques, 111, American supercentenarian, Massachusetts' oldest person. [40]
• Antônio Matias, 44, Portuguese judoka. [41] (Portuguese)
• John O'Donohue, 52, Irish poet, philosopher and priest. [42]
• Andrew J. Olmsted, 37, American army blogger in Iraq, shot. [43]
• Lisandro Otero, 75, Cuban author. [44] (Portuguese)
• Nikolay Puzanov, 69, Russian Soviet biathlete, 1968 Olympic Gold medalist. [45] (Russian)
• Manolo Reyes, 83, American pioneering Spanish-language newscaster, Parkinson's disease. [46]
• Jimmy Stewart, 76, British racing driver. [47]
• O.G. Style, 37, American rapper, brain aneurysm. [48]

4

• Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan, 67, Russian footballer, hit by car. [49] (Russian)
• Bjørn Odmar Andersen, 64, Norwegian footballer. [50] (Norwegian)
• Sir Bernard Audley, 83, British businessman and philanthropist. [51]
• Keith Baxter, 36, British drummer of rock band 3 Colours Red, liver failure. [52]
• Brandi Borr, 39, American stand-up comedian, breast cancer. [53]
• Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, 75, Nicaraguan editor of El Nuevo Diario, heart failure. [54]
• Joyce Carlson, 84, American artist, designer of Disney's It's a Small World rides, cancer. [55]
• Stig Claesson, 79, Swedish writer. [56]
• Vernon Derrick, 74, American musician. [57]
• Emilio Benavent Escuín, 93, Spanish Bishop of Granada. [58]
• Mort Garson, 83, Canadian electronic musician, renal failure. [59]
• Herbert Keppler, 82, American photojournalist. [60]
• Marianne Kiefer, 79, German actress. [61] (German)
• Jimmy Nah, 39, Singaporean comedian. [62]
• José Luiz Pacheco, 82, Portuguese author and critic. [63] (Portuguese)
• Graham Percy, 69, British illustrator of children's books. [64]
• Jens Quistgaard, 88, Danish industrial designer for Dansk International Designs. [65]
• Bill Ramsey, 87, American baseball player. [66]
• Henry Savory, 93, British cricketer. [67]
• Bert Walker, 88, New Zealand politician, Cabinet Minister. [68]

5

• John Ashley, 77, Canadian referee in the National Hockey League, heart failure. [69]
• Rowan Ayers, 85, British television producer. [70]
• Giovanni Rinaldo Coronas, 89, Italian politician, police chief and Interior Minister. [71] (Italian)
• Phillip S. Figa, 56, American federal judge, brain tumor. [72]
• Raymond Forni, 66, French politician, National Assembly president, leukemia. [73]
• Thomas Cecil Gray, 94, British pioneer in anaesthetics. [74]
• Clinton Grybas, 32, Australian sports commentator, epidural hematoma. [75]
• Louis Hon, 83, French footballer. [76]
• Edward Kłosiński, 65, Polish cinematographer. [77] (Polish)
• Luiz Pacheco, 82, Portuguese writer. [78] (Portuguese)
• İhsan Saraçlar, 79, Turkish jurist and politician. [79] (Turkish)

6

• Shmuel Berenbaum, 87, American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva, stomach cancer. [80]
• Jack Brod, 98, American last original tenant of the Empire State Building. [81]
• Arafan Camara, 60, Guinean politician. [82] (Portuguese)
• Bob LeMond, 94, American radio and television announcer (Leave It to Beaver). [83]
• Cy Leslie, 85, American founder of Pickwick Records and MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group. [84]
• Alekos Michaelides, 74, Cypriot politician, Foreign Minister. [85]
• Yunus Mohamed, 57, South African lawyer and anti-Apartheid activist. [86]
• Ken Nelson, 96, American record producer and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. [87]
• Anders Paulrud, 56, Swedish writer and journalist, lung cancer. [88]
• Pramod Karan Sethi, 80, Indian orthopaedic surgeon, inventor of the Jaipur leg, cardiac arrest. [89]
• Vittorio Tomassetti, 77, Italian Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola. [90]

7

• Philip Agee, 72, American CIA agent, complications from perforated ulcer surgery. [91]
• Raffaello de Banfield, 85, British composer. [92] (German)
• Robert Chandran, 57, Singaporean CEO of Chemoil, helicopter crash. [93]
• Maryvonne Dupureur, 70, French runner and 1964 Olympic medalist. [94] (French)
• Houston I. Flournoy, 78, American member of California State Assembly (1961–1967), California State Controller (1967–1975). [95]
• Detlef Kraus, 88, German pianist. [96] (German)
• Andrey Kurennoy, 35, Russian track and field athlete, national triple jump champion. [97]
• Buddy LeRoux, 77, American owner of the Boston Red Sox, natural causes. [98]
• Boris Lurie, 83, American artist and writer. [99]
• Vincent Meli, 87, American member of the Detroit Partnership, bone cancer. [100]
• Bozo Miller, 89, American competitive eater, natural causes. [101]
• Hans Monderman, 62, Dutch traffic engineer. [102]
• Marcel Mouly, 88, French painter. [103] (French)
• Njoo Kiem Bie, 81, Indonesian badminton player. [104] (Indonesian)
• Alwyn Schlebusch, 90, South African politician, Vice State President (1981–1984). [105]
• Jean-Claude Vrinat, 71, French owner of Taillevent restaurant, lung cancer. [106]
• Wei Wenhua, 41, Chinese blogger, beaten. [107]

8

• D. M. Dassanayake, 54, Sri Lankan Minister of Nation Building, roadside bomb. [108]
• Jim Dooley, 77, American football player and coach (Chicago Bears), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [109]
• David Grove, 57, New Zealand developer of Clean Language. [110]
• Guy Hance, 74, Belgian politician. [111] (French)
• Bjarni Jónsson, 73, Icelandic painter. [112] (Icelandic)
• Moshe Levi, 71, Israeli Chief of Staff of the Defense Forces (1983–1987), stroke. [113]
• George Moore, 84, Australian jockey and trainer. [114]
• Clyde Otis, 83, American songwriter and record producer. [115]
• Irvan Perez, 85, American Isleño décima singer and woodcarver, heart attack. [116]
• Steve Ridzik, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), heart disease. [117]
• Mohammad Sadli, 85, Indonesian politician. [118]
• Cissie Stewart, 96, British Olympic swimmer. [119]

9

• Paul Aimson, 64, English footballer (Manchester City, York City), heart attack. [120]
• Jorge Anaya, 81, Argentinian admiral, heart failure. [121]
• Sir Adam Butler, 76, British MP (1970–1987) and minister. [122]
• Carmine Furletti, 81, Brazilian industrialist, president of Cruzeiro. [123] (Portuguese)
• Gemina, 21, African Baringo giraffe at the Santa Barbara Zoo with neck deformity, euthanized. [124]
• Mehran Ghassemi, 30, Iranian journalist, heart failure. [125]
• Johnny Grant, 84, American entertainer, honorary Mayor of Hollywood. [126]
• Sir John Harvey-Jones, 83, British businessman and media personality. [127]
• Walter J. Kavanaugh, 74, American politician, complications from diabetes. [128]
• Roi Kwabena, 51, Trinidadian cultural anthropologist, lung cancer. [129]
• Sara Misquez, 62, American president of the Mescalero Apache of New Mexico (1999–2003), car accident. [130]
• Peter O'Donnell, 68, Australian gold medal-winning Olympic sailor (1964), cancer. [131]
• Lew Spence, 87, American songwriter. [132]
• Sir John Willis, 70, British Air Chief Marshal. [133]
• Tim Willoughby, 53, Australian 1984 Olympic rowing medallist, heart attack. [134]

10

• Rod Allen, 63, British singer and bassist (The Fortunes), liver cancer. [135]
• Christopher Bowman, 40, American Olympic figure skater, accidental drug overdose. [136]
• Dave Day, American banjoist and rhythm guitarist (The Monks), heart attack. [137]
• Jack Eagle, 81, American actor and comedian. [138]
• Abdelaziz Gorgi, 79, Tunisian painter. [139] (French)
• Andrés Henestrosa, 101, Mexican writer and politician, proponent of the Zapotec language. [140]
• George Laking, 95, New Zealand diplomat and public servant. [141]
• Andrée Marlière, 73, Belgian prima ballerina, choreographer and painter, cancer. [142]
• Allan McEachern, 81, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. [143]
• Mikhail Minin, 85, Russian soldier who raised the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building in 1945. [144]
• Katsutoshi Nagasawa, 84, Japanese composer. [145] (Japanese)
• Maila Nurmi, 86, Finnish actress (Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Beat Generation). [146]
• Zhang Lichang, 68, Chinese politician, Politbureau member.

11

• José Bello, 103, Spanish intellectual and writer. [147]
• Pete Candoli, 84, American big band-era jazz trumpeter, prostate cancer. [148]
• Murray Cohl, 78, Canadian film producer, co-founder of the Toronto Film Festival and Canada's Walk of Fame, liver cancer. [149]
• Sir Edmund Hillary, 88, New Zealand mountaineer and the first person (with Tenzing Norgay) to reach summit of Mount Everest, heart failure. [150]
• Carl Karcher, 90, American founder of Carl's Jr. restaurants, complications from Parkinson's disease. [151]
• Frank Loughran, 77, Australian international footballer. [152]
• Nancy Phelan, 94, Australian writer. [153]

12

• Gennady Bachinsky, 36, Russian television and radio personality, car accident. [154]
• Isobel Bennett, 98, Australian marine scientist. [155]
• Gwendolyn T. Britt, 66, American Maryland State Senator since 2003. [156]
• Sir Howard Dalton, 63, British microbiologist, Chief Scientific Adviser at DEFRA. [157]
• Adriano González León, 76, Venezuelan writer. [158] (Spanish)
• Ángel González Muñiz, 82, Spanish poet. [159]
• Marty Hendin, 59, American vice president of community relations (St. Louis Cardinals), cancer. [160]
• Leszek Jezierski, 79, Polish footballer and trainer. [161] (Polish)
• Anatoly Kyarov, Russian head of the Kabardino-Balkaria police, shot. [162]
• Jennifer Musa, 90, Irish-born Pakistani politician. [163]
• Louis Alexandre Raimon, 85, French hairdresser. [164]
• Charlie Steele Jr., 77, New Zealand football player. [165]
• Stanisław Wycech, 105, Polish last World War I veteran. [166]

13

• Joe Burk, 93, American rowing champion, complications of surgery. [167]
• John Harvey, 87, British politician, MP for Walthamstow East (1955–1966). [168]
• Sergej Larin, 51, Lithuanian tenor. [169]
• Johnny Podres, 75, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers), 1955 World Series MVP. [170]
• Jafar Shahidi, 89, Iranian linguist and historian. [171]
• Doreen Tovey, 89, British writer. [172]
• Patricia Verdugo, 61, Chilean writer, journalist and human rights violations investigator, cancer. [173]
• Walter Zimper, 65, Austrian politician. [174] (German)

14

• Józef Bartosik, 90, Polish World War II veteran and rear admiral. [175]
• Don Cardwell, 72, American baseball pitcher. [176]
• Kaj Christiansen, 86, Danish association football player. [177] (Danish)
• Selim Al Deen, 58, Bangladeshi dramatist, cardiac arrest. [178]
• Judah Folkman, 74, American cancer researcher, apparent heart attack. [179]
• Thor Hesla, 45, American USAid worker in the 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack. [180]
• Vincenz Liechtenstein, 57, Austrian politician. [181] (German)
• Tommy Limby, 60, Swedish cross-country skier. [182] (Swedish)
• Joseph Payne, 70, British musician. [183]
• Johnny Steele, 91, British football manager of Barnsley (1960–1971, 1972–1973). [184]
• Carsten Thomassen, 38, Norwegian journalist, 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel Attack. [185]
• Milton Wolff, 92, American Spanish Civil War veteran. [186]
• Wu Jin, 74, Taiwanese Minister for Education (1996–1998), cancer. [187]

15

• K. M. Adimoolam, 69, Indian abstract artist. [188]
• Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, 43, British video game developer (Paperboy, Zombies Ate My Neighbors), pancreatic cancer. [189]
• Eduardo Hontiveros, 84, Filipino Jesuit composer of Roman Catholic liturgical songs, stroke. [190]
• Jason MacIntyre, 34, British road bicycle racer, road accident. [191]
• Brad Renfro, 25, American actor (The Client, Ghost World), accidental heroin overdose. [192]

16

• Jorge de Bagration, 63, Spanish race car driver, claimant to throne of the Royal House of Georgia, hepatitis. [193]
• Raymond Cambefort, 107, French third-to-last official surviving World War I veteran. [194] (French)
• Chen Xilu, 80, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Hengshui, organ failure. [195]
• Nikola Kljusev, 80, Macedonian politician and economist, Prime Minister of Macedonia (1991–1992). [196]
• Pierre Lambert, 87, French Trotskyist leader and 1988 presidential candidate. [197] (French)
• Munjuku Nguvauva II, 84, Namibian traditional tribal chief, complications from strokes. [198]
• Gerry Tordoff, 78, English cricketer (Somerset). [199]
• Hone Tuwhare, 85, New Zealand Māori poet. [200]
• Bungo Yoshida, 73, Japanese Bunraku puppeteer, liver cancer. [201]
• Elias Zoghby, 96, Egyptian Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Baalbek. [202]

17

• Carlos, 64, French singer, cancer. [203] (French)
• Joseph M. Champlin, 77, American Roman Catholic priest, bone marrow, cancer. [204]
• Trevor Drayton, 52, Australian winemaker, explosion. [205]
• Bobby Fischer, 64, American chess grandmaster, world champion (1972–1975), kidney failure. [206]
• Edward D. Hoch, 77, American writer of detective fiction, heart attack. [207]
• Ernie Holmes, 59, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), car accident. [208]
• Alejandro Illescas, Mexican voice actor. [209] (Spanish)
• Mildred Callahan Jones, 64, American decorative flag pioneer. [210]
• Denise Amber Lee, 21, American kidnap victim, shot. [211]
• Carole Lynne, 89, British actress, wife of Bernard Delfont. [212]
• John McHale, 86, American baseball player. [213]
• Allan Melvin, 84, American actor (The Phil Silvers Show, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family), cancer. [214]
• Madeleine Milhaud, 105, French actress, wife of Darius Milhaud. [215]
• Giuliana Penzi, 90, Italian dancer and choreographer. [216]
• Della Purves, 62, British botanical artist, liver disease. [217]
• Trevor Sprigg, 61, Australian politician, Western Australian Legislative Assembly whip, heart attack. [218]
• Jinzo Toriumi, 78, Japanese novelist and screenwriter (Speed Racer, Gatchaman, Armored Trooper Votoms), liver cancer. [219]
• Eddy Williams, 92, Australian cricketer. [220]

18

• Uzi Cohen, 55, Israeli Likud politician, heart attack. [221]
• Pier Miranda Ferraro, 83, Italian opera tenor, cardiac arrest. [222]
• Wally Fielding, 88, British footballer (Everton). [223]
• Georgia Frontiere, 80, American majority-owner of Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams, breast cancer. [224]
• Ruth Hamilton, 109, American talk show host, member of New Hampshire General Court (1964–1966, 1973–1975). [225]
• Bertram James, 92, British World War II airman, participant in The Great Escape. [226]
• Richard Knerr, 82, American co-founder of Wham-O, inventor of the frisbee and Hula Hoop, stroke. [227]
• Frank Lewin, 82, American composer, heart failure. [228]
• Lois Nettleton, 80, American actress (A Face in the Crowd), lung cancer. [229]
• Paul Nixon, 93, American Olympic cyclist. [230]
• Lou Palmer, 75, American radio personality and announcer, brain hemorrhage. [231]
• Ugo Pirro, 87, Italian screenwriter. [232]
• Anthony M. Solomon, 88, American President of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1980–1985), kidney failure. [233]
• John Stroger, 78, American politician, President of the Cook County, Illinois Board, stroke. [234]

19

• Valentim Amões, 48, Angolan politician and businessman, air crash. [235]
• Georgina Bruni, 60, British UFO researcher and author, cancer. [236]
• Creighton Burns, 82, Australian editor (The Age, 1981–1989), cancer. [237]
• Victor S. Johnson, Jr., 91, American lawyer, president of Aladdin Industries, colon cancer. [238]
• Frances Lewine, 86, American journalist and White House Correspondent, stroke. [239]
• Morris Maddocks, 79, British Bishop of Selby (1972–1983). [240]
• Mildred Noble, 86, American writer and Native American activist, complications from liver cancer. [241]
• Andy Palacio, 47, Belizean musician, UNESCO Artist for Peace and Garifuna activist, heart attack followed by stroke. [242]
• Suzanne Pleshette, 70, American actress (The Bob Newhart Show, The Birds), respiratory failure. [243]
• Eugene Sawyer, 73, American politician, Mayor of Chicago (1987–1989), strokes. [244]
• John Stewart, 68, American musician (The Kingston Trio), stroke. [245]
• Trevor Taylor, 50, Jamaican-born German singer (Bad Boys Blue), heart attack. [246]
• H. Bradford Westerfield, 79, American political scientist, complications of Parkinson's disease. [247]
• Don Wittman, 71, Canadian sports broadcaster for CBC, cancer. [248]

20

• Louis de Cazenave, 110, French supercentenarian, second-to-last official surviving French World War I veteran, natural causes. [249]
• Ken Gee, 92, Australian judge. [250]
• Talivaldis Kenins, 88, Canadian composer. [251]
• Margit Kristian, 94, Yugoslavian Olympic fencer. [252]
• Abdul Latif, 56, British restaurateur, heart attack. [253]
• Duilio Loi, 78, Italian boxer, Alzheimer's disease. [254] (Italian)
• Tommy McQuater, 93, British jazz trumpeter. [255]
• Donald Odanga, Kenyan basketball player, accidental shooting. [256]
• Ghorban Soleimani, 87, Iranian vocalist and dotar player. [257]
• James LeVoy Sorenson, 86, American medical device inventor and billionaire philanthropist, cancer. [258]
• Georges Wahler, 74, French Olympic shooter. [259]
• Eudoxia Woodward, 88, American painter, cancer. [260]

21

• Pam Barrett, 54, Canadian politician, cancer. [261]
• Billy Elliott, 82, British footballer (Sunderland). [262]
• Evan G. Galbraith, 79, American diplomat, Ambassador to France (1981–1985), cancer. [263]
• Burton Hatlen, 71, American literary scholar, founder of National Poetry Foundation, mentor to Stephen King, pneumonia. [264]
• Peggy Jay, 95, British politician. [265]
• Wesley Ngetich Kimutai, 34, Kenyan marathon runner, homicide by poison arrow. [266]
• Kenneth Parnell, 76, American convicted child molester and kidnapper, natural causes. [267]
• Jiří Sequens, 85, Czech film director. [268] (Czech)
• Marie Smith Jones, 89, American last known native speaker of the Eyak language, natural causes. [269]
• Luiz Carlos Tourinho, 43, Brazilian actor, cerebral aneurysm. [270] (Portuguese)

22

• Bernie Boston, 74, American photographer ("flower power" movement), blood disease. [271]
• Dora Bria, 49, Brazilian windsurfing champion, car accident. [272]
• Mike Cacic, 71, Canadian footballer (British Columbia Lions). [273]
• Lance Clemons, 60, American baseball relief pitcher, cancer. [274]
• Roberto Gari, 88, American actor and artist, heart attack. [275]
• Heath Ledger, 28, Australian actor (The Dark Knight, Brokeback Mountain, A Knight's Tale), accidental prescription drug overdose. [276]
• Miles Lerman, 88, American founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [277]
• Ştefan Niculescu, 80, Romanian composer. [278] (Romanian)
• Claude Piron, 76, Swiss linguist and Esperanto author. [279] (Esperanto)
• Kevin Stoney, 87, British actor, skin cancer. [280]

23

• Andrzej Andrzejewski, 46, Polish Brigadier General of the Polish Air Force, plane crash. [281]
• Felix Carlebach, 96, British rabbi. [282]
• Steve Duplantis, 35, American pro golf caddy, car accident. [283]
• Leticia de Oyuela, 74, Honduran historian. [284] (Spanish)
• Stein Rønning, 42, Norwegian karate world champion (1990). [285] (Norwegian)

24

• Diane Chenery-Wickens, 48, British television make-up artist, murder (last seen alive on this date). [286]
• Lee Embree, 92, American photographer, took first air-to-air photographs of 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, kidney infection. [287]
• Art Frantz, 86, American baseball umpire, heart failure. [288]
• Johannes Heggland, 88, Norwegian author and politician. [289] (Norwegian)
• Dorothy Hennessey, 94, American nun and activist. [290]
• J. Robert Hooper, 71, American politician, Maryland State Senator (1999–2007), colon cancer. [291]
• Megat Junid Megat Ayub, 65, Malaysian MP, Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (1997–1999) prostate cancer. [292]
• Randy Salerno, 45, American news reporter (CBS, WBBM-TV), snowmobile accident. [293]
• Jahna Steele, 49, American transgender showgirl. [294]
• Chet Upham, 82, American oil executive and politician. [295]

25

• Christopher Allport, 60, American actor (Felicity, Dynasty), avalanche. [296]
• Evelyn Barbirolli, 97, British oboist, wife of Sir John Barbirolli. [297]
• Annette Cameron, 88, Australian political activist. [298]
• Richard Darman, 64, American Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1989–1993), leukemia. [299]
• Ralph Dupas, 72, American boxer, complications of boxing-induced brain damage. [300]
• Louisa Horton Hill, 87, American actress (All My Sons). [301]
• Andreas Hönisch, 77, Polish Superior General of Servi Jesu et Mariae, founder of the Catholic Scouts of Europe. [302]
• Roc Kirby, 89, Australian founder of Village Roadshow Limited. [303]
• Robert Miller, 24, American soldier, posthumous Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action. [304]
• Cândido Rubens Padín, 92, Brazilian Bishop of Bauru. [305]
• Gary Wiggins, 55, Australian cyclist. [306]

26

• John Ardagh, 79, British journalist and author. [307]
• Christian Brando, 49, American actor and convicted killer, son of Marlon Brando, pneumonia. [308]
• Abraham Brumberg, 81, American writer and editor, heart failure. [309]
• Raymond Daniels, 28, Irish footballer (Wicklow GAA), suspected heart attack. [310]
• Igor Dmitriev, 80, Russian actor. [311] (Russian)
• George Habash, 81, Palestinian founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heart attack. [312]
• Arthur Kramer, 81, American lawyer, founder of Kramer Levin, brother of playwright Larry Kramer, stroke. [313]
• Padraic McGuinness, 69, Australian journalist and editor, cancer. [314]
• Jeff Salen, 55, American guitarist, founder of punk band Tuff Darts, heart attack. [315]
• Viktor Schreckengost, 101, American artist and industrial designer. [316]
• Aziz Sedki, 87, Egyptian Prime Minister (1972–1973). [317]
• Robert Weaver, 87, Canadian editor and broadcaster. [318]
• Lovie Yancey, 96, American founder of Fatburger restaurant chain, pneumonia. [319]
• Zhang Hanzhi, 72, Chinese diplomat and linguist, English tutor for Mao, Nixon interpreter for 1972 visit, lung-related illness. [320]

27

• Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, 80, German politician, president of German Red Cross (1982–1994). [321] (German)
• Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, American President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [322]
• Mike Holovak, 88, American football player and coach (Boston Patriots), pneumonia. [323]
• Ken Hunt, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). [324]
• John W. Ingram, 79, American railroad executive (Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad).
• Anna Loginova, 29, Russian bodyguard for boxer Kostya Tszyu, head injury during carjacking. [325]
• Alan G. Rogers, 40, American Army major, first known gay combat fatality of Iraq War, improvised explosive device. [326]
• Valery Shumakov, 76, Russian transplantologist, founder of the Transplant and Artificial Organs Research Institute. [327]
• Irene Stegun, 88, American mathematician. [328]
• Suharto, 86, Indonesian President (1967–1998), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [329]
• Louie Welch, 89, American mayor of Houston, Texas (1964–1973), lung cancer. [330]

28

• Crisologo Abines, 60, Filipino politician, heart attack. [331]
• Christodoulos, 69, Primate of the Church of Greece, cancer. [332]
• Frances Dewey Wormser, 104, American vaudeville and Broadway theater actress. [333]
• Dagfinn Grønoset, 87, Norwegian author. [334] (Norwegian)
• John Gunnell, 74, British politician, MP (1992–2001). [335]
• Gerry Patrick Hemming, 70, American anti-Castro mercenary. [336]
• Bengt Lindström, 82, Swedish painter. [337] (Swedish)
• Larry Smith, 68, American college football coach, chronic lymphocytic leukemia. [338]
• Marie Takvam, 81, Norwegian author and actor. [339] (Norwegian)
• Ginty Vrede, 22, Dutch Muay Thai martial artist, heart attack. [340]

29

• Robert M. Ball, 93, American Commissioner of Social Security (1962–1973). [341]
• Margaret Truman, 83, American author, daughter of President Harry S. Truman. [342]
• Rubens Gerchman, 66, Brazilian painter, lung cancer. [343] (Portuguese)
• James Heathman, 90, American who found the 1931 TWA Flight 599 plane crash that killed Knute Rockne, pneumonia. [344]
• Raymond Jacobs, 82, American soldier, claimed to be in photo of first flag raised on Iwo Jima. [345]
• Philippe Khorsand, 59, French actor. [346] (French)
• Sebastian Kräuter, 85, Romanian author and Bishop of Timişoara. [347]
• Abu Laith al-Libi, 41, Libyan-born Afghan al-Qaeda leader, missile strike. [348]
• Erzsébet Nagy, 80, Hungarian writer, daughter of Prime Minister Imre Nagy. [349]
• Mugabe Were, 39, Kenyan legislator, homicide by gunshot. [350]

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• Jeremy Beadle, 59, British television presenter (You've Been Framed, Beadle's About), pneumonia. [351]
• Sean Finnegan, 43, American hardcore punk drummer (Void), apparent heart attack. [352]
• Daniel Gráč, 64, Czech Olympic cyclist. [353]
• Herbert Kenwith, 90, American television director, complications of prostate cancer. [354]
• Kim Chang-ik, 50, South Korean drummer (Sanulrim), road accident. [355]
• Miles Kington, 66, British newspaper columnist and humorist. [356]
• Marcial Maciel, 87, Mexican religious leader, founder of the Legionaries of Christ. [357]
• Roland Selmeczi, 38, Hungarian actor, car accident. [358] (Hungarian)
• Wilber Varela, 50, Colombian drug trafficker, shot. [359]

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• Arif Ali, 46, Pakistani-born British regional director (Associated Press), cancer. [360]
• Veronika Bayer, 67, German actress. [361] (German)
• František Čapek, 93, Czech canoeist, Olympic C1 10,000m gold medallist in 1948, heart ailment. [362]
• Sir Ivar Colquhoun, 8th Baronet, 92, British aristocrat. [363]
• Jim Lacey, 73, Australian administrator of Lord Howe Island, general manager of Western Plains Zoo. [364]
• Mark Schwed, 52, American television critic and journalist. [365]
• Bertie Smalls, 72, British criminal turned informant. [366]
• Volodia Teitelboim, 91, Chilean writer and communist activist, cancer. [367]
• David Kimutai Too, 39, Kenyan legislator, shot. [368]