Deaths in February 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2007.

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• Angeline Barrette, 110, Canadian believed to be country's oldest person. [1]
• Charles Forte, Baron Forte, 98, British hotelier. [2]
• Alexander King, 98, British scientist who co-founded the Club of Rome. [3]
• Robert C. Kingston, 78, American Army General, complications from a fall. [4]
• Alexei Komech, 70, Russian architectural historian, cancer. [5]
• Princess Marie-Adelaide of Luxembourg, 82, member of the Grand Ducal Family of Luxembourg. [6]
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, heart attack. [7]
• Sir John Smith, 83, British founder of the Landmark Trust. [8]
• Billy Thorpe, 60, Australian rock musician, cardiac arrest. [9]
• Wang Yiping, 93, Chinese Communist Party chief in Shanghai Municipality. [10]

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• Jim Aiken, 74, Irish entertainment promoter. [11]
• Russell Churney, 42, British pianist, pancreatic cancer. [12]
• Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, 93, German WWII General, survivor of Hitler's bunker. [13]
• Jay Harnick, 78, American founder of Theaterworks/USA. [14]
• Jack Marks, 80, Canadian Chief of Metro Toronto Police (1984–1989), lung cancer. [15]
• Bobby Rosengarden, 82, American jazz drummer and bandleader on The Dick Cavett Show, kidney failure. [16]
• Mel Swart, 87, Canadian politician, stroke. [17]
• Judith Toups, 77, American birding expert and Sun Herald columnist. [18]
• Wayne Hooper, 86, American music composer, arranger, singer with King's Heralds quartet. [19]

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• Raúl Alonso de Marco, 72, Uruguayan member of the Supreme Court of Justice (1992–2002). [20] [21] (Spanish)
• Javan Camon, 25, American football player with Daytona Beach Thunder in the WIFL, cardiac arrest. [22] [23]
• Alex Henshaw, 94, British test pilot noted for his work with Spitfire and Lancaster aircraft. [24]
• Baroness Jeger, 91, British Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras South and opposition spokesman in the House of Lords. [25]
• Sergio Previtali, 66, Uruguayan politician and former deputy (1990–1995). [26] (Spanish)
• Ivan Sklyarov, 58, Russian governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (1997–2001) and mayor of Nizhny Novgorod (1994–1995). [27]

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• William Anderson, 85, American congressman from Tennessee and captain of the USS Nautilus. [28]
• P. Bhaskaran, 83, Indian director and lyricist in the Malayalam language. [29]
• Juerg Federspiel, 75, Swiss journalist, film critic and author. [30]
• Jean Grelaud, 108, one of the last three 'official' French World War I veterans. [31] (French)
• Tracy Richards, 50, American professional wrestler, cancer and stroke. [32]
• Hal Rothman, 48, American writer and Las Vegas historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [33][34]
• Mark Spoelstra, 66, American folk singer and veteran of the Greenwich Village music scene, pancreatic cancer. [35]

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• Bryan Balkwill, 84, British conductor. [36]
• Bruce Bennett, 100, American actor (New Adventures of Tarzan, Treasure of Sierra Madre), Olympic medallist, hip fracture. [37]
• Mordechai Breuer, 85, Israeli Bible researcher and Orthodox rabbi. [38]
• Mario Chanes de Armas, 80, Cuban political prisoner. [39]
• Charles Frederick Ehret, 83, American molecular biologist. [40]
• Leroy Jenkins, 74, American composer and free jazz violinist, lung cancer. [41].
• Lamar Lundy, 71, American football player, member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" defensive line. [42]
• Brett Mycles, 29, American fitness model and bisexual pornography actor, heart failure. [43]
• Damien Nash, 24, American football running back for the Denver Broncos. [44]
• George Preas, 73, American football lineman who won two NFL championships with the Baltimore Colts, Parkinson's disease. [45]
• Paul Secon, 91, American businessman who founded Pottery Barn. [46]
• John Thresh, 86, American opera singer. [47]

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• Andrew Anthos, 72, American Michigan State Capitol lighting campaigner, spinal stenosis. [48]
• Hanna Barysevich, 118?, Belarusian claimed to be world's oldest person. [49] (Polish)
• Heinz Berggruen, 93, German art collector and friend of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. [50]
• Donnie Brooks, 71, American singer ("Mission Bell"), heart failure. [51]
• Jock Dodds, 91, British footballer for Scotland and Blackpool F.C. who held the record for fastest hat-trick. [52]
• Robert Engler, 84, American political scientist, heart ailment. [53]
• Winthrop Jordan, 75, American historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [54]
• Will Maslow, 99, American Jewish leader and civil rights lawyer. [55]
• John Ritchie, 65, British footballer for Stoke City F.C., club's record goalscorer. [56]
• Pascal Yoadimnadji, 56, Prime Minister of Chad, brain haemorrhage. [57]

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• David Berger, 94, American lawyer and class action pioneer, pneumonia. [58]
• Avrohom Blumenkrantz, 62, American Orthodox rabbi, posek, and kashrut authority, complications of diabetes. [59]
• Lothar-Günther Buchheim, 89, German author (Das Boot), painter and art collector, heart failure. [60]
• Irwin Caplan, 87, American cartoonist (Saturday Evening Post, Collier's), Parkinson's disease. [61]
• Edgar Evans, 94, British opera singer. [62]
• George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, 88, British soldier, politician and businessman. [63]
• Dennis Johnson, 52, American All-Star basketball player and coach, 1979 NBA Finals MVP, cardiac arrest. [64] [65]
• Nikita Khrushchev, 47, Russian journalist, grandson of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, stroke. [66]
• Samuel Hinga Norman, 67, Sierra Leone leader of pro-government Kamajors militia, heart failure. [67]
• Fons Rademakers, 86, Dutch Academy Award-winning film director (The Assault), emphysema. [68]
• Howard Ramsey, 108, American who was one of the last surviving US World War I combat veterans. [69]
• Kirk Rundstrom, 38, American guitarist, songwriter and member of Split Lip Rayfield, esophageal cancer. [70]
• Ian Wallace, 60, British drummer (King Crimson, 21st Century Schizoid Band), esophageal cancer. [71]

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• Victor Clemett, 107, Canada's second oldest living veteran of WWI. [72]
• Joseph Connolly, 81, American politician, member of the Massachusetts legislature (1983-1990), respiratory illness. [73]
• Sherman Jones, 72, American baseball player and Kansas state politician. [74]
• Keith Kyle, 81, British journalist, historian and broadcaster. [75]
• Balázs Lengyel, 88, Hungarian writer, critic and translator. [76] (Hungarian)
• John Robins, 80, British rugby union player for Wales, and coach of the British Lions.[77]
• Barry Stevens, 44, American basketball player and second highest scorer in Iowa State University history, heart attack. [78]
• Al Viola, 87, American guitarist who worked with Frank Sinatra, cancer. [79]

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• F. Albert Cotton, 76, American chemist and Texas A&M University professor. [80]
• Sir Michael Hart, 58, British High Court judge, lung cancer. [81]
• Peter Henle, 88, American economist investigated by the Nixon administration, cancer. [82]
• Ronald Hilton, 95, American Stanford University professor who helped uncover the Bay of Pigs Invasion plan. [83]
• Sir Edward Gordon Jones, 92, British Air Marshal. [84]
• Ihab Kareem, 26, Iraqi footballer, bombing. [85]
• Siegfried Landau, 85, American musician and founding conductor of Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, house fire. [86]
• Carl-Henning Pedersen, 93, Danish painter known for his membership of CoBrA. [87] [88]
• Kenneth Steer, 93, British archaeologist and Secretary of the RCAHMS. [89] [90]
• Zilla Huma Usman, 35, Pakistani minister for social welfare in the Punjab province, shot. [91] [92]
• Derek Waring, 79, British actor (Z Cars), widower of Dame Dorothy Tutin, cancer. [93]
• Robert W. Young, 94, American linguist. [94]

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• Janet Blair, 85, American actress (My Sister Eileen, The Fabulous Dorseys), complications of pneumonia. [95] [96]
• Sergei Burkotov, 48, Russian head administrator of Cheryomushki district in Moscow, shot. [97]
• Gene Copeland, 74, American politician in the Missouri House of Representatives (1960–1998), pneumonia. [98]
• Celia Franca, 85, British-born Canadian dancer, founder and artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada. [99] [100]
• Charles Gocher, 54, American drummer (Sun City Girls), cancer. [101] [102]
• Hsu Tsai-li, 60, Taiwanese mayor of Keelung indicted for corruption, heart disease. [103]
• Antonio Serapio, 69, Philippine congressman representing the city of Valenzuela, car accident resulting from cardiac arrest. [104]

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• Barbara Gittings, 74, American gay rights campaigner, breast cancer. [105]
• Félix Lévitan, 95, French director of the Tour de France (1962–1986). [106]
• Bob Oksner, 90, American comic book artist, pneumonia. [107]
• Frank M. Snowden, Jr, 95, American authority on black people in the ancient world, heart failure. [108]
• Juan "Pachín" Vicéns, 72, Puerto Rican basketball player. [109]
• Alexander Yartsev, 35, Russian coach of Spartak Moscow youth football team and son of Georgi Yartsev, murdered (head trauma). [110]

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• Michael "Mike Awesome" Alfonso, 42, American wrestler, twice ECW World Champion, suicide by hanging. [111] [112]
• Joseph Gallo, 87, American cheese magnate and brother of Ernest Gallo. [113] [114]
• Mai Ghoussoub, 54, Lebanese author and publisher. [115]
• John Patrick Griffin, 91, American actor, father of comedian Kathy Griffin, heart failure and multiple myeloma. [116]
• Dick Holland, 74, British police officer, second in command in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, cancer. [117] [118]
• Jurga Ivanauskaitė, 45, Lithuanian writer, cancer. [119]
• Mary Kaye, 83, American singer/guitarist and leader of the Mary Kaye Trio, respiratory and heart failure. [120]
• Jakov Lind, 80, Austrian-born British writer, painter and actor. [121]
• Earl Mazo, 87, American journalist and Nixon biographer, complications from a fall. [122]
• Dermot O’Reilly, 64, Irish-born Canadian singer and musician with Ryan's Fancy. [123] [124]
• Maurice Papon, 96, French WWII Vichy government official convicted of deporting Jews to Nazi death camps. [125] [126]
• Richard Raphael, 68, American sports photographer who covered all 41 Super Bowls. [127]

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• Herminio Iglesias, 77, Argentinian Peronist Party politician. [128]
• Richard Lehman, 83, American CIA analyst who introduced daily intelligence briefs for the President of the USA, stroke. [129]
• Norman Miscampbell, 81, British politician, Conservative MP for Blackpool North (1962-1992). [130]
• Sheridan Morley, 65, British broadcaster and author. [131] [132] [133]
• José Silva de Oliveira, 57, Brazilian football player (Operário, Belenenses, FC Porto), complications of cirrhosis. [134] (Portuguese)
• Ralph Penza, 74, American senior correspondent and substitute anchor for WNBC. [135] [136]
• Lilli Promet, 85, Estonian writer. [137] (Estonian)
• Gene Snyder, 79, American Republican Representative from Kentucky (1963–1965, 1967–1987). [138]

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• Robert Adler, 93, Austrian-born American co-inventor of the TV remote control, heart failure. [139] [140] [141]
• Abu Abdullah al-Majamiai, top aide of al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri, shot. [142]
• Gratia Christie, 85, American mezzo-soprano opera singer. [143]
• Walker Edmiston, 81, American voice actor, cancer. [144]
• Ray Evans, 92, American songwriter, partner of Jay Livingston for hits such as "Buttons and Bows", heart attack. [145] [146]
• Buddy Hancken, 92, American baseball player. [147]
• Daniel McDonald, 46, American Broadway actor, brain cancer. [148]
• Mordkhe Schaechter, 79, American Yiddish linguist. [149]
• Walter Sondheim, 98, American civic leader who played a key role in Baltimore's school desegregation, pneumonia. [150]

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• Shoshana Damari, 83, Israeli folk singer, pneumonia. [151]
• Alfred Desio, 74, American dancer and choreographer, complications of bladder cancer. [152]
• Pál Erdöss, 60, Hungarian film director. [153]
• Ryan Larkin, 63, Canadian animator, Oscar nominee and subject of the Oscar-winning animated short Ryan, lung cancer. [154]
• Benito Medero, 84, Uruguayan Minister of Agriculture (1972-1974). [155] (Spanish)
• Gareth Morris, 86, British flautist and music teacher. [156]
• John O'Banion, 59, American singer and actor, frontotemporal dementia.[157][158]
• John Penn, 85, British architect.[159]
• Steven Pimlott, 53, British theatre director, lung cancer. [160] [161]
• Richard S. Prather, 85, American novelist. [162]
• Collin Smith, 45, Canadian sports anchor who adopted the persona "Joe Sports," leukemia. [163]
• Corinne Dixon Taylor, 113, American supercentenarian, oldest American since January 28, 2007. [164]
• Emmett Williams, 81, American poet and Fluxus artist. [165] [166]
• Gordon Wright, 72, American conductor and founder of the Arctic Chamber Orchestra. [167]

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• Charles Henry Pepys Harington, 96, British general. [168]
• Pat Heffernan, 96, British-born journalist and only non-U.S. citizen to head America's National Press Club. [169]
• Elizabeth Jolley, 83, Australian author, illness. [170]
• John Lederle, 94, American president of the University of Massachusetts (1960–1970), heart failure. [171]
• Bruce Metzger, 93, American professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and expert on Greek biblical manuscripts. [172] [173]
• Charlie Norwood, 65, American Republican Representative from Georgia since 1995, cancer. [174]
• Eliana Ramos, 18, Uruguayan model and sister of late model Luisel Ramos, heart attack. [175]
• Johanna Sällström, 32, Swedish actress. [176]
• Hannu Savola, 57, Finnish journalist and editor of Ilta-Sanomat. [177] (Finnish)
• Sir Richard Wakeford, 84, British Air Marshal. [178]

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• Violet Barasa, 31, Kenyan women's volleyball team captain and Olympic competitor. [179]
• Ann Barzel, 101, American dance writer and historian. [180]
• Georg Buschner, 81, East German football coach, prostate cancer. [181]
• Frances Duffy, 101, American survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [182]
• Peter Ellenshaw, 93, Anglo-American Academy Award-winning special effects designer. [183] [184]
• Thomas E. Fairchild, 94, American Federal Appeals Court Judge. [185]
• Peggy Gilbert, 102, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, complications of hip surgery. [186]
• Ellen Hanley, 80, American Broadway theatre actress, stroke. [187] [188]
• Joseph Low, 95, American Caldecott Medal-winning children's book illustrator (Mice Twice), natural causes. [189]
• Buddy McAtee, 53, American President of IndyCar TV productions, cancer. [190]
• Trudy McCaffery, 62, American racehorse owner and breeder, cancer. [191]
• John MacLeod of MacLeod, 71, British 29th chief of the Clan MacLeod, leukaemia. [192]
• Paolo Pileri, 62, Italian motorcycle racer (1973–1979), 1975 World Champion and Capirossi team manager, natural causes. [193]
• Randy Stone, 48, American casting director and Oscar-winning film producer, heart failure. [194]
• Sulejman Talović, 18, Salt Lake City spree killer, shot by police. [195]
• Geraldine Warrick-Crisman, 76, African-American TV executive, former assistant New Jersey state treasurer, breast cancer. [196]
• Eldee Young, 71, American bassist best known as a member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio, heart attack. [197]

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• Jorge Antonio, 89, Argentinian Peronist party politician and bussiness man. [198] (Spanish)
• José António Arsénio, 91, Portuguese leader of Sporting Clube de Portugal in the 1960s and 1970s, injuries from a fall. [199] [200] (Portuguese)
• Bill Clement, 92, British rugby player for Wales (1937–1938) and secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union (1956–1981). [201]
• DeShawn "Doc Doom" Cunningham, American member of the Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated rap group Black Knights, shot. [202]
• Marianne Fredriksson, 79, Swedish writer and journalist, heart attack. [203]
• Derek Gardner, 92, British marine painter. [204]
• Huang Hai-tai, 106, Taiwanese glove puppetry actor, pulmonary edema. [205]
• Charles Langford, 84, American Alabama state senator and lawyer, represented Rosa Parks during Montgomery Bus Boycott. [206]
• Campbell Moses, 89, American physician, medical director of the American Heart Association (1967–1973), thoracic aneurysm. [207]
• Yunus Parvez, 75, Indian Bollywood actor, complications of diabetes. [208]
• Jim Ricca, 79, American football player (Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions), cerebral aneurysm. [209]

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• Sobron Aidit, 72, Indonesian author, stroke. [210]
• Alan Eames, 59, American author and beer anthropologist, respiratory failure. [211]
• Gary Frisch, 38, South African co-founder of Gaydar dating website, fall from balcony. [212]
• Jung Da Bin, 26, South Korean actress, suspected suicide by hanging. [213]
• James C. Melby, 57, American professional wrestling historian, author and magazine editor. [214]
• Alan "Nidge" Miller, 48, British guitarist / songwriter for the band Blitz, car accident. [215]
• Emiko Sugi, 47, Japanese manga artist, stomach cancer. [216]
• Charles R. Walgreen, Jr., 100, American president of Walgreens (1939–1971), son of founder Charles R. Walgreen. [217] [218]

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• Elliott Baker, 84, American author (A Fine Madness) and screenwriter, cancer. [219]
• Hank Bauer, 84, American baseball outfielder and manager, three-time All Star, cancer. [220]
• Eddie Feigner, 81, American softball player, respiratory failure. [221] [222]
• Alejandro Finisterre, 87, Spanish inventor of table football. [223]
• Sheldon Friedlander, 79, American chemist known for his work in identifying smog particles, complications of pulmonary fibrosis. [224]
• Barry Gomersall, 61, Australian Rugby League State of Origin referee of the 1980s, cancer. [225]
• Tara Grant, 34, American allegedly murdered and dismembered by her husband Stephen Grant, strangulation. [226]
• Benedict Kiely, 87, Irish writer and broadcaster. [227]
• Aida Mason, 111, Britain's oldest person. [228]
• Andrew McAuley, 39, Australian ocean kayak adventurer, missing presumed dead at sea. [229]
• Kostas Paskalis, 76, Greek operatic baritone. [230]
• Ian Richardson, 72, British actor (House of Cards, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) and member of the RSC, in his sleep. [231] [232]
• Frank Rodriguez, 86, American labor activist and first Hispanic elected to Minnesota House of Representatives, heart attack. [233]
• Bruno Ruffo, 86, Italian motorcycle racer, three-time world champion (1949–1951). [234]

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• Joe Edwards, 85, American comic book artist best known for his Archie and Li'l Jinx comics, heart failure. [235]
• Adele Faccio, 86, Italian civil right activist. [236] (Italian)
• Paul Luhtein, 95, Estonian artist. [237] (Estonian)
• Florence Melton, 95, American inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. [238] [239]
• Shelby Metcalf, 76, Texas A&M basketball coach, cancer. [240]
• Ray Patencio, 60, American activist for the Cahuilla Native Americans. [241]
• Antonio Pierro, 110, oldest man in the United States and oldest living WWI veteran. [242]
• Ismail Semed, Chinese Muslim Uighur separatist, execution by firing squad. [243]
• Anna Nicole Smith, 39, American 1993 Playmate of the Year, widow of tycoon J. Howard Marshall, accidental drug overdose. [244] [245] [246]
• Ian Stevenson, 88, Canadian psychiatrist and researcher of reincarnation.[247] [248]
• Peter Thornton, 81, British museum curator and historian. [249]
• Sérgio Vilarigues, 92, Portuguese Communist Party leader and anti-fascist resistant. [250]
• Harriett Woods, 79, American Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1985–1989), leukemia. [251]

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• Helen Duncan, 65, New Zealand former union leader and politician, cancer. [252] [253]
• John Iorio, 82, Italian-American author and educator, father of Tampa, Florida mayor Pam Iorio, cancer. [254]
• Tommy James, 83, American football player with the Cleveland Browns, congestive heart failure. [255]
• Ken Kennedy, 61, American computer scientist at Rice University, pancreatic cancer. [256]
• Alan MacDiarmid, 79, New Zealand recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2000, injuries from a fall. [257]
• Jeannette Ordman, 72, South African-born dancer and director of the Bat-Dor Dance Company, heart attack. [258]
• Erika Ortiz Rocasolano, 31, Spanish youngest sister of Letizia, Princess of Asturias. [259] [260]
• Fred Mustard Stewart, 74, American author (The Mephisto Waltz, Ellis Island), cancer. [261]
• Dennis Uphill, 75, British footballer for Tottenham Hotspur, Watford, Reading and Crystal Palace. [262]
• Brian Williams, 44, British former rugby player for Wales and Neath RFC, heart attack. [263]

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• Wolfgang Bartels, 66, German alpine skier and Olympic medallist. [264]
• Lew Burdette, 80, American baseball player, MVP of the 1957 World Series, stomach cancer. [265] [266]
• Lee Hoffman, 74, American science fiction and western writer, heart attack. [267]
• Len Hopkins, 76, Canadian politician, Liberal MP from Ontario (1965-1997), pneumonia. [268]
• Frankie Laine, 93, American singer ("Mule Train"), complications of hip replacement surgery. [269] [270]
• Reiner Merkel, 55, CEO of German Press Agency Picture Alliance, heart attack. [271]
• Flavio Ortega, 62, Honduras national football team coach, complications of a brain aneurysm. [272]
• Nelson W. Polsby, 72, American political scientist and author, heart failure. [273]
• Sir Gareth Roberts, 66, British physicist and principal of Wolfson College, Oxford. [274]
• Glenn Sarty, 77, Canadian original producer of CBC's The Fifth Estate, Take 30 and Take 60, emphysema. [275]
• Bent Skovmand, 61, Danish plant scientist and conservationist, founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, brain tumor. [276] [277]
• Gerardo Vallejo, 64, Argentine film director, lung cancer. [278]
• Kazuhiro Watanabe, 56, Japanese cartoonist and editor of Garo, liver cancer. [279]
• Willye White, 68, African American first 5-time U.S. track and field Olympian, pancreatic cancer. [280]
• Johnny Williams, 80, British champion professional boxer in the 1940s and 50s. [281]

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• Fred Ball, 91, American director of Desilu Productions and brother of Lucille Ball. [282]
• John Beckett, 80, Irish composer. [283]
• David W. Denton, 57, American federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York (1987–1992), brain cancer. [284]
• Charles Grimes, 71, American rower who won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics, pancreatic cancer. [285]
• Angela King, 68, Jamaican diplomat, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2004), cancer. [286]
• Leo T. McCarthy, 76, New Zealand-born American politician and Lt.-Gov. of California (1983–1995), kidney failure. [287]
• Marion Lamar Muse, 86, American first president of Southwest Airlines, cancer. [288]
• George Sadek, 78, Czechoslovakian-born graphic designer, founder of Center for Design & Typography at Cooper Union, cancer. [289]
• Alfred Worm, 61, Austrian investigative journalist, heart attack. [290]

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• Steve Barber, 68, American Major League Baseball pitcher, pneumonia. [291] [292]
• José Carlos Bauer, 81, Brazilian World Cup footballer. [293]
• Paul Burwell, 57, British percussionist. [294]
• Job Bwayo, 61, Kenyan AIDS researcher, shot. [295].
• Ilya Kormiltsev, 47, Russian poet and translator, spinal cancer. [296].
• Roy Kuhlman, 83, American graphic designer, pneumonia. [297]
• Barbara McNair, 72, American singer and actress, throat cancer. [298] [299]
• Jules Olitski, 84, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor, cancer. [300]
• Kurt Schubert, 83, Austrian Hebraist and founder of the Austrian Jewish Museum. [301]
• Carlos Silva, 72, Portuguese VP of the FPF, Belenenses player and trainer, long illness. [302]

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• David Ast, 104, American dentist and public health official who advocated water flouridation in New York State, heart failure. [303]
• George Becker, 78, American president of United Steelworkers (1993–2001), prostate cancer. [304]
• Ralph de Toledano, 90, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author. [305]
• Donfeld, 72, American Oscar-nominated costume designer (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Prizzi's Honor). [306] [307]
• Stephan Epstein, 46, British professor of economic history at LSE, epileptic seizure. [308]
• Ben Kaye, 68, Canadian songwriter and adviser to Celine Dion, cancer. [309]
• Pedro Knight, 85, Cuban–American musician and husband of Celia Cruz. [310] [311]
• Aaron Lerner, 86, American dermatologist who led team to discover melatonin, Parkinson's disease. [312]
• John Markovic, Serbian-born British darts manager of Bob Anderson and a founder of PDC, after long illness. [313]
• Charles Scripps, 87, American media executive and chairman of E.W. Scripps Company (1953-1994), natural causes. [314]
• Leon Thal, 62, American neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher, plane crash. [315]

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• Edmund Arnold, 93, American newspaper designer, pneumonia. [316] [317]
• Vijay Arora, 62, Indian film and television actor, intestinal condition. [318]
• Irving Brecher, 84, Canadian Professor of Economics and founder of Rights and Democracy, heart disease. [319]
• Mikola Gnisyuk, 62, Russian photographer, after long illness. [320] [321]. (Russian)
• Loren Grey, 91, American educational psychologist and son of Zane Grey, age-related complications. [322]
• Billy Henderson, 67, American singer with The Spinners, diabetes. [323]
• Joe Hunter, 79, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers. [324] [325]
• Terry Lee McMillan, 53, American harmonica player. [326]
• Gisèle Pascal, 83, French actress and one-time lover of Prince Rainier. [327]
• Filippo Raciti, 40, Italian police officer, fatal injury by football hooligan. [328] [329]
• Michel Roux, 77, French comedian and dubbing artist, heart disease. [330]
• Eric von Schmidt, 75, American folk/blues singer-songwriter, stroke. [331] [332]
• Masao Takemoto, 87, Japanese gymnast, gold medallist at 1960 Olympic Games, bile duct cancer. [333]
• Shannon J. Wall, 87, American union official, President of the National Maritime Union (1973–1990). [334]

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• Whitney Balliett, 80, American jazz critic, cancer. [335]
• Ray Berres, 99, American baseball player who was second-oldest living major league player, pneumonia. [336]
• Dmitry Konovalenko, 36, Russian journalist and What? Where? When? contestant, cardiac arrest. [337] (Russian)
• Ahmad Abu Laban, 60, Egyptian-born Danish Muslim leader, key figure in the Muhammad cartoons controversy, cancer. [338] [339]
• Edward LaChappelle, 80, American avalanche researcher, heart attack. [340]
• Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, Italian-born opera composer (Amahl and the Night Visitors). [341] [342]
• Henry "Hank" Moreno, 77, American jockey who won 1953 Kentucky Derby on Dark Star, pancreatic cancer. [343]
• Antonio María Javierre Ortas, 85, Spanish cardinal and prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship (1992–1996), cardiac arrest. [344]
• Adelina Tattilo, 78, Italian founder of Playmen magazine. [345] (Italian)
• Seri Wangnaitham, 70, Thai dancer, choreographer and national artist, heart failure. [346]