Deaths in November 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2006.
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- Rafael Buenaventura, 68, former Governor of the Philippines Central Bank, kidney cancer. [1]
- Colin Cramphorn, 50, former Chief Constable for West Yorkshire, prostate cancer. [2]
- Leonard Greene, 88, American inventor of aviation safety devices, lung cancer. [3] [4]
- Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican-born film director (The Harder They Come) and author, cancer. [5] [6]
- Eli Mohar, 58, Israeli lyricist and journalist, cancer. [7][8]
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- Rosalie Bradford, 63, held Guinness World Records for the heaviest woman and most weight lost, complications from obesity [9]
- Allen Carr, 72, English anti-smoking campaigner, lung cancer. [10]
- Tom Fexas, 65, American motor yacht designer, illness.[11]
- Leonard Freed, 77, American photojournalist and member of the Magnum Photography Collective, complications of cancer. [12]
- Cadet Hand, Jr., 86, expert in invertebrate zoology, cancer. [13]
- Akio Jissoji, 69, Japanese TV and film director best known for the 1960s TV series "Ultraman" and "Ultra Seven", stomach cancer. [14]
- Emmett Kelly, Jr., 83, clown and son of Emmett Kelly, complications from pneumonia. [15]
- John "Doc" Mattei, 83, former trainer with the San Diego Padres, cancer. [16]
- Nina Milkina, 87, Russian-born British concert pianist.
- Leon Niemczyk, 82, Polish actor, lung cancer. [17] [18]
- Bishan Singh, 62, Malaysian social and environmental activist, pulmonary embolism. [19]
- Hanumant Singh, 67, Indian test cricketer and ICC match referee, organ failure due to dengue fever and hepatitis B. [20]
- Shirley Walker, 61, film and television composer (Final Destination, Falcon Crest), brain aneurysm. [21] [22]
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- Enrico Catuzzi, 60, Italian football coach, heart attack. [23] (Italian) [24] (Bulgarian)
- Rose Mattus, 90, Polish-born co-founder of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, natural causes. [25] [26]
- Max Merkel, 87, Austrian football player and coach. [27]
- Lyubov Polishchuk, 57, Russian actress, spinal disease. [28] [29]
- Robert Volpe, 63, NYPD art theft detective, heart attack. [30]
- Elliot Welles, 79, Austrian-born Holocaust survivor and director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League's task force on Nazi war criminals, heart attack. [31] [32]
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- Don Butterfield, 83, American jazz tuba player, played with Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra, stroke-related illness. [33] [34]
- Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, African-American author (What You Owe Me) and mental health advocate, brain cancer. [35][36][37]
- Casey Coleman, 55, Cleveland sports broadcaster who won 4 Emmy Awards, pancreatic cancer. [38]
- George Doig, 93, Australian football player. [39]
- Alan "Fluff" Freeman, 79, former BBC Radio DJ, natural causes. [40]
- Győző Határ, 92, Hungarian poet and writer. [41] (Hungarian)
- Larry Henderson, 89, first regular broadcaster on CBC's The National, natural causes. [42]
- Annie Knight, 111, believed to be the oldest person in Great Britain. [43]
- J. Keith Mann, 82, American law professor at Stanford University, pneumonia. [44]
- Eddie Mayo, 96, one of the oldest Major League Baseball players, natural causes. [45]
- K. Kenneth Paik, 66, award winning photographer turned journalist, acute myelogenous leukemia. [46]
- Ray T. "Ted" Parfet Jr., 84, American former CEO of Upjohn and owner of the Kalamazoo Wings, acute respiratory distress syndrome. [47] [48]
- Paul Ernst Ruppel, 93, German composer of Christian music. [49] (German)
- Jece Valadão, 76, Brazilian actor, complications from heart attack. [50]
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- Babak Bayat, 60, Iranian composer, liver failure. [51]
- Mário Cesariny, 83, Portuguese surrealist painter and writer, cancer. [52] [53] [54]
- Leo Chiosso, 86, Italian songwriter for Fred Buscaglione, Mina, Giorgio Gaber and many others, undisclosed causes. [55] (Italian)
- Dave Cockrum, 63, American comic book artist (X-men, Legion of Super-Heroes), complications from diabetes. [56] [57][58]
- Robert "H-Bomb" Ferguson, 77, American blues singer, complications of emphysema and cardiopulmonary disease. [59]
- Isaac Gálvez, 31, Spanish cyclist, cycling accident. [60]
- Stephen Heywood, 37, American subject of the film So Much So Fast, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [61] [62]
- Anthony Jackson, 62, British actor, cancer. [63]
- Abu Khavs (Abu Hafs), Jordanian-born Chechen al-Qaida leader in North Caucasus, shoot-out with police. [64]
- Giorgio Panto, 65, Italian regional television station owner and separatist politician, helicopter crash, presumed drowned. [65] (Italian)
- Graham Roope, 60, Surrey and England cricketer, heart attack. [66]
- Armin Russenberger, 80, Swiss cyclist. [67] (German)
- Tony Silvester, 65, Panama-born soul singer with The Main Ingredient. [68]
- Raúl Velasco, 73, Mexican television show host (Siempre en Domingo), natural causes. [69] [70]
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- Luciano Bottaro, 75, Italian comic book artist (Pepito). [71] (Italian)
- Valentín Elizalde, 27, Mexican banda singer, shot. [72]
- David Hermance, 59, American Toyota engineer responsible for the Prius, plane crash. [73]
- Gianluca Lerici (aka "Professor Bad Trip"), 43, Italian artist and designer. [74] (Italian)
- Lt. Kenneth Taylor, 86, American Army Air Corps pilot, winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, strangulated hernia. [75][76]
- Emilio Vedova, 87, Italian painter. [77]
- Melvin Webber, 86, American town planner. [78]
- Jack Werber, 92, Polish-born Holocaust survivor, American manufacturer of coonskin caps during the 1950s craze, heart attack. [79]
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- Walter Booker, 72, jazz bassist with the Cannonball Adderley Quintet, cardiac arrest. [80]
- John Bridgers, 84, former athletic director at the University of New Mexico, congestive heart failure. [81]
- William Diehl, 81, American author (Primal Fear, Sharky's Machine), aortic aneurysm. [82]
- Phyllis Fraser, 90, American actress, writer, and publisher, complications from fall. [83]
- Robert Kupperman, 71, American terrorism expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, complications from Parkinson's disease. [84]
- Juice Leskinen, 56, Finnish singer-songwriter, renal insufficiency, cirrhosis, and diabetes. [85]
- Frank L. Madla, 69, former Texas State Senator, house fire. [86]
- Robert McFerrin, 85, first African-American to sing at the New York Metropolitan Opera and father of Bobby McFerrin, heart attack. [87] [88]
- Mostafa Mesbahzadeh, 98, exiled Iranian newspaper publisher and founder of Kayhan newspaper group, pneumonia [89]
- Thelma Scott, 93, Australian actress (Claire Houghton in Number 96), heart attack. [90]
- Maximo Soliven, 77, publisher of The Philippine Star, cardiac arrest. [91]
- George W. S. Trow, 63, American writer and media critic, natural causes. [92]
- Zdeněk Veselovský, 78, Czech zoologist, heart failure. [93]
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- Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of Zeta magazine, stomach cancer. [94]
- Gerald M. Boyd, 56, African-American former managing editor of The New York Times, lung cancer. [95] [96]
- Nick Clarke, 58, BBC Radio 4 presenter and journalist, cancer. [97]
- Richard Clements, 78, British journalist, Editor of Tribune (1961–1982). [98]
- Betty Comden, 89, lyricist known for writing musicals with Adolph Green including Singin' in the Rain, heart failure. [99]
- Jack Ferrante, 90, American end for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. [100]
- Dr Hasan K, father and flawed alibi of four brothers convicted of Ashfield gang rapes in Australia, heart attack. [101]
- Richard Leopold, 94, American historian at Northwestern University, natural causes. [102]
- Alexander Litvinenko, 43, former Russian spy and critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, poisoning. [103]
- Philippe Noiret, 76, French actor (Il Postino, Cinema Paradiso), cancer. [104]
- Anita O'Day, 87, American jazz singer, pneumonia. [105]
- Willie Pep, 84, American Hall of Fame featherweight boxer, Alzheimer's disease. [106] [107]
- Chris Sandy, 27, former Harlem Globetrotter, car accident. [108]
- Boe Tucker, 79, father and manager of country music singer Tanya Tucker, lung cancer. [109]
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- Dr. Jerry Bails, 73, popular culture and comic book historian, heart attack. [110]
- John Allan Cameron, 67, pioneer of Celtic music in Canada, bone cancer. [111]
- Muriel Castanis, 80, American sculptor, lung failure. [112]
- Pat Dobson, 64, American Major League Baseball pitcher, leukemia. [113] [114] [115]
- Gilles Grégoire, 80, Canadian politician and co-founder of Parti Québécois. [116] (French)
- Roy Newell, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, cancer. [117]
- John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, 87, UK Minister of Transport (1970–1974) and MP for Yeovil (1951–1983). [118]
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- Svein Erik Bakke, 59, Norwegian entrepreneur. [119] [120] (Norwegian)
- Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, 80, Romanian priest, dissident during the rule of Nicolae Ceauşescu, pancreatic cancer. [121]
- Thomas Courtney Fleming, 98, African-American civil rights leader and co-founder of the Sun-Reporter, congestive heart failure. [122]
- Pierre Gemayel, 34, Lebanese Minister of Industry, shot. [123] [124]
- Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 90, first President of Djibouti, natural causes. [125]
- Robert Lockwood Jr., 91, Mississippi Delta blues guitarist and singer, respiratory failure. [126]
- Dr. Bernard Rimland, 78, American autism researcher, prostate cancer. [127] [128]
- Eliezer Waldenberg, 89, Israeli Haredi rabbi. [129]
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- Robert Altman, 81, American film director (MASH, Nashville, Short Cuts), complications from leukemia. [130]
- Zoia Ceauşescu, 56, daughter of Nicolae Ceauşescu, lung cancer. [131]
- Paul Vincent Dudley, 79, Retired Roman Catholic Bishop of Sioux Falls, lung disease. [132]
- William R. P. George, 94, Welsh archdruid, bard, novelist, nephew of WWI British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. [133]
- Walid Hassan, 47, Iraqi television personality and comedian, shot. [134]
- Chris Hayward, 81, creator of Dudley Do-Right and co-creator of The Munsters, illness. [135]
- Hong Xuezhi, 94, Chinese general, unspecified illness. [136] [137]
- Dr. David Kritchevsky, 86, Ukrainian-born biochemist and nutrition expert. [138]
- Kevin McClory, 80, film producer best known for 'unofficial' James Bond film Never Say Never Again.[139]
- Saúl Ubaldini, 69, Argentinian labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist party, lung cancer. [140]
- Andre Waters, 44, former American football player, most recently Fort Valley State University assistant football coach, suicide. [141] [142]
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- W.G. Beasley, 86, historian who advanced the study of Japan in British universities. [143]
- Zygmunt Bielawski, 69, Polish actor. [144]
- Dirk Dirksen, 69, punk rock promoter at San Francisco's North Beach nightclub Mabuhay Gardens, in his sleep. [145]
- Sir Edward Ford, 96, Assistant Private Secretary to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (1946–1967). [146]
- Francis Girod, 62, French film director and screenwriter, heart attack. [147]
- Smith Hempstone Jr., 77, American journalist and US ambassador to Kenya (1989-93), complications from diabetes. [148] [149]
- Tan Sri Mohd Khir Johari, 83, former Malaysian Education Minister and one of the country's founding fathers, heart attack. [150]
- Craig Neilsen, 65, CEO and Chairman of Ameristar Casinos, natural causes. [151]
- Ernest Pusey, 111, Florida's oldest person and last Floridian WWI veteran. [152]
- Francisco Quirós Hermosillo, Mexican general, cancer. [153]
- Julio Ramos, 71, Argentinian journalist, director of Ámbito Financiero, leukemia. [154]
- Jeremy Slate, 80, American actor (Hell's Angels '69, One Life to Live), esophageal cancer. [155] [156]
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- Movladi Baisarov, 40, former head of one of Chechnya's security forces, shot. [157]
- Roger Bolton, 59, General Secretary of BECTU, a British trade union, cancer. [158]
- Lars Chemnitz, 81, Danish former member of the Parliament of Greenland and chairman of Landsrådet, long illness. [159]
- Lee Dong-won, 80, foreign minister of South Korea 1964-1966. [160]
- Maurice W. Graham, 89, known as "King of the Hobos", author of Tales of the Iron Road: My Life as a Hobo, stroke. [161] [162]
- George V. Odell, 80, American arachnologist later leading the Mexican study of dangerous violin spider antivenom at the Biotechnology Institute IBT. 1926-2006. [163]
- Keith Rowlands, 70, President of Welsh Rugby Union. [164]
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- Sir John Acland, 77, British general who commanded British forces prior to Rhodesian independence.[165]
- Ruth Brown, 78, American blues singer, complications following a heart attack and stroke. [166] [167]
- Marcus Cassel, 23, American football player and former UCLA cornerback, car accident. [168] [169]
- Bishop Joseph D'Silva, 76, Indian Archbishop of Bellary, India, cancer. [170]
- Bishop Manuel Moreno, 75, Catholic bishop of Tucson, Arizona, brain haemorrhage. [171]
- Tony Pithey, 73, South African cricketer, pancreatic cancer. [172]
- Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian former footballer and coach, pneumonia. [173] [174]
- Flo Sandon's, 82, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1953. [175] (Italian)
- Bo Schembechler, 77, former University of Michigan football head coach, heart problems. [176] [177] [178]
- Mário Sottomayor Cardia, 65, Portuguese former minister of Education, cancer. [179] (Portuguese)
- Ramez Tebet, 70, Brazilian politician and lawyer, cancer. [180] (Portuguese)
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- Curtis Cate, 82, American biographer, melanoma. [181]
- Frank Durkan, 76, Irish-American lawyer known for his work for members of the Irish Republican Army in the US, lung infection. [182]
- Milton Friedman, 94, American monetarist and free-market economist, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize, heart failure. [183] [184]
- Gary Graver, 68, cinematographer and filmmaker, collaborator with Orson Welles (F for Fake, The Other Side of the Wind), cancer. [185] [186]
- Geoffrey Griffin, 67, South African cricketer, heart attack. [187]
- Yuri Levada, 76, Russian sociologist and pollster, heart attack. [188]
- Eustace Lycett, 91, English-born US special effects technician, Academy Award winner for the Disney films Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks [189]
- Jack Macpherson, 69, a figure in the California surf scene who founded a group that Tom Wolfe based his book "The Pump House Gang", liver and kidney failure. [190]
- Pablo Shilton, 38, Argentine actor, Car accident. [191] (Spanish)
- Paris Theodore, 63, American firearms inventor and manufacturer, multiple sclerosis. [192]
- John Veale, 84, English classical composer, cancer. [193]
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- George G. Blackburn MC, 90, Canadian author of Guns of Normandy, member of the Order of Canada, cancer. [194]
- John M. Blackburn, 93, Songwriter ("Moonlight in Vermont", "Need You", "Susquehanna"), natural causes [195]
- Mac E. Hadley, 76, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona, one of the researchers who discovered Melanotan, homicide. [196]
- Ken Ishikawa, 58, Japanese mangaka, co-creator of Getter Robo anime series, heart failure. [197]
- Paul Rigby, 82, Australian cartoonist, heart attack. [198] [199]
- René Sterne, 54 , Belgian comic book artist (Adler). [200]
- Owen Truelove, 69, RAF Air Commodore, glider crash. [201]
- David K. Wyatt, 69, American historian of Thailand, emphysema and congestive heart failure. [202]
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- Lieutenant General Sipho Binda, 54, second most senior officer in the South African National Defence Force, heart failure. [203]
- Michele Maxian, 55, Legal Aid Society lawyer who battled New York City courts to arraign suspects within 24 hours, ovarian cancer. [204]
- Ana Carolina Reston, 21, Brazilian model, complications of anorexia nervosa. [205]
- Pete Suder, 90, American baseball player [206]
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- Tiger Conway, 74, former professional wrestler, stroke. [207]
- Desert Orchid, 27, British National Hunt racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase on four occasions. [208]
- Konrad Fuchs, 109, German man believed to be oldest living Catholic priest, WWI combat veteran. [209]
- John Hallam, 65, Northern Irish actor. [210]
- Robert McCurry, 83, Chrysler marketer who introduced cash rebates for U.S. car buyers, prostate cancer. [211]
- G. Gordon Strong, 92, Canadian-American publisher, president of several newspaper chains, pneumonia. [212]
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- Kip Bahadun, 65, former executive secretary of UMNO, aortic aneurysm. [213]
- Alphonse Halimi, 74, French boxer, former World bantamweight champion, pneumonia. [214]
- Harvey Manning, 81, American conservationist and author. [215]
- Mario Merola, 72, Italian singer and actor, suffering a series of heart attacks. [216]
- General Jacob E. Smart, 97, US Air Force general and NASA executive, former deputy C-in-C of the US European Command. [217]
- Joseph Ungaro, 76, American journalism editor and executive whose question led to Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" response. [218] [219]
- H. Donald Wilson, 82, founder of LexisNexis, heart attack [220]
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- Belinda Emmett, 32, Australian actress (Home and Away), metastatic breast cancer. [221]
- S. Lane Faison, Jr., 98, American art historian who oversaw the return of artworks from the Nazis. [222] [223]
- Dr. Albert B. Friedman, 86, American scholar of medieval literature and collector of ballads. [224]
- Basil ("Joe") Jagger, 93, father of Rolling Stones' vocalist Mick Jagger, pneumonia [225]
- Jabu Khanyile, 49, South African musician who played at the Johannesburg Live 8 concert, prostate cancer. [226]
- Ben Kuzmichev, 67, former head of Ballet Idaho and convicted wife killer, cancer. [227]
- Anthony Lapham, 70, American lawyer, former general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, heart attack. [228]
- Noella Leclair, 61, Canada's first artificial heart recipient. [229]
- Esther Lederberg, 83, American Stanford University microbiologist, discovered the lambda phage, pneumonia and congestive heart failure. [230] [231]
- Rev. Harry Lehotsky, 49, Canadian anti-poverty advocate and newspaper columnist, pancreatic cancer. [232]
- Ruth Morgenthau, 75, Austrian-born expert on international development, former adviser to Jimmy Carter. [233]
- Dr. Jeanne Smith, 76, American hematologist, administrator at Harlem Hospital Center and sickle cell anemia expert, complications from stroke. [234]
- Ronnie Stevens, 81, British comedic actor, causes undisclosed. [235]
- Français "Rusty" Tullis, 70, mother of "Rocky" Dennis and portrayed by Cher in Mask, injuries from a motorcycle accident. [236] [237]
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- Anicée Alvina, 53, French actress, cancer.[238]
- Benny Andrews, 75, American artist, cancer. [239]
- Diana Coupland, 74, English actress (Bless This House), complications following heart surgery. [240]
- Gabriel Donoso, 46, Chilean polo player, injuries sustained after falling from a horse during a match. [241]
- Maurice Floquet, 111, France's oldest man on record and combat-wounded WWI veteran. [242]
- Doug Friedline, 49, American campaign manager for Jesse Ventura and other third party candidates, heart attack. [243]
- Willy Knupp, 70, German motorsport journalist, cancer. [244] (German)
- Gerald Levert, 40, American R&B singer and son of The O'Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, accidental acute intoxication. [245] [246]
- Chubby Oates, 63, Cockney comedian, heart attack. [247]
- Jack Palance, 87, Oscar-winning American actor (Shane, City Slickers), natural causes. [248] [249]
- Nicholas Proffitt, 63, American journalist and author, war correspondent for Newsweek, kidney cancer. [250]
- Nadarajah Raviraj, 44, Tamil National Alliance Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, shot. [251]
- Igor Sergeyev, 68, ex-Defense Minister of Russia, the only Marshal of the Russian Federation, cancer. [252]
- Hara Taira, 63, Japanese manga artist, author, and regular contestant on Quiz Derby, liver failure. [253]
- Jack Williamson, 98, American science fiction author. [254]
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- Isadore Barmash, 84, American business journalist and author. [255]
- Ed Bradley, 65, American CBS News journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, leukemia. [256]
- Garton del Savio, 92, American baseball player, illness. [257]
- Marian Marsh (a.k.a. Marilyn Morgan, Marian Henderson), 93, 1930s American film star (Hell's Angels, Svengali). [258]
- Stanley Meltzoff, 89, American diver and painter of undersea life. [259]
- Sam Stephenson, 72, Irish architect, designed the Central Bank and Wood Quay, complications from heart surgery. [260]
- David Thaw, 78, opera singer. [261] (German)
- Walter Williams, 85, legislator in Washington state 1961-1971, complications from Parkinson's disease. [262]
- Ellen Willis, 64, American journalist, professor, feminist activist and critic, lung cancer. [263]
- Markus Wolf, 83, former head of East Germany's secret intelligence service, natural causes. [264]
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- G. Robert Crowningshield, 87, American creator of diamond grading system [265]
- Dr. Rhodes Fairbridge, 92, Australian geologist at Columbia University, supervising editor of The Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences, brain tumor. [266]
- Sir James Hunt, 63, British judge in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, brain tumour. [267]
- Samuel “Eewie” Kambule, 41, South African former football player for Bafana Bafana. [268]
- Basil Poledouris, 61, American film composer (Conan the Barbarian, Robocop, Starship Troopers), cancer. [269]
- Philip Rauch, 95, American businessman and philanthropist, president of Ideal Corporation, chair of Parker-Hannifin Corporation. [270]
- Annette Rogers, 93, American athlete, 4 x 100 metres relay gold medalist at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, stroke. [271]
- Eduardo Sampson, 74, Uruguayan Minister of Transport (1976-1982). [272] (Spanish)
- Peter Wensberg, 77, American former senior vice president for marketing for Polaroid, popularized the instant camera. [273]
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- Paul Baltes, 67, German developmental psychologist. [274]
- John Coburn, 81, Australian artist, winner of the 1960 and 1977 Blake Prizes for Religious Art. [275]
- Guy Degrenne, 81, French industrialist. [276] (French)
- Nate Gooden, 68, American former vice-president of the United Auto Workers. [277]
- Buddy Kerr, 84, American baseball shortstop for the New York Giants, natural causes. [278] [279]
- Jackie Parker, 74, former All-American and a Canadian football player, head coach and general manager, throat cancer. [280]
- Bryan Pata, 22, American football player for the University of Miami Hurricanes, gunshot (homicide). [281]
- Johnny Sain, 89, American Major League Baseball pitcher, complications from a stroke. [282] [283]
- Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 82, French journalist and politician, author of The American Challenge, complications from bronchitis. [284] [285]
- N.N. Sippy, 75, Indian Bollywood film producer, cardiac arrest. [286]
- Robert Strudler, 64, American businessman, chair of the Lennar Corporation, complications of an infection. [287] [288]
- Brian Thomson, 87, British chairman of D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd (1974–2005). [289]
- Polly Umrigar, 80, former Indian cricket team captain, lymphoma. [290]
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- Robert Jance Garfat, 62, American musician (Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show), motorcycle accident. [291]
- Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, Mexican singer and actor known as "the king of the falsetto", bronchitis. [292]
- Francisco Fernández Ochoa, 56, Spanish retired alpine skier, gold medallist in the 1972 Winter Olympic Games, cancer. [293]
- Federico Lopez, 44, represented Puerto Rico in two Olympic Games and three world basketball championships, heart attack. [294]
- J.T. Rutherford, 85, Democrat United States Representative for Texas (1955–1963), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [295]
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- Samuel Bowers, 82, former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard, convicted of ordering the murder of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, cardiac arrest. [296]
- Chuck DeShane, 87, former quarterback with the Detroit Lions. [297]
- Chen Ding-nan, 63, former Justice Minister of Taiwan, lung cancer. [298]
- Bülent Ecevit, 81, former Prime Minister of Turkey, complications following a stroke. [299]
- George Esser, 85, set up the North Carolina Fund to fight poverty in the state in the 1960s at the request of its Governor Terry Sanford. [300]
- Oscar González, 82, Uruguayan Grand Prix driver. [301] (Spanish)
- Frank Marsden, 83, British Labour politician and Member of Parliament 1971-74. [302]
- Pietro Rava, 90, Italian former football player, last surviving member of the 1938 World Cup-winning team, Alzheimer's disease. [303]
- Hamilton Richardson, 73, American tennis player, US Open doubles winner, diabetes complications. [304]
- Bobby Shearer, 74, Scottish former footballer who played for Hamilton Academical and Rangers, illness. [305]
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- Nelson S. Bond, 97, American writer. [306]
- William Lee Brent, 75, Black Panther who hijacked a plane to Cuba; pneumonia. [307]
- Lionel Bryer, 78, South African dentist who founded the Aberdeen International Youth Festival [308]
- Frank Arthur Calder, 91, aboriginal Canadian politician. [309]
- Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen, natural causes. [310]
- Gerhard Goebel, 72, former German Catholic bishop of Tromsø [311]
- Delfor Medina, 78, Argentine actor. [312] (Spanish)
- John McManners, 89, English historian, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University (1972-84). [313]
- Sergi López Segú, 39, footballer for FC Barcelona and Gerard López's brother, suicide by throwing himself under a train. [314]
- Deron Thorp, 33, former NFL Europa player, cause unconfirmed. [315]
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- Belden Bly, 92, served in Massachusetts legislature for 32 years. [316]
- Frank Dunham, Jr., 64, US federal public defender, head lawyer for Zacarias Moussaoui, brain cancer. [317]
- Sir Allen Fairhall, 96, member of the Australian House of Representatives (1949-69), Minister for Defence (1966-69). [318]
- Dr. Fereydoun Hoveyda, 82, Syrian-born former Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, cancer. [319]
- Paul Mauriat, 81, French musician (L'Amour Est Bleu). [320]
- Sputnik Monroe, 77, American professional wrestler, respiratory illness. [321]
- Malachi Ritscher, 52, American anti-war protester, self-immolation. [322] [323]
- Marie Rudisill, 95, "Fruitcake Lady" on The Tonight Show, aunt of Truman Capote, natural causes. [324]
- Stanley Rothenberg, 76, American lawyer and former president of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., complications after surgery for a popliteal aneurism. [325]
- Arnie Sachs, 78, photojournalist, bone cancer. [326]
- Alberto Spencer, 68, footballer for Peñarol and Ecuador, all-time highest scorer in Copa Libertadores de América, intestinal infection following heart surgery. [327]
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- Rafael Donato, 69, Filipino President of DLSU-Manila (1991-1994), President of De La Salle Lipa (1995-2003), drowning. [328]
- Adrien Douady, 71, French mathematician. [329]
- Wally Foreman, 58, Australian Broadcasting Corporation sports broadcaster, heart attack. [330]
- Albrecht Graf von Goertz, 92, designer of the BMW 507. [331]
- Red Hayworth, 91, American baseball player. [332]
- Carroll Knicely, 77, Kentucky commerce secretary for three governors and publisher. [333]
- Les Mansfield, 90, played rugby union for Wales and won the Distinguished Flying Cross during World War II, illness. [334]
- Leonard Schrader, 62, American screenwriter (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters), brother of Paul Schrader, heart failure. [335]
- Milly Vitale, 74, Italian actress, natural causes. [336]
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- Bettye Ackerman, 82, American actress (Dr. Maggie Graham in Ben Casey), stroke. [337] [338]
- Jason DiEmilio, 36, American guitarist (Azusa Plane), overdose. [339]
- Daniel Garcia, 80, Mexican professional wrestler and film star better known as Huracan Ramirez, heart attack. [340]
- Buddy Killen, 73, American record producer and founder of Dial Records, pancreatic cancer. [341]
- Florence Klotz, 86, American Tony-winning costume designer, heart failure. [342] [343]
- Donka Paprikova, 91, Bulgarian philanthropist, natural causes. [344]
- Johnny Schofield, 75, footballer for Birmingham City and former manager of Atherstone Town F.C., complications from an illness. [345]
- Adrienne Shelly, 40, American actress (Trust, The Unbelievable Truth), screenwriter, and director, strangulation. [346] [347]
- William Styron, 81, American writer (Darkness Visible, Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice), pneumonia. [348]
- Hilda van Stockum, 98, Dutch Newberry Medal-winning author of children's books, stroke. [349]
- Silvio Varviso, 82, Swiss conductor of the Vlaamse Opera, illness. [350]