Deaths in April 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2006.
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- Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist. [1]
- Barry Driscoll, 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer. [2]
- Bobby Fetzer, 50, an heir of the Fetzer Vineyards family, river rafting accident. [3]
- Tyler Fry, 33, American model and boyfriend of Shoshana Bean, in a car accident. [4]
- Boris Koytchou, 86, Russian-born contract bridge player. [5]
- Harold "Bunny" Levitt, 96, American basketball player, member of the Harlem Globetrotters. [6]
- George Mgrdichian, 71, American oud player. [7]
- Heinz Poll, 80, German-born choreographer and co-founder of the Ohio Ballet. [8]
- Jean-François Revel, 82, French philosopher [9]
- Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead [10]
- William (Bill) Roberts, 105, British First World War veteran [11]
- Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel [12]
- Paul Spiegel, 68, Chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes. [13] [14]
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer [15]
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- Sid Barron, 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it." [16][17]
- William L. Durkin, 89, U.S. Marine and businessman - best known for rescuing Howard Hughes in 1946 plane crash, heart attack [18]
- Jiri Frel, 82, Czech-born antiquities curator for the J. Paul Getty Museum. [19]
- Reuben Falber, 91, former Assistant General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. [20]
- John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, American economist and author (The Affluent Society), natural causes. [21][22]
- Dr. Lawrence F. Grey, MD, 51 Urologist and leading pioneer specializing in Vasectomy Reversal Surgery. (aka "the Vas Doctor), suicide. [23]
- Leighton Kerner, 79, American classical music critic for The Village Voice. [24]
- Bishop James Mote, 84, American Bishop of the breakaway Anglican Catholic Church. [25]
- Alberta Nelson, 68, American actress known for beach blanket movies of 1960s. [26]
- Félix Siby, 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister. [27]
- John Trever, 90, American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. [28] [29]
- Alvin S. White, 87, American test pilot [30]
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- Helen Armstrong, 63, American concert violinist. [31]
- Angel O. Berrios, 69, former mayor of Caguas, Puerto Rico, heart failure [32]
- Steve Howe, 48, former Major League pitcher, automobile accident [33] [34]
- Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer [35] [36]
- MGG Pillai, 67, veteran Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications [37] [38]
- Harvey Ratner, 79, former owner of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. [39]
- Burt Todd, 81, American entrepreneur. [40]
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- Elma "Pem" Gardner Farnsworth, 98, Philo Farnsworth's widow [41]
- Bogdan Hancu, 28, killed by roadside bomb in Iraq, first Romanian soldier to die in Iraq [42]
- Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer. [43]
- Roy Mogg, 77, English Methodist preacher and fraternalist, announced at the 74th National Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose
- Strini Moodley, 60, founding member of South African Black Consciousness Movement [44]
- Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler. [45]
- Julia Thorne, 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry, bladder cancer. [46]
- Mel Tom, 64, American football player, heart failure. [47]
- Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 76, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967-1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.[48]
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- Rabbi Moshe Halberstam, 74, Jerusalemite Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem. [49]
- Helen Hobbs Jordan, 99, American music teacher whose students included Tony Bennett, Melissa Manchester, Bette Midler, and Paul Simon. [50]
- Daniel McKenna, 54, former guitarist for the band Toby Beau, apparent suicide [51]
- Peter Millard, 34, American programmer and engineer, assisted with development of Jabber/XMPP and wrote and maintained Exodus. [52]
- Voldemar Miller, 95, Estonian historian, archivist, book researcher and author of several books for children. [53]
- Professor Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, and former science minister. [54] [55]
- Russ Swan, 42, former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall) [56]
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- Jokin Gorostidi, 62, Spanish leftwing nationalist leader. [57]
- Joseph Iseman, 89, American lawyer. [58]
- Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), stroke. [59]
- Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM, brain tumor. [60]
- Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite. [61]
- Colonel James Swindal, 88, American pilot of Air Force One during the John F. Kennedy assassination. [62]
- John Kerr, 81, Irish ballad singer.
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- Erik Bergman, 94, Finnish composer [63]
- Nasreen Pervin Huq, 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid,from getting hit by a car. [64]
- Grace Nelsen Jones, 112, Virginia's oldest person. [65] [66]
- Brian Labone, 66, former Everton and England footballer, heart attack [67]
- Bonnie Owens, 76, country music singer. [68]
- Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario. [69]
- Sibby Sisti, 85, MLB player with the Boston Braves [70]
- Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heart attack. [71]
- Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, 91, of Satmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world. [72]
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- Ghafar Baba, 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister. [73]
- Susan Browning, 65, American actress.
- Harvey Bullock, 84, American television writer and producer (The Love Boat, Love, American Style). [74] [75]
- Wing Commander Johnny Checketts, 94, New Zealand World War II Flying ace [76]
- Willie Finnigan, 93, legendary footballer for Hibernian F.C. [77]
- Boris Fraenkel, 85, French Trotskyist [78]
- Barry Gibbs, 73, South Australian cricket official. [79] [80]
- William Gottlieb, 89, American jazz photographer. [81] [82] [83]
- John Dunster, 83, British radiation expert [84]
- Jennifer Jayne, 64, British TV and film actress ("William Tell (tv series)")
- George Lenchner, 88, American mathematics educator. [85]
- Florence Mars, 83, American civil rights activist, author of Witness in Philadelphia. [86] [87]
- Ian Nelson, 50, English saxophone and clarinet musician, died in his sleep. [88]
- David Peckinpah, 54, television producer and director, heart attack [89].
- Phil Walden, 66, American founder of Capricorn Records, cancer. [90]
- Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor. [91]
- Roger Watkins, 69, English, former editor-in-chief of Variety magazine, cancer.
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- Henriette Avram, 86, library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format. [92] [93]
- Alexis Bespaloff, 71, Romanian-born wine columnist for New York magazine. [94]
- Ed Davis, 89, former Los Angeles police chief (1969-1978). [95]
- Kay Finegan, 95, American 1940s big band singer. [96]
- Bill Kirschner, 97, American inventor of the first commercially successful fiberglass skis, founder of the K2 Corporation, member of the United States National Ski Hall of Fame. [97]
- Titos Kontopoulos, 45, Greek journalist, cancer. [98]
- Nobby Lawton, 65, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End, cancer. [99]
- Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician. Shot during hunting trip. [100]
- Satyadeow Sawh, 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen. [101] [102] [103]
- Ronnie Sox, 67, American drag racing pioneer. [104]
- Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress (The Third Man). [105] [106][107]
- Fausto Vitello, 59, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher, heart attack. [108] [109]
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- Sir Richard Bayliss, 89, formerly Queen Elizabeth II's physician, former head of the Medical Household and leading thyroidologist. [110]
- William Boggs, 19, boxer, homicide [111]
- Willie Brown Jr., 61, executed in North Carolina for a 1983 murder. [112]
- Fred Burton, 43, Belgian comic book artist. [113] [114]
- Robert Carleson, 75, official in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan US Presidential administrations. [115]
- Marianna Christos, 58, American operatic soprano [116]
- Jacob Kovco, 25, first Australian Defence Force serviceperson killed in Iraq. [117]
- Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection. [118]
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- Kathleen Antonelli, 85, one of the original computer programmers, cancer.
- Cong Fei, 36, Chinese singer and philanthropist, stomach cancer.
- Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate. [119]
- Dennis Duggan, 78, newspaper columnist [120]
- Stanley Hiller, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer. [121]
- Sylvia de Leur, 72, Dutch actress, ALS. [122]
- Ron Mather, 68, Scottish basketball coach. [123]
- Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director. [124]
- Anna Svidersky, 17, murdered while working at McDonalds, stabbed. [125]
- Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster. [126]
- Robert Wegman, 87, chairman and former CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., philanthropist. [127] [128]
- Elaine Young, 71, American celebrity real estate broker. [129]
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- Oscar Acosta, 49, manager of the Gulf Coast Yankees, automobile accident. [130]
- Scott Crossfield, 84, American X-15 test pilot, plane crash. [131][132]
- Bob Dove, 85, American NFL defensive lineman and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. [133]
- Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes. [134] [135]
- Zola Levitt, 67, Christian broadcaster, messianic Jewish preacher, lung cancer. [136]
- Humberto Trejo, 38, New York Yankees field coordinator for the Dominican Republic, automobile accident. [137]
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- John Lyall, 66, former football manager with West Ham United F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C., heart attack. [138] [139]
- Marcia Martin, 82, American children's author. [140]
- Grady McWhiney, 77, American historian. [141]
- Dick Rockwell, 85, American cartoonist, assistant on Steve Canyon, nephew of Norman Rockwell. [142]
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- Dr. Jean Bernard, 98, French hematologist. [143] [144]
- Scott Brazil, 50, American television producer and director (The Shield), Lou Gehrig's disease. [145] [146]
- Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK. [147] [148]
- Elford Albin Cederberg, 88, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953-1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan. [149]
- Alice Fiske, 88, opened her estate Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island to archeological research. [150]
- Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (As the World Turns). [151] [152]
- Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, 84, scholar of Judaism. [153]
- Warren Platner, 86, American modernist architect and designer. [154]
- Rudolf Slánský, Jr., 71, former Czech ambassador to Russia, son of Rudolf Slánský. [155]
- Rev. Seymour St. John, 94, headmaster of the Choate School for 26 years. [156]
- Vaishnavi, 20, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide. [157]
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- Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, car accident. [158]
- Richard Eckersley, 65, graphic designer. [159]
- Morton Freedgood, 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) under the pseudonym of John Godey. [160] [161]
- Brett Goldin, 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27. [162]
- Dimitri Hadzi, 85, American sculptor and professor at Harvard University. [163]
- Harold Horwood, 82, writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer. [164]
- Daniel Schaefer, 70, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983-1999, cancer. [165]
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- Raúl Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer [166]
- Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot), 40, English noble, epilepsy, [167], [168]
- Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer. [169]
- Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall. [170]
- Anthony James Ryan, 84, American photographer, producer, writer, actor and production manager. [171]
- Louise Smith, 89, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer. [172]
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- Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician. [173]
- Edward Broida, 72, American art collector. [174]
- Dr. Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author. [175]
- Raúl Quijano, 82, former foreign minister of Argentina [176]
- Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack. [177]
- Dr. Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert. [178]
- Dr. Lynn Smaha, 63, American cardiologist and former president of the American Heart Association, heart attack. [179]
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- Sir Michael Cobham, 79, chairman of aerospace company Cobham plc, son of founder Sir Alan Cobham. [180] [181]
- Ed Corbett, 74, American actor. [182]
- Peter Karches, 54, American executive at Morgan Stanley, lymphocytic leukemia. [183]
- Ronald B. Rogers, 80, American concert singer and actor. [184]
- Michael Shir, 83, Israeli writer, founder of children's magazine Ezbeoni. [185]
- Dame Muriel Spark, 88, British novelist, best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962). [186]
- Keo Viphakone, 89, Laos Secretary of State for Social Welfare and Commissioner of Rural Affairs, Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient. [187]
- Bruce Weber, 54, Australian rules football executive who was president of the Port Adelaide Football Club
- Arthur Winston, 100, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100. [188]
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- Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces. [189]
- William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure. [190].
- Dr. Paulina Kernberg, 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University. [191]
- Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director [192]
- Christiane Maybach, 74, German actress [193]
- Shekhar Mehta, 60, Kenyan rally driver, five-time winner of the Safari Rally & president of the FIA's World Rally Championship commission, illness relating to complications from an old injury. [194]
- Howard Newman, 85, American executive and investor. [195]
- Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player. [196]
- Albert E. Radford, 88, American botanist, senior author of Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, a landmark flora for North Carolina and South Carolina, which is still the definitive guide, nearly forty years after its publication. [197]
- Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. [198]
- William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, professor at Stanford University. [199]
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- Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor
- Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member. [200]
- DeShaun Holton, 32, American rapper better known as Proof of D-12, homicide. [201] [202] [203]
- Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Sinn Féin politician, cancer. [204]
- June Pointer, 52, singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters, lung cancer. [205]
- Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean Film producer, liver problems.[206]
- Naoki Tominaga, 92, Japanese sculptor [207]
- Logan Young Jr., 65, central figure in the University of Alabama recruiting scandal. [208]
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- Joe Faragalli, 76, CFL head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos, unspecified illness. [209]
- Bonaya Godana, 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash. [210]
- Bishop Charles Henderson KC*HS, 81, retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, cancer. [211]
- Mirugi Kariuki, 53, Kenyan politician and lawyer, plane crash. [212]
- Kleitos Kyrou, 85, Greek poet, unspecified respiratory illness. [213]
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- Charles Doe, 79, founder of Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, cancer. [214]
- Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia. [215]
- Billy Hitchcock, 89, Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes. [216] [217]
- George Minden, 85, Romanian president of the CIA-financed International Literary Center. [218]
- Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor [219]
- Jimmy Outlaw, 93, baseball third baseman/outfielder who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Bees and Detroit Tigers between 1937 and 1949 [220]
- Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister. [221]
- Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow)), complications from brain haemorrhage. [222]
- Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano [223]
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- Dr.Phillip Harrity, 42, Pathologist at William Beaumont Hospital and Alumnus of the Roeper School, cancer. [224]
- Elizabeth Maguire, 47, American editor, vice president and publisher of Basic Books. [225]
- Richard Pearlman, 68, director of the Chicago Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. [226]
- Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings, The Fourth Man), Alzheimer's disease. [227] [228][229]
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- John Blackburn, 82, comics artist and writer. [230]
- Christian, The Dowager Lady Hesketh, 76, British historian. [231]
- Denise Morgan, 41, lawyer & professor at New York Law School [232]
- Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife of Nudie Cohn. [233]
- Frederick Pough, 99, American mineralogist and author of A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals (1953). [234]
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- Jim Clack, 58, NFL offensive guard, heart failure. [235]
- Maggie Dixon, 28, women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia. [236]
- Amanda Duff, 92, American actress [237]
- Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat [238]
- Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University. [239]
- Lucie 'Anne' Pere-Pucheu, 112, French supercentenarian. [240]
- Stefanos Strategos, 83, Greek actor, lung problems [241]
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- Alain de Boissieu, 92, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle [242]
- J.B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist. [243]
- George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.[244]
- Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes. [245]
- Ray Krzoska, 87, American men's basketball coach at UW-Milwaukee Star star athlete, natural causes. [246]
- Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist. [248]
- Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, 82, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI. [249] [250]
- Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist. [251]
- Ellinor Piipuu, 92, Estonian ceramist. [252]
- Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease. [253] [254]
- Marcelo Real, 48, Argentine sportscaster. [255]
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- Colonel Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II. [256]
- Eckhard Dagge, 58, German WBC junior middleweight boxer. [257]
- Denis Donaldson, 55/56, former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home. [258]
- Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s,from cancer.[259]
- John de Courcy Ireland, 94, Irish maritime historian and political activist. [260]
- Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer. [261]
- Vickery Turner, 66, British actress of the 60's. [262]
- Charles Wilcox GC, won the George Cross for helping rescue a man trapped high on a building in Birmingham [263]
- Canon Frederick B. Williams, 66, minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City [264]
- Tommy Wilson, 72, ex-Reading F.C. & Exeter City F.C. player, and notable figure in Bridgwater, Somerset. [265]
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- Tom Abercrombie, 75, National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery. [266]
- William E. Bennett, 63, professor of political science at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, KY, lung cancer.
- Barry Bingham, Jr., 72, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. [267]
- Lou Carrol, 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon. [268]
- Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps. [269]
- Martin Gilks, 41, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident. [270] [271]
- Marshall Goldberg, 88, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury. [272] [273]
- Peter Hadhazy, 62, longtime NFL official, former general manager of the Cleveland Browns. [274] [275]
- Albert Harker, 95, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team. [276]
- Frédérique Huydts, 38, Dutch actress, colon cancer. [277]
- Gwin Kolb, 86, American professor at the University of Chicago and scholar of Samuel Johnson. [278]
- Antonia Morgan 91, fled the U.S. with granddaughter in Elizabeth Morgan custody battle [279]
- Genzo Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist. [280]
- Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress [281]
- Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer. [282]
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- Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. [283].
- William 'John' Jordan, 85, businessman, aviator & motor racing team boss. [284]
- Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright. [285]
- Victor Quiñonez, 46, International Wrestling Association (IWA) Promoter and Owner. [286],[citation needed]
- Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers. [287]
- Nina von Stauffenberg, 92, widow of Hitler's would-be assassin. [288]
