Deaths in December 2007

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

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• Tommy Dickson, 78, British footballer (Linfield, Northern Ireland), after long illness. [1]
• Tony Elliott, 48, American football player (New Orleans Saints), natural causes. [2]
• Ralph Emmerson, 94, British Bishop of Knaresborough (1972–1979). [3]
• Michael Goldberg, 83, American abstract expressionist painter, heart attack. [4]
• Bill Idelson, 88, American actor and script writer, complications from a broken hip. [5]
• Kathryn Ish, 71, American television, voiceover and theater actress (Laverne & Shirley), cancer. [6]
• Milton L. Klein, 97, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Cartier (1963–1968). [7]
• Markku Peltola, 51, Finnish actor and musician. [8] (Finnish)
• Ettore Sottsass, 90, Italian designer, heart failure. [9]

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• Bert Bolin, 82, Swedish meteorologist, stomach cancer. [10]
• Kinkri Devi, 82, Indian environmentalist. [11]
• Laila Kaland, 68, Norwegian politician, MP (1985–2001), after long illness. [12] (Norwegian)
• Jorge Machiñena, 71, Uruguayan deputy (1985–2000), President of the Chamber (1996–1997), heart attack. [13] [14] (Spanish)
• Leonard B. Meyer, 89, American musicologist. [15]
• Victor Navarra, 55, American coordinator for New York Marathon, cancer. [16].
• Abdul Razzak, 68, Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee, cancer. [17]
• Willie Robinson, 81, American blues singer, injuries from a fire. [18]
• Ric Williamson, 55, American chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, heart attack. [19]
• Louis Wolfson, 95, American businessman, bred and raced 1978 U.S. Triple Crown champion Affirmed, colon cancer. [20]

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• Olayr Coan, 48, Brazilian actor and theater director, car accident. [21] (Portuguese)
• Phil Dusenberry, 71, American advertising executive, lung cancer. [22]
• Kevin Greening, 44, British former BBC Radio 1 disc jockey. [23]
• Vincent Gruppuso, 67, American founder of Kozy Shack puddings, complications from diabetes. [24]
• Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, 74, Yemeni politician, Parliamentary speaker since 1993, cancer. [25]
• Joan Ingpen, 91, British classical music manager (Ingpen & Williams), launched the career of Luciano Pavarotti. [26]
• Nonja, 55, Indonesian Sumatran orangutan thought to be world's oldest. [27]
• Phil O'Donnell, 35, Scottish footballer (Motherwell) with one Scotland cap, heart failure. [28] [29]
• H. D. Thoreau, Jr., 84, American track-and-field authority and Olympics official, complications from Alzheimer's and stroke. [30]
• Shu Uemura, 79, Japanese makeup artist, pneumonia. [31]

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• Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, 25, Iranian basketball player, road accident. [32]
• Serigne Saliou Mbacké, 92, Senegalese religious leader, fifth caliph of the Mouride Islamic movement. [33]
• Sun Daolin, 86, Chinese actor. [34]
• Tab Thacker, 45, American NCAA wrestling champion, actor (Police Academy films, City Heat, Wildcats), diabetes complications. [35]

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• Kit Ahern, 92, Irish politician. [36]
• Ben D. Altamirano, 77, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate since 1971, heart attack. [37]
• Ben Bamfuchile, 47, Zambian coach of the Namibia national football team, after short illness. [38]
• Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister (1988–1990, 1993–1996), assassinated. [39]
• Edward A. Brennan, 73, American businessman, former Chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company. [40]
• Sir Howard Colvin, 88, British architectural historian. [41]
• Steven Florio, 58, American businessman, former CEO of Condé Nast, heart attack. [42]
• Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 85, Polish film director. [43] (Polish)
• Jaan Kross, 87, Estonian writer. [44] (Estonian)
• Ed LaDou, 52, American pizza chef, popularized gourmet California-style pizzas, cancer. [45]
• Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, 94, Brazilian pretender to the title Emperor of Brazil. [46] (Portuguese)
• Peter Wing, 93, Canadian politician, mayor of Kamloops, North America's first mayor of Chinese descent, stroke. [47]

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• Raúl Bernao, 66, Argentine footballer, hepatitis. [48]
• Jim Castiglia, 89, American football and baseball player, natural causes. [49]
• Joe Dolan, 68, Irish singer and entertainer, brain haemorrhage. [50] [51]
• John A. Garraty, 87, American biographer, heart failure. [52]
• Andrew Grima, 86, British jeweller. [53]
• Voitto Liukkonen, 67, Finnish sports commentator. [54] (Finnish)
• Paul D. MacLean, 94, American physician, developed triune brain concept, heart attack. [55]
• Nina Menshikova, 79, Russian actress. [56] (Russian)
• Stu Nahan, 81, American sportscaster, lymphoma. [57]
• John Pappenheimer, 92, American professor of physiology at Harvard University, respiratory failure. [58]

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• Jim Beauchamp, 68, American Major League Baseball player and coach, leukemia. [59]
• Tommy Harmer, 79, British footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Watford and Chelsea). [60]
• John Hayes, 80, New Zealand test cricketer. [61]
• Patricia Kirkwood, 86, British actress. [62]
• Hugh Massingberd, 60, British genealogist and journalist, former The Daily Telegraph obituary editor. [63] [64] [65]
• Mighty King Kong, 34, Kenyan reggae musician. [66]
• Hans Otte, 81, German avant-garde composer and pianist. [67]
• G. P. Sippy, 93, Indian film producer and director. [68]
• Tatiana, 4, Siberian tiger at San Francisco Zoo, mauled a visitor to death, shot. [69]

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• Jim Angel, 67, Australian radio newsreader, stroke. [70]
• Cláudio Camunguelo, 60, Brazilian composer and singer, diabetes. [71] (Portuguese)
• Reinhard Heß, 62, German ski jumping coach, pancreatic cancer. [72]
• Wilhelmina Jashemski, 97, American archaeologist, renal failure. [73]
• Andreas Matzbacher, 25, Austrian cyclist, car accident. [74]
• Nicholas Pumfrey, 56, British judge, stroke. [75]
• George Warrington, 55, American transportation official, President of Amtrak (1998-2002), pancreatic cancer. [76]

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• Dale Baird, 72, American thoroughbred horse trainer, car crash. [77]
• Evelyn Gandy, 87, American Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi (1976–1980). [78]
• W.F. Ganong, 83, American neuroendocrinologist, prostate cancer. [79]
• Michael Kidd, 92, American film and stage choreographer, cancer. [80]
• Aloísio Lorscheider, 83, Brazilian cardinal, heart failure. [81]
• Hans Mild, 73, Swedish footballer and ice hockey player. [82](Swedish)
• Oscar Peterson, 82, Canadian jazz pianist, kidney failure and complications from a stroke. [83] [84]
• Rhoda Pritzker, 93, American philanthropist, member of the Pritzker family. [85]
• Ferreira Queimado, 94, Portuguese former chairman of S.L. Benfica, after long illness. [86] [87] (Portuguese)
• Kevin Sinclair, 65, New Zealand-born Hong Kong reporter, editor and columnist for the South China Morning Post, cancer. [88]
• Osvaldo Reyes, 88, Chilean painter, stroke. [89] (Spanish)
• Frank Swaelen, 77, Belgian politician, former President of the Senate and Minister of State. [90] [91] (Dutch)

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• Joe Ames, 86, American singer (Ames Brothers), heart attack. [92]
• Chrysostomos I, 80, Archbishop of Cyprus (1977–2006). [93]
• Sir Charles Court, 96, Premier of Western Australia (1974–1982). [94]
• Sylvan Fox, 79, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, complications from pneumonia. [95]
• Andrew Glyn, 64, British economist. [96]
• Julien Gracq, 97, French writer. [97] (French)
• Leila Backman Shull, 113, American supercentenarian, seventh-oldest living person in the world. [98]
• Lucien Teisseire, 88, French road bicycle racer. [99]
• Marvin Wachman, 90, American historian, President of Lincoln University and Temple University, heart failure. [100]
• Ruth Wallis, 87, American singer-songwriter, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [101]
• Takashi Yamamoto, 58, Japanese politician. [102] (Japanese)

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• Carol Bly, 77, American author and poet, ovarian cancer. [103]
• Kex Gorin, 56, British drummer (Magnum), kidney cancer. [104]
• Ken Hendricks, 66, American contractor and billionaire, fall from roof. [105]
• Hans Imhoff, 85, German businessman, founder of Imhoff Chocolate Museum in Cologne. [106] (German)
• Jack Lamabe, 71, American Major League Baseball pitcher. [107]
• Ken Lee, 75, Chinese-born Australian owner and co-founder of Bing Lee superstores, cancer. [108]
• Saadia Marciano, 57, Israeli Black Panthers leader, member of the Knesset. [109]
• Norton Nascimento, 45, Brazilian actor, heart failure. [110] (Portuguese)
• Jiří Pauer, 88, Czech composer, theatre director and academic. [111]
• Jeani Read, 60, Canadian journalist, cancer. [112]
• Battista Serioli, 107, Italian World War I veteran. [113] (Italian)

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• Tommy Byrne, 87, American baseball player. [114]
• Jeanne Carmen, 77, American actress and pin-up girl, lymphoma. [115]
• Arabella Churchill, 58, British founder of Children's World charity, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, pancreatic cancer. [116]
• Russell Coffey, 109, American serviceman, one of three known remaining American veterans of World War I. [117]
• Lorne Davis, 77, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens) and scout (Edmonton Oilers). [118]
• Ted Finn, 68, Canadian director of CSIS (1984–1987). [119]
• Peer Hultberg, 72, Danish author and psychoanalyst. [120] (Danish)
• Lydia Mendoza, 91, American Tejano music singer and guitarist. [121]
• Kazumi Tanaka, 56, Japanese seiyuu, brother of Ryouichi Tanaka, heart failure. [122]
• Robbie Williams, 45, first Indigenous Australian Brisbane City councillor, former ATSIC commissioner, heart attack. [123] [124]

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• Frank Capra, Jr., 73, American movie studio executive, son of director Frank Capra, prostate cancer. [125] [126]
• James Costigan, 81, American actor and television writer (Eleanor and Franklin), heart failure. [127]
• John A. Garraty, 87, American historian, heart failure. [128]
• Albert L. O'Neil, 87, American politician, Boston City Council (1971–1999). [129]

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• Walter Bowart, 68, American co-founder of East Village Other, colon cancer. [130]
• Gerald Le Dain, 83, Canadian Supreme Court judge. [131]
• Samuel Karlin, 83, American mathematician, heart attack. [132]
• Jack Linkletter, 70, American television host, son of Art Linkletter, lymphoma. [133]
• Motiur Rahman, 58, Indian politician, Rashtriya Janata Dal member of the Rajya Sabha since 2005, heart attack. [134]
• Bill Strauss, 60, American writer on generations, satirist, and founder of the Capitol Steps, pancreatic cancer. [135]

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• Don Chevrier, 69, Canadian sportscaster. [136]
• Joel Dorn, 65, American jazz, pop and R&B record producer, heart attack. [137]
• Jim Holstein, 77, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers). [138]
• Tom Murphy, 83, American politician, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives (1973–2002), complications of a stroke. [139]
• Jack Zander, 99, American animator (Tom and Jerry). [140]

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• Dan Fogelberg, 56, American singer-songwriter ("Same Old Lang Syne"), prostate cancer. [141]
• Harald Genzmer, 98, German composer of classical music. [142] (German)
• Ismail Gulgee, 81, Pakistani painter, homicide by strangulation. [143]
• Serge Vinçon, 58, French politician. [144] (French)

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• John Berg, 58, American actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [145]
• Jean Bottéro, 93, French historian. [146] (French)
• St. Clair Bourne, 64, American documentary filmmaker (Half Past Autumn), pulmonary embolism. [147]
• Julia Carson, 69, American member of the House of Representatives from Indiana since 1997, lung cancer. [148]
• Gerard Fairtlough, 77, British biochemist and entrepreneur. [149]
• Andrzeja Górska, 91, Polish nun, abbess of the Grey Ursulines. [150] (Polish)
• Ryan Gracie, 33, Brazilian martial artist. [151]
• Clem Jones, 89, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane (1961–1975), pneumonia. [152] [153]
• Diane Middlebrook, 68, American biographer and poet, cancer. [154]
• Tejeshwar Singh, 60, Indian publisher, newsreader and theatre activist, cardiac arrest. [155]
• Ace Vergel, 55, Filipino actor, cardiac arrest. [156]
• Jonathan Witchell, 33, British BBC reporter for Radio Kent. [157]

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• Issam al-Zaim, 67, Syrian economist, heart attack. [158]
• Hank Kaplan, 87, American boxing historian, cancer. [159]
• Maria Lauterbach, 20, American marine and murder victim. [160]
• Clarence Marshall, 82, American Major League Baseball pitcher (New York Yankees). [161]
• Frank Morgan, 73, American saxophonist. [162]
• Hryhoriy Nestor, 116?, Ukrainian who claimed to be the oldest person in the world. [163]
• Emory Sekaquaptewa, 78, American indigenous Hopi anthropologist. [164]

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• Philippe Clay, 80, French singer and actor. [165]
• Fuat Deniz, 40, Swedish-Assyrian sociologist, homicide by stabbing. [166]
• Laura Huxley, 96, American musician and author, widow of Aldous Huxley, cancer. [167]
• Alain Payet, 60, French adult film director. [168] (French)
• Robert Russin, 93, American sculptor. [169]
• Floyd Red Crow Westerman, 71, American musician, actor (Dances With Wolves) and Native American activist, leukemia. [170]

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• Basuki, 51, Indonesian comedian. [171]
• Ted Corbitt, 88, American ultramarathon runner, respiratory complications. [172]
• Shawn Eckardt, 40, American bodyguard and businessman, conspired to assault Nancy Kerrigan, natural causes. [173]
• Josep Guinovart, 80, Spanish artist. [174] (Spanish)
• François al-Hajj, 54, Lebanese Army general, roadside bomb. [175] [176]
• Alfons Maria Stickler, 97, Austrian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. [177] (German)
• Jim Nevill, 80, British former head of Scotland Yard bomb squad. [178]
• Ike Turner, 76, American R&B musician and record producer, ex-husband of Tina Turner, cocaine overdose. [179] [180]
• Schuster Vance, 47, American actor, cancer. [181]
• Lee Vincent, 91, American bassist and radio personality (WILK), heart failure. [182]
• Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov, 78, Russian diplomat, former ambassador to the United Nations and United States. [183]

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• Ashleigh Aston Moore, 27, Canadian actress, accidental heroin overdose. [184]
• Allan Berube, 61, American gay historian and writer, complications from stomach ulcers. [185]
• José Luis Calva, 38, Mexican writer, serial killer and cannibal, apparent suicide. [186]
• Freddie Fields, 84, American Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive, lung cancer. [187]
• Pat Hannigan, 71, Canadian NHL ice hockey player. [188]
• Christie Hennessy, 62, Irish singer and songwriter, cancer. [189]
• Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, world's oldest Catholic priest. [190]
• Karl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, 89, Austrian son of Emperor Charles I of Austria. [191] [192] (German).
• Ottomar Pinto, 76 , Brazilian politician, Governor of Roraima (2004–2007), heart attack. [193]
• Tatsuzō Shimaoka, 88, Japanese potter, living national treasure, acute liver failure. [194]
• Terry Yates, 57, American biologist, discovered source of hantavirus, brain cancer. [195]

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• George Morris, 76, American football player (Georgia Tech, San Francisco 49ers), apparent heart attack. [196]
• Aqsa Parvez, 16, Canadian allegedly killed for refusing to wear hijab, strangled. [197]
• Jerry Ricks, 67, American blues guitarist. [198]
• Gordon Samuels, 84, Australian Governor of New South Wales (1996–2001). [199] [200]
• Henrietta Yurchenko, 91, American folklorist. [201]

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• Wayne Howard, 58, American comic book artist (Charlton Comics), heart attack. [202]
• Jim Langley, 79, British footballer for England, Fulham, and QPR, heart attack. [203]
• Matthew J. Murray, 24, American spree killer, suicide by gunshot. [204]
• Elspeth Rostow, 90, American academic, University of Texas dean, widow of Walt Whitman Rostow, heart attack. [205]
• Kurt Schmied, 81, Austrian footballer, former member of the national team. [206] (German)
• Thore Skogman, 76, Swedish musician, stroke. [207] (Swedish)
• Rafael Sperafico, 26, Brazilian racing driver, race crash. [208]
• J. Fife Symington Jr., 97, American diplomat to Trinidad and Tobago, complications of old age. [209]
• Gordon Zahn, 84, American Catholic peace activist, co-founder of Pax Christi USA, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [210]

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• Donald Burton, 73, British actor, husband of actress Carroll Baker, emphysema. [211]
• Ioan Fiscuteanu, 70, Romanian actor, colon cancer. [212]
• Dmitry Grigorieff, 89, American dean emeritus of Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Washington D.C., cardiac arrest. [213]
• Roger King, 63, American TV executive (King World, CBS), developed Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and Oprah Winfrey Show, stroke. [214]
• Gerardo García Pimentel, 24, Mexican crime reporter, homicide by gunshot. [215]
• Al Scaduto, 79, American cartoonist (They'll Do It Every Time). [216]

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• Noel Forster, 75, British artist. [217]
• Fuad Hassan, 78, Indonesian Minister of Education (1985–1993), cancer. [218]
• John Hollowbread, 73, British football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton). [219]

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• Wolfgang Assbrock, 55, German politician, member of the CDU and Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. [220] (German)
• George Bednar, 65, American NFL player and Harvey Wallbanger cocktail promoter. [221]
• Mike Donkin, 56, British reporter and journalist (BBC News), cancer. [222]
• Katy French, 24, Irish model, suspected overdose. [223] [224]
• Jacques Hébert, 84, Canadian Senator (1983–1998). [225]
• John Hill, 95, British politician, Conservative MP for South Norfolk (1955-1974). [226]
• Murray Klein, 84, American businessman, co-owner of New York City's Zabar's food emporium, lung cancer. [227][228]
• Shelley Rohde, 74, British journalist and author. [229]
• Ken Southworth, 89, American cartoon animator (Hanna-Barbera, Walt Disney Animation Studios), stroke. [230]
• András Szöllősy, 86, Hungarian composer. [231]

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• M. V. Dhond, 93, Indian literary and art critic. [232] (Marathi)
• Robin Gloag, 64, British co-founder of Stagecoach Group, car accident. [233]
• Arnold Hardy, 85, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, complications from hip surgery. [234]
• Andrew Imbrie, 86, American composer. [235]
• Dan Iosif, 57, Romanian revolutionary, lung cancer. [236]
• Jillian Kesner-Graver, 58, American actress (Happy Days), Orson Welles historian, staph infection. [237]
• Alois Kracher, 48, Austrian winemaker, pancreatic cancer. [238]
• George Paraskevaides, 91, Cypriot businessman (Joannou & Paraskevaides) and philanthropist. [239]
• Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, German composer. [240]
• Tony Tenser, 87, British film producer. [241]
• Rene Villanueva, 53, Filipino playwright and author, stroke. [242] [243]
• John Winter, 83, Australian athlete, 1948 Olympics high jump gold medalist. [244]

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• Chad "Pimp C" Butler, 33, American rap artist (UGK), sleep apnea and accidental overdose. [245] [246]
• Jake Gaudaur, 87, Canadian Commissioner of the CFL (1968–1984), cancer. [247] [248]
• Jay H. Gordon, 77, American politician, Vermont Auditor of Accounts (1965–1969), smoke inhalation. [249] [250]
• Norval Morrisseau, 75, Canadian Ojibwe artist, founder of the Woodlands Style, Parkinson's disease. [251]
• David "Chip" Reese, 56, American professional poker player, heart attack. [252]
• Herman Rose, 98, American cityscape painter, cancer. [253]
• Carlos Valdes, 81, Cuban conga player, respiratory failure. [254]

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• Art Arfons, 81, American jet-car driver and drag racer, three-time world land speed record holder. [255]
• John Belgrave, 67, New Zealand public servant, Chief Ombudsman (2003–2007), cancer. [256]
• Jaime Fuster, 66, Puerto Rican politician and jurist, Resident Commissioner (1985–1992), heart attack. [257] (Spanish)
• Susumu Katsumata, 63, Japanese mangaka and illustrator, melanoma. [258] (Japanese)
• James Kemsley, 59, Australian cartoonist (Ginger Meggs), motor neurone disease. [259]
• Liliana Macellari, 78, Italian translator and literary agent, widow of Anthony Burgess. [260]
• Lord Bloody Wog Rolo, 62, Australian activist, renal cell carcinoma. [261]

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• Jennifer Alexander, 35, Canadian-born American ballet dancer, car accident. [262]
• Robert O. Anderson, 90, American founder and former CEO of ARCO. [263]
• Elizabeth Hardwick, 91, American co-founder of The New York Review of Books. [264]
• David Maybury-Lewis, 78, British anthropologist. [265]
• Eleonora Rossi Drago, 82, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage. [266] (Italian)
• Les Shannon, 81, British footballer and manager. [267]
• Thomas Torrance, 94, British theologian. [268]

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• Rassim al-Jumaili, 69, Iraqi actor and comedian, kidney failure. [269]
• Jennifer Davidson, 38, American senior vice president of programming and scheduling for Cartoon Network. [270]
• Elisabeth Eybers, 92, South African-born poet. [271] (Afrikaans)
• Tony Fall, 67, British rally driver and Opel Motorsport Team director, heart attack. [272]
• Ken McGregor, 78, Australian tennis champion, stomach cancer. [273]
• Danny Newman, 88, American publicist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, pulmonary fibrosis. [274]
• Anton Rodgers, 74, British actor. [275]