Deaths in February 2008

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

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• Bill Carlson, 73, American news anchor (WCCO, Twin Cities), prostate cancer. [1]
• Buddy Dial, 71, American football player. [2]
• Vitaly Fedorchuk, 89, Russian former head of the KGB. [3]
• Jerry Groom, 78, American football player. [4]
• Janet Kagan, 62, American writer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [5]
• Mar Paulos Faraj Rahho, 65, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic archbishop, kidnapped on this date and subsequently found dead. [6]

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• Aharon Amir, 85, Israeli author and translator, natural causes. [7]
• John Bliss, 77, American actor, complications from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. [8]
• Gérard Calvet, 80, French abbot and founder of the Abbey of Le Barroux, heart attack. [9]
• Milt Harradence, 86, Canadian lawyer, judge and former leader of PCAA, cancer. [10]
• Joseph M. Juran, 103, American engineer and philanthropist, stroke. [11]
• Val Plumwood, 67, Australian ecologist and feminist, natural causes. [12] [13]
• Philip Rabinowitz, 104, South African fastest centenarian over 100 metres, complications of a stroke. [14]
• Julian Rathbone, 73, British novelist. [15]
• Mike Smith, 64, British rock and roll singer and keyboardist (The Dave Clark Five), pneumonia. [16]

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• Shihab al-Tamimi, 74, Iraqi head of the Journalists Syndicate, heart attack following shooting. [17] [18]
• Anthony Blond, 79, British book publisher. [19]
• William F. Buckley, Jr., 82, American author, conservative commentator, founder of National Review magazine, emphysema. [20]
• Boyd Coddington, 63, American owner of hot rod shop, star of American Hot Rod on TLC. [21] [22]
• Myron Cope, 79, American radio broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers, inventor of the "Terrible Towel". [23]
• David Edwards, 20, American football player paralyzed during a game in 2003, pneumonia. [24]
• W. C. Heinz, 93, American sportswriter. [25]
• Ray Kane, 82, American slack key guitarist. [26]
• Mandi Lampi, 19, Finnish child actress and singer. [27] (Finnish)
• Ivan Rebroff, 76, German singer. [28]
• Barbara Seaman, 72, American writer, journalist and activist, lung cancer. [29]
• Sujatha, 72, Indian author, inventor of the electronic voting machine, multiple organ failure. [30]

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• Tyronne Fernando, 66, Sri Lankan politician, Foreign Minister (2001–2004). [31]
• Cabral Ferreira, 56, Portuguese President of C.F. Os Belenenses (2005–2008), cancer. [32] (Portuguese)
• Dick Fletcher, 65, American meteorologist at WTSP Tampa Bay, stroke. [33]
• Robert Kraichnan, 80, American physicist, heart disease. [34]
• Buddy Miles, 60, American drummer (Band of Gypsys, Electric Flag), lead vocalist (California Raisins), heart failure. [35] [36]
• Dan Shomron, 70, Israeli general, Chief of the Defense Forces (1987–1991), stroke. [37]
• Bodil Udsen, 83, Danish actress, after short illness. [38]

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• Charles Chan, 93, Chinese patriarch, father of actor Jackie Chan, prostate cancer. [39] [40]
• Ashley Cooper, 27, Australian V8 Supercar driver, injuries from a race crash. [41]
• Genoa Keawe, 89, American performer of Hawaiian music. [42]
• Hans Raj Khanna, 95, Indian Supreme Court judge. [43]
• Alan Ledesma, 29, Mexican telenovela actor, stomach cancer. [44] [45] (Spanish)
• Static Major, 33, American performer/producer/songwriter, from complications after medical procedure. [46]

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• Lady Darcy de Knayth, 69, British crossbench member of the House of Lords, disability campaigner. [47]
• Alan Dargin, 30, Australian didgeridoo player. [48]
• Floyd Matthews, 105, oldest living American submariner. [49] [50]
• Larry Norman, 60, American Christian rock singer/songwriter, heart failure. [51]
• Shirley Ritts, 87, American interior designer, mother of photographer Herb Ritts, emphysema. [52]
• Laird Stabler, 77, American former Attorney General of Delaware, oral cancer. [53]
• Pearl Witherington, 93, British World War II Secret Service agent. [54]
• Milford Zornes, 100, American watercolor artist, heart failure. [55]

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• Joaquim Pinto de Andrade, 81, Angolan politician, first honorary MPLA President, PRD chairman, after long illness. [56] (Portuguese)
• Janez Drnovšek, 57, Slovenian Prime Minister (1992–2002) and President (2002–2007), cancer. [57]
• Josep Palau i Fabre‎, 90, Spanish author. [58] (Spanish)
• Douglas Fraser, 91, American former president of the United Auto Workers, emphysema. [59]
• Paul Frère, 91, Belgian Formula One driver, 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and automobile journalist. [60]
• Denis Lazure, 82, Canadian politician (NDP), cancer. [61]
• Hubert Lilliefors, 79, American statistician, lung cancer. [62]
• Gentil Ferreira Viana, 72, Angolan politician (MPLA). [63]

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• Richard Baer, 79, American TV scriptwriter, heart attack. [64]
• Johnnie Carr, 97, American civil rights leader. [65]
• Eagle Day, 75, American football player, after short illness. [66]
• Rubens de Falco, 76, Brazilian telenovela actor (Escrava Isaura), heart failure. [67]
• Nunzio Gallo, 79, Italian singer, represented Italy in the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, brain haemorrhage. [68]
• Dennis Letts, 73, American actor (August: Osage County) and college professor, lung cancer. [69]
• Oswaldo Louzada, 95, Brazilian actor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [70] (Portuguese)
• Stephen Marlowe, 79, American novelist (The Second Longest Night). [71]
• Tsuneyo Toyonaga, 113, oldest living Japanese person. [72]
• Steve Whitaker, 53, British comic book colorist (V for Vendetta). [73]

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• Madalena Barbosa, 66, Portuguese feminist. [74] (Portuguese)
• Ben Chapman, 79, American actor (The Creature from the Black Lagoon). [75]
• Joe Gibbs, 65, Jamaican reggae producer, heart attack. [76] [77]
• Ana Gonzalez, 92, Chilean actress, septic shock. [78]
• Archie Hind, 79, British novelist. [79]
• Hans Janitschek, 73, Austrian journalist, heart attack. [80]
• Geoff Leek, 76, Australian footballer with Essendon. [81]
• Sunny Lowry, 97, first British woman to swim the English Channel. [82]
• Evan Mecham, 83, American Governor of Arizona (1987–1988). [83]
• Matthew Mechtel, 39, American former candidate for the U.S. House from North Dakota, apparent suicide by gunshot. [84]
• Robin Moore, 82, American author (The French Connection, The Green Berets). [85]
• Emmanuel Sanon, 56, Haitian footballer, pancreatic cancer. [86]
• Sufi Abu Taleb, 83, Egyptian politician; acting President (1981), Speaker of the People's Assembly (1978-1983). [87]
• Tian Bao, 92, Chinese government official, one of the first ethnic Tibetans to join Mao Zedong's army and embrace Communism. [88]

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• Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, 91, American nurse, cardiovascular disease. [89]
• Larry Davis, 41, American convicted murderer, stabbed. [90]
• D. G. S. Dhinakaran, 73, Indian evangelist. [91]
• Bobby Lee Trammell, 74, American rockabilly singer, former Arkansas Representative. [92]
• Paranjape Prakash Vishvanath, 60, Indian Shiv Sena politician, cancer. [93]

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• Barry Barclay, 63, New Zealand film maker, heart attack. [94]
• Mary Barclay, 91, British actress. [95]
• Jean-Michel Bertrand, 64, French politician. [96] (French)
• Natalia Bessmertnova, 66, Russian prima ballerina, cancer. [97]
• Richard D'Aeth, 95, British scholar. [98]
• Eugene Freedman, 82, American figurine creator [99]
• Bob Howsam, 89, American sports executive (Denver Broncos, Cincinnati Reds), heart condition. [100]
• Yegor Letov, 43, Russian punk rock singer, heart failure. [101]
• Teo Macero, 82, American record producer and saxophonist. [102]
• Emily Perry, 100, British actress. [103]
• Peter Pianto, 78, Australian footballer. [104]
• Lydia Shum, 62, Hong Kong actress, liver cancer. [105]
• David Watkin, 82, British cinematographer, cancer. [106]

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• Grits Gresham, 85, American conservationist, sportsman, and actor, complication of infection and pneumonia. [107]
• Jim Jones, 57, American rock guitarist (Pere Ubu), heart attack. [108]
• Raymond Kennedy, 73, American novelist, complications of a stroke. [109]
• Sir Richard Knowles, 90, British leader of Birmingham City Council (1984–1993), bladder cancer. [110]
• Jack Lyons, 92, British financier and philanthropist. [111]
• Mihaela Mitrache, 52, Romanian actress, cancer. [112] (Romanian)
• Ralph Peck, 95, American civil engineer. [113]
• Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, French writer (Last Year at Marienbad), heart failure. [114]
• Raymond J. Smith, 77, American editor, complications of pneumonia. [115]
• Alec Wildenstein, 67, French international art dealer, ex-husband of socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein, cancer. [116]

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• Aysel Gurel, 80, Turkish lyric writer and actress, chronic bronchitis. [117]
• Brian Harris, 72, British footballer. [118]
• Bill Juzda, 87, Canadian ice hockey defenceman, cancer. [119]
• Manna, 44, Bangladeshi film actor. [120]
• Val Ross, 57, Canadian journalist and children's writer, brain cancer. [121]
• Benigno G. Tabora, 92, American survivor of Bataan Death March. [122]
• Winning Colors, 23, American racehorse, won 1988 Kentucky Derby, euthanized. [123]

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• Shelley Beattie, 40, American bodybuilder (American Gladiators). [124]
• Harry Flemming, 74, Canadian journalist, complications from cancer and pneumonia. [125]
• Brendan Hughes, 59, Irish member of the Provisional IRA. [126]
• Jerry Karl, 66, American racing driver, car accident. [127]
• Boris Khmelnitsky, 67, Russian actor in adventure films. [128]
• Hans Leussink, 96, German politician. [129] (German)
• Bobby Lord, 74, American country musician. [130]
• Per Erik Monsen, 61, Norwegian Member of Parliament (1997-2005), complications from heart attack. [131] (Norwegian)
• James Orange, 65, American civil rights activist. [132]
• Charlie Ryan, 92, American musician and songwriter ("Hot Rod Lincoln"), heart disease. [133]

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• Ayman al-Fayed, 42, Palestinian commander of al-Quds Brigades, explosion. [134]
• Willie P. Bennett, 56, Canadian singer, natural causes. [135]
• Sam Bith, 74, Cambodian former Khmer Rouge commander. [136]
• Ashley Callie, 34, South African actress, car accident. [137]
• Joaquim Costa, 72, Portuguese rock musician. [138] (Portuguese)
• Antoni Heda, 91, Polish Brigadier General, freedom fighter during World War II. [139] (Polish)
• Amnon Netzer, 73, Iranian Jewish historian. [140]
• Peter Neubauer, 94, American child psychiatrist. [141]
• Marijan Oblak, 88, Croatian Archbishop of Zadar. [142]
• Naziha Salim, 81, Iraqi painter, complications from a stroke. [143]
• Mikhail Solomentsev, 94, Russian chairman of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR (1971–1983). [144] (Russian)
• Inge Thun, 62, Norwegian footballer (Strømsgodset), stroke. [145] (Norwegian)
• Johnny Weaver, 72, American professional wrestler, natural causes. [146]

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• Len Boyd, 84, British footballer. [147]
• Jess Cain, 81, American radio personality (WHDH AM), cancer. [148]
• Thurlow Cooper, 74, American football player (New York Titans). [149]
• Werner Giesa, 53, German author. [150] (German)
• Sir Ralph Howell, 84, British Conservative MP (1970–1997). [151]
• Steven Kazmierczak, 27, American mass murderer (Northern Illinois University shooting), suicide by gunshot. [152]
• Perry Lopez, 78, American character actor (Chinatown), lung cancer. [153]
• William Modell, 86, American chairman of Modell's Sporting Goods, complications from prostate cancer. [154]
• Pado Mahn Shar, 64, Burmese Secretary General of Karen National Union, gunshot. [155] [156]

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• Smoky Dawson, 94, Australian country music performer, after a short illness. [157] [158]
• Michele Greco, 83, Italian Mafia boss, lung cancer. [159] (Italian)
• Kon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film director (Tokyo Olympiad, The Burmese Harp), pneumonia. [160]
• Rajendra Nath, 75, Indian film actor, cardiac arrest. [161]
• Henri Salvador, 90, French jazz singer and guitarist, aneurysm. [162]
• Lionel Mark Smith, 62, American actor (Edmond, Homicide), cancer. [163]
• Roger Voisin, 89, American trumpeter. [164]

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• John Brunious, 67, American jazz trumpeter, heart attack. [165]
• Ron Chippindale, 75, New Zealand retired chief air accident investigator, car accident. [166]
• Wilson Hermosa González, 64, Bolivian musician and composer (Los Kjarkas). [167] (Spanish)
• David Groh, 68, American actor (Rhoda), kidney cancer. [168]
• Thomas Grosser, 42, German footballer, heart attack during training. [169] (German)
• Preston Hanson, 87, American actor. [170]
• Geoffrey Lewis, 87, British Professor of Turkish at Oxford University. [171]
• Monica Morell, 54, Swiss singer, cancer. [172] (German)
• Imad Mugniyah, 45, Lebanese senior member of Hezbollah, car bomb. [173] [174] [175]
• Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, Georgian business oligarch and 2008 presidential candidate, heart attack. [176]
• Jean Prouff, 88, French footballer and manager. [177] (French)

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• Fouad al-Tikerly, 81, Iraqi novelist and judge, pancreatic cancer. [178]
• Emilio Carballido, 82, Mexican playwright, heart attack. [179] (Spanish)
• Tom Lantos, 80, American Representative (Cal.) since 1981, only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress, esophageal cancer. [180]
• Torakichi Nakamura, 92, Japanese professional golfer, natural causes. [181]
• Frank Piasecki, 88, American aeronautical engineer who invented the tandem rotor placement in helicopter design, stroke. [182]
• Rahatullah, 18, Pakistani cricketer for Peshawar and the Under-19 national side, shot. [183]
• Alfredo Reinado, 40, East Timorese rebel, shot during attack on José Ramos-Horta. [184]
• Zelig Sharfstein, 79, American chief rabbi of Cincinnati, heart condition. [185]
• Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr., 92, American ornithologist and curator emeritus at the Field Museum of Natural History. [186]

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• Freddie Bell, 76, American rhythm and blues singer, cancer. [187] [188]
• Kirk Browning, 86, American television director, heart attack. [189]
• Alaa Abdulkareem Fartusi, 29, Iraqi journalist and cameraman, bomb blast. [190]
• Adeline Jay Geo-Karis, 89, American politician, member of Illinois State Senate (1979–2007), natural causes. [191]
• Steve Gerber, 60, American comic book writer, creator of Howard the Duck, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. [192]
• Ove Jørstad, 37, Norwegian footballer, cardiac arrest. [193] (Norwegian)
• Ron Leavitt, 60, American co-creator of Married With Children, lung cancer. [194]
• Dario Lodigiani, 91, American baseball player. [195]
• Peter Marginter, 73, Austrian author. [196] (German)
• Inga Nielsen, 61, Danish soprano, cancer. [197]
• Roy Scheider, 75, American Academy Award-nominated actor (The French Connection, Jaws, All That Jazz), staph infection. [198]
• Chris Townson, 60, British drummer (John's Children). [199].

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• Baba Amte, 93, Indian social activist, advocate for lepers, RLA recipient. [200]
• Robert DoQui, 73, American character actor (RoboCop). [201]
• Scot Halpin, 54, American one time drummer for The Who. [202]
• Dorothy Podber, 75, American performance artist, shot Andy Warhol 's Shot Marilyns paintings. [203]
• Merril Sandoval, 82, American Navajo Code Talker during World War II.[204]
• Joseph Sneed, 87, American senior judge (Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit). [205]
• Guy Tchingoma, 22, Gabonese football player, on-field collision. [206]
• Mindrolling Trichen, 78, Tibetan ceremonial head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. [207]

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• Ah Meng, 48, Sumatran orangutan, tourist icon at Singapore Zoo. [208]
• Richard Altick, 92, American professor of English (Ohio State University). [209]
• Chua Ek Kay, 61, Singaporean painter and Cultural Medallion winner, nose cancer. [210]
• Eva Dahlbeck, 87, Swedish actress and writer, infection. [211]
• Victor Dominguez, 72, Filipino congressman, cardiac arrest. [212]
• Robert Jastrow, 82, American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist, pneumonia. [213]
• Stephen Arusei Kipkorir, 37, Kenyan long-distance runner, car crash. [214]
• Jane Lumb, 66, British model and actress, appeared in Fry's Turkish Delight commercials, breast cancer. [215]
• Rudie Sypkes, 57, Australian founder of the Chickenfeed retail chain and philanthropist, pulmonary fibrosis. [216]
• Phyllis A. Whitney, 104, American mystery novelist (A Place for Ann), pneumonia. [217]

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• Richard Altick, 92, American historian and author. [218]
• Alberto Bustamante Belaunde, 57, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1999–2000), heart attack. [219] (Spanish)
• Andrew Bertie, 78, British Grand Master of the Order of Malta. [220] (Italian)
• Hoang Minh Chinh, 85, Vietnamese dissident, pancreatic cancer. [221]
• Tamara Desni, 96, German-born British actress. [222]
• Karl Ehrhardt, 83, American New York Mets fan known for his signs in the crowd. [223]
• Andrew Harwood, 62, Australian radio & TV presenter (It's Academic, Jeopardy!), actor (The Paul Hogan Show), asthma attack. [224]
• Benny Neyman, 56, Dutch singer, cancer. [225] (Dutch)
• Guy Severin, 81, Russian academician and engineer. [226] (Russian)
• Frank Wayman, 76, British former footballer, struck by motorcycle. [227]
• Nicolaas Jan van Strien, 61, Dutch conservationist, cancer [228]

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• John Alvin, 59, American artist best known for movie posters (Star Wars, Blade Runner, E.T.), heart attack. [229]
• Max Bănuş, 81, Romanian journalist, heart attack. [230] [231] (Romanian)
• Phyllis Barnhart, 85, American animator and cel painter (The Secret of NIMH). [232]
• Nikol Faridani, 72, Iranian aerial photographer, prostate cancer. [233]
• Oliver Foot, 61, British President of Orbis International. [234]
• John Grimsley, 45, American football linebacker (Houston Oilers, Miami Dolphins), accidental gunshot. [235]
• John McWethy, 61, American television news correspondent (ABC News), skiing accident. [236]
• Ruth Stafford Peale, 101, American writer, widow of Norman Vincent Peale. [237]
• Tony Rolt, 89, British former racing driver and last living participant in the first F1 World Championship race. [238]
• Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, 78, French leader of the Druids of Brittany. [239] (French)

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• Schoolboy Cleve, 82, American blues musician, harmonica and guitar player. [240]
• Kenny Konz, 79, American football defensive back (Cleveland Browns), pneumonia. [241]
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 91?, Indian founder of Transcendental Meditation movement, former guru to The Beatles. [242]
• Vitaliy Ponomarenko, 33, Ukrainian powerlifting champion, heart condition. [243]
• Winston Walls, 65, American musician, heart failure and diabetes. [244]

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• Chris Anderson, 81, American jazz pianist, complications from a stroke. [245]
• Larry Cruz, 66, Filipino journalist and restaurateur, pneumonia (complications from cancer). [246]
• Augusta Dabney, 89, American actress. [247]
• Tata Güines, 77, Cuban percussionist, kidney infection. [248]
• Rose Hacker, 101, British activist. [249]
• Harry Richard Landis, 108, American second-to-last World War I veteran. [250]
• Stefan Meller, 65, Polish diplomat, foreign minister (2005–2006). [251]
• Bertha Moss, 88, Argentine actor, cardiac arrest. [252] (Spanish)
• Nikolay Popov, 76, Russian chief designer of T-80 tank, after long illness. [253] [254] (Russian)
• Peter Thomas, Baron Thomas of Gwydir, 87, British Conservative Party chairman (1970–1972), Welsh Secretary (1970–1974). [255]

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• Samuel Boyle, 59, American bureau chief (New York City) of Associated Press (1981–2002), lung cancer. [256]
• Sheldon Brown, 63, American bicycle mechanic and technical authority, heart attack. [257]
• Charles Fernley Fawcett, 92, American adventurer, actor and freedom fighter. [258]
• Ernesto Illy, 82, Italian food chemist and chairman of the illy coffee company. [259]
• Jorge Liderman, 50, Argentine-American composer, apparent suicide by train impact. [260]
• Jackie Orszaczky, 59, Hungarian-born Australian musician, cancer. [261]
• Charley van de Weerd, 86, Dutch football player. [262] (Dutch)

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• Gus Arriola, 90, American cartoonist (Gordo), Parkinson's disease. [263]
• Billy Balbastro, 67 Filipino journalist and broadcaster, cancer. [264]
• Ahmad Bourghani, 48, Iranian politician, heart failure. [265]
• Earl Butz, 98, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1971–1976). [266]
• Heinrich Dahlinger, 85, German field handball player, entrepreneur, kidney failure. [267] (German)
• Joshua Lederberg, 82, American Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist. [268]
• Barry Morse, 89, British-born Canadian actor (The Fugitive, Space: 1999). [269]
• Daoud Soumain, Chadian general, Army Chief of Staff, killed during battle in the War in Chad. [270]
• Roger Testu, 94, French cartoonist. [271] (French)
• Ed Vargo, 79, American baseball umpire. [272]
• Edward Wilson, 60, British actor (When the Boat Comes In), director of the National Youth Theatre, cancer. [273]

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• Hélio Quaglia Barbosa, 66, Brazilian member of the Superior Court of Justice, multiple organ failure. [274] (Portuguese}
• Floyd Boring, 92, American Secret Service agent, helped foil Truman assassination attempt. [275]
• Beto Carrero, 70, Brazilian theme park owner (Beto Carrero World), endocarditis. [276] (Portuguese)
• Al DeMao, 87, American football center for the Washington Redskins (1945-1953). [277]
• Ralph DiGia, 93, American WWII conscientious objector and peace activist with War Resisters League. [278]
• Allan Grant, 88, American photojournalist for Life magazine. [279]
• Earl Greenburg, 61, American former head of NBC daytime, melanoma. [280]
• Russi Karanjia, 95, Indian journalist, former editor of Blitz. [281]
• Władysław Kawula, 70, Polish footballer. [282] (Polish)
• Shell Kepler, 49, American actress (General Hospital), renal failure. [283] [284]
• Katoucha Niane, 47, French supermodel and women's rights activist, drowning. [285] (French)
• Ralph Wallace, 58, American politician, Democratic member of the Texas State House (1977–1992). [286]