Deaths in January 2007

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

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• Kirill Babitzin, 56, Finnish singer, 9th in 1984 Eurovision Song Contest. [1]
• Lee Bergere, 82, American actor. [2]
• Molly Ivins, 62, American newspaper columnist, political commentator and author, breast cancer. [3] [4] [5]
• Richard Kelley, 91, American stepfather of Bill Clinton, cancer. [6] [7]
• Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, 49, Saudi brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, shot. [8]
• Ronald Muldrow, 57, American jazz guitarist. [9]
• Douglas T Ross, 77, American who created APT (programming language) and led MIT CAD project. [10]
• Adelaide Tambo, 77, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo. [11]

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• Stu Inman, 80, American National Basketball Association executive, heart attack. [12]
• Griffith Jones, 97, British actor. [13]
• Nikos Kourkoulos, 72, Greek actor and artistic director of the National Theatre of Greece, cancer. [14]
• Max Lanier, 91, American baseball player. [15] [16]
• Gordon Macklin, 78, American stock broker, NASD President (1970–87), oversaw NASDAQ start, stroke. [17]
• Calvin Plimpton, 89, American president of Amherst College (1960–71), complications from surgery. [18] [19]
• Sidney Sheldon, 89, American author and TV producer (I Dream of Jeannie), complications from pneumonia. [20]

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• Barbaro, 3, American racehorse, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, euthanized after contracting laminitis. [21]
• José D'Elía, 90, Uruguayan labor leader and politician. [22] (Spanish)
• Art Fowler, 84, American Major League Baseball pitcher and pitching coach. [23] [24]
• Robert Meier, 109, oldest living German man, World War I veteran. [25]

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• Iván Böszörményi-Nagy, 86, Hungarian-American psychiatrist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [26] [27]
• Malcolm Bowie, 63, English scholar of French literature and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge (2002-2006). [28]
• Carlo Clerici, 78, Swiss road racing cyclist who won 1954 Giro d'Italia, cancer. [29] (Italian)
• Cyril Demarne, 101, British wartime firefighter. [30]
• Robert Drinan, S.J., 86, American Democratic Representative and law professor, pneumonia/congestive heart failure. [31]
• Fiona Jones, 49, British politician, Labour MP for Newark (1997-2001). [32]
• Nona Koirala, 78, politician of Nepali Congress, widow of Keshav Prasad Koirala, liver failure. [33] [34]
• Hsu Wei Lun, 28, Taiwanese actress, cardiac arrest following car accident. [35] [36]
• O P Nayyar, 81, Indian music director for Hindi films, cardiac arrest. [37]
• Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, 59, American bureau chief in Washington for the New York Post, cancer. [38] [39]
• Yelena Romanova, 43, Russian athlete, 3000 metres gold medalist at 1992 Summer Olympics. [40]
• Karel Svoboda, 68, Czech composer, suicide. [41]
• Emma Tillman, 114, American who was the recognised world's oldest person. [42] [43]

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• Trevor Allan, 80, Australian rugby union player and TV commentator, cancer. [44]
• Tige Andrews, 86, American actor (The Mod Squad), cardiac arrest. [45]
• Marcheline Bertrand, 56, American actress and mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven, cancer. [46]
• Bob Carroll, 88, American television writer for I Love Lucy. [47] [48]
• Paul Channon (Baron Kelvedon of Ongar), 71, British MP for Southend West (1959–1997) and government minister.[49]
• Alberta Davis, 125?, American woman listed by Social Security as oldest person in America. [50]
• Bing Devine, 90, American general manager of the NL's St. Louis Cardinals baseball team (1958–1964, 1968–1978). [51]
• Claudio Guillén, 82, Spanish writer, member of the Royal Spanish Academy and son of Jorge Guillén, heart attack. [52] [53] (Spanish)
• Kamleshwar, 75, Indian writer and television executive, heart attack. [54]
• Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 66, French professor of aesthetics at University of Strasbourg, respiratory insufficiency. [55] (French)
• Herbert Reinecker, 92, German novelist, dramatist and screenwriter (Derrick). [56]
• Yang Chuan-Kwang, 73, Taiwanese silver medalist in decathlon at 1960 Summer Olympics, brain hemorrhage. [57]

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• Charles Brunier, 105, French veteran of WWI and WWII who claimed to have been the inspiration for Papillon. [58] (French)
• Avis M. Dry, 85, British-born clinical psychologist and author on work of Carl Jung.
• Sharon Tyler Herbst, 64 (or 65?) American author of The Food Lover's Companion cookbook, ovarian cancer. [59]
• Jean Ichbiah, 66, French computer scientist and chief designer of the Ada programming language, brain cancer. [60]
• Max Kelly, 76, Australian mathematics professor and leading researcher into category theory. [61]
• Jimmy Ledgard, 84, British rugby league player for Great Britain, Dewsbury and Leigh. [62]
• Emanuele Luzzati, 85, Italian painter, Oscar-nominated production designer and animator. [63]
• David Rattray, 48, South African historian of the Anglo-Zulu War, shot. [64] [65]
• Glen Tetley, 80, American choreographer and dancer, melanoma. [66] [67]
• Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi, 21, Nigerian convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore, execution by hanging. [68]
• Hans Wegner, 92, Danish furniture designer. [69]
• Lorne "Gump" Worsley, 77, Canadian NHL goaltender and Vezina Trophy winner, heart attack. [70]

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• Ken Kavanaugh, 90, American National Football League player, complications from pneumonia. [71]
• Majid Khadduri, 98, Iraqi–born American founder of the SAIS Middle East Studies program, failure to thrive. [72] [73].
• Jack Lang, 85, American sportswriter and secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association (1966–1988). [74] [75]
• Eleanor McGovern, 85, American wife of Senator and Presidential candidate George McGovern. [76] [77]
• Hideo Ogata, 73, Japanese founding editor of Animage. [78]
• Roberta Semple Salter, 96, American evangelist, daughter of Aimee Semple McPherson and co-creator of Name That Tune. [79]

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• Ismail Cem, 67, Turkish politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2002), lung cancer. [80] [81]
• Jean-François Deniau, 78, French writer and statesman, member of the Académie française. [82]
• Krystyna Feldman, 91, Polish actress, lung cancer. [83] (Polish)
• Wolfgang Iser, 80, German literary scholar and founder of Reader-response criticism. [84] (German)
• Bryan Kocis, 44, American gay pornography producer, stabbed. [85]
• Guadalupe Larriva, 50, Ecuadorian Defense minister, helicopter crash. [86]
• John W. Lavelle, 57, New York State Assemblyman, stroke. [87].
• A. H. de Oliveira Marques, 73, Portuguese historian, heart failure. [88]
• Harry Melbourne, 94, Australian inventor of the Freddo Frog chocolate, golden staph infection. [89] [90]
• Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, Puerto Rican WW I veteran, was world's oldest person, natural causes. [91]
• David Morris, 79, British Labour MEP (1984–1999) and Chairman of CND Cymru. [92]
• Charlotte Thompson Reid, 93, American singer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. [93]
• Mendy Samstein, 68, American civil rights activist, organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, carcinoid cancer. [94]
• Daniel Stern, 79, American University of Houston professor, Warner Bros. and CBS Vice President, heart surgery complications.[95]
• Peter Tompkins, 87, American journalist and writer (The Secret Life of Plants). [96]

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• Syed Hussein Alatas, 78, Malaysian academic, writer and Gerakan Party founding president, heart attack. [97] [98]
• E. Howard Hunt, 88, American Watergate scandal principal, pneumonia. [99]
• Ryszard Kapuściński, 74, Polish journalist, author of book about The Soccer War. [100]
• John Majhor, 53, Canadian and American radio and TV broadcaster, cancer. [101]
• Leopoldo Pirelli, 81, Italian chairman of Pirelli (1965–1996). [102]
• David "Disco D" Shayman, 26, American hip hop producer, suicide. [103]

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• Doug Blasdell, 44, American Bravo television network trainer on Work Out. [104]
• L. M. Boyd, 79, American newspaper columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. [105]
• Lisa E. Goldberg, 54, American president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, brain aneurysm. [106]
• Toulo de Graffenried, 92, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1950–1956). [107] [108]
• Victoria Hopper, 97, British stage and film actress. [109]
• Ramón Marsal Ribó, 72, Spanish footballer for Real Madrid. [110]
• Michael Nolan, 78, English Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, degenerative illness. [111]
• Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 83, Rwandan pastor convicted of participation in the Rwandan genocide. [112]
• Abbé Pierre, 94, French founder of the Emmaüs movement, lung infection. [113]
• Liz Renay, 80, American actress and author, internal bleeding. [114]

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• Maria Cioncan, 29, Romanian runner and medalist at 2004 Summer Olympics, car accident. [115]
• Peter Clarke, 58, Children's Commissioner for Wales, cancer. [116]
• Richard Ollard, 83, British historian and biographer. [117]
• Peer Raben, 66, German composer, mainly of film music associated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. [118]
• Barbara Seranella, 50, American author, liver failure. [119]
• U;Nee, 25, Korean pop singer, suicide by hanging. [120]

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• Eric Aubijoux, 42, French motorcycle rider, possible cardiac arrest during Dakar Rally. [121][122]
• Dan Christensen, 64, American abstract painter, heart failure due to polymyositis.[123]
• Lloyd Francis, 86, Canadian MP and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (1984), stomach cancer. [124]
• Murat Nasyrov, 37, Russian-Kazakh singer, suicide by jumping. [125]
• Anatol Rapoport, 95, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist and peace activist. [126]
• Alfredo Ripstein, 90, Mexican movie producer, respiratory failure. [127]
• Vern Ruhle, 55, American MLB pitcher and pitching coach, multiple myeloma. [128]
• George Smathers, 93, American Senator for Florida (1951–1969), stroke complications. [129]
• Ali de Vries, 92, Dutch women's 4x100m relay runner at the 1936 Summer Olympics. [130]

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• Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, 45, American professional wrestler, drug overdose. [131] [132]
• Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, 69, Portuguese poet, dramatist, essayist and translator, long illness. [133] (Portuguese)
• Gerhard Bronner, 84, Austrian composer and cabaret artist, complications following a stroke. [134]
• Hrant Dink, 52, Armenian-Turkish editor, journalist and columnist, shot. [135] [136]
• Denny Doherty, 66, Canadian singer with The Mamas & the Papas, abdominal aneurysm. [137] [138] [139]

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• Cyril Mar Baselious, 71, Indian Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, heart attack. [140]
• Julie Winnefred Bertrand, 115, Canadian who was the world's oldest known woman at time of death. [141]
• Brent Liles, 43, American bassist of the punk bands Social Distortion and Agent Orange, traffic accident. [142]
• Charles H. O'Brien, 86, Tennessee Supreme Court judge (1987–94). [143]

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• Alice Auma, 50, Ugandan rebel leader and founder of the Holy Spirit Movement. [144] [145]
• Art Buchwald, 81, American humorist and columnist, kidney failure. [146] [147]
• Yevgeny Kushnarev, 55, Ukrainian politician and a deputy leader of the Party of Regions, shot while hunting. [148]
• Virtue Hampton Whitted, 84, American jazz musician, member of The Hampton Sisters, stroke. [149]

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• Ron Carey, 71, American actor (Barney Miller, History of the World, Part I), stroke. [150]
• Pookie Hudson, 72, American lead singer of The Spaniels, complications of thymus cancer. [151]
• Rudolf August Oetker, 90, German food industry magnate (Oetker Group) and philanthropist. [152]
• Benny Parsons, 65, American champion NASCAR driver, won 1973 Winston Cup, complications from lung cancer. [153] [154]
• René Riffaud, 108, one of France's last surviving World War I veterans. [155]
• Jainal Antel Sali, Jr., 42, Filipino terrorist and a commander of Abu Sayyaf, shot in an army raid. [156]
• Yuri Stern, 57, Israeli politician, cancer. [157]
• Betty Trezza, 82, American baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, heart attack. [158]
• David Vanole, 43, American soccer goalkeeper, heart condition. [159]

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• Awad Hamed al-Bandar, 61, former chief judge of Iraq, execution by hanging. [160]
• Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 55, half-brother of Saddam Hussein, former leader of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, execution by hanging. [161]
• Leonard Berg, 79, American neurologist, creator of the Clinical Dementia Rating scale, stroke. [162]
• Bo Yibo, 98, Chinese politician known for urging crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. [163] [164]
• Isaac Fanous, 87, Egyptian artist and scholar who specialized in Coptic art. [165] (Arabic)
• James Hillier, 91, Canadian-born American inventor of first practical electron microscope. [166] [167]
• Ardeshir Hosseinpour, 44, Iranian nuclear physicist. [168]
• Aart Koopmans, 60, Dutch founder of the Alternative Elfstedentocht speed skating series, pneumonia. [169] [170] (Dutch)
• Richard Musgrave, 96, German-born Harvard economist and government adviser, natural causes. [171] [172]
• Percy Saltzman, 91, first person to appear on Canadian television. [173]
• Colin Thurston, 59, British record producer (Duran Duran, Magazine, Human League, Kajagoogoo). [174] [175]

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• Darlene Conley, 72, American actress (The Bold and the Beautiful), stomach cancer. [176] [177]
• Vassilis Fotopoulos, 72, Greek Academy Award-winning art director (Zorba the Greek). [178]
• Tudor Gates, 76, British playwright and trade unionist. [179]
• Barbara Kelly, 82, Canadian-born British actress (What's My Line), cancer. [180]
• Robert Noortman, 60, Dutch art dealer, heart attack. [181]
• Louis Pendleton, 75, African American civil rights leader in Shreveport, Louisiana. [182]
• Peter Prendergast, 60, Welsh artist. [183]

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• Michael Brecker, 57, American jazz saxophonist, leukemia. [184]
• Cho Tat Wah, 91, Hong Kong wuxia actor, stomach hemorrhage. [185] (Chinese)
• Doyle Holly, 70, American bassist for Buck Owens' Buckaroos (1963–71), prostate cancer. [186]
• Henri-Jean Martin, 82, French librarian and book historian, cancer. [187]
• Danny Oakes, 95, American USAC champion midget car driver. [188]
• Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, 78, Senegalese separatist leader. [189]

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• Jimmy Cheatham, 82, American jazz trombonist. [190]
• Alice Coltrane, 69, American jazz musician and widow of John Coltrane, respiratory failure. [191] [192]
• Stephen Gilbert, 96, British painter and sculptor. [193]
• Sir James Killen, 81, Australian Minister for Defence (1975–82). [194]
• Terrance B. Lettsome, 71, British Virgin Islands politician, illness. [195]
• Larry Stewart, 58, American philanthropist known in Kansas City as "Secret Santa", esophageal cancer. [196] [197]

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• Solveig Dommartin, 45, French actress, trapeze artist in Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, heart attack. [198]
• Bob MacQuarrie, 80, Canadian politician (1981–85). [199]
• Kéba Mbaye, 82, Senegalese judge, vice president of the ICJ and vice president of the IOC. [200]
• Dale Noyd, 73, American Air Force captain and Vietnam War conscientious objector, emphysema. [201]
• Donald Edward Osterbrock, 82, American astronomer. [202], [203]
• Bryan Pearce, 77, British painter. [204][205]
• Robert Anton Wilson, 74, American novelist, futurist and conspiracy theory researcher, post-polio syndrome. [206]

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• Ray Beck, 75, American football player for the New York Giants (1952-57). [207]
• Harry Horse (Richard Horne), 46, British cartoonist and children's book author (The Last... series), suicide. [208]
• Bradford Washburn, 96, American cartographer, mountaineer and founder of the Boston Museum of Science, heart failure. [209]

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• Dame Joyanne Bracewell, 72, British senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court, after long illness. [210]
• Ion Dincă, 78, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Mayor of Bucharest during the Communist era. [211] (Romanian)
• Thomas Nelson, 111, American who was second oldest man in the world at time of death. [212]
• Maureen Orcutt, 99, American golf champion. [213]
• Yelena Petushkova, 66, Russian equestrian, Olympic double medallist in 1972, after long illness.[214] [215]
• Carlo Ponti, 94, Italian film producer, pulmonary complications. [216]
• Elmer Symons, 29, South African off-road motorcycle racer, accident during the Dakar Rally. [217]
• Jean-Pierre Vernant, 93, French historian and anthropologist. [218] (French)

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• Jane Bolin, 98, American New York City family court judge (1939–79) and first African American female judge. [219]
• Lord Cockfield, 90, British proponent of the European single market and VP of the European Commission (1985-1989). [220]
• Gloria Connors, 82, American US Open tennis player (1942–43) and mother and coach of Jimmy Connors, natural causes. [221]
• Ken Cranston, 89, English test cricketer (1947-1948). [222]
• Yvonne De Carlo, 84, Canadian-born American actress (The Ten Commandments, The Munsters), natural causes. [223]
• David Ervine, 53, Northern Irish, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, complications from heart attack and stroke. [224]
• Peter Flanagan, 65, British rugby league player for Great Britain and Hull KR. [225]
• Bong Soo Han, 75, Korean martial arts master and film fight choreographer. [226] [227]
• Drew Posada, 37, American comic book colourist and artist, pancreatitis. [228]
• Italo Sarrocco, 108, Italian World War I veteran. [229] (Italian)
• Iwao Takamoto, 81, Japanese American animator, TV producer and film director, created Scooby-Doo, heart failure. [230] [231]
• Judith Vladeck, 83, American labor lawyer and women's rights advocate, complications of infection. [232] [233]

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• Bobby Hamilton, 49, American NASCAR 2004 Craftsman Truck Series Champion, head and neck cancer. [234] [235]
• Magnús Magnússon, 77, Icelandic-born British television presenter (Mastermind, 1972–1997), pancreatic cancer. [236]
• Olli-Matti Multamäki, 58, commander of the Finnish Army, illness. [237]
• Lou Palazzi, 85, American football player and umpire [238]
• Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy, 74, Indian politician, Guinness World Record-holder for contesting elections, brief illness. [239]

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• Bill W. Clayton, 78, American Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1975-1983), natural causes. [240]
• Mario Danelo, 21, American football placekicker for USC, fall from a cliff. [241] [242]
• Yvon Durelle, 77, Canadian boxing champion, complications from a stroke. [243]
• Frédéric Cardinal Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, 76, Congolese Archbishop of Kinshasa, complications of diabetes. [244]
• Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian, 84, British journalist and broadcaster. [245]
• Charmion King, 81, Canadian actress. [246]
• Sneaky Pete Kleinow, 72, American special effects artist & pedal steel guitarist (Flying Burrito Brothers), Alzheimer's. [247]
• Soad Nasr, 57, Egyptian actress, complications from liposuction. [248]
• Mohamed Lamine Sanha, Bissau-Guinean Navy Chief of Staff, shot. [249]
• Ira D. Wallach, 97, American philanthropist and CEO of Central National-Gottesman (1956–1979). [250]
• Roberta Wohlstetter, 94, American historian of military intelligence. [251]

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• Momofuku Ando, 96, Taiwanese-born inventor of Nissin instant ramen noodles including the Cup Noodle, heart failure. [252]
• E. J. Hughes, 93, Canadian painter, heart failure. [253]
• Marie Mornet Robin, 112, second-oldest person in France. [254] (French)
• Chih Ree Sun, 83, Chinese-American physicist and poet, kidney and lung cancer. [255]

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• Juma Jamaldin Akukweti, 59, Tanzanian Member of Parliament for Chama Cha Mapinduzi (1990–2007), injuries from plane crash. [256]
• Nikki Bacharach, 40, American daughter of Angie Dickinson and Burt Bacharach, suicide by asphyxia. [257]
• Ben Gannon, 54, Australian theatre, film and television producer, cancer. [258]
• Helen Hill, 36, American independent film-maker, shot. [259]
• Sir Lewis Hodges, 88, British Air Chief Marshal. [260]
• Grenfell (Gren) Jones, 72, British newspaper cartoonist. [261] [262] [263]
• Steve Krantz, 83, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat), husband of Judith Krantz, complications of pneumonia. [264]
• Bob Milliken, 80, American Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher (1953–54), cardiac arrest. [265]
• Gáspár Nagy, 57, Hungarian poet and writer [266] (Hungarian)
• Sandro Salvadore, 67, Italian footballer. [267]
• Jan Schröder, 65, Dutch cyclist. [268] (Dutch)
• Marais Viljoen, 91, South African president (1979–1984), heart failure. [269] [270]

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• Annibale Ciarniello, 106, Italian World War I veteran. [271] (Italian)
• Janos Furst, 71, Hungarian-born orchestral conductor, cancer. [272]
• Earl Reibel, 76, Canadian ice hockey forward (Detroit Red Wings), 1956 Lady Byng Trophy winner, complications of stroke.[273]
• Calvin William Verity Jr., 89, United States Secretary of Commerce (1987–1989), complications from pneumonia. [274] [275]
• Sir Cecil Walker, 82, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for North Belfast (1983–2001), heart attack. [276] [277]
• Michael Yeats, 85, Irish Fianna Fáil senator (1961–1981) and son of W. B. Yeats. [278]

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• Garry Betty, 49, American CEO of Earthlink, adrenocortical carcinoma. [279] [280]
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 65, American historian, complications from surgery. [281]
• Sergio Jiménez, 69, Mexican actor, heart attack. [282]
• Mauno Jokipii, 82, Finnish professor and World War II researcher, natural causes. [283] (Finnish)
• Teddy Kollek, 95, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem (1965–1993), natural causes. [284] [285]
• Don Massengale, 69, American PGA Tour golf player, heart attack. [286]
• Richard Newton, 55, Australian-born technology pioneer and professor at University of California, Berkeley, pancreatic cancer. [287]
• Paek Nam-sun, 78, North Korean Foreign Affairs minister, lung cancer. [288]
• David Perkins, 87, American Stanford University geneticist, after short illness. [289]
• Dan Shaver, 56, American NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner, cancer. [290]
• Robert C. Solomon, 64, American scholar of continental philosophy. [291]

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• A.I. Bezzerides, 98, Turkish-American novelist and screenwriter, injuries from a fall. [292] [293]
• Leonard Fraser, 55, Australian serial killer, heart attack. [294]
• Julius Hegyi, 83, American conductor, Alzheimer's disease. [295]
• Tad Jones, 54, American jazz music historian, complications from a fall. [296]
• Ernie Koy, 97, American baseball player, in his sleep. [297]
• Roland Levinsky, 63, South African medical scientist, Plymouth University Vice Chancellor, electric shock induced heart attack.[298]
• Tillie Olsen, 94, American writer, natural causes. [299]
• Del Reeves, 74, American country singer, emphysema. [300]
• Eleonore Schoenfeld, 81, Slovenian-born cellist and teacher at USC Thornton School of Music, heart attack. [301]
• Darrent Williams, 24, American NFL player (Denver Broncos), shot. [302] [303]