Deaths in January 2008

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents 1 31 2 30 3 29 4 28 5 27 6 26 7 25 8 24 9 23 10 22 11 21 12 20 13 19 14 18 15 17 16 16 17 15 18 14 19 13 20 12 21 11 22 10 23 9 24 8 25 7 26 6 27 5 28 4 29 3 30 2 31 1

Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →

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

[edit] 31

• Arif Ali, 46, Pakistani-born British Associated Press regional product director, cancer. [1]
• Veronika Bayer, 67, German actress. [2] (German)
• František Čapek, 93, Czech canoeist, Olympic C1 10,000m gold medallist in 1948, heart ailment. [3]
• Sir Ivar Colquhoun, 92, British aristocrat. [4]
• Jim Lacey, 73, Australian former administrator of Lord Howe Island, general manager of Western Plains Zoo. [5]
• Mark Schwed, 52, American television critic and journalist. [6]
• Bertie Smalls, 72, British criminal turned supergrass. [7]
• Volodia Teitelboim, 91, Chilean writer and communist activist, cancer. [8]
• David Kimutai Too, 39, Kenyan legislator, shot. [9] [10]

[edit] 30

• Jeremy Beadle, 59, British television presenter (You've Been Framed, Beadle's About), pneumonia. [11]
• Sean Finnegan, 43, American hardcore punk drummer (Void), apparent heart attack. [12]
• Herbert Kenwith, 90, American TV director, complications of prostate cancer. [13]
• Kim Chang-ik, 50, South Korean drummer (Sanulrim), road accident. [14]
• Miles Kington, 66, British newspaper columnist and humorist. [15]
• Marcial Maciel, 87, Mexican founder of the Legionaries of Christ. [16]
• Roland Selmeczi, 38, Hungarian actor, car accident. [17] (Hungarian)
• Wilber Varela, 50, Colombian drug trafficker, shot. [18]

[edit] 29

• Robert M. Ball, 93, American Commissioner of Social Security (1962–1973). [19]
• Margaret Truman Daniel, 83, American author, daughter of former US President Harry S. Truman. [20]
• Rubens Gerchman, 66, Brazilian painter, lung cancer. [21] (Portuguese)
• James Heathman, 90, American who found the 1931 TWA Flight 599 plane crash that killed Knute Rockne, pneumonia. [22]
• Raymond Jacobs, 82, American who claimed to be in photo of first flag raised on Iwo Jima. [23]
• Philippe Khorsand, 59, French actor. [24] (French)
• Sebastian Kräuter, 85, Romanian bishop and author. [25] (Romanian)
• Abu Laith al-Libi, 41, Libyan-born al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan, missile strike. [26]
• Erzsébet Nagy, 80, Hungarian writer, daughter of executed Prime Minister Imre Nagy. [27]
• Mugabe Were, 39, Kenyan legislator, homicide by gunshot. [28]

[edit] 28

• Crisologo Abines, 60, Filipino politician, heart attack. [29]
• Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, 69, Primate of the Church of Greece, cancer. [30]
• Frances Dewey Wormser, 104, American vaudeville and Broadway theater actress. [31]
• Dagfinn Grønoset, 87, Norwegian author. [32] (Norwegian)
• John Gunnell, 74, British politician, Labour Member of Parliament (1992–2001). [33]
• Gerry Patrick Hemming, 70, American anti-Castro mercenary. [34]
• Bengt Lindström, 82, Swedish painter. [35] (Swedish)
• Larry Smith, 68, American college football coach, chronic lymphatic leukemia. [36]
• Marie Takvam, 81, Norwegian author and actor. [37] (Norwegian)
• Ginty Vrede, 22, Dutch Muay Thai martial arts fighter, heart attack. [38]

[edit] 27

• Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, 80, German politician, president of German Red Cross (1982–1994). [39] (German)
• Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, American President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [40]
• Mike Holovak, 88, American football player and former head coach of the Boston Patriots, pneumonia. [41]
• Ken Hunt, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds). [42]
• Anna Loginova, 29, Russian bodyguard for boxer Kostya Tszyu, head injury during carjacking. [43] [44]
• Alan G. Rogers, 40, American Army major, first known gay combat fatality of Iraq War, improvised explosive device. [45]
• Valery Shumakov, 76, Russian transplantologist, founder of the Transplant and Artificial Organs Research Institute. [46]
• Suharto, 86, Indonesian President (1967–1998), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [47]
• Louie Welch, 89, American mayor of Houston, Texas (1964–1973), lung cancer. [48]

[edit] 26

• John Ardagh, 79, British journalist and author. [49]
• Christian Brando, 49, American actor and convicted killer, son of Marlon Brando, pneumonia. [50]
• Abraham Brumberg, 81, American writer and editor, heart failure. [51]
• Raymond Daniels, 28, Irish footballer (Wicklow GAA), suspected heart attack. [52]
• Igor Dmitriev, 80, Russian actor. [53] (Russian)
• George Habash, 81, Palestinian founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heart attack. [54]
• Padraic McGuinness, 69, Australian journalist and editor, cancer. [55]
• Jeff Salen, 55, American guitarist, founder of punk band Tuff Darts, heart attack. [56]
• Viktor Schreckengost, 101, American artist and industrial designer. [57]
• Aziz Sedki, 87, Egyptian Prime Minister (1972–1973). [58]
• Lovie Yancey, 96, American founder of Fatburger restaurant chain, pneumonia. [59]
• Zhang Hanzhi, 72, Chinese diplomat and linguist, English tutor for Mao, Nixon interpreter for 1972 visit, lung-related illness. [60]

[edit] 25

• Christopher Allport, 60, American television actor, avalanche. [61]
• Evelyn Barbirolli, 97, British oboist, widow of Sir John Barbirolli. [62]
• Richard Darman, 64, American Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1989–1993), leukemia. [63]
• Ralph Dupas, 72, American boxer, complications of boxing-induced brain damage. [64]
• Louisa Horton Hill, 87, American actress (All My Sons). [65]
• Andreas Hönisch, 77, Silesian Superior General of Servi Jesu et Mariae, founder of the Catholic Scouts of Europe. [66]
• Roc Kirby, 89, Australian founder of Village Roadshow Limited. [67]

[edit] 24

• Diane Chenery-Wickens, 48, British television make-up artist, murdered (last seen alive on this date). [68]
• Lee Embree, 92, American photographer, took first air-to-air photographs of 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, kidney infection. [69]
• Art Frantz, 86, American baseball umpire, heart failure. [70]
• Johannes Heggland, 88, Norwegian author and politician. [71] (Norwegian)
• Dorothy Hennessey, 94, American nun and activist. [72]
• J. Robert Hooper, 71, American politician, Maryland state senator (1999–2007), colon cancer. [73]
• Megat Junid Megat Ayub, 65, Malaysian former cabinet minister, prostate cancer. [74]
• Randy Salerno, 45, American CBS news reporter (WBBM in Chicago), snowmobile accident. [75]
• Jahna Steele, 49, American transgender showgirl. [76]

[edit] 23

• Andrzej Andrzejewski, 46, Polish Brigadier General of the Polish Air Force, plane crash. [77]
• Felix Carlebach, 96, British rabbi. [78]
• Steve Duplantis, 35, American pro golf caddy, car accident. [79]
• Leticia de Oyuela, 74, Honduran historian. [80] (Spanish)
• Stein Rønning, 42, Norwegian karate world champion (1990). [81] (Norwegian)

[edit] 22

• Bernie Boston, 74, American photographer of the "flower power" movement, blood disease. [82]
• Dora Bria, 49, Brazilian six-time windsurfing champion, car accident. [83]
• Lance Clemons, 60, American baseball relief pitcher, cancer. [84]
• Roberto Gari, 88, American actor and artist, heart attack. [85]
• Heath Ledger, 28, Australian Academy Award-nominated actor (Brokeback Mountain), accidental prescription drug overdose. [86] [87]
• Miles Lerman, 88, American creator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [88]
• Ştefan Niculescu, 80, Romanian composer. [89] (Romanian)
• Claude Piron, 76, Swiss linguist and Esperanto author. [90] (Esperanto)

[edit] 21

• Pam Barrett, 54, Canadian politician, cancer. [91]
• Billy Elliott, 82, British footballer (Sunderland). [92]
• Evan G. Galbraith, 79, American diplomat, ambassador to France (1981–1985), cancer. [93]
• Burton Hatlen, 71, American literary scholar, founder of National Poetry Foundation, mentor to Stephen King, pneumonia. [94][95]
• Peggy Jay, 95, British Labour Party politician. [96]
• Wesley Ngetich Kimutai, 34, Kenyan marathon runner, homicide by poison arrow. [97] [98]
• Kenneth Parnell, 76, American convicted child molester and kidnapper, natural causes. [99]
• Jiří Sequens, 85, Czech film director. [100] (Czech)
• Marie Smith Jones, 89, American last known native speaker of the Eyak language, natural causes. [101]
• Luiz Carlos Tourinho, 43, Brazilian actor, cerebral aneurysm. [102] (Portuguese)

[edit] 20

• Georgina Bruni, 60, British UFO researcher and author, cancer. [103]
• Louis de Cazenave, 110, French supercentenarian, one of the last two official surviving French WWI veterans, natural causes. [104]
• Talivaldis Kenins, 88, Canadian composer. [105]
• Abdul Latif, 56, British restaurateur, heart attack. [106]
• Duilio Loi, 78, Italian boxer, Alzheimer's disease. [107] (Italian)
• Tommy McQuater, 93, British jazz trumpeter. [108]
• Donald Odanga, Kenyan former international basketball player, accidental shooting. [109]
• Ghorban Soleimani, 87, Iranian vocalist and dotar player. [110]
• James LeVoy Sorenson, 86, American medical device inventor and billionaire philanthropist, cancer. [111]
• Kevin Stoney, 86, British actor. [112] [113]
• Eudoxia Woodward, 88, American painter, cancer. [114]

[edit] 19

• Valentim Amões, 48, Angolan politician and businessman, air crash. [115] (Portuguese)
• Creighton Burns, 82, Australian editor of The Age newspaper (1981–1989), cancer. [116]
• Victor S. Johnson, Jr., 91, American lawyer, president of Aladdin Industries, colon cancer. [117]
• Frances Lewine, 86, American journalist and White House Correspondent, stroke. [118]
• Morris Maddocks, 79, British Bishop of Selby (1972–1983). [119]
• Mildred Noble, 86, American writer and Native American activist, complications from liver cancer. [120]
• Andy Palacio, 47, Belizean musician, UNESCO Artist for Peace and Garifuna activist, heart attack followed by stroke. [121]
• Suzanne Pleshette, 70, American actress (The Bob Newhart Show, The Birds), respiratory failure. [122]
• Eugene Sawyer, 73, American politician, Mayor of Chicago (1987–1989), series of strokes. [123]
• John Stewart, 68, American musician (The Kingston Trio), stroke. [124]
• H. Bradford Westerfield, 79, American political scientist, complications of Parkinson's Disease. [125]
• Don Wittman, 71, Canadian sports broadcaster for CBC, cancer. [126]

[edit] 18

• Uzi Cohen, 55, Israeli Likud politician, heart attack. [127]
• Pier Miranda Ferraro, 83, Italian opera tenor, cardiac arrest. [128]
• Wally Fielding, 88, British footballer (Everton). [129]
• Georgia Frontiere, 80, American majority-owner of NFL team Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams, breast cancer. [130]
• Bertram James, 92, British World War II airman, participant in The Great Escape. [131]
• Richard Knerr, 82, American co-founder of Wham-O, inventor of the frisbee and Hula Hoop, stroke. [132]
• Frank Lewin, 82, American composer, heart failure. [133]
• Lois Nettleton, 80, American actress (A Face in the Crowd), lung cancer. [134]
• Lou Palmer, 75, American radio personality and announcer, brain hemorrhage. [135]
• Ugo Pirro, 87, Italian screenwriter. [136]
• Anthony M. Solomon, 88, American President of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1980–1985), kidney failure. [137]
• John Stroger, 78, American politician, former President of the Cook County, Illinois Board, stroke. [138]

[edit] 17

• Carlos, 64, French singer, cancer. [139] (French)
• Trevor Drayton, 52, Australian winemaker, accidental explosion. [140]
• Bobby Fischer, 64, American chess grandmaster, world champion (1972–1975), kidney failure. [141]
• Edward D. Hoch, 77, American writer of detective fiction, heart attack. [142]
• Ernie Holmes, 59, American Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle (1972–1977), car accident. [143]
• Alejandro Illescas, Mexican voice actor. [144] (Spanish)
• Mildred Callahan Jones, 64, American decorative flag pioneer. [145]
• Carole Lynne, 89, British actress, widow of Baron Delfont. [146]
• John McHale, 86, American player and executive in Major League Baseball. [147] [148]
• Allan Melvin, 84, American actor (The Phil Silvers Show, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family), cancer. [149]
• Madeleine Milhaud, 105, French actress, widow of composer Darius Milhaud. [150]
• Giuliana Penzi, 90, Italian dancer and choreographer. [151]
• Della Purves, 62, British botanical artist, liver disease. [152]
• Trevor Sprigg, 61, Australian Liberal politician, Western Australian Legislative Assembly whip, heart attack. [153]
• Jinzo Toriumi, 78, Japanese novelist and screenwriter (Speed Racer, Gatchaman, Armored Trooper Votoms), liver cancer. [154]

[edit] 16

• Jorge de Bagration, 63, Spanish racing car driver, claimant to throne of the Royal House of Georgia, hepatitis. [155]
• Raymond Cambefort, 107, third-last surviving French World War I veteran. [156] (French)
• Chen Xilu, 80, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Hengshui, organ failure. [157]
• Nikola Kljusev, 80, Macedonian politician and economist, first Prime Minister of Macedonia (1991–1992). [158]
• Pierre Lambert, 87, French Trotskyist leader and presidential candidate. [159] (French)
• Munjuku Nguvauva II, 84, Namibian traditional tribal chief, complications from strokes. [160]
• Hone Tuwhare, 85, New Zealand Māori poet. [161]
• Bungo Yoshida, 73, Japanese Bunraku puppeteer, liver cancer. [162]
• Elias Zoghby, 96, Egyptian Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Baalbek. [163]

[edit] 15

• K. M. Adimoolam, 69, Indian abstract artist. [164]
• Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, 43, British video game developer (Paperboy, Zombies Ate My Neighbors), pancreatic cancer. [165]
• Eduardo Hontiveros, 84, Filipino Jesuit composer of Roman Catholic liturgical songs, stroke. [166]
• Jason MacIntyre, 34, British road bicycle racer, road accident. [167]
• Brad Renfro, 25, American actor (The Client, Ghost World), accidental heroin overdose. [168] [169]

[edit] 14

• Józef Bartosik, 90, Polish World War II veteran and rear admiral. [170]
• Don Cardwell, 72, American baseball pitcher. [171]
• Selim Al Deen, 58, Bangladeshi dramatist, cardiac arrest. [172]
• Judah Folkman, 74, American cancer researcher, apparent heart attack. [173]
• Vincenz Liechtenstein, 57, Austrian politician. [174] (German)
• Tommy Limby, 60, Swedish cross-country skier. [175] (Swedish)
• Johnny Steele, 91, British football manager of Barnsley FC (1960–1971, 1972–1973). [176]
• Carsten Thomassen, 38, Norwegian journalist, terrorist attack. [177]
• Milton Wolff, 92, American veteran of the Spanish Civil War. [178]
• Wu Jin, 74, Taiwanese Minister for Education (1996–1998), cancer. [179]

[edit] 13

• Joe Burk, 93, American rowing champion, complications of surgery. [180]
• John Harvey, 87, British politician, Conservative MP for Walthamstow East (1955–1966). [181]
• Sergey Larin, 51, Lithuanian tenor. [182]
• Johnny Podres, 75, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers), first World Series MVP. [183]
• Jafar Shahidi, 89, Iranian linguist and historian. [184]
• Doreen Tovey, 89, British writer. [185]
• Patricia Verdugo, 61, Chilean writer, journalist and human rights violations investigator, cancer. [186]
• Walter Zimper, 65, Austrian politician. [187] (German)

[edit] 12

• Gennady Bachinsky, 36, Russian television and radio personality, car accident. [188]
• Isobel Bennett, 98, Australian marine scientist. [189]
• Gwendolyn T. Britt, 66, American Maryland state senator since 2003. [190]
• Sir Howard Dalton, 63, British microbiologist, former Chief Scientific Adviser at DEFRA. [191]
• Ángel González, 82, Spanish poet. [192]
• Adriano González León, 76, Venezuelan writer. [193] (Spanish)
• Marty Hendin, 59, American vice president of community relations for the St. Louis Cardinals, cancer. [194]
• Leszek Jezierski, 79, Polish football player and trainer. [195] (Polish)
• Anatoly Kyarov, Russian head of the Kabardino-Balkaria police, shot. [196]
• Jennifer Musa, 90, Irish-born Pakistani politician. [197]
• Louis Alexandre Raimon, 85, French hairdresser. [198]
• Terrell Rogers, 39, American anti-violence activist, homicide. [199]
• Stanisław Wycech, 105, last known Polish World War I veteran. [200]

[edit] 11

• José Bello, 103, Spanish intellectual and writer. [201]
• Pete Candoli, 84, American big band-era jazz trumpeter, prostate cancer. [202]
• Murray Cohl, 78, Canadian film producer, co-founder of the Toronto Film Festival and Canada's Walk of Fame, liver cancer. [203]
• Sir Edmund Hillary, 88, New Zealand mountaineer, first (with Tenzing Norgay) to reach summit of Mount Everest, heart failure. [204]
• Carl Karcher, 90, American founder of Carl's Jr restaurants, complications from Parkinson's Disease. [205]
• Frank Loughran, 77, Australian soccer international player. [206]
• Nancy Phelan, 94, Australian writer. [207]

[edit] 10

• Rod Allen, 63, British singer and bassist (The Fortunes), liver cancer. [208]
• Christopher Bowman, 40, American Olympic figure skater, accidental drug overdose. [209] [210]
• Dave Day, American banjoist/rhythm guitarist (The Monks), heart attack. [211]
• Jack Eagle, 81, American actor and comedian. [212]
• Abdelaziz Gorgi, 79, Tunisian painter. [213] (French)
• Andrés Henestrosa, 101, Mexican writer and politician, major proponent of the Zapotec language. [214]
• George Laking, 95, New Zealand diplomat and public servant. [215]
• Allan McEachern, 81, Canadian jurist, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. [216]
• Mikhail Minin, 85, Russian soldier who raised the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building in 1945. [217]
• Katsutoshi Nagasawa, 84, Japanese composer. [218] (Japanese)
• Maila Nurmi, 86, Finnish actress (Vampira in Plan 9 from Outer Space). [219] [220]

[edit] 9

• Paul Aimson, 64, British footballer, heart attack. [221]
• Jorge Anaya, 81, Argentinian admiral, heart failure.[222]
• Adam Butler, 76, British Member of Parliament (1970–1987) and minister. [223]
• Carmine Furletti, 81, Brazilian industrialist, former president of Cruzeiro. [224] (Portuguese)
• Gemina, 21, African Baringo giraffe at the Santa Barbara Zoo with a neck deformity, euthanized. [225]
• Mehran Ghassemi, 30, Iranian journalist, heart failure. [226] (Persian)
• Johnny Grant, 84, American entertainer, honorary Mayor of Hollywood. [227] [228]
• Sir John Harvey-Jones, 83, British businessman and media personality. [229]
• Walter J. Kavanaugh, 74, American Republican Party politician, complications from diabetes. [230]
• Roi Kwabena, 51, Trinidadian cultural anthropologist, lung cancer. [231]
• Sara Misquez, 62, American president of the Mescalero Apache of New Mexico (1999–2003), car accident. [232]
• Lew Spence, 87, American songwriter. [233]
• Sir John Willis, 70, British Air Chief Marshal. [234]
• Tim Willoughby, 53, Australian Olympic rowing medallist, heart attack. [235]

[edit] 8

• D. M. Dassanayake, 54, Sri Lankan Minister of Nation Building, roadside bomb. [236] [237] [238]
• Jim Dooley, 77, American professional football player and coach (Chicago Bears), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [239]
• David Grove, New Zealand developer of Clean Language. [240]
• Guy Hance, 74, Belgian politician. [241] (French)
• Bjarni Jónsson, 73, Icelandic painter. [242] (Icelandic)
• Moshe Levi, 71, Israeli Chief of Staff of the Defense Forces (1983–1987), stroke. [243]
• George Moore, 84, Australian former champion jockey and trainer. [244]
• Clyde Otis, 83, American songwriter and record producer. [245]
• Steve Ridzik, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), heart disease. [246]
• Mohammad Sadli, 85, Indonesian politician. [247]

[edit] 7

• Philip Agee, 72, American former CIA agent, complications from perforated ulcer surgery. [248]
• Raffaello de Banfield, 85, British composer. [249] (German)
• Robert Chandran, 57, Singaporean CEO of Chemoil, helicopter crash. [250]
• Maryvonne Dupureur, 70, French athlete and Olympic medalist. [251] (French)
• Houston I. Flournoy, 78, American member of California State Assembly (1961–1967), California State Controller (1967–1975). [252]
• Detlef Kraus, 88, German pianist. [253] (German)
• Andrey Kurennoy, 35, Russian athlete, former national triple jump champion. [254]
• Buddy LeRoux, 77, American former owner of the Boston Red Sox, natural causes. [255]
• Boris Lurie, 83, American artist and writer. [256]
• Vincent Meli, 87, American member of the Detroit Partnership, bone cancer. [257]
• Bozo Miller, 89, American competitive eater, natural causes. [258]
• Hans Monderman, 62, Dutch traffic engineer. [259]
• Marcel Mouly, 88, French painter. [260] (French)
• Njoo Kiem Bie, 81, Indonesian professional badminton player. [261] (Indonesian)
• Alwyn Schlebusch, 90, South African politician, Vice State President (1981–1984). [262]
• Jean-Claude Vrinat, 71, French owner of Taillevent restaurant, lung cancer. [263]
• Wei Wenhua, 41, Chinese blogger and murder victim, beaten. [264]

[edit] 6

• Shmuel Berenbaum, 87, American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva, stomach cancer. [265]
• Jack Brod, 98, American last original tenant of the Empire State Building. [266]
• Arafan Camara, 60, Guinean politican. [267] (Portuguese)
• Bob LeMond, 94, American radio and television announcer (Leave It to Beaver). [268]
• Cy Leslie, 85, American founder of Pickwick Records and MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group. [269]
• Alekos Michaelides, 74, Cypriot politician, former foreign minister. [270]
• Yunus Mohamed, 57, South African lawyer and anti-Apartheid activist. [271] [272]
• Ken Nelson, 96, American record producer and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. [273]
• Anders Paulrud, 56, Swedish writer and journalist, lung cancer. [274]
• Pramod Karan Sethi, 80, Indian orthopaedic surgeon, inventor of the Jaipur leg, cardiac arrest. [275]
• Vittorio Tomassetti, 77, Italian Roman Catholic bishop emeritus of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola. [276] [277](Italian)

[edit] 5

• John Ashley, 77, Canadian referee in the National Hockey League, heart failure. [278]
• Rowan Ayers, 85, British television producer. [279]
• Giovanni Rinaldo Coronas, 89, Italian politician, former police chief and interior minister. [280] (Italian)
• Phillip S. Figa, 56, American federal judge, brain tumor. [281]
• Raymond Forni, 66, French politician, former National Assembly president, leukemia. [282]
• Thomas Cecil Gray, 94, British pioneer in anaesthetics. [283]
• Clinton Grybas, 32, Australian sports commentator. [284] [285]
• Louis Hon, 83, French footballer. [286]
• Edward Kłosiński, 65, Polish cinematographer. [287] (Polish)
• İhsan Saraçlar, 79, Turkish jurist and politician. [288] (Turkish)

[edit] 4

• Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan, 67, Russian footballer, champion of USSR, hit by car. [289] (Russian)
• Bjørn Odmar Andersen, 64, Norwegian footballer. [290] (Norwegian)
• Sir Bernard Audley, 83, British businessman and philanthropist. [291]
• Keith Baxter, 36, British drummer of rock band 3 Colours Red, liver failure. [292]
• Brandi Borr, 39, American stand-up comedian, breast cancer. [293]
• Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, 75, Nicaraguan editor of El Nuevo Diario, heart failure. [294] (Spanish)
• Joyce Carlson, 84, American artist, designer of Disney's It's a Small World rides, cancer. [295]
• Stig Claesson, 79, Swedish writer. [296] (Swedish)
• Vernon Derrick, 74, American musician. [297]
• Mort Garson, 83, Canadian electronic musician, renal failure. [298]
• Herbert Keppler, 82, American photojournalist. [299]
• Marianne Kiefer, 79, German actress. [300] (German)
• Mary Marques, 111, American supercentenarian, Massachusetts' oldest person. [301]
• Jimmy Nah, 39, Singaporean comedian. [302]
• José Luiz Pacheco, 82, Portuguese author and critic. [303] (Portuguese)
• Graham Percy, 69, British illustrator of children's books. [304]
• Bill Ramsey, 87, American baseball player. [305]
• Herbert John Walker, 88, New Zealand politician, former cabinet minister. [306]

[edit] 3

• Aleksandr Abdulov, 54, Russian actor, lung cancer. [307] (Russian)
• Jack Aranson, 83, British actor, pneumonia. [308]
• Henri Chopin, 85, French poet and artist. [309]
• Natasha Collins, 31, British television presenter. [310]
• Werner Dollinger, 89, German politician. [311] (German)
• Petru Dugulescu, 62, Romanian Baptist pastor, poet and politician, heart attack. [312]
• Milt Dunnell, 102, Canadian sportswriter. [313]
• Butch Felker, 62, American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, cancer. [314]
• Joseph Lazarow, 84, American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey. [315]
• Herman Le Compte, 78, Belgian doctor, the 'Vitamin Doctor', heart attack. [316] (Dutch), [317]
• Antônio Matias, 44, Portuguese judoka. [318] (Portuguese)
• John O'Donohue, 52, Irish poet, philosopher and priest. [319]
• Andrew J. Olmsted, 37, American army blogger in Iraq, shot. [320]
• Lisandro Otero, 75, Cuban author. [321] (Portuguese)
• Nikolay Puzanov, 69, Russian Soviet biathlete, 1968 Olympic Gold medalist. [322] (Russian)
• Manolo Reyes, 83, American pioneering Spanish-language newscaster, Parkinson's disease. [323]
• Jimmy Stewart, 76, British racing driver. [324]
• O.G. Style, 37, American rapper, brain aneurysm. [325]

[edit] 2

• Yo-Sam Choi, 35, South Korean boxer, former WBC Light Flyweight Champion, cerebral hemorrhage. [326]
• Lee S. Dreyfus, 81, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983). [327]
• George MacDonald Fraser, 82, British novelist and non-fiction writer (Flashman series), cancer. [328]
• Brice Mack, 90, American background painter for Walt Disney Animation Studios. [329]
• Ben Marlin, 31, American bassist (Disgorge), cancer. [330]
• G. G. Njuguna Ngengi, Kenyan politician, homicide. [331]
• Julio Martínez Pradanos, 84, Chilean sports journalist, cancer. [332]
• Robert C. Schnitzer, 101, American actor, producer, educator, and theater administrator. [333]
• Günter Schubert, 69, German actor. [334]
• Gerry Staley, 87, American baseball pitcher (Chicago White Sox), natural causes. [335]
• Galyani Vadhana, 84, Thai princess, eldest sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, cancer. [336]

[edit] 1

• Salvatore Bonanno, 75, American mobster, heart attack. [337]
• Peter Caffrey, 58, Irish actor. [338]
• Pratap Chandra Chunder, 88, Indian cabinet minister (1977–1980), heart disease. [339] [340]
• Dennis Clifton, 54, American musician (Cornbread Red) and studio engineer, cancer. [341]
• Harold Corsini, 88, American photographer, stroke. [342]
• Harald Deilmann, 87, German architect and author. [343] (German)
• Len Dockett, 87, Australian football player. [344]
• Irena Górska-Damięcka, 97, Polish actress. [345] (Polish)
• John Granville, 33, American diplomat, homicide. [346]
• Erich Kästner, 107, German jurist and last known German World War I veteran. [347]
• Thiyagarajah Maheswaran, 47, Sri Lankan politician, former cabinet minister, assassination by gunshot. [348] [349]
• Lucas Sang, 46, Kenyan runner and 1988 Olympian, homicide. [350]
• Wanda Sieradzka de Ruig, 85, Polish author, poet, journalist and translator. [351] [352] (Polish)
• Oleg Tolmachev, 88, Russian ice hockey player and coach. [353] (Russian)