Deaths in July 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2006.

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• Dugald Christie, 65, Canadian lawyer who fought for equitable access to legal services, bicycle accident. [1]
• Paul Eells, 70, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, car accident. [2]
• Mario Faustinelli, 81, Italian comic book artist. [3]
• Frederick Kilgour, 92, American librarian, founder of OCLC Online Computer Library Center. [4] [5]

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• Duygu Asena, 60, Turkish writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour. [6] [7]
• Al Balding, 82, Canadian golfer, cancer. [8]
• Murray Bookchin, 85, American political essayist, heart failure. [9]
• Dr. Philip D’Arcy Hart, 106, famed UK medical researcher. [10]
• J. Palmer Gaillard, 86, mayor of Charleston, South Carolina 1959-1975, following a car crash. [11]
• Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, concert accordionist, heart failure.
• Akbar Mohammadi, 34, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture. [12]
• Ferenc Zenthe, 86, Hungarian actor. [13]

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• Hani Awijan, 29, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades, in Nablus, West Bank, killed by gunfire. [14]
• Guido Dacco, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans, & Champ Cars. [15] [16]
• Dr. Jean Baker Miller, 78, American psychiatrist and author (Toward a New Psychology of Women). [17]
• Jose Lopez Rosario, 30, alleged Puerto Rican drug dealer [18]
• James Olin, 86, member of the United States House of Representatives (1982-1992). [19]
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage. [20]
• Louis Winnick, 85, Romanian-born economist for the Ford Foundation. [21] [22]
• James Harvey Young, 90, American social historian of medicine, professor at Emory University, complications of a stroke. [23]

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• Patrick Allen, 79, British actor. [24]
• Rut Brandt, 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt. [25]
• Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer. [26]
• Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, 56, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination. [27]
• Harold Enarson, 87, president of The Ohio State University (1972-81), fired football coach Woody Hayes, hydrocephalus. [28] [29]
• David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist. [30] [31]
• Dr. Joel Hedgpeth, 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist. [32]
• Don Malarkey, 101, American former PGA Tour golfer and oldest living PGA member. [33]
• Richard Mock, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. [34]
• Sep Smith, 94, legendary Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player. [35]
• Billy Walsh, 85, former Manchester City footballer & Grimsby Town manager, who played international football for both Ireland teams, the FAI XI and the IFA XI, and New Zealand. [36]

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• A. Frank Carven III, 54, co-founder and director of the Families of T.W.A. Flight 800 Association. [37]
• Maryann Mahaffey, 81, former member of Detroit city council, leukemia. [38]
• Carlos Roque, 70, Portuguese comic book artist. [39]
• Alexander Safran, 95, former Chief Rabbi of Romania who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War II. [40] [41]
• Elisabeth Volkmann, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson. [42]
• Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller, liver cancer. [43]
• Funsho Williams, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled. [44]

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• Emmeline Brice, 111, oldest Briton. [45]
• Louise "Miss Lou" Bennett-Coverley, 86, Jamaican folklorist, comedienne, poet. [46] [47]
• Floyd Dixon, 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure. [48] [49]
• Vincent J. Fuller, 75, lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr, lung cancer. [50]
• Jessie Gilbert, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall. [51] [52]
• Sunil Kumar, 34, Bhopal disaster campaigner against Union Carbide and founder of Children Against Carbide, found hanged. [53]
• Darrell Martinie, 63, astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer. [54]
• Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron. [55]
• Thurl Metzger, 90, former director of Heifer International. [56]
• Ed O'Herron, Jr, 90, North Carolina politician and businessman who helped to build Eckerd Drugs into one of the biggest drugstore chains in the US. [57]
• Timotheos III Papoutsakis, 91, Archbishop of Crete. [58] [59]

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• Carl Brashear, 75, first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of Honor, heart failure. [60]
• Chen Jinlang, 45, Singaporean pop singer in Hokkien dialect, colorectal cancer. [61]
• Ezra Fleischer, 78, Transylvanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize, and professor at Hebrew University. [62]
• Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 43, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack. [63] [64]
• Karin Hübner, 69, German actress and musical star (played Eliza Doolittle in German adaptation of My Fair Lady). [65]
• Lydia, Duchess of Bedford, 88, second wife of John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford. [66]
• Mati Jostov, 47, Estonian business manager, car accident. [67] [68]
• Bill Meistrell, 77, founder of the Body Glove wet suit company, Parkinson's disease. [69]
• Aldo Notari, 74, president of the International Baseball Federation. [70]
• James Schwabacher, 86, founder of San Francisco Opera's Merola Program for young artists, complications of pneumonia. [71]
• Bob Simpson, 61, retired senior BBC correspondent. [72]

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• Keya Brutalna, 83, Slovakian mathematician, cancer.
• Janka Bryl, 89, Belarusian writer. [73] [74]
• Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor. [75]
• Maha Kanapathipillai, pro-Government Tamil politician in Sri Lanka, presumed shot dead by Tamil Tigers. [76] [77]
• Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach. [78]
• Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian. [79]
• Michael Sellers, 52, British author, son of Peter Sellers, died during heart surgery. [80] [81]

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• Charles E. Brady, Jr., 54, American former astronaut. [82]
• Charles Bray, 72, American press secretary for the US State Department, deputy director of the USIA, and ambassador to Senegal. [83]
• Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère Untel, heart attack. [84]
• Lt. Col. Besby Holmes, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto. [85] [86]
• John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer. [87]
• Frederick Mosteller, 89, Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis. [88]
• Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day. [89]
• Ewa Sałacka, 49, Polish actress, allergic reaction to wasp sting. [90]
• Simonetta Stefanelli, 51, Italian actress (Apollonia in The Godfather), cancer. [91]

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• Heather Bratton, 19, American model, car accident. [92]
• Donald Reid Cabral, 83, former foreign minister of the Dominican Republic. [93]
• José Antonio Delgado, 41, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, found dead on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. [94]
• Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease. [95]
• Jessie Mae Hemphill, 82, award winning blues musician, complications of an infection. [96]
• Thomas J. Manton, 73, longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985-99), prostate cancer. [97] [98]
• Dr. Dika Newlin, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg. [99]
• Charles Knox Robinson III, 74, American actor, from complications of Parkinson's disease, in Palm Springs, CA.
• James E. West, 55, former mayor of Spokane, Washington, colorectal cancer. [100]
• Russell J. York, 84, World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest on November 20, 1944. [101]

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• Walter Allner, 97, German-born art director of Fortune. [102]
• Ric Campman, 64, artist and co-founder of the River Gallery School, cancer. [103] [104]
• Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television, and Broadway actor; esophageal cancer. [105]
• John Mazmanian, 80, drag racing pioneer. [106]
• Bob McCausland, 90, cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. [107]
• Ta Mok, 80, former Khmer Rouge commander, known as "The Butcher." [108]
• J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, former child actress, heart attack. [109]
• Palladium, 17, Estonian competition horse, euthanized after breaking leg. [110] [111] [112]
• Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, car crash. [113]
• Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, missing since July 5, murder. [114] [115]
• Bert Slater, 70, Scottish footballer. [116]

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• Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian. [117] (German)
• Philipp von Bismarck, 91, German politician of the CDU party. [118] (German)
• Kevin Brophy, 21, Australian basketball player at the University of Georgia, automobile accident. [119] [120]
• Madonna Castillo, 31, former Secretary-General of the Anakpawis party in the Philippines, shot. [121]
• Chung In-yung, 86, founder of Halla Engineering & Construction in South Korea. [122]
• Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (Thing From Another World). [123]
• Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician. [124]
• Brandon Hedrick, 27, convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair in Virginia. [125]
• Tom Larson, 77, former Federal Highway Administrator and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transport. [126]
• Lim Kim San, 89, former cabinet minister of Singapore. [127]
• Frank Nabarro, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics. [128]
• Harry Olivieri, 90, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium. [129]
• Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director. [130]
• Theo Sijthoff, 69, Dutch former cyclist and fashion designer. [131]
• Romeo Tan Togonon, 55, editorial cartoonist for the Manila Times. [132]

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• Rev Robert Baumiller, 75, associate dean of health at Xavier University. [133]
• Mauriceo Brown, 31, executed in Texas for 1996 robbery murder. [134]
• Troy May, 39, owner of Oshawa Dodgers Baseball Club, sepsis due to injuries from car accident. [135]
• Sam Neely, 58, singer-songwriter, collapsed while mowing his lawn. [136]
• Maulvi Yunis Khalis, 87, mujahideen leader in Afghanistan who met with Ronald Reagan in 1988. [137]
• Dave Walter, 63, Montana historian, heart attack. [138]
• Jack Warden, 85, Emmy Award-winning American actor, heart and kidney failure. [139]
• George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science. [140]
• Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer. [141]

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• Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer. [142]
• Henry Hewes, 89, former Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960-1964). [143] [144]
• Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, former Ipswich Town footballer. [145] [146]
• David Maloney, 72, British television director and producer for Doctor Who and Blake's 7. [147]
• V.P. Sathyan, 41, former captain of the Indian national football team, apparent suicide. [148] [149]

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• Rev. Amos Bailey, 88, writer of the syndicated column "Our Daily Bread", thyroid cancer. – obit-bailey0718jul18,0,6018043.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia
• Billy Firehawk, 40, former professional wrestler, diabetes. [150]
• Galen Fiss, 75, former Cleveland Browns linebacker. [151] [152]
• Dr. James Jandl, 80, American hematologist at Harvard University, author of Blood: Textbook of Hematology. [153]
• Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease [154]
• Mike MacDonald, 65, pioneering Canadian aboriginal video artist. [155]
• Robert Mardian, 82, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer. [156]
• Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets, throat cancer. [157] [158]
• David Skramstad, 74, twice mayor of Olympia, Washington and mystery writer, heart failure. [159]
• Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, pancreatic cancer. [160] [161] [162]

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• Walter Binaghi, 87, former ICAO Council President. [163]
• Peter Chew, 82, author and journalist specialising in horse racing, heart attack. [164]
• Dr. Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion. [165]
• Martin Gallant, 75, American former vice chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. [166]
• Kevin Hughes, 53, former British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease. [167] [168]
• Bob Orton, Sr., 76, former professional wrestler, heart attack. [169]
• Destiny Norton (date disappeared), 5, American child, kidnapped and murdered.^{[citation needed]}
• Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956. [170]
• Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. [171] [172]
• Harold Scott Jr., 70, American award-winning actor and playwright, first black artistic director of a major American regional theater. [173] [174]
• Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma. [175] [176]
• Winston Wilson, 63, co-founder of Winston Daniels Ltd of Napa Valley, wine importer, esophageal cancer. [177]

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• Robert H. Brooks, 69, chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. [178]
• Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. [179]
• John Feild, 83, pioneer of affirmative action as executive director of the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity in the administration of John F. Kennedy, heart attack. [180]
• John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. [181]
• Howdy Groskloss, 100, was the oldest living former major league baseball player. [182]
• Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer. [183]
• Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. [184]
• Daniel Nickerson, 48, former professional wrestling promoter. [185]
• István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, long illness. [186]
• Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and former co-husband of bigamist Anaïs Nin. [187]
• A. C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir charity for destitute women in India. [188]
• Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter. [189]
• David W. Simpson, 51, American Mayor of Bethel, Ohio, aneurysm. [190]
• Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer. [191] [192]

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• Ted Bilkey, 72, former Chief Operating Officer for DP World. [193] [194]
• Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage. [195]
• William Downs, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. [196]
• Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. [197]
• Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer [198]
• William Lash III, 45, former assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide after killing his 12-year-old autistic son. [199]
• Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. [200]
• Carrie Nye, 69, American actress, lung cancer. [201] [202]
• June Ormond, 94, produced country music and religious films, complications of a stroke. [203]
• Eduards Pāvuls, 77, famous Latvian actor [204]
• Martha Peterson, 90, American president of Barnard College (1967-75). [205]
• Senne Rouffaer, 80, Flemish actor. [206]
• Len Teeuws, 79, former offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals. [207]
• Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. [208]
• Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine, and massive bleeding. [209] [210]

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• Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease. [211] [212] [213]
• Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [214]
• Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. [215]
• Jürgen Kiessling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [216]
• John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, pneumonia. [217]
• Mark Ryder, 85, American dancer. [218]
• Jonathan Solomon, 74, Gwich'in tribal leader. [219]
• Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid. [220]
• Cora T. Walker, 84, African-American lawyer, co-founder and senior partner of Walker & Bailey. [221]

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• Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [222]
• George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. [223]
• Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy Below), stroke. [224] [225] [226]
• Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. [227]
• Charles H. G. Rees, 84, American media executive, former president of Whitney Communications. [228]

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• Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, death currently under investigation. [229] [230]
• Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [231]
• John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [232]
• Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [233]
• Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [234]
• Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [235] [236]
• Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [237] [238]
• Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [239] [240]
• Paul Morden, 31, American musician (The Brickbats, Memphis Morticians, Gitane DeMone, and others), suicide.
• Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas.
• Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide. [241]
• William Pryce, 73, United States ambassador to Honduras from 1993 to 1996, pancreatic cancer. [242]
• Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison. [243]
• Ruth Schonthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer. [244] [245] [246]
• John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer. [247] [248] [249]
• Philippe Takla, 91, former foreign minister of Lebanon. [250] [251]
• Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [252]

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• Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [253] [254] [255] [256]
• Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [257]
• Robert Fumerton, 93, top-scoring Canadian night fighter ace of World War II. [258]
• The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, responsible for introducing charges to visitors at York Minster, cancer [259] [260]
• Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [261]
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [262]
• Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant. [263]
• Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [264]
• Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [265]

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• Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [266]
• Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright, congestive heart failure. [267]
• Professor John Raeburn, 93, agricultural economist responsible for planning the "Dig for Victory" campaign in the United Kingdom during World War II. [268]
• Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [269]
• Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [270] [271]
• Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist, died in his sleep. [272]

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• George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [273] [274]
• June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [275]
• Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [276]
• Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [277]
• Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [278]
• David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [279] [280]
• Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia. [281]
• Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flowerpot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks. [282]
• Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, lung cancer. [283] [284]
• Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [285]
• Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [286] [287]
• Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure. [288]
• Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [289]
• Sabine Dünser, 29, singer for gothic metal band Elis, Cerebral hemorrhage. [290]

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• Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [291] [292]
• Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, diabetes. [293]
• Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [294]
• Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [295]
• Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [296]
• Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris. [297]
• John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [298]
• Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. [299]
• Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [300]
• Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [301]
• Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. – obit-lescure0707jul07,0,3475935.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia
• Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. [302]
• Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [303] [304]
• Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band. [305]
• Robert Payne, 62, University of Iowa administrator, Lung Cancer, [306]
• Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [307]
• Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee (1948-1960) and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [308]

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• Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [309]
• Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack. [310]
• Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [311]
• Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [312]
• Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [313]
• John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [314]
• George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. [315]
• Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [316] [317]
• Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. [318] [319] [320]
• E.S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist. [321]
• Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [322] [323]
• Waseem Rashid Malik, 48, Engineer at Pakistan International Airlines, PIA, died due to Meningitis and lake of care of the Authorities.

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• Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [324]
• Lucien Crump, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [325]
• Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [326]
• Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [327]
• Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [328]
• Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [329]
• Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. [330]
• Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [331]
• Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [332]
• Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [333]
• Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress [334]
• Hugh Stubbins Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [335] [336]
• Tongan prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, and princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [337] [338] [339]

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• Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [340]
• Dean Goodman, 86, American actor, husband of Maria Riva, the daughter of Marlene Dietrich.
• John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. – radio/whimsical-john-hinde-dies/2006/07/05/1151778981347.html
• Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. [341]
• Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [342]
• Sir Leslie Smith, 87, industrialist behind the The BOC Group growth. [343]
• Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author, complications of Parkinson's Disease. [344]

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• Bashir Al-Mogherbi, 83, first president of Libyan football club Al Ahly Benghazi.
• Hans Bierbrauer (alias Oskar), 84, German caricaturist. [345]
• Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson.
• Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. [346]
• Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [347]
• Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [348]
• Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD. [349]
• Arthur Haggerty, 74, American dog trainer. [350]
• Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [351] [352]
• Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [353]
• Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer. [354] [355]
• Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [356]
• Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [357]
• Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [358]
• Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [359] [360]
• Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [361]
• Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [362]
• Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [363]

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• L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [364]
• Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, former member House of Lords and RAF Group Captain. [365]
• Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [366]
• Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [367]
• Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [368] [369]
• Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup [370]
• Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1960–1974. [371]
• Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [372]
• Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke. [373]
• Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [374]

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• Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [375]
• Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [376]
• Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [377]
• Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [378]
• Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [379]
• Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [380] [381]
• Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). [382]
• Jabron Hashmi, 24, British soldier, first British Muslim to die in "War on Terror." [383]
• Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [384]
• Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [385]
• Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [386]
• Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician. [387]
• Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [388]
• Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [389]
• Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [390]
• Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [391]
• Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [392]
• Juliette Galano, 72, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [393]