Deaths in May 2008

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

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• Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall. [1]
• Joe Axelson, 80, American executive and general manager of the NBA Sacramento Kings. [2]
• Hugh Jarrett, 78, American singer (The Jordanaires), injuries from a car accident. [3]
• Per-Erik Larsson, 79, Swedish skier. [4] (Swedish)
• Charles Moskos, 74, American sociologist, architect of the US military DADT gay and lesbian policy, cancer. [5]

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• Harry Brautigam, Nicaraguan president of the BCIE since 2003, heart problem after air crash. [6]
• Campbell Burnap, 69, British jazz trombonist, cancer. [7]
• Harlan Cleveland, 90, American diplomat, educator and author, ambassador to NATO (1965–1969), natural causes. [8]
• Chris Morgan, 55, British journalist, apparent suicide in front of a train. [9] [10]
• William Eldridge Odom, 75, American army Lieutenant General and director of the National Security Agency. [11]
• Lorenzo Odone, 30, American ALD patient portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil. [12]
• Mike Scott, 75, British television producer and presenter. [13]
• Boris Shakhlin, 76, Russian-born Ukrainian gymnast, winner of seven Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union, cardiac arrest. [14]
• Evan Steadman, 69, British exhibition organiser. [15]
• Nat Temple, 94, British bandleader. [16]

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• Paula Gunn Allen, 68, Native American poet, novelist, and activist, lung cancer. [17]
• José Alejandro Bernales, 59, Chilean director general of Carabineros de Chile, helicopter crash. [18]
• Luc Bourdon, 21, Canadian ice hockey player, motorcycle accident. [19]
• Romeo A. Brawner, 72, Filipino appeals court judge (1995–2005), election commissioner (2005–2008), heart attack. [20]
• Barry Dunnery, 56, British guitarist (Violinski, Necromandus), cancer. [21]
• Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles, The Carol Burnett Show), abdominal aortic aneurysm. [22]

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• Beryl Cook, 81, British painter. [23]
• Sven Davidson, 79, Swedish tennis player. [24]
• Lechosław Goździk, 77, Polish leader of 1956 workers' protests. [25] (Polish)
• Robert H. Justman, 81, American television and film producer (Star Trek), Parkinson's disease. [26]
• Gerhard Konzelmann, 75, German journalist. [27] (German)
• David Mitton, 69, British animation director, heart attack (death announced this day). [28] [29]
• Danny Moss, 80, British jazz tenor saxophonist. [30]
• Dianne Odell, 61, American author and polio victim, power failure to iron lung. [31]

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• Valmae Beck, 64, Australian child murderer, complications of heart surgery. [32]
• Tony Hussein Hinde, ?, Australian-born Maldivian surfer, father of surfing in the Maldives, heart attack while surfing. [33][34]
• Franz Künstler, 107, German World War I veteran, last known surviving veteran of the Central Powers. [35]
• Mick Nolan, 58, Australian footballer, cancer. [36]
• Abram Raselemane, 30, South African footballer, apparent suicide. [37]
• Sung Chuen-sau, 78, Taiwanese film director, Parkinson's disease. [38] (Chinese)

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• Dolly Aglay, 41, Filipino journalist, cancer. [39]
• Jerry C. Begay, 83, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran. [40]
• Earle Hagen, 88, American composer of film and television theme music (The Andy Griffith Show, The Mod Squad). [41]
• Howlin' Dave, 52, Filipino radio disc jockey and proponent of Pinoy rock, stroke. [42]
• Rudy Kay, 65, Canadian professional wrestler, virus. [43]
• Fritz Koerner, 75, British polar scientist and explorer. [44]
• Sydney Pollack, 73, American film director (The Way We Were, Tootsie, Out of Africa) and actor, cancer. [45]
• Alan Renouf, 89, Australian head of DFAT, ambassador to United States (1977–1979), France and Yugoslavia, leukemia. [46]
• Jhamu Sughand, 57, Indian film producer, cardiac arrest. [47]

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• Aloysius Atuegbu, Nigerian footballer (Enugu Rangers, Nigeria), stroke. [48]
• Louise Firouz, 74, American horse breeder. [49]
• David Gahr, 85, American photographer. [50]
• George Garrett, 78, American novelist and poet, cancer. [51]
• Geremi González, 33, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, lightning strike. [52]
• James Griffin, 78, American mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994). [53]
• Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian chess grandmaster. [54]
• Ako Kawada, 29, Japanese television presenter, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [55]
• Ítalo Argentino Lúder, 91, Argentine acting president (1975). [56] (Spanish)
• Thomas McHale, 45, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers). [57]
• Mitch Mullany, 39, American comedian and actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher), diabetes-related stroke. [58]
• László Nedeczky, 95, Hungarian fencer. [59] (Hungarian)
• Alfredo Saramago, 70, Portuguese gourmet and historian. [60] (Portuguese)
• J. R. Simplot, 99, American businessman, original McDonald's french fries supplier. [61]
• Clémentine Solignac, 113, French supercentenarian, verified world's fourth oldest person. [62]
• Ernst Stuhlinger, 94, German-born American rocket scientist. [63]
• Camu Tao, 30, American rapper-producer, lung cancer. [64]
• Dommy Ursua, 72, Filipino flyweight boxer. [65]

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• Adam Baruch, 63, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic, diabetes complications. [66]
• Tano Cimarosa, 86, Italian actor. [67] (Italian)
• Reg Flewin, 87, British footballer. [68]
• Rob Knox, 18, British actor, stabbed. [69]
• Eugenio Garza Lagüera, 84, Mexican businessman, president of FEMSA, natural causes. [70]
• Isaac Lipschits, 77, Dutch political scientist and historian, natural causes. [71] (Dutch)
• Dick Martin, 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), respiratory complications. [72]
• Jimmy McGriff, 72, American jazz and blues organist, multiple sclerosis. [73]

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• Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and critic. [74]
• Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer, founder of the International Center of Photography. [75]
• Roberto Freire, 81, Brazilian writer and psychiatrist, created somatherapy. [76]
• Dritan Hoxha, 39, Albanian businessman, car accident. [77]
• Thelma Keane, 82, Australian-born American who inspired husband Bil's comic strip The Family Circus, Alzheimer's disease. [78]
• Heinz Kwiatkowski, 81, German footballer, member of 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning team. [79]
• Peter Milne, 73, British boat designer. [80]
• Jefferson Peres, 76, Brazilian senator from Amazonas, heart attack. [81] (Portuguese)
• Utah Phillips, 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure. [82] [83]
• Earl Root, 46, American heavy metal guitarist (Aesma Daeva), complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [84]
• Chief White Owl, 72, American professional wrestler. [85]

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• Robert Asprin, 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures), heart attack. [86]
• Charlie Booth, 104, Australian athlete, inventor of the starting block. [87]
• Jack Mildren, 58, American football player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (1990–1995), stomach cancer. [88]
• Paul Patrick, 58, British gay rights activist, chronic lung condition. [89]
• Boris Tropanets, 44, Moldovan football player, coach of national youth team, after long illness. [90] [91] (Russian)

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• Mel Casson, 87, American cartoonist (Redeye). [92]
• Daniel Guzmán-García, 111, Colombian supercentenarian. [93]
• Brian Keenan, 66, Irish IRA commander, cancer. [94] [95]
• Michelle Meldrum, 39, American rock guitarist (Phantom Blue, Meldrum), cystic growth on the brain. [96]
• Siegmund Nissel, 86, German-born British violinist (Amadeus Quartet). [97]
• Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, 77, Portuguese artist and engraver, long illness. [98] (Portuguese)
• Torcato Sepúlveda, 57, Portuguese journalist. [99] (Portuguese)

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• Iona Banks, 87, British actress (Pobol y Cwm). [100]
• Crispin Beltran, 75, Filipino congressman and labor leader, head injuries from a fall. [101]
• Viktor Bortsov, 73, Russian actor, intestinal cancer. [102] (Russian)
• Margot Boyd, 94, British actress (Marjorie Antrobus on The Archers). [103]
• Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison, 71, British footballer and trade unionist. [104]
• Howard Dill, 73, Canadian award-winning agriculturalist, liver cancer. [105] [106]
• Joachim Erwin, 58, German politician, mayor of Düsseldorf, colorectal cancer. [107]
• Herb Hash, 97, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox), stroke. [108]
• Zelma Henderson, 88, American last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, pancreatic cancer. [109]
• Barclay Howard, 55, British golfer, leukemia. [110]
• Hamilton Jordan, 63, American politician, Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff (1979–1980), mesothelioma. [111][112]
• Martin Kelly, 42, British plastic surgeon, husband of Natascha McElhone, heart attack. [113]
• Cy Leonard, 82, Canadian ventriloquist. [114]
• Jan Hird Pokorny, 93, Czech-born American architect. [115]
• Gellért Raksányi, 82, Hungarian actor. [116] (Hungarian)
• Oscar Ratnoff, 91, American hematologist, physician and researcher. [117] [118]
• Ali Sadikin, 80, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta (1966–1977), liver cancer. [119] [120]
• Jeheskel Shoshani, 65, Israeli-born American elephant expert, bus explosion. [121]
• S. K. Trimurti, 96, Indonesian journalist, first minister of labor and employment, natural causes. [122] (Indonesian)

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• Nigel Cassidy, 62, British footballer. [123]
• Dai Davies, 69, British journalist and golf correspondent. [124]
• Jack Duffy, 81, Canadian comedian, natural causes. [125]
• Chaim Flom, Israeli scholar and rosh yeshiva. [126]
• William Hall, 72, British film critic. [127]
• Huntington Hartford, 97, American businessman and philanthropist. [128]
• Rimma Kazakova, 76, Russian poet. [129]
• Kjell Kristian Rike, 63, Norwegian sports commentator. [130]
• Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright, myasthenia gravis. [131]

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• Pietro Cascella, 87, Italian contemporary artist. [132]
• Irma Córdoba, 94, Argentine actress, natural causes. [133] (Spanish)
• Lloyd Moore, 95, American NASCAR driver (1949–1955). [134]
• Elemore Morgan, Jr., 76, American landscape artist. [135]
• Joseph Pevney, 96, American television and film director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase, Trapper John, M.D.). [136]

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• Nicholas Baker, 49, British yacht broker, cancer. [137]
• Jolyon Brettingham Smith, 58, British composer, musicologist and radio presenter. [138] (German)
• John Fitzsimmons, 68, British Roman Catholic priest and broadcaster, after long illness. [139]
• Thomas Flatley, 76, American real estate tycoon and philanthropist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [140]
• Zélia Gattai, 91, Brazilian writer and novelist, wife of Jorge Amado. [141]
• Wilfrid Mellers, 94, British composer and author. [142]
• D. Aubrey Moodie, 99, Canadian politician. [143]
• Jack Rayner, 87, Australian rugby league player. [144]
• Sophan Sophiaan, 64, Indonesian actor and politician, motorcycle accident. [145]
• Joyce Trimmer, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (1988–1994), cancer. [146]
• Lionel Van Deerlin, 93, American politician and journalist, representative from California (1963–1981).[147]

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• William Blease, Baron Blease, 93, British politician. [148]
• Henry Canoy, 84, Filipino businessman, founder of Radio Mindanao Network. [149]
• Sandy Howard, 80, American film and television producer (A Man Called Horse), Alzheimer's disease. [150]
• Robert Mondavi, 94, American winemaker, benefactor of the Mondavi Center, member of the California Hall of Fame. [151]
• Jimmy Slyde, 80, American tap dancer. [152]

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• Del Ankers, 91, American cinematographer and photographer (Muppets commercials). [153]
• Henry Austin, 88, Indian diplomat and politician, ambassador to Portugal. [154]
• Tommy Burns, 51, Scottish football player and manager (Celtic, Kilmarnock, Reading), melanoma. [155]
• Tove Billington Bye, 79, Norwegian politician. [156] (Norwegian)
• Alexander Courage, 88, American orchestrator and film composer. [157]
• Robert Dunlop, 47, British motorcycle racer, chest injuries. [158]
• Will Elder, 86, American comic book artist (Mad, Little Annie Fanny), Parkinson's disease. [159] [160]
• Bob Florence, 75, American jazz composer and arranger, pneumonia. [161]
• Youssef Idilbi, 32, Dutch actor, suicide. [162] (Dutch)
• Willis Lamb, 94, American physicist, Nobel laureate in physics (1955), complications of gallstone disorder. [163]
• Earl Leggett, 75, American football player and coach. [164]
• Jim Nelson, 78, American aerospace entrepreneur, cancer. [165]
• Flip Schulke, 77, American photographer, heart failure. [166]
• Astrid Zachrison, 113, Swedish supercentenarian, oldest Swede ever. [167] [168]

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• Frith Banbury, 96, British stage director and actor, liver cancer. [169]
• Arthur Burks, 92, American mathematician and computer pioneer, Alzheimer's disease. [170]
• Warren Cowan, 87, American publicist, cancer. [171]
• Derek Goodwin, 88, British ornithologist. [172]
• Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese writer. [173]
• Jay Morago, 90, American governor of the Gila River Indian Community (1954–1960), cancer. [174]
• Fred Moselen, 67, New Zealand Scouting national secretary, cancer. [175]
• Tonderai Ndira, 33, prominent Zimbabwean political dissident, murdered. [176]
• Yuri Rytkheu, 78, Russian Chukchi language writer. [177]
• Mário Schoemberger, 56, Brazilian film, television and stage actor, cancer. [178] (Portuguese)
• Wander Taffo, 53, Brazilian musician, heart failure. [179] (Portuguese)

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• Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 78, Kuwaiti emir (2006). [180]
• Lucius D. Battle, 89, American ambassador to Egypt (1964–1967), Parkinson's disease. [181]
• Bernardin Gantin, 86, Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. [182]
• John Phillip Law, 70, American actor (Barbarella). [183]
• Larry McKeon, 63, American politician, first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly, stroke. [184]
• Muriel More, 89, British pianist. [185]
• Colea Răutu, 95, Romanian actor, cirrhosis. [186]
• Ron Stone, 72, American news anchor (KHOU, KPRC in Houston), prostate cancer. [187]
• Costică Toma, 80, Romanian football goalkeeper (Romania, Steaua Bucureşti). [188]

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• Penny Banner, 73, American professional wrestler, cancer. [189]
• Seamus Casey, 27, New Zealand opera singer, car accident. [190]
• Leo Garibaldi, 78, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease. [191]
• Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist (Warlock), kidney disease and cancer. [192]
• Beverly Rae Kimes, 68, American writer and automobile historian. [193]
• James Lemkin, 81, British lawyer and political philosopher. [194]
• Lidiya Masterkova, 81, Russian-born French painter. [195] (Russian)
• Robert Rauschenberg, 82, American pop artist, heart failure. [196]
• Irena Sendler, 98, Polish humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. [197]
• Irene Vilar, 77, Portuguese sculptor. [198] (Portuguese)

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• Sam Dauya, 70, Zimbabwean founder of Dynamos F.C. football team. [199]
• Eugen Jesser, 62, Austrian director of the Vienna Boys' Choir. [200]
• Alema Leota, 80, American alleged organized crime leader, 1978 candidate for governor of Hawaii, injuries from car accident. [201]
• Raymattja Marika, 49, Australian Yolngu scholar, linguist, educator and cultural advocate, heart attack. [202]
• Bruno Neves, 27, Portuguese cyclist, crash during race. [203]
• Dottie Rambo, 74, American gospel singer, bus crash. [204]
• Bill Rankin, 84, American UCLA basketball player and high school basketball coach, Parkinson's disease. [205]
• John Rutsey, 55, Canadian drummer (Rush), heart attack. [206]
• Heather Stohler, 29, American model for Calvin Klein, fire. [207]
• Dick Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke. [208]
• Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease. [209]
• Curtis Whitley, 39, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Carolina Panthers, Oakland Raiders). [210] [211]

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• Leyla Gencer, 79, Turkish soprano opera singer, respiratory and cardiac failure. [212]
• Paul Haeberlin, 84, French chef and restaurateur (L'Auberge de l'Ill). [213]
• Jessica Jacobs, 17, Australian actress and singer, fell under train. [214] [215]
• Liao Feng-Teh, 57, Taiwanese incoming interior minister, heart attack. [216]
• Peter Thurnham, 69, British MP for Bolton North East (1983–1997), pancreatic cancer. [217]

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• Firoz Dastur, 89, Indian Hindustani classical musician (Kirana Gharana), anaemia. [218]
• Jack Gibson, 79, Australian rugby league player and coach, selected as "Coach of the Century". [219]
• Judy Grable, 82, American female professional wrestler. [220]
• Shmuel Katz, 93, Israeli writer, historian and journalist. [221]
• Arthur Kroeger, 76, Canadian civil servant (1958–1992), academic and chancellor of Carleton University (1993–2002). [222]
• Nuala O'Faolain, 68, Irish journalist and author, lung cancer. [223] [224]
• Ronald A. Parise, 56, American astronaut, brain tumor. [225]
• Esteban Robles Espinosa, Mexican police commander, shot. [226]
• Pascal Sevran, 62, French television presenter and producer, lyricist and writer, lung cancer. [227]
• Sinan Sofuoğlu, 25, Turkish motorcycle racer, training crash. [228]
• Artur da Távola, 72, Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, heart disease. [229] (Portuguese)

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• Eddy Arnold, 89, American country music singer. [230]
• Willem Brakman, 85, Dutch author. [231] (Dutch)
• Ian Brodie, 72, British foreign correspondent (The Daily Telegraph). [232]
• Jose Feria, 91, Filipino supreme court justice (1986–1987). [233]
• Murray Jarvik, 84, American academic and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, heart failure. [234]
• Larry Levine, 80, American Grammy-winning audio engineer (Wall of Sound), emphysema. [235]
• Luigi Malerba, 81, Italian writer. [236]
• Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, 41, Mexican federal police anti-drug coordinator, shot. [237]
• François Sterchele, 26, Belgian footballer (Belgium, Club Brugge), car accident. [238]

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• Clifford Jones, 80, American politician, Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman, prostate cancer. [239]
• Thijs Wöltgens, 64, Dutch politician, mayor of Kerkrade (1994–2000), senator (1995–2005). [240] (Dutch)

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• John Jay Iselin, 74, American public television innovator, descendent of John Jay, pneumonia. [241]
• Franz Jackson, 95, American saxophonist. [242]
• Harvey Karman, 84, American psychologist and women's reproductive health advocate, inventor of the Karman cannula, stroke. [243]
• Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, 74, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer. [244]
• D.C. Minner, 73, American blues musician. [245]
• John Reames, 65, British football manager and administrator, cancer. [246]

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• Sam Aubrey, 85, American basketball player and coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys). [247]
• Thomas Boggs, 63, American drummer (Box Tops), owner of Huey's Restaurants. [248]
• Hugh Bradner, 92, American scientist credited with inventing the wetsuit. [249]
• Park Kyung-ni, 82, South Korean novelist, lung cancer. [250]
• Irv Robbins, 90, American businessman, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain. [251] [252]
• Alma Hogan Snell, 85, American Crow tribal nation historian, herbalist, granddaughter of Pretty Shield. [253]
• Jerry Wallace, 79, American country music singer, heart failure. [254]
• Witold Woyda, 68, Polish fencer, double gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, lung cancer. [255]

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• John Altieri, 38, American actor (Jersey Boys), pneumonia. [256]
• Fred Baur, 89, American chemist, inventor of the Pringles can. [257]
• Alvin Colt, 92, American Tony Award–winning costume designer (On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Pipe Dream, Li'l Abner). [258]
• John Greenwood, 57, British businessman and catering executive, motor neurone disease. [259]
• Fred Haines, 72, American screenwriter and film director, lung cancer. [260]
• Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham, 71, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer. [261]
• Kishan Maharaj, 84, Indian musician, leading exponent of the Benares gharana tabla, stroke. [262]
• Colin Murdoch, 79, New Zealand inventor of the disposable hypodermic syringe and the tranquilizer gun, cancer. [263]
• F. R. Wallace, Jr., 91, American mayor of Chesterfield, New Jersey (1975–1981), natural causes. [264]

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• Charles Caccia, 78, Canadian politician, environmentalist, Liberal MP for Davenport (1968–2004), complications of stroke. [265]
• Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, 82, Spanish prime minister (1981–1982), natural causes. [266]
• Eight Belles, 3, American racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby 2nd place finisher, euthanized. [267]
• Martin Finnegan, 27, Irish motorbike racer, race crash. [268]
• Fay Gale, 75, Australian cultural geographer. [269]
• Lynne Cooper Harvey, 92, American radio producer, Radio Hall of Fame member, wife of Paul Harvey, leukemia. [270]
• Ted Key, 95, American cartoonist (Hazel), bladder cancer and stroke. [271]
• Morgan Sparks, 91, American engineer, inventor of the first practical bipolar junction transistor. [272]

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• Robert Brachtenbach, 77, American jurist, Washington State Supreme Court justice (1972–1994), throat cancer. [273]
• Carole Dekeijser, 48, Belgian painter, lung cancer. [274] (French)
• Dominic Dim Deng, Sudanese politician, defence minister for Southern Sudan, plane crash. [275]
• Robert M. Isaac, 80, American politician, mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado (1979–1997), pneumonia. [276]
• Mildred Loving, 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia). [277]
• Ilyas Malayev, 72, Uzbekistani musician and poet, pancreatic cancer. [278]
• Beverlee McKinsey, 72, American soap opera actress (Guiding Light), complications from kidney transplant. [279]
• Izold Pustylnik, 70, Ukrainian-born Estonian astronomer. [280]
• Daniel Sekhoto, 37, South African football player. [281]
• Mike Titcomb, 75 , British rugby union referee, kidney failure. [282]
• Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr., 93, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Ruffian). [283]
• Justin Yak, Sudanese politician, minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash. [284]

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• Nasimuddin Amin, 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza, lung cancer. [285]
• Bernard Archard, 91, British actor. [286]
• Buzzie Bavasi, 93, American baseball executive (Dodgers, Angels, Padres). [287]
• Mary Berry, 90, British musicologist and nun. [288]
• Philipp von Boeselager, 90, German World War II anti-Hitler conspirator. [289]
• Nirmala Deshpande, 78, Indian peace activist, after brief illness. [290]
• Elaine Dundy, 86, American writer and actress. [291]
• Aden Hashi Farah, Somali leader of Al-Shabab insurgent group, air strike. [292]
• Jim Hager, 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw), heart attack. [293]
• Mark Kendall, 49, British footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Newport County, Wolverhampton Wanderers). [294]
• Sir Anthony Mamo, 99, Maltese politician, first president of the Republic of Malta. [295]
• Alberto Estima de Oliveira, 74, Portuguese poet. [296] (Portuguese)
• Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging. [297] [298]