Deaths in November 2007

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

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• J. L. Ackrill, 86, British philosopher. [1]
• Engin Arık, 59, Turkish physicist, plane crash. [2]
• Seymour Benzer, 86, American genetic biologist, stroke. [3]
• Robert "Evel" Knievel, Jr., 69, American stunt performer. [4] [5]
• Ian MacArthur, 82, British politician, MP for Perth and East Perthshire (1959–1974). [6]
• François-Xavier Ortoli, 82, French President of the European Commission (1973–1977). [7]
• John Strugnell, 77, American biblical scholar, complications from an infection. [8]
• Sam Vasquez, 35, American mixed martial arts competitor, brain injury sustained during fight. [9]

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• James Barber, 84, British-born Canadian cooking show host (The Urban Peasant). [10]
• Ralph Beard, 79, American college basketball player for the University of Kentucky involved in point-shaving scandal. [11]
• Henry Hyde, 83, American member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois (1975–2007). [12]
• Jane Lawton, 63, American Democratic Maryland politician, heart attack. [13]
• Jim Nesbitt, 75, American country music singer. [14]
• Roger Bonham Smith, 82, American chairman and CEO of General Motors (1981–1990). [15] [16]

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• Jeanne Bates, 89, American film actress, breast cancer. [17]
• Elly Beinhorn, 100, German pilot and author. [18] (German)
• Fred Chichin, 53, French musician, songwriter and leader of Les Rita Mitsouko, cancer. [19]
• Mali Finn, 69, American casting agent, (Titanic, L.A. Confidential, The Matrix), cancer. [20]
• Lonny Heckman, 38, American songwriter ("When I See Beth Smiling"), pulmonary embolism. [21]
• Tony Holland, 67, British co-creator of EastEnders. [22]
• Bob Simpson, 77, Canadian football player, prostate cancer. [23]
• Petter C.G. Sundt, 62, Norwegian shipping magnate, cancer. [24] (Norwegian)
• Ashley Titus, 36, South African rapper and TV presenter ("Mr. Fat"), heart problems. [25]
• James Miles Venne, 89, Canadian northern Saskatchewan First Nations leader. [26]
• Gudrun Wagner, 63, German co-organizer of the Bayreuth Festival, wife of Wolfgang Wagner. [27]

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• Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale, 95, British civil servant. [28]
• Bernie Banton, 61, Australian asbestosis compensation campaigner, mesothelioma. [29]
• Robert Cade, 80, American doctor, inventor of Gatorade, kidney failure. [30]
• Nicodemus Kirima, 71, Kenyan Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nyeri, kidney failure. [31]
• Cecil Payne, 84, American saxophonist, prostate cancer. [32]
• Jane Rule, 76, Canadian author of lesbian-themed works, liver cancer. [33] [34]
• Sean Taylor, 24, American football player (Washington Redskins), homicide by gunshot. [35]
• Bill Willis, 86, American football player (Ohio State, Cleveland Browns). [36]

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• Marit Allen, 66, British film costume designer (Mrs. Doubtfire, Eyes Wide Shut, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), brain aneurism. [37] [38]
• George Harris, 84, Australian football administrator, former Carlton president. [39]
• Bill Hartack, 74, American Hall of Fame jockey, five-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, heart attack. [40]
• Silvestre S. Herrera, 90, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. [41]
• Takafumi Isomura, 76, Japanese politician, mayor of Osaka (1995–2003), hepatocellular carcinoma. [42]
• Elaine Lorillard, 93, American socialite, helped start Newport Jazz Festival, infection. [43]
• Herb McKenley, 85, Jamaican 400 m relay gold medalist at 1952 Summer Olympics. [44]
• Raleigh Rhodes, 89, American World War II pilot, early leader of the Blue Angels, lung cancer. [45]
• Stanley Thorne, 89, British politician, Labour MP for Preston South and Preston (1974–1987). [46]
• Susan Williams-Ellis, 89, British founder of Portmeirion Pottery, bronchial pneumonia.[47]
• Mel Tolkin, 94, American head writer for Your Show of Shows. [48]

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• Lola Almudevar, 29, British news reporter, car accident. [49]
• John Drury, 80, American television journalist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [50]
• Norm Hacking, 57, Canadian musician and author, suspected heart attack. [51]
• Peter Houghton, 68, British recipient of the first artificial heart transplant, multiple organ failure. [52]
• Peter Lipton, 53, American philosopher, heart attack. [53]
• Karl Ohs, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (2001–2005), brain cancer. [54]
• Matt Price, 46, Australian journalist (Nine Network, The Australian), brain tumour. [55]

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• Farid Babayev, Russian politician with the Yabloko party, homicide by gunshot. [56]
• Casey Calvert, 26, American guitarist for emo/post-hardcore band Hawthorne Heights, accidental drug overdose. [57] [58]
• Imil Jarjoui, 72, Palestinian member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the PLO executive committee, heart attack. [59]
• Antonio Lamer, 74, Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1990–2000), heart disease. [60]
• Joseph Minish, 91, American member of the US House of Representatives from New Jersey (1963–1985). [61]
• William O'Neill, 77, American politician, Governor of Connecticut (1980–1991), complications of emphysema. [62]
• Emily Sander, 18, American murder victim. [63]
• David Sheldon, 43, American professional wrestler ("Angel of Death"). [64]
• David H. Shepard, 84, American inventor, bronchiectasis. [65]

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• Peter Burgstaller, 43, Austrian former footballer, shot. [66]
• Aloysius C. Galvin, 82, American Jesuit priest, President of the University of Scranton (1965 - 1970), cancer. [67]
• Frank Guarrera, 83, American baritone with the Metropolitan Opera. [68]
• Joe Kennedy, 28, American baseball player, hypertensive and valvular heart disease. [69] [70]
• Vladimir Kryuchkov, 83, Russian former KGB chief, led coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. [71]
• Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, 36, Bolivian footballer, cancer. [72]
• William Tallon, 72, British servant to HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. [73]
• Francesc Candel Tortajada, 82, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer. [74] (Spanish)
• Leona Tuttle, 111, American supercentenarian. [75]
• Henrietta Valor, 72, American Broadway singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease. [76]
• Robert Vesco, 73, American fugitive financier, lung cancer. [77]
• Pat Walsh, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and selector, All Black (1955–1964). [78]

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• Maurice Béjart, 80, French choreographer. [79]
• Jefferson J. DeBlanc, 86, American fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient, pneumonia. [80]
• Takami Eto, 82, Japanese politician, former member of the House of Representatives, heart failure. [81] (Japanese)
• Verity Lambert, 71, British TV producer, BBC's first female producer (Doctor Who). [82]
• Richard Nolte, 86, American expert on the Middle East, complications from a stroke. [83] [84]
• Reg Park, 79, British bodybuilder, Mr. Universe (1951), skin cancer. [85]

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• Valda Aveling, 87, Australian pianist, harpsichordist and clavichordist. [86]
• Fernando Fernán Gómez, 86, Spanish actor. [87]
• Andrew Foldi, 81, Hungarian opera singer. [88]
• Tom Johnson, 79, Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player, heart failure. [89]
• Richard Leigh, 64, American author (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail). [90]
• Noel McGregor, 75, New Zealand Test cricketer. [91]
• Herbert Saffir, 90, American engineer, co-creator of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale; complications from surgery. [92]

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• Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich, 90, British judge. [93]
• James Lamond, 78, British Lord Provost of Aberdeen, MP (Oldham East, Oldham Central and Royton) (1970–1992), pneumonia. [94]
• Ernest "Doc" Paulin, 100, American jazz musician. [95] [96]
• Ian Smith, 88, Rhodesian politician, Prime Minister (1964–1979). [97]
• Randy Tallman, 67, American voice actor. [98]

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• André Bettencourt, 88, French Resistance fighter and politician. [99]
• Paul Brodie, 73, Canadian saxophonist. [100]
• Nyimpine Chissano, 37, Mozambican businessman, son of ex-president Joaquim Chissano, heart attack. [101]
• Kevin DuBrow, 52, American rock singer (Quiet Riot), accidental cocaine overdose. [102] [103]
• Wiera Gran, 91, Polish singer and actress. [104] (Polish)
• Mike Gregory, 43, British Lions rugby league captain, motor neurone disease. [105]
• Peter Haining, 67, British author, heart attack. [106]
• Ken Leek, 72, British international footballer (Wales, Birmingham City). [107]
• Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa, 79, Samoan educator, community worker, diplomat and former Member of Parliament. [108]
• Channaiah Odeyar, 91, Indian Lok Sabha Member of Parliament. [109]
• Graham Paddon, 57, British footballer (Norwich City, West Ham United). [110]
• Milo Radulovich, 81, American airman threatened by McCarthyism and championed by Edward R. Murrow, stroke. [111]
• Jim Ringo, 75, American professional football player (Green Bay Packers). [112]
• John Straffen, 77, British murderer, Britain's longest serving prisoner (56 years), natural causes. [113]
• Magda Szabó, 90, Hungarian writer. [114]
• Dick Wilson, 91, British-born American actor ("Mr. Whipple"), natural causes. [115] [116]

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• Hollis Alpert, 91, American film critic, cofounded National Society of Film Critics, pneumonia. [117]
• Peter Cadogan, 86, British writer and anti-nuclear campaigner. [118] [119]
• Jim Ford, 66, American singer songwriter. [120]
• Ellen Preis, 95, Austrian fencer, gold medallist at the 1932 Summer Olympics, kidney failure. [121]
• Joe Shaw, 79, British footballer, appearance record holder for Sheffield United. [122]
• Chickie Williams, 88, American country music singer and wife of Doc Williams. [123]

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• Irving Bluestone, 90, American negotiator for UAW, heart failure. [124]
• Landis Everson, 81, American poet, apparent suicide by gunshot. [125]
• Oleg Gazenko, 88, Russian space scientist. [126] [127]
• Hy Lit, 73, American radio disc jockey, Parkinson's disease. [128]
• Robert Evander McNair, 83, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (1965–1971), brain cancer. [129]
• Ambroise Noumazalaye, 74, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1966–1968). [130] (French)
• R. S. Pathak, 82, Indian jurist, former Chief Justice of India, heart attack. [131]
• Vernon Scannell, 85, British poet, after long illness. [132]
• Gail Sheridan, 92, American actress, stroke. [133]

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• Harold Alfond, 93, American businessman and philanthropist. [134]
• Gene H. Golub, 75, American mathematician and computer scientist, myeloid leukemia. [135]
• Pierre Granier-Deferre, 80, French film director. [136]
• Grethe Kausland, 60, Norwegian actress and singer, lung cancer. [137]
• Trond Kirkvaag, 61, Norwegian comedian, cancer. [138] (Norwegian)
• Don Metz, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs). [139]
• James Daniel Niedergeses, 90, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville (1975–1992), hemorrhage. [140]
• Victor Rabinowitz, 96, American lawyer for left-wing clients and causes [141]
• Andrea Stretton, 55, Australian arts journalist and television presenter, lung cancer. [142]

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• John Cross Jr, 82, American pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama when bombed, stroke. [143]
• Sergio del Valle Jiménez, 80, Cuban general and politician, former army chief of staff and minister. [144]
• Domokos Kosáry, 94, Hungarian historian, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990–1996). [145]
• Audrey McCall, 92, American widow of former Governor of Oregon Tom McCall. [146]
• Joe Nuxhall, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher and broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds, cancer. [147]

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• Michael Blodgett, 68, American actor and screenwriter (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), heart attack. [148]
• Ronnie Burns, 72, American actor, adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, cancer. [149]
• Bertha Fry, 113, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world, pneumonia. [150]
• Yadav Pant, 82, Nepalese economist and politician. [151]
• Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla, 88, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic Bishop of Juigalpa. [152]

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• Wahab Akbar, 47, Filipino politician, representative for Basilan province, explosion. [153]
• Harold J. Berman, 89, American Harvard Law School professor (1948–1985). [154]
• Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, 87, former Northern Ireland Senator. [155]
• John Doherty, 72, British football player for Manchester United (1952–1957) and Busby Babe. [156]
• Hugh Gibbons, 91, Irish parliamentarian and Gaelic football player. [157]
• Tony Harris, 36, American basketball player (Washington State Cougars), possible suicide. [158]
• Kazuhisa Inao, 70, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player for the Nishitetsu Lions (1956-1969), cancer. [159]
• Erik Kurmangaliev, 47, Russian-Kazakh opera singer, liver disease. [160] (Russian)
• John Loveridge, 82, British Member of Parliament (1970–1983). [161]
• Robert Taylor, 59, American 4x100 m relay gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, cardiac arrhythmia. [162]
• Monty Westmore, 84, American Academy Award-nominated makeup artist. [163]
• Georgiana Young, 84, American actress. [164]
• Peter Zinner, 88, American Academy Award-winning film editor (The Deer Hunter). [165]

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• Ferdinando Baldi, 80, Italian screenwriter, film director and producer. [166] (Italian)
• Louis Galen, 82, American philanthropist and banker, heart failure. [167]
• Ying Hope, 84, Chinese Canadian politician. [168]
• Khanmohammed Ibrahim, 88, Indian test cricketer. [169]
• Vijay Kumar Khandelwal, 71, Indian parliamentarian. [170]
• Piet Koornhof, 82, South African politician, former minister and ambassador. [171]
• Ira Levin, 78, American author (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) and playwright (Deathtrap), heart attack. [172]
• Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, 73, Norwegian publisher (Schibsted group, inc. Aftenposten and Verdens Gang). [173]
• Janlavyn Narantsatsralt, 50, Mongolian Prime Minister (1998–1999), car crash. [174]
• A. Palanisamy, 74, Indian volleyball player. [175]
• Peter "Cool Man" Steiner, 90, Swiss musician and entertainer, fall. [176] (German)
• Lester Ziffren, 101, American reporter during Spanish Civil War, screenwriter and diplomat, heart failure. [177]

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• Anders Hald, 94, Danish statistician. [178] (Danish)
• Yukio Hayashida, 91, Japanese politician (House of Councillors), governor of Kyoto, Minister of Justice, heart failure. [179] (Japanese)
• Kojiro Kusanagi, 78, Japanese actor, interstitial lung disease. [180]
• Berkeley Lent, 86, American judge on the Oregon Supreme Court, heart attack. [181]
• Delbert Mann, 87, American Academy Award-winning film director (Marty, Separate Tables, The Bachelor Party), pneumonia. [182]
• Dick Nolan, 75, American NFL player and coach (San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints), father of 49ers coach Mike Nolan. [183]
• Omwony Ojwok, 60, Ugandan politician, former minister, heart failure. [184]
• Tadahiro Sekimoto, 80, Japanese electronics engineer and business executive, former president and chairman of NEC, stroke. [185]
• Trish Williamson, 52, British TV-am weather presenter and producer, car crash. [186]

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• Laraine Day, 87, American actress (Foreign Correspondent, The High and the Mighty). [187]
• John Fee, 43, Irish nationalist politician, brain tumour. [188]
• Augustus F. Hawkins, 100, American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California (1963–1991). [189]
• Norman Mailer, 84, American Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song), renal failure. [190]
• John H. Noble, 84, American prisoner in Russian gulag and author (I Was a Slave in Russia), heart attack. [191]
• John Wilfred Stanier, 82, British Army field marshal, retired Chief of the General Staff. [192]

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• Luis Herrera Campins, 82, Venezuelan President (1979–1984), after long illness. [193]
• Bill Hosokawa, 92, Japanese American author and journalist. [194]
• Ilya Zbarsky, 94, Russian head of Lenin's Mausoleum. [195] (Russian)

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• John Arpin, 70, Canadian pianist and composer, cancer. [196]
• Stephen Fumio Hamao, 77, Japanese Roman Catholic cardinal, former bishop of Yokohama, lung cancer. [197]
• Francine Parker, 81, American film director (FTA), heart failure. [198]
• Dulce Saguisag, 64, Filipino politician, former Secretary of Department of Social Welfare and Development, car accident. [199]
• Bungo Tsuda, 89, Japanese politician, former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, colorectal cancer. [200] (Japanese)
• Chad Varah, 95, British Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans. [201] [202]

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• Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, Finnish mass murderer, suicide by gunshot. [203]
• Hobart Brown, 74, American sculptor, founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, pneumonia. [204]
• Earl Dodge, 74, American presidential candidate (Prohibition Party), heart attack. [205]
• Paul Dojack, 93, Canadian CFL referee. [206]
• George W. George, 87, American Broadway and film producer (My Dinner With Andre), Parkinson's disease. [207]
• Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, 100, German-American geneticist. [208]
• Arthur Hezlet, 93, British Royal Navy Vice-Admiral, submariner and naval historian. [209]
• Lidia Ivanova, 71, Russian TV journalist, announcer and writer, diabetes. [210] (Russian)
• Alejandra Meyer, 70, Mexican telenovela actress, heart failure. [211] (Spanish)

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• Enzo Biagi, 87, Italian journalist. [212]
• Hilda Braid, 78, British actress (EastEnders, Citizen Smith). [213]
• John Grenier, 77, American politician, former executive director of the Republican National Committee. [214]
• George Grljusich, 68, Australian sports broadcaster, lung cancer. [215]
• Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, c.45, Afghan politician, former commerce minister, bomb blast injuries. [216]
• Fred W. McDarrah, 81, American photographer (Village Voice), documented the rise of the Beat Generation. [217]
• George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family. [218]
• Jimmy Staggs, 72, American radio disk jockey, esophageal cancer. [219]
• Hank Thompson, 82, American country music singer, lung cancer. [220] [221]
• Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif, Afghan politician and businessman, bomb blast injuries. [222]

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• Roberto Bortoluzzi, 86, Italian sports journalist and radio broadcaster. [223]
• James Brabazon, 84, British author, lung cancer. [224]
• Nils Liedholm, 85, Swedish football midfielder and coach. [225]
• Marie-Rose Mueller, 111, American supercentenarian. [226]
• Paul Norris, 93, American comic book artist, co-creator of Aquaman. [227]
• Paul Soloway, 66, American five-time world bridge champion, complications of infection. [228]

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• Cyprian Ekwensi, 86, Nigerian author. [229]
• Swami Gahanananda, 91, Bangladeshi religious leader, 14th President of the Ramakrishna Order. [230]
• Hideo Hagiwara, 94, Japanese painter. [231] (Japanese)
• Lennart Rönnback, 102, Finnish veteran of the Finnish Civil War, last of the White Guard. [232] (Finnish)
• Peter Viertel, 86, German-born American author and screenwriter. [233]

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• Peter Andren, 61, Australian independent MP, pancreatic cancer. [234] [235]
• Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville, 78, French-born British Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (1982–1999). [236]
• Aleksandr Dedyushko, 45, Russian actor, car crash. [237] (Russian)
• Marilyn Martinez, 52, American stand up comedian, colon cancer. [238]
• Donald Matthews, 82, American political scientist and author. [239]
• Martin Meehan, 62, Irish Sinn Féin politician, heart attack. [240]
• Mary Walker Phillips, 83, American textile artist, Alzheimer's disease. [241]
• George Ratterman, 80, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [242]
• Ryan Shay, 28, American long-distance runner, heart attack during Olympic marathon trials. [243]

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• Oreste Benzi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic priest. [244]
• Henry Cele, 58, South African actor (Shaka Zulu) and soccer player. [245]
• Charmaine Dragun, 29, Australian television news presenter, apparent suicide by jumping. [246]
• Lillian Ellison, 84, American professional wrestler ("The Fabulous Moolah"). [247][248]
• Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, 91, British soldier and courtier, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps (1972–1981). [249]
• Don Freeland, 82, American racecar driver (Indianapolis 500). [250]
• Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka, 23, Polish drummer (Decapitated), injuries from bus crash. [251].
• Igor Moiseyev, 101, Russian choreographer, heart failure. [252]
• Jean Pierre Reguerraz, 68, Argentine actor. [253]
• Reay Tannahill, 77, British food historian and novelist. [254]
• S.P. Thamilselvan, 40, Sri Lankan leader of Tamil Tigers, air strike. [255]

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• Sonny Bupp, 79, American child actor (Our Gang, Citizen Kane), last surviving credited cast member of Citizen Kane. [256]
• Meredith Kercher, 21, British murder victim, stabbed. [257]
• S. Ali Raza, 85, Indian Bollywood screenwriter, heart failure. [258]
• Paul Tibbets, 92, American pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, heart failure. [259] [260]