Deaths in July 2006

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

31

• 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]

30

• 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]
• Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, concert accordionist, heart failure.
• Akbar Mohammadi, 34, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture. [11]

29

• Hani Awijan, 29, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades, in Nablus, West Bank, killed by gunfire. [12]
• Guido Daccò, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans, & Champ Cars. [13] [14]
• Jose Lopez Rosario, 30, alleged Puerto Rican drug dealer [15]
• James Olin, 86, member of the United States House of Representatives (1982–1992). [16]
• Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage. [17]

28

• Patrick Allen, 79, British actor. [18]
• Rut Brandt, 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt.^[1]
• Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer. [19]
• Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, 56, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination. [20]
• Harold Enarson, 87, president of The Ohio State University (1972–81), fired football coach Woody Hayes, hydrocephalus. [21] [22]
• David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist. [23] [24]
• Dr. Joel Hedgpeth, 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist. [25]
• Richard Mock, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. [26]
• Sep Smith, 94, legendary Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player. [27]
• 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. [28]

27

• Maryann Mahaffey, 81, former member of Detroit city council, leukemia. [29]
• Sir Charles Mills, 91, British admiral. [30]
• Carlos Roque, 70, Portuguese comic book artist. [31]
• 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. [32] [33]
• Elisabeth Volkmann, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson. [34]
• Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller, liver cancer.
• Funsho Williams, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled. [35]

26

• Emmeline Brice, 111, oldest Briton. [36]
• Floyd Dixon, 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure. [37] [38]
• Vincent J. Fuller, 75, lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr, lung cancer. [39]
• Jessie Gilbert, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall. [40] [41]
• Rolf Arthur Hansen, 86, Norwegian government minister. [42] (Norwegian)
• Sunil Kumar, 34, Bhopal disaster campaigner against Union Carbide and founder of Children Against Carbide, found hanged. [43]
• Darrell Martinie, 63, astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer. [44]
• Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron. [45]

25

• Carl Brashear, 75, first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of Honor, heart failure. [46]
• Ezra Fleischer, 78, Romanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize, and professor at Hebrew University. [47]
• Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 43, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack. [48] [49]
• Lydia, Duchess of Bedford, 88, second wife of John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford. [50]
• Bill Meistrell, 77, founder of the Body Glove wet suit company, Parkinson's disease. [51]
• Aldo Notari, 74, president of the International Baseball Federation. [52]
• Bob Simpson, 61, retired senior BBC correspondent. [53]

24

• Janka Bryl, 89, Belarusian writer. [54] [55]
• Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor. [56]
• Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach. [57]
• Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian. [58]

23

• Charles E. Brady, Jr., 54, American former astronaut. [59]
• Charles Bray, 72, American press secretary for the US State Department, deputy director of the USIA, and ambassador to Senegal. [60]
• Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère Untel, heart attack. [61]
• Lt. Col. Besby Holmes, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto. [62] [63]
• John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer. [64]
• Frederick Mosteller, 89, Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis. [65]
• Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day. [66]

22

• Heather Bratton, 19, American model, car accident. [67]
• Donald Reid Cabral, 83, former foreign minister of the Dominican Republic. [68]
• José Antonio Delgado, 41, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, found dead on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. [69]
• Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease. [70]
• Jessie Mae Hemphill, 82, award winning blues musician, complications of an infection. [71]
• Thomas J. Manton, 73, longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985–99), prostate cancer. [72] [73]
• Dr. Dika Newlin, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg. [74]
• 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. [75]
• Russell J. York, 84, World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest on November 20, 1944. [76]

21

• Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television, and Broadway actor; esophageal cancer. [77]
• Ta Mok, 80, former Khmer Rouge commander, known as "The Butcher." [78]
• J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, former child actress, heart attack. [79]
• Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, car crash. [80]
• Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, missing since July 5, murder. [81] [82]
• Bert Slater, 70, Scottish footballer. [83]

20

• Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian. [84] (German)
• Philipp von Bismarck, 91, German politician of the CDU party. [85] (German)
• Kevin Brophy, 21, Australian basketball player at the University of Georgia, automobile accident. [86] [87]
• Madonna Castillo, 31, former Secretary-General of the Anakpawis party in the Philippines, shot. [88]
• Chung In-yung, 86, founder of Halla Engineering & Construction in South Korea. [89]
• Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (Thing From Another World). [90]
• Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician. [91]
• Brandon Hedrick, 27, convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair in Virginia. [92]
• Tom Larson, 77, former Federal Highway Administrator and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transport. [93]
• Lim Kim San, 89, former cabinet minister of Singapore. [94]
• Frank Nabarro, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics. [95]
• Harry Olivieri, 90, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium. [96]
• Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director. [97]
• Theo Sijthoff, 69, Dutch former cyclist and fashion designer. [98]
• Romeo Tan Togonon, 55, editorial cartoonist for the Manila Times. [99]

19

• Rev Robert Baumiller, 75, associate dean of health at Xavier University. [100]
• Mauriceo Brown, 31, executed in Texas for 1996 robbery murder. [101]
• Troy May, 39, owner of Oshawa Dodgers Baseball Club, sepsis due to injuries from car accident. [102]
• Sam Neely, 58, singer-songwriter, collapsed while mowing his lawn. [103]
• Maulvi Yunis Khalis, 87, mujahideen leader in Afghanistan who met with Ronald Reagan in 1988. [104]
• Dave Walter, 63, Montana historian, heart attack. [105]
• Jack Warden, 85, Emmy Award-winning American actor, heart and kidney failure. [106]
• George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science. [107]
• Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer. [108]
• Ray Taylor, 67 American former mayor of Burkeville, VA. Member of the Nottoway County Board of Supervisors. Heart attack. [109]

18

• Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer. [110]
• Henry Hewes, 89, former Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960–1964). [111] [112]
• Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, former Ipswich Town footballer. [113] [114]
• David Maloney, 72, British television director and producer for Doctor Who and Blake's 7. [115]
• V.P. Sathyan, 41, former captain of the Indian national football team, apparent suicide. [116] [117]

17

• 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. [118]
• Galen Fiss, 75, former Cleveland Browns linebacker. [119] [120]
• Dr. James Jandl, 80, American hematologist at Harvard University, author of Blood: Textbook of Hematology. [121]
• Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease [122]
• Mike MacDonald, 65, pioneering Canadian aboriginal video artist. [123]
• Robert Mardian, 82, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer. [124]
• Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets, throat cancer. [125] [126]
• David Skramstad, 74, twice mayor of Olympia, Washington and mystery writer, heart failure. [127]
• Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, pancreatic cancer. [128] [129] [130]

16

• Walter Binaghi, 87, former ICAO Council President. [131]
• Peter Chew, 82, author and journalist specialising in horse racing, heart attack. [132]
• Dr. Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion. [133]
• Martin Gallent, 75, American former vice chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. [134]
• Kevin Hughes, 53, former British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease. [135] [136]
• Bob Orton, Sr., 76, former professional wrestler, heart attack. [137]
• Destiny Norton (date disappeared), 5, American child, kidnapped and murdered.
• Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956. [138]
• Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. [139] [140]
• Harold Scott Jr., 70, American award-winning actor and playwright, first black artistic director of a major American regional theater. [141] [142]
• Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma. [143] [144]
• Winston Wilson, 63, co-founder of Winston Daniels Ltd of Napa Valley, wine importer, esophageal cancer. [145]

15

• Robert H. Brooks, 69, chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. [146]
• Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. [147]
• 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. [148]
• John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. [149]
• Howdy Groskloss, 100, was the oldest living former major league baseball player. [150]
• Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer. [151]
• Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. [152]
• Daniel Nickerson, 48, former professional wrestling promoter. [153]
• István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, long illness. [154]
• Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and former co-husband of bigamist Anaïs Nin. [155]
• A. C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir charity for destitute women in India. [156]
• Francis Rose, 84, British botanist. [157]
• Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter. [158]
• David W. Simpson, 51, American Mayor of Bethel, Ohio, aneurysm. [159]
• Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer. [160] [161]

14

• Ted Bilkey, 72, former Chief Operating Officer for DP World. [162] [163]
• Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage. [164]
• William Downs, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. [165]
• Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. [166]
• Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer de:Heinrich Heidersberger
• 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. [167]
• Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. [168]
• Carrie Nye, 69, American actress, lung cancer. [169] [170]
• June Ormond, 94, produced country music and religious films, complications of a stroke. [171]
• Eduards Pāvuls, 77, famous Latvian actor [172]
• Martha Peterson, 90, American president of Barnard College (1967–75). [173]
• Senne Rouffaer, 80, Flemish actor. [174]
• Len Teeuws, 79, former offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals. [175]
• Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. [176]
• Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine, and massive bleeding. [177] [178]

13

• Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease. [179] [180] [181]
• Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. [182]
• Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. [183]
• Jürgen Kiessling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. [184]
• John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, pneumonia. [185]
• Mark Ryder, 85, American dancer. [186]
• Jonathan Solomon, 74, Gwich'in tribal leader. [187]
• Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid. [188]
• Cora T. Walker, 84, African-American lawyer, co-founder and senior partner of Walker & Bailey. [189]

12

• Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [190]
• George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. [191]
• Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy Below), stroke. [192] [193] [194]
• Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. [195]
• Charles H. G. Rees, 84, American media executive, former president of Whitney Communications. [196]

11

• Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, death currently under investigation. [197] [198]
• Phyllis Baker, 69, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [199]
• Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. [200]
• John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. [201]
• Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. [202]
• Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. [203]
• Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. [204] [205]
• Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. [206] [207]
• Fortunato Libanori, 72, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. [208]
• Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. [209] [210]
• Paul Morden, 31, American musician (The Brickbats, Memphis Morticians,Snake Charmers 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. [211]
• William Pryce, 73, United States ambassador to Honduras from 1993 to 1996, pancreatic cancer. [212]
• Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison. [213]
• Ruth Schonthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer. [214] [215] [216]
• John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer. [217] [218] [219]
• Philippe Takla, 91, former foreign minister of Lebanon. [220] [221]
• Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness [222]

10

• Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. [223] [224] [225] [226]
• Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). [227]
• Robert Fumerton, 93, top-scoring Canadian night fighter ace of World War II. [228]
• The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994–2003, responsible for introducing charges to visitors at York Minster, cancer [229] [230]
• Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. [231]
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. [232]
• Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant. [233]
• Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. [234]
• Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. [235]

9

• Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. [236]
• Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright, congestive heart failure. [237]
• Professor John Raeburn, 93, agricultural economist responsible for planning the "Dig for Victory" campaign in the United Kingdom during World War II. [238]
• Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. [239]
• Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. [240] [241]
• Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist, died in his sleep. [242]

8

• George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. [243] [244]
• June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. [245]
• Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. [246]
• Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. [247]
• Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality [248]
• David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. [249] [250]
• Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia. [251]
• Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flowerpot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks. [252]
• Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, lung cancer. [253] [254]
• Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. [255]
• Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). [256] [257]
• Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure. [258]
• Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. [259]
• Sabine Dünser, 29, singer for gothic metal band Elis, Cerebral hemorrhage. [260]

7

• Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. [261] [262]
• Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, diabetes. [263]
• Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. [264]
• Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. [265]
• Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer [266]
• Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris. [267]
• John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. [268]
• Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989–98), cancer. [269]
• Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. [270]
• Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. [271]
• 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. [272]
• Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. [273] [274]
• Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band. [275]
• Robert Payne, 62, University of Iowa administrator, Lung Cancer, [276]
• Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. [277]
• Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee (1948–1960) and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. [278]

6

• Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. [279]
• Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack. [280]
• Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident [281]
• Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, [282]
• Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [283]
• John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. [284]
• 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. [285]
• Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. [286] [287]
• Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke.
• E.S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist. [288]
• Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. [289] [290]
• Waseem Rashid Malik, 48, Engineer at Pakistan International Airlines, PIA, died due to Meningitis and lake of care of the Authorities.

5

• Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. [291]
• Lucien Crump, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. [292]
• Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. [293]
• Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. [294]
• Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. [295]
• Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. [296]
• 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. [297]
• Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. [298]
• Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. [299]
• Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. [300]
• Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress
• Hugh Stubbins Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. [301] [302]
• Tongan prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, and princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. [303] [304] [305]

4

• Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. [306]
• 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. [307]
• Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. [308]
• Sir Leslie Smith, 87, industrialist behind the growth of The BOC Group. [309]
• Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author, complications of Parkinson's Disease. [310]

3

• Bashir Al-Mogherbi, 83, first president of Libyan football club Al Ahly Benghazi.
• Hans Bierbrauer (alias Oskar), 84, German caricaturist. [311]
• 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. [312]
• Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. [313]
• Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. [314]
• Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD. [315]
• Arthur Haggerty, 74, American dog trainer. [316]
• Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. [317] [318]
• Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. [319]
• Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer. [320] [321]
• Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. [322]
• Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. [323]
• Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. [324]
• Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. [325] [326]
• Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. [327]
• Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. [328]
• Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. [329]

2

• L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. [330]
• Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, former member House of Lords and RAF Group Captain. [331]
• Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer [332]
• Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. [333]
• Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian [334] [335]
• Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 FIFA World Cup [336]
• Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1960–1974. [337]
• Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. [338]
• Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke. [339]
• Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. [340]

1

• Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. [341]
• Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. [342]
• Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. [343]
• Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. [344]
• Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. [345]
• Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. [346] [347]
• Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996–98). [348]
• Jabron Hashmi, 24, British soldier, first British Muslim to die in "War on Terror." [349]
• Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. [350]
• Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. [351]
• Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. [352]
• Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician. [353]
• Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. [354]
• Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. [355]
• Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. [356]
• Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. [357]
• Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer. [358]
• Juliette Galano, 72, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, Australian guitarist for the Cosmic Psychos. [359]

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