Deaths in March 2009

The following is a list of deaths in March 2009.

March 2009

1

• Robert Haggiag, 95, Libyan-born American film producer (Candy).
• Ken Henry, 80, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) speed skater.
• Charles S. Lieber, 78, Belgian-born American nutritionist, stomach cancer.
• Paolo Maffei, 83, Italian astronomer and science fiction writer. (Italian)
• Alf Pike, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and head coach (New York Rangers).
• Pepe Rubianes, 61, Spanish Catalan actor and theatre director, lung cancer.
• Eric Simms, 87, British ornithologist, writer and conservationist.
• Joan Turner, 86, British actress.

2

• Ernie Ashworth, 80, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry.
• Michael Baker, 52, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly since 1998, cancer.
• Halit Balamir, c. 87, Turkish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) wrestler, myocardial infarction. (Turkish)
• Ernst Benda, 84, German politician, Interior Minister (1968–1969) and President, Federal Constitutional Court (1971–1983).
• Andy Bowman, 74, British footballer, after long illness.
• Robert Bruce, 65, British-born New Zealand professional wrestler and talent agent, after short illness.
• Chris Finnegan, 64, British boxer, Olympic middleweight champion (1968), complications from pneumonia.
• Alexandre Léontieff, 60, French politician, President of French Polynesia (1987–1991), heart attack.
• Ann Marie Rogers, 57, British activist, campaigner for breast cancer drug Herceptin, breast cancer.
• Jack Schwartz, 79, American mathematician and computer scientist, liver cancer.
• Urban Sea, 20, French racehorse and broodmare, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner (1993), complications during foaling.
• João Bernardo Vieira, 69, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Prime Minister (1978–1980) and President (1980–1999, since 2005), shot.
• Rob Williams, 29, British businessman, co-founder of Dolphin Music, snowboarding accident.

3

• Sydney Earle Chaplin, 82, American actor, son of Charlie Chaplin.
• Frederick Conyngham, 7th Marquess Conyngham, 84, Irish nobleman, cancer.
• Sebastian Faisst, 20, German handball player, heart failure.
• Flemming Flindt, 72, Danish choreographer, after short illness.
• Frank Ford, 92, American radio talk show host, stroke.
• Åke Lindman, 81, Finnish actor and film director, after long illness.
• Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico.
• Gilbert Parent, 73, Canadian politician, Speaker (1994–2001) and Member of Parliament (1974–1984, 1988–2000), colon cancer.
• Barbara Wright, 93, British translator.

4

• Joseph Bloch, 91, American pianist and professor, heart attack.
• John Cephas, 78, American Piedmont blues guitarist, natural causes.
• Yvon Cormier, 70, Canadian professional wrestler, bone marrow cancer.
• Horton Foote, 92, American playwright and screenwriter, after short illness.
• Patricia De Martelaere, 51, Belgian writer and philosopher, complications of brain tumor. (Dutch)
• George McAfee, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears) and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Harry Parkes, 89, British footballer (Aston Villa).
• Vasili Postnov, 46, Tajikistani footballer.
• Salvatore Samperi, 64, Italian film director.
• Triztán Vindtorn, 66, Norwegian poet.

5

• Mario Acuña, 68, Argentinian-born American astrophysicist, multiple myeloma.
• Valeri Broshin, 46, Russian footballer, cancer. (Russian)
• Francis Essex, 79, British television producer.
• Temima Gezari, 103, American artist, natural causes.
• Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr., 99, American engineer, pioneer of television technology, complications of hip fracture.
• Mac Henderson, 101, British rugby union player (Scotland) and businessman.
• Jitsuo Inagaki, 80, Japanese politician, illness.
• Oscar Kamau Kingara, 38, Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist, shot.
• Hung-Chang Lin, 89, Chinese-born American inventor, lung cancer.
• John Paul Oulu, Kenyan human rights activist, shot.
• Dave Pureifory, 59, American football player (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer.

6

• Jim Bellows, 86, American newspaper editor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Silvio Cesare Bonicelli, 76, Italian Bishop of Parma.
• James Clyde, Baron Clyde, 77, British judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1996–2001), cancer.
• Anthony Finigan, 83, British actor.
• Colleen Howe, 76, American sports agent, wife of Gordie Howe, Pick's disease.
• George Keverian, 77, American politician, member (1967–1991) and Speaker (1985–1991) of the Massachusetts House.
• Francis Magalona, 44, Filipino actor and rapper, leukemia.
• Kennedy McIntosh, 60, American basketball player, stroke.
• Vivian Murray, 76, Irish businessman, chairman of An Post and Bord Iascaigh Mhara, after long illness.
• Henri Pousseur, 79, Belgian composer. (French)
• Eduardo Rodríguez, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player, septic shock.
• Christon Tembo, 65, Zambian politician, Vice President (1997–2001).
• Susan Tsvangirai, 50, Zimbabwean wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, car collision.

7

• Steve Bernard, 61, American businessman, founder of Cape Cod Potato Chips, pancreatic cancer.
• Michael Bowen, 71, American artist, complications of poliomyelitis.
• Jimmy Boyd, 70, American actor and singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), cancer.
• Daniel E. Button, 91, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for New York (1967–1971), after long illness.
• Chan Yun, 93, Taiwanese Buddhist monk and teacher of meditation. (Chinese)
• Schuyler Chapin, 86, American general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1972–1975).
• David Gaiman, 75, British businessman, public relations director for the Church of Scientology, heart attack.
• Jang Ja-yeon, 26, South Korean actress (Boys Over Flowers), suicide by hanging.
• Dmitri Kozlov, 89, Russian aerospace engineer, founder of Progress State Research and Production Space Center. (Russian)
• Barbara Parker, 62, American novelist, after long illness.
• Tullio Pinelli, 100, Italian screenwriter (La strada).
• Anton Shokh, 49, Ukrainian football player and coach. (Russian)

8

• Girdhari Lal Bhargava, 73, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Ali Bongo, 79, Indian-born British magician, pneumonia.
• James Allen Keast, 86, Australian ornithologist.
• Willie King, 65, American blues musician, heart attack.
• Hank Locklin, 91, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry.
• Anna Manahan, 84, Irish actress, multiple organ failure.
• Zbigniew Religa, 70, Polish cardiac surgeon and politician, Minister of Health (2005–2007), cancer.
• Robert Soost, 88, American botanist, heart attack.
• Ernest Trova, 82, American artist, heart failure.
• Mary Warburg, 100, American philanthropist.

9

• Vince Cervi, 41, Australian boxer, heavyweight champion of Australia (1993–1995), shot.
• Hanne Darboven, 68, German artist, lymphoma.
• Eddie Lowe, 83, British footballer and manager.
• Joseph Martin, 84, American addiction counselor and author, heart disease.
• Larry Regan, 78, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager (Los Angeles Kings), Parkinson's disease.
• Russell Spears, 92, American stonemason, elder of the Narragansett tribe.
• Frank Stockwell, 80, Irish footballer.
• Guillermo Thorndike, 69, Peruvian journalist, writer and editor, co-founder of La República, heart attack.

10

• Brian Barry, 73, British philosopher.
• Denis Begbie, 94, South African cricketer.
• Derek Benfield, 82, British actor.
• Jack Capper, 77, British footballer.
• Dick Daugherty, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
• Nancy Eiesland, 44, American theologian and author, lung cancer.
• Jack Grimes, 82, American actor and voice actor.
• Aaron Gural, 91, American real estate executive, pneumonia.
• Tom Hanson, 41, Canadian photojournalist, heart attack.
• George Hedges, 57, American lawyer and archaeologist, melanoma.
• Ralph Mercado, 67, American music promoter (RMM Records & Video), cancer.
• Anel Omar Rodríguez, 47, Panamanian politician, Minister of Culture, shot.
• Michael Shannon, 55, American pediatrician.

11

• Paul W. Airey, 85, American Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (1967–1969), complications from heart failure.
• Péter Bacsó, 81, Hungarian film director, after long illness.
• Frances Blaisdell, 97, American flautist.
• Arthur Code, 85, American astronomer, complications of lung condition.
• Charles Lewis, Jr., 45, American businessman, co-founder of mixed martial arts apparel company TapouT, car accident.
• Grady Lewis, 92, American basketball player, executive with Converse.
• Harvey Lowe, 90, Canadian broadcaster and yo-yo world champion, after long illness.

12

• Leonore Annenberg, 91, American philanthropist, Chief of Protocol of the United States (1981–1982), natural causes.
• Kalman Bloch, 95, American clarinetist.
• Yann Brekilien, 88, French author, Breton language advocate. (French)
• Martin Knowlton, 88, American adult education innovator, founder of Elderhostel. .
• Reginald C. Lindsay, 63, American jurist, member of the District Court for Massachusetts since 1993, after long illness.
• Milan Stitt, 68, American playwright.
• Blanca Varela, 82, Peruvian poet.
• David Wood, 86, British Army officer, last surviving platoon commander of the Pegasus Bridge operation during World War II.

13

• Medferiashwork Abebe, 84, Ethiopian royal.
• Claude Black, 92, American civil rights advocate, after long illness.
• Betsy Blair, 85, American actress (Marty), cancer.
• Claude Brinegar, 82, American politician, United States Secretary of Transportation (1973–1975), natural causes.
• Anne Brown, 96, American-born Norwegian opera singer.
• William Davidson, 86, American businessman, owner of the Detroit Pistons, Tampa Bay Lightning.
• Endal, 13, British service dog, stroke.
• Alan W. Livingston, 91, American music executive, President of Capitol Records, creator of Bozo the clown.
• James Purdy, 94, American novelist, poet and playwright.
• Medet Sadyrkulov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, car crash.
• Andrew Saunders, 77, British civil servant.
• Test, 33, Canadian professional wrestler, accidental overdose.

14

• Alain Bashung, 61, French singer, composer and actor, lung cancer.
• Edith Lucie Bongo, 45, Congolese wife of Gabon President Omar Bongo, after long illness.
• Altovise Davis, 65, American actress and dancer, widow of Sammy Davis, Jr., stroke.
• Terence Edmond, 69, British actor (Z-Cars), bronchiectasis.
• Ronald Max Hartwell, 88, Australian economic historian.
• Citizen Kafka, 61, American broadcaster and musician.
• Millard Kaufman, 92, American screenwriter (Bad Day at Black Rock), co-creator of Mr. Magoo.
• Patrick Kinna, 95, British stenographer to Winston Churchill.
• Jeff Komlo, 52, American football player, fugitive, car crash.
• Coy Watson, Jr., 96, American silent film child actor, stomach cancer.

15

• Richard Aoki, 71, American civil rights activist.
• Miguel Bernad, 91, Filipino Jesuit priest, academician and writer.
• Billy C. Clark, 80, American writer.
• Jack Dunham, 98, American animator and television producer, creator of the St. Hubert Chicken.
• Edmund Hockridge, 89, Canadian singer and actor.
• Pirkle Jones, 95, American photojournalist.
• Jack Lawrence, 96, American songwriter, complications from fall.
• Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão.
• Michael Quinn, 86, American Lasallian brother and psychology professor, President of Saint Mary's College (1962–1969). .
• William Schwartz, 86, American nephrologist.
• Ron Silver, 62, American actor (Ali, Timecop) and political activist, esophageal cancer.
• Shinkichi Tajiri, 85, American-born Dutch sculptor.
• Gunnar Tjörnebo, 81, Swedish steeplechase athlete. (Swedish)
• Elmer Weingartner, 90, American baseball player.
• Lionel Ziprin, 84, American poet, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

16

• William Burns, 75, Australian politician.
• Roland Dantes, 67, Filipino film actor and martial arts instructor, heart failure.
• Carolyn Dezurik, 90, American country musician.
• Marjorie Grene, 98, American philosopher, after short illness.
• Sir Nicholas Henderson, 89, British diplomat.
• Nicholas Hughes, 47, American marine biologist, son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, suicide by hanging.
• Miljenko Licul, 62, Slovenian graphic designer.
• Ramón Mantilla Duarte, 83, Colombian Bishop of Ipiales (1985–1987).
• Alan Suddick, 64, British footballer, cancer.
• Marvin Sutton, 62, American moonshiner, suspected suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

17

• Lester Davenport, 77, American blues musician, prostate cancer.
• Edith Hahn Beer, 95, Austrian author, Holocaust survivor, natural causes.
• Clodovil Hernandes, 71, Brazilian fashion stylist, politician and television presenter, stroke. (Portuguese)
• Morton Lachman, 90, American television writer and executive producer, complications from diabetes and heart attack.
• Whitey Lockman, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), pulmonary complications.
• Jane Mayhall, 90, American poet.
• Dale Memmelaar, 72, American football player (Cleveland Browns)
• Roi Wilson, 87, British Royal Navy officer.

18

• Eddie Bo, 79, American singer and pianist, heart attack.
• Ed Callahan, 79, American credit union administrator, blood complications.
• Gianni Giansanti, 52, Italian photographer, bone cancer.
• Kent Henry, 59, American guitarist.
• Lil E. Tee, 20, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby winner (1992), euthanized.
• Yeremey Parnov, 73, Russian writer. (Russian)
• Moultrie Patten, 89, American actor (Northern Exposure) and jazz musician, pneumonia,
• Pocholo Ramirez, 76, Filipino race car driver and television host, cancer.
• Natasha Richardson, 45, British actress, epidural hematoma.
• Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993).
• Glenn Sundby, 87, American gymnast, co-founder of USA Gymnastics, founder of International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
• Donald Tolmie, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Welland (1965–1972).
• Earl Wood, 97, American physiologist, co-inventor of the G-suit.

19

• Felipe Benítez Avalos, 82, Paraguayan archbishop of Asunción.
• Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock, 81, British aristocrat, writer and politician.
• Ion Dolănescu, 65, Romanian singer and politician, heart attack.
• Ezio Flagello, 78, American opera singer, heart failure.
• Harry Harris, 86, American television director (Fame, Falcon Crest), myelodysplasia.

20

• Joseph Albright, 70, American jurist, member of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, esophageal cancer.
• Roberta Alison, 65, American tennis player, injuries sustained in fire.
• Bill Bogash, 92, American roller derby skater, respiratory failure.
• Mel Brown, 69, American blues guitarist, emphysema.
• Abdellatif Filali, 81, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1994–1998).
• Jaroslav Pitner, 83, Czech ice hockey coach.
• Vladimir Savčić, 60, Serbian singer, cancer. (Serbian)
• George Weber, 47, American radio broadcaster, stabbed.

21

• Bob Arbogast, 81, American radio and television personality, lung cancer.
• Beach Towel, 22, American harness racehorse, Harness Horse of the Year (1990), colic.
• John Cater, 77, British actor.
• Drummond Erskine, 89, American actor (Late Show with David Letterman).
• Winifred Foley, 94, British writer.
• John Franklyn-Robbins, 84, British actor.
• Doug Frith, 64, Canadian MP for Sudbury (1980–1988), Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1984), heart attack.
• Joseph Jasgur, 89, American photographer, natural causes.
• Vladimir Kuchmiy, 61, Russian newspaper chief editor (Sport Express). (Russian)
• Genoveva Matute, 94, Filipino writer.
• Walt Poddubny, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers).
• Khadijeh Saqafi, 93, Iranian widow of religious/political leader Ruhollah Khomeini, after long illness.

22

• Frank Bogert, 99, American politician, Mayor of Palm Springs, California (1958–1966, 1982–1988).
• Awilda Carbia, 71, Puerto Rican actress, comedian, impersonator and television personality, pneumonia.
• Ralph Cooperman, 81, British Olympic fencer.
• Steve Doll, 48, American professional wrestler, blood clot.
• Jade Goody, 27, British reality television personality, cervical cancer.
• Archie Green, 91, Canadian-born American folklorist and musicologist, renal failure.
• Reg Isidore, 59, Aruban drummer (Robin Trower, Peter Green), heart attack,
• Howard Komives, 67, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons), natural causes.
• Guman Mal Lodha, 83, Indian judge and politician.
• Aubrey Mayhew, 81, American music producer.
• Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned.
• Kanta Rao, 85, Indian actor, liver cancer.
• Geoffrey Sherman, 93, British Royal Marines officer, organised the ceremony for the Japanese surrender in 1945.
• Aldo Vagnozzi, 83, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2002–2006), cancer.
• Leon Walker, 20, British rugby league player (Wakefield Trinity Wildcats).

23

• Manuel del Rosario, 93, Filipino Bishop of Malolos (1962–1977), pneumonia.
• Geoff Holmes, 50, British cricketer.
• Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer.
• Xavier Maniguet, 66, French intelligence agent, involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, plane crash.
• Lloyd Ruby, 81, American auto racing driver.
• Ronald Tavel, 72, American playwright, heart attack.
• Tonda, 50, Sumatran orangutan, oldest in captivity in United States.
• Peter Wherrett, 72, Australian motoring journalist, cancer.

24

• Timothy Brinton, 79, British newsreader and politician, MP (1979–1987).
• Robert Delford Brown, 78, American artist, drowned (body found on this date).
• Irina Gabashvili, 48, Georgian-born American gymnast, cancer.
• Uriel Jones, 74, American drummer (The Funk Brothers), complications from heart attack.
• George Kell, 86, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• Hans Klenk, 89, German racing driver. (German)
• Denis Miller, 90, New Zealand bomber and airline pilot.
• Gábor Ocskay, 33, Hungarian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Laurie Short, 93, Australian trade union leader.
• Igor Stelnov, 46, Russian ice hockey player (HC CSKA Moscow), 1986 world champions team member, after long illness.

25

• Frank Adams, 76, British footballer.
• Steven Bach, 70, American film producer and author, cancer.
• Johnny Blanchard, 76, American baseball player (New York Yankees), heart attack.
• Marilyn Borden, 76, American actress (I Love Lucy), heart failure.
• Bob Boucher, 68, British academic.
• Yukio Endo, 72, Japanese gymnast, esophageal cancer.
• John Hope Franklin, 94, American historian, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, heart failure.
• Mari Kapi, 58, Papua New Guinean judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (2003–2008), kidney failure.
• Kosuke Koyama, 79, Japanese-born American theologian, pneumonia.
• Manny Oquendo, 78, American percussionist (Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez), heart attack.
• Giovanni Parisi, 41, Italian boxer, car accident.
• Arthur Richman, 83, American baseball executive (New York Yankees, New York Mets) and writer (New York Daily Mirror).
• Dan Seals, 61, American country music singer-songwriter (England Dan & John Ford Coley), mantle cell lymphoma.
• Michael Ward, 77, British politician, MP for Peterborough (1974–1979).
• Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, 54, Turkish politician, founder of the Great Union Party, helicopter crash.

26

• Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes.
• Arne Bendiksen, 82, Norwegian singer, composer and record producer, heart failure.
• Gus Cifelli, 84, American football player (Detroit Lions), natural causes.
• Larry Glick, 87, American talk radio host (WBZ), complications from cardiac surgery.
• Edmund Lawson, 60, British barrister, stroke.
• Wayne Lewellen, 65, American film studio executive (Paramount), cancer.
• John Mayhew, 61, British drummer (Genesis), heart failure.
• Shane McConkey, 39, Canadian extreme skier, base jumping accident.
• Arnold Meri, 89, Estonian Soviet World War II veteran, charged with crimes against humanity.
• Bob Scott, 70, British conservationist and ornithologist, cancer.

27

• Alysheba, 25, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner (1987), euthanized.
• Sandra Cantu, 8, American homicide victim.
• Jack Dreyfus, 95, American financier, pioneer of mutual funds.
• Merle Hansen, 89, American civil rights activist, founding president of the North American Farm Alliance.
• Dorothy Kelly, 79, American educator, President of the College of New Rochelle, heart attack.
• Irving R. Levine, 86, American journalist (NBC news), prostate cancer.
• Arnold Meri, 89, Estonian Red Army World War II veteran.
• Penor Rinpoche, 77, Tibetan religious leader (Nyingma Buddhist tradition).

28

• Earle Brucker, Jr., 83, American baseball player. .
• Peter F. Donnelly, 70, American arts patron, vice-chairman of Americans for the Arts, complications of pancreatic cancer.
• Inger Lise Gjørv, 70, Norwegian politician, cancer. (Norwegian)
• Janet Jagan, 88, American-born Guyanese President (1997–1999), abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• Hugh Kelly, 85, British footballer (Blackpool), pneumonia.
• Martin J. Klein, 84, American historian and physicist.
• Helmut Noller, 89, German Olympic sprint canoer. (German)
• Jorge Preloran, 76, Argentine filmmaker, prostate cancer.

29

• Ivor Dent, 85, Canadian Mayor of Edmonton (1968–1974), Alzheimer’s disease.
• Helvecia Viera, 80, Chilean comedian and actress, stroke.
• Vladimir Fedotov, 66, Russian footballer and manager, Soviet Top League leading goalscorer (1964).
• Monte Hale, 89, American country musician and actor, after long illness.
• Andy Hallett, 33, American actor (Angel), heart disease.
• Maurice Jarre, 84, French Academy Award-winning film composer (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ghost), cancer.
• Helen Levitt, 95, American photographer, respiratory failure.
• Earl Paulk, 81, American pastor, implicated in several sex scandals, cancer.
• Lou Saban, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills), complications from fall.
• Kanwaljit Singh, 67, Indian politician, traffic accident.
• Gerrit Viljoen, 82, South African politician, Administrator-General of South-West Africa (1978–1980).

30

• Shirl Bernheim, 87, American actress.
• Burton Blumert, 80, American president of the Center for Libertarian Studies, chairman of Mises Institute, cancer.
• Eugène Drenthe, 83, Surinamese playwright and poet. (Dutch)
• Herman Franks, 95, American baseball manager, heart failure.
• Andrea Mead Lawrence, 76, American alpine skier, cancer.
• Eric Munoz, 61, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly since 2001, complications of cardiac surgery.
• Jackie Pretorius, 74, South African racing driver, assault during home invasion.
• David Scott, 92, American art historian.
• George Stoddard, 92, American financier, natural causes.
• Loras Joseph Watters, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Winona (1969–1986).
• Sulim Yamadayev, 35, Russian military commander and Chechen warlord, shot.

31

• Raúl Alfonsín, 82, Argentine President (1983–1989), lung cancer.
• Jarl Alfredius, 66, Swedish journalist, prostate cancer.
• John Atkins, 92, British writer.
• Marga Barbu, 80, Romanian actress.
• Michael Cox, 60, British novelist, cancer.
• Paul E. Davis, 87, American college football coach.
• Emory Elliott, 66, American academic, heart attack.
• A. F. Golam Osmani, 76, Indian politician, lung cancer.
• Hong Song-nam, 79, North Korean politician, Premier (1997–2003). (Korean)
• Gordon Kerr, 91, Canadian Olympic swimmer.
• Choor Singh, 98, Singaporean jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Singapore (1963–1980).
• Sir Reresby Sitwell, 81, British aristocrat and writer.