Deaths in October 2009

The following is a list of deaths in October 2009.

October 2009

1

• Otar Chiladze, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure. (Georgian)
• André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade (since 2002).
• Gunnar Haarberg, 92, Norwegian television presenter. (Norwegian)
• Syed Kamal, 72, Pakistani actor, after long illness.
• Lou Moro, 91, Canadian footballer and football coach.
• V. M. Muddiah, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke.
• Bhandit Rittakol, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure.
• Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poet.

2

• Alain Bernheim, 86, French-born American film producer, complications of dialysis.
• Alan Dary, 89, American radio host (WHDH-AM).
• Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator (1983–1984), co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer.
• Nat Finkelstein, 76, American photographer and photojournalist.
• John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack.
• Saleh Meki, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack.
• Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire.
• Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, 95, British politician, leader of Greater London Council (1967–1973).
• Rolf Rüssmann, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer.
• Herman D. Stein, 92, American professor (Case Western Reserve University).
• Harvey Veniot, 93, Canadian MLA for Pictou West (1956–1974), Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1961–1968).
• Shaun Wylie, 96, British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.

3

• Alexander Basilaia, 67, Georgian composer, after long illness.
• Vladimir Beekman, 80, Estonian writer and translator. (Estonian)
• Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer.
• Fatima of Libya, 98, Queen of Libya (1951–1969), widow of King Idris I. (Arabic)
• Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger, after short illness.
• Ernie Lopez, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia.
• Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of Bertelsmann Foundation. (German)
• Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church.

4

• Koichi Haraguchi, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack.
• Veikko Huovinen, 82, Finnish writer. (Finnish)
• Fred Kaan, 80, Dutch-born British clergyman and hymn writer.
• Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer.
• Ernő Kolczonay, 56, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning fencer (1980, 1992). (Hungarian)
• James Lin Xili, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou (since 1992), Alzheimer’s disease.
• Shōichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009).
• Nikiforos, 78, Greek bishop of Didymoteicho, after long illness. (Greek)
• Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during WWII, heart attack.
• Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure.
• Bronisław Żurakowski, 98, Polish aerospace engineer. (Polish)

5

• Mike Alexander, 32, British bassist (Evile), pulmonary embolism.
• Tommy Capel, 87, English footballer.
• Leon Clarke, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), pancreatitis.
• James Duesenberry, 91, American economist.
• Israel Gelfand, 96, Russian mathematician.
• Gino Giugni, 82, Italian minister of labor and social security (1993-1994).
• Giselher Klebe, 84, German composer. (German)
• David Lake, 66, American winemaker.
• Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar.
• Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, self-inflicted gunshot wound.
• René Sommer, 58, Swiss co-inventor of the computer mouse.
• Aisling Symes, 2, New Zealand child whose disappearance initiated major search, drowned. .

6

• Jimmy Bates, 99, Australian football player, oldest living Australian Football League player.
• Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes.
• Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease.
• Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer.
• Aengus Finucane, 77, Irish priest, chief executive of Concern Worldwide (1981–1997), after short illness.
• Pyarelal Khandelwal, 80, Indian politician, cancer.
• Werner Maihofer, 90, German Minister of the Interior (1974–1978). (German)
• Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke.
• Ramanna Rai, 79, Indian politician.
• Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the Repertorio Español, complications of dementia with Lewy bodies.

7

• Ben Ali, 82, American restaurateur (Ben's Chili Bowl), heart failure.
• Bikram Keshari Deo, 58, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Steve Ferguson, 60, American guitarist (NRBQ), cancer.
• Irving Penn, 92, American fashion photographer (Vogue).
• Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer.
• Helen Watts, 81, British contralto.
• Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician.

8

• Gordon Boyd, 86, British-born Australian television personality, after short illness.
• James Delgrosso, 66, American politician, mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (2003–2004), leukemia.
• Gerald Ferguson, 72, American-born Canadian artist.
• Juan Carlos Mareco, 83, Uruguayan actor.
• Torsten Reißmann, 56, German Olympic judoka. (German)
• Jean Sage, 68, French racing driver, former sporting director of the Renault F1 team.
• Michael Angelo Saltarelli, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington (1995–2008), bone cancer.
• Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer.
• Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer.

9

• Arne Bakker, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player. (Norwegian)
• Francis Baldacchino, 73, Maltese-born Bishop of Malindi, Kenya.
• Raymond A. Brown, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Aldo Buzzi, 99, Italian author and architect.
• Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, 68, Peruvian folk singer, complications of sepsis.
• Jacques Chessex, 75, Swiss author, first non-French recipient of the Prix Goncourt, heart attack.
• Anne Friedberg, 57, American professor (USC School of Cinematic Arts), colorectal cancer
• Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds.
• Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis.
• Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer (Doctor Who).
• John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer.
• Hermann Raich, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag (1982–2008).
• Louis Sanmarco, 97, French administrator, governor (1954–1957) and High Commissioner (1957–1958) of Ubangi-Shari.
• Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke.
• Dré Steemans, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest. (Dutch)
• Horst Szymaniak, 75, German footballer, after long illness. (German)
• Rusty Wier, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer.

10

• Luis Aguilé, 73, Argentine singer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
• Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer.
• Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke.
• Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer (Boyzone), pulmonary oedema.
• Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds), heart failure and pneumonia.
• Edward Knight, 82, American actor.
• Joan Orenstein, 85, British-born Canadian actress.
• Lionel Pincus, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus, after long illness.
• Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer.

11

• Joan Martí i Alanis, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra (1971–2003), after long illness.
• Peter Callanan, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad (since 1997).
• Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist, after short illness.
• Gustav Kral, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident. (German)
• Abigail McLellan, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis.
• Veronika Neugebauer, 39, German actress, voice actress and singer. (German)
• Alan Peters, 76, British furniture designer, after long illness.
• Halit Refiğ, 75, Turkish film director, cholangiocarcinoma. (Turkish)

12

• Maurice Agis, 77, British sculptor.
• Dietrich von Bothmer, 90, German-born American art historian, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Alberto Castagnetti, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer, complications from cardiac surgery. (Italian)
• Mildred Cohn, 96, American biochemist.
• Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 50, Russian film director, script writer and producer. (Russian)
• Donald Kaufman, 79, American toy car collector, heart attack.
• Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner (The Masque), stroke.
• Stan Palk, 87, British footballer.
• Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer (Blue Cheer), liver cancer.
• Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer.
• Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism.
• Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer, after long illness.

13

• Stephen Barnett, 73, American legal scholar, opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, cardiac arrest.
• Cullen Bryant, 58, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), natural causes.
• Rodger Doxsey, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.
• Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease.
• Eugene Maxwell Frank, 101, American bishop of The Methodist Church.
• Grietje Jansen-Anker, 112, Dutch supercentenarian.
• Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, car crash. (Norwegian)
• William Wayne Justice, 89, American federal judge.
• Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang.
• Winston Ngozi Mankunku, 66, South African saxophone player.
• Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart.
• Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio executive, film producer and television producer, lung cancer.
• Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist. (Romanian)
• Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia.
• Nan C. Robertson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease.
• Orane Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed.
• Richard T. Whitcomb, 88, American aeronautical engineer, pneumonia
• Leo Williams, 68, Australian rugby union official.

14

• Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), natural causes.
• Wilf K. Backhaus, 62, Canadian role-playing game designer.
• Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, 82, Brazilian Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria (1969–1971) and Porto Alegre (1971–2001).
• Fred Cress, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner (1988), pancreatic cancer.
• Albert Elms, 89, British composer.
• Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis.
• C. B. Muthamma, 88, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador.
• Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker.
• Martyn Sanderson, 71, New Zealand actor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring).
• Bruce Wasserstein, 61, American investment banker and businessman.
• Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), brain cancer.

15

• George P. Jenkins, 94, American chairman of Metlife, assisted expansion of ABC and Pan Am, heart failure.
• Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard. (German)
• Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tollak B. Sirnes, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist. (Norwegian)
• George Tuska, 93, American Golden Age comic book artist (Iron Man).
• Heinz Versteeg, 70, Dutch football player, cancer. (German)
• Philip L. White, 86, American historian, cancer.

16

• Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure.
• Inglis Drever, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised.
• Meilė Lukšienė, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the Sąjūdis. (Lithuanian)
• Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator.
• Marian Przykucki, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1992–1999). (Polish)
• John Ramsden, 81, British historian.

17

• Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer, after long illness. (Italian)
• Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician.
• Jay W. Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack.
• Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia. (Russian)
• Kazuhiko Kato, 62, Japanese musician (The Folk Crusaders, Sadistic Mika Band), suicide by hanging.
• Louisa Mark, 49, British lovers rock singer, complications from a stomach ulcer.
• Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer.
• Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer (The Addams Family, Green Acres),
• Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, Italian film actress, cancer.
• Sheldon Segal, 83, American reproductive biologist.
• Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1978–1987), dementia.

18

• Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease. (Romanian)
• Ruth Duckworth, 90, American sculptor, after short illness.
• Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed.
• Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer.
• Leonard B. Keller, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident.
• Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia.
• Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist. (Dutch)
• Ovidiu Muşetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer. (Romanian)
• Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method).
• Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure.
• Basie Vivier, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks (1956).

19

• Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter.
• Moni Fanan, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging.
• Werner Heubeck, 85, German-born British managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus, cancer.
• Joe Hutton, 81, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Sushila Kerketta, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Vladimír Klokočka, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto.
• Shlomo Lorincz, 91, Hungarian-born Israeli politician, heart failure.
• Reg McKay, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer.
• Angelo Musi, 91, American basketball player.
• Nimma Raja Reddy, 72, Indian politician. (Telugu)
• Alberto Testa, 82, Italian composer and lyricist. (Italian)
• Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Serviciul Român de Informaţii (2001–2006), leukemia.
• Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer.
• Joseph Wiseman, 91, Canadian actor (Dr. No).

20

• Yvonne Carter, 50, British general practitioner and medical academic, breast cancer.
• Attila Dargay, 83, Hungarian animator. (Hungarian)
• Margaret Fitzgerald, 113, Canadian supercentenarian, natural causes.
• Clifford Hansen, 97, American politician, Governor of Wyoming (1963–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1978).
• Carl Fredrik Lowzow, 82, Norwegian politician. (Norwegian)
• Charles Mills, 88, American painter.
• Doreen Reid Nakamarra, 50, Australian Aboriginal artist, pneumonia.
• Jef Nys, 82, Belgian comic book artist (Jommeke). (Dutch)
• Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner (The Ben Stiller Show).
• Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, car accident.
• Winai Senniam, 51, Thai parliamentarian, liver and colon cancer.

21

• Andrey Balashov, 63, Russian Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1980) medal-winning sailor.
• Louise Cooper, 57, British novelist, aneurysm.
• Lionel Davidson, 87, British novelist, lung cancer.
• Clinton Ford, 77, British singer, after long illness.
• John Jarman, 78, British footballer and coach, after short illness.
• Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail, 71, British judge and legal scholar.
• Paul Massey, 83, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) rower.
• Yōko Minamida, 76, Japanese actress.
• Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1960), pancreatic cancer.
• Redmond O'Neill, 55, British political activist.
• Sirone, 69, American jazz musician.
• Ted Sizer, 77, American education reformer, colorectal cancer.
• Giuliano Vassalli, 94, Italian politician, illness. (Italian)

22

• Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications after a stroke.
• Paul Andrews, 53, Australian politician, cancer.
• Nicholas Atkin, 49, British historian, meningitis.
• Daniel Bekker, 77, South African boxer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.
• Ray B. Browne, 87, American educator, scholar of popular culture.
• Pierre Chaunu, 86, French historian. (French)
• Howard Darwin, 78, Canadian sports promoter, founder of the Ottawa 67's, complications from heart surgery.
• Luther Dixon, 78, American songwriter.
• Ray Lambert, 87, British footballer.
• Don Lane, 75, American-born Australian entertainer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, American science fiction artist, cardiac arrest.
• Herman Reich, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians).
• Maciej Rybinski, 64, Polish journalist and publicist.
• Soupy Sales, 83, American comedian and television host, cancer.
• Suchart Chaovisith, 69, Thai politician, Finance Minister (2003–2004) and Deputy Prime Minister (2004), laryngeal cancer.
• Libero Tresoldi, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Crema. (Italian)
• Albert Watson, 91, British footballer.
• Elmer Winter, 97, American founder of Manpower Inc.
• George Patrick Ziemann, 68, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa.

23

• Ture Cailo, Vanuatuan politician and member of parliament.
• Linda Day, 71, American television director, leukemia and breast cancer.
• Trevor Denning, 86, British artist.
• Sohrab Fakir, 75, Pakistani folk singer, kidney disease.
• Chris Hawk, 58, American surfer, oral cancer.
• Lou Jacobi, 95, Canadian-born American actor (The Diary of Anne Frank).
• John Kenley, 103, American summer theater producer, complications of pneumonia.
• Shiloh Pepin, 10, American girl with rare sirenomelia condition, pneumonia.
• Jack Poole, 76, Canadian real estate developer, pancreatic cancer.
• Ron Sobieszczyk, 75, American basketball player (DePaul Blue Demons, New York Knicks), degenerative brain disease.

24

• Bill Chadwick, 94, American hockey official and broadcaster.
• Yasuo Iwata, 67, Japanese actor, lung cancer. (Japanese)

25

• Yoshiteru Abe, 68, Japanese professional Go player. (Japanese)
• Dee Anthony, 83, American music manager, pneumonia.
• Maksharip Aushev, 43, Russian political activist and opposition leader in Ingushetia, businessman (Ingushetia.org), shot.
• Adoor Bhavani, 82, Indian actress, after long illness.
• Billy Bibit, 59, Filipino soldier and coup d'état leader, complications from a stroke.
• Camillo Cibin, 83, Italian former commander of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City. (German)
• Fritz Darges, 96, German World War II Waffen-SS officer. (German)
• Seymour Fromer, 87, American founder of Judah L. Magnes Museum, after long illness.
• Leslie A. Geddes, 88, American electrical engineer and physiologist.
• Lawrence Halprin, 93, American architect (Ghirardelli Square, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial).
• Gerhard Knoop, 88, Norwegian theatre director. (Norwegian)
• Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, 86, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Mike McQueen, 52, American journalist, Associated Press bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi, cancer.
• Ingeborg Mello, 90, Argentinian Olympic athlete. (Spanish)
• Heinz-Klaus Metzger, 77, German music critic. (German)
• Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya. (Spanish)
• Alexander Piatigorsky, 80, Russian-born British philosopher. (Russian)
• Jeffry Picower, 67, American philanthropist, associate of Bernard Madoff, drowned after heart attack.
• Kamala Sankrityayan, 89, Indian writer and litterateur.
• Tangi Satyanarayana, 84, Indian politician, speaker of the Vidhan Sabha of Andhra Pradesh (1983–1985), after long illness.
• Kevin Widemond, 23, American basketball player, heart attack.

26

• Daniel Acharuparambil, 70, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop of Verapoly (since 1996), kidney failure.
• Teel Bivins, 61, American member of the Texas Senate (1989–2004), Ambassador to Sweden (2004–2006), after long illness.
• Sabino Fernández Campo, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état.
• Lea Fite, 59, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2002), apparent seizure.
• Fred McCarthy, 91, American cartoonist.
• Yoshirō Muraki, 85, Japanese film production designer and art director, heart failure.
• George Na'ope, 81, American musician and hula expert, founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, cancer.
• Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In chain, natural causes.

27

• Tapani Aartomaa, 75, Finnish professor and graphic designer. (Finnish)
• Frank Brady, Jr., 64, Irish footballer, cancer.
• John David Carson, 57, American actor (Falcon Crest).
• August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack.
• Roy DeCarava, 89, American photographer.
• Alex Harris, 34, Australian paralympian swimmer, gold medalist (2004), suicide by train.
• David Shepherd, 68, British cricketer and umpire, lung cancer.
• Paul Zamecnik, 96, American molecular biologist.

28

• Olga Kevelos, 85, British motorcycle trials rider.
• Paul Manz, 90, American Lutheran organist and composer.
• Taylor Mitchell, 19, Canadian singer–songwriter, coyote attack.
• Jerry Morris, 99, British epidemiologist.
• Ted Nebbeling, 65, Dutch-born Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA (1996–2005), Mayor of Whistler, colon cancer.

29

• Russell L. Ackoff, 90, American organizational theorist, complications from surgery.
• Bei Shizhang, 106, Chinese biologist and educator.
• Jean-François Bergier, 77, Swiss historian.
• Charles E. Conrad, 84, American acting coach, kidney failure.
• Sanyutei Enraku, 76, Japanese comedian (Shōten), lung cancer.
• Gino Fracas, 79, Canadian football player.
• Olav Hodne, 88, Norwegian missionary. (Norwegian)
• June Maule, 92, American businesswoman, owner of Maule Air.
• John O'Quinn, 68, American lawyer, car accident.
• Norman Painting, 85, British radio actor (The Archers), heart failure.
• Jürgen Rieger, 63, German lawyer and politician (NPD), stroke. (German)
• Beat Rüedi, 89, Swiss Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) ice hockey player. (German)
• Alexander Schure, 89, American academic, founder of NYIT, Chancellor of NSU (1970–1985), Alzheimer's disease.
• Dave Treen, 81, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (1980–1984), respiratory disease.

30

• Juvenal Amarijo, 85, Brazilian football player, respiratory failure.
• Norton Buffalo, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player (Steve Miller Band), lung cancer.
• Ramata Diakite, 33?, Malian Wassoulou musician.
• Forest Evashevski, 91, American football coach (Iowa Hawkeyes), cancer.
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist and author.
• Michelle Triola Marvin, 76, American plaintiff in landmark "palimony" lawsuit (Marvin v. Marvin), lung cancer.
• June Middleton, 83, Australian polio victim, world's longest survivor in an iron lung.
• Alick Rowe, 70, British television and radio writer, heart attack.
• Howie Schultz, 87, American baseball and basketball player, cancer.
• František Veselý, 65, Czech football player. (German)
• Igor Vyazmikin, 43, Russian ice hockey player. (Russian)

31

• Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros. (Spanish)
• Tim Bickerstaff, 67, New Zealand radio personality.
• Chen Lin, 39, Chinese pop singer, suicide by jumping.
• Hugh Dinwiddy, 97, British cricketer.
• Stanley Ellis, 83, British linguistics scholar.
• Harry Gauss, 57, Canadian soccer coach, brain cancer.
• Pat Keysell, 83, British television presenter.
• Lee Hu-rak, 85, South Korean spy chief, Director of the National Intelligence Service (1970–1973), age-related causes.
• Mustafa Mahmud, 87, Egyptian scientist, author and philosopher. (Arabic)
• Qian Xuesen, 97, Chinese scientist and co-founder of the JPL.
• Steve Reid, 94, American football player (Northwestern Wildcats).
• Neguinho do Samba, 54, Brazilian percussionist, founder of Olodum, heart failure.
• Jan Wejchert, 59, Polish businessman and media mogul, co-founder of ITI Group, co-owner of TVN, heart attack. (Polish)
• Tom Wheatcroft, 87, British businessman, owner of Donington Park race circuit, after long illness.