Deaths in December 2008
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2008.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
December 2008
1
- Thomas R. Adams, 87, American librarian.[1]
- Paul Benedict, 70, American television actor (The Jeffersons).[2]
- James Bree, 85, British actor (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Satan's Slave, Doctor Who).[3]
- Beverly Dustrude, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[4]
- Betty Goodwin, 85, Canadian artist.[5]
- Jodami, 23, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, injury.[6]
- Tom Kirby, 61, Irish darts player, pancreatic cancer.[7]
- Siegfried Knappe, 91, German Wehrmacht artillery and General Staff officer, author (Soldat).[8]
- Mikel Laboa, 74, Spanish Basque singer and songwriter.[9]
- Raymond Lederer, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1977–1981), lung cancer.[10]
- Lav Mantula, 79, Yugoslavian football player and coach.[11]
- Emanuel Rackman, 98, American Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University.[12]
- H. Sridhar, 50, Indian sound engineer, heart attack.[13]
- Dorothy Sterling, 95, American writer and historian.[14]
- Sir John Wall, 78, British jurist and blind rights campaigner.[15]
- Joseph B. Wirthlin, 91, American Mormon prelate, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, natural causes.[16]
2
- Carlos Abascal, 59, Mexican public official, Secretary of the Interior (2005–2006), cancer.[17]
- Kathleen Baskin-Ball, 50, American minister (United Methodist Church), cancer.[18]
- Frank Crean, 92, Australian politician, Treasurer (1972–1974), Deputy Prime Minister (1975), after short illness.[19]
- Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 81, American writer, filmmaker and scholar, after long illness.[20]
- Leïla Karam, 80, Lebanese actress, after long illness.[21]
- Margarita Karapanou, 62, Greek author, respiratory problems.[22]
- Pyotr Latyshev, 60, Russian politician, presidential envoy to Urals Federal District.[citation needed]
- Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, 97, British aristocrat and politician.[23]
- Henry Molaison, 82, American amnesiac, subject of brain science study, respiratory failure.[24]
- Odetta, 77, American folk singer and human rights activist, heart disease.[25]
- Edward S. Rogers Jr., 75, Canadian businessman, CEO of Rogers Communications and owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, heart failure.[26]
3
- William Pierson Jr., 97, American art historian.[27]
- Oliver Selfridge, 82, British-born American computer scientist, pioneer of artificial intelligence, injuries from a fall.[28]
- William Spoelhof, 98, American academic, President of Calvin College (1951–1976), complications from a fall.[29]
- Elmer Valentine, 85, American nightclub owner.[30]
- Derek Wadsworth, 69, British composer and jazz trombonist.[31]
- Alex Widmer, 52, Swiss executive, CEO of Julius Baer bank.[32]
- Robert Zajonc, 85, Polish-born American psychologist, pancreatic cancer.[33]
4
- Forrest J Ackerman, 92, American science fiction expert, heart failure.[34]
- Steve Bradley, 32, American wrestler.[35]
- Ophélie Bretnacher, 22, French murder victim.
- Jan Kemp, 59, American academic, exposed bias in passing college football players, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[36]
- Warren M. Robbins, 85, American art collector, complications from a fall.[37]
- Richard Van Allan, 73, British opera singer, lung cancer.[38]
5
- A. Bernard Ackerman, 72, American dermatopathologist, heart failure.[39]
- Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, 79, Estonian-born Russian primate of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1990, heart failure.[40]
- Jimmy Anderson, 55, American rodeo clown, heart disease.[41]
- George Brecht, 82, American artist (Fluxus), natural causes.[42]
- Martyn Crook, 52, Australian footballer and coach, heart attack.[43]
- Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, 80, Romanian politician, cancer.[44]
- Nina Foch, 84, Dutch-born American actress (Executive Suite, Spartacus, The Ten Commandments) and drama instructor, myelodysplasia.[45]
- Joseph Gardner, 38, American convicted murderer and fugitive, execution by lethal injection.[46]
- Beverly Garland, 82, American actress (My Three Sons), after long illness.[47]
- Paris Herouni, 75, Armenian scientist and professor.[48]
- Sir Basil Kelly, 88, British politician and jurist, after short illness.[49]
- Rawson Macharia, 96, Kenyan perjurer against Jomo Kenyatta, traffic accident.[50]
- Jean-Pierre Nguema, 76, Gabonese politician, member of the Senate of Gabon.[51]
- Anca Parghel, 51, Romanian jazz singer, metastatic breast cancer.[52]
- Richard Topus, 84, American World War II messenger pigeon trainer and business executive, kidney failure.[53]
- Dick Vertlieb, 78, American baseball and basketball executive.[54]
- Wild Again, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[55]
6
- Tamar Adar, 69, Israeli children's author and poet.[56]
- John Cumming, 78, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Scotland).[57]
- Larry Devlin, 86, American CIA agent, emphysema.[58]
- Sir Curtis Keeble, 86, British diplomat, Ambassador to the USSR (1978–1982).[59]
- Gérard Lauzier, 76, French cartoonist and film director, after long illness.[60]
- Elliot Manyika, 53, Zimbabwean politician, road accident.[61]
- Richard Marsland, 32, Australian radio host, apparent suicide.[62]
- Lloyd Ohlin, 90, American criminologist, complications of Shy–Drager syndrome.[63]
- Ivan Semedi, 87, Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Mukacheve.[64]
- Sunny von Bülow, 76, American heiress, cardiopulmonary arrest.[65]
- Peter Wardle, 77, New Zealand botanist.[66]
7
- Abul Ahsan, 71, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, cardiac arrest.[67]
- Marky Cielo, 20, Filipino Igorot actor, suspected acute pancreatitis.[68]
- Jimmy Gourley, 82, American jazz guitarist.[69]
- Herbert Hutner, 99, American chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts (1982–1990).[70]
- George Kuzma, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys.[71]
- Kerryn McCann, 41, Australian Olympic athlete, breast cancer.[72]
- Georges Nguyen Van Loc, 75, French police officer, writer and actor.[73]
- James H. Pomerene, 88, American electrical engineer.[74]
- Roger Sonnabend, 83, American hotelier.[75]
- John Ellis Williams, 84, British author.[76]
- Dennis Yost, 65, American singer (Classics IV), respiratory failure.[77]
- Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, 79, Pakistani journalist and philatelist, paralysis.[78]
8
- Maurice Andrieux, 83, French politician.[79]
- Manzoor Hussain Atif, 81, Pakistani field hockey player and administrator, after long illness.[80]
- Frank K. Edmondson, 96, American astronomer.[81]
- Xavier Perrot, 76, Swiss auto racer.[82]
- Oliver Postgate, 83, British animator (Bagpuss, Clangers).[83]
- Robert Prosky, 77, American actor (The Natural, Broadcast News, Hill Street Blues), complications following heart surgery.[84]
- Bob Spiers, 63, British television director (Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers).[85]
- William S. Stevens, 60, American lawyer, heart attack.[86]
- Hillary Waugh, 88, American mystery writer.[87]
9
- Jonathan Bailey, 69, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Derby (1995–2005) and Clerk of the Closet (1997–2005).[88]
- Emmanuel Bitanga, 55, Cameroonian Olympic sprinter.[89]
- Ibrahim Dossey, 36, Ghanaian footballer, car accident.[90]
- James Fergason, 74, American inventor.[91]
- Yuri Glazkov, 69, Russian cosmonaut.[92]
- Dražan Jerković, 72, Croatian football player and manager, heart failure.[93]
- José María Larrauri Lafuente, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Vitoria.[94]
- Howard Pack, 90, American businessman, shipping magnate, heart failure.[95]
- Bill Patman, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative for Texas (1981–1985), cancer.[96]
- Pentti Rummakko, 65, Finnish Olympic runner.[97]
- George Turman, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (1981–1989), natural causes.[98]
10
- Henning Christiansen, 76, Danish composer.[99]
- Mildred Constantine, 95, American curator (Museum of Modern Art), heart failure.[100]
- Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan, 44, Indian politician, car accident.[101]
- Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet (The Monkey's Mask), breast cancer.[102]
- Didith Reyes, 60, Filipino singer, heart attack and rupture of the pancreas.[103]
- Chris Richardson, 28, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), brain aneurysm.[104]
- Owen Wade, 87, British medical researcher and physician.[105]
- Mizuki Yamada, 80, Japanese Olympic sailor.[106]
- Sal Yvars, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants), amyloidosis.[107]
11
- Ali Alatas, 76, Indonesian politician, Foreign Minister (1988–1999), heart attack.[108]
- Maddie Blaustein, 48, American voice actress (Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Chaotic), stomach virus.[109]
- Ron Carey, 72, American labor leader (Teamsters), lung cancer.[110]
- Robert Chandler, 80, American CBS executive, heart failure.[111]
- Elie Amsini Kiswaya, 80, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Sakania-Kipushi.[112]
- Angeliki Laiou, 67, Greek historian, anaplastic thyroid cancer.[113]
- Bettie Page, 85, American pin-up model and actress, complications from a heart attack.[114]
- Robert Shepherd, 71, American academic lawyer.[115]
- Yeh Shih-tao, 83, Taiwanese writer, colorectal cancer.[116]
12
- David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 96, British aristocrat and public servant.[117]
- Paddy Dooley, 82, Irish Olympic rower.[118]
- Avery Dulles, 90, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal.[119]
- Max Elbin, 88, American golfer, president of the PGA (1965−1968), heart failure.[120]
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 85, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1976).[121]
- Sigitas Geda, 65, Lithuanian poet.[122]
- Van Johnson, 92, American actor (Battleground, The Caine Mutiny, Brigadoon).[123]
- Emmanuel Kasonde, 72, Zambian economist and politician, Finance Minister (1967−1971).[124]
- Tassos Papadopoulos, 74, Cypriot politician, President (2003−2008), small cell lung carcinoma.[125]
- Maksym Pashayev, 20, Ukrainian footballer, car accident.[126]
- Amalia Solórzano, 97, Mexican First Lady (1934–1940), respiratory complications.[127]
- Robin Toner, 54, American journalist (The New York Times), colon cancer.[128]
13
- Doris Totten Chase, 85, American painter and sculptor.[129]
- Christmas Past, 29, American Thoroughbred racehorse, infirmities of old age.[130]
- Sir David Clutterbuck, 95, British admiral.[131]
- John Drake, 49, New Zealand rugby union player.[132]
- Mario Álvarez Dugan, 77, Dominican journalist and newspaper editor, heart problems.[133]
- Otto Felix, 65, American actor (Up in Smoke), amyloidosis.[134]
- Vince Karalius, 76, British rugby league player, cancer.[135]
- David Margolis, 78, American industrialist, cardiac arrest.[136]
- Maurice Meersman, 86, Belgian cyclist.[137]
- Kjartan Slettemark, 76, Norwegian political artist, heart failure.[138]
- Kathy Staff, 80, British actress (Last of the Summer Wine, Crossroads, Mary Reilly), brain tumour.[139]
- Horst Tappert, 85, German actor (Derrick).[140]
14
- Véronique Ahoyo, 69, Beninese politician, car accident.[141]
- K. P. Appan, 72, Indian literary critic.[142]
- Mike Bell, 37, American professional wrestler (WWF, ECW), heart attack.[143]
- Hank Goldup, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.[144]
- Henri G. Hers, 85, Belgian biochemist.[145]
- William Kaufmann, 90, American nuclear strategist, adviser to seven Defense Secretaries, Alzheimer's disease.[146]
- Carl Kotchian, 94, American aviation executive, president of Lockheed.[147]
- Gastón Parra, 75, Venezuelan academic and banker, after long illness.[148]
- Candida Tobin, 82, British music educator.[149]
- Nick Willhite, 67, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), cancer.[150]
15
- Hassib Ben Ammar, 84, Tunisian politician and journalist/editor.[151]
- Valentin Berlinsky, 83, Russian cellist, after long illness.[152]
- Mike Blum, 65, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), cerebral hemorrhage.[153]
- Carlo Caracciolo, 83, Italian publisher (La Repubblica).[154]
- León Febres Cordero, 77, Ecuadorian president (1984–1988), complications from pulmonary emphysema.[155]
- Davey Graham, 68, British guitarist, lung cancer.[156]
- Wanda Koczeska, 71, Polish actress.[157]
- David Lieber, 83, Polish-born American biblical scholar, lung ailment.[158]
- John W. Powell, 89, Chinese-born American journalist tried for sedition, complications from pneumonia.[159]
- Gian Franco Romagnoli, 82, Italian chef, author, television personality.[160]
- Clyde Sproat, 78, American musician.[161]
- Anne-Cath. Vestly, 88, Norwegian children's writer and actress.[162]
- John Webster, 95, Australian activist.[163]
- Jay E. Welch, 83, American musician, founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus.[164]
16
- Claudio Apollonio, 87, Italian ice hockey player.[165]
- Peg Batty, 88, New Zealand cricketer.[166]
- Evelyn Bonaci, 92, Maltese politician, MP.[167]
- Sam Bottoms, 53, American actor (Apocalypse Now, The Last Picture Show, The Outlaw Josey Wales), glioblastoma multiforme.[168]
- Richard Coleman, 78, British actor.[169]
- George Constantinou, 75, Cypriot-born Papua New Guinean businessman, aggravated assault during carjacking.[170]
- Serigne Lamine Diop, 74, Senegalese statistician and politician.[171]
- Julius Fast, 89, American writer.[172]
- Harold Gramatges, 90, Cuban composer and pianist.[173]
- Joe Krol, 89, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts).[174]
- Norberto Raffo, 69, Argentinian football player and manager (Banfield).[175]
- John E. Sprizzo, 73, American jurist, organ failure.[176]
- Zlatko Šugman, 76, Slovenian actor, illness.[177]
17
- Liz Abrahams, 83, South African political activist and trade unionist.[178]
- Turgun Alimatov, 85, Uzbek musician.[179]
- Ismet Bajramović, 42, Bosnian reputed organized crime figure and wartime commander, suicide by gunshot.[180]
- Sammy Baugh, 94, American football player (Washington Redskins) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[181]
- Freddy Breck, 66, German schlager singer, cancer.[182]
- Ved Prakash Goyal, 82, Indian politician, brain tumor.[183]
- Paul Greco, 53, American actor (The Warriors, Broadway Danny Rose, The Cable Guy), lung cancer.[184]
- Gregoire, 66, Congolese African-born primate, oldest known chimpanzee.[185]
- Ai Iijima, 36, Japanese media personality and AIDS activist, former adult film actress, pneumonia.[186]
- Justin Levens, 28, American mixed martial art fighter, possible suicide by gunshot.[187]
- Luis Félix López, 76, Ecuadorian writer and politician, Secretary of Government, cancer.[188]
- Willoughby Sharp, 72, American artist, art dealer, curator and impresario, throat cancer.[189]
- Dave Smith, 53, American baseball pitcher (Houston Astros), heart attack.[190]
- Feliciano Vierra Tavares, 88, American musician and singer, father of the Tavares Brothers, prostate cancer.[191]
- Henry Ashby Turner, 76, American historian, melanoma.[192]
- Nina Varlamova, 54, Russian politician, mayor of Kandalaksha, stabbed.[193]
18
- Majel Barrett, 76, American actress (Star Trek), leukemia.[194]
- Peter Malam Brothers, 91, British Royal Air Force pilot, Battle of Britain ace.[195]
- Pete Case, 67, American football player (New York Giants), after long illness.[196]
- John Costelloe, 47, American actor (The Sopranos, Kazaam, Die Hard 2), suicide by gunshot.[197]
- Jack Douglas, 81, British comedy actor (Carry On films), pneumonia.[198]
- Mark Felt, 95, American public official, deputy director of the FBI, "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal, heart failure.[199]
- Hannah Frank, 100, British sculptor.[200]
- Nahla Hussain al-Shaly, 37, Iraqi women's rights activist, shot and decapitated.[201]
- Robert Jonquet, 83, French footballer, after long illness.[202]
- Ian MacMillan, 67, American author.[203]
- Mellory Manning, 27, New Zealand murder victim.
- Conor Cruise O'Brien, 91, Irish politician, writer and academic.[204]
- Ivan Rabuzin, 87, Croatian painter.[205]
- Harold Snyder, 86, American pharmaceuticals magnate, pioneer of generic drugs, respiratory failure.[206]
- Paul Weyrich, 66, American conservative activist, co-founder of The Heritage Foundation think tank, diabetes.[207]
19
- James Bevel, 72, American civil rights leader, pancreatic cancer.[208]
- Page Cavanaugh, 86, American jazz pianist and singer, kidney failure.[209]
- Carol Chomsky, 78, American linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky, cancer.[210]
- Michael Connell, 45, American political strategist, plane crash.[211]
- Kenny Cox, 68, American jazz musician, lung cancer.[212]
- Sir Bernard Crick, 79, British political theorist, cancer.[213]
- Dock Ellis, 63, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), cirrhosis.[214]
- Vi Hilbert, 90, American tribal leader.[215]
- Neal Kenyon, 79, American theater director.[216]
- Joe L. Kincheloe, 58, American professor, heart attack.[217]
- Matt Kofler, 49, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts).[218]
- Derek Stanford, 90, British poet and critic.[219]
- Sam Tingle, 87, Zimbabwean racing driver.[220]
20
- Samuele Bacchiocchi, 70, Italian theologian, liver cancer.[221]
- Joseph Conombo, 91, Burkinabé politician, Prime Minister of Upper Volta (1978–1980).[222]
- Jack Kuehler, 76, American electrical engineer, president of I.B.M. (1989–1993), Parkinson's disease.[223]
- Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso, 83, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the diocese of Santiago de Chile.[224]
- Olga Lepeshinskaya, 92, Ukrainian-born Russian ballerina.[225]
- Joel Mandelstam, 89, British biochemist and microbiologist.[226]
- Adrian Mitchell, 76, British poet, heart attack.[227]
- Robert Mulligan, 83, American film director (To Kill a Mockingbird), heart disease.[228]
- Albin Planinc, 64, Slovenian chess grandmaster, after long illness.[229]
- Dorothy Sarnoff, 94, American opera singer, actress and self-help consultant.[230]
- Igor Troubetzkoy, 96, Russian auto racer.[231]
21
- Chayben Abou-Nehra, 34, Belizean businessman, suicide by gunshot.[232]
- Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, 92, British noble.[233]
- James Fulton, 58, Canadian politician, MP for Skeena (1979–1993), colon cancer.[234]
- Teddy Gueritz, 89, British Royal Navy admiral.[235]
- Christopher Hibbert, 84, British historian.[236]
- Ron Hornaday Sr., 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.[237]
- Al Meyerhoff, 61, American lawyer, complications from leukemia.[238]
- Carlos Manuel Santiago, 82, Puerto Rican baseball player (Negro leagues), heart failure.[239]
- Dale Wasserman, 94, American playwright (Man of La Mancha), heart failure.[240]
- Maurice Zilber, 88, Egyptian horse trainer, cancer.[241]
22
- Yoshiro Asakuma, 94, Japanese Olympic athlete.[242]
- Anand Babla, 54, Fijian politician, MP (1992–2006), after long illness.[243]
- Coy Bacon, 66, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins).[244]
- Lansana Conté, 74, Guinean politician, President of Guinea since 1984, after long illness.[245]
- Norm Cook, 53, American basketball player (Kansas Jayhawks, Boston Celtics).[246]
- Ossie Dawson, 89, South African cricketer.[247]
- Jani Lehtonen, 40, Finnish pole vaulter.[248]
- Robert J. Marshall, 90, American minister, president of the Lutheran Church in America (1968–1978), heart failure.[249]
- Hugh Myers, 78, American chess player and author.[250]
- Erkki Puolakka, 83, Finnish Olympic runner.[251]
- Alfred Shaheen, 86, American textile manufacturer, popularized the Hawaiian shirt, complications of diabetes.[252]
- Guy Warren, 85, Ghanaian jazz musician, illness.[253]
23
- Clint Ballard Jr., 77, American songwriter ("You're No Good").[254]
- Manuel Benitez, 39, American child actor and FBI fugitive, shot.[255]
- Narciso Bernardo, 71, Filipino basketball player, cardiac arrest.[256]
- Thomas Congdon, 77, American editor, Parkinson's disease and heart failure.[257]
- Frank Krog, 54, Norwegian actor.[258]
- Mitsugu Saotome, 82, Japanese author.[259]
- Héctor Thomas, 70, Venezuelan Olympic decathlete, cancer.[260]
- Ron Unsworth, 85, British Olympic hurdler.[261]
- Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet, 65, French money manager and businessman, apparent suicide by drug overdose and exsanguination.[262]
- Eric Charles Twelves Wilson, 96, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.[263]
- Arnold Jacob Wolf, 84, American rabbi, heart attack.[264]
24
- Ian Ballinger, 83, New Zealand sport shooter, 1968 Olympic medallist.[265]
- Ray Deakin, 49, British footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Burnley), brain cancer.[266]
- Stanley Eveling, 83, British playwright.[267]
- Gordon Fairweather, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Royal, New Brunswick (1962–1977).[268]
- Ralph Harris, 87, British journalist, respiratory failure.[269]
- Samuel P. Huntington, 81, American political scientist, heart failure and complications of diabetes.[270]
- Harold Pinter, 78, British playwright (The Homecoming), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2005), throat cancer.[271]
- Rik Renders, 86, Belgian cyclist.[272]
- Alf Robertson, 67, Swedish singer and composer.[273]
- Ruhlmann, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, aneurism.[274]
25
- Edd Cartier, 94, American illustrator (The Shadow).[275]
- Alvah Chapman Jr., 87, American publisher and philanthropist, pneumonia.[276]
- Justin Eilers, 30, American mixed martial artist, shot.[277]
- Olívio Aurélio Fazza, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu.[278]
- Leo Frankowski, 65, American science fiction author.[279]
- William Glendon, 89, American attorney.[280]
- Lars Hollmer, 60, Swedish musician.[281]
- Eartha Kitt, 81, American singer and actress (Batman, The Emperor's New Groove, Holes), colon cancer.[282]
- Ann Savage, 87, American actress (Detour), complications from stroke.[283]
- Robert Ward, 70, American blues singer and guitarist.[284]
- Colin White, 57, British naval historian, cancer.[285]
26
- Jaroslav Fikejz, 81, Czech Olympic athlete.[286]
- Israel Horowitz, 92, American record producer.[287]
- Eberhard Kneisl, 92, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.[288]
- Gösta Krantz, 83, Swedish actor.[289]
- Mikhail Krichevsky, 111, Ukrainian supercentenarian.[290]
- Alan W. Lear, 55, Scottish writer.[291]
- George Miller, 69, British footballer and manager (Falkirk FC, Wolverhampton Wanderers), cancer.[292]
- Sir Kenneth Stoddart, 94, British Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside (1979–1989).[293]
- Dick Voris, 86, American football player and coach.[294]
- J. Lamar Worzel, 89, American oceanographer, heart attack.[295]
- Wyvetter H. Younge, 78, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives since 1975, surgical complications.[296]
27
- Arild Andresen, 80, Norwegian footballer and ice hockey player (Vålerenga).[297]
- Rodrigo Arango Velásquez, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Diocese of Buga.[298]
- Delaney Bramlett, 69, American songwriter and record producer, complications from gallbladder surgery.[299]
- Sailor Brown, 93, British footballer and manager.[300]
- Roque Cordero, 91, Panamanian-born American composer.[301]
- John Fenton, 87, British Anglican priest and New Testament scholar.[302]
- Robert Graham, 70, Mexican-born American sculptor, husband of actress Anjelica Huston, after long illness.[303]
- Ian Harland, 76, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1989–2000), after long illness.[304]
- Michael Hicks, 80, British army general.[305]
- Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, 86, Malaysian King (1994–1999), Great Ruler of Negeri Sembilan since 1967.[306]
- Patricia Kneale, 83, British actress.[307]
- Iain MacLean, 55, Australian politician, Western Australian MLC for North Metropolitan (1994–1996) and MLA for Wanneroo (1996–2001).[308]
- Christine Maggiore, 52, American AIDS denialist, pneumonia.[309]
- Sheoo Mewalal, 82, Indian footballer, natural causes.[310]
- Alfred Pfaff, 82, German footballer, 1954 FIFA World Cup winner.[311]
28
- Quentin C. Aanenson, 87, American fighter pilot, cancer.[312]
- A. O. L. Atkin, 83, American mathematician, complications from a fall.[313]
- Willie Clark, 90, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, St Johnstone).[314]
- Vincent Ford, 68, Jamaican reggae songwriter ("No Woman, No Cry"), complications from diabetes.[315]
- Donald Gleason, 88, American physician, creator of prostate cancer test, heart attack.[316]
- Sir Michael Levey, 81, British art historian, Director of the National Gallery (1973–1986).[317]
- Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, 92, American architect and industrial designer, created the United Nations logo, prostate cancer.[318]
- Haralamb Zincă, 85, Romanian writer, Alzheimer's disease.[319]
29
- Manjit Bawa, 67, Indian painter, after long illness.[320]
- William Ellis Green, 85, Australian cartoonist.[321]
- Jim Horne, 91, American model, heart failure.[322]
- Freddie Hubbard, 70, American jazz trumpeter, complications from a heart attack.[323]
- Victor H. Krulak, 95, American Marine Corps officer.[324]
- Vladislav Lalicki, 73, Serbian production designer.[325]
- Ted Lapidus, 79, French fashion designer, respiratory failure.[326]
- Daniel Nagrin, 91, American choreographer and dancer.[327]
- Alan Sargeson, 78, Australian chemist.[328]
- Harlington Wood Jr., 88, American lawyer.[329]
- Yang Jinzong, 76, Chinese chemical engineer.[330]
30
- Roy Boehm, 84, American Navy SEAL commander.[331]
- Stewart Cleveland Cureton, 78, American pastor, President of the National Baptist Convention (1999).[332]
- Richard Genelle, 47, American actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Zeo), heart attack.[333]
- Bernie Hamilton, 80, American actor (Starsky and Hutch), cardiac arrest.[334]
- Paul Hofmann, 96, Austrian writer, informant against the Nazis.[335]
- Peter Karmel, 86, Australian economist.[336]
- Roy Saari, 63, American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (1964).[337]
31
- Stan Kielty, 83, English rugby league player (Halifax, national team).[338]
- Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player, after long illness.[339]
- Kazbek Pagiyev, 49, Russian politician, mayor of Vladikavkaz, shot.[340]
- Brad Sullivan, 77, American actor (Slap Shot, The Prince of Tides, The Sting), liver cancer.[341]
- Vic Washington, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).[342]
- Donald E. Westlake, 75, American mystery writer, heart attack.[343]