Deaths in January 2009

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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2009.

January 2009

31

• Lino Aldani, 82, Italian science fiction writer, lung disease. [1]
• Sir John Fuller, 91, Australian politician and monarchist, member of New South Wales Legislative Council (1961–1978), cancer. [2]
• Harry Hill, 92, British bronze medal-winning Olympic cyclist (1936), pneumonia. [3]
• Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, 80, Canadian politician, after long illness. [4]
• Eddie Logan, 98, American Negro league baseball player, stroke. [5]
• Dewey Martin, 68, Canadian-born American drummer (Buffalo Springfield). [6]
• Nagesh, 75, Indian film comedian, after short illness. [7]
• Des Newton, 67, British craftsman, maker of model ships in bottles. [8]
• Clint Ritchie, 70, American actor (One Life to Live), blood clot after heart surgery. [9]
• Daniel Seligman, 84, American columnist (Fortune), multiple myeloma. [10]
• Erland von Koch, 98, Swedish composer. [11]
• Joanna Wiszniewicz, 61, Polish historian. [12] (Polish)

30

• José de Almeida Batista Pereira, 91, Brazilian Bishop of Guaxupé (1964–1976). [13]
• Hans Beck, 79, German inventor, creator of Playmobil toys. [14]
• Mike Francis, 47, Italian pop musician, lung cancer. [15]
• John Gordy, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), pancreatic cancer. [16]
• H. Guy Hunt, 75, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1987–1993), lung cancer. [17]
• Safar Iranpak, 61, Iranian footballer, lung cancer. [18]
• Ingemar Johansson, 76, Swedish world heavyweight boxing champion (1959–1960), complications from pneumonia. [19]
• Sune Jonsson, 78, Swedish photographer and writer. [20] (Swedish)
• Teddy Mayer, 73, American motor racing entrepreneur. [21]
• Milton Parker, 90, American businessman, owner of the Carnegie Deli, respiratory problems. [22]
• James Schevill, 88, American poet and playwright, stroke. [23]
• Stephen Zetterberg, 92, American attorney and politician. [24]

29

• Pawlu Aquilina, 79, Maltese poet and writer. [25]
• René Berger, 93, Swiss writer, philosopher and art historian. [26] (French)
• Charles Clews, 89, Maltese comedian. [27]
• Hank Crawford, 74, American jazz, rhythm and blues saxophonist, complications from a stroke. [28]
• John Harry Dunning, 81, British economist. [29]
• Bill Frindall, 69, British cricket statistician, Legionnaire's disease. [30]
• Karl Gass, 91, German documentary filmmaker, natural causes. [31] (German)
• Hélio Gracie, 95, Brazilian martial artist, creator of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. [32]
• George Holmes, 81, British historian. [33]
• John Martyn, 60, British singer and songwriter, pneumonia. [34]
• Gyula Pálóczi, 46, Hungarian athlete, heart disease. [35]
• Roy Saunders, 78, British footballer (Liverpool, Swansea City). [36]
• Charles H. Smelser, 88, American politician, Maryland Delegate (1955–1963) and State Senator (1967–1995). [37].
• Roy Somlyo, 83, American theatre producer, cancer. [38]
• François Villiers, 88, French film director. [39] (French)

28

• Robert S. Barton, 83, American computer engineer. [40]
• Gene Corbett, 95, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). [41]
• Glenn Davis, 74, American Olympic gold medal hurdler, after long illness. [42]
• John Patrick Diggins, 73, American historian, colorectal cancer. [43]
• Lucille M. Mair, 84, Jamaican diplomat. [44]
• Vasilij Melik, 88, Slovenian historian. [45] (Slovenian)
• Billy Powell, 56, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), heart attack. [46]
• Mira Rostova, 99, Russian-born American acting coach. [47]
• Peter Serry, 35, Kenyan football player, coach and administrator, fire. [48]
• Robert L. Stone, 87, American CEO of The Hertz Corporation, heart failure. [49]
• Angel Wainaina, 25, Kenyan actress, fire. [50]
• Wendell Wyatt, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon (1964–1975). [51]

27

• Mamman Bello Ali, 50, Nigerian politician, Senator (1999–2007), Governor of Yobe State since 2007, leukemia. [52]
• Connie Buckley, 93, Irish hurler. [53]
• Christian Enzensberger, 77, German anglicist, author and translator. [54] (German)
• Koji Kakizawa, 75, Japanese politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1994), esophageal cancer. [55]
• Blair Lent, 79, American author and illustrator (Tikki Tikki Tembo), pneumonia. [56]
• Michael Majerus, 54, British geneticist. [57]
• Aubrey Powell, 90, British footballer. [58]
• Mino Reitano, 64, Italian singer, after long illness. [59] (Italian)
• Sharat Sardana, 40, British screenwriter (Goodness Gracious Me), streptococcal infection. [60]
• John Updike, 76, American author (Rabbit Is Rich, The Witches of Eastwick), lung cancer. [61]
• R. Venkataraman, 98, Indian politician, President (1987–1992), multiple organ failure. [62]
• Billy Wilson, 81, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer. [63]

26

• James Brady, 80, American columnist (PARADE, New York Post). [64]
• Ahmad Hasan Dani, 88, Pakistani archaeologist. [65]
• Jerry Fowler, 68, American football player (Houston Oilers), Louisiana Elections Commissioner (1980–2000), heart failure. [66]
• John Isaacs, 93, American basketball player (New York Renaissance), stroke. [67]
• Ivan Jensen, 86, Danish footballer. [68] (Danish)
• Roy Johnson, 49, American baseball player, heart attack. [69]
• Zakan Jugelia, Abkhaz politician, shot. [70]
• Don Ladner, 60, New Zealand rugby league player, heart attack. [71]
• Sir Donald Luddington, 88, British High Commissioner for Western Pacific (1973–76), Hong Kong ICAC Commissioner (1978–80). [72]
• Avraham Ravitz, 75, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1988–2009), heart failure. [73]
• David Sabiston, 84, American physician, pioneer of heart surgery, stroke. [74]
• Alan Scott, 72, Australian oven manufacturer, heart failure. [75]

25

• Mamadou Dia, 98, Senegalese politician, Prime Minister (1957–1962). [76]
• Leon Klenicki, 78, American rabbi, colorectal cancer. [77]
• Ewald Kooiman, 70, Dutch organist, cardiac arrest. [78] (German)
• Ed Lyons, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators). [79]
• Kim Manners, 58, American television producer and director (The X-Files, Supernatural), lung cancer. [80]
• John Murray, 93, Australian politician, MP (1958–1961). [81]
• Hiroshi Oguchi, 58, Japanese artist and musician. [82]
• Antonio Pagán, 50, American politician, New York City Councilman (1992–1998), Commissioner of Employment (1998–2002). [83]
• Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, 96, British aristocrat, last heir of the Reuters family, granddaughter-in-law of Paul Reuter. [84]

24

• Gérard Blanc, 61, French singer and guitarist, cerebral hemorrhage. [85]
• Fernando Cornejo, 39, Chilean footballer, stomach cancer. [86]
• Mariana Bridi da Costa, 20, Brazilian model, complications from necrotic septicemia. [87]
• Olivia Irvine Dodge, 90, American philanthropist. [88]
• Leonard Gaskin, 88, American jazz bassist. [89]
• Marie Glory, 103, French actress. [90]
• Reg Gutteridge, 84, British boxing commentator and journalist, after short illness. [91]
• Edith Hahn Beer, 95, Austrian Holocaust survivor. [92]
• Diane Holland, 78, British actress, bronchial pneumonia. [93]
• Karl Koller, 79, Austrian footballer, Alzheimer's disease. [94]
• Len Perme, 91, American baseball player. [95]
• Olga Raggio, 82, Italian-born American art scholar and curator, cancer. [96]
• Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe, 93, American Bishop of Dallas. [97]
• Kay Yow, 66, American women's basketball coach (NC State), breast cancer. [98]

23

• Ilija Arnautović, c. 85, Yugoslavian architect. [99] (Slovene)
• Sir Richard Beaumont, 96, British diplomat. [100]
• H. J. Blackham, 105, British humanist and writer. [101]
• Martin Delaney, 63, American HIV activist, complications from liver cancer. [102]
• Irving Feiner, 84, American freedom of speech advocate, ruptured cerebral aneurysm. [103]
• Helen Maksagak, 77, Canadian politician, first Inuk Northwest Territories Commissioner (1995–1999) and Nunavut (1999–2000). [104]
• Sybil Moses, 69, American judge (New Jersey Superior Court) and lawyer, breast cancer. [105]
• George Perle, 93, American composer, after long illness. [106]
• Anna Radziwiłł, 69, Polish historian and politician. [107]
• Robert W. Scott, 79, American politician, Governor of North Carolina (1969–1973), natural causes. [108]
• Percy Smith, 86, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Northumberland—Miramichi (1968–1974). [109]

22

• Panapasa Balekana, 79, Fijian-born Solomon Island co-writer of the Solomon Islands national anthem. [110]
• John Alan Beesley, 81, Canadian diplomat. [111]
• Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, 103, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister (1962). [112]
• Bob Doyle, 93, Irish activist, last surviving Irish member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. [113]
• Bill Herchman, 75, American football player. [114]
• Vivian Illing, 108, American centenarian, one of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [115]
• Pentti Kouri, 59, Finnish economist and investor, after long illness. [116] (Finnish)
• Liang Yusheng, 85, Chinese novelist, natural causes. [117]
• Clément Pinault, 23, French footballer, heart attack. [118]
• Darrell Sandeen, 73, American actor (L.A. Confidential), stroke. [119]
• Louis-Paul-Armand Simonneaux, 93, French Bishop of Versailles. [120]
• Billy Werber, 100, American baseball player, last living teammate of Babe Ruth, oldest living MLB player, natural causes. [121]
• Mbongeleni Zondi, 39, South African Zulu chief, shot. [122]

21

• Irina Belotelkin, 96, Russian-born American couturier. [123]
• Ernie Bourne, 82, Australian actor. [124]
• Pat Crawford, 75, Australian Test cricketer, after long illness. [125]
• Vic Crowe, 76, British footballer (Aston Villa, Peterborough) and manager (Aston Villa, Portland Timbers), after long illness. [126]
• Shane Dronett, 38, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide. [127]
• Astrid Folstad, 76, Norwegian actress. [128] (Norwegian)
• Jean Jadot, 99, Belgian prelate and diplomat, Vatican Ambassador to the US (1974–1980), after long illness. [129]
• Finn Kobberø, 73, Danish badminton player. [130]
• Horace R. Kornegay, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina (1961–1969). [131]
• Krista Kilvet, 62, Estonian journalist, politician and diplomat. [132] (Estonian)
• Kunal Mitra, 44, Indian actor, heart attack. [133]
• Peter Persidis, 61, Austrian footballer, cancer. [134]
• Veatrice Rice, 59, American television personality (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), cancer. [135]
• Daphne Rooke, 94, South African author. [136]
• Charles H. Schneer, 88, American film producer (Jason and the Argonauts), Alzheimer's disease. [137]

20

• Chris Chianelli, 58, American hobbyist, writer and television host, natural causes. [138]
• Constance Cook, 89, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1963–1974). [139]
• Johnny Dixon, 85, British footballer (Aston Villa), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [140]
• David S. Dodge, 86, American President of American University of Beirut (1996–1997), cancer. [141]
• Joe Domnanovich, 89, American football player. [142]
• Mark Fernando, 67, Sri Lankan judge, member of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, cancer. [143]
• Mickey Gee, 64, British rock and roll guitarist, emphysema. [144]
• Stéphanos II Ghattas, 89, Egyptian Coptic Catholic prelate, Patriarch of Alexandria (1986–2006). [145]
• Stan Hagen, 68, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (1986–1991, since 2001), heart attack. [146]
• Dante Lavelli, 85, American football player (Cleveland Browns), Hall of Famer (1975), heart failure. [147]
• David Newman, 75, American jazz saxophonist (Fathead), pancreatic cancer. [148]
• Dina Vierny, 89, Russian-born French model. [149]

19

• Anastasia Baburova, 25, Russian journalist, shot. [150]
• E. Balanandan, 84, Indian politician and trade unionist, lung cancer. [151]
• Beatrice Farve, 113, American supercentenarian, verified second oldest person in the world. [152]
• Hugh Lindsay, 81, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. [153]
• Stanislav Markelov, 34, Russian civil rights lawyer, shot. [154]
• Dennis Fountain Page, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Lancaster (1975–1985). [155]
• Viking Palm, 85, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) wrestler. [156] (Swedish)
• Raymond Parker, 89, British sprint canoer. [157]
• Luigi Preti, 94, Italian politician, natural causes. [158] (Italian)
• José Torres, 72, Puerto Rican boxer, Olympic silver medallist (1956), heart attack. [159]
• Joop Wille, 88, Dutch footballer (EDO and The Netherlands). [160] (Dutch)

18

• Max Borges Jr., 90, Cuban architect. [161]
• Kathleen Byron, 88, British actress (Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death, The House in the Square), after long illness. [162]
• Holly Coors, 88, American activist and philanthropist, after long illness. [163]
• Tony Hart, 83, British artist and television presenter. [164]
• Nora Kovach, 77, Hungarian-born American ballerina, after short illness. [165]
• Bob May, 69, American actor (Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel), heart failure. [166]
• Zenonas Petrauskas, 58, Lithuanian lawyer and politician. [167] (Lithuanian)
• Bal Samant, 85, Indian writer, after long illness. [168]
• James E. Swett, 88, American fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient, after long illness. [169]
• Grigore Vieru, 73, Moldovan poet, car accident. [170]

17

• Tomislav Crnković, 79, Croatian footballer. [171] (Croatian)
• Susanna Foster, 84, American actress and singer (Phantom of the Opera). [172]
• Gary Hill, 67, American basketball player. [173]
• Anders Isaksson, 65, Swedish writer, reporter and historian. [174] (Swedish)
• Mary Lundby, 60, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate since 1995, cervical cancer. [175]
• Malcolm MacPherson, 65, American journalist, heart attack. [176]
• Paul Nicholls, 62, Australian first-class cricketer, cancer. [177]
• Marjorie Parker Smith, 92, American figure skater. [178]
• Mike Parkinson, 60, New Zealand rugby union player. [179]
• Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, 93, British financier and horticulturist. [180]
• Arthur Weisberg, 77, American bassoonist, pancreatic cancer. [181]
• Kamil Zvelebil, 80, Czech scholar of Indian literature and linguistics, cancer. [182]

16

• Sidney Brichto, 72, American-born British Liberal rabbi. [183]
• Jim Carvin, 79, American political strategist, heart failure. [184]
• Joe Erskine, 78, American boxer and ultramarathon runner. [185]
• Judith Hoffberg, 74, American art librarian and archivist, lymphoma. [186]
• Claudio Milar, 34, Uruguayan footballer, bus crash. [187]
• Whitey Mitchell, 76, American jazz musician and comedy writer (Get Smart, All in the Family, The Jeffersons), cancer. [188]
• Sir John Mortimer, 85, British barrister, novelist and dramatist (Rumpole of the Bailey), after long illness. [189]
• Robert Palmer, 74, American vintner, blood infection. [190]
• Bogdan Tirnanić, 67, Serbian journalist. [191] (Serbian)
• Andrew Wyeth, 91, American painter (Christina's World), after short illness. [192]

15

• Abdirahman Ahmed, Somali politician, shot. [193]
• Ovini Bokini, 64, Fijian chief and politician. [194]
• Maurice Chappaz, 92, Swiss author and poet. [195]
• Olivier Clement, 87, French Eastern Orthodox theologian. [196] (Romanian)
• William Close, 84, American physician, helped stem 2007 Congo ebola epidemic, father of Glenn Close, heart attack. [197]
• Veronika Dudarova, 92, Russian symphony conductor. [198]
• Tommy Jones, 54, American baseball player, manager and coach, brain cancer. [199]
• Tommy Muñiz, 86, Puerto Rican television producer and comedian, after long illness. [200]
• Said Seyam, 50, Palestinian government official, Interior Minister (2006–2007), airstrike. [201]
• Tapan Sinha, 84, Indian film director, bronchopneumonia. [202]
• Craig Stimac, 54, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), suicide. [203] (Italian)
• Lillian Willoughby, 93, American Quaker activist, founder of Take Back the Night. [204]

14

• Trammell Crow, 94, American real estate developer. [205]
• Mike Derrick, 65, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [206]
• Dušan Džamonja, 80, Croatian sculptor, heart failure. [207]
• Peter E. Fleming Jr., 79, American criminal defense lawyer, complications from lung surgery. [208]
• Jan Kaplický, 71, Czech-born British architect. [209]
• The Mighty Duke, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian, myelofibrosis. [210]
• Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), heart failure. [211]
• Angela Morley, 84, British composer and conductor. [212]
• Aron Moscona, 87, Israeli-born American biologist, heart failure. [213]
• Leo Rwabwogo, 59, Ugandan boxer, Olympic medallist (1968, 1972). [214]
• Gennadiy Shatkov, 76, Russian Soviet-era boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1956). [215]

13

• Ayman Alkurd, 34, Palestinian footballer, airstrike. [216]
• Pedro Aguilar, 81, American dancer, heart failure. [217]
• Hortense Calisher, 97, American author. [218]
• Tommy Casey, 78, British footballer. [219]
• Mikhail Donskoy, 61, Russian programmer, co-developer of the first world computer chess champion (Kaissa). [220]
• John Edmondson, 2nd Baron Sandford, 88, British politician and Anglican priest. [221]
• Mary Ejercito, 103, Filipino mother of Joseph Estrada, heart seizure and stomach aneurysm. [222]
• Preston Gómez, 85, Cuban-born American baseball player, coach and manager (San Diego Padres). [223]
• Umar Israilov, 27, Russian critic of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, shot. [224]
• Lanny Kean, 48, American professional wrestler, heart attack. [225]
• Jean Keene, 85, American bird feeder, natural causes. [226]
• Gary Kurfirst, 61, American music manager. [227]
• Sir Dai Llewellyn, 62, British socialite, bone cancer. [228]
• Patrick McGoohan, 80, American-born Irish actor (The Prisoner, Braveheart), after short illness. [229]
• James B. Pearson, 88, American politician, U.S. Senator from Kansas (1962–1978). [230]
• Mansour Rahbani, 83, Lebanese composer and musician, pneumonia. [231]
• Nicholas Andrew Rey, 70, Polish-born American diplomat, Ambassador to Poland (1993–1997), lung cancer. [232]
• William De Witt Snodgrass, 83, American poet, lung cancer. [233]
• Folke Sundquist, 83, Swedish actor. [234] (Swedish)
• Richard Tyler, 92, British architect. [235]
• Eben van Zijl, 77, Namibian politician. [236] (German)
• Nancy Bird Walton, 93, Australian aviator, natural causes. [237]
• Peter Ward, 95, British Olympic athlete. [238]

12

• Claude Berri, 74, French film director (Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources), Academy Award winner, stroke. [239]
• Russ Craft, 89, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers). [240]
• Friaça, 84, Brazilian footballer, multiple organ failure. [241]
• Mick Imlah, 52, British poet, motor neurone disease. [242]
• David Kerr, 86, British politician, MP for Wandsworth Central (1964–1970). [243]
• Arne Næss, 96, Norwegian philosopher, founder of deep ecology. [244]
• Michael Russell, 88, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. [245]
• Alejandro Sokol, 48, Argentine rock and roll musician, cardio-respiratory failure. [246]
• Allen Zwerdling, 86, American theatre director and actor. [247]

11

• Maurice L. Albertson, 91, American Peace Corps architect, founder of Village Earth. [248]
• Quirino De Ascaniis, 100, Italian priest. [249]
• Andy DeMize, 25, American drummer (Nekromantix), car accident. [250]
• Shigeo Fukuda, 76, Japanese sculptor and graphic artist, subarachnoid hemorrhage. [251]
• Jack Gifford, 68, American businessman (Maxim Integrated Products), heart attack. [252]
• Epeli Hau'ofa, 70, Fijian writer and anthropologist, after short illness. [253]
• Bert Hazell, 101, British politician and trade unionist; MP (1964–1970), oldest modern MP. [254]
• Bob Kilby, 64, British motorcycle speedway rider, cancer. [255]
• Pio Laghi, 86, Italian Cardinal for San Pietro in Vincoli, Vatican Ambassador to the US (1980–1990), hematologic disease. [256]
• Pat Lindsey, 72, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate (1967–1974, since 1982), heart attack. [257]
• Freddie Mack, 74, British boxer and musician. [258]
• Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia. [259] (Spanish)
• François, 9th duc de Noailles, 103, French noble. [260] (Dutch)
• Tom O'Horgan, 84, American theater director (Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar), complications of Alzheimer's disease. [261]
• Wally Olds, 59, American Olympic ice hockey silver medal-winning player (1972), colon cancer. [262]
• Frederic M. Richards, 83, American biochemist, natural causes. [263]
• Vivian Ridler, 95, British printer. [264]
• Lorene Rogers, 94, American educator, President of the University of Texas at Austin (1974–1979). [265]
• Milan Rúfus, 80, Slovak poet and academic. [266]
• Daryl Seaman, 86, Canadian businessman, co-owner of the Calgary Flames. [267]
• Jon Tvedt, 42, Norwegian orienteer and mountain runner, fall. [268] (Norwegian)
• Victor Vacquier, 101, American geophysicist, pneumonia. [269]
• David Vine, 74, British sports presenter, heart attack. [270]

10

• Anabel Bosch, 32, Filipino singer, cerebral aneurysm. [271]
• Georges Cravenne, 94, French publicity agent, founder of the César Award. [272]
• Rob Gauntlett, 21, British mountaineer, youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest, climbing accident. [273]
• Peter Kollock, 49, American sociologist, motorcycle accident. [274]
• Gil Mains, 79, American football player. [275]
• Jean Pelletier, 73, Canadian politician, Mayor of Quebec City (1977–1989), Chief of Staff (1993–2001), cancer. [276]
• Eluned Phillips, 94, British writer, crowned bard at the National Eisteddfod of Wales (1967, 1983), pneumonia. [277]
• Colin Phipps, 74, British petroleum geologist and MP (1974–1979). [278]
• Ivor Spencer, 84, British toastmaster. [279]
• Bill Stone, 108, British World War I veteran. [280]
• Coosje van Bruggen, 66, Dutch-born American sculptor, wife of Claes Oldenburg, breast cancer. [281]
• Jack Wheeler, 89, British footballer. [282]
• Sidney Wood, 97, American tennis player, Hall of Fame (1964), third-youngest winner of Wimbledon (1931). [283]
• Ray Yoshida, 78, American painter, cancer. [284]
• Elżbieta Zawacka, 99, Polish World War II freedom fighter. [285]

9

• Dave Dee, 67, British singer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), prostate cancer. [286]
• Harry Endo, 87, American actor (Hawaii Five-O), stroke. [287]
• Jon Hager, 67, American country musician and comedian (Hee Haw). [288]
• René Herms, 26, German middle distance runner. [289]
• Joe Hirsch, 80, American horse racing journalist, Parkinson's disease. [290]
• T. Llew Jones, 93, British Welsh language writer. [291]
• Peter Lane, Baron Lane of Horsell, 83, British businessman and politician. [292]
• Pál Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer throw coach, heart failure. [293]
• Kaarle Ojanen, 90, Finnish chess player. [294]
• Dave Roberts, 64, American baseball pitcher, lung cancer. [295]
• Jean Sassi, 91, French army colonel. [296] (French)
• Jack F. Shaw, 70, American cross country running coach. [297]
• David Smiley, 92, British SOE officer. [298]
• Ljubica Sokić, 94, Serbian painter. [299] (Serbian)
• Tom Van Flandern, 68, American astronomer, colon cancer. [300]
• Sir Neil Wheeler, 91, British Air Chief Marshal. [301]
• Frank Williams, 50, American baseball player, heart attack. [302]

8

• Don Galloway, 71, American actor (Ironside), stroke. [303]
• Björn Haugan, 66, Norwegian operatic lyric tenor. [304]
• Gaston Lenôtre, 88, French pastry chef and caterer, after long illness. [305]
• Irene Melikoff, 91, Russian-born French Turkologist. [306]
• Charles Morgan, Jr., 78, American lawyer, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [307]
• Richard John Neuhaus, 72, Canadian-born American Roman Catholic priest and theologian, founder of First Things, cancer. [308]
• Zbigniew Podlecki, 68, Polish motorcycle speedway rider. [309]
• Deborah Riedel, 50, Australian soprano, cancer. [310]
• Leonidas Vargas, 60, Colombian drug trafficker, shot. [311]
• Cornelia Wallace, 69, American First Lady of Alabama (1971–1978), second wife of George Wallace, cancer. [312]
• Lasantha Wickrematunge, 50, Sri Lankan journalist, shot. [313]

7

• Yaakov Banai, 89, Israeli Lehi commander. [314] (Hebrew)
• Don Callender, 81, American businessman, founder of Marie Callender's restaurants. [315]
• J. D. H. Catleugh, 88, British artist. [316]
• Alfie Conn, Sr., 82, British footballer. [317]
• Alex van Heerden, 34, South African musician, car accident. [318]
• Jacques Littlefield, 59, American owner of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, colon cancer. [319]
• Robert T. Monagan, 88, American politician, Speaker of the California State Assembly (1969–1970), after long illness. [320]
• Puck Oversloot, 94, Dutch swimmer, Olympic silver medallist (1932). [321] (Dutch)
• Anália de Victória Pereira, 67, Angolan politician. [322]
• Ray Dennis Steckler, 70, American film director (Rat Pfink a Boo Boo), cardiac arrest. [323]
• Bob Wilkins, 76, American television personality, horror film host, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [324]

6

• Ron Asheton, 60, American rock guitarist (The Stooges), heart attack (death announced on this date). [325]
• Nino Bongiovanni, 97, American baseball player. [326]
• Vivian Della Chiesa, 94, American soprano and Broadway theatre performer. [327]
• Robert T. Connor, 90, American politician, Staten Island Borough President (1966–1977). [328]
• Maria Dimitriadi, 57, Greek singer, lung disease. [329]
• John T. Elfvin, 91, American federal judge, justice of the Western District of New York since 1974. [330]
• Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, 113, Spanish supercentenarian, verified oldest person in Europe. [331]
• Alan Geisler, 78, American condiment inventor and food chemist, protein disorder. [332]
• Cheryl Holdridge, 64, American actress (The Mickey Mouse Club), lung cancer. [333]
• John Holt, 90, British physicist. [334]
• Robert Ilosfalvy, 81, Hungarian opera singer. [335] (Hungarian)
• Claude Jeter, 94, American gospel music singer. [336]
• Frank Richard Maloney, 63, American writer and poet. [337]
• John Scott Martin, 83, British actor (Doctor Who, I, Claudius, Z-Cars), Parkinson's disease. [338]
• Richard Seaver, 82, American owner of Arcade Publishing, heart attack. [339]
• Ghulam Mohammad Shah, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1984–1986), after long illness. [340]
• John Street, 77, British snooker referee, pulmonary disease. [341]
• Victor Sumulong, 62, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Mayor of Antipolo City since 2007, diabetes. [342]
• Charlie Thomson, 78, British footballer. [343]

5

• Griffin Bell, 90, American judge, Fifth Circuit Appeals Court (1961–1976), U.S. Attorney General (1977–1979), pancreatic cancer. [344]
• Sonny Fai, 20, New Zealand rugby league player (New Zealand Warriors), missing presumed drowned. [345]
• Gautam Goswami, 43, Indian civil servant accused of corruption, pancreatic cancer. [346]
• Harry Kinnard, 93, American Army lieutenant general. [347]
• Dale Livingston, 63, American football player (Green Bay Packers), complications from heart surgery. [348]
• Mario Magnotta, 66, Italian Internet celebrity, pulmonary embolism. [349] (Italian)
• Adolf Merckle, 74, German businessman, suicide by train impact. [350]
• Stanton Parris, 78, Barbadian cricket umpire, after short illness. [351]
• Roland Piquepaille, 62, French software engineer and technology writer, complications from digestive virus. [352] (French)
• Carl Pohlad, 93, American banker, owner of the Minnesota Twins. [353]
• Jimmy Rayner, 73, British footballer. [354]
• Verna Mae Slone, 94, American author and quilter, complications from a fall. [355]
• Mircea Stănescu, 39, Romanian politician, MP (2004–2008), apparent suicide by gunshot. [356]
• Ned Tanen, 77, American executive (Universal Pictures), natural causes. [357]
• Sam Taylor, 74, American blues musician, complications from heart disease. [358]

4

• Lei Clijsters, 52, Belgian footballer and coach, father of Kim Clijsters, lung cancer. [359]
• Betty Freeman, 87, American philanthropist. [360]
• K. K. Govind, 92, Indian freedom fighter. [361]
• Gedalio Grinberg, 77, Cuban-born American founder of Movado Group, natural causes. [362]
• Ivan Gubijan, 85, Croatian hammer thrower, Olympic medalist (1948), after long illness. [363]
• India, 18, American pet cat of George W. Bush. [364]
• Gert Jonke, 62, Austrian writer and poet, cancer. [365]
• Arvid Knutsen, 64, Norwegian footballer (Viking FK), brain tumor. [366] (Norwegian)
• Jon Latimer, 44, British historian, heart attack. [367]
• Bob Lazarus, 52, American comedian, leukemia. [368]
• Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar, 75, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura (1988–1992), heart attack. [369]
• John McGillicuddy, 78, American CEO of Manufacturers Hanover (1971–1991), Chemical Banking (1991–1993), prostate cancer. [370]
• Vladimir Repev, 52, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1980) handball player. [371] (Russian)
• Giselle Salandy, 21, Trinidadian boxer, car accident. [372]

3

• Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, 49, Palestinian senior Hamas leader, air strike. [373]
• Kjelfrid Brusveen, 82, Norwegian cross-country skier. [374]
• Charles Camilleri, 77, Maltese composer. [375]
• John Grindrod, 89, Australian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Brisbane (1980–1989). [376]
• Pat Hingle, 84, American actor (Batman, Norma Rae, Hang 'Em High), blood cancer. [377]
• Li Zuopeng, 94, Chinese general and politician. [378]
• Ulf G. Lindén, 71, Swedish entrepreneur, heart failure. [379] (Swedish)
• Sam McQuagg, 73, American race car driver, NASCAR Rookie of the Year (1965), cancer. [380]
• Hisayasu Nagata, 39, Japanese politician, suicide by jumping. [381]
• Olga San Juan, 81, American actress, kidney failure. [382]
• Matt Sczesny, 76, American scout for the Boston Red Sox, cancer. [383]
• Sir Alan Walters, 82, British economist. [384]

2

• Leonard Andrews, 83, American art patron, prostate cancer. [385]
• Inger Christensen, 73, Danish poet, novelist and essayist. [386]
• John DeFrancis, 97, American sinologist. [387]
• Ralph Gibson, 84, American flying ace of the Korean War. [388]
• Hank DeZonie, 86, American basketball player. [389]
• Steven Gilborn, 72, American actor (Ellen), cancer. [390]
• Valentina Giovagnini, 28, Italian singer, car crash. [391] (Italian)
• Ian Greaves, 76, British footballer and manager (Mansfield Town, Bolton Wanderers). [392]
• Tony Gregory, 61, Irish politician, member of Dáil Éireann, cancer. [393]
• Joe Henry, 78, American baseball player (Memphis Red Sox, Negro Leagues). [394]
• Ryuzo Hiraki, 77, Japanese footballer, pneumonia. [395]
• Albert Horner, 95, Canadian politician, MP for The Battlefords (1958–1968). [396]
• Maria de Jesus, 115, Portuguese supercentenarian, world's verified oldest person, septic shock. [397]
• John Olav Larssen, 81, Norwegian evangelical preacher. [398] (Norwegian)
• Rashid III bin Ahmad Al Mu'alla, 78, Emirati ruler of Umm al-Quwain. [399]
• József Sákovics, 81, Hungarian Olympic fencer. [400]
• Nick Scandone, 42, American yachtsman, paralympian gold medallist (2008), Lou Gehrig's disease. [401]
• Cy Thomas, 82, British ice hockey player. [402]
• Olgierd Zienkiewicz, 87, British civil engineer. [403]

1

• Aarne Arvonen, 111, Finnish supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of the Finnish Civil War. [404] (Finnish)
• Todd H. Bullard, 77, American educator, complications from diabetes. [405]
• Walter Haynes, 80, American steel guitarist. [406]
• John Morrow, 77, British Presbyterian minister and peace activist. [407]
• Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam, 32, Kenyan Al-Qaeda leader, allegedly behind Marriott hotel bombings, airstrike. [408]
• Claiborne Pell, 90, American Senator from Rhode Island (1961–1997), creator of the Pell Grant, Parkinson's disease. [409]
• Gert Petersen, 81, Danish journalist and politician. [410]
• Robert Prince, 89, American Major, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross. [411]
• Edmund Purdom, 84, British actor. [412]
• Nizar Rayan, 49, Palestinian Hamas military and political leader, airstrike. [413]
• Willard Warren Scott, Jr., 82, American general, head of United States Military Academy (1981–1986), Parkinson's disease. [414]
• Johannes Mario Simmel, 84, Austrian writer. [415]
• Henry King Stanford, 92, American academic, president of the University of Miami (1962–1981). [416]
• Helen Suzman, 91, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP (1953–1989). [417]
• Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, 39, Kenyan Al-Qaeda leader, airstrike. [418]