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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2009.
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.
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February 2009
1
- Charles W. Akers, 88, American historian.[1]
- Joe Ades, 74, American salesman.[2]
- Anna Donald, 42, Australian epidemiologist, breast cancer.[3]
- Lukas Foss, 86, American composer, conductor, pianist and educator, heart attack.[4]
- Tim Grundy, 50, British radio and television presenter, heart attack.[5]
- Michael Homer, 50, American business executive (Netscape), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.[6]
- Ranbir Singh Hooda, 94, Indian politician, after long illness.[7]
- Peter Howson, 89, Australian politician, Minister for Air (1964–1968) and Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (1971–1972), fall.[8]
- Arieh Levavi, 96, Lithuanian-born Israeli public servant, ambassador to Argentina during capture of Adolf Eichmann.[9]
- Yoya Martínez, 96, Chilean actress, natural causes.[10]
- Jim McWithey, 81, American race car driver.[11]
- Roy Magee, 79, Northern Irish peace activist.[12]
- Sir Alan Muir Wood, 87, British civil engineer.[13]
- Edward Joseph O'Donnell, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lafayette (1994–2002).[14]
- John Roy Whinnery, 92, American electrical engineer and educator.[15]
2
- Donald Alexander, 87, American government official, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1973–1977), cancer.[16]
- Paul Birch, 46, English footballer (Aston Villa, Wolves), bone cancer.[17]
- Ralph Carpenter, 99, American antique and architecture preservationist, natural causes.[18]
- Alan Davies, 75, English rugby league player, (Oldham, Wigan, Great Britain).[19]
- Lublin Dilja, 51, Albanian ambassador.[20]
- Yusril Djalinus, 64, Indonesian journalist, co-founder of Tempo Magazine, stroke.[21]
- Phil Easton, 59, English radio presenter and football announcer.[22]
- Russ Germain, 62, Canadian radio presenter, lung cancer.[23]
- Paul Galloway, 74, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune), heart attack.[24]
- Susan Hibbert, 84, British secretary, last surviving British witness to signing of the World War II German Instrument of Surrender.[25]
- Howard Kanovitz, 79, American painter, bacterial infection after heart surgery.[26]
- Ralph Kaplowitz, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), kidney failure.[27]
- Fredrik Kayser, 90, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II, after long illness.[28]
- John A. Knight, 77, American church leader, General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene (1985–2001).[29]
- James E. Long, 68, American politician, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance (1985–2009), complications of a stroke.[30]
- Jean Martin, 86, French actor (The Battle of Algiers, The Day of the Jackal), cancer.[31]
- Ezzat Negahban, 82, Iranian archaeologist.[32]
- Louis Proost, 73, Belgian racing cyclist.[33]
- Joe M. Rodgers, 75, American construction executive, Ambassador to France (1985–1989), cancer.[34]
- Sunny Skylar, 95, American songwriter.[35]
- Ralf Veidemann, 96, Estonian footballer.[36]
- Jim Wilson, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and wrestler, cancer.[37]
- Kazuhiro Yamauchi, 76, Japanese baseball player, liver failure.[38]
3
- Ben Blank, 87, American television graphics innovator (CBS, ABC), complications from a stroke.[39]
- Tom Brumley, 73, American steel guitarist (The Buckaroos), heart attack.[40]
- Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta, 93, Indian scholar of Bengali and English literature.[41]
- Kurt Demmler, 65, German songwriter, suicide by hanging.[42]
- Sid Finney, 79, British ice hockey player.[43]
- Millard Fuller, 74, American co-founder of Habitat for Humanity International, after short illness.[44]
- Henry Hsu, 96, Chinese-born Taiwanese athlete and politician, MLY (1973–1987), heart failure.[45]
- Warren Kimbro, 74, American Black Panther member, convicted murderer and charitable organization executive, heart attack.[46]
- Mike Maloy, 59, American-born Austrian basketball player, influenza.[47]
- Max Neuhaus, 69, American musician, cancer.[48]
- António dos Reis Rodrigues, 90, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate Bishop of Madarsuma (1966–1998).[49]
- Jorge Serguera, 76, Cuban journalist, President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (death announced on this date).[50]
- Sheng-yen, 79, Chinese-born Taiwanese Buddhist Zen master, kidney disease.[51]
- Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, 84, Ukrainian writer, after long illness.[52]
4
- Antonie Dixon, 40, New Zealand murderer, suicide.[53]
- Christophe Dupouey, 40, French cyclist, World Cross Country Champion (1996), suicide.[54]
- Arnljot Eggen, 85, Norwegian writer.[55]
- Ramón Hernández, 68, Puerto Rican baseball player.[56]
- Lux Interior, 62, American singer, songwriter and musician (The Cramps), aortic dissection.[57]
- Ed Schwartz, 62, American radio personality, kidney and heart disease.[58]
- Mark Shepherd, 86, American chairman of Texas Instruments (1976–1988), complications from pulmonary fibrosis.[59]
- David Snow, 84, British ornithologist.[60]
5
- Sigurd Andersson, 82, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) cross-country skier.[61]
- Albert Barillé, 88, French television screenwriter and producer.[62]
- John W. Grace, 82, Canadian Privacy Commissioner (1983–1990), heart attack.[63]
- Khalid Hasan, 74, Pakistani journalist and author, cancer.[64]
- George Hughes, 83, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[65]
- Payton Jordan, 91, American coach of 1968 United States Olympic track and field team, cancer.[66]
- Leo Orenstein, 89, Canadian director, producer and writer.[67]
- Raaphi Persitz, 74, Israeli chess master.[68]
- Dana Vávrová, 41, Czech-German actress and film director, cervical cancer.[69]
- Noah Weinberg, 78, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah.[70]
- Xiangzhong Yang, 49, Chinese-born American stem cell scientist, cancer.[71]
- Anthony Finigan, 83, British actor.[72]
6
- Bashir Ahmad, 68, Indian-born Scottish politician, MSP for Glasgow region, heart attack.[73]
- Philip Carey, 83, American actor (One Life to Live), lung cancer.[74]
- Anthony Finigan, 83, British actor.[75]
- Alfred Flores, 92, Guamanian rancher and politician, member of the Legislature of Guam.[76]
- George Karpati, 74, Canadian neurologist.[77]
- Shirley Jean Rickert, 82, American actress (Our Gang).[78]
- Susan Walsh, 60, American actress (Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, Multiple Maniacs).[79]
- James Whitmore, 87, American actor (Oklahoma!. Planet of the Apes, The Shawshank Redemption), Emmy winner (2000), lung cancer.[80]
7
- Molly Bee, 69, American country singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), complications from a stroke.[81]
- Jack Cover, 88, American scientist, inventor of the Taser, pneumonia.[82]
- Blossom Dearie, 82, American jazz singer and pianist (Schoolhouse Rock!), after long illness.[83]
- Reg Evans, 80, Australian actor, bushfire.[84]
- John Gabler, 78, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees, Washington Senators).[citation needed]
- Sir George Godber, 100, British physician and public servant, Chief Medical Officer (1960–1973).[85]
- Richard Gordon, 61, British author, heart attack.[86]
- Joe Haverty, 72, Irish footballer (Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Millwall, Republic of Ireland).[87]
- Betty Jameson, 89, American golfer, three-time major championship winner.[88]
- Jacques Lancelot, 88, French clarinetist, heart failure.[89]
- Mel Kaufman, 50, American football player (Washington Redskins).[90]
- Brian Naylor, 78, Australian news presenter, bushfire.[91]
- Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack.[92]
- Piotr Stańczak, 42, Polish geologist, beheaded.[93]
- Richard Zann, 64, Australian ornithologist, bushfire.[94]
8
- Marian Cozma, 26, Romanian handball player, stabbed.[95]
- William Alexander Deer, 98, British geologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1971–1973).[96]
- Sigurdur Helgason, 87, Icelandic business executive, CEO of Icelandair and pioneer of low cost airlines.[97]
- Harry Hillaker, 89, American aeronautical engineer.[98]
- Paul Himmel, 94-95, American photographer.[99]
- Wenche Klouman, 90, Norwegian actress.[100]
- Wesley L. McDonald, 84, American admiral and naval aviator.[101]
- Neil McNeill, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1961–1963).[102]
- Giorgio Melchiori, 88, Italian literary critic.[103]
- Francis Dennis Ramsay, 83, Scottish painter.[104]
- Terry Spencer, 90, British RAF fighter pilot and war photographer, cancer.[105]
- Bob Stephen, 50, Canadian football player, heart attack.[106]
9
- Robert Anderson, 91, American Academy Award–nominated playwright and screenwriter, pneumonia.[107]
- Kazys Bradūnas, 91, Lithuanian émigré poet and editor.[108]
- Marc Burrows, 30, British footballer, cancer.[109]
- Gareth Alban Davies, 82, British academic and poet.[110]
- Reg Davies, 79, Welsh footballer (Newcastle United, Swansea Town, Wales).[111]
- Eluana Englaro, 38, Italian patient in right to die case, withdrawal of nutrition.[112]
- Neville Hamilton, 48, British footballer.[113]
- Webster Kitchell, 77, American religious leader.[114]
- Vic Lewis, 89, British jazz guitarist.[115]
- Orlando "Cachaíto" López, 76, Cuban bassist (Buena Vista Social Club), complications from prostate surgery.[116]
- Don Maclennan, 79, South African poet and playwright.[117]
- Maria Orwid, 78, Polish psychiatrist.[118]
- Peer Portner, 69, Kenyan-born British developer of ventricular assist device, cancer.[119]
- Sean F. Scott, 39, American amyotrophic lateral sclerosis activist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[120]
10
- Jan Błoński, 78, Polish literary critic, Holocaust scholar.[118]
- Carolyn George, 81, American dancer and photographer, primary lateral sclerosis.[121]
- Eva Gustavson, 91, Norwegian-American contralto.[122][123]
- Leila Hadley, 83, American travel writer.[124]
- Philippe Kourouma, 76, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of N’Zérékoré.[125]
- Berting Labra, 75, Filipino character actor, emphysema.[126]
- Jeremy Lusk, 24, American motocross racer, brain injury.[127]
- Jean-Baptiste Mintsa-Mi-Mba, 60, Gabonese politician.[128]
- Nate Schenker, 91, American football player.[129]
11
- Estelle Bennett, 67, American singer (The Ronettes), colon cancer.[130]
- Fred Graves, 84, Canadian Olympic rower.[131]
- Virgil Lee Griffin, 64, American Ku Klux Klan leader.[132]
- Vlastibor Klimeš, 84, Czech architect.[133]
- Willem Johan Kolff, 97, Dutch-born American physician, inventor of the artificial kidney.[134]
- Sir Peter Leng, 83, British Army general.[135]
- Penny Ramsey, 61, Australian actress, cancer.[136]
- Rail Rzayev, 64, Azerbaijani general, head of the Air Force, shot.[137]
- Marina Svetlova, 86, French-born American ballerina and teacher, complications from stroke.[138]
- Mildred Wolfe, 96, American artist, after long illness.[139]
- Shyamala Gopalan, 70, Tamil-born American biomedical scientist, colon cancer.
12
- Hermann Becht, 69, German opera singer.[140]
- Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, 70, Indian professor of combinatorics and graph theory. [citation needed]
- Giacomo Bulgarelli, 68, Italian footballer, after long illness.[141]
- Evan Ira Farber, 87, American Faculty Emeritus (Earlham College).[142]
- Ed Grothus, 85, American anti-nuclear activist, cancer.[143]
- Lis Hartel, 87, Danish equestrian.[144]
- Hugh Leonard, 82, Irish playwright, multiple ailments.[145]
- Mat Mathews, 84, Dutch jazz accordionist.[146]
- Domenica Niehoff, 63, German prostitution activist, complications from lung disease.[147]
- Malcolm Toon, 92, American ambassador (Czechoslovakia 1969–71, Yugoslavia 1971–75, Israel 1975–76, USSR 1976–79).[148]
- Ted Uhlaender, 68, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds), heart attack.[149]
- Aasiya Zubair, 36, American businesswoman, co-founder of Bridges TV, beheaded.[150]
- Notable Americans killed in the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407:
- Alison Des Forges, 66, human rights activist.[151]
- Beverly Eckert, 57, activist, member of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee.[152]
- Coleman Mellett, 34, jazz guitarist.[153]
- Gerry Niewood, 65, jazz saxophonist.[153]
- Susan Wehle, 55, jewish renewal cantor.[154]
13
- Gianna Maria Canale, 81, Italian actress.[155]
- Joe Goldstein, 81, American sports promoter, heart attack and stroke.[156]
- Geshe Gyeltsen, 85, Tibetan spiritual leader, founder of Thubten Dhargye Ling.[157]
- Alfred J. Kahn, 90, American child welfare expert.[158]
- Jean Laroyenne, 78, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) fencer.[159]
- Dilys Laye, 74, British actress, cancer.[160]
- Julius Patching, 92, Australian Olympic official.[161]
- Corky Trinidad, 69, Filipino-born American cartoonist, pancreatic cancer.[162]
- Edward Upward, 105, British writer, chest infection.[163]
- Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, 83, Azerbaijani poet, after long illness.[164]
14
- Sir Bernard Ashley, 82, British businessman, cancer.[165]
- Louie Bellson, 84, American jazz drummer, complications from Parkinson's disease.[166]
- Geoffrey Collin, 87, British army general.[167]
- Luís Andrés Edo, 82, Spanish anarchist.[168]
- Kjersti Graver, 63, Norwegian public servant, Consumer Ombudsman (1987–1995).[169]
- Buck Griffin, 85, American rockabilly musician, heart failure.[170]
- Alfred A. Knopf Jr., 90, American publisher, son of Alfred A. Knopf, complications from fall.[171]
- John McGlinn, 55, American conductor and historian of musicals.[172]
- Boris Yavitz, 85, Georgian-born American academic, dean of Columbia Business School (1975–1982), prostate cancer.[173]
15
- Joe Cuba, 78, American musician, complications of a bacterial infection.[174]
- Noble Doss, 88, American football player.[175]
- Diether Haenicke, 73, American academic, Western Michigan University President (1985–1998, 2006–2007), head injury.[176]
- William R. Sharpe Jr., 80, American politician, West Virginia Senate (1960–1980, 1984–2009), President pro tem (1990–2009).[177]
- Carl Venne, 62, American chairman of the Crow Nation since 2002, natural causes.[178]
16
- Pyotr Abrassimov, 96, Belarusian partisan.[179]
- Dorothy Bridges, 93, American actress and poet, wife of Lloyd Bridges, mother of Beau and Jeff Bridges, age-related causes.[180]
- Konrad Dannenberg, 96, German-born American rocket scientist, natural causes.[181]
- Sir Ernest Harrison, 82, British businessman.[182]
- Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, 86, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Seoul (1968–1998).[183]
- Edward Salia, 56, Ghanaian politician, Minister of State (1995), throat infection.[184]
- Travis, 13, American-born chimpanzee, television commercial animal, shot.[185]
17
- Doris Abrahams, 88, American theatrical producer (Equus), heart failure.[186]
- Eric Blau, 87, American theatrical producer (Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris), pneumonia.[187]
- Conchita Cintrón, 86, Chilean-born Portuguese bullfighter, heart attack.[188]
- Edhi Handoko, 48, Indonesian chess grandmaster, heart attack.[189]
- Hisae Imai, 77, Japanese photographer.[190]
- Victor Kiernan, 95, British historian.[191]
- Gazanfer Özcan, 78, Turkish actor, heart failure.[192]
- Robert Robideau, 61, American Native Americans activist.[193]
- Shabnam Romani, 80, Pakistani poet and writer, after long illness.[194]
- Gyula Sáringer, 81, Hungarian agronomist.[195]
- Brad Van Pelt, 57, American football player (New York Giants), heart attack.[196]
- Mike Whitmarsh, 46, American beach volleyball and basketball player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.[197]
18
- Jacques Bino, 50, French Guadeloupean trade union official, shot.[198]
- Viking Björk, 90, Swedish surgeon.[199]
- J. Max Bond Jr., 73, American architect, cancer.[200]
- Chet Bulger, 91, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), natural causes.[201]
- Snooks Eaglin, 73, American guitarist, heart attack.[202]
- Raymond Alvah Hanson, 85, American inventor.[203]
- John Kanzius, 64, American inventor, pneumonia.[204]
- Robert Luff, 94, British theatre producer and impresario.[205]
- Luigi Nobile, 87, Italian footballer.[206]
- Tayeb Salih, 80, Sudanese writer (Season of Migration to the North).[207]
- Kamila Skolimowska, 26, Polish hammer thrower, 2000 Olympics gold medalist, pulmonary embolism.[208]
- Miika Tenkula, 34, Finnish guitarist and songwriter (Sentenced).[209]
- Andrew Tsien Chih-ch'un, 83, Taiwanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hwalien (1992–2001), heart attack.[210]
19
- Jerry Anderson, 76, Puerto Rican diver.[211]
- Frank Carlton, 72, English rugby league player.[212]
- Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing, 78, British life peer and civil servant, cancer.[213]
- Kelly Groucutt, 63, British bass guitar player (Electric Light Orchestra), heart attack.[214]
- Edmund Hlawka, 92, Austrian mathematician.[215]
- Ibrahim Hussein, 72, Malaysian artist, heart attack.[216]
- Ian Jenkins, 64, British public official, Surgeon General (2002–2006), Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle (2008–2009).[217]
- Oreste Lionello, 81, Italian actor and voice actor.[218]
- Nonnie Moore, 87, American fashion editor (GQ, Harper's Bazaar), choking accident.[219]
- Raymond Mulinghausen, 88, French Olympic diver.[220]
- Keith W. Nolan, 44, American military historian.[221]
- Harrison Ridley Jr., 70, American jazz presenter, after short illness.[222]
- Anna Watt, 85, British entertainer (Fran and Anna), natural causes.[223]
- Thomas Welsh, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Allentown (1983–1997).[224]
- James White, 86, British politician, MP for Glasgow Pollok (1970–1987).[225]
20
- Marcella Althaus-Reid, 56, Argentine-born British Queer theologian, professor of contextual theology (University of Edinburgh).[226]
- Friedrich Berentzen, 81, German industrialist.[227]
- James I. C. Boyd, 87, British railway historian.[228]
- Fine Cotton, 32, Australian thoroughbred racehorse involved in sports betting substitution scandal.[229]
- Antonio De Rosso, 68, Italian religious leader, founder of the Orthodox Church in Italy.[230]
- Roland Gutsch, 83, German engineer.[231]
- Mary Jacobus, 52, American journalist, cerebral hemorrhage.[232]
- William J. Jorden, 85, American journalist and diplomat, lung cancer.[233]
- Larry H. Miller, 64, American businessman, owner of the Utah Jazz, complications of diabetes.[234]
- Christopher Nolan, 43, Irish author, winner of the Whitbread Prize (1988), pulmonary aspiration.[235]
- Július Nôta, 37, Slovak footballer and coach, stabbed.[236]
- Robert Quarry, 83, American film and television actor.[237]
- Fats Sadi, 81, Belgian jazz musician, vocalist and composer.[238]
- Socks, 19, American Presidential cat of the Clinton family, euthanized.[239]
- Shraga Weil, 90, Israeli painter.[240]
21
- Ian Alger, 82, American psychiatrist, heart failure.[241]
- François De Pauw, 82, Belgian Olympic basketball player.[242]
- Fannie Kauffman, 84, Canadian-born Mexican actress and comedian, natural causes.[243]
- Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, 79, Russian-born Israeli mathematician, Parkinson's disease.[244]
- Mary Printz, 85, American switchboard operator, inspiration for Bells Are Ringing.[245]
- Wilton G. S. Sankawulo, 71, Liberian politician and academic, Chairman of the Council of State (1995–1996), heart failure.[246]
- Victor Zarnowitz, 89, Polish-born American economist, heart attack.[247]
22
- Candido Cannavò, 78, Italian sports journalist, editor-in-chief of La Gazzetta dello Sport (1983–2002), cerebral hemorrhage.[248]
- Barbara Marshall, 64, American journalist and politician, member of the Honolulu City Council since 2002, colon cancer.[249]
- Rhena Schweitzer Miller, 90, American humanitarian, daughter of Albert Schweitzer.[250]
- Derrell Palmer, 86, American football player (Cleveland Browns), natural causes.[251]
- Paul Joseph Phạm Đình Tụng, 89, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal, archbishop of Hanoi (1994–2005).[252]
- Sławomir Rutka, 33, Polish football player, suicide by hanging.[253]
- Safi Taha, 85, Lebanese Olympic wrestler.[254]
- Howard Zieff, 81, American film director (Private Benjamin, My Girl, The Main Event), complications from Parkinson's disease.[255]
23
- Marie Boas Hall, 89, American historian.[256]
- Dean Champion, 69, American professor of criminal justice, leukemia.[257]
- Tom Cole, 75, American screenwriter and playwright, multiple myeloma.[258]
- Sverre Fehn, 84, Norwegian architect.[259]
- Lorna Frampton, 88, British Olympic swimmer.[260]
- Frank Gallacher, 65, Scottish-born Australian actor.[261]
- Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, 96, Canadian portrait sculptor.[262]
- August Kiuru, 86, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948, 1956) cross-country skier.[263]
- Seppo Kolehmainen, 76, Finnish actor, after long illness.[264]
- James Leslie, 50, British politician, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim (1998–2003), heart attack.[265]
- Noel Martin, 86, American graphic designer, leukemia.[266]
- Laurence Payne, 89, British actor (Sexton Blake).[267]
- Tuulikki Pietilä, 92, Finnish graphic artist.[268]
- Franciszek Starowieyski, 78, Polish artist.[269]
- Jean Studer, 94, Swiss Olympic athlete.[270]
- Scott Symons, 75, Canadian writer.[271]
- David Taylor, 79, American banker.[272]
24
- Jean Battersby, 80, Australian arts executive, esophageal cancer.[273]
- Svatopluk Havelka, 83, Czech composer.[274]
- Edward Judd, 76, British actor (The Day the Earth Caught Fire).[275]
- Antoinette K-Doe, 66, American bar owner, heart attack.[276]
- Pearl Lang, 87, American dancer and choreographer, heart attack.[277]
- James D. McGinnis, 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1977–1981), cancer.[278]
25
- Randall Bewley, 53, American guitarist (Pylon), heart attack.[279]
- Pip Borrman, 54, Australian aerobatics pilot, plane crash.[280]
- Ian Carr, 75, British writer and musician (Nucleus), after long illness.[281]
- Philip José Farmer, 91, American writer (Riverworld).[282]
- Bill Holm, 65, American author and poet, heart attack.[283]
- Molly Kool, 93, Canadian sailor, North America's first licensed female sea captain.[284]
- Roger C. Kormendi, 59, American economist, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.[285]
- Howard Menger, 87, American ufologist.[286]
- Eisha Stephen Atieno Odhiambo, 63, Kenyan academic, dementia.[287]
- Clarence Swensen, 91, American actor (munchkin in The Wizard of Oz), complications of a stroke.[288]
- Max Théret, 96, French businessman, founder of the Fnac electronics retailer.[289]
- Bangladeshi military officers killed in the Bangladesh Rifles revolt:
- Shakil Ahmed, 51, director general of BGB (since 2006).[290]
- Mohammad Shawkat Imam, 47.[291]
26
- Rick Beckett, 54, American radio broadcaster (WOOD (AM)), heart attack.[292]
- William H. Behle, 99, American ornithologist.[293]
- Ruth Drexel, 78, German actress (Der Bulle von Tölz).[294]
- Johnny Kerr, 76, American basketball player, coach, and color commentator (Chicago Bulls), prostate cancer.[295]
- Morley Street, 25, British racehorse.[296]
- Sir Michael Quinlan, 78, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence (1988–1992).[297]
- Wendy Richard, 65, British actress (Are You Being Served?, EastEnders), breast cancer.[298]
- Nell Soto, 82, American politician, member of the California State Senate (2000–2006), complications from stroke.[299]
- Ruth Spalding, 95, British actor, director and writer.[300]
- Wilbert Tatum, 76, American publisher (New York Amsterdam News), multiple organ failure.[301]
- Norm Van Lier, 61, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls).[302]
27
- Rosalie Silber Abrams, 92, American politician.[303]
- John Alvin, 91, American actor, complications of a fall.[304]
- Alan Landers, 68, American smoking model turned opponent, throat and lung cancer.[305]
- Robert E. A. Lee, 87, American documentary film producer, cancer.[306]
- James Page Mackey, 95, Canadian chief of Toronto Police Service (1958–1970).[307]
- Manea Mănescu, 92, Romanian Prime Minister (1974–1979).[308]
- Alastair McCorquodale, 83, British athlete and cricketer, silver medallist at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[309]
- John Francis Marchment Middleton, 87, British anthropologist.[310]
- Gerriet Postma, 76, Dutch painter.[311]
- Dorothea Holt Redmond, 98, American movie artist and illustrator.[312]
- Geoffrey Smith, 80, British gardening expert and presenter.[313]
28
- Tomás Altamirano Mantovani, 49, Panamanian politician, National Assembly deputy, traffic accident.[314]
- Mark H. Beers, 54, American geriatrician, complications from diabetes.[315]
- Ode Burrell, 69, American football player (Houston Oilers), complications from diabetes.[316]
- Paul Harvey, 90, American radio broadcaster.[317]
- Johnny Holiday, 96, American actor.[318][better source needed]
- Alvin Klein, 73, American theater critic, heart attack.[319]
- Manila, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse, aortic ring rupture.[320]
- Miguel Serrano, 91, Chilean poet, diplomat and neo-Nazi, stroke.[321]
- Richard A. Sofio, 62, American politician and former member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1987 to 1990.[322]
- Tom Sturdivant, 78, American baseball player (New York Yankees).[323]
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