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The following is a list of deaths in July 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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July 2009
1
- Alexis Argüello, 57, Nicaraguan former triple world champion boxer and politician, mayor of Managua, suspected suicide by gunshot.[1]
- Marwa El-Sherbini, 31, Egyptian pharmacist and vilification victim, stabbed.[2]
- Karl Malden, 97, American actor (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, The Streets of San Francisco), Oscar winner (1952).[3]
- Anna Karen Morrow, 94, American actress (Peyton Place), natural causes.[4]
- John Henry Moss, 90, American baseball executive (South Atlantic League), mayor of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.[5]
- Onni Palaste, 91, Finnish soldier and writer, Winter War veteran, natural causes.[6]
- David Pears, 87, British philosopher.[7]
- Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer.[8]
- Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court.[9]
- Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), heart failure.[10]
- Rupert Thorneloe, 39, British soldier, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, improvised explosive device.[11]
- Norman Welton, 81, American journalist, photo editor for the Associated Press, colon cancer.[12]
- Jean Yoyotte, 81, French Egyptologist.[13]
- Lyudmila Zykina, 80, Russian singer, Hero of Socialist Labor, cardiac arrest.[14]
2
- Adésio, 76, Brazilian footballer.[15]
- Pasquale Borgomeo, 76, Vatican director of Radio Vatican, after long illness.[16]
- Steve Brennan, 57, Irish-born American reporter and editor (The Hollywood Reporter), cancer.[17]
- M. K. Chandrashekaran, 71, Indian zoologist, after brief illness.[18]
- Susan Fernandez, 52, Filipina activist and singer, ovarian cancer.[19]
- Kaj Hansen, 68, Danish football player.[20]
- Martin Hengel, 82, German theologian.[21]
- Colin Hillman, 46, Welsh rugby player and coach, pancreatic cancer.[22]
- Herb Klein, 91, American journalist, White House Communications Director for President Richard Nixon.[23]
- Tyeb Mehta, 83, Indian painter, heart attack.[24]
- David Morley, 86, British paediatrician.[25]
- James Oluleye, 79, Nigerian army general and politician.[26]
- Robert Daniel Potter, 86, American judge, member of the District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (1981–1994).[27]
- Petro Ruçi, 52, Albanian football player (Flamurtari, national team).[28]
- Bert Schneider, 71, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle racer.[29]
- Clyde Shugart, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins), stroke.[30]
- Robert E. L. Taylor, 96, American publisher and chairman of the Philadelphia Bulletin.[31]
3
- Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorian poet and writer.[32]
- Alauddin Al-Azad, 77, Bangladeshi author, natural causes.[33]
- John Barry, 84, American president and CEO of WD-40, pulmonary fibrosis.[34]
- John Blackburn, 84, American administrator (University of Alabama), myelodysplastic syndrome.[35]
- Frank Devine, 77, New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor, after long illness.[36]
- Charles K. Eastman, 79, American screenwriter and script doctor, heart disease.[37]
- Gabriel Fino Noriega, 42, Honduran journalist, shot.[38]
- E. J. Josey, 85, American librarian and civil rights activist, natural causes.[39]
- John Keel, 79, American ufologist and writer (The Mothman Prophecies), heart failure.[40]
- Barbara Margolis, 79, American prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter for New York City, cancer.[41]
- Victor Smorgon, 96, Ukrainian-born Australian industrialist, natural causes.[42]
4
- Jean-Pierre Aguilar, 48, French entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Capital Fund Management, gliding accident.[43]
- Jim Chapin, 89, American jazz drummer.[44]
- Robert E. Hopkins, 94, American optical engineer.[45]
- Brenda Joyce, 92, American actress (Tarzan and the Amazons).[46]
- Béla Király, 97, Hungarian general and historian, natural causes.[47]
- Allen Klein, 77, American businessman, Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, Alzheimer's disease.[48]
- Drake Levin, 62, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders), cancer.[49]
- Robert Louis-Dreyfus, 63, French-born Swiss billionaire, leukemia.[50]
- Steve McNair, 36, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens), shot.[51]
- Hugh Millais, 79, British actor and adventurer.[52]
- Robert Mitchell, 96, American organist, pneumonia.[53]
- Khan Mohammad, 81, Pakistani cricketer, prostate cancer.[54]
- Leo Mol, 94, Ukrainian-born Canadian sculptor.[55]
- Lasse Strömstedt, 74, Swedish writer.[56]
- Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, 70, Congolese politician, Minister of State.[57]
- Laurence Villiers, 7th Earl of Clarendon, 76, British aristocrat.[58]
5
- John Bachar, 52, American rock climber, fall.[59]
- Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker, 86, British diplomat and politician, MP for Blackpool South (1964–1992), pneumonia.[60]
- Lou Creekmur, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[61]
- Alfonso de Andrés, 71, Spanish Olympic athlete.[62]
- Takeo Doi, 89, Japanese psychoanalyst.[63]
- Harry Elliot, 89, British space scientist.[64]
- Alfred John Ellory, 89, British flautist.[65]
- Mihai Iacob, 76, Romanian film director.[66]
- Naomi Lewis, 97, British poet.[67]
- Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, 95, British politician, MP for Poole (1964–1979).[68]
- John Orman, 60, American professor and politician, self-appointed chairman of Connecticut for Lieberman party.[69]
- Bob Titchenal, 91, American football player and coach.[70]
- Waldo Von Erich, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, fall.[71]
6
- Vasily Aksyonov, 76, Russian novelist, stroke.[72]
- Mihai Baicu, 33, Romanian footballer, heart attack.[73]
- Patrick Tracy Burris, 41, American criminal, suspected South Carolina spree killer, shot.[74]
- Rene Capo, 48, Cuban-born American Olympic judoka (1988, 1996), lung cancer.[75]
- Johnny Collins, 71, British folk singer.[76]
- Marlon Green, 80, American pilot.[77]
- Oscar G. Mayer Jr., 95, American business executive (Oscar Mayer).[78]
- Robert McNamara, 93, American business executive, Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), natural causes.[79]
- Mathieu Montcourt, 24, French tennis player, cardiac arrest.[80]
- Jim Reid, 75, British folk musician, after short illness.[81]
- Robert L. Short, 76, American theologian (The Gospel According to Peanuts).[82]
- Martin Streek, 45, Canadian disc jockey, suspected suicide.[83]
- Bleddyn Williams, 86, British rugby player, captain of Wales and British Lions, after long illness.[84]
7
- Anabaa, 17, American Thoroughbred racehorse, peritonitis after undergoing surgery from colic.[85]
- Mikhail Bachvarov, 73, Bulgarian Olympic sprinter.[86]
- Richard Reader Harris, 96, British businessman and politician, MP for Heston and Isleworth (1950–1970).[87]
- John Marshall, 77, American sculptor.[88]
8
- John Fairey, 74, English aviator, plane crash.[89]
- Harry Gray, 89, American CEO and chairman of United Technologies Corporation.[90]
- Bertha Hertogh, 72, Dutch woman whose adoption led to ethnic riots in Singapore in 1950, leukemia.[91]
- Robert Isabell, 57, American event planner, heart attack.[92]
- Edward Kenna, 90, Australian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross.[93]
- Judi Ann Mason, 54, American screenwriter, television producer (Good Times) and playwright, aortic dissection.[94]
- Waldo McBurney, 106, American beekeeper, oldest worker in the United States.[95]
- Nelson Munsey, 61, American football player (Baltimore Colts), heart disease.[96]
- Edgar O'Ballance, 90, British military historian.[97]
- Lou Pagliaro, 90, American table tennis player, national champion (1940–1942, 1952).[98]
- Yury Shlyapin, 77, Russian water polo player, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).[99]
9
- William C. Conner, 89, American federal judge (District Court for the Southern District of New York).[100]
- Magomed Gadaborshev, Russian Colonel, Head of Ingushetia Forensics and Investigations Center, shot.[101]
- George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, 91, British Army officer, patron of military charities and artist.[102]
- Jessie Hollins, 39, American baseball player, drowned.[103]
- Ron Kennedy, 56, Canadian ice hockey player and trainer, brain cancer.[104]
- Frank Mickens, 63, American educator, natural causes.[105]
- Kinuthia Murugu, Kenyan Permanent Secretary, shot.[106]
- Henri Verbrugghe, 79, Belgian Olympic canoer.[107]
10
- John Caldwell, 71, Irish boxer, Olympic medalist (1956), world bantamweight champion (1961–1962), cancer.[108]
- Sir Edward Downes, 85, British conductor, assisted suicide.[109]
- Ebba Haslund, 91, Norwegian author.[110]
- Jack B. Horner, 87, American politician.[111]
- Patrick J. McManus, 54, American politician, Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts (1992–2001).[112]
- Frank Seipelt, 48, German Olympic weightlifter (1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympics), motor vehicle accident.[113]
- Edward Durell Stone Jr., 76, American landscape architect.[114]
- Zena Marshall, 83, Kenyan-born British actress (Dr. No), after short illness.[115]
11
- Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, 69, Spanish woman believed to be world's oldest mother, cancer.[116]
- Manuel Carrascalão, 75, East Timorese politician, cerebral embolism.[117]
- Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, 68, Australian child molester, multiple organ failure.[118]
- Reg Fleming, 73, Canadian hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[119]
- Arturo Gatti, 37, Canadian boxer, strangulation.[120]
- Paul Hemphill, 73, American author, throat cancer.[121]
- Ji Xianlin, 97, Chinese linguist, paleographer, historian and writer, heart attack.[122]
- Lawyer Ron, 6, American Thoroughbred racehorse, complications after colic surgery.[123]
- Mark Mandala, 72, American television executive, president of ABC (1986–1994), heart attack.[124]
- Žan Marolt, 44, Bosnia-Herzegovinian actor.[125]
- Geraint Owen, 43, British actor, cerebral haemorrhage.[126]
- Cecil Smith, 92, American television and drama critic, journalist, screenwriter, television host, and World War II bomber pilot, congestive heart failure.[127]
12
- Doris Barr, 87, Canadian baseball player, original member of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[128]
- Charles N. Brown, 72, American founding editor of Locus magazine.[129]
- Vinod Chaubey, 49, Indian police officer, shot in the Rajnandgaon ambush.[130]
- Tommy Cummings, 80, British football player (Burnley F.C.).[131]
- James Klass, 43, British DJ, colon cancer.[132]
- Donald MacCormick, 70, British television journalist, heart attack.[133]
- Shesha Palihakkara, 81, Sri Lankan dancer, actor and producer.[134]
- Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland, 67, British politician and barrister, MEP (1979–1994), pulmonary embolism.[135]
- S. G. Sender, 78, Belgian pastry chef, after long illness.[136]
- Pavel Smeyan, 52, Russian singer and actor, cancer.[137]
- Nikola Stanchev, 78, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist.[138]
- Simon Vinkenoog, 80, Dutch poet and writer.[139]
- Jane Weinberger, 91, American author, widow of Caspar Weinberger, stroke.[140]
13
- Uma Aaltonen, 68, Finnish author, journalist and politician.[141]
- Amin al-Hafez, 83, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister (1973).[142]
- Giuseppe Alessi, 103, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1947–1949, 1955–1956).[143]
- Robert Cushman, 62, American photograph curator (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).[144]
- Neil Munro, 62, Canadian director, actor and playwright, after long illness.[145]
- Nilu Phule, 79, Indian Marathi and Hindi film actor, esophageal cancer.[146]
- Vince Powell, 80, British scriptwriter (Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language).[147]
- Beverly Roberts, 96, American actress, natural causes.[148]
- Don Schneider, 86, American football player (Buffalo Bills).[149]
- Dash Snow, 27, American artist, heroin overdose.[150]
14
- Pat Brady, 82, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), lymphoma.[151]
- Lucio Ceccarini, 78, Italian water polo player.[152]
- Sam Church, 72, American labor leader (UMWA), complications of surgery.[153]
- Joe DiGangi, 94, American bullpen catcher (New York Yankees), natural causes.[154]
- John Fautenberry, 46, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[155]
- Phyllis Gotlieb, 83, Canadian science fiction author,[156]
- Christopher Hipp, 47, American inventor (blade server) and entrepreneur, suspected embolism.[157]
- Dallas McKennon, 89, American actor and voice actor (Gumby, Buzz Buzzard, Archie Andrews), natural causes.[158]
- Kujtim Majaci, 47, Albanian footballer, heart attack.[159]
- Heinrich Schweiger, 77, Austrian actor, cardiovascular disease.[160]
- Muzaffer Tokaç, 86, Turkish footballer.[161]
- Jean Sommeng Vorachak, 76, Laotian Apostolic Vicar of Savannakhet.[162]
- Bill Young, 95, New Zealand politician and diplomat.[163]
- Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, 74, Polish actor and director.[164]
15
- Avraham Ahituv, 78, German-born Israeli intelligence chief, Director of the Shin Bet (1974–1980).[165]
- Khursheed Kamal Aziz, 81, Pakistani historian.[166]
- Seddon Bennington, 61, New Zealand chief executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, hypothermia.[167]
- Jacques de Champlain, 71, Canadian medical researcher, heart attack.[168]
- Levon Davidian, 65, Iranian psychiatrist and politician, member of the parliament of Iran (2000-2004), plane crash.[169]
- Adama Drabo, 75-76, Malian filmmaker and playwright.[170]
- Natalya Estemirova, 51, Russian human rights activist in Chechnya and Ingushetia, shot.[171]
- Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, 78, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) sprint canoeist.[172]
- Brian Goodwin, 78, Canadian mathematician, fall from a bicycle.[173]
- Julius Shulman, 98, American architectural photographer.[174]
16
- Joseph Henry Burgess, 62, American fugitive and murderer, gunshot wounds.[175]
- Thomas Dao, 88, Chinese-born American physician, expert in breast cancer treatment, Pick's Disease.[176]
- Leslie Fernandez, 91, British WW2 Special Forces saboteur and trainer of Violette Szabó.[177]
- Charles Gonthier, 80, Canadian jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1989–2003).[178]
- Maurice Grimaud, 95, French police chief of Paris during the 1968 student uprising.[179]
- Otto Heino, 94, American ceramicist and potter, acute renal failure.[180]
- Jerry Holland, 54, American-born Canadian fiddler and composer, cancer.[181]
- Paulo Lopes de Faria, 78, Brazilian archbishop of Diamantina.[182]
- Bud Marshall, 67, American football player.[183]
- D. K. Pattammal, 90, Indian Carnatic singer, after short illness.[184]
- Angelo Rizzo, 83, Italian archbishop of Ragusa.[185]
- Ashraf W. Tabani, 79, Pakistani businessman and politician, Governor of Sindh (1987–1988).[186]
- Yury Verlinsky, 65, Russian medical researcher, colorectal cancer.[187]
17
- Meir Amit, 88, Israeli major general and politician.[188]
- Gordon Burn, 61, British writer, cancer.[189]
- Walter Cronkite, 92, American television news anchor, cerebrovascular disease.[190]
- Richard H. Hall, 78, American ufologist, colon cancer.[191]
- Vladimir Ilyin, 81, Soviet football player.[192]
- Jim Kirby, 86, American baseball player.[193]
- Leszek Kołakowski, 81, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas and essayist.[194]
- Jean Margéot, 93, Mauritian cardinal.[195]
- Gordon Waller, 64, British singer (Peter and Gordon), cardiac arrest.[196]
18
- Henry Allingham, 113, British supercentenarian, world's oldest man and World War I veteran.[197]
- Annagul Annakuliyeva, 84, Turkmen opera singer and actress.[198]
- Jill Balcon, 84, British actress, widow of Cecil Day-Lewis and mother of Daniel Day-Lewis, brain tumour.[199]
- Yasmine Belmadi, 33, French actor, traffic collision.[200]
- Lionel Casson, 94, American professor of Classics (New York University), author on ancient maritime history, pneumonia.[201]
- Roberta Hill, 73, American obsessed cinephile.[202]
- Ricardo Londoño, 59, Colombian racing driver, shot.[203]
- Denis Redman, 99, British army general.[204]
- Steven Rothenberg, 50, American studio executive (Lions Gate Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment), stomach cancer.[205]
- Graham Stanton, 69, New Zealand-born British theologian.[206]
- Robert Uffen, 85, Canadian geophysicist.[207]
- Joel Weisman, 66, American physician and pioneer in AIDS detection, heart disease.[208]
19
- Sue Burns, 58, American businesswoman, principal owner of the San Francisco Giants, lung cancer.[209]
- Alan Garnett Davenport, 76, Canadian engineer.[210]
- Karen Harup, 84, Danish swimmer, Olympic champion (1948).[211]
- Ingeborg Hunzinger, 94, German sculptor.[212]
- Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American author (Angela's Ashes), melanoma.[213]
- Gilberto Mestrinho, 81, Brazilian Governor of Amazonas (1959–1963, 1983–1987, 1991–1995), lung cancer.[214]
- Cecil Mountford, 90, New Zealand rugby league player and coach.[215]
- Frank Rickwood, 88, Australian oil executive.[216]
- Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes.[217]
- Ray Shaw, 75, American journalist and work (American City Business Journals), complications from a wasp sting.[218]
- Bryan Stanley, 83, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union.[219]
- Henry Surtees, 18, British racing driver, Formula Two race accident.[220]
- Ebbe Wallén, 92, Swedish Olympic bobsledder.[221]
20
- Gene Amondson, 65, American politician, Prohibition Party nominee for U.S. President, stroke.[222]
- Gretel Bolliger, 87, Swiss Olympic athlete Gretel Bolliger
- Ria Brieffies, 52, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots), lung cancer.[223]
- Edward T. Hall, 95, American anthropologist.[224]
- Bobby Knoxall, 75, British comedian.[225]
- Vedat Okyar, 64, Turkish journalist and footballer (Beşiktaş J.K.), colorectal cancer.[226]
- Stan Polley, 87, American music manager.
- H. James Starr, 78, American politician.[227]
- Paul Fouad Tabet, 79, Lebanese archbishop, Nuncio to Greece (1996–2005).[228]
- Gösta Werner, 101, Swedish film director.[229]
- Carl Willey, 78, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets), lung cancer.[230]
21
- Stacy Barnett, 22, American murder victim.
- John Dawson, 64, American musician (New Riders of the Purple Sage), stomach cancer.[231]
- Armando del Moral, 93, Spanish-born American film journalist, natural causes.[232]
- Nelson Demarco, 84, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1952, 1956).[233]
- Heinz Edelmann, 75, Czech-born German illustrator and designer, heart disease and renal failure.[234]
- Gidget, 15, American chihuahua, Taco Bell mascot, stroke.[235]
- John Goosey, 21, American murder victim.
- Gangubai Hangal, 96, Indian Hindustani classical singer, cardiac arrest.[236]
- Marcel Jacob, 45, Swedish musician, suicide.[237]
- Yoshinori Kanada, 57, Japanese animator (My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky), heart attack.[238]
- Les Lye, 84, Canadian actor and broadcaster (You Can't Do That on Television).[239]
- Hiroshi Wakasugi, 74, Japanese orchestra conductor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[240]
22
- Howard Engle, 89, American pediatrician, lead plaintiff in landmark tobacco lawsuit, lymphoma.[241]
- Richard M. Givan, 88, American judge, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1969–1994).[242]
- Peter Krieg, 61, German documentary filmmaker.[243]
- Mark Leduc, 47, Canadian boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1992), heat stroke.[244]
- Herbert Morris, 94, American rower, Olympic gold medalist (1936).[245]
- Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.[246]
- Billy Parks, 61, American football player, melanoma.[247]
- Lynn Pressman Raymond, 97, American president of Pressman Toy Corporation.[248]
- John Ryan, 88, British cartoonist (Captain Pugwash).[249]
- Damian Steele, 33, American professional wrestler, brain aneurysm.[250]
- Aygyl Tajiyeva, 64, Turkmen politician and opposition activist, stroke.[251]
23
- Virginia Carroll, 95, American actress and model, natural causes.[252]
- E. Lynn Harris, 54, American author.[253]
- Conyers Herring, 94, American physicist.[254]
- Talis Kitsing, 33, Estonian reality TV star.[255]
- Danny McBride, 63, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sha Na Na), natural causes.[256]
- Duse Nacaratti, 67, Brazilian actress, respiratory failure.[257]
- Thomas N. Schroth, 88, American editor (Congressional Quarterly), founder of The National Journal, heart failure.[258]
24
- José Carlos da Costa Araújo, 47, Brazilian goalkeeper, reserve at 1990 World Cup, abdominal cancer.[259]
- Omar Dani, 85, Indonesian Commander of the National Air Force (1962–1965).[260]
- Friedrich Goldmann, 68, German composer and conductor.[261]
- Austin Gresham, 84, British pathologist.[262]
- G. Alexander Heard, 92, American presidential advisor, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1963–1982).[263]
- John Panton, 92, Scottish golfer.[264]
- Sir Edward Peck, 93, British diplomat, Permanent Representative to NATO (1970–1975).[265]
- Harry Towb, 83, British actor, cancer.[266]
25
- Yasmin Ahmad, 51, Malaysian film director, brain hemorrhage.[267]
- Rick Bryan, 47, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack.[268]
- Gladys Bustamante, 97, Jamaican trade unionist and activist, wife of Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante.[269]
- Alexis Cohen, 25, American singer, American Idol contestant, hit-and-run.[270]
- Vernon Forrest, 38, American former world welterweight and super welterweight (light middleweight) champion boxer, shot.[271]
- Gerald Gardner, 83, Irish-born American mathematician, evidence led to ban on sex-segregated classified advertising. leukemia.[272]
- Erling Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian Olympic cyclist.[273]
- Ken Major, 80, British architect.[274]
- Stanley Middleton, 89, British author, cancer.[275]
- Harry Patch, 111, British supercentenarian, fourth-last surviving World War I veteran.[276]
- Lorrie Pickering, 90, New Zealand politician.[277]
- Sarath Ranawaka, 58, Sri Lankan politician, after short illness.[278]
26
- John Brockway, 80, British swimmer.[279]
- Traugott Buhre, 80, German actor.[280]
- Bhaskar Chandavarkar, 73, Indian sitarist and composer, cancer.[281]
- Merce Cunningham, 90, American choreographer, natural causes.[282]
- Richard Ferguson, 73, British barrister, Queen's Counsel for Northern Ireland and former politician.[283]
- Clayton Hill, 78, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth), complications from pneumonia.[284]
- Lois Hunt, 84, American lyric soprano, complications from cardiac surgery.[285]
- Marcey Jacobson, 97, American photographer of indigenous peoples in Mexico, heart failure.[286]
- Jim King, 69, American politician, Florida state senator since 1999, pancreatic cancer.[287]
- Maria Sílvia, 65, Brazilian actress, lung cancer.[288]
- Michael Steinberg, 80, American musicologist.[289]
- Sérgio Viotti, 82, Brazilian actor, cardiac arrest.[290]
- Jerry Yanover, 62, Canadian political advisor.[291]
27
- Bernadette Cozart, 60, American gardener, urban gardening advocate, heart attack.[292]
- Dick Holub, 87, American basketball player (NY Knicks) and coach (FDU).[293]
- Lars Käll, 75, Swedish Olympic sailor.[294]
- Domingos Lam, 81, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop of Macau.[295]
- Joseph C. Muren, 73, American Mormon general authority.[296]
- Lee Orr, 92, Canadian Olympic athlete.[297]
- Luis Quintana, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player (California Angels), natural causes.[298]
- George Russell, 86, American jazz composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[299]
- Larry Siemering, 98, American college football head coach, complications from a fall.[300]
- Sybil, 3, British Downing Street cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office (2007–2008), after short illness.[301]
- Aeronwy Thomas, 66, British translator and writer, daughter of Dylan Thomas, cancer.[302]
- Michaël Zeeman, 50, Dutch literary critic, journalist, poet and writer, brain cancer.[303]
28
- Stelios Georgousopoulos, 43, Greek Olympian windsurfer, illness.[304]
- Bob Hahn, 83, American basketball player.[305]
- Hermann J. Huber, 54, German journalist and writer, heart attack.[306]
- Reverend Ike, 74, American evangelist, stroke.[307]
- Jim Johnson, 68, American football coach (Philadelphia Eagles), melanoma.[308]
- Kaori Kawamura, 38, Japanese singer, breast cancer.[309]
- Brian Mears, 78, British Chairman of Chelsea Football Club (1969–1991).[310]
- Leela Naidu, 69, Indian actress, Miss India (1954), after long illness.[311]
- Tony Rosenthal, 94, American sculptor, stroke.[312]
- William G. Tapply, 69, American writer, leukemia,[313]
- Peter Tahourdin, 80, British-born Australian composer.[314]
- Yukio Yamaji, 25, Japanese serial killer, execution by hanging.
29
- Remi Abiola, 57, Nigerian actress, cancer.[315]
- Dina Babbitt, 86, Czech-born American artist and Holocaust survivor, abdominal cancer.[316]
- Rajan P. Dev, 58, Indian actor, after short illness.[317]
- Gayatri Devi, 90, Indian royal, last Maharani of Jaipur (1939–1970), paralytic ileus.[318]
- Steve Fiorilla, 48, American artist.[319]
- Joanne Jordan, 88, American actress and spokesmodel, Parkinson's disease.[320]
- Ernest W. Lefever, 89, American foreign policy expert, founder of Ethics and Public Policy Center, dementia with Lewy bodies.[321]
- Paul McGrillen, 37, Scottish footballer (Motherwell F.C.).[322]
- Olga A. Méndez, 84, American politician, New York State Senator (1978–2004), breast cancer.[323]
- Steven Miessner, 48, American Academy Awards administrator, heart attack.[324]
- Hideaki Motoyama, 40, Japanese Olympic badminton player.[325]
- Renato Pagliari, 69, Italian-born British singer (Renée and Renato), brain cancer.[326]
- Edward Richardson, 79, Australian cricketer.[327]
- Zhuo Lin, 93, Chinese consultant, widow of Deng Xiaoping.[328]
30
- Zahirul Islam Abbasi, 66, Pakistani general.[329]
- Kola Abdulai, 62, Nigerian Olympic sprinter.[330]
- Renato Izzo, 80, Italian actor, voice actor and screenwriter.[331]
- Yuri Kurnenin, 55, Belarusian football player and coach.[332]
- Joy Langan, 66, Canadian politician, MP for Mission—Coquitlam (1988–1993), breast cancer.[333]
- Yoshihisa Maitani, 76, Japanese camera designer.[334]
- Mohammed Yusuf, 39, Nigerian sect leader, shot.[335]
- Peter Zadek, 83, German stage director, film director and screenwriter, illness.[336]
31
- Sir Edward Archdale, 87, British Royal Navy officer.[337]
- John Donnelly, 72, Scottish footballer (Celtic, Preston North End).[338]
- Tim Guest, 34, British writer, suspected heart attack.[339]
- David Hawkes, 86, British sinologist.[340]
- Chris Humphries, 62, British botanist.[341]
- Ted Nierenberg, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Dansk International Designs, pancreatic cancer.[342]
- Sir Bobby Robson, 76, British footballer and manager, lung cancer.[343]
- Jean-Paul Roussillon, 78, French actor.[344]
- Harry Alan Towers, 88, British film producer and screenwriter, after short illness.[345]
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