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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2007.
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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November 2007
1
- Sonny Bupp, 79, American child actor (Our Gang, Citizen Kane), last surviving credited cast member of Citizen Kane.[1]
- Troy Lee James, 83, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–2000).[2][3]
- Edith Motridge, 94, American Olympic backstroke swimmer.[4]
- S. Ali Raza, 85, Indian Bollywood screenwriter, heart failure.[5]
- Paul Tibbets, 92, American pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, heart failure.[6]
- Paul Woods, 57, British rugby union and rugby league player.[7]
2
- Oreste Benzi, 82, Italian Roman Catholic priest.[8]
- Henry Cele, 66, South African actor (Shaka Zulu) and soccer player.[9]
- Charmaine Dragun, 29, Australian television news presenter, apparent suicide by jumping.[10]
- The Fabulous Moolah, 84, American professional wrestler.[11][12]
- Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, 91, British soldier and courtier, Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps (1972–1981).[13]
- Don Freeland, 82, American racecar driver (Indianapolis 500).[14]
- Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka, 23, Polish drummer (Decapitated), injuries from bus crash.[15]
- Igor Moiseyev, 101, Russian choreographer, heart failure.[16]
- Jean Pierre Reguerraz, 68, Argentine actor.[17]
- Reay Tannahill, 77, British food historian and novelist.[18]
- S.P. Thamilselvan, 40, Sri Lankan leader of Tamil Tigers, air strike.[19]
- John Petersen, 65, Drummer for The Beau Brummels and Harpers Bizarre, Heart Attack.
3
- Peter Andren, 61, Australian independent MP, pancreatic cancer.[20][21]
- Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville, 78, French-born British Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham (1982–1999).[22]
- Aleksandr Dedyushko, 45, Russian actor, car crash.[23]
- Marilyn Martinez, 52, American stand-up comedian, colon cancer.[24]
- Donald Matthews, 82, American political scientist and author.[25]
- Martin Meehan, 62, Northern Irish republican, later Sinn Féin activist, heart attack.[26]
- Mary Walker Phillips, 83, American textile artist, Alzheimer's disease.[27]
- George Ratterman, 80, American professional football player (Cleveland Browns), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[28]
- Ryan Shay, 28, American long-distance runner, heart attack during Olympic marathon trials.[29]
4
- Edward Bartels, 82, American basketball player.[30]
- Cyprian Ekwensi, 86, Nigerian author.[31]
- Swami Gahanananda, 91, Bangladeshi religious leader, 14th President of the Ramakrishna Order.[32]
- Hideo Hagiwara, 94, Japanese painter.[33][34]
- Dorothy LaBostrie, 79, American songwriter ("Tutti Frutti").[35][36][37]
- Karl Rebane, 81, Estonian scientist.[38]
- Lennart Rönnback, 102, Finnish veteran of the Finnish Civil War, last of the White Guard.[39]
- Peter Viertel, 86, German-born American author and screenwriter.[40]
5
- Andrea Aureli, 84, Italian actor.[41]
- Roberto Bortoluzzi, 86, Italian sports journalist and radio broadcaster.[42]
- James Brabazon, 84, British author, lung cancer.[43]
- Thelma Buchholdt, 73, Filipino-born American author and politician, pancreatic cancer.[44]
- Nils Liedholm, 85, Swedish football midfielder and coach.[45]
- Paul Norris, 93, American comic book artist, co-creator of Aquaman.[46]
- Paul Soloway, 66, American five-time world bridge champion, complications of infection.[47]
6
- Enzo Biagi, 87, Italian journalist.[48]
- Hilda Braid, 78, British actress (EastEnders, Citizen Smith).[49]
- John Grenier, 77, American politician, former executive director of the Republican National Committee.[50]
- George Grljusich, 68, Australian sports broadcaster, lung cancer.[51]
- Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, 47-48, Afghan politician, former commerce minister, victim of Baghlan factory bombing.[52]
- Fred W. McDarrah, 81, American photographer (Village Voice), documented the rise of the Beat Generation.[53]
- George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family.[54]
- Jimmy Staggs, 72, American radio disk jockey, esophageal cancer.[55]
- Hank Thompson, 82, American country music singer, lung cancer.[56][57]
- Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif, 64-65, Afghan politician and businessman, victim of Baghlan factory bombing.[52]
7
- Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, Finnish mass murderer, suicide by gunshot.[58]
- Hobart Brown, 74, American sculptor, founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, pneumonia.[59]
- Earl Dodge, 74, American presidential candidate (Prohibition Party), heart attack.[60]
- Paul Dojack, 93, Canadian Football League referee.[61]
- George W. George, 87, American Broadway and film producer (My Dinner With Andre), Parkinson's disease.[62]
- Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch, 100, German-American geneticist.[63]
- Petr Haničinec, 77, Czech actor.[64]
- Arthur Hezlet, 93, British Royal Navy Vice-Admiral, submariner and naval historian.[65]
- Lidia Ivanova, 71, Russian TV journalist, announcer and writer, diabetes.[66]
- Alejandra Meyer, 70, Mexican telenovela actress, heart failure.[67]
8
- John Arpin, 70, Canadian pianist and composer, cancer.[68]
- Stephen Fumio Hamao, 77, Japanese Roman Catholic cardinal, former bishop of Yokohama, lung cancer.[69]
- Bobby Harrop, 71, English footballer (Manchester United).[70]
- Donald R. Herriott, 79, American physicist.[71]
- Francine Parker, 81, American film director (FTA), heart failure.[72]
- Dulce Saguisag, 64, Filipino politician, former Secretary of Department of Social Welfare and Development, car accident.[73]
- Motosuke Takahashi, 66, Japanese film director and storyboard artist, lung cancer.[74]
- David G. P. Taylor, 74, British businessman and public official, Governor of Montserrat (1990–1993).[75]
- Bungo Tsuda, 89, Japanese politician, former governor of Kanagawa Prefecture, colorectal cancer.[76]
- Chad Varah, 95, British Anglican priest, founder of the Samaritans.[77]
9
- Helen H. Bacon, 88, American classical scholar.[78]
- Luis Herrera Campins, 82, Venezuelan President (1979–1984), after long illness.[79]
- Lorraine Fisher, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[80]
- Bill Hosokawa, 92, Japanese American author and journalist.[81]
- Ilya Zbarsky, 94, Russian head of Lenin's Mausoleum.[82]
10
- Laraine Day, 87, American actress (Foreign Correspondent, The High and the Mighty).[83]
- John Fee, 43, Northern Irish nationalist politician (SDLP), brain tumour.[84]
- Augustus F. Hawkins, 100, American member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California (1963–1991).[85]
- Norman Mailer, 84, American Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song), renal failure.[86]
- John H. Noble, 84, American prisoner in Russian gulag and author (I Was a Slave in Russia), heart attack.[87]
- Sir John Stanier, 82, British Army field marshal, Chief of the General Staff (1982–1985).[88]
- Donda West, 58, American Professor and Mother of Kanye West, coronary artery disease.[89]
11
- Rob Frost, 57, English Christian Evangelist, skin cancer, liver failure.[90]
- Anders Hald, 94, Danish statistician.[91]
- Yukio Hayashida, 91, Japanese politician (House of Councillors), governor of Kyoto, Minister of Justice, heart failure.[92]
- Kojiro Kusanagi, 78, Japanese actor, interstitial lung disease.[93][94]
- Berkeley Lent, 86, American judge on the Oregon Supreme Court, heart attack.[95]
- Delbert Mann, 87, American film director (Marty, Separate Tables, The Bachelor Party), Oscar winner (1956), pneumonia.[96]
- Dick Nolan, 75, American NFL player and coach (San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints), father of 49ers coach Mike Nolan.[97]
- Omwony Ojwok, 60, Ugandan politician, former minister, heart failure.[98]
- Margarito Pomposo, 96–97, Mexican Olympic long-distance runner.[99]
- Tadahiro Sekimoto, 80, Japanese electronics engineer and business executive, former president and chairman of NEC, stroke.[100]
- Trish Williamson, 52, British TV-am weather presenter and producer, car crash.[101]
12
- Ferdinando Baldi, 80, Italian screenwriter, film director and producer.[102]
- Louis Galen, 82, American philanthropist and banker, heart failure.[103]
- Ying Hope, 84, Chinese Canadian politician.[104]
- Khanmohammed Ibrahim, 88, Indian test cricketer.[105]
- Vijay Kumar Khandelwal, 71, Indian parliamentarian.[106]
- Piet Koornhof, 82, South African politician, former minister and ambassador.[107]
- Ira Levin, 78, American author (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) and playwright (Deathtrap), heart attack.[108]
- Tinius Nagell-Erichsen, 73, Norwegian publisher (Aftenposten and Verdens Gang).[109]
- Janlavyn Narantsatsralt, 50, Mongolian Prime Minister (1998–1999), car crash.[110]
- A. Palanisamy, 74, Indian volleyball player.[111]
- Peter "Cool Man" Steiner, 90, Swiss musician and entertainer, fall.[112]
- Lester Ziffren, 101, American reporter during Spanish Civil War, screenwriter and diplomat, heart failure.[113]
13
- Wahab Akbar, 47, Filipino politician, representative for Basilan province, victim of 2007 Batasang Pambansa bombing.[114]
- Harold J. Berman, 89, American Harvard Law School professor (1948–1985).[115]
- Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, 87, British peer and former Northern Ireland Senator.[116][117]
- John Doherty, 72, British football player for Manchester United (1952–1957) and Busby Babe.[118]
- Hugh Gibbons, 91, Irish parliamentarian and Gaelic football player.[119]
- Tony Harris, 36, American basketball player (Washington State Cougars), possible suicide by hanging.[120]
- Kazuhisa Inao, 70, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player for the Nishitetsu Lions (1956–1969), cancer.[121]
- Erik Kurmangaliev, 48, Russian-Kazakh opera singer, liver disease.[122]
- Sir John Loveridge, 82, British MP (1970–1983).[123]
- Robert Taylor, 59, American 4 × 100 m relay gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, cardiac arrhythmia.[124]
- Monty Westmore, 84, American makeup artist (Hook, Jurassic Park, Star Trek: First Contact).[125]
- Peter Zinner, 88, American film editor (The Deer Hunter, The Godfather, An Officer and a Gentlemen), Oscar winner (1979).[126]
14
- Michael Blodgett, 68, American actor and screenwriter (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), heart attack.[127]
- Ronnie Burns, 72, American actor, adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, cancer.[128]
- Hila Elmalich, 34, Israeli fashion model, anorexia nervosa.[129]
- Bertha Fry, 113, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world, pneumonia.[130][131]
- David Oppenheim, 85, American clarinetist, television producer and academic administrator (Tisch School of the Arts).[132]
- Yadav Pant, 82, Nepalese economist and politician.[133]
- Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla, 88, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic Bishop of Juigalpa.[134]
15
- John Cross Jr, 82, American pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, stroke.[135]
- Sergio del Valle Jiménez, 80, Cuban general and politician, former Army Chief of Staff and minister.[136]
- Domokos Kosáry, 94, Hungarian historian, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990–1996).[137]
- Audrey McCall, 92, American activist, First Lady of Oregon (1967–1975), widow of former Governor Tom McCall, complications from a fall.[138]
- Lauren S. McCready, 92, American admiral, pioneer of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, heart failure.[139]
- Joe Nuxhall, 79, American Major League Baseball pitcher and broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds, cancer.[140]
- George Van Meter, 75, American Olympic cyclist.[141]
16
- Harold Alfond, 93, American businessman and philanthropist.[142]
- Gene H. Golub, 75, American mathematician and computer scientist, myeloid leukemia.[143][144]
- Pierre Granier-Deferre, 80, French film director.[145]
- Grethe Kausland, 60, Norwegian actress and singer, lung cancer.[146][147]
- Patrick F. Kelly, 78, American federal judge.[148]
- Trond Kirkvaag, 61, Norwegian comedian, cancer.[149]
- Don Metz, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[150]
- Jerry Meyers, 53, American professional football player (Chicago Bears, Kansas City Chiefs).[151]
- James Daniel Niedergeses, 90, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville (1975–1992), hemorrhage.[152]
- Victor Rabinowitz, 96, American lawyer for left-wing clients and causes.[153]
- Andrea Stretton, 55, Australian arts journalist and television presenter, lung cancer.[154]
- Sir Arthur Watts, 76, British lawyer and diplomat.[155]
17
- Irving Bluestone, 90, American negotiator for UAW, heart failure.[156]
- Landis Everson, 81, American poet, apparent suicide by gunshot.[157]
- Oleg Gazenko, 88, Russian space scientist.[158][159]
- Hy Lit, 73, American radio disc jockey, Parkinson's disease.[160]
- Robert Evander McNair, 83, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (1965–1971), brain cancer.[161]
- Ambroise Noumazalaye, 74, Congolese politician, Prime Minister (1966–1968).[162]
- R. S. Pathak, 82, Indian jurist, former Chief Justice of India, heart attack.[163]
- Vernon Scannell, 85, British poet, long illness.[164]
- Gail Sheridan, 92, American actress, stroke.[165]
18
- Hollis Alpert, 91, American film critic, co-founded National Society of Film Critics, pneumonia.[166]
- Peter Cadogan, 86, British writer and political activist (anti-nuclear campaigner).[167]
- Jim Ford, 66, American singer songwriter.[168]
- John Hughey, 73, American steel guitar player for Vince Gill and Conway Twitty, heart failure.
- Ellen Preis, 95, Austrian fencer, gold medallist at the 1932 Summer Olympics, kidney failure.[169]
- Joe Shaw, 79, British footballer, appearance record holder for Sheffield United.[170]
- Chickie Williams, 88, American country music singer and wife of Doc Williams.[171]
19
- André Bettencourt, 88, French Resistance fighter and politician.[172]
- Paul Brodie, 73, Canadian saxophonist.[173]
- Nyimpine Chissano, 37, Mozambican businessman, son of ex-president Joaquim Chissano, heart attack.[174]
- Kevin DuBrow, 52, American rock singer (Quiet Riot), accidental cocaine overdose.[175][176]
- Wiera Gran, 91, Polish singer and actress.[177]
- Mike Gregory, 43, British Lions rugby league captain, motor neurone disease.[178]
- Peter Haining, 67, British author, heart attack.[179]
- Ken Leek, 72, British international footballer (Wales, Birmingham City).[180][181]
- Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa, 79, Samoan educator, community worker, diplomat and former Member of Parliament.[182]
- Channaiah Odeyar, 91, Indian Lok Sabha MP.[183]
- Graham Paddon, 57, British footballer (Norwich City, West Ham United).[184]
- Milo Radulovich, 81, American airman threatened by McCarthyism and championed by Edward R. Murrow, stroke.[185]
- Jim Ringo, 75, American professional football player (Green Bay Packers) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[186]
- John Straffen, 77, British murderer, Britain's longest serving prisoner (56 years), natural causes.[187]
- Magda Szabó, 90, Hungarian writer.[188]
- Dick Wilson, 91, British-born American actor ("Mr. Whipple"), natural causes.[189]
20
- Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich, 90, British judge.[190]
- James Lamond, 78, British Lord Provost of Aberdeen, MP (Oldham East, Oldham Central and Royton) (1970–1992), pneumonia.[191]
- Ernest "Doc" Paulin, 100, American jazz musician.[192]
- Ian Smith, 88, Rhodesian politician, Prime Minister (1964–1979).[193]
21
- Valda Aveling, 87, Australian pianist, harpsichordist and clavichordist.[194]
- Fernando Fernán Gómez, 86, Spanish actor.[195]
- Andrew Foldi, 81, Hungarian opera singer.[196]
- Tom Johnson, 79, Canadian Hall of Fame hockey player, heart failure.[197]
- Richard Leigh, 64, American author (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail).[198]
- Noel McGregor, 75, New Zealand Test cricketer.[199]
- Herbert Saffir, 90, American engineer, co-creator of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale; complications from surgery.[200]
22
- Maurice Béjart, 80, French choreographer.[201]
- Jefferson J. DeBlanc, 86, American fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient, pneumonia.[202]
- Takami Eto, 82, Japanese politician, former member of the House of Representatives, heart failure.[203]
- Vladimir Kazantsev, 84, Russian Olympic athlete, silver medalist in 3000m steeplechase (1952).[204]
- Verity Lambert, 71, British TV producer, BBC's first female producer (Doctor Who).[205]
- Richard Nolte, 86, American expert on the Middle East, complications from a stroke.[206][207]
- Reg Park, 79, British bodybuilder, Mr. Universe (1951), skin cancer.[208]
- Dallas Schmidt, 85, Canadian fighter pilot and politician.[209]
23
- Peter Burgstaller, 43, Austrian football goalkeeper (Austria Salzburg), shot.[210]
- Patricia M. Byrne, 82, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Burma (1979–1983), cerebral hemorrhage.[211]
- Aloysius C. Galvin, 82, American Jesuit priest, President of the University of Scranton (1965–1970), cancer.[212]
- Maximiliano Garafulic, 69, Chilean Olympic basketball player.[213]
- Frank Guarrera, 83, American baritone with the Metropolitan Opera.[214]
- Joe Kennedy, 28, American baseball player, hypertensive and valvular heart disease.[215]
- Vladimir Kryuchkov, 83, Russian former KGB chief, led coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.[216]
- Colin Park, 63, Canadian Olympic sailor[217]
- Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, 36, Bolivian footballer, cancer.[218]
- William Tallon, 72, British servant to HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.[219]
- Francesc Candel Tortajada, 82, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer.[220]
- Henrietta Valor, 72, American Broadway singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease.[221]
- Robert Vesco, 73, American fugitive financier, lung cancer.[222]
- Edmund Hoyle Vestey, 75, British businessman.[223]
- Pat Walsh, 71, New Zealand rugby union player and selector, All Black (1955–1964).[224]
24
- Farid Babayev, 48, Russian politician with the Yabloko party, homicide by gunshot.[225]
- Casey Calvert, 26, American guitarist (Hawthorne Heights), accidental combined drug intoxication.[226]
- Imil Jarjoui, 72, Palestinian member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the PLO executive committee, heart attack.[227]
- Antonio Lamer, 74, Canadian lawyer and Chief Justice of Canada (1990–2000), heart disease.[228]
- Joseph Minish, 91, American member of the US House of Representatives from New Jersey (1963–1985).[229]
- William O'Neill, 77, American politician, Governor of Connecticut (1980–1991), complications of emphysema.[230]
- Emily Sander, 18, American murder victim.[231]
- David Sheldon, 54, American professional wrestler ("Angel of Death").[232]
- David H. Shepard, 84, American inventor, bronchiectasis.[233]
25
- Lola Almudevar, 29, British news reporter, car accident.[234]
- Agnethe Davidsen, 60, Greenlandic politician, Mayor of Nuuk (1993–2007).[235]
- Roberto Del Giudice, 67, Italian voice actor.[236]
- Arthur Dimmock, 89, British campaigner for the deaf.[237]
- John Drury, 80, American television journalist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[238]
- Norm Hacking, 57, Canadian musician and author, suspected heart attack.[239]
- Neil Hope, 35, Canadian actor (Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High), natural causes.[240]
- Peter Houghton, 68, British recipient of the first artificial heart transplant, multiple organ failure.[241]
- Peter Lipton, 53, American philosopher, heart attack.[242]
- Karl Ohs, 61, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (2001–2005), brain cancer.[243]
- David Francis Pocock, 79, British anthropologist.[244]
- Matt Price, 46, Australian journalist (Nine Network, The Australian), brain tumour.[245]
26
- Marit Allen, 66, British film costume designer (Mrs. Doubtfire, Eyes Wide Shut, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), brain aneurysm.[246]
- Buddy Burris, 84, American footballer.[247]
- George Harris, 84, Australian football administrator, former Carlton president.[248]
- Bill Hartack, 74, American Hall of Fame jockey, five-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, heart attack.[249]
- Silvestre S. Herrera, 90, Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.[250]
- Takafumi Isomura, 76, Japanese politician, mayor of Osaka (1995–2003), hepatocellular carcinoma.[251]
- Elaine Lorillard, 93, American socialite, helped start Newport Jazz Festival, infection.[252]
- Herb McKenley, 85, Jamaican 400 m relay gold medalist at 1952 Summer Olympics.[253]
- Noel Miller, 94, Australian cricketer.[254]
- Raleigh Rhodes, 89, American World War II pilot, early leader of the Blue Angels, lung cancer.[255]
- Jaroslav Skála, 91, Czech psychiatrist, campaigner against alcoholism.[256]
- Stanley Thorne, 89, British politician, Labour MP for Preston South and Preston (1974–1987).[257]
- Susan Williams-Ellis, 89, British founder of Portmeirion Pottery, bronchial pneumonia.[258]
- Mel Tolkin, 94, American head writer for Your Show of Shows.[259]
27
- Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale, 95, British civil servant.[260]
- Bernie Banton, 61, Australian asbestosis compensation campaigner, mesothelioma.[261]
- Robert Cade, 80, American doctor, inventor of Gatorade, kidney failure.[262]
- Jack Eliis, 95, British rugby union player.[263]
- Nicodemus Kirima, 71, Kenyan Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nyeri, kidney failure.[264]
- Kavungal Chathunni Panicker, 86, Indian classical dancer.[265]
- Cecil Payne, 84, American saxophonist, prostate cancer.[266]
- Jane Rule, 76, Canadian author of lesbian-themed works, liver cancer.[267]
- Sean Taylor, 24, American football player (Washington Redskins), homicide by gunshot.[268]
- Bill Willis, 86, American football player (Ohio State, Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[269]
28
- Albert Asriyan, 56, Azerbaijani-born American violinist, composer, arranger and band leader, leukemia.[270]
- Jeanne Bates, 89, American film actress (Eraserhead, Die Hard 2), breast cancer.[271]
- Elly Beinhorn, 100, German pilot and author.[272]
- Fred Chichin, 53, French musician, songwriter and leader of Les Rita Mitsouko, cancer.[273]
- Donyo Donev, 81, Bulgarian cartoonist and animator (The Three Fools).[274]
- Mali Finn, 69, American casting agent, (Titanic, L.A. Confidential, The Matrix), cancer.[275]
- Tony Holland, 67, British co-creator of EastEnders.[276]
- Bob Simpson, 77, Canadian football player, prostate cancer.[277]
- Petter C.G. Sundt, 62, Norwegian shipping magnate, cancer.[278]
- Ashley Titus, 36, South African rapper and TV presenter ("Mr. Fat"), heart problems.[279]
- James Miles Venne, 89, Canadian northern Saskatchewan First Nations leader.[280]
- Gudrun Wagner, 63, German co-organizer of the Bayreuth Festival, wife of Wolfgang Wagner.[281]
29
- James Barber, 84, British-born Canadian cooking show host (The Urban Peasant).[282]
- Ralph Beard, 79, American college basketball player for the University of Kentucky involved in point-shaving scandal, heart failure.[283]
- Jaleh Esfahani, 86, Iranian poet.[284]
- Henry Hyde, 83, American member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois (1975–2007).[285]
- Jane Lawton, 63, American Democratic Maryland politician, heart attack.[286]
- Jim Nesbitt, 75, American country music singer.[287]
- Michael Shaheen, 67, American government official and attorney.[288]
- Roger Bonham Smith, 82, American chairman and CEO of General Motors (1981–1990).[289]
30
- J. L. Ackrill, 86, British philosopher.[290]
- Engin Arık, 59, Turkish physicist, plane crash.[291]
- Seymour Benzer, 86, American genetic biologist, stroke.[292]
- Ian Crawford, 73, Scottish footballer (Hearts).[293]
- Evel Knievel, 69, American stunt performer.[294]
- Ian MacArthur, 82, British politician, MP for Perth and East Perthshire (1959–1974).[295]
- François-Xavier Ortoli, 82, French President of the European Commission (1973–1977).[296]
- John Strugnell, 77, American biblical scholar, complications from an infection.[297]
- Sam Vasquez, 35, American mixed martial arts competitor, brain injury sustained during fight.[298][299]
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