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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2008.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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September 2008
1
- Thomas J. Bata, 93, Czech-born Canadian businessman (Bata Shoes).[1]
- Inge Bausenwein, 87, German Olympic athlete.[2]
- Calvin Beale, 85, American demographer, colon cancer.[3]
- Ian Edward Fraser, 87, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.[4]
- Helen Galland, 83, American retail executive, president of Bonwit Teller (1980–1983), heart attack.[5]
- Kevin Heinze, 80, Australian pioneer gardening television presenter, heart attack.[6]
- Mel Ignatow, 70, American murderer, fall.[7]
- Carl Kaufmann, 72, German Olympic silver medallist (1960).[8]
- Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[9]
- Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist, complications from pneumothorax.[10]
- Henry Wako Muloki, 87, Ugandan Kyabazinga of Busoga since 1995, esophageal cancer.[11]
- Michael Pate, 88, Australian actor (Matlock Police, Hondo, The Court Jester) and writer, pneumonia.[12]
- Jerry Reed, 71, American musician ("When You're Hot, You're Hot", "East Bound and Down") and actor (Smokey and the Bandit), complications from emphysema.[13]
- Oded Schramm, 46, Israeli mathematician, fall.[14]
- Gerry White, 64, British businessman, prostate cancer.[15]
2
- Andreas Zeier Cappelen, 93, Norwegian politician and minister.[16]
- Todd Cruz, 52, American Major League Baseball player.[17]
- Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist.[18]
- Joey Giardello, 78, American boxer, middleweight boxing champion (1963–1965), heart failure.[19]
- Abdullah al-Harari, 98, Ethiopian-born Lebanese scholar, founder of the Al-Ahbash movement, natural causes.[20]
- Bill Melendez, 91, Mexican-born American animator (Peanuts).[21]
- Dame Alison Munro, 94, British civil servant and headmistress.[22]
- Julia Pirie, 90, British MI5 spy.[23]
- Sir Denis Rooke, 84, British industrialist.[24]
3
- Charles-Robert Ageron, 84, French historian.[25]
- Abdulla Alishayev, Russian Dagestani journalist, shot.[26]
- Lalla Bahia, Moroccan royalty, third wife of Mohammed V.[27]
- Donald Blakeslee, 89, American Air Force officer.[28]
- Paul DiLascia, 49, American software developer.[29]
- Françoise Demulder, 61, French war photographer, heart attack.[30]
- Mark Guardado, 46, American mobster, President of Hells Angels San Francisco chapter, shot.[31]
- Michael Hammer, 60, American management theorist, cranial bleeding.[32]
- Earl Lunsford, 74, American Canadian Football League player (Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), Hall of Famer.[33]
- Ron Rivera, 60, American public health innovator, malaria.[34]
- Joan Segarra, 80, Spanish football player (FC Barcelona and manager.[35]
- May Shin, 91, Burmese actress and singer, pulmonary edema.[36]
- Pierre Van Dormael, 56, Belgian guitarist, cancer.[37]
- René Vingerhoet, 96, Belgian Olympic rower.[38]
- Géo Voumard, 87, Swiss composer and producer, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival.[39]
- Jerry Zawadzkas, 62, American football player.[40]
4
- Fernest Arceneaux, 68, American Creole Zydeco accordionist and singer.[41]
- Mary Dunn, 66, American Iyengar Yoga instructor, peritoneal cancer.[42]
- Colin Egar, 81, Australian test cricket umpire.[43]
- Dick Enderle, 60, American football player.[44]
- Fon Huffman, 95, American World War II veteran, last survivor of the Panay incident.[45]
- Abdul Samad Ismail, 84, Malaysian journalist, lung infection and kidney failure.[46]
- Alain Jacquet, 69, French pop artist, cancer.[47]
- Jenny, 55, American western lowland gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity (Dallas Zoo), euthanized.[48]
- Tommy Johnston, 81, British footballer, top scorer for Leyton Orient.[49]
- Francesca Lancellotti, 91, Italian farmer declared venerable.[50]
- Erik Nielsen, 84, Canadian deputy prime minister (1984–1986), brother of Leslie Nielsen, heart attack.[51]
- Eduard Paukson, 72, Estonian astrologer.[52]
- Waldick Soriano, 75, Brazilian composer and singer, prostate cancer.[53]
- Fernando Torres, 80, Brazilian actor, voice-over artist, director and producer, husband of Fernanda Montenegro, emphysema.[54]
- Alina Vedmid, 68, Ukrainian politician.[55]
- Jerome Weber, 92, Canadian abbot of St. Peter-Muenster of Saskatchewan.[56]
5
- Kay Amert, 60, French scholar, cancer.[57]
- Raymond Bernabei, 83, American soccer player, complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[58]
- Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).[59]
- Miroslav Havel, 86, Czech-born Irish chief designer (Waterford Crystal).[60]
- Thubten Jigme Norbu, 86, Tibetan lama (Taktser Rinpoche), eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama.[61]
- Lucian Pye, 86, American political scientist and sinologist, expert on Chinese politics, pneumonia.[62]
- Luis Santibáñez, 72, Chilean football team manager, complications from a kidney condition.[63]
- Mila Schön, 91, Italian fashion designer.[64]
6
- Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala, 78, Egyptian politician, field marshal and defence minister, throat cancer.[65]
- Aril Edvardsen, 69, Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary.[66]
- Antonio Innocenti, 93, Italian cardinal.[67]
- Nicole Lai, 34, Singaporean singer, skin cancer.[68]
- Allan Lawrence, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Northumberland—Durham (1972–1988).[69]
- Ray Loring, 65, American professor and composer, heart attack.[70]
- Sören Nordin, 91, Swedish harness racing trainer.[71]
- Anita Page, 98, American actress (The Broadway Melody), natural causes.[72]
- Larry Shaben, 73, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1975–1989), cancer.[73]
- Bill Shorthouse, 86, British footballer.[74]
- Mike Swoboda, 69, American politician, mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri (2000–2008), complications from gunshot wounds.[75]
- Sally Willington, 77, English activist.[76]
7
- Kune Biezeveld, 60, Dutch theologian.[77]
- Ilarion Ciobanu, 76, Romanian actor.[78]
- Dino Dvornik, 44, Croatian actor and pop singer.[79]
- David Fitzsimons, 58, Australian Olympic athlete.[80]
- Peter Glossop, 80, British operatic baritone.[81]
- Don Gutteridge, 96, American Major League Baseball player, coach and manager.[82]
- Don Haskins, 78, American college basketball coach, heart failure.[83]
- Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American author (Fletch), cancer.[84]
- Nagi Noda, 35, Japanese pop artist and director, complications from a traffic collision.[85]
- Gordon Stromberg, 80, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1971–1986).[86]
- Richard "Popcorn" Wylie, 69, American musician.[87]
8
- Ahn Jae-hwan, 36, South Korean actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.[88] (body discovered on this date)
- Riaz Ahsan, 56, Pakistani statistician and mathematician, cancer.[89]
- Nathan Green Gordon, 92, American politician and Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. Governor of Arkansas (1947–1967), pneumonia.[90]
- Celia Gregory, 58, British actress.[91]
- Ron Guthrey, 92, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Christchurch (1968–1971).[92]
- Ralph Plaisted, 80, American Arctic explorer, natural causes.[93]
- Evan Tanner, 37, American mixed martial arts fighter and UFC middleweight champion, hyperthermia.[94] (body discovered on this date)
- Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, 73, Indian violinist, after long illness.[95]
- George Zarnecki, 92, Polish art historian and medievalist.[96]
- Hector Zazou, 60, French composer and record producer.[97]
9
- Tina Allen, 58, American sculptor, pneumonia.[98]
- Betty Constable, 83, American squash player.[99]
- Eddie Crowder, 77, American football player and coach, complications of leukemia.[100]
- A. U. Fuimaono, 85, American Samoan politician, first Delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1970–1974).[101]
- Nina Lawson, 82, British wigmaker for the Metropolitan Opera, pernicious anaemia.[102]
- Jacob Lekgetho, 34, South African footballer.[103]
- P. N. Menon, 80, Indian film director, after long illness.[104]
- Warith Deen Mohammed, 74, American Islamic leader, son of Elijah Muhammad.[105]
- Richard Monette, 64, Canadian actor and director, pulmonary embolism.[106]
- Bheki Mseleku, 53, South African-born British jazz musician, diabetes.[107]
- Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 98, Laotian politician, president (1992–1998), natural causes.[108]
10
- Saleh al Aridi, 50, Lebanese pro-Syrian politician, car bomb.[109]
- Gérald Beaudoin, 79, Canadian lawyer and senator (1988–2004).[110]
- José Antonio Dammert Bellido, 91, Peruvian bishop.[111]
- Cameron Buchanan, 80, British footballer.[112]
- David Chipp, 81, British editor-in-chief (Press Association, Reuters), first resident correspondent for Reuters in China.[113]
- Patrick Flynn, 72, American composer and conductor, pulmonary embolism.[114]
- Robert Glasgow, 83, American organist and University of Michigan professor emeritus.[115]
- Florian Goebel, 35, German astrophysicist, fall.[116]
- Vernon Handley, 77, British conductor.[117]
- J. J. Harrington, 89, American politician.[118]
- Sherrill Headrick, 71, American football player, cancer.[119]
- Fitzroy Hoyte, 68, Trinidad Olympic cyclist, traffic collision.[120]
- Domagoj Kapec, 18, Croatian ice hockey player, car accident.[121]
- Frank Mundus, 82, American shark fisherman, alleged inspiration for Quint in Jaws, heart attack.[122]
- Gary O'Donnell, 40, British soldier, improvised explosive device.[123]
- Yuri Osipyan, 77, Russian physicist.[124]
- Reginald Shepherd, 45, American poet, cancer.[125]
- Paul Williams, 85, British politician, MP (1953–1964).[126]
11
- Bennett Campbell, 65, Canadian politician, premier of Prince Edward Island (1978–1979), cancer.[127]
- Dave Hanner, 78, American football player and coach (Green Bay Packers), heart attack.[128]
- Klaus Johann Jacobs, 71, German-born Swiss billionaire, cancer.[129]
- Fran Reed, 65, American teacher and fish skin artist, cancer.[130]
- Nils Johan Ringdal, 56, Norwegian author and historian.[131]
- Martin Tytell, 94, American manual typewriter expert, cancer.[132]
- Joan Winston, 77, American author, founder of Star Trek convention, Alzheimer's disease.[133]
- Lai Ying Xin, 16, Malaysian schoolgirl, strangulation.
12
- Camila Ashland, 97, American actress (Dark Shadows, 10).[134]
- George Brown, 85, American football player.[135]
- Simon Hantaï, 85, Hungarian-born French abstract artist.[136]
- Tomislav Ladan, 76, Croatian encyclopedist and polymath, malignant tumor.[137]
- Max Mermelstein, 65, American drug trafficker, cancer.[138]
- George Putnam, 94, American television news reporter, heart failure.[citation needed]
- Bob Quinn, 93, Australian footballer (Port Adelaide) and Military Medal recipient.[139]
- Marjorie Thomas, 85, British opera singer, after long illness.[140]
- Paola S. Timiras, 85, American doctor, expert on the physiology of ageing, heart failure.[141]
- Ferenc Velkey, 92, Hungarian Olympic handball player.[142]
- Charlie Walker, 81, American country music singer, colon cancer.[143]
- David Foster Wallace, 46, American author and essayist (Infinite Jest), suicide by hanging.[144]
13
- Peter Camejo, 68, American politician and activist, lymphoma.[145]
- Dean Hoge, 71, American sociologist, specialist in American Catholicism, cancer.[146]
- Duncan Laing, 75, New Zealand swimming coach, cancer.[147]
- James Snow, 79, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1967–1985), diabetes.[148]
- Olin Stephens, 100, American yacht designer.[149]
- John Usher, 62, British academic lawyer, leukaemia.[150]
- Alice Van-Springsteen, 90, American stuntwoman, pneumonia.[151]
- Abdullah Wardak, Afghan governor of Logar Province, suicide attack.[152]
14
- John Burnside, 91, American inventor, brain cancer.[153]
- Hyman Golden, 85, American co-founder of Snapple Beverage Corporation, complications from stroke.[154]
- Ștefan Iordache, 67, Romanian actor, leukemia.[155]
- Georgi Kitov, 65, Bulgarian archaeologist, heart attack.[156]
- Lynn Kohlman, 62, American model and photographer, breast and brain cancer.[157]
- Lobsang Nyima Pal Sangpo, 79, Tibetan 100th Ganden Tripa (1994–2002), head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.[158]
- Mu Tiezhu, 59, Chinese basketball player, heart attack.[159]
- Ralph Russell, 90, British Urdu scholar.[160]
- Gennady Troshev, 61, Russian politician and military commander (Second Chechen War), plane crash.[161]
15
- Marion Dewar, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (1978–1985), fall.[162]
- Barthélémy Djabla, 72, Ivorian archbishop of Gagnoa.[163]
- Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil, 85, Indian writer, cancer.[164]
- Jean-Jacques Guissart, 81, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower.[165]
- Charlotte Kohler, 99, American editor, heart failure.[166]
- Danny Lawson, 60, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings).[167]
- John Matshikiza, 53, South African actor, writer and poet, heart attack.[168]
- Juraj Njavro, 70, Croatian doctor and politician, after long illness.[169]
- J. Patrick Rooney, 80, American insurance advocate.[170]
- Stefano Rosso, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.[171]
- Richard Wright, 65, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) and songwriter ("The Dark Side of the Moon"), cancer.[172]
16
- Verlie Abrams, 87, American football player.[173]
- Jack Alderman, 57, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.[174]
- Avraham Biran, 98, Israeli archaeologist, natural causes.[175]
- Elizabeth Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, 92, British peeress.[176]
- John Fancy, 95, British World War II RAF airman.[177]
- David Laycock, 61, English cricketer[178]
- Andrei Volkonsky, 75, Russian composer.[179]
- Charles Whitebread, 65, American professor of law, cancer.[180]
- Norman Whitfield, 68, American Motown songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine") and record producer, diabetes.[181]
17
- Princess Luluwah bint Abdulaziz Al Saud, 80, Saudi member of the royal family, sister of King Abdullah.[182]
- James Crumley, 68, American crime writer, complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases.[183]
- Didier Dagueneau, 52, French winemaker, plane crash.[184]
- José María Cirarda Lachiondo, 91, Spanish bishop of the Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela (1978–1993).[185]
- Anna Langford, 90, American politician, first African American woman to serve on the Chicago City Council, lung cancer.[186]
- Michael Omondi, 46, Kenyan field hockey player, after short illness.[187]
- Humberto Solás, 66, Cuban filmmaker, cancer.[188]
- Robert Steinberg, 61, American physician, co-founder of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, lymphoma.[189]
18
- Ekaterina Andreeva, 66, Uzbek arachnologist.[190]
- Mauricio Kagel, 76, Argentine-born German composer.[191]
- Peter Kastner, 64, Canadian actor, heart attack.[192]
- Ron Lancaster, 69, American Canadian Football League quarterback and coach, heart attack.[193]
- Howard Mann, 85, American actor and comedian, cancer.[194]
- Sherman Parker, 37, American politician, member of Missouri House of Representatives (2003–2006), brain aneurysm.[195]
- Fabiola Salazar, 42, Peruvian congresswoman since 2006, car accident.[196]
- Henry Z. Steinway, 93, American businessman (Steinway & Sons).[197]
- Don Ultang, 91, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer.[198]
- Florestano Vancini, 82, Italian film director and screenwriter, after long illness.[199]
- John Webb, 82, American judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1986–1998), Parkinson's disease.[200]
19
- Ernie Andres, 90, American college baseball coach and Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[201]
- Marcel Dierkens, 83, Luxembourgish cyclist.[202]
- Ned Harkness, 89, American ice hockey coach, stroke.[203]
- Jun Ichikawa, 59, Japanese film director.[204]
- David Jones, 74, British theatre and film director.[205]
- Dave Needham, 57, British bantamweight boxing champion (1974–1975).[206]
- Earl Palmer, 83, American rhythm and blues drummer, after long illness.[207]
- Robert Royston, 90, American landscape architect.[208]
- Dick Sudhalter, 69, American jazz trumpeter, pneumonia.[209]
20
- Nappy Brown, 78, American blues singer.[210]
- Francis A. Dennis, Liberian diplomat.[211]
- William Fox, 97, British actor.[212]
- Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, literary critic and designer, professor emeritus of visual communication (Nottingham Trent).[213]
- Steve Gray, 64, British musician.[214]
- Ken Harris, 45, American member of Baltimore City Council (1999–2007), shot.[215]
- Arne Haugestad, 73, Norwegian Supreme Court lawyer, Arne Treholt's defender.[216]
- Johnny H. Hayes, 67, American fundraiser for Al Gore's presidential campaigns, stomach cancer.[217]
- Willi Heidel, 92, Romanian Olympic field handball player.[218]
- Paul Howell, 57, British member of the European Parliament (1979–1994), plane crash.[219]
- George Larson, 96, Canadian Olympic swimmer.[220]
- Ed Sutton, 73, American football player, complications following heart bypass surgery.[221]
- John Taylor, 87, American military archivist at National Archives and Records Administration, heart failure.[222]
- Frank Valenti, 97, American mob boss (Rochester crime family).[223]
- Ivo Žďárek, 47, Czech ambassador to Vietnam (2004–2008) and Pakistan (2008), suicide bombing.[224]
21
- Mary Garber, 92, American sportswriter.[225]
- Carlos González Cruchaga, 87, Chilean bishop of the Diocese of Talca (1967–1996).[226]
- Nancy Hicks Maynard, 66, American journalist, advocate for diversity in journalism, organ failure.[227]
- Sir Brian Pippard, 88, British physicist, Cavendish Professor of Physics (1971–1984).[228]
- Barefoot Sanders, 83, American federal judge, natural causes.[229]
- Paul Tansey, 59, Irish economics editor (The Irish Times).[230]
- Brian Thomsen, 49, American author and editor, heart attack.[231]
- Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 92, Sri Lankan prime minister (1989–1993), president (1993–1994), after long illness.[232]
22
- Michael Andreevich, 88, Russian prince.[233]
- Plato Andros, 86, American National Football League player (Chicago Cardinals), Alzheimer's disease.[234]
- Olli Auero, 82, Finnish diplomat.[235]
- H. Dale Cook, 84, American federal judge since 1974, cancer.[236]
- Thomas Dörflein, 44, German zookeeper, surrogate parent of the polar bear Knut, heart attack.[237]
- Connie Haines, 87, American singer, myasthenia gravis.[238]
- Guillermo López Langarica, 40, Mexican YouTube celebrity, car accident.[239]
- Buddy McDonald, 85, American child actor (Our Gang), heart failure.[240]
- Petrus Schaesberg, 41, German art historian, suicide by jumping.[241]
23
- Mona Abul-Fadl, 62–63, Egyptian orientalist, breast cancer.[242]
- José Martins Achiam, 64, Portuguese karate coach, stroke.[243]
- Esther Figueiredo Ferraz, 92, Brazilian Minister of Education (1982–1985) and first female minister, stroke.[244]
- Richard Henyard, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.[245]
- Wally Hilgenberg, 66, American National Football League player (Minnesota Vikings), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[246]
- Rudolf Illovszky, 86, Hungarian footballer and manager, pneumonia.[247]
- Peter Leonard, 66, Australian broadcaster, mesothelioma.[248]
- Pedro Masó, 81, Spanish film director and producer, natural causes.[249]
- Brock McElheran, 90, Canadian conductor and composer.[250]
- Loren Pope, 98, American education consultant, heart failure.[251]
- Sonja Savić, 47, Serbian actress, heroin overdose.[252]
- Ellen Tarry, 101, American children's author.[253]
- William Woodruff, 92, British historian and author.[254]
24
- Bengt Anderberg, 88, Swedish poet, novelist, editor and playwright.[255]
- Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, 56, Ghanaian finance minister since 2005, after short illness.[256]
- Oliver Crawford, 91, American television writer blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.[257]
- Irene Dailey, 88, American actress (Five Easy Pieces, The Amityville Horror, Another World), colon cancer.[258]
- Sir Peter Derham, 83, Australian businessman and philanthropist, stroke.[259]
- Uno Laht, 84, Estonian writer.[260]
- Dick Lynch, 72, American football player and radio announcer (New York Giants), leukemia.[261]
- Maurits van Nierop, 25, Dutch international cricketer, fall.[262]
- Thiago Jotta da Silva, 24, Brazilian footballer, shot.[263]
- Cherry Smith, 65, Jamaican singer (The Wailers), heart attack.[264]
- Mickey Vernon, 90, American baseball player, stroke.[265]
- Vice Vukov, 72, Croatian singer and politician.[266]
- Claude Wilton, 89, Irish politician and solicitor.[267]
- Ruslan Yamadayev, 46, Chechen warlord and member of Russian State Duma, shot.[citation needed]
25
- Glenn Andrews, 99, American politician, Representative (1965–1967), oldest surviving member of the House of Representatives.[268]
- Brian Donnelly, 59, New Zealand diplomat and politician, MP (1996–2008).[269]
- Edward Klima, 77, American linguist, complications from brain surgery.[270]
- Horațiu Rădulescu, 66, Romanian composer, spectral music pioneer.[271]
- Ralph Sazio, 86, Canadian football coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).[272]
- Jimmy Sirrel, 86, British football manager (Notts County), after long illness.[273]
- Roger Vanderfield, 80, Australian rugby union referee, IRB chairman and ARU president.[274]
26
- Bernadette Greevy, 68, Irish mezzo-soprano, after short illness.[275]
- Joli Jászai, 101, Hungarian actress.[276]
- Géza Kalocsay, 95, Hungarian football player and manager.[277]
- Aggie Kukulowicz, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers), heart failure.[278]
- Phyllis Welch MacDonald, 95, American theater and film actress.[279]
- Raymond Macherot, 84, Belgian cartoonist.[280]
- Stanisław Marucha, 71, Polish Olympic shooter.[281]
- Jan Mazur, 88, Polish bishop of Siedlce.[282]
- Marian McQuade, 91, American founder of National Grandparents Day, heart failure.[283]
- Ernest Meissner, 71, Canadian Olympic diver.[284]
- Marc Moulin, 66, Belgian jazz musician and journalist, throat cancer.[285]
- Paul Newman, 83, American actor (The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, The Color of Money) and entrepreneur, Oscar winner (1987), lung cancer.[286]
- Cirio H. Santiago, 72, Filipino filmmaker and producer, complications from lung cancer.[287]
- Yonty Solomon, 71, South African pianist, brain tumour.[288]
27
- Len Browning, 80, British footballer.[289]
- John Houston, 78, British painter.[290]
- Mahendra Kapoor, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack.[291]
- Mario Maya, 71, Spanish dancer and choreographer, cancer.[292]
- Jimmy Murray, 72, British footballer, prostate cancer.[293]
- Henri Pachard, 69, American pornographic film director, throat cancer.[294]
- Olaf Poulsen, 88, Norwegian president of the International Skating Union (1980–1994).[295]
- Gerald Small, 52, American football player (Miami Dolphins).[296]
28
- Georges Adda, 92, Tunisian politician, heart attack.[297]
- Andrzej Badeński, 65, Polish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) athlete.[298]
- Osborn Elliott, 83, American editor of Newsweek (1961–1976), complications from cancer.[299]
- Jack Faulkner, 82, American football coach and administrator.[300]
- Margot Gayle, 100, American historic preservationist and author.[301]
- Malalai Kakar, 41, Afghan senior policewoman, shot.[302]
- Konstantin Pavlov, 75, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, after long illness.[303]
- Athos Tanzini, 95, Italian Olympic fencer.[304]
- Thomas Thewes, 76, American businessman, co-owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, leukemia.[305]
29
- Youssef Sabri Abu Taleb, 79, Egyptian general.[306]
- Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic, stroke.[307]
- Richard Clayton, 93, American actor and talent agent (Burt Reynolds, James Dean), heart failure.[308]
- Miguel Córcega, 79, Mexican actor and director.[309]
- Milt Davis, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer.[310]
- Tim Fortescue, 92, British politician, MP (1966–1974).[311]
- Elinor Guggenheimer, 96, American philanthropist and author.[312]
- Louis Guss, 90, American actor (Moonstruck, Highlander, The Godfather).[313]
- Stan Kann, 83, American organist and Tonight Show regular, complications from heart procedure.[314]
- Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, 72, Indian politician.[315]
- Antônio Sarto, 82, Brazilian bishop of Barra do Garças.[316]
- Glen Sheil, 78, Australian medical practitioner and politician, Senator (1974–1981, 1984–1990).[317]
- Anthony Spero, 79, American financier, leader of Bonanno crime family, after short illness.[318]
- Relus ter Beek, 64, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1989–1994), abolished conscription, lung cancer.[319]
- Jock Wilson, 105, British soldier, UK's oldest D-Day veteran.[320]
30
- Henry Adler, 93, American drummer, teacher of Buddy Rich.[321]
- Ed Brinkman, 66, American baseball player and coach, lung cancer.[322]
- Sam Calder, 92, Australian politician and World War II fighter pilot, MP (1966–1980).[323]
- J. L. Chestnut, 77, American civil rights lawyer, kidney failure.[324]
- Richard Haine, 91, British Royal Air Force officer.[325]
- J. B. Jeyaretnam, 82, Singaporean politician, MP (1981–1986), NCMP (1997–2001), heart failure.[326]
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