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September 2009
1
- Dick Berg, 87, American screenwriter and television producer, fall.[1]
- Jake Drake-Brockman, 53, British musician (Echo & the Bunnymen) and sound recordist, motorcycle accident.[2]
- Jock Buchanan, 74, Scottish footballer (Hibernian).[3]
- Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, 91, British television executive and conservationist.[4]
- Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito, 66, Brazilian judge (Supreme Federal Court) (2007–2009), pancreatic cancer.[5]
- Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani, 78, Indian admiral.[6]
- Jang Jin-young, 37, South Korean actress, stomach cancer.[7]
- Wycliffe Johnson, 47, Jamaican Reggae musician and composer, heart failure.[8]
- Erich Kunzel, 74, American conductor (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra), cancer.[9]
- Wayne E. Meyer, 83, American Rear-Admiral, Aegis Combat System manager, heart failure.[10]
- Francis Rogallo, 97, American aeronautical inventor (Rogallo wing).[11]
- John Stephens, 43, American football player (New England Patriots), NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1988), traffic collision.[12]
- Alexis Tioseco, 28, Filipino-born Canadian film critic, shot.[13]
- Sir Oliver Wright, 88, British diplomat.[14]
2
- Hylton Ackerman, 62, South African cricketer.[15]
- Guy Babylon, 52, American musician (Elton John band), heart attack.[16]
- Brian Boshier, 77, British cricketer.[17]
- Jon Eydmann, 41, British band manager (Suede), heart attack.[18]
- Donald Hamilton Fraser, 80, British painter.[19]
- Bill Hefner, 79, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for North Carolina (1975–1999), brain aneurysm.[20]
- Virve Kiple, 82, Estonian ballet dancer, actress, and director.[21]
- Tibor Kristóf, 67, Hungarian voice actor, Hungarian voice of Sean Connery, Morgan Freeman and Darth Vader.[22]
- Abdullah Laghmani, 40s, Afghan Secret Service chief, bomb blast.[23]
- Mr Percival, 33, Australian pelican, animal actor (Storm Boy), natural causes.[24]
- John Poole, 82, British sculptor.[25]
- Christian Poveda, 52, French photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, shot.[26]
- Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (since 2004), helicopter crash.[27]
- Mohamed Alí Seineldín, 75, Argentine military commander and putschist (Carapintadas).[28]
- Robert Spinrad, 77, American computer pioneer, director of the Palo Alto Research Center, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[29]
- Ismael Valenzuela, 74, American jockey, after long illness.[30]
- Jeffrey Wernick, 56, American animation executive (DIC Animation City) and sports agent.[31]
3
- Nicky Chapman, Baroness Chapman, 48, British peer, member of the House of Lords, brittle bone disease.[32]
- Hulda Regehr Clark, 80, Canadian alternative medicine practitioner.[33]
- Christine D'haen, 85, Belgian poet.[34]
- Giovanni Melis Fois, 92, Italian Bishop of Nuoro (1970–1992).[35]
- Caro Jones, 86, American casting director (Rocky, The Karate Kid, Green Acres), multiple myeloma.[36]
- Edith Kaplan, 85, American neuropsychologist.[37]
- Alec MacLachlan, 30, British hostage in Iraq (death confirmed on this date).[38]
- Ronald Sarre, 77, Australian cricketer.[39]
- Yukhym Shkolnykov, 70, Ukrainian association football coach.[40]
4
- Buddy Blattner, 89, American sportscaster, baseball and table tennis player, complications from lung cancer.[41]
- Iain Cuthbertson, 79, British actor (Gorillas in the Mist, The Railway Children).[42]
- Allan Ekelund, 91, Swedish film producer, collaborator with Ingmar Bergman.[43]
- Guy Guillabert, 78, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) rower.[44]
- Siegfried Gurschler, 83, Austrian sports shooter.[45]
- Skip Miller, 62, American music industry executive, president of Motown Records, heart attack.[46]
- Franz Olah, 99, Austrian politician, Interior Minister (1963–1964).[47]
- Carl Reindel, 74, American actor (Bullitt, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Andromeda Strain).[48]
- Keith Waterhouse, 80, British author and playwright (Billy Liar), natural causes.[49]
- Bill Welch, 68, American politician, mayor of State College, Pennsylvania, complications after leg surgery.[50]
5
- Gani Fawehinmi, 71, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, lung cancer.[51]
- Carl Hovde, 82, American professor, Dean during the Columbia University protests of 1968, lung cancer.[52]
- Mickie Jones, 56, American bassist (Angel), liver cancer.[53]
- Liang Shoupan, 93, Chinese aerospace engineer.[54]
- Jesse Mahelona, 26, American football player (Tennessee Titans), traffic collision.[55]
- Richard Merkin, 70, American artist.[56]
- Saifur Rahman, 77, Bangladeshi politician, longest-serving Finance Minister, traffic collision.[57]
- Ron Raikes, 61, American politician, Nebraska state senator (1998–2008), farm accident.[58]
- Richard D. Robinson, 88, American educator.[59]
- Charlie Waller, 87, American football coach.[60]
6
- Christopher John Banda, 35, Malawian footballer.[61]
- Harcharan Singh Brar, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1995–1996).[62]
- Vanja Drach, 77, Croatian actor.[63]
- Gerhart Friedlander, 93, German-born American nuclear chemist, coronary disease.[64]
- Helgi Hóseasson, 89, Icelandic activist.[65]
- José Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot.[66]
- Catherine Gaskin, 80, Irish-born Australian novelist, ovarian cancer.[67]
- Nada Iveljić, 79, Croatian writer.[68]
- John Merino, 42, Ecuadorian colonel, head of presidential security for Rafael Correa, swine flu.[69]
- David J. Ritchie, 58, American game designer.[70]
- Sim, 83, French comic actor.[71]
- Tatyana Ustinova, 96, Russian geologist.[72]
- Stephen White, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer, member of Ireland Team of the Century, after short illness.[73]
- Sir David Williams, 78, British academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1989–1996), cancer.[74]
7
- Medea Chakhava, 88, Georgian theatre and film actress.[75]
- Junior Coghlan, 93, American silent film actor.[76]
- Norman Curtis, 84, English football player and manager (Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers).[77]
- John T. Elson, 78, American religion editor (Time).[78]
- Eddie Locke, 79, American jazz drummer.[79]
- Fred Mills, 74, Canadian musician (Canadian Brass), traffic collision.[80]
- Ra'anan Naim, 73, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1981–1984).[81]
- Colin Sharp, 56, British musician and writer, brain haemorrhage.[82]
- Paul Lê Đắc Trọng, 91, Vietnamese Bishop of Hanoi (1994–2006).[83]
- Christos Vartzakis, 98, Greek athlete.[84]
8
- Aleksandr Aksyonov, 85, Belarusian PM of Byelorussian SSR (1978–1983), Soviet Ambassador to Poland (1983–1986).[85]
- Army Archerd, 90, American entertainment columnist (Variety), malignant mesothelioma.[86]
- Ray Barrett, 82, Australian film, television and theatre actor, brain hemorrhage.[87]
- Aage Bohr, 87, Danish physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1975).[88]
- Mike Bongiorno, 85, American-born Italian television presenter, heart failure.[89]
- Rica Erickson, 101, Australian naturalist, artist and author.[90]
- Henry S. Fitch, 99, American herpetologist.[91]
- Rogelio Borja Flores, 74, Filipino sports writer, respiratory failure.[92]
- Annie Le, 24, American graduate student, strangled.[93]
- Kyle Woodring, 42, American drummer (Survivor), apparent suicide by hanging.[94]
9
- Kevin Carmody, 84, Australian cricket umpire.[95]
- Eric Davidson, 94, Canadian blind mechanic, survivor of the Halifax Explosion.[96]
- Anthony G. Evans, 66, British scientist.[97]
- Léon Glovacki, 81, French footballer, played in 1954 FIFA World Cup.[98]
- James Krenov, 88, American cabinetmaker.[99]
- Stanley Cornwell Lewis, 103, British painter and illustrator.[100]
- Steve Mann, 66, American songwriter and guitarist.[101]
- Frank Mazzuca, 87, Canadian businessman, mayor of Capreol, Ontario.[102]
- Sultan Munadi, 32, Afghan journalist, translator and correspondent (The New York Times), shot.[103]
- Andrzej Śliwiński, 70, Polish Bishop of Elbląg (1992–2003).[104]
10
- John Asquith, 77, English cricketer.[105]
- Frank Batten, 82, American businessman, founder of The Weather Channel.[106]
- Lou Bender, 99, American basketball pioneer who popularized the sport in New York City, cancer.[107]
- Kerry Brown, 51, Canadian professional wrestler, liver failure.[108]
- Lisle C. Carter, 83, American administrator, complications from pneumonia.[109]
- Lyn Hamilton, 65, Canadian author, cancer.[110]
- Sam Hinton, 92, American folk singer and marine biologist.[111]
- Margaret Holmes, 100, Australian peace activist.[112]
- Robert H. Miller, 90, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1988–1990).[113]
- Gertrude Noone, 110, American supercentenarian, oldest person in Connecticut and world's oldest military veteran.[114]
- Patricia Robinson, 79, Trinidadian economist, First Lady (1997–2003), wife of A. N. R. Robinson.[115]
- Yoshifumi Tajima, 91, Japanese actor (Mothra vs. Godzilla), esophageal cancer.[116]
- Tony Thornton, 49, American professional boxer, injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.[117]
11
- Sarane Alexandrian, 82, French art historian and philosopher.[118]
- Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, Cuban politician, Vice President of the Council of State, cardiac arrest.[119]
- James E. Bromwell, 89, American politician, Representative for Iowa (1961–1965).[120]
- Jim Carroll, 60, American author (The Basketball Diaries), poet and musician, heart attack.[121]
- Mool Chand Chowhan, 82, Indian sports official.[122]
- Pierre Cossette, 85, Canadian television producer, brought the Grammy Awards to television.[123]
- Larry Gelbart, 81, American comedy writer (M*A*S*H) and blogger (The Huffington Post), cancer.[124]
- Bob Greenberg, 75, American record executive, stroke.[125]
- Zakes Mokae, 75, South African-born American actor (Gross Anatomy), complications from a stroke.[126]
- Georgios Papoulias, 82, Greek politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1989, 1990), suicide by gunshot.[127]
- John Pattison, 92, New Zealand World War II pilot.[128]
- Henny van Schoonhoven, 39, Dutch footballer, cancer.[129]
- Crystal Lee Sutton, 68, American union organizer, inspiration for Norma Rae, brain cancer.[130]
- Felicia Tang, 31, Singaporean-born American actress and model, suffocated.[131]
- Yoshito Usui, 51, Japanese manga artist (Crayon Shin-chan), mountaineering accident.[132]
12
- Norman Borlaug, 95, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1970), cancer.[133]
- Dominik Brunner, 50, German businessman and manager, blunt trauma.[134]
- Jeanne Clemson, 87, American theatre director, actress and educator, Parkinson's disease.[135]
- Raj Singh Dungarpur, 73, Indian cricket player and administrator.[136]
- George Eckstein, 81, American television writer and producer (The Fugitive), lung cancer.[137]
- Edward Gelsthorpe, 88, American marketing executive.[138]
- Alfred Gottschalk, 79, German-born American President of Hebrew Union College, Reform Judaism leader, traffic collision.[139]
- William Hoffman, 84, American novelist.[140]
- Shah Abdul Karim, 93, Bangladeshi musician, respiratory problems.[141]
- Jack Kramer, 88, American tennis player, cancer.[142]
- Armando Manhiça, 66, Portuguese international footballer.[143]
- Brian Mier, 74, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Waverley (1982–1996).[144]
- Antônio Olinto, 90, Brazilian writer, multiple organ failure.[145]
- Danny Pang, 42, Taiwanese-born American hedge fund manager.[146]
- Willy Ronis, 99, French photographer.[147]
- T. R. Satishchandran, 80, Indian Administrative Service officer.[148]
- Fred Sherman, 86, American economist and business commentator.[149]
- Lawrence B. Slobodkin, 81, American ecologist.[150]
- Bill Sparkman, 51, American substitute teacher and census worker, hanged.[151]
13
- Philip Aziz, 86, Canadian artist, cancer.[152]
- Felix Bowness, 87, British actor (Hi-de-Hi!). [153]
- Paul Burke, 83, American actor (Naked City), leukemia.[154]
- Malcolm Casadaban, 60, American molecular genetics professor, plague.[155]
- Lonny Frey, 99, American baseball player, oldest living MLB All-Star.[156]
- Arnold Laven, 87, American film and television director (The Rifleman, The Big Valley), pneumonia.[157]
- Paul Shirtliff, 46, English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Northampton Town), cancer.[158]
- Sarah E. Wright, 80, American novelist, complications from cancer.[159]
14
- Keith Floyd, 65, British chef, heart attack.[160]
- Henry Gibson, 73, American actor (Laugh-In, The Blues Brothers, Boston Legal), cancer.[161]
- Bobby Graham, 69, British session drummer, stomach cancer.[162]
- Jing Shuping, 91, Chinese businessman, founder of Minsheng Bank.[163]
- Mike Leyland, 68, Australian travel documentary host (Leyland Brothers), complications of Parkinson's disease.[164]
- Ralph S. Moore, 102, American horticulturist, natural causes.[165]
- Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 30, Kenyan terrorist, airstrike.[166]
- Jody Powell, 65, American White House Press Secretary for President Jimmy Carter, heart attack.[167]
- John Rarick, 85, American politician, Representative for Louisiana (1967–1975), cancer.[168]
- Darren Sutherland, 27, Irish boxer, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, suicide by hanging.[169]
- Patrick Swayze, 57, American actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Point Break), pancreatic cancer.[170]
- Lily Tembo, 27, Zambian musician, songwriter and journalist, complications from gastritis.[171]
- Titus, 35, African silverback gorilla.[172]
- Bartholomew Yu Chengti, 90, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate.[173]
- Elio Zagato, 88, Italian car designer.[174]
15
- Nicu Constantin, 70, Romanian actor.[175]
- George Crumbley, 86, American founder of the Peach Bowl.[176]
- Fred Cusick, 90, American sports commentator (Boston Bruins), complications from bladder cancer.[177]
- Leon Eisenberg, 87, American child psychiatrist, prostate cancer.[178]
- Tommy Greenhough, 77, British cricketer.[179]
- Troy Kennedy Martin, 77, British screenwriter (Z-Cars, Edge of Darkness, The Italian Job), liver cancer.[180]
- Michael Knox, 48, American co-founder of Park Place Productions, producer of John Madden Football, colon cancer.[181]
- Espiridion Laxa, 79, Filipino independent film producer, prostate cancer.[182]
- Gerald Lestz, 95, American columnist and author, founder of the Demuth Museum.[183]
- Lincoln Maazel, 106, American singer and actor.[184]
- Vladimír Padrta, 56, Slovak Olympic basketball player.[185]
- Kallie Reyneke, 87, South African Olympic racewalker.[186]
- Trevor Rhone, 69, Jamaican playwright, heart attack.[187]
16
- Brian Barron, 69, British journalist and war correspondent, cancer.[188]
- Timothy Bateson, 83, British actor.[189]
- Myles Brand, 67, American NCAA president, pancreatic cancer.[190]
- W. Horace Carter, 88, American newspaper website, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack.[191]
- Monte Clark, 72, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions), cancer.[192]
- Luciano Emmer, 91, Italian film director (Three Girls from Rome).[193]
- Sotero Laurel, 90, Filipino politician, Senator (1986–1992), President Pro Tempore (1990–1991).[194]
- John Littlewood, 78, British chess player[195]
- Lori Mai, 31, German-American folk rock singer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[196]
- Ernst Märzendorfer, 88, Austrian conductor.[197]
- Julian Niemczyk, 89, American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1986–1989), cardiac arrest.[198]
- Filip Nikolic, 35, French singer and actor, drug overdose.[199]
- Steve Romanik, 85, American football player (Chicago Bears).[200]
- Melvin Simon, 82, American shopping mall developer (Simon Property Group), producer (Porky's), Indiana Pacers owner.[201]
- Mary Travers, 72, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), leukemia.[202]
- Dorothy Wellman, 95, American dancer and actress, widow of William Wellman.[203]
17
- Tommy Burnett, 67, American politician, Tennessee House of Representatives (1970–1990).[204]
- Virginia Chadwick, 64, Australian politician, cancer.[205]
- Frank Deasy, 49, Irish Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (Prime Suspect: The Final Act), liver cancer.[206]
- Dick Durock, 72, American actor and stuntman (Swamp Thing), pancreatic cancer.[207]
- Sue Eakin, 90, American history professor.[208]
- Bernie Fuchs, 76, American illustrator, esophageal cancer.[209]
- Dick Hoover, 79, American professional bowler.[210]
- Randy Johnson, 65, American football quarterback (Atlanta Falcons).[211]
- Leon Kirchner, 90, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, heart failure.[212]
- Bob Kowalkowski, 65, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions).[213]
- Robert Searcy, 88, American member of the Tuskegee Airmen, colorectal cancer.[214]
- Noordin Mohammad Top, 41, Malaysian terrorist, shot.[215]
- Geoff Williamson, 86, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) rower.[216]
18
- Peter Denyer, 62, British actor (Please Sir!).[217]
- James Donnewald, 84, American politician, Illinois Treasurer (1983–1987).[218]
- Doug Fisher, 89, Canadian journalist and politician, MP for Port Arthur (1957–1965).[219]
- Pearl Hackney, 92, British actress, widow of Eric Barker.[220]
- Mahlon Hoagland, 87, American biochemist.[221]
- Doreen Jensen, 76, Canadian sculptor.[222]
- Irving Kristol, 89, American neoconservative advocate and editor (The Public Interest), lung cancer.[223]
- Natalia Shvedova, 92, Russian lexicologist.[224]
- John J. Wild, 95, American physician, co-developer of ultrasound use in cancer detection.[225]
19
- Gabriel Beaudry, 82, Canadian Olympic rower.[226]
- Willy Breinholst, 91, Danish author.[227]
- Alan Deyermond, 77, British hispanist.[228]
- Arthur Ferrante, 88, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), natural causes.[229]
- Stevie Gray, 42, British footballer (Aberdeen FC).[230]
- Víctor Israel, 80, Spanish actor.[231]
- Monty Kaser, 67, American professional golfer, prostate cancer.[232]
- Milton Meltzer, 94, American historian and author, esophageal cancer.[233]
- Maurizio Montalbini, 56, Italian sociologist and caver, heart failure.[234]
- Elizaveta Mukasei, 97, Russian Soviet-era spy, wife of Mikhail Mukasei.[235]
- Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet, 79, Cuban-born businessman and philanthropist, founder of Sazón Goya Food Company, cancer.[236]
- Roc Raida, 37, American DJ (The X-Ecutioners), cardiac arrest after a spinal cord injury.[237]
- Joseph-Marie Sardou, 86, French archbishop Emeritus of Monaco.[238]
- Eduard Zimmermann, 80, German journalist and television presenter.[239]
20
- Mario Bertolo, 80, French cyclist.[240]
- Freddy Bienstock, 86, American music website (Carlin America).[241]
- Hernan Córdoba, 19, Colombian footballer, traffic collision.[242]
- Bertil Gärtner, 84, Swedish Lutheran bishop of Gothenburg (1970–1991).[243]
- John Hart, 91, American actor (The Lone Ranger).[244]
- Ken Hough, 80, New Zealand cricketer and footballer.[245]
- Yusuf Khan, 79-80, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest.[246]
- Booker Moore, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), heart attack.[247]
- Bayo Ohu, 45, Nigerian journalist and news editor (The Guardian), shot.[248]
- Eddy Prentice, 88, New Zealand cricketer.[249]
21
- Robert Ginty, 60, American actor and director, cancer.[250]
- Michael Lockett, 29, British soldier, improvised explosive device.[251]
- Myroslav Marusyn, 85, Ukrainian archbishop, Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.[252]
- Piers Merchant, 58, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1983–1987) and Beckenham (1992–1997), cancer.[253]
- Parviz Meshkatian, 54, Iranian musician and composer, cardiac arrest.[citation needed]
- Junzo Shono, 88, Japanese author, member of the Japan Art Academy.[254]
- Sula Wolff, 85, British child psychiatrist.[255]
22
- Marco Achilli, 60, Italian footballer.[256]
- Manuel Bermejo Hernández, 73, Spanish politician, MP for Cáceres.[257]
- Kole Čašule, 88, Macedonian writer.[258]
- Edward Delaney, 79, Irish sculptor.[259]
- Olaf Dufseth, 91, Norwegian Olympic Nordic combined and cross-country skier.[260]
- Andréa Maltarolli, 46, Brazilian telenovela screenwriter (Beleza Pura), cancer.[261]
- Bruce McPhee, 82, Australian race car driver, won Hardie Ferodo 500 (1968).[262]
- Dirce Migliaccio, 75, Brazilian actress, pneumonia.[263]
- Summer Squall, 22, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1990 Preakness Stakes winner, euthanized.[264]
- Charlotte Turgeon, 97, American chef and author, influenza.[265]
- S. Varalakshmi, 84, Indian actress and singer, complications from a fall.[266]
- Wess, 64, Italian singer, placed third in Eurovision Song Contest 1975.[267]
23
- Paul B. Fay, 91, American politician, Acting Secretary of the Navy (1963), Alzheimer's disease.[268]
- Gigolo FRH, 26, German-bred dressage horse, four-time Olympic gold medalist, euthanized.[269]
- Ertuğrul Osman, 97, Turkish 43rd Head of the Imperial Ottoman Dynasty, lung and kidney failure.[270]
- Dennis Pacey, 80, British footballer (Leyton Orient, Millwall), aneurysm.[271]
- Stuart Robertson, 65, British-born Canadian journalist and gardener, complications from pneumonia.[272]
- Bill Speirs, 57, British trade union leader, after long illness.[273]
- George M. Sullivan, 87, American politician, Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1967–1981), lung cancer.[274]
- Marie Wadley, 102, American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum.[275]
- Don Yarborough, 83, American politician, Parkinson's disease.[276]
24
- Nelly Arcan, 36, Canadian novelist, suicide by hanging.[277]
- Susan Atkins, 61, American murderer ('Manson Family' member), brain cancer.[278]
- Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy, 80, Indian Bishop of Nellore.[279]
- Keith Batchelor, 78, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood, North Melbourne).[280]
- Terry Bly, 73, British footballer (Norwich City, Peterborough United), heart attack.[281]
- Forrest Church, 61, American Unitarian Universalist minister, author and theologian, esophageal cancer.[282]
- Cryptoclearance, 25, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic surgery.[283]
- Joseph Satoshi Fukahori, 84, Japanese Bishop of Takamatsu.[284]
- Joseph Gurwin, 89, Lithuanian-born American textile manufacturer and philanthropist, heart failure.[285]
- Kevork Hovnanian, 86, Iraqi-born American businessman, founder of Hovnanian Enterprises.[286]
- Rogers McVaugh, 100, American botanist.[287]
- Sir Howard Morrison, 74, New Zealand singer, heart attack.[288]
- Emile Norman, 91, American artist, natural causes.[289]
- Robert Sahakyants, 59, Armenian animator, complications from heart surgery.[290]
- Egon Solymossy, 87, Hungarian Olympic athlete (death announced on this date).[291]
- Mimi Weddell, 94, American actress (Student Bodies, The Thomas Crown Affair).[292]
- Margo Wilson, 66, Canadian psychologist.[293]
25
- István Bujtor, 67, Hungarian actor and director, coccidiosis.[294]
- Pierre Falardeau, 62, Canadian film director, cancer.[295]
- Alicia de Larrocha, 86, Spanish pianist.[296]
- Maria Gulovich Liu, 87, Slovakian resistance member, cancer.[297]
- Clifton Maloney, 71, American businessman, husband of U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, mountaineering accident.[298]
- Steeve Nguema Ndong, 37, Gabonese Olympic judoka.[299]
- Francis Noel-Baker, 89, British politician, MP for Brentford and Chiswick (1945–1950) and Swindon (1955–1969).[300]
- Bob Stupak, 67, American casino owner (Vegas World, Stratosphere Las Vegas), leukemia.[301]
- David Will, 72, British vice president of FIFA, former Brechin City F.C. chairman, cancer.[302]
26
- Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet, 70, British aristocrat, traffic collision.[303]
- Geoff Barrowcliffe, 77, British footballer (Derby County).[304]
- Tony Chua, 43-44, Filipino sports executive, Barako Bulls team manager, drowning during Tropical Storm Ondoy.[305]
- Zygmunt Chychła, 83, Polish boxer, 1952 Olympic gold medalist.[306]
- W. I. B. Crealock, 89, British yacht designer.[307]
- Amy Farris, 40, American fiddler and singer-songwriter, suicide.[308]
- John Hyson, 81, American museum curator and historian.[309]
- Ingvi Sigurður Ingvarsson, 84, Icelandic diplomat.[310]
- Paul Medhurst, 55, British-New Zealand cyclist.[311]
- Nihat Nikerel, 59, Turkish actor, heart attack.[312]
- Alfred Oglesby, 42, American football player (Miami Dolphins).[313]
- Soeprapto, 85, Indonesian politician, Governor of Jakarta (1982–1987).[314]
- David Underdown, 84, British historian, author of definitive work on Pride's Purge.[315]
27
- Alimsultan Alkhamatov, 44, Russian politician and official, head of the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, shot.[316]
- John Connell, 69, American artist.[317]
- Ivan Dykhovichny, 61, Russian film director, screenwriter, cancer.[citation needed]
- Donald Fisher, 81, American businessman, founder of The Gap, cancer.[318]
- John Holmes, 57, British rugby league player, cancer.[319]
- Charles Snead Houston, 96, American physician, mountaineer, inventor, author and filmmaker.[320]
- Hans-Heinrich Jescheck, 94, German professor.[321]
- Li Hou, 86, Chinese politician.[322]
- Manuel Mandel, 72, Brazilian Olympic rower.[323]
- Donal McLaughlin, 102, American architect, designer of the Flag of the United Nations, esophageal cancer.[324]
- Dewald Roode, 69, South African academic, fall.[325]
- William Safire, 79, American speechwriter and journalist (The New York Times), pancreatic cancer.[326]
28
- Apostolos of Kilkis, 85, Greek bishop of Kilkis.[327]
- René Bliard, 76, French footballer (Stade Reims).[328]
- Guillermo Endara, 73, Panamanian politician, President (1989–1994).[329]
- Imre Katzenbach, 45, Hungarian footballer.[330]
- Ulf Larsson, 53, Swedish actor, stage director and revue artist.[331]
- Best Ogedegbe, 55, Nigerian footballer, complications from surgery.[332]
- Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira, 83, Peruvian archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa.[333]
- Don Thompson, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[334]
29
- Micheline Beauchemin, 79, Canadian tapestry and textile artist.[335]
- Henry Bellmon, 88, American Governor of Oklahoma (1963–1967; 1987–1991), U.S. Senator (1969–1981), Parkinson's disease.[336]
- Ebony Dickinson, 32, American basketball player, breast cancer.[337]
- Gunnar Haugan, 84, Norwegian character actor.[338]
- Julian Hope, 2nd Baron Glendevon, 59, British opera producer, cancer.[339]
- Margo Johns, 90, British actress.[340]
- Greg Ladanyi, 57, American record producer and recording engineer, complications from a fall.[341]
- Jean Ladd, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[342]
- Ray Nettles, 60, American-born Canadian football player (BC Lions), cancer.[343]
- John L. Pollock, 69, American philosopher.[344]
- Pavel Popovich, 78, Ukrainian-born Soviet cosmonaut.[345]
- Ed Sherman, 97, American football coach (Muskingum College).[346]
- Nick Strutt, 62, British country musician.[347]
- Sperantza Vrana, 81, Greek film actress, singer and writer, heart attack.[348]
- Vladimir Yakovlev, 79, Soviet Olympic sailor.[349]
30
- Sir Alastair Aird, 78, British Royal courtier.[350]
- Pentti Airikkala, 64, Finnish rally driver, prostate cancer.[351]
- Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish writer and poet.[352]
- Robert S. Baker, 93, British film and television producer (The Saint, The Persuaders!).[353]
- John Couey, 51, American murderer, killer of Jessica Lunsford (the inspiration for Jessica's Law), prostate cancer.[354]
- Robert Haase, 86, American lawyer.[355]
- Roland La Starza, 82, American actor and professional boxer.[356]
- Raúl Magaña, 69, Salvadoran footballer and manager, gastric cancer.[357]
- Byron Palmer, 89, American actor, natural causes.[358]
- Birender Singh, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana (1967), cardiac arrest.[359]
- Victor Van Schil, 69, Belgian cyclist.[360]
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