1 •
Milton Brunson, 67, American
gospel musician and pastor. •
Jack Carroll, 66, Canadian Olympic sprinter (
1952). •
Evsey Domar, 82, Russian American economist. •
Jolie Gabor, 100, Hungarian-American socialite. •
John R. Hargrove Sr., 73, American attorney and district judge (
United States District Court for the District of Maryland). •
Makar Honcharenko, 84, Soviet-Ukrainian football player and coach. •
Jerry Pacht, 75, American judge, cerebral hemorrhage. •
Franz Seltenheim, 82, Austrian Olympic swimmer (
1936).
2 •
Zaki Badr, 71, Egyptian general and politician. •
Al Blanche, 87, American baseball player (
Boston Braves/Bees). •
Anthony Bushell, 92, English film actor and director. •
Craig D. Button, 32,
United States Air Force pilot, suicide by
plane crash. •
Zsolt Durkó, 62, Hungarian composer. •
Orvis A. Kennedy, 89, Canadian politician, member of the
House of Commons of Canada (1938-1940). •
Reg Lewis, 77, English football player. •
Yulii Meitus, 94, Ukrainian composer. •
David Shahar, 70, Israeli fiction writer, translator, and editor. •
Tomoyuki Tanaka, 86, Japanese film producer, stroke.
3 •
Thomas Barthel, 74, German
ethnologist and
epigrapher. •
Jerome Cosentino, 65, American politician. •
Sergei Filatov, 70, Soviet and Russian
equestrian and Olympian (
1956,
1960,
1964). •
Ivor McIvor, 79, Australian rules footballer. •
Dan Swartz, 62, American basketball player (
Boston Celtics). •
John Ugelstad, 76, Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor. •
Robert W. Ward, 67, American businessman and politician, cancer. •
Henriette Wyeth, 79, American artist.
4 •
Lawrence A. Appley, 93, American organizational theorist. •
Kevin Coverdale, 56, Australian rules footballer. •
Herta Ehlert, 92, German
nazi camp guard during World War II. •
Billy Graham, 61, American comics artist. •
Sugimura Haruko, 88, Japanese actress. •
Leo Picard, 96, Israeli geologist. •
Mike Raven, 72, British radio disc jockey, actor and sculptor. •
Vladimir Soloukhin, 72, Russian poet and writer. •
Shoichiro Takenaka, 84, Japanese Olympic long-distance runner (
1932). •
Alparslan Türkeş, 79, Turkish politician, heart attack. •
Rudolf Ulrich, 75, German film actor.
5 •
Ignazio Buttitta, 97, Italian poet. •
Heberto Castillo, 58, Mexican political activist. •
Richard Clifton-Dey, 66, British artist. •
Paul W. Cronin, 59, American politician, member of the
United States House of Representatives (1973-1975), brain cancer. •
Paul de Bruyn, 89, German athlete and Olympian (
1932,
1936). •
Stoney Edwards, 67, American country singer,
stomach cancer. •
Allen Ginsberg, 70, American poet and writer, liver cancer. •
Warren Godfrey, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (
Boston Bruins,
Detroit Red Wings). •
August Heckscher II, 83, American
public intellectual and writer, heart failure. •
Bill Holland, 81, American baseball player (
Washington Senators). •
Aklilu Lemma, 61, Ethiopian scientist. •
John R. McKinney, 76, American soldier and recipient of the
Medal of Honor. •
Riley Morris, 62-63, American football player (
Oakland Raiders,
Boston/New Bedford Sweepers). •
Albino Simões Neto, 73, Portuguese Olympic rower (
1948,
1952).
6 •
Max Alvarado, 68, Filipino actor, heart failure. •
Bernard Chevallier, 84, French Olympic equestrian (
1948). •
Jack Kent Cooke, 84, Canadian-American businessman, cardiac arrest, heart attack. •
Stephan Hermlin, 81, German author. •
Peter Jeffrey, 83,
Royal Australian Air Force officer and
flying ace. •
David Keith-Lucas, 86, British aeronautical engineer. •
Frank Kirwin, 75, Australian rules footballer. •
Barbara Yu Ling, Singapore-British actress. •
Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger, 73, American physicist. •
Rosita Serrano, 84, Chilean singer, chronic bronchitis. •
Pierre-Henri Teitgen, 88, French lawyer, professor and politician.
7 •
Luis Aloma, 73, Cuban baseball player (
Chicago White Sox). •
Josef Deutschmann, 76, Austrian Olympic cross-country skier (
1948). •
Aaron Kramer, 75, American poet and social activist. •
Sam Parks, Jr., 87, American golfer. •
Georgy Shonin, 61, Soviet cosmonaut (
Soyuz 6), heart attack.
8 •
Kwame Baah, 58, Ghanaian soldier and politician. •
Bob Cain, 72, American baseball player (
Chicago White Sox,
Detroit Tigers,
St. Louis Browns), cancer. •
Charles Hayes, 79, American politician, member of the
United States House of Representatives (1983-1993), lung cancer. •
Laura Nyro, 49, American songwriter, singer, and pianist, ovarian cancer. •
Homer Peel, 94, American baseball player (
St. Louis Cardinals,
Philadelphia Phillies,
New York Giants), and manager. •
Alejo Peralta, 80, Mexican baseball executive.
9 •
Mae Boren Axton, 82, American songwriter and music promoter. •
Joe Coleman, 74, American baseball player (
Philadelphia Athletics,
Baltimore Orioles,
Detroit Tigers). •
Helene Hanff, 80, American writer,
peritonitis, diabetes. •
Geoffrey Hardy-Roberts, 89,
British Army officer, politician and courtier. •
John Hollar, 74, American football player (
Washington Redskins,
Detroit Lions). •
Yank Rachell, 94, American
country blues musician. •
Stevo Teodosievski, 72, Macedonian artist and
humanist. •
Wu Zuoren, 88, Chinese painter.
10 •
Bèto Adriana, 71, Antillean sportsman and Olympian (
1960,
1972). •
Erik Blumenfeld, 82, German politician. •
Michael Dorris, 52, American novelist and scholar, suicide. •
Stan Eastham, 83, English footballer and Olympian (
1936). •
Fred Emery, 71, Australian psychologist. •
Alan Gibson, 73, English journalist, writer and radio broadcaster. •
Ben Gregory, 50, American football player (
Buffalo Bills). •
Gösta Johansson, 68, Swedish ice hockey player and Olympian (
1952), liver cancer. •
Marcel Maes, 52, Belgian cyclist. •
Toshiro Mayuzumi, 68, Japanese composer. •
Mehtab, 78, Indian actress. •
Martin Schwarzschild, 84, German-American
astrophysicist. •
Edgar Sulite, 39, Filipino martial arts teacher. •
Francis Walder, 90, Belgian writer and soldier. •
Glanville Williams, 86, Welsh legal scholar.
11 •
Castor de Andrade, 71, Brazilian mobster and
bicheiro. •
Yehia Emam, 78, Egyptian footballer and Olympian (
1948). •
Muriel McQueen Fergusson, 97, Canadian activist, judge and politician. •
Rajko Kojić, 40, Serbian/Yugoslav guitarist. •
Milt Smith, 68, American baseball player (
Cincinnati Redlegs). •
Radovan Stojičić, 46, Serbian police general, leader of the Public Security Service and acting Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia. •
Wang Xiaobo, 44, Chinese novelist and essayist, heart attack. •
Junzō Yoshimura, 88, Japanese architect.
12 •
Kevin Belcher, 35, American football player (
Los Angeles Raiders,
Denver Broncos). •
Wally Catchlove, 90, Australian cricketer. •
Ivar Eriksson, 87, Swedish football defender. •
Nechama Leibowitz, 91, Israeli bible scholar and commentator. •
Moro Lorenzo, Filipino basketball player and executive. •
Dorothy Norman, 92, American photographer, writer, and arts patron. •
Eric Pearce, 92, Australian broadcaster. •
James Ross, 85, Scottish surgeon. •
George Wald, 90, American scientist and recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
13 •
Mustafa Amin or Mostafa Amin, 83, Egyptian columnist and journalist. •
Madhava Ashish, 77, British-Indian spiritualist, mystic, writer and agriculturist. •
Dorothy Frooks, 101, American author, lawyer, and suffragist. •
Josef Krejci, 86, Austrian Olympic handball player (
1936). •
David McCord, 99, American poet. •
Shuhei Nishida, 86, Japanese Olympic
pole vaulter (
1932,
1936), heart failure. •
Harry Rosenberg, 88, American baseball player (
New York Giants). •
Zbigniew Szajewski, 82, Polish Olympic wrestler (
1936,
1952). •
Voldemar Väli, 94, Estonian
Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic medalist (
1924,
1928,
1936). •
Foffie Williams, 83, West Indian cricketer.
14 •
Gerda Christian, 83, German private secretary of
Adolf Hitler during World War II, cancer. •
Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, 93, New Zealand poet, polemicist and pretender to the
Polish throne. •
Kit Denton, 68, Australian writer and broadcaster. •
Gus Dugas, 90, Canadian-born baseball outfielder (
Pittsburgh Pirates,
Philadelphia Phillies,
Washington Senators). •
Rusty Jackson, 46, American football player (
Los Angeles Rams,
Buffalo Bills). •
John Jennings, 94, English footballer. •
Michael Stroka, 58, American television actor,
kidney cancer. •
Walter Taylor, 84, American
anthropologist and
archaeologist. •
Finn Wold, 69, Norwegian-American biochemist, cancer.
15 •
Don Bexley, 87, American actor and comedian, heart and kidney failure. •
L. Brent Bozell, Jr., 71, American conservative activist and Roman Catholic writer. •
David Dockendorf, 73, American sound engineer. •
Bob Friedrichs, 90, American baseball player (
Washington Senators). •
Jaime Garcia Goulart, 89, Portuguese Catholic missionary and bishop. •
Jim Holloway, 88, American baseball player (
Philadelphia Phillies). •
Zdeněk Mlynář, 66, Czech politic writer, political analyst and lawyer. •
Sam Moskowitz, 76, American writer, critic, and science fiction historian. •
Harry Nicholas, 92, British trade unionist. •
Kō Nishimura, 74, Japanese actor. •
Sipan Shiraz, 29, Armenian poet, sculptor and painter. •
Carlos Enrique Taboada, 67, Mexican screenwriter and director. •
Richard Tousey, 88, American astronomer,
pneumonia.
16 •
Doris Angleton, 46, American socialite and murder victim, shot. •
Jan Bruins, 56, Dutch motorcycle road racer. •
Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, 76, Colombian activist, politician and diplomat, kidney failure. •
John Elliott, 62, Australian Olympic wrestler (
1952,
1956). •
Thaddeus Golas, 72, American writer. •
Doug McMahon, 79, Canadian soccer player. •
Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, 66, Mexican newspaper publisher,
pancreatic cancer. •
Roland Topor, 59, French graphic artist, author and actor, cerebral hemorrhage. •
Claude Tresmontant, 71, French philosopher,
hellenist and theologian.
17 •
Mitsu Arakawa, 69, American professional wrestler, heart failure. •
Dale Burnett, 88, American gridiron football player (
New York Giants). •
Tom Franckhauser, 59, American gridiron football player (
Los Angeles Rams,
Dallas Cowboys,
Minnesota Vikings), heart attack. •
Allan Francovich, 56, American film maker, heart attack. •
Chaim Herzog, 78, Israeli politician, general, and author. •
Henry George Lang, 78, New Zealand economist, university professor and company director. •
Gérard Lecomte, 70, French
arabist. •
Biju Patnaik, 81, Indian politician, aviator and businessman. •
Mary French Rockefeller, 86, American heiress, socialite and philanthropist. •
Hena Rodríguez, 81, Colombian sculptor.
18 •
Rolf Andersson, 67, Swedish football player. •
Edward Barker, 46, English cartoonist. •
Bob Carpenter, 79, American basketball player (
Fort Wayne Pistons,
Tri-Cities Blackhawks). •
Herbert Czaja, 82, German politician. •
Jeanne Hoban, 72, British
Trotskyist,
Alzheimer's disease. •
Francis Johnson, 86, American Olympic basketball player (
1936). •
Don Pietromonaco, 61, American actor and radio personality, complications from
emphysema. •
Eddie Quigley, 75, English football player and manager. •
Juan Félix Sánchez, 95, Venezuelan folk artist. •
Georgia Schmidt, 92, American actress.
19 •
Walter Gordon, 77,
United States Army soldier during World War II. •
Eldon Hoke, 39, American musician, railroad accident. •
Carl Walter Liner, 82, Swiss painter. •
Alexander Slawik, 96, German
nazi cryptographer and Japanese
ethnologist. •
Maria Wittek, 97, Polish officer during World War II.
20 •
Eva Blanco, 16, Spanish girl and murder victim, stabbed. •
Pai Hsiao-yen, 16, Taiwanese girl and murder victim, murdered. •
Jean Louis, 89, French-American costume designer. •
Henry Mucci, 88,
United States Army Rangers colonel, stroke. •
Joseph Van Muylders, 73, Belgian Olympic field hockey player (
1948). •
Sun Ma Sze Tsang, 80, Cantonese opera singer and actor in Hong Kong. •
Henri Vilbert, 93, French actor.
21 •
Alfred Bailey, 92, Canadian poet, anthropologist and ethno-historian. •
Diosdado Macapagal, 86,
President of the Philippines and poet, heart failure and
pneumonia. •
Thomas H. D. Mahoney, 83, American professor and politician. •
Sayed Mekawy, 69, Egyptian singer and composer. •
József Mészáros, 74, Hungarian football player and football manager. •
Andrés Rodríguez, 73,
President of Paraguay (1989–1993), cancer. •
Magda Staudinger, 94, Latvian biologist and botanist. •
Aníbal Tarabini, 55, Argentine football player, traffic collision. •
Nicolas Eugene Walsh, 80, American prelate of the
Roman Catholic Church. •
Herbert Zipper, 92, Austrian-American composer, conductor, and
Dachau concentration camp inmate.
22 •
Jean Carlu, 96, French graphic designer. •
Néstor Cerpa Cartolini, 43, Peruvian communist and
revolutionary,
killed in action. •
Moelwyn Merchant, 83, Welsh academic, novelist, sculptor, poet and Anglican priest. •
Elliott Merrick, 91, American author. •
Pete Petrow, 72, Canadian football player.
23 •
Allan Bouch, 94, Australian rules footballer. •
Thomas Carr, 89, American actor and film director. •
Denis Compton, 78, English cricketer,
sepsis. •
Miklós Fodor, 88, Hungarian Olympic handball player (
1936). •
Esther Schiff Goldfrank, 100-101, American
anthropologist. •
Dorothy Hill, 89, Australian
geologist and
palaeontologist. •
Jerry Nuzum, 73, American football player (
Pittsburgh Steelers). •
Erwin Reimer, 82, Chilean Olympic decathlete (
1936). •
Camillo Ripamonti, 77, Italian politician and engineer. •
Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear, 83, British social scientist and politician. •
Inge Viermetz, 89,
Nazi Germany official.
24 •
Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, 88, Soviet/Chechen historian and writer. •
John A. Brown Jr., 35, American convicted murderer,
execution by lethal injection. •
Robert Erickson, 80, American composer and author,
polymyositis. •
Felice Ippolito, 81, Italian geologist and politician. •
Bohumil Kosour, 84, Czech Olympic skier (
1948). •
Bill McArthur, 78, American football player and coach. •
Hubert McLean, 89, New Zealand rugby player. •
Roland Prout, 77, British Olympic canoeist (
1952). •
Eugene Stoner, 74, American firearms designer, cancer. •
Ines Vercesi, 81, Italian Olympic gymnast (
1928).
25 •
Aleksejs Auziņš, 86, Latvian football, ice hockey player, and Olympian (
1936). •
Nicholas Baker, 58, British politician and minister. •
Kay Blumetta, 73, American baseball player. •
Lidia Istrati, 55, Moldovan writer and politician. •
Frank Joyner, 78, Scottish football player and manager. •
Brian May, 62, Australian film composer (
Mad Max) and conductor, heart attack. •
Pat Paulsen, 69, American comedian and satirist, complications of pneumonia and kidney failure. •
Gino Pernice, 69, Italian actor. •
Dudley Pope, 71, British writer . •
Andreas Rett, 73, Austrian neurologist and author. •
Bernard Vonnegut, 82, American atmospheric scientist, cancer. •
Joan Yarde-Buller, 89, English socialite. •
Nikolai Yegorov, 45, Russian politician, lung cancer. •
Chia-Shun Yih, 78, Chinese-American engineer and physicist, heart failure.
26 •
John Beal, 87, American actor, stroke. •
J. J. Colledge, 89, British naval historian and author. •
Wilhelm Crinius, 76, German
Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II. •
Joey Faye, American comedian and actor. •
Hideo Fujimoto, 78, Japanese baseball pitcher, heart attack. •
Valery Obodzinsky, 55, Soviet and Russian
tenor, heart attack. •
Howard Ensign Simmons, Jr., 67, American chemist. •
Peng Zhen, 94, Chinese politician and
chairman of the
NPCSC (1983–1988).
27 •
Lew Dietz, 90, American writer. •
Gabriel Figueroa, 90, Mexican cinematographer. •
Paul Lambert, 74, American actor. •
Dulce María Loynaz, 94, Cuban poet, cancer. •
Patrick O'Connor, 87, American painter. •
Bunny Roger, 85, English couturier and socialite. •
Piotr Skrzynecki, 66, Polish choreographer, director and cabaret impresario, cancer. •
Jeffrey Trail, 28, American naval officer, murdered. •
Peter Winch, 71, British philosopher.
28 •
Peter Tali Coleman, 77, Samoan
Governor of American Samoa (1956–1961; 1978–1985; 1989–1993),
liver cancer. •
Steve Conte, 77, Italian-American actor, Alzheimer's disease. •
Ashley Harvey-Walker, 52, English cricketer (
Derbyshire County Cricket Club), murdered. •
Karl-Åke Hultberg, 81, Swedish Olympic equestrian (
1948). •
Una Johnson, 91, American curator and art historian. •
Jan Kielas, 80, Polish Olympic middle-distance runner (
1952). •
Earl Klapstein, 75, American football player (
Pittsburgh Steelers), and coach. •
Ann Petry, 88, American children's author, novelist and journalist. •
William Percy Rogers, 82, Australian zoologist. •
John P. Snyder, 71, American cartographer. •
Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth, 66, British
Lord Chief Justice of England (1992–1996), cancer. •
Doc Urich, 68, American football player and coach, heart attack.
29 •
Keith Ferguson, 50, American
bass guitarist,
liver failure. •
Paul Mullins Gervais, 71, Canadian politician, member of the
House of Commons of Canada (1968-1972). •
Georgy Klimov, 68, Russian linguist. •
Günther Laukien, 72, German physicist and entrepreneur. •
R. N. Malhotra, 71, Indian banker. •
Jaroslav Plíhal, 60, Czech Olympic shot putter (
1960). •
Mike Royko, 64, American newspaper columnist, brain aneurysm.
30 •
Miklós Fodor, 88, Hungarian field handball player and Olympian (
1936). •
Michael Harbottle, 80,
British Army officer. •
Josiah Lincoln Lowe, 92, American
mycologist. •
Jorge Mondragón, 93, Mexican actor. •
Henry Gilford Picard, 90, American golfer. •
Roohangiz Saminejad, 80, Iranian actress. •
Wolfgang Späte, 85, German
Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II. •
Vladimir Sukharev, 72, Soviet sprinter and Olympian (
1952,
1956). == References ==