1 •
Buddy Boone, 53, Canadian
National Hockey League player (
Boston Bruins). •
Tina Cooper, 68, English pediatrician (
child abuse), cancer. •
Earl B. Dickerson, 95, American lawyer and politician (
Hansberry v. Lee). •
Murray Hamilton, 63, American actor (
Jaws,
The Graduate), lung cancer. •
Colin McCathie, 76, Australian accountant and politician, member of the
Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1950-1960).
2 •
Frank Bartkus, 70, American Olympic soccer goalkeeper (
1936). •
Arundhati Devi, 66, Indian actress, director, and singer. •
Thomas Butler Dowda, 87, American politician, member of the
Florida House of Representatives (1941-1953). •
Mahmoud Kaveh, 25, Iranian military commander (
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), killed in action. •
Nuno Morais, 63, Portuguese Olympic sprinter (
1948). •
Billy Taylor, 80, American jazz bassist, stroke. •
Jim Wilson, 64, American Major League baseball player (
Boston/Milwaukee Braves), lung cancer.
3 •
Vasantrao Ghatge, 70, Indian business magnate. •
Wirgiliusz Gryń, 58, Polish actor (
Pastorale Heroica). •
Horace King, 85, British politician,
Speaker of the House of Commons, stroke. •
Glennon T. Moran, 67, American
WWII flying ace. •
Ted Moult, 60, British radio and television personality (
Brain of Britain), suicide. •
Knocky Parker, 68, American jazz pianist. •
Vittorino Veronese, 76, Italian lawyer, director-general of
UNESCO. •
Frank Corbett Welch, 86, Canadian politician, member of the
Senate of Canada (1962-1975). •
Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr., 80, American district judge (Massachusetts).
4 •
Christer Boustedt, 47, Swedish musician and actor. •
Sid Elliott, 71, Australian rugby league footballer. •
Roberto Gavaldón, 77, Mexican film director (
Macario). •
Otto Glória, 69, Brazilian football manager (
Benfica,
Nigeria). •
Hank Greenberg, 75, American baseball player (
Detroit Tigers), kidney cancer. •
Decio Klettenberg, 84, Brazilian Olympic rower (
1936). •
Wayne Nance, 30, American serial killer ("The Missoula Mauler"), shot. •
Frank Stewart, 76, Australian rules footballer. •
Sid Tanenbaum, 60, American basketball player (
New York Knicks), murdered. •
Walter Wanderley, 54, Brazilian organist and pianist ("
Summer Samba"), cancer. •
Dov Zakin, 63, Polish-born Israeli politician, member of the
Knesset (1969-1977, 1981-1984).
5 •
Neerja Bhanot, 22, Indian flight
purser, saved passengers from hijackers,
shot. •
Alvin Heaps, 66, American labor union leader (
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union). •
Noel Kempff Mercado, 62, Bolivian biologist and environmentalist, murdered. •
József Kiss, 77, Hungarian Olympic long-distance runner (
1948). •
Niigiyama Tadashi, 46, Japanese sumo wrestler. •
Erich Schumacher, 77, German theater director. •
Ganapathi Thanikaimoni, 48, Indian
palynologist,
shot. •
Trần Quốc Hoàn, 70, North Vietnamese politician (
Ministry of Public Security).
6 •
Weston Bousfield, 82, American psychologist. •
Jacek Daniluk, 25, Polish Olympic equestrian (
1980). •
William Littell Everitt, 86, American electrical engineer. •
George Gipe, 53, American author and screenwriter (''
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid''), allergic reaction to bee sting. •
John Stanley Grauel, 68, American priest and
Christian Zionist leader. •
Suresh Joshi, 65, Indian
Gujarati writer (
Grihapravesh), kidney failure. •
George P. Monaghan, 85, American lawyer and commissioner of
fire and
police. •
Ernest Schmidt, 75, American college basketball player. •
Blanche Sweet, 90, American silent-screen actress (
The Lonedale Operator,
Judith of Bethulia), stroke.
7 •
Skipper Bowles, 66, American politician and businessman, Lou Gehrig's disease. •
Les Bury, 73, English-born Australian politician,
Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Treasurer. •
Nelson Dunford, 79, American mathematician (
Dunford–Pettis property). •
Antonín Gregor, 77, Czechoslovak politician. •
Spencer Le Marchant, 55, British politician, Member of Parliament. •
Monte McDaniel, 91, American football player and coach. •
Dan K. Moore, 80, American politician,
Governor of North Carolina. •
Omar Ali Saifuddien III, 71, Bruneian royal, Sultan of Brunei. •
P. S. Ramakrishna Rao, 67, Indian filmmaker. •
Vladimir Vlasov, 83, Soviet composer and conductor. •
Hewitt T. Wheless, 72, American air force general.
8 •
Ferenc Hatlaczky, 52, Hungarian Olympic sprint canoer (
1956). •
Vladimír Janoušek, 64, Czech sculptor and painter. •
Ray Nazarro, 83, American film and television director and screenwriter (
Bullfighter and the Lady). •
Idar Norstrand, 71, Norwegian civil servant. •
Alfred Schaefer, 81, Swiss banker, president of the
Union Bank of Switzerland. •
Tomasz Stefaniszyn, 57, Polish Olympic footballer (
1952,
1960).
9 •
Kessler R. Cannon, 70, American politician and radio broadcaster, member of the
Oregon House of Representatives. •
Robert Shackleton, 66, English
philologist. •
Magda Tagliaferro, 93, Brazilian pianist, heart attack. •
Franciszek Tim, 62, Polish footballer. •
Andrew Zondo, 19, South African criminal, executed for murder.
10 •
Pepper Adams, 55, American jazz saxophonist and composer, lung cancer. •
Dame Mary Austin, 86, Australian community worker and political activist. •
Jake Bornheimer, 59, American
National Basketball Association player (
Philadelphia Warriors). •
Deane Gundlock, 72, Canadian politician, member of the
House of Commons of Canada (1958-1972). •
Kairyūyama Teruhisa, 47, Japanese sumo wrestler. •
María Dolores Katarain, 32, Spanish Basque separatist leader, murdered. •
Anna Koutsoyiannis, 53–54, Greek-born British microeconomist. •
Sobhi Mahmassani, 77, Lebanese lawyer and politician, Member of Parliament, lung cancer. •
Eddie Rodden, 85, Canadian NHL player. •
Ronnie Shade, 47, Scottish golfer. •
Harry Shafransky, 56, Canadian politician, member of the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba (1969-1977). •
Koji Shima, 85, Japanese actor, film director and screenwriter (
Unforgettable Trail).
11 •
Arthur Carr, 76, British Olympic equestrian bronze medalist (
1948). •
Harry Haslam, 65, English footballer and manager (
Sheffield United). •
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, 83, Greek politician,
Prime Minister, heart attack. •
Galo Miño, 33, Ecuadorian Olympic sports shooter (
1984). •
Otho Nitcholas, 77, American Major League Baseball player (
Brooklyn Dodgers). •
Felix Perrault, 70, American politician, member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives (1965-1979). •
Henry DeWolf Smyth, 88, American physicist and diplomat, participant in the
Manhattan Project, cardiac arrest. •
Noel Streatfeild, 90, English children's author (
The Circus Is Coming). •
Billy Walsh, 75, Australian rules footballer.
12 •
Marcel Boigegrain, 57, French Olympic coxswain (
1948). •
James Louis Connolly, 91, American bishop of the
Diocese of Fall River. •
Ernst Haas, 65, Austrian-born American photojournalist, stroke. •
Jacques Henri Lartigue, 92, French photographer and painter. •
Manjula, 31, Indian actress in
Kannada language films (
Sampathige Savaal,
Eradu Kanasu), suicide. •
Harold Moody, 70, British shot putter and Olympian. •
Frank Nelson, 75, American comedic actor (
The Jack Benny Program), cancer. •
Ernst Paulus, 89, German Olympic athlete (
1928). •
Earl Robinson, 79, Canadian NHL player. •
Gerhard Rohlfs, 94, German linguist. •
Jim Shilling, 72, American Major League Baseball player (
Cleveland Indians,
Philadelphia Phillies) •
Bruce Wardlaw, 72, Australian cricketer and footballer. •
Charlotte Wolff, 88, German-British
sexologist, proponent of racist views.
13 •
Antonio Mota, 47, Mexican footballer (
Necaxa,
Mexico). •
Neil Robinson, 24, Northern Irish racing cyclist, racing crash. •
Sam Shields, 57, Scottish footballer. •
Oscar Wight, 80, Guyanese cricketer. •
Roger Wrightson, 46, English cricketer.
14 •
Charlie Adams 89, Australian rules footballer. •
William Edmund Barrett, 85, American writer (
The Lilies of the Field). •
John Bingham, 32–33, Northern Irish
loyalist soldier, shot. •
David Harold Byrd, 86, American oil executive. •
William Hall, 83, American actor. •
Dick May, 76, Australian rules footballer. •
Gordon McLendon, 65, American radio broadcaster, cancer. •
Robert Nisbet, 85, British Olympic rower (
1928).
15 •
Don Bennett, 76, Australian air vice marshal in the Royal Air Force and British politician, Member of Parliament. •
Jaroslav Burgr, 80, Czechoslavakian footballer (
Sparta Prague,
Czechoslovakia). •
Bill Butler, 66, Australian rules footballer. •
Virginia Gregg, 70, American actress (
Dragnet), lung cancer. •
Eric Hiscock, 78, British sailor and author. •
Joseph M. Pettit, 70, American engineer and academic administrator, president of
Georgia Tech, cancer. •
Elizabeth Titzel Riefstahl, 97, American archaeologist. •
Ramón Alberto Villaverde, 56, Uruguayan footballer (
FC Barcelona).
16 •
Jim Brough, 82, English footballer, rugby union and rugby league player (
Leeds,
Great Britain). •
Leobardo Candiani, 81, Mexican Olympic fencer (
1932). •
Beppe Croce, 71, Italian Olympic sailor (
1948). •
Puran Chandra Gupta, 74, Indian journalist (
Dainik Jagran). •
Denis Guye, 85, English Olympic rower (
1928). •
Darold Jenkins, 67, American college football player (
Missouri). •
Walter Lehweß-Litzmann, 79, Nazi German Luftwaffe pilot,
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipient. •
Francesco Malatesta, 79, Italian Olympic cyclist (
1928). •
Walter Matthews, 86, Canadian politician, member of the
House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962).
17 •
Erich Bautz, 73, German racing cyclist. •
Johnny Cook, 60, American
CFL player. •
Alec Fraser-Brunner, 80, British ichthyologist, curator of the
Van Kleef Aquarium, designer of the
Merlion. •
Jon Gould, 33, American film executive, AIDS. •
Joe Kennedy, 60, English footballer (
West Bromwich Albion). •
Pat Phoenix, 62, English actress (
Coronation Street), lung cancer. •
Henrik Sjögren, 87, Swedish
ophthalmologist, describer of
Sjögren syndrome.
18 •
Aljoša Buha, 24, Yugoslavian musician (
Crvena Jabuka), traffic collision. •
Corita Kent, 67, American artist, ovarian cancer. •
Shelton Perera, 47, Sri Lankan
tabla player and singer.
19 •
Hubert Badanai, 91, Italian-born Canadian politician. •
Harry J. W. Belvin, American politician, chief of
Choctaw Nation, member of Oklahoma House of Representatives and Senate. •
James H. Gray Sr., 70, American politician, mayor of
Albany, Georgia, editor of
The Albany Herald, heart attack. •
Ainslie Meares, 76, Australian psychiatrist, pneumonia. •
Ramón Orriols, 74, Spanish footballer. •
Lawrence Pendred, 87 British RAF officer. •
Wyatt Turner, 77, American baseball player.
20 •
John C. Becher, 71, American actor, cancer. •
Christopher Butler, 84, English bishop. •
Chester A. Chesney, 70, American politician and NFL footballer (
Chicago Bears), member of U.S. House of Representatives. •
Norman Chester, 78, British economist, warden of
Nuffield College, Oxford. •
Ray Eddy, 75, American basketballer and coach. •
James Hardy, 63, American Olympic rower (
1948). •
Iorgu Iordan, 97, Romanian linguist, diplomat and politician. •
Fred Macbeth, 76, Canadian Olympic sprinter (
1928). •
Bob McChesney, 74, American NFL player (
Boston/Washington Redskins). •
William W. Outerbridge, 80, American navy rear admiral, fired first shots in defence of U.S.A. in World War II. •
Dennis Spooner, 53, English television writer (
Doctor Who), heart attack. •
Nicolae Testemițanu, 59, Soviet surgeon and politician, Minister of Health for Moldova.
21 •
Jonah Barrington, 82, British journalist (
Daily Express). •
George Brenlin, 58, American actor (
Young and Dangerous). •
Cheryl Keaton, 36, American lawyer and murder victim. •
John Kuck, 81, American shot putter and Olympic gold medalist (
1928). •
Clancy Williams, 43, American NFL footballer (
Los Angeles Rams), cancer. •
Rex Woods, 94, British Olympic athlete (
1924,
1928).
22 •
József Asbóth, 69, Hungarian tennis player,
French Open winner. •
Bernie Cummins, 86, American jazz drummer. •
Janet Davies, 59, English actress (''
Dad's Army''), breast cancer. •
Yussuf Hamis, 65, Israeli Arab politician, member of the
Knesset (1955-1965). •
Theodore H. McCrea, 78, American prelate. •
Sohan Singh Misha, 52, Indian
Punjabi poet. •
Lloyd Peterson, 86, American college football, basketball, and wrestling coach. •
Erik Svensson, 83, Swedish Olympic athlete (
1928,
1932). •
Abdel-Kader Zaaf, 69, Algerian racing cyclist.
23 •
Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield, 96, Austro-Hungarian World War I flying ace. •
Theresa Sherrer Davidson, 92, American classicist and lawyer. •
Gordie Drillon, 72, Canadian ice hockey player (
Toronto Maple Leafs). •
Bert Hodges, 81, Welsh cricketer. •
Sir Vincent Lloyd-Jones, 84, Welsh barrister and judge of the
High Court. •
Domingo Moreno Jimenes, 92, Dominican writer. •
Johannes-Rudolf Mühlenkamp, 75, Nazi German Waffen-SS officer. •
C. A. Patrides, 56, American writer, AIDS. •
Percy Peter, 84, English Olympic swimmer and water polo player. (
1920,
1924,
1928).
24 •
Uell Stanley Andersen, 69, American NFL footballer (
Cleveland Rams) and author (
Three Magic Words). •
Maurice Delvart, 87, French Olympic sprinter (
1920). •
Prudence Glynn, 51, British fashion editor and author, brain haemorrhage. •
Haskell Harr, 92, American percussionist, composer, and bandleader. •
Dorothy Pilley Richards, 92, English mountaineer and writer (
Climbing Days). •
Harald Selås, 78, Norwegian politician. •
Adolf Tolkachev, 59, Soviet electronics engineer and double agent, executed.
25 •
Geoff Alley, 83, New Zealand rugby union player and librarian. •
Ted Bishop, 73, American golfer. •
Bill Booth, 67, Canadian ice hockey player. •
Darshan Singh Canadian, 68–69, Indian
Sikh trade unionist, murdered. •
John Carroll, 64, Canadian politician, member of the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. •
Henning Helgesson, 86, Swedish footballer. •
Svante Johansson, 59, Swedish Olympic diver (
1948). •
Bill Lever, 82, Australian rules footballer. •
Donald MacDonald, 77, Canadian politician, member of the
Nova Scotia House of Assembly, cancer. •
Barney Mullan, unknown, Irish rugby union footballer. •
Marcel Rüedi, 47, Swiss mountain climber, died on a climb. •
Nikolay Semyonov, 90, Soviet physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry. •
Hubertus Strughold, 88, German-American physiologist and unconvicted war criminal (
space medicine). •
Hans Vogt, 83, Norwegian linguist (
Caucasian languages). •
James B. Wilson, 90, American football player and coach.
26 •
Jacob Agus, 74, Polish-born American rabbi and theologian. •
Roger Howard Cilley, 68, American bishop. •
Wilson Faumuina, 32, American NFL footballer (
Atlanta Falcons), heart failure. •
Hugh Franklin, 70, American actor (
All My Children), cancer. •
Brian Desmond Hurst, 91, Irish film director (
Scrooge). •
Billy Key, 90, British Indian Army general. •
André Maelbrancke, 68, Belgian racing cyclist. •
Noboru Terada, 68, Japanese Olympic swimmer (
1936).
27 •
Tony Acquaviva, 61, American composer and conductor, diabetes. •
Cliff Burton, 24, American bassist (
Metallica), traffic collision. •
Jessie Eden, 84, British trade union leader. •
Michael Joseph Hogan, 78, Irish juror and judge,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. •
Richard Krygier, 69, Polish-born Australian publisher and journalist. •
Olga Masters, 67, Australian journalist (
The Sydney Morning Herald,
Manly Daily). •
George Nichols, 79, American boxer. •
Éva Ruttkai, 58, Hungarian actress, breast cancer. •
Chuck Sheerin, 77, American Major League Baseball player (
Philadelphia Phillies). •
Georg Voggenreiter, 74, German racing cyclist,
German National Road Race winner.
28 •
Denis Carey, 77, British actor (
A Beast With Two Backs,
The Barchester Chronicles). •
Carmen De Rue, 78, American child actress and dancer, heart attack. •
Justo Gonzalo, 76, Spanish neuroscientist. •
Howard Graham, 88, Canadian army general,
Chief of the General Staff. •
Sir Robert Helpmann, 77, Australian ballet dancer, choreographer and actor (
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), emphysema. •
Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, 87, Polish novelist. •
Kiyoshi Tanimoto, 77, Japanese Methodist minister and
Hiroshima survivor. •
Richard C. Turner, 58, American politician, member of the
Iowa Senate, heart attack. •
Glauco Vanz, 66, Italian Olympic footballer (
1948). •
Anthony Vince, 84, Canadian Olympic sprinter (
1924).
29 •
Les Field, 64, Australian rules footballer. •
Prince Georg of Denmark, 66, Danish royal and diplomat. •
Reg Goodwin, 78, British politician, leader of the
Greater London Council. •
Artie Gore, 78, American baseball umpire. •
Maurice Harland, 90, British Anglican prelate,
Bishop of Durham. •
M. D. H. Jayawardena, 71, Sri Lankan politician,
Minister of Health, heart ailment. •
Betty Kean, 71, American actress, cancer. •
Moestopo, 73, Indonesian general. •
Al Passarell, 36, Canadian politician,
British Columbia MLA (1979-1986), plane crash. •
Helmut Qualtinger, 57, Austrian actor and cabaret performer, liver disease. •
Theodor Schwenk, 75, German
anthroposophist, water researcher and author (
Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air).
30 •
Franz Burda, 83, German publisher (
Hubert Burda Media). •
Arthur A. Cohen, 58, American novelist and theologian, leukemia. •
Storm Jameson, 95, English journalist and author (
In the Days of Simon Stern). •
Nicholas Kaldor, 78, Hungarian-born British economist (
cobweb model). •
Noel Kirsten, 60, South African cricketer. •
Laurier Lister, 79, English theatre writer, actor and director. •
Buster Millerick, 80, American racehorse trainer. •
Tommy Reynolds, 69, American jazz clarinetist. •
Kamaruzaman Sjam, 62, Indonesian communist activist, executed. •
Wilfrid Timms, 84, English cricketer and schoolteacher. ==References==