Deaths in May 2008
List of notable deaths in a month
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 2008
1
Aden Hashi Farah Ayro , Somalian politician and Al-Shabaab member, air strike.[1]
Paulo Amaral , 84, Brazilian football player (Flamengo ) and coach (Juventus ).[2]
SM Nasimuddin SM Amin , 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza , lung cancer.[3]
Bernard Archard , 91, British actor (Krull , Doctor Who , Emmerdale ).[4]
Buzzie Bavasi , 93, American baseball executive (Dodgers , Angels , Padres ).[5]
Mary Berry , 90, British musicologist and nun.[6]
Philipp von Boeselager , 90, German World War II anti-Hitler conspirator.[7]
Nirmala Deshpande , 78, Indian peace activist, after brief illness.[8]
Elaine Dundy , 86, American writer and actress.[9]
Aden Hashi Farah , Somali leader of Al-Shabab insurgent group, air strike.[10]
Jim Hager , 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw ), heart attack.[11]
Mark Kendall , 49, British footballer (Spurs , Newport , Wolves ).[12]
Sir Anthony Mamo , 99, Maltese politician, first president of the Republic of Malta.[13]
Alberto Estima de Oliveira , 74, Portuguese poet.[14]
Deborah Jeane Palfrey , 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging.[15]
Marcel Van Der Auwera , 84, Belgian fencer.[16]
J. J. Voskuil , 81, Dutch novelist.[17]
2
Josephine Apieu Jenaro Aken , 53, South Sudanese civil servant, plane crash.[18]
Robert Brachtenbach , 77, American jurist, Washington State Supreme Court justice (1972–1994), throat cancer.[19]
Carole Dekeijser , 48, Belgian painter, lung cancer.[20]
Dominic Dim Deng , 58, Sudanese politician, defence minister for Southern Sudan , plane crash.[21]
Robert M. Isaac , 80, American politician, mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado (1979–1997), pneumonia.[22]
Sergio Lauricella , 86, Italian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948 ) composer.[23]
Mildred Loving , 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia ).[24]
Ilyas Malayev , 72, Uzbekistani musician and poet, pancreatic cancer.[25]
Beverlee McKinsey , 72, American actress (Another World , Guiding Light , Bronco Billy ), complications from kidney transplant.[26]
Izold Pustõlnik , 70, Ukrainian-born Estonian astronomer.[27]
Daniel Sekhoto , 37, South African football player.[28]
Mike Titcomb , 75, British rugby union referee, kidney failure.[29]
Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr. , 93, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Ruffian ).[30]
Justin Yak , Sudanese politician, minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash.[21]
3
Charles Caccia , 78, Canadian politician, environmentalist, Liberal MP for Davenport (1968–2004), complications of stroke.[31]
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo , 82, Spanish prime minister (1981–1982), natural causes.[32]
Eight Belles , 3, American racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby 2nd-place finisher, euthanized.[33]
Martin Finnegan , 27, Irish motorbike racer, race crash.[34]
Fay Gale , 75, Australian cultural geographer.[35]
Lynne Cooper Harvey , 92, American radio producer, Radio Hall of Fame member, wife of Paul Harvey , leukemia.[36]
Ted Key , 95, American cartoonist (Hazel ), bladder cancer and stroke.[37]
Hanon Reznikov , 57, American playwright.[38]
Morgan Sparks , 91, American engineer, inventor of the first practical bipolar junction transistor .[39]
Ngugi wa Mirii , 57, Kenyan playwright, car accident.[40]
4
Roger Aeschlimann , 84, Swiss cyclist.[41]
John Altieri , 38, American actor (Jersey Boys ), pneumonia.[42]
Fred Baur , 89, American chemist, inventor of the Pringles can.[43]
Alvin Colt , 92, American Tony Award-winning costume designer (On the Town , Guys and Dolls , Pipe Dream , Li'l Abner ).[44]
John Greenwood , 57, British businessman and catering executive, motor neurone disease.[45]
Fred Haines , 72, American screenwriter and film director, lung cancer.[46]
Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham , 71, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.[47]
Kishan Maharaj , 84, Indian musician, leading exponent of the Benares gharana tabla, stroke.[48]
Colin Murdoch , 79, New Zealand inventor of the disposable hypodermic syringe and the tranquilizer gun , cancer.[49]
5
Sam Aubrey , 85, American basketball player and coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys ).[50]
Thomas Boggs , 63, American drummer (Box Tops ), owner of Huey's Restaurants.[51]
Hugh Bradner , 92, American scientist credited with inventing the wetsuit , complications of pneumonia.[52]
Pak Kyongni , 82, South Korean novelist, lung cancer.[53]
Irv Robbins , 90, American businessman, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain.[54] [55]
Zvonko Sabolović , 84, Yugoslav Olympic sprinter.[56]
Alma Hogan Snell , 85, American Crow tribal nation historian, herbalist, granddaughter of Pretty Shield .[57]
Jerry Wallace , 79, American country music singer, heart failure.[58]
Witold Woyda , 68, Polish fencer, double gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics , lung cancer.[59]
6
John Jay Iselin , 74, American public television innovator, descendant of John Jay , pneumonia.[60]
Franz Jackson , 95, American saxophonist.[61]
Harvey Karman , 84, American psychologist and women's reproductive health advocate, inventor of the Karman cannula , stroke.[62]
William Earl Lynd , 53, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.[63]
Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach , 74, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.[64]
D.C. Minner , 73, American blues musician.[65]
John Reames , 65, British football manager and administrator, cancer.[66]
Mark Saunders , 32, British barrister, shot by police.[67]
7
William Douglas Allen , 94, British physicist and electrical engineer.[68]
John Earle , 64, Irish saxophonist.[69]
Neeraj Grover , 26, Indian television executive and producer (Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? ), beaten.[70]
Rachel Hoffman , 23, American police informant, murdered.[71]
Clifford L. Jones , 80, American politician, Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman, prostate cancer.[72]
Donald Montrose , 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Stockton (1986–1999).[73]
Thijs Wöltgens , 64, Dutch politician, mayor of Kerkrade (1994–2000), senator (1995–2005).[74]
Gernot Zippe , 90, Austrian engineer.[75]
8
Al-Bandari bint Abdulaziz , 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia .[76]
Eddy Arnold , 89, American country music singer.[77]
Willem Brakman , 85, Dutch author.[78]
Ian Brodie , 72, British foreign correspondent (The Daily Telegraph ).[79]
Jose Feria , 91, Filipino supreme court justice (1986–1987).[80]
Yasuharu Furuta , 93, Japanese Olympic hurdler.[81]
Murray Jarvik , 84, American academic and co-inventor of the nicotine patch , heart failure.[82]
Larry Levine , 80, American Grammy-winning audio engineer (Wall of Sound ), emphysema.[83]
Luigi Malerba , 81, Italian writer.[84]
Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez , 41, Mexican federal police anti-drug coordinator, shot.[85]
François Sterchele , 26, Belgian footballer (Belgium , Club Brugge ), car accident.[86]
9
James Atkinson , 92, British physicist.[87]
Firoz Dastur , 89, Indian Hindustani classical musician (Kirana Gharana ), anaemia.[88]
Jack Gibson , 79, Australian rugby league player and coach, selected as "Coach of the Century" .[89]
Judy Grable , 72, American female professional wrestler.[90]
Shmuel Katz , 93, Israeli writer, historian and journalist.[91]
Arthur Kroeger , 76, Canadian civil servant (1958–1992), academic and chancellor of Carleton University (1993–2002).[92]
Baptiste Manzini , 87, American football player.[93]
Nuala O'Faolain , 68, Irish journalist and author, lung cancer.[94] [95]
Mamadou N'Diaye , 68, Senegalese Olympic sprinter.[96]
Ronald Parise , 56, American astronaut, brain tumor.[97]
Esteban Robles Espinosa , Mexican police commander, shot.[98]
Pascal Sevran , 62, French television presenter and producer, lyricist and writer, lung cancer.[99]
Sinan Sofuoğlu , 25, Turkish motorcycle racer, training crash.[100]
Artur da Távola , 72, Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, heart disease.[101]
10
Sir John Barraclough , 90, British air marshal.[102]
Leyla Gencer , 79, Turkish soprano opera singer, respiratory and cardiac failure.[103]
Paul Haeberlin , 84, French chef and restaurateur (L'Auberge de l'Ill).[104]
Jessica Jacobs , 17, Australian singer and actress (The Saddle Club ), fell under train.[105] [106]
Liao Feng-Teh , 57, Taiwanese incoming interior minister, heart attack.[107]
Eusebio Ríos , 73, Spanish international footballer and coach.[108]
Mario Schiano , 74, Italian jazz saxophonist, after long Illness.[109]
Peter Thurnham , 69, British MP for Bolton North East (1983–1997), pancreatic cancer.[110]
11
Sir Austin Bide , 92, British chemist and industrialist.[111]
Sam Dauya , 70, Zimbabwean founder of Dynamos F.C. football team.[112]
Alema Leota , 80, American alleged organized crime leader, 1978 candidate for governor of Hawaii, injuries from car accident.[113]
Raymattja Marika , 49, Australian Yolngu scholar, linguist, educator and cultural advocate, heart attack.[114]
Bruno Neves , 27, Portuguese cyclist, crash during race.[115]
Dottie Rambo , 74, American gospel singer, bus crash.[116]
John Rutsey , 55, Canadian drummer (Rush ), heart attack.[117]
Heather Stohler , 29, American model for Calvin Klein , fire.[118]
Dick Sutcliffe , 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath , stroke.[119]
Jeff Torrington , 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing ), Parkinson's disease.[120]
Curtis Whitley , 39, American football player (San Diego Chargers , Carolina Panthers , Oakland Raiders ).[121]
12
Seton Airlie , 88, Scottish footballer.[122]
Penny Banner , 73, American professional wrestler, cancer.[123]
David Daniels , 74, American poet.[124]
Oakley Hall , 87, American novelist (Warlock ), kidney disease and cancer.[125]
Lidiya Masterkova , 81, Russian-born French painter.[126]
Natural Blitz , 7–8, Australian-bred stallion.[127]
Robert Rauschenberg , 82, American pop artist, heart failure.[128]
Bruce Sayers , 80, British electrical engineer.[129]
Irena Sendler , 98, Polish humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.[130]
13
Jill Adams , 77, British actress, cancer.[131]
Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah , 78, Kuwaiti emir (2006).[132]
Dolores Alexander , 76, American feminist, writer, and reporter.[133]
Charles Gary Allison , 69–70, American screenwriter and film producer.[134]
Lucius D. Battle , 89, American ambassador to Egypt (1964–1967), Parkinson's disease.[135]
Bernardin Gantin , 86, Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[136]
John Phillip Law , 70, American actor (Barbarella ).[137]
Larry McKeon , 63, American politician, first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly , stroke.[138]
Colea Răutu , 95, Romanian actor, cirrhosis.[139]
Ron Stone , 72, American news anchor (KHOU , KPRC in Houston), prostate cancer.[140]
Costică Toma , 80, Romanian football goalkeeper (Romania , Steaua București ).[141]
Maheswary Velautham , Sri Lankan lawyer and activist, shot.[142]
Roger Harold Metford Warner , 95, British antiques dealer.[143]
14
Frith Banbury , 96, British stage director and actor, liver cancer.[144]
Dagmar Barnouw , 72, German cultural historian.[145]
Arthur Burks , 92, American mathematician and computer pioneer , Alzheimer's disease.[146]
Warren Cowan , 87, American publicist, cancer.[147]
Roger Ellis , 70, American football player, cancer.[148]
John Forbes-Robertson , 80, British actor.[149]
Derek Goodwin , 88, British ornithologist.[150]
Roy Heath , 81, Guyanese writer.[151]
Jay Morago , 90, American governor of the Gila River Indian Community (1954–1960), cancer.[152]
Tonderai Ndira , 33, Zimbabwean political dissident, murdered.[153]
Yuri Rytkheu , 78, Russian Chukchi language writer.[154]
Mário Schoemberger , 56, Brazilian film, television and stage actor, cancer.[155]
Richard David Vine , 82, American diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland (1979–1981).[156]
15
Del Ankers , 91, American cinematographer and photographer (Muppets commercials).[157]
Henry Austin , 88, Indian diplomat and politician, ambassador to Portugal.[158]
Tommy Burns , 51, Scottish football player and manager (Celtic , Kilmarnock , Reading ), melanoma.[159]
Tove Billington Bye , 79, Norwegian politician.[160]
Alexander Courage , 88, American television composer (Star Trek , The Waltons ) and orchestrator (Jurassic Park ).[161]
Anthony Denness , 71, English cricketer.[162]
Walt Dickerson , 80, American vibraphonist, cardiac arrest.[163]
Robert Dunlop , 47, British motorcycle racer, chest injuries.[164]
Will Elder , 86, American comic book artist (Mad , Little Annie Fanny ), Parkinson's disease.[165] [166]
Bob Florence , 75, American jazz composer and arranger, pneumonia.[167]
Youssef Idilbi , 32, Dutch actor, suicide.[168]
Willis Lamb , 94, American physicist, Nobel laureate in physics (1955), complications of gallstone disorder.[169]
Earl Leggett , 75, American football player and coach.[170]
Yanks Music , 14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[171]
16
Charles J. Adams , 91, American politician.[citation needed ]
Aonosato Sakari , 72, Japanese sumo wrestler.[172]
William Blease, Baron Blease , 93, British politician.[173]
Henry Canoy , 84, Filipino businessman, founder of Radio Mindanao Network .[174]
Sandy Howard , 80, American film and television producer (A Man Called Horse ), Alzheimer's disease.[175]
David Mitton , 69, British animation director (Thomas & Friends , Thunderbirds ), heart attack.[176]
Robert Mondavi , 94, American winemaker, benefactor of the Mondavi Center , member of the California Hall of Fame .[177]
Igor Polyakov , 95, Russian rower, 1952 Olympic silver medalist .[178]
Marc Rabémila , 70, Malagasy Olympic athlete.[179]
Jimmy Slyde , 80, American tap dancer.[180]
Peter Rolfe Vaughan , 73, English scientist, heart attack.[181]
17
Jolyon Brettingham Smith , 58, British composer, musicologist and radio presenter.[182]
John Fitzsimmons , 68, British Roman Catholic priest and broadcaster, after long illness.[183]
Thomas Flatley , 76, American real estate tycoon and philanthropist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[184]
Zélia Gattai , 91, Brazilian writer and novelist, wife of Jorge Amado .[185]
Wilfrid Mellers , 94, British composer and author.[186]
D. Aubrey Moodie , 99, Canadian politician.[187]
Jack Rayner , 87, Australian rugby league player.[188]
Sophan Sophiaan , 64, Indonesian actor and politician, motorcycle accident.[189]
Joyce Trimmer , 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Scarborough , Ontario (1988–1994), cancer.[190]
Lionel Van Deerlin , 93, American politician and journalist, representative from California (1963–1981).[191]
18
Lionel Algama , 73, Sri Lankan singer, composer and a musician.[192]
Pietro Cascella , 87, Italian contemporary artist.[193]
Irma Córdoba , 94, Argentine actress, natural causes.[194]
Jonathan James , 24, American cyber criminal.[195]
John Lucas , 85, Barbadian-born Canadian cricketer.[196]
Lloyd Moore , 95, American NASCAR driver (1949–1955).[197]
Elemore Morgan, Jr. , 76, American landscape artist.[198]
Jack Norris , 99, American football player.[199]
Joseph Pevney , 96, American television and film director (Bonanza , Star Trek , The Paper Chase , Trapper John, M.D. ).[200]
19
Nigel Cassidy , 62, British footballer.[201]
Larry Coutre , 80, American football player (Green Bay Packers ).[202]
Jack Duffy , 81, Canadian comedian, natural causes.[203]
Chaim Flom , 56, Israeli scholar and rosh yeshiva .[204]
Huntington Hartford , 97, American businessman and philanthropist.[205]
Barclay Howard , 55, British golfer.[206]
Rimma Kazakova , 76, Russian poet.[207]
Mariam McGlone , 92, American dancer and choreographer.[208]
Kjell Kristian Rike , 63, Norwegian sports commentator.[209]
André Schlupp , 78, French Olympic basketball player.[210]
Vijay Tendulkar , 80, Indian playwright, myasthenia gravis .[211]
20
Iona Banks , 87, British actress (Pobol y Cwm ).[212]
Crispin Beltran , 75, Filipino congressman and labor leader, head injuries from a fall.[213]
Viktor Bortsov , 73, Russian actor, intestinal cancer.[214]
Margot Boyd , 94, British actress (The Archers ).[215]
Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison , 71, British footballer and trade unionist.[216]
Charles William John Eliot , 79, Canadian academic administrator, president of the University of Prince Edward Island (1985–1995), complications of a stroke.[217]
Joachim Erwin , 58, German politician, mayor of Düsseldorf, colorectal cancer.[218]
Gonzalo Figueroa Garcia Huidobro , 77, Chilean archaeologist.[219]
Herb Hash , 97, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox ), stroke.[220]
Harald Hein , 58, German Olympic fencer.[221]
Zelma Henderson , 88, American last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education , pancreatic cancer.[222]
Hamilton Jordan , 63, American politician, Jimmy Carter 's White House chief of staff (1979–1980), mesothelioma.[223]
Baine Kerr , 88, American lawyer and oil executive.[224]
Cy Leonard , 82, Canadian ventriloquist.[225]
Ali Sadikin , 80, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta (1966–1977), liver cancer.[226]
S. K. Trimurti , 96, Indonesian journalist, first minister of labor and employment, natural causes.[227]
21
Bert André , 66, Dutch actor (Flodder ), intracranial hemorrhage[228]
Earl Wesley Berry , 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[229]
Mel Casson , 87, American cartoonist (Redeye ).[230]
Brian Keenan , 66, Irish IRA commander, cancer.[231]
Ted Lanyon , 68, Canadian ice hockey player.[232]
Michelle Meldrum , 39, American rock guitarist (Phantom Blue , Meldrum ), cystic growth on the brain.[233]
John Aloysius Morgan , 98, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.[234]
Siegmund Nissel , 86, German-born British violinist (Amadeus Quartet ).[235]
Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos , 77, Portuguese artist and engraver, long illness.[236]
Torcato Sepúlveda , 57, Portuguese journalist.[237]
Jeheskel Shoshani , 65, Israeli-born American elephant expert, bus explosion.[238]
22
Melek Amet , 47, Romanian model, ovarian cancer.[citation needed ]
Robert Asprin , 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures ), heart attack.[239]
Charlie Booth , 104, Australian athlete, inventor of the starting block.[240]
Harry Lange , 77, German production designer and art director (2001: A Space Odyssey , Star Wars , The Dark Crystal ).[241]
Jack Mildren , 58, American football player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (1990–1995), stomach cancer.[242]
Paul Patrick , 58, British gay rights activist, chronic lung condition.[243]
Hana Maria Pravda , 90, Czech actress and Holocaust survivor.[244]
Tubby T , 33, British dancehall/garage musician, stroke.[245]
23
Nigel Anderson , 88, British soldier, landowner, and politician.[246]
Alan Brien , 83, British journalist and critic.[247]
Cornell Capa , 90, American photographer, founder of the International Center of Photography .[248]
Roberto Freire , 81, Brazilian writer and psychiatrist, created somatherapy .[249]
Dritan Hoxha , 39, Albanian businessman, car accident.[250]
Thelma Keane , 82, Australian-born American who inspired husband Bil 's comic strip The Family Circus , Alzheimer's disease.[251]
Heinz Kwiatkowski , 81, German footballer, member of 1954 FIFA World Cup -winning team.[252]
Iñaki Ochoa de Olza , 40, Spanish mountaineer and alpinist, pulmonary edema while climbing Annapurna .[253]
Jefferson Peres , 76, Brazilian senator from Amazonas , heart attack.[254]
Utah Phillips , 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure.[255]
Jack Smith , 72, English football player (Hartlepool United , Swindon Town , Margate ) and manager.[256]
24
Adam Baruch , 63, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic, diabetes complications.[257]
Bob Beck , 63, Guamanian zoologist and conservationist, worked to save Guam rail native birds.[258]
Tano Cimarosa , 86, Italian actor.[259]
Reg Flewin , 87, British footballer.[260]
Rob Knox , 18, British actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ), stabbed.[261]
Eugenio Garza Lagüera , 84, Mexican businessman, president of FEMSA , natural causes.[262]
Isaac Lipschits , 77, Dutch political scientist and historian, natural causes.[263]
Dick Martin , 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ), respiratory complications.[264]
Jimmy McGriff , 72, American jazz and blues organist, multiple sclerosis.[265]
Sonny Okosun , 61, Nigerian musician, colon cancer.[266]
25
Nadia Arslan , 59, Lebanese actress, breast cancer.[267]
Louise Firouz , 74, American horse breeder.[268]
George Garrett , 78, American novelist and poet, cancer.[269]
Geremi González , 33, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, lightning strike.[270]
James D. Griffin , 78, American mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.[271]
Bukhuti Gurgenidze , 74, Georgian chess grandmaster.[272]
Ítalo Argentino Lúder , 91, Argentine acting president (1975).[273]
Tom McHale , 45, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers ).[274]
Mitch Mullany , 39, American comedian and actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher , The Wayans Bros. , The Sweetest Thing ), diabetes-related stroke.[275]
J. R. Simplot , 99, American businessman, original McDonald's french fries supplier.[276]
Olaf Sørensen , 90, Danish Olympic runner.[277]
Ernst Stuhlinger , 94, German-born American rocket scientist.[278]
Camu Tao , 30, American rapper-producer, lung cancer.[279]
Kenneth H. Wood , 90, American author and administrator, editor of the Adventist Review , heart failure.[280]
26
Dolly Aglay , 41, Filipino financial journalist, cancer.[281]
Jerry C. Begay , 83, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran.[282]
Dick Evans , 90, American football player (Green Bay Packers , Chicago Cardinals ).[283]
Hans Haasmann , 92, Dutch Olympic diver Hans Haasmann Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
Earle Hagen , 88, American film and television theme composer (The Andy Griffith Show , The Mod Squad , I Spy ).[284]
Howlin' Dave , 52, Filipino radio disc jockey and proponent of Pinoy rock , stroke.[285]
John Hulme , 63, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers , Reading , Bury ).[286]
Roy Koerner , 75, British polar scientist and explorer.[287]
Yuriy Konovalov , 78, Soviet-born Azerbaijani Olympic track athlete, 4 × 100 m relay silver medallist (1956 and 1960 ).[288]
Donald L. Pilling , 64, American admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1997–2000), leukemia.[289]
Sydney Pollack , 73, American film director and actor (Tootsie , Out of Africa , Michael Clayton ), Oscar winner (1986 ), stomach cancer.[290]
Alan Renouf , 89, Australian head of DFAT , ambassador to United States (1977–1979), France and Yugoslavia, leukemia.[291]
Kermit Scott , 71, American philosophy professor, namesake of Kermit the Frog .[292]
Robert G. Voight , 87, American academic.[293]
27
Ed Arno , 91, Austrian-American cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist.[294]
Valmae Beck , 64, Australian child murderer, complications of heart surgery.[295]
Tony Hussein Hinde , 55, Australian-born Maldivian surfer, heart attack.[296]
Jim Kerr , 68, American professional football player (Washington Redskins )[297]
Franz Künstler , 107, German World War I veteran, last known surviving veteran of the Central Powers .[298]
Hubert Macey , 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens , New York Rangers ).[299]
Per Nielsen , 88, Danish Olympic shooter.[300]
Mick Nolan , 58, Australian footballer, cancer.[301]
Neal Potter, 93, American politician.[302]
Abram Raselemane , 30, South African footballer, apparent suicide.[303]
Alejandro Romualdo , 82, Peruvian poet.[304]
Keith Rosewarne , 83, Australian footballer.[305]
28
Beryl Cook , 81, British painter.[306]
Sven Davidson , 79, Swedish tennis player.[307]
Robert H. Justman , 81, American television and film producer (Star Trek ), Parkinson's disease.[308]
Elinor Lyon , 86, British children's writer.[309]
Danny Moss , 80, British jazz tenor saxophonist.[310]
Nashoba's Key , 5, American racehorse, euthanized.[311]
Dianne Odell , 61, American author with polio, power failure to iron lung.[312]
Erin Spanevello , 21, Canadian fashion model, drug overdose.[313]
29
Paula Gunn Allen , 68, Native American poet, novelist, and activist, lung cancer.[314]
José Alejandro Bernales , 59, Chilean director general of Carabineros de Chile , helicopter crash.[315]
Luc Bourdon , 21, Canadian ice hockey player, motorcycle accident.[316]
Romeo A. Brawner , 72, Filipino appeals court judge (1995–2005), election commissioner (2005–2008), heart attack.[317]
Len Devine , 84, Australian politician, MP for East Sydney (1963–1969).[318]
Harvey Korman , 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles , The Carol Burnett Show , The Flintstones ), four-time Emmy winner, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[319]
Donald MacLeod , 75, New Zealand cricketer.[320]
30
Harry Brautigam , 59, Nicaraguan president of the BCIE since 2003, heart problem after air crash .[321]
Campbell Burnap , 68, British jazz trombonist, cancer.[322]
Harlan Cleveland , 90, American diplomat, educator and author, ambassador to NATO (1965–1969), natural causes.[323]
Rodney Gordon , 75, British architect.[324]
Graeme Miller , 67, Australian cricketer.[325]
Noel Moore , 79, British civil servant, leader of decimalisation project, brain tumour.[326]
Chris Morgan , 55, British journalist, apparent suicide in front of a train.[327]
William Eldridge Odom , 75, American Army Lieutenant General and director of the National Security Agency .[328]
Lorenzo Odone , 30, American ALD patient portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil .[329]
Mike Scott , 75, British television producer and presenter.[330]
Boris Shakhlin , 76, Russian-born Ukrainian gymnast, winner of seven Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union, cardiac arrest.[331]
Suprakash Som , 60, Indian cricketer.[332]
Nat Temple , 94, British bandleader.[333]
31
Carlos Alhinho , 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall.[334]
John Ambler , 83, British businessman.[citation needed ]
Joe Axelson , 80, American executive and general manager of the National Basketball Association Sacramento Kings .[335]
Nusret Çolpan , 56, Turkish painter and architect.[336]
Detlef Gromoll , 70, American mathematician, brain hemorrhage.[337]
Nelly Láinez , 88, Argentine actress, urinary infection.[338]
Per-Erik Larsson , 79, Swedish skier.[339]
Charles Moskos , 74, American sociologist, architect of the US military DADT gay and lesbian policy, cancer.[340]
Paul Thomson , 91, American botanist, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association .[341]
Allan Wiles , 87, New Zealand cricketer.[342]
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