Deaths in December 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

1

 * Thomas R. Adams, 87, American librarian.
 * Paul Benedict, 70, American television actor (The Jeffersons).
 * James Bree, 85, British actor (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Satan's Slave, Doctor Who).
 * Beverly Dustrude, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
 * Betty Goodwin, 85, Canadian artist.
 * Jodami, 23, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, injury.
 * Tom Kirby, 61, Irish darts player, pancreatic cancer.
 * Siegfried Knappe, 91, German Wehrmacht artillery and General Staff officer, author (Soldat).
 * Mikel Laboa, 74, Spanish Basque singer and songwriter.
 * Raymond Lederer, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1977–1981), lung cancer.
 * Lav Mantula, 79, Yugoslavian football player and coach.
 * Emanuel Rackman, 98, American Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University.
 * H. Sridhar, 50, Indian sound engineer, heart attack.
 * Dorothy Sterling, 95, American writer and historian.
 * Sir John Wall, 78, British jurist and blind rights campaigner.
 * Joseph B. Wirthlin, 91, American Mormon prelate, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, natural causes.

2

 * Carlos María Abascal Carranza, 59, Mexican public official, Secretary of the Interior (2005–2006), cancer.
 * Kathleen Baskin-Ball, 50, American minister (United Methodist Church), cancer.
 * Frank Crean, 92, Australian politician, Treasurer (1972–1974), Deputy Prime Minister (1975), after short illness.
 * Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 81, American writer, filmmaker and scholar, after long illness.
 * Leïla Karam, 80, Lebanese actress, after long illness.
 * Margarita Karapanou, 62, Greek author, respiratory problems.
 * Pyotr Latyshev, 60, Russian politician, presidential envoy to Urals Federal District.
 * Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, 97, British aristocrat and politician.
 * Henry Molaison, 82, American amnesiac, subject of brain science study, respiratory failure.
 * Odetta, 77, American folk singer and human rights activist, heart disease.
 * Edward S. Rogers Jr., 75, Canadian businessman, CEO of Rogers Communications and owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, heart failure.

3

 * William Pierson, Jr., 97, American art historian.
 * Oliver Selfridge, 82, British-born American computer scientist, pioneer of artificial intelligence, injuries from a fall.
 * William Spoelhof, 98, American academic, President of Calvin College (1951–1976), complications from a fall.
 * Ignacio Uría Mendizábal, 71, Spanish businessman, shot.
 * Elmer Valentine, 85, American nightclub owner.
 * Derek Wadsworth, 69, British composer and jazz trombonist.
 * Alex Widmer, 52, Swiss executive, CEO of Julius Baer bank.
 * Robert Zajonc, 85, Polish-born American psychologist, pancreatic cancer.

4

 * Forrest J. Ackerman, 92, American science fiction expert, heart failure.
 * Steve Bradley, 32, American wrestler.
 * Jan Kemp, 59, American academic, exposed bias in passing college football players, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Warren M. Robbins, 85, American art collector, complications from a fall.
 * Richard Van Allan, 73, British opera singer, lung cancer.

5

 * A. Bernard Ackerman, 72, American dermatopathologist, heart failure.
 * Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, 79, Estonian-born Russian primate of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1990, heart failure.
 * Jimmy Anderson, 55, American rodeo clown, heart disease.
 * George Brecht, 82, American artist (Fluxus), natural causes.
 * Martyn Crook, 52, Australian footballer and coach, heart attack.
 * Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, 80, Romanian politician, cancer.
 * Nina Foch, 84, Dutch-born American actress (Executive Suite, Spartacus, The Ten Commandments), myelodysplasia.
 * Joseph Gardner, 38, American convicted murderer and fugitive, execution by lethal injection.
 * Beverly Garland, 82, American actress (My Three Sons), after long illness.
 * Paris Herouni, 75, Armenian scientist and professor.
 * Sir Basil Kelly, 88, British politician and jurist, after short illness.
 * Rawson Macharia, 96, Kenyan perjurer against Jomo Kenyatta, traffic accident.
 * Jean-Pierre Nguema, 76, Gabonese politician, member of the Senate of Gabon.
 * Anca Parghel, 51, Romanian jazz singer, metastatic breast cancer.
 * Richard Topus, 84, American World War II messenger pigeon trainer and business executive, kidney failure.
 * Dick Vertlieb, 78, American baseball and basketball executive.
 * Wild Again, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.

6

 * Tamar Adar, 69, Israeli children's author and poet.
 * John Cumming, 78, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Scotland).
 * Larry Devlin, 86, American CIA agent, emphysema.
 * Sir Curtis Keeble, 86, British diplomat, Ambassador to the USSR (1978–1982).
 * Gérard Lauzier, 76, French cartoonist and film director, after long illness.
 * Elliot Manyika, 53, Zimbabwean politician, road accident.
 * Richard Marsland, 32, Australian radio host, apparent suicide.
 * Lloyd Ohlin, 90, American criminologist, complications of Shy–Drager syndrome.
 * Ivan Semedi, 87, Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Mukacheve.
 * Sunny von Bülow, 76, American heiress, cardiopulmonary arrest.
 * Peter Wardle, 77, New Zealand botanist.

7

 * Abul Ahsan, 71, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Marky Cielo, 20, Filipino Igorot actor, suspected acute pancreatitis.
 * Jimmy Gourley, 82, American jazz guitarist.
 * Herbert Hutner, 99, American chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts (1982–1990).
 * George Kuzma, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys.
 * Kerryn McCann, 41, Australian Olympic athlete, breast cancer.
 * Georges Nguyen Van Loc, 75, French police officer, writer and actor.
 * James H. Pomerene, 88, American electrical engineer.
 * Roger Sonnabend, 83, American hotelier.
 * John Ellis Williams, 84, British author.
 * Dennis Yost, 65, American singer (Classics IV), respiratory failure.
 * Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, 79, Pakistani journalist and philatelist, paralysis.

8

 * Maurice Andrieux, 83, French politician.
 * Manzoor Hussain Atif, 81, Pakistani field hockey player and administrator, after long illness.
 * Frank K. Edmondson, 96, American astronomer.
 * Xavier Perrot, 76, Swiss auto racer.
 * Oliver Postgate, 83, British animator (Bagpuss, Clangers).
 * Robert Prosky, 77, American actor (The Natural, Broadcast News, Hill Street Blues), complications following heart surgery.
 * Bob Spiers, 63, British television director (Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers).
 * William S. Stevens, 60, American lawyer, heart attack.
 * Hillary Waugh, 88, American mystery writer.

9

 * Jonathan Bailey, 69, British Angelican prelate, Bishop of Derby (1995–2005) and Clerk of the Closet (1997–2005).
 * Emmanuel Bitanga, 55, Cameroonian Olympic sprinter.
 * Ibrahim Dossey, 36, Ghanaian footballer, car accident.
 * James Fergason, 74, American inventor.
 * Yuri Glazkov, 69, Russian cosmonaut.
 * Dražan Jerković, 72, Croatian football player and manager, heart failure.
 * José María Larrauri Lafuente, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Vitoria.
 * Howard Pack, 90, American businessman, shipping magnate, heart failure.
 * William Neff Patman, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative for Texas (1981–1985), cancer.
 * Pentti Rummakko, 65, Finnish Olympic runner.
 * George Turman, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (1981–1989), natural causes.

10

 * Henning Christiansen, 76, Danish composer.
 * Mildred Constantine, 95, American curator (Museum of Modern Art), heart failure.
 * Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan, 44, Indian politician, car accident.
 * Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet (The Monkey's Mask), breast cancer.
 * Didith Reyes, 60, Filipino singer, heart attack and rupture of the pancreas.
 * Chris Richardson, 28, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), brain aneurysm.
 * Owen Wade, 87, British medical researcher and physician.
 * Mizuki Yamada, 80, Japanese Olympic sailor.
 * Sal Yvars, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants), amyloidosis.

11

 * Ali Alatas, 76, Indonesian politician, Foreign Minister (1988–1999), heart attack.
 * Maddie Blaustein, 48, American voice actress (Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Chaotic), stomach virus.
 * Ron Carey, 72, American labor leader (Teamsters), lung cancer.
 * Robert Chandler, 80, American CBS executive, heart failure.
 * Elie Amsini Kiswaya, 80, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Sakania-Kipushi.
 * Angeliki Laiou, 67, Greek historian, anaplastic thyroid cancer.
 * Bettie Page, 85, American pin-up model and actress, complications from a heart attack.
 * Robert Shepherd, 71, American academic lawyer.
 * Yeh Shih-tao, 83, Taiwanese writer, colorectal cancer.

12

 * David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 96, British aristocrat and public servant.
 * Paddy Dooley, 82, Irish Olympic rower.
 * Avery Dulles, 90, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal.
 * Max Elbin, 88, American golfer, president of the PGA (1965−1968), heart failure.
 * Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 85, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1976).
 * Sigitas Geda, 65, Lithuanian poet.
 * Van Johnson, 92, American actor (Battleground, The Caine Mutiny, Brigadoon).
 * Emmanuel Kasonde, 72, Zambian economist and politician, Finance Minister (1967−1971).
 * Tassos Papadopoulos, 74, Cypriot politician, President (2003−2008), small cell lung carcinoma.
 * Maksym Pashayev, 20, Ukrainian footballer, car accident.
 * Amalia Solórzano, 97, Mexican First Lady (1934–1940), respiratory complications.
 * Robin Toner, 54, American journalist (The New York Times), colon cancer.

13

 * Doris Totten Chase, 85, American painter and sculptor.
 * Christmas Past, 29, American Thoroughbred racehorse, infirmities of old age.
 * Sir David Clutterbuck, 95, British admiral.
 * John Drake, 49, New Zealand rugby union player.
 * Mario Álvarez Dugan, 77, Dominican journalist and newspaper editor, heart problems.
 * Otto Felix, 65, American actor (Up in Smoke), amyloidosis.
 * Vince Karalius, 76, British rugby league player, cancer.
 * Shan Lloyd, 55, British journalist.
 * David Margolis, 78, American industrialist, cardiac arrest.
 * Maurice Meersman, 86, Belgian cyclist.
 * Kjartan Slettemark, 76, Norwegian political artist, heart failure.
 * Kathy Staff, 80, British actress (Last of the Summer Wine, Crossroads, Mary Reilly), brain tumour.
 * Horst Tappert, 85, German actor (Derrick).

14

 * Véronique Ahoyo, 69, Beninese politician, car accident.
 * K. P. Appan, 72, Indian literary critic.
 * Mike Bell, 37, American professional wrestler (WWF, ECW), heart attack.
 * Hank Goldup, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Henri G. Hers, 85, Belgian biochemist.
 * William Kaufmann, 90, American nuclear strategist, adviser to seven Defense Secretaries, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Carl Kotchian, 94, American aviation executive, president of Lockheed.
 * Gastón Parra Luzardo, 75, Venezuelan academic and banker, after long illness.
 * Candida Tobin, 82, British music educator.
 * Nick Willhite, 67, American baseball pitcher, cancer.

15

 * Hassib Ben Ammar, 84, Tunisian politician and journalist/editor.
 * Valentin Berlinsky, 83, Russian cellist, after long illness.
 * Mike Blum, 65, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Carlo Caracciolo, 83, Italian publisher (La Repubblica).
 * León Febres Cordero, 77, Ecuadorian president (1984–1988), complications from pulmonary emphysema.
 * Davey Graham, 68, British guitarist, lung cancer.
 * Wanda Koczeska, 71, Polish actress.
 * David Lieber, 83, Polish-born American biblical scholar, lung ailment.
 * John W. Powell, 89, Chinese-born American journalist tried for sedition, complications from pneumonia.
 * Gian Franco Romagnoli, 82, Italian chef, author, television personality.
 * Clyde Sproat, 78, American musician.
 * Anne-Cath. Vestly, 88, Norwegian children's writer and actress.
 * John Webster, 95, Australian activist.
 * Jay E. Welch, 83, American musician, founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus.

16

 * Claudio Apollonio, 87, Italian ice hockey player.
 * Peg Batty, 88, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Evelyn Bonaci, 92, Maltese politician, MP.
 * Sam Bottoms, 53, American actor (Apocalypse Now, The Last Picture Show, The Outlaw Josey Wales), glioblastoma multiforme.
 * Richard Coleman, 78, British actor.
 * George Constantinou, 75, Cypriot-born Papua New Guinean businessman, aggravated assault during carjacking.
 * Serigne Lamine Diop, 74, Senegalese statistician and politician.
 * Julius Fast, 89, American writer.
 * Harold Gramatges, 90, Cuban composer and pianist.
 * Joe Krol, 89, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts).
 * Norberto Raffo, 69, Argentinian football player and manager (Banfield).
 * John E. Sprizzo, 73, American jurist, organ failure.
 * Zlatko Šugman, 76, Slovenian actor, illness.

17

 * Elizabeth Abrahams, 83, South African political activist and trade unionist.
 * Turgun Alimatov, 85, Uzbek musician.
 * Ismet Bajramović, 42, Bosnian reputed organized crime figure and wartime commander, suicide by gunshot.
 * Sammy Baugh, 94, American football player (Washington Redskins) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
 * Freddy Breck, 66, German schlager singer, cancer.
 * Ved Prakash Goyal, 82, Indian politician, brain tumor.
 * Gregoire, 66, Congolese African-born primate, oldest known chimpanzee.
 * Ai Iijima, 36, Japanese media personality and AIDS activist, former adult film actress, pneumonia.
 * Justin Levens, 28, American mixed martial art fighter, possible suicide by gunshot.
 * Luis Félix López, 76, Ecuadorian writer and politician, Secretary of Government, cancer.
 * Willoughby Sharp, 72, American artist, art dealer, curator and impresario, throat cancer.
 * Dave Smith, 53, American baseball pitcher (Houston Astros), heart attack.
 * Feliciano Vierra Tavares, 88, American musician and singer, father of the Tavares Brothers, prostate cancer.
 * Henry Ashby Turner, 76, American historian, melanoma.
 * Nina Varlamova, 54, Russian politician, mayor of Kandalaksha, stabbed.

18

 * Majel Barrett, 76, American actress (Star Trek), leukemia.
 * Peter Malam Brothers, 91, British Royal Air Force pilot, Battle of Britain ace.
 * Pete Case, 67, American football player (New York Giants), after long illness.
 * John Costelloe, 47, American actor (The Sopranos, Kazaam, Die Hard 2), suicide by gunshot.
 * Jack Douglas, 81, British comedy actor (Carry On films), pneumonia.
 * Mark Felt, 95, American public official, deputy director of the FBI, "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal, heart failure.
 * Hannah Frank, 100, British sculptor.
 * Nahla Hussain al-Shaly, 37, Iraqi women's rights activist, shot and decapitated.
 * Robert Jonquet, 83, French footballer, after long illness.
 * Ian MacMillan, 67, American author.
 * Conor Cruise O'Brien, 91, Irish politician, writer and academic.
 * Ivan Rabuzin, 87, Croatian painter.
 * Harold Snyder, 86, American pharmaceuticals magnate, pioneer of generic drugs, respiratory failure.
 * Paul Weyrich, 66, American conservative activist, co-founder of The Heritage Foundation think tank, diabetes.

19

 * James Bevel, 72, American civil rights leader, pancreatic cancer.
 * Page Cavanaugh, 86, American jazz pianist and singer, kidney failure.
 * Carol Chomsky, 78, American linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky, cancer.
 * Michael Connell, 45, American political strategist, plane crash.
 * Kenny Cox, 68, American jazz musician, lung cancer.
 * Sir Bernard Crick, 79, British political theorist, cancer.
 * Dock Ellis, 63, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), cirrhosis.
 * Vi Hilbert, 90, American tribal leader.
 * Neal Kenyon, 79, American theater director.
 * Joe L. Kincheloe, 58, American professor, heart attack.
 * Matt Kofler, 49, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts).
 * Derek Stanford, 90, British poet and critic.
 * Sam Tingle, 87, Zimbabwean racing driver.

20

 * Samuele Bacchiocchi, 70, Italian theologian, liver cancer.
 * Joseph Conombo, 91, Burkinabé politician, Prime Minister of Upper Volta (1978–1980).
 * Jack Kuehler, 76, American electrical engineer, president of I.B.M. (1989–1993), Parkinson's disease.
 * Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso, 83, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the diocese of Santiago de Chile.
 * Olga Lepeshinskaya, 92, Ukrainian-born Russian ballerina.
 * Joel Mandelstam, 89, British biochemist and microbiologist.
 * Adrian Mitchell, 76, British poet, heart attack.
 * Robert Mulligan, 83, American film director (To Kill a Mockingbird), heart disease.
 * Albin Planinc, 64, Slovenian chess grandmaster, after long illness.
 * Dorothy Sarnoff, 94, American opera singer, actress and self-help consultant.
 * Igor Troubetzkoy, 96, Russian auto racer.

21

 * Chayben Abou-Nehra, 34, Belizean businessman, suicide.
 * Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, 92, British noble.
 * James Fulton, 58, Canadian politician, MP for Skeena (1979–1993), colon cancer.
 * Teddy Gueritz, 89, British Royal Navy admiral.
 * Christopher Hibbert, 84, British historian.
 * Ron Hornaday, Sr., 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.
 * Al Meyerhoff, 61, American lawyer, complications from leukemia.
 * Carlos Manuel Santiago, 82, Puerto Rican baseball player (Negro leagues), heart failure.
 * Dale Wasserman, 94, American playwright (Man of La Mancha), heart failure.
 * Maurice Zilber, 88, Egyptian horse trainer, cancer.

22

 * Yoshiro Asakuma, 94, Japanese Olympic athlete.
 * Anand Babla, 54, Fijian politician, MP (1992–2006), after long illness.
 * Coy Bacon, 66, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins).
 * Lansana Conté, 74, Guinean politician, President of Guinea since 1984, after long illness.
 * Norm Cook, 53, American basketball player (Kansas Jayhawks, Boston Celtics).
 * Ossie Dawson, 89, South African cricketer.
 * Jani Lehtonen, 40, Finnish pole vaulter.
 * Robert J. Marshall, 90, American minister, president of the Lutheran Church in America (1968–1978), heart failure.
 * Hugh Myers, 78, American chess player and author.
 * Erkki Puolakka, 83, Finnish Olympic runner.
 * Alfred Shaheen, 86, American textile manufacturer, popularized the Hawaiian shirt, complications of diabetes.
 * Guy Warren, 85, Ghanaian jazz musician, illness.

23

 * Clint Ballard, Jr., 77, American songwriter ("You're No Good").
 * Manuel Benitez, 39, American child actor and FBI fugitive, shot.
 * Narciso Bernardo, 71, Filipino basketball player, cardiac arrest.
 * Thomas Congdon, 77, American editor, Parkinson's disease and heart failure.
 * Frank Krog, 54, Norwegian actor.
 * Mitsugu Saotome, 82, Japanese author.
 * Héctor Thomas, 70, Venezuelan Olympic decathlete, cancer.
 * Ron Unsworth, 85, British Olympic hurdler.
 * Thierry de la Villehuchet, 65, French money manager and businessman, apparent suicide.
 * Eric Charles Twelves Wilson, 96, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
 * Arnold Jacob Wolf, 84, American rabbi, heart attack.

24

 * Ian Ballinger, 83, New Zealand sport shooter, 1968 Olympic medallist.
 * Ray Deakin, 49, British footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Burnley), brain cancer.
 * Stanley Eveling, 83, British playwright.
 * Gordon Fairweather, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Royal, New Brunswick (1962–1977).
 * Ralph Harris, 87, British journalist, respiratory failure.
 * Samuel P. Huntington, 81, American political scientist, heart failure and complications of diabetes.
 * Harold Pinter, 78, British playwright (The Homecoming), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2005), throat cancer.
 * Rik Renders, 86, Belgian cyclist.
 * Alf Robertson, 67, Swedish singer and composer.
 * Ruhlmann, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, aneurism.

25

 * Edd Cartier, 94, American illustrator (The Shadow).
 * Alvah Chapman, Jr., 87, American publisher and philanthropist, pneumonia.
 * Justin Eilers, 30, American mixed martial artist, shot.
 * Olívio Aurélio Fazza, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu.
 * Leo Frankowski, 65, American science fiction author.
 * William Glendon, 89, American attorney.
 * Lars Hollmer, 60, Swedish musician.
 * Eartha Kitt, 81, American singer and actress (Batman, The Emperor's New Groove, Holes), colon cancer.
 * Ann Savage, 87, American actress (Detour), complications from stroke.
 * Robert Ward, 70, American blues singer and guitarist.
 * Colin White, 57, British naval historian, cancer.

26

 * Jaroslav Fikejz, 81, Czech Olympic athlete.
 * Israel Horowitz, 92, American record producer.
 * Eberhard Kneisl, 92, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.
 * Gösta Krantz, 83, Swedish actor.
 * Mikhail Krichevsky, 111, Ukrainian supercentenarian.
 * Alan W. Lear, 55, Scottish writer.
 * George Miller, 69, British footballer and manager (Falkirk FC, Wolverhampton Wanderers), cancer.
 * Sir Kenneth Stoddart, 94, British Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside (1979–1989).
 * Dick Voris, 86, American football player and coach.
 * J. Lamar Worzel, 89, American oceanographer, heart attack.
 * Wyvetter H. Younge, 78, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives since 1975, surgical complications.

27

 * Arild Andresen, 80, Norwegian footballer and ice hockey player (Vålerenga).
 * Rodrigo Arango Velásquez, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Diocese of Buga.
 * Delaney Bramlett, 69, American songwriter and record producer, complications from gallbladder surgery.
 * Sailor Brown, 93, British footballer and manager.
 * Roque Cordero, 91, Panamanian-born American composer.
 * John Fenton, 87, British Anglican priest and New Testament scholar.
 * Robert Graham, 70, Mexican-born American sculptor, husband of actress Anjelica Huston, after long illness.
 * Ian Harland, 76, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1989–2000), after long illness.
 * Michael Hicks, 80, British army general.
 * Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, 86, Malaysian King (1994–1999), Great Ruler of Negeri Sembilan since 1967.
 * Patricia Kneale, 83, British actress.
 * Iain MacLean, 55, Australian politician, Western Australian MLC for North Metropolitan (1994–1996) and MLA for Wanneroo (1996–2001).
 * Christine Maggiore, 51, American AIDS denialist, pneumonia.
 * Sahu Mewalal, 82, Indian footballer, natural causes.
 * Alfred Pfaff, 82, German footballer, 1954 FIFA World Cup winner.

28

 * Quentin C. Aanenson, 87, American fighter pilot, cancer.
 * A. O. L. Atkin, 83, American mathematician, complications from a fall.
 * Willie Clark, 90, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, St Johnstone).
 * Vincent Ford, 68, Jamaican reggae songwriter ("No Woman, No Cry"), complications from diabetes.
 * Donald Gleason, 88, American physician, creator of prostate cancer test, heart attack.
 * Sir Michael Levey, 81, British art historian, Director of the National Gallery (1973–1986).
 * Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, 92, American architect and industrial designer, created the United Nations logo, prostate cancer.
 * Haralamb Zincă, 85, Romanian writer, Alzheimer's disease.

29

 * Manjit Bawa, 67, Indian painter, after long illness.
 * William Ellis Green, 85, Australian cartoonist.
 * Jim Horne, 91, American model, heart failure.
 * Freddie Hubbard, 70, American jazz trumpeter, complications from a heart attack.
 * Victor H. Krulak, 95, American Marine Corps officer.
 * Vladislav Lalicki, 73, Serbian production designer.
 * Ted Lapidus, 79, French fashion designer, respiratory failure.
 * Daniel Nagrin, 91, American choreographer and dancer.
 * Alan Sargeson, 78, Australian chemist.
 * Harlington Wood Jr., 88, American lawyer.
 * Yang Jinzong, 76, Chinese chemical engineer.

30

 * Roy Boehm, 84, American Navy SEAL commander.
 * Stewart Cleveland Cureton, 78, American pastor, President of the National Baptist Convention (1999).
 * Richard Genelle, 47, American actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Zeo), heart attack.
 * Bernie Hamilton, 80, American actor (Starsky and Hutch), cardiac arrest.
 * Paul Hofmann, 96, Austrian writer, informant against the Nazis.
 * Peter Karmel, 86, Australian economist.
 * Roy Saari, 63, American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (1964).

31

 * Stan Kielty, 83, English rugby league player (Halifax, national team).
 * Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player, after long illness.
 * Kazbek Pagiyev, 49, Russian politician, mayor of Vladikavkaz, shot.
 * Brad Sullivan, 77, American actor (Slap Shot, The Prince of Tides, The Sting), liver cancer.
 * Vic Washington, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
 * Donald E. Westlake, 75, American mystery writer, heart attack.