Deaths in June 2009

The following is a list of deaths in June 2009.

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), what subject was known for, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Thomas Berry, 94, American cultural historian and ecotheologian.
 * Bob Christie, 85, American racing driver.
 * Ken Clark, 81, American actor, heart attack.
 * Ernest R. May, 80, American historian (Harvard University), complications from cancer surgery.
 * Vincent O'Brien, 92, Irish race horse trainer.
 * Aleksandr Potupa, 64, Belarusian politician, physicist, economist and writer.
 * Jerry Rosenberg, 72, American jailhouse lawyer, natural causes.
 * Parvin Soleimani, 86, Iranian actress, brain tumor.
 * Dirk du Toit, 65, South African politician, suspected heart failure.
 * Notable people that died in the crash of Air France Flight 447:
 * Silvio Barbato, 50, Italian-born Brazilian conductor and composer.
 * Giambattista Lenzi, 58, Italian politician.
 * Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu, 37, Turkish classical harpist and academic (Anadolu University in Eskişehir).
 * Prince Pedro Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, 26, Brazilian prince.

2

 * William Booth, 70, Irish Anglican priest, Deputy Clerk of the Closet (1991–2007).
 * Chung Kai-lai, 92, Chinese-born American mathematician.
 * David Eddings, 77, American fantasy author.
 * John Ernsting, 81, British Air Vice-Marshal, expert in aviation medicine.
 * FrancEyE, 87, American poet, complications from a hip fracture.
 * Terry Hankins, 34, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Alfred Kern, 85, American novelist and academic.
 * Tony Maggs, 72, South African racing driver, cancer.
 * Palghat R. Raghu, 81, Burmese-born Indian musician, cardiac arrest.
 * Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot, 75, Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Adigrat (1985–2001).
 * Paul O. Williams, 74, American science fiction author, aortic dissection.

3

 * Geoffrey Bingham, 90, Australian evangelical Christian writer.
 * David Bromige, 75, British-born Canadian poet and academic, winner of the Pushcart Prize, complications from diabetes.
 * Sam Butera, 81, American saxophonist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * James F. Calvert, 88, American naval officer, 46th Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, heart failure.
 * David Carradine, 72, American actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill, Boxcar Bertha) and film director, erotic asphyxiation.
 * Do Kum-bong, 79, South Korean actress.
 * Sam George, 56, Canadian activist, native rights campaigner who advocated for the Ipperwash Inquiry following the Ipperwash Crisis, pancreatic and lung cancer.
 * Thomas Gill, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1963–1965), after long illness.
 * Frank Harrison, 69, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1983–1985), natural causes.
 * Geir Høgsnes, 58, Norwegian sociologist.
 * Peter Landin, 78, British computer scientist, prostate cancer.
 * Jack Ross, 110, Australian supercentenarian, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I.
 * Shih Kien, 96, Hong Kong actor (Enter the Dragon).
 * Koko Taylor, 80, American blues musician, complications from gastrointestinal surgery.

4

 * Mojisola Adekunle-Obasanjo, 65, Nigerian army officer and politician.
 * Lev Brovarskyi, 60, Ukrainian Soviet-era footballer and coach.
 * Robert Colescott, 83, American painter, U.S. representative to Venice Biennale (1997).
 * Ward Costello, 89, American actor and composer, complications from a stroke.
 * Philip D. Curtin, 87, American historian, pneumonia.
 * Luc Alfons de Hovre, 83, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels (1982–2002).
 * John F. Henning, 93, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to New Zealand (1967–1969).
 * Dorothy Layton, 96, American actress (County Hospital).
 * Chris O'Brien, 57, Australian oncologist, surgeon on the reality television program RPA, brain tumour.
 * Randy Smith, 60, American basketball player (Buffalo Braves), 1978 NBA All-Star Game MVP, heart attack.

5

 * Bernard Barker, 92, Cuban-born American intelligence operative, Watergate burglar, lung cancer.
 * Peter L. Bernstein, 90, American economic historian, pneumonia.
 * Alan Berkman, 63, American physician and activist, lymphoma.
 * Fleur Cowles, 101, American writer, editor and artist.
 * Baciro Dabó, 51, Guinea-Bissauan politician, presidential candidate, shot.
 * Jeff Hanson, 31, American singer–songwriter, mixed drug toxicity.
 * Ola Hudson, 62, American fashion designer and costumier, cancer.
 * Richard Jacobs, 83, American real estate developer, owner of the Cleveland Indians (1986–2001), after long illness.
 * Luo Jing, 48, Chinese news presenter, lymphoma.
 * Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, 53, Russian general, Interior Minister for the Republic of Dagestan, shot.
 * Rajeev Motwani, 47, Indian-born American academic, advisor for Google, Inc.
 * Boris Pokrovsky, 97, Russian opera director, People's Artist of the USSR.
 * Helder Proença, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Minister of Defense, shot.
 * Haydn Tanner, 92, British rugby union player.
 * George Edward Wahlen, 84, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, after long illness.

6

 * Charles Arnold-Baker, 90, British historian.
 * Jean Dausset, 92, French immunologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1980).
 * Mary Howard de Liagre, 96, American actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Swamp Water).
 * Jim Owens, 82, American college football coach (Washington Huskies), complications from hypertension and heart problems.
 * Pio Sagapolutele, 39, American Samoan footballer (Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots), aneurysm.

7

 * Roy Boe, 79, American businessman, owner of New Jersey Nets (1969–1978), New York Islanders (1972–1979), heart failure.
 * Hugh Hopper, 64, British progressive rock bassist and composer (Soft Machine), leukaemia.
 * Willie Kilmarnock, 87, Scottish footballer (Motherwell).
 * Gordon Lennon, 26, Northern Irish footballer (Dumbarton), car crash.
 * Kenny Rankin, 69, American singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
 * Peter Townsend, 81, British sociologist, pneumonia.
 * Baron Vaea, 88, Tongan politician, Prime Minister (1991–2000), after short illness.

8

 * Om Prakash Aditya, 72, Indian poet, car accident.
 * Omar Bongo, 73, Gabonese politician, President (1967–2009), heart attack.
 * Frank Dasso, 91, American baseball player.
 * Sheila Finestone, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Mount Royal (1984–1999) and Senator (1999–2002), cancer.
 * Aage Rou Jensen, 84, Danish footballer.
 * Harold Norse, 92, American poet.
 * Johnny Palermo, 27, American actor (Just for Kicks, Everybody Hates Chris), car accident.
 * Matt Simpson, 73, British poet and literary critic.
 * Habib Tanvir, 85, Indian playwright and theatre director, after short illness.

9

 * Duke Bainum, 56, American politician (Hawaii House of Representatives, Honolulu City Council), aortic aneurysm.
 * Norman E. Brinker, 78, American restaurateur (Brinker International), aspiration pneumonia.
 * Cyril Connell Jr., 81, Australian rugby league player.
 * Edward Hanrahan, 88, American lawyer, State's Attorney (Cook County, Illinois), leukemia.
 * Jean Hugel, 84, French winemaker (Alsace wine), cancer.
 * Bill Lillard, 90, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
 * Jack Littrell, 80, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Dick May, 78, American racing driver, after long illness.
 * John Francis Mitchell, 81, American electronics engineer, president of Motorola.
 * Vera Mutafchieva, 80, Bulgarian historian.
 * Michael Roof, 32, American actor (xXx, Black Hawk Down, The Dukes of Hazzard), suicide by hanging.
 * Dave Simons, 54, American comic book artist, cancer.
 * Arne Tovik, 53, Norwegian newspaper editor and journalist.
 * Karl Michael Vogler, 80, German actor.

10

 * Barry Beckett, 66, American record producer, session musician, keyboardist (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section), natural causes.
 * Andrew Wendell Bogue, 90, American federal judge.
 * John A. Eddy, 78, American astronomer, cancer.
 * Tenniel Evans, 83, British actor.
 * Xaver Frick, 96, Liechtensteinian Olympic athlete and cross-country skier.
 * Aza Gazgireyeva, 54, Russian jurist, senior judge in Ingushetia, shot.
 * Huey Long, 105, American singer (The Ink Spots).
 * Nguyễn Khắc Ngư, 100, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Long Xuyên (1960–1997).
 * Jack Nimitz, 79, American jazz baritone saxophonist, complications from emphysema.
 * Marian Pour-El, 81, American mathematical logician.
 * Richard Quick, 66, American swimming and diving coach, brain tumor.
 * Stelios Skevofilakas, 70, Greek footballer (AEK Athens), stomach cancer.
 * Helle Virkner, 83, Danish actress and first lady, cancer.

11

 * Viacheslav Aliabiev, 75, Ukrainian footballer (Shakhtyor Stalino), USSR Cup winner (1961, 1962), cancer.
 * Sidney W. Bijou, 100, American child psychologist.
 * Marian Goliński, 59, Polish politician, car accident.
 * Woodie Held, 77, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), brain cancer.
 * Jakob Kjersem, 83, Norwegian Olympic athlete.
 * Frank J. Low, 75, American physicist and astronomer.
 * Christel Peters, 93, German actress.
 * Carl Pursell, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1977–1993), heart disease.
 * Ricardo Rangel, 85, Mozambican photojournalist.
 * Sumire, 21, Japanese fashion model, brain hemorrhage.
 * Roger Terry, 87, American airman (Tuskegee Airmen), heart failure.
 * Peter Wheeler, 65, British chemical engineer and businessman, owner of TVR, after short illness.

12

 * Shailaja Acharya, 65, Nepalese politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1998), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.
 * Annesley Dias, 82, Sri Lankan comedian,
 * Robinson Everett, 81, American judge, member of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces since 1980.
 * Charles Fenton, 97, Australian politician, member (1957–1981) and President (1972–1981) of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
 * Peter Gowan, 63, British professor of politics, mesothelioma.
 * Andy Hughes, 43, British musician (The Orb), producer and DJ.
 * Ivan Lichter, 91, New Zealand physician, pioneer in palliative care.
 * Félix Malloum, 76, Chadian politician, President (1975–1979), cardiac arrest.
 * Rosa Markmann, 101, Chilean First Lady (1946–1952).

13

 * Bashir Aushev, 62, Russian public official, Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia (2002–2008), shot.
 * Otilio Galíndez, 73, Venezuelan poet and composer.
 * Mitsuharu Misawa, 46, Japanese professional wrestler (AJPW), spinal cord injury.
 * John Saville, 93, British Marxist economic and social historian.

14

 * Khalil Abi-Nader, 87, Lebanese Maronite prelate, archbishop of Beirut (1986–1996).
 * Bob Bogle, 69, American guitarist (The Ventures), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * Angela Coughlan, 56, Canadian swimmer, bronze medalist (1968 Summer Olympics), multiple myeloma.
 * Ivan Della Mea, 68, Italian singer–songwriter and author, after long illness.
 * Yasuharu Hasebe, 77, Japanese film director, pneumonia.
 * Dorothy Kozak, 77, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
 * William McIntyre, 91, Canadian jurist, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1979–1989), throat cancer.
 * Moumouni Adamou Djermakoye, 70, Nigerien politician.
 * Carlos Pardo, 33, Mexican NASCAR race driver, race crash.
 * Jackie Ronne, 89, American explorer, first American woman to visit Antarctica, cancer.
 * Frederick Sontag, 84, American academic and author, professor of philosophy (Pomona College), heart failure.
 * Abel Tador, 24, Nigerian footballer, shot.
 * Hal Woodeshick, 76, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s), after long illness.

15

 * Sohrab Aarabi, 19, Iranian student, shot.
 * George Belotti, 74, American football player, complications of a stroke.
 * Antonio Bianco, 57, South African diamond cutter, cancer.
 * Helen Boosalis, 89, American politician, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska (1975–1983), brain tumor.
 * Charles Horan, 85, British police officer.
 * Allan King, 79, Canadian film director (Warrendale, Termini Station, Silence of the North), brain tumor.
 * Desmond Moran, 60, Australian criminal, member of Moran family, shot.

16

 * John Anthony, 76, British Olympic shooter.
 * Peter Arundell, 75, British racing driver, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Emmanuel Constant, 81, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Les Gonaïves (1966–2003).
 * Paul A. Fino, 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1953–1968).
 * Celia Fremlin, 95, British crime novelist.
 * D. Mark Hegsted, 95, American nutritionist, research led to recommended decrease in dietary saturated fats.
 * Charlie Mariano, 85, American jazz alto saxophonist, cancer.
 * Tina Marsh, 55, American jazz vocalist, breast cancer.
 * Frank Herbert Mason, 88, American artist and teacher.
 * Proud Accolade, 7, American Thoroughbred racehorse, neurological disorder.
 * Sheila Rodwell, 62, British epidemiologist.

17

 * Joji Banuve, 68-69, Fijian politician, Minister for Local Government and the Environment, after short illness.
 * José Calvário, 58, Portuguese maestro and orchestrator, complications from heart attack.
 * Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, 80, German-born British sociologist and politician, cancer.
 * Alejandro Doria, 72, Argentine film director, pneumonia.
 * Patrick Dowling, 89, British television producer.
 * Eon, 55, British musician, complications from pneumonia.
 * José Ignacio García Hamilton, 65, Argentine politician and historian.
 * Jane Aiken Hodge, 91, American-born British writer, suicide by drug overdose.
 * Wayne L. Horvitz, 88, American labor mediator, cancer.
 * John Houghtaling, 92, American businessman and inventor (Magic Fingers vibrating bed), complications from a fall.
 * IZ the Wiz, 50, American graffiti artist, heart attack.
 * Darrell Powers, 86, American soldier (Easy Company).
 * Dusty Rhodes, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants), complications from diabetes and emphysema.
 * Ali Said, Somali public servant, chief of police (Mogadishu), shot.
 * Perry Salles, 70, Brazilian actor (Mandala, Cinderela Baiana, O Clone) and film director, lung cancer.
 * Shacky Tauro, 49, Zimbabwean footballer, after short illness.
 * Tony Wong, 60, Canadian politician.
 * Gordon Wray, 57, British-born Canadian politician.

18

 * Omar Hashi Aden, Somali politician, Minister of Security, suicide bomb attack.
 * Giovanni Arrighi, 71, Italian economist.
 * Hortensia Bussi, 94, Chilean First Lady (1970–1973), widow of President Salvador Allende, natural causes.
 * Victor Cosson, 93, French road bicycle racer.
 * Terry Griffiths, 64, Australian politician.
 * Sir Henry Hodge, 65, British jurist, High Court judge since 2004, acute myeloid leukaemia.
 * Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Indian sarod player, kidney failure.

19

 * Alberto Andrade, 65, Peruvian politician, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Sir Derrick Bailey, 90, British cricketer and baronet, son of diamond tycoon and politician Sir Abe Bailey.
 * H. A. Boucher, 88, American politician, first elected Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1970–1974).
 * Ron Crocombe, 79, New Zealand academic (University of the South Pacific), heart attack.
 * Vicenç Ferrer Moncho, 89, Spanish Jesuit missionary and philanthropist.
 * Shelly Gross, 88, American Broadway producer, bladder cancer.
 * Jörg Hube, 65, German actor, cancer.
 * Arthur W. Lehman, 91, American euphonium player, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Peter Newbrook, 88, British cinematographer and film producer.
 * Gary Papa, 54, American television sportscaster (WPVI-TV), prostate cancer.
 * Ken Roberts, 99, American actor and announcer, pneumonia.
 * Herschel Rosenthal, 91, American politician, member of the California Senate (1982–1998).
 * Bob Schuler, 66, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate since 2002, cancer.
 * Stan Sismey, 92, Australian cricketer.
 * Tomoji Tanabe, 113, Japanese supercentenarian, was world's oldest living man, heart failure.

20

 * Colin Bean, 83, British actor (Dad's Army).
 * Aldo Gargani, 76, Italian philosopher.
 * Joel Helleny, 52, American trombonist,
 * Ralph F. Hirschmann, 87, American biochemist (synthesis of the first enzyme), renal failure.
 * Nazir Jairazbhoy, 81, British-born American ethnomusicologist.
 * Naci Kınacıoğlu, 79-80, Turkish academician, legal scholar, interim Minister of Transport.
 * Patrick Kombayi, 70, Zimbabwean politician and businessman, complications from 1990 shooting.
 * Godfrey Rampling, 100, British athlete, 1936 Olympic relay champion, NATO commander, father of actress Charlotte Rampling.
 * Kenneth L. Reusser, 89, American Marine aviator, decorated veteran of World War II, Korean and Vietnam Wars.
 * Anthony Yeo, 60, Singaporean counsellor, Burkitt's lymphoma.

21

 * Gilda Galán, 92, Puerto Rican actress.
 * Lorena Gale, 51, Canadian actress (Battlestar Galactica, The Perfect Score, The Butterfly Effect) and playwright, throat cancer.
 * José Nicomedes Grossi, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1962–1990).
 * Errol Harris, 101, South African philosopher.
 * Arthur Luft, 94, Manx politician and deemster.

22

 * Agnes Tachyon, 11, Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, heart failure.
 * Betty Allen, 82, American operatic mezzo-soprano, kidney disease.
 * Bert Bank, 94, American radio pioneer and politician, Bataan Death March survivor.
 * David Farquhar, 82, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1976).
 * Alec Gallup, 81, American pollster, chairman of the Gallup Poll, heart disease.
 * June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, 95, British musician and patron of the arts.
 * Maj-Len Grönholm, 57, Finnish politician and beauty queen, councilwoman, Miss Finland (1972), cancer.
 * Moisei Itkis, 80, Soviet Olympic shooter.
 * Billy Red Lyons, 77, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.
 * Eddie Preston, 84, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Steve Race, 88, British broadcaster and musician.
 * Philip Simmons, 97, American blacksmith.
 * Karel Van Miert, 67, Belgian politician, European Commissioner (1989–1999), cardiac arrest resulting in fall.
 * Sam B. Williams, 88, American engineer and inventor.

23

 * Thurman Adams Jr., 80, American politician, member of the Delaware Senate since 1972, pancreatic cancer.
 * Raymond Berthiaume, 78, Canadian jazz musician, singer and record producer, cancer.
 * Phyllis Busansky, 72, American politician, county commissioner and supervisor of elections (Hillsborough County, Florida).
 * John Callaway, 72, American journalist (Chicago Tonight), heart attack.
 * Harold H. Carstens, 84, American magazine publisher.
 * Gegham Ghandilyan, 35, Armenian actor, car accident.
 * İsmet Güney, 85, Cypriot artist and cartoonist, designed flag of the Republic of Cyprus, cancer.
 * Hanne Hiob, 86, German actress, daughter of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht.
 * Johny Joseph, 45, Haitian news presenter (Télévision Nationale d'Haiti), cancer.
 * Thomas M. King, 80, American Roman Catholic priest and theologian, expert on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, heart attack.
 * Ed McMahon, 86, American television host (Star Search) and announcer (The Tonight Show).
 * Aram Miskaryan, 36, Armenian actor, car accident.
 * Jerri Nielsen, 57, American physician, treated herself for breast cancer on Antarctica in 1999, breast cancer.
 * Robin Plackett, 88, British statistician.
 * Jackie Swindells, 72, British footballer.

24

 * Irv Homer, 85, American talk show host, heart attack.
 * Olja Ivanjicki, 78, Serbian painter.
 * Tim Krekel, 58, American guitarist and songwriter, cancer.
 * Robèrt Lafont, 87, French academic.
 * Roméo LeBlanc, 81, Canadian politician (1973–1994), Governor General (1995–1999), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Robert B. Pamplin, 97, American executive, President of Georgia-Pacific (1957–1976).
 * Edward Arthur Thomas, 58, American football coach, NFL High School Football Coach of the Year (2005), shot.
 * Steven Wells, 49, British journalist and author, cancer.

25

 * Ramon Alcaraz, 93, Filipino World War II veteran and recipient of the Silver Star.
 * Don Coldsmith, 83, American western author, stroke.
 * Neera Desai, 84, Indian academician, political activist and Women's Studies pioneer.
 * George Ernest, 87, American film actor.
 * Farrah Fawcett, 62, American actress (Charlie's Angels, The Cannonball Run, Dr. T & the Women), anal cancer.
 * Morton Gottlieb, 88, American Broadway theatre producer, Tony Award winner (1971), natural causes.
 * James Baker Hall, 74, American poet and academic, Kentucky Poet Laureate (2001–2003), natural causes.
 * Michael Jackson, 50, American singer ("Thriller", "Billie Jean", "Smooth Criminal") and dancer, nine-time Grammy winner, acute propofol intoxication.
 * Clifton Johnson, 67, American jurist, North Carolina Superior Court (1978–1982) and Court of Appeals (1982–1996).
 * Jack Johnson, 78, Canadian politician.
 * Brian Jones, 70, British poet.
 * Sylvia Levin, 91, American civic and voter registration activist, registered 47,000 new voters, stroke.
 * Shiv Charan Mathur, 83, Indian politician, Governor of Assam since 2008, Chief Minister of Rajasthan (1988–1989), cardiac arrest.
 * Mian Tufail Mohammad, 95, Pakistani politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Bela Mukherjee, 89, Indian singer, widow of singer and composer Hemanta Mukherjee, natural causes.
 * Paul V. Nolan, 85, American physician and statesman, liver cancer.
 * Kaleem Omar, 72, Pakistani poet and journalist, heart failure.
 * Sky Saxon, 71, American rock musician (The Seeds), heart failure.
 * Hugh Scaife, 79, British set decorator (The Elephant Man, The Spy Who Loved Me, A Passage to India).
 * Zinaida Stahurskaya, 38, Belarusian cyclist, training collision (car accident).
 * Al Siebert, 75, American author and educator, colon cancer.
 * Anil Wilson, 62, Indian educator, Principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1991–2007), pancreatic cancer.
 * Yasmine, 37, Belgian singer and television presenter, suicide by hanging.

26

 * Jo Amar, 79, Moroccan-born Israeli singer.
 * Bernard Ganley, 83, British rugby league player.
 * Amnon Kapeliouk, 78, Israeli journalist and author.

27

 * Ernst Barkmann, 89, German World War II Waffen-SS soldier and Panzer ace.
 * Frank Barlow, 98, British historian.
 * Victoriano Crémer, 102, Spanish poet and journalist, natural causes.
 * Mary Lou Forbes, 83, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (1959), breast cancer.
 * Willy Kyrklund, 88, Finnish-born Swedish author.
 * Fayette Pinkney, 61, American musician (The Three Degrees), respiratory failure.
 * Nanae Sasaki, 53, Japanese marathon runner, colorectal cancer.
 * Gale Storm, 87, American actress (My Little Margie, The Gale Storm Show).
 * Gordon Taylor, 93, British Anglican priest and Royal Navy chaplain.
 * Jackie Washington, 89, Canadian blues musician, complications from a heart attack.

28

 * Terry Black, 62, Canadian singer, multiple sclerosis.
 * Joseph Crowdy, 85, British soldier, Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
 * Josep Maria Guix Ferreres, 81, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Vic (1983–2003).
 * Rita Keane, 86, Irish traditional singer.
 * A. K. Lohithadas, 54, Indian screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
 * Billy Mays, 50, American pitchman (OxiClean) and television host (Pitchmen), hypertensive heart disease.
 * Jeff Swanagan, 51, American founding executive director and president of the Georgia Aquarium, heart attack.
 * Fred Travalena, 66, American comedian and impressionist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * Tom Wilkes, 69, American graphic designer.
 * Yu Hyun-mok, 83, South Korean film director, cerebral infarction.

29

 * Dave Batters, 39, Canadian politician, MP for Palliser (2004–2008), suicide.
 * Joe Bowman, 84, American bootmaker and sharpshooter, heart attack.
 * Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, cirrhosis.
 * Pauline Picard, 62, Canadian politician, MP for Drummond (1993–2008), lung cancer.
 * Jan Rubeš, 89, Czech-born Canadian actor (Witness, Snow Falling on Cedars, D2: The Mighty Ducks) and opera singer, stroke.
 * Sandra Warfield, 88, American operatic mezzo-soprano, complications from a stroke.

30

 * Pina Bausch, 68, German modern dance choreographer, cancer.
 * Paquito Cordero, 77, Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer, respiratory disease.
 * Robert DePugh, 86, American anti-Communist activist.
 * Liam Fairhurst, 14, British fundraiser, synovial sarcoma.
 * James F. McNulty, Jr., 83, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arizona (1983–1985), Parkinson's disease.
 * Jan Molander, 89, Swedish actor and film director.
 * Luis Oliva, 101, Argentine Olympic athlete.
 * Harve Presnell, 75, American actor (Fargo, Saving Private Ryan, Patch Adams) and singer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Shi Pei Pu, 70, Chinese opera singer, gender-bending spy who was basis for M. Butterfly.