Deaths in May 2008

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.

1

 * Aden Hashi Farah Ayro, Somalian politician and Al-Shabaab member, air strike.
 * Paulo Amaral, 84, Brazilian football player (Flamengo) and coach (Juventus).
 * SM Nasimuddin SM Amin, 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza, lung cancer.
 * Bernard Archard, 91, British actor (Krull, Doctor Who, Emmerdale).
 * Buzzie Bavasi, 93, American baseball executive (Dodgers, Angels, Padres).
 * Mary Berry, 90, British musicologist and nun.
 * Philipp von Boeselager, 90, German World War II anti-Hitler conspirator.
 * Nirmala Deshpande, 78, Indian peace activist, after brief illness.
 * Elaine Dundy, 86, American writer and actress.
 * Aden Hashi Farah, Somali leader of Al-Shabab insurgent group, air strike.
 * Jim Hager, 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw), heart attack.
 * Mark Kendall, 49, British footballer (Spurs, Newport, Wolves).
 * Sir Anthony Mamo, 99, Maltese politician, first president of the Republic of Malta.
 * Alberto Estima de Oliveira, 74, Portuguese poet.
 * Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging.
 * Marcel Van Der Auwera, 84, Belgian fencer.
 * J. J. Voskuil, 81, Dutch novelist.

2

 * Josephine Apieu Jenaro Aken, 53, South Sudanese civil servant, plane crash.
 * Robert Brachtenbach, 77, American jurist, Washington State Supreme Court justice (1972–1994), throat cancer.
 * Carole Dekeijser, 48, Belgian painter, lung cancer.
 * Dominic Dim Deng, 58, Sudanese politician, defence minister for Southern Sudan, plane crash.
 * Robert M. Isaac, 80, American politician, mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado (1979–1997), pneumonia.
 * Sergio Lauricella, 86, Italian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) composer.
 * Mildred Loving, 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia).
 * Ilyas Malayev, 72, Uzbekistani musician and poet, pancreatic cancer.
 * Beverlee McKinsey, 72, American actress (Another World, Guiding Light, Bronco Billy), complications from kidney transplant.
 * Izold Pustõlnik, 70, Ukrainian-born Estonian astronomer.
 * Daniel Sekhoto, 37, South African football player.
 * Mike Titcomb, 75, British rugby union referee, kidney failure.
 * Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr., 93, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Ruffian).
 * Justin Yak, Sudanese politician, minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash.

3

 * Charles Caccia, 78, Canadian politician, environmentalist, Liberal MP for Davenport (1968–2004), complications of stroke.
 * Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 82, Spanish prime minister (1981–1982), natural causes.
 * Eight Belles, 3, American racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby 2nd-place finisher, euthanized.
 * Martin Finnegan, 27, Irish motorbike racer, race crash.
 * Fay Gale, 75, Australian cultural geographer.
 * Lynne Cooper Harvey, 92, American radio producer, Radio Hall of Fame member, wife of Paul Harvey, leukemia.
 * Ted Key, 95, American cartoonist (Hazel), bladder cancer and stroke.
 * Hanon Reznikov, 57, American playwright.
 * Morgan Sparks, 91, American engineer, inventor of the first practical bipolar junction transistor.
 * Ngugi wa Mirii, 57, Kenyan playwright, car accident.

4

 * Roger Aeschlimann, 84, Swiss cyclist.
 * John Altieri, 38, American actor (Jersey Boys), pneumonia.
 * Fred Baur, 89, American chemist, inventor of the Pringles can.
 * Alvin Colt, 92, American Tony Award-winning costume designer (On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Pipe Dream, Li'l Abner).
 * John Greenwood, 57, British businessman and catering executive, motor neurone disease.
 * Fred Haines, 72, American screenwriter and film director, lung cancer.
 * Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham, 71, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.
 * Kishan Maharaj, 84, Indian musician, leading exponent of the Benares gharana tabla, stroke.
 * Colin Murdoch, 79, New Zealand inventor of the disposable hypodermic syringe and the tranquilizer gun, cancer.

5

 * Sam Aubrey, 85, American basketball player and coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys).
 * Thomas Boggs, 63, American drummer (Box Tops), owner of Huey's Restaurants.
 * Hugh Bradner, 92, American scientist credited with inventing the wetsuit, complications of pneumonia.
 * Pak Kyongni, 82, South Korean novelist, lung cancer.
 * Irv Robbins, 90, American businessman, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain.
 * Zvonko Sabolović, 84, Yugoslav Olympic sprinter.
 * Alma Hogan Snell, 85, American Crow tribal nation historian, herbalist, granddaughter of Pretty Shield.
 * Jerry Wallace, 79, American country music singer, heart failure.
 * Witold Woyda, 68, Polish fencer, double gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, lung cancer.

6

 * John Jay Iselin, 74, American public television innovator, descendant of John Jay, pneumonia.
 * Franz Jackson, 95, American saxophonist.
 * Harvey Karman, 84, American psychologist and women's reproductive health advocate, inventor of the Karman cannula, stroke.
 * William Earl Lynd, 53, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, 74, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.
 * D.C. Minner, 73, American blues musician.
 * John Reames, 65, British football manager and administrator, cancer.
 * Mark Saunders, 32, British barrister, shot by police.

7

 * William Douglas Allen, 94, British physicist and electrical engineer.
 * John Earle, 64, Irish saxophonist.
 * Neeraj Grover, 26, Indian television executive and producer (Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?), beaten.
 * Rachel Hoffman, 23, American police informant, murdered.
 * Clifford L. Jones, 80, American politician, Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman, prostate cancer.
 * Donald Montrose, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Stockton (1986–1999).
 * Thijs Wöltgens, 64, Dutch politician, mayor of Kerkrade (1994–2000), senator (1995–2005).
 * Gernot Zippe, 90, Austrian engineer.

8

 * Al-Bandari bint Abdulaziz, 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
 * Eddy Arnold, 89, American country music singer.
 * Willem Brakman, 85, Dutch author.
 * Ian Brodie, 72, British foreign correspondent (The Daily Telegraph).
 * Jose Feria, 91, Filipino supreme court justice (1986–1987).
 * Yasuharu Furuta, 93, Japanese Olympic hurdler.
 * Murray Jarvik, 84, American academic and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, heart failure.
 * Larry Levine, 80, American Grammy-winning audio engineer (Wall of Sound), emphysema.
 * Luigi Malerba, 81, Italian writer.
 * Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, 41, Mexican federal police anti-drug coordinator, shot.
 * François Sterchele, 26, Belgian footballer (Belgium, Club Brugge), car accident.

9

 * James Atkinson, 92, British physicist.
 * Firoz Dastur, 89, Indian Hindustani classical musician (Kirana Gharana), anaemia.
 * Jack Gibson, 79, Australian rugby league player and coach, selected as "Coach of the Century".
 * Judy Grable, 72, American female professional wrestler.
 * Shmuel Katz, 93, Israeli writer, historian and journalist.
 * Arthur Kroeger, 76, Canadian civil servant (1958–1992), academic and chancellor of Carleton University (1993–2002).
 * Baptiste Manzini, 87, American football player.
 * Nuala O'Faolain, 68, Irish journalist and author, lung cancer.
 * Mamadou N'Diaye, 68, Senegalese Olympic sprinter.
 * Ronald Parise, 56, American astronaut, brain tumor.
 * Esteban Robles Espinosa, Mexican police commander, shot.
 * Pascal Sevran, 62, French television presenter and producer, lyricist and writer, lung cancer.
 * Sinan Sofuoğlu, 25, Turkish motorcycle racer, training crash.
 * Artur da Távola, 72, Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, heart disease.

10

 * Sir John Barraclough, 90, British air marshal.
 * Leyla Gencer, 79, Turkish soprano opera singer, respiratory and cardiac failure.
 * Paul Haeberlin, 84, French chef and restaurateur (L'Auberge de l'Ill).
 * Jessica Jacobs, 17, Australian singer and actress (The Saddle Club), fell under train.
 * Liao Feng-Teh, 57, Taiwanese incoming interior minister, heart attack.
 * Eusebio Ríos, 73, Spanish international footballer and coach.
 * Mario Schiano, 74, Italian jazz saxophonist, after long Illness.
 * Peter Thurnham, 69, British MP for Bolton North East (1983–1997), pancreatic cancer.

11

 * Sir Austin Bide, 92, British chemist and industrialist.
 * Sam Dauya, 70, Zimbabwean founder of Dynamos F.C. football team.
 * Alema Leota, 80, American alleged organized crime leader, 1978 candidate for governor of Hawaii, injuries from car accident.
 * Raymattja Marika, 49, Australian Yolngu scholar, linguist, educator and cultural advocate, heart attack.
 * Bruno Neves, 27, Portuguese cyclist, crash during race.
 * Dottie Rambo, 74, American gospel singer, bus crash.
 * John Rutsey, 55, Canadian drummer (Rush), heart attack.
 * Heather Stohler, 29, American model for Calvin Klein, fire.
 * Dick Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke.
 * Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease.
 * Curtis Whitley, 39, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Carolina Panthers, Oakland Raiders).

12

 * Seton Airlie, 88, Scottish footballer.
 * Penny Banner, 73, American professional wrestler, cancer.
 * David Daniels, 74, American poet.
 * Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist (Warlock), kidney disease and cancer.
 * Lidiya Masterkova, 81, Russian-born French painter.
 * Natural Blitz, 7–8, Australian-bred stallion.
 * Robert Rauschenberg, 82, American pop artist, heart failure.
 * Bruce Sayers, 80, British electrical engineer.
 * Irena Sendler, 98, Polish humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

13

 * Jill Adams, 77, British actress, cancer.
 * Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 78, Kuwaiti emir (2006).
 * Dolores Alexander, 76, American feminist, writer, and reporter.
 * Charles Gary Allison, 69–70, American screenwriter and film producer.
 * Lucius D. Battle, 89, American ambassador to Egypt (1964–1967), Parkinson's disease.
 * Bernardin Gantin, 86, Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * John Phillip Law, 70, American actor (Barbarella).
 * Larry McKeon, 63, American politician, first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly, stroke.
 * Colea Răutu, 95, Romanian actor, cirrhosis.
 * Ron Stone, 72, American news anchor (KHOU, KPRC in Houston), prostate cancer.
 * Costică Toma, 80, Romanian football goalkeeper (Romania, Steaua București).
 * Maheswary Velautham, Sri Lankan lawyer and activist, shot.
 * Roger Harold Metford Warner, 95, British antiques dealer.

14

 * Frith Banbury, 96, British stage director and actor, liver cancer.
 * Dagmar Barnouw, 72, German cultural historian.
 * Arthur Burks, 92, American mathematician and computer pioneer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Warren Cowan, 87, American publicist, cancer.
 * Roger Ellis, 70, American football player, cancer.
 * John Forbes-Robertson, 80, British actor.
 * Derek Goodwin, 88, British ornithologist.
 * Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese writer.
 * Jay Morago, 90, American governor of the Gila River Indian Community (1954–1960), cancer.
 * Tonderai Ndira, 33, Zimbabwean political dissident, murdered.
 * Yuri Rytkheu, 78, Russian Chukchi language writer.
 * Mário Schoemberger, 56, Brazilian film, television and stage actor, cancer.
 * Richard David Vine, 82, American diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland (1979–1981).

15

 * Del Ankers, 91, American cinematographer and photographer (Muppets commercials).
 * Henry Austin, 88, Indian diplomat and politician, ambassador to Portugal.
 * Tommy Burns, 51, Scottish football player and manager (Celtic, Kilmarnock, Reading), melanoma.
 * Tove Billington Bye, 79, Norwegian politician.
 * Alexander Courage, 88, American television composer (Star Trek, The Waltons) and orchestrator (Jurassic Park).
 * Anthony Denness, 71, English cricketer.
 * Walt Dickerson, 80, American vibraphonist, cardiac arrest.
 * Robert Dunlop, 47, British motorcycle racer, chest injuries.
 * Will Elder, 86, American comic book artist (Mad, Little Annie Fanny), Parkinson's disease.
 * Bob Florence, 75, American jazz composer and arranger, pneumonia.
 * Youssef Idilbi, 32, Dutch actor, suicide.
 * Willis Lamb, 94, American physicist, Nobel laureate in physics (1955), complications of gallstone disorder.
 * Earl Leggett, 75, American football player and coach.
 * Yanks Music, 14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.

16

 * Charles J. Adams, 91, American politician.
 * Aonosato Sakari, 72, Japanese sumo wrestler.
 * William Blease, Baron Blease, 93, British politician.
 * Henry Canoy, 84, Filipino businessman, founder of Radio Mindanao Network.
 * Sandy Howard, 80, American film and television producer (A Man Called Horse), Alzheimer's disease.
 * David Mitton, 69, British animation director (Thomas & Friends, Thunderbirds), heart attack.
 * Robert Mondavi, 94, American winemaker, benefactor of the Mondavi Center, member of the California Hall of Fame.
 * Igor Polyakov, 95, Russian rower, 1952 Olympic silver medalist.
 * Marc Rabémila, 70, Malagasy Olympic athlete.
 * Jimmy Slyde, 80, American tap dancer.
 * Peter Rolfe Vaughan, 73, English scientist, heart attack.

17

 * Jolyon Brettingham Smith, 58, British composer, musicologist and radio presenter.
 * John Fitzsimmons, 68, British Roman Catholic priest and broadcaster, after long illness.
 * Thomas Flatley, 76, American real estate tycoon and philanthropist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Zélia Gattai, 91, Brazilian writer and novelist, wife of Jorge Amado.
 * Wilfrid Mellers, 94, British composer and author.
 * D. Aubrey Moodie, 99, Canadian politician.
 * Jack Rayner, 87, Australian rugby league player.
 * Sophan Sophiaan, 64, Indonesian actor and politician, motorcycle accident.
 * Joyce Trimmer, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (1988–1994), cancer.
 * Lionel Van Deerlin, 93, American politician and journalist, representative from California (1963–1981).

18

 * Lionel Algama, 73, Sri Lankan singer, composer and a musician.
 * Pietro Cascella, 87, Italian contemporary artist.
 * Irma Córdoba, 94, Argentine actress, natural causes.
 * Jonathan James, 24, American cyber criminal.
 * John Lucas, 85, Barbadian-born Canadian cricketer.
 * Lloyd Moore, 95, American NASCAR driver (1949–1955).
 * Elemore Morgan, Jr., 76, American landscape artist.
 * Jack Norris, 99, American football player.
 * Joseph Pevney, 96, American television and film director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase, Trapper John, M.D.).

19

 * Nigel Cassidy, 62, British footballer.
 * Larry Coutre, 80, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
 * Jack Duffy, 81, Canadian comedian, natural causes.
 * Chaim Flom, 56, Israeli scholar and rosh yeshiva.
 * Huntington Hartford, 97, American businessman and philanthropist.
 * Barclay Howard, 55, British golfer.
 * Rimma Kazakova, 76, Russian poet.
 * Mariam McGlone, 92, American dancer and choreographer.
 * Kjell Kristian Rike, 63, Norwegian sports commentator.
 * André Schlupp, 78, French Olympic basketball player.
 * Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright, myasthenia gravis.

20

 * Iona Banks, 87, British actress (Pobol y Cwm).
 * Crispin Beltran, 75, Filipino congressman and labor leader, head injuries from a fall.
 * Viktor Bortsov, 73, Russian actor, intestinal cancer.
 * Margot Boyd, 94, British actress (The Archers).
 * Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison, 71, British footballer and trade unionist.
 * Charles William John Eliot, 79, Canadian academic administrator, president of the University of Prince Edward Island (1985–1995), complications of a stroke.
 * Joachim Erwin, 58, German politician, mayor of Düsseldorf, colorectal cancer.
 * Gonzalo Figueroa Garcia Huidobro, 77, Chilean archaeologist.
 * Herb Hash, 97, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox), stroke.
 * Harald Hein, 58, German Olympic fencer.
 * Zelma Henderson, 88, American last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, pancreatic cancer.
 * Hamilton Jordan, 63, American politician, Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff (1979–1980), mesothelioma.
 * Baine Kerr, 88, American lawyer and oil executive.
 * Cy Leonard, 82, Canadian ventriloquist.
 * Ali Sadikin, 80, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta (1966–1977), liver cancer.
 * S. K. Trimurti, 96, Indonesian journalist, first minister of labor and employment, natural causes.

21

 * Bert André, 66, Dutch actor (Flodder), intracranial hemorrhage
 * Earl Wesley Berry, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Mel Casson, 87, American cartoonist (Redeye).
 * Brian Keenan, 66, Irish IRA commander, cancer.
 * Ted Lanyon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Michelle Meldrum, 39, American rock guitarist (Phantom Blue, Meldrum), cystic growth on the brain.
 * John Aloysius Morgan, 98, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Siegmund Nissel, 86, German-born British violinist (Amadeus Quartet).
 * Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, 77, Portuguese artist and engraver, long illness.
 * Torcato Sepúlveda, 57, Portuguese journalist.
 * Jeheskel Shoshani, 65, Israeli-born American elephant expert, bus explosion.

22

 * Melek Amet, 47, Romanian model, ovarian cancer.
 * Robert Asprin, 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures), heart attack.
 * Charlie Booth, 104, Australian athlete, inventor of the starting block.
 * Harry Lange, 77, German production designer and art director (2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal).
 * Jack Mildren, 58, American football player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (1990–1995), stomach cancer.
 * Paul Patrick, 58, British gay rights activist, chronic lung condition.
 * Hana Maria Pravda, 90, Czech actress and Holocaust survivor.
 * Tubby T, 33, British dancehall/garage musician, stroke.

23

 * Nigel Anderson, 88, British soldier, landowner, and politician.
 * Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and critic.
 * Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer, founder of the International Center of Photography.
 * Roberto Freire, 81, Brazilian writer and psychiatrist, created somatherapy.
 * Dritan Hoxha, 39, Albanian businessman, car accident.
 * Thelma Keane, 82, Australian-born American who inspired husband Bil's comic strip The Family Circus, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Heinz Kwiatkowski, 81, German footballer, member of 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning team.
 * Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, 40, Spanish mountaineer and alpinist, pulmonary edema while climbing Annapurna.
 * Jefferson Peres, 76, Brazilian senator from Amazonas, heart attack.
 * Utah Phillips, 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure.
 * Jack Smith, 72, English football player (Hartlepool United, Swindon Town, Margate) and manager.

24

 * Adam Baruch, 63, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic, diabetes complications.
 * Bob Beck, 63, Guamanian zoologist and conservationist, worked to save Guam rail native birds.
 * Tano Cimarosa, 86, Italian actor.
 * Reg Flewin, 87, British footballer.
 * Rob Knox, 18, British actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), stabbed.
 * Eugenio Garza Lagüera, 84, Mexican businessman, president of FEMSA, natural causes.
 * Isaac Lipschits, 77, Dutch political scientist and historian, natural causes.
 * Dick Martin, 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), respiratory complications.
 * Jimmy McGriff, 72, American jazz and blues organist, multiple sclerosis.
 * Sonny Okosun, 61, Nigerian musician, colon cancer.

25

 * Nadia Arslan, 59, Lebanese actress, breast cancer.
 * Louise Firouz, 74, American horse breeder.
 * George Garrett, 78, American novelist and poet, cancer.
 * Geremi González, 33, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, lightning strike.
 * James D. Griffin, 78, American mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
 * Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian chess grandmaster.
 * Ítalo Argentino Lúder, 91, Argentine acting president (1975).
 * Tom McHale, 45, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
 * Mitch Mullany, 39, American comedian and actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, The Wayans Bros., The Sweetest Thing), diabetes-related stroke.
 * J. R. Simplot, 99, American businessman, original McDonald's french fries supplier.
 * Olaf Sørensen, 90, Danish Olympic runner.
 * Ernst Stuhlinger, 94, German-born American rocket scientist.
 * Camu Tao, 30, American rapper-producer, lung cancer.
 * Kenneth H. Wood, 90, American author and administrator, editor of the Adventist Review, heart failure.

26

 * Dolly Aglay, 41, Filipino financial journalist, cancer.
 * Jerry C. Begay, 83, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran.
 * Dick Evans, 90, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Cardinals).
 * 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).
 * Howlin' Dave, 52, Filipino radio disc jockey and proponent of Pinoy rock, stroke.
 * John Hulme, 63, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Reading, Bury).
 * Roy Koerner, 75, British polar scientist and explorer.
 * Yuriy Konovalov, 78, Soviet-born Azerbaijani Olympic track athlete, 4 × 100 m relay silver medallist (1956 and 1960).
 * Donald L. Pilling, 64, American admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1997–2000), leukemia.
 * Sydney Pollack, 73, American film director and actor (Tootsie, Out of Africa, Michael Clayton), Oscar winner (1986), stomach cancer.
 * Alan Renouf, 89, Australian head of DFAT, ambassador to United States (1977–1979), France and Yugoslavia, leukemia.
 * Kermit Scott, 71, American philosophy professor, namesake of Kermit the Frog.
 * Robert G. Voight, 87, American academic.

27

 * Ed Arno, 91, Austrian-American cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist.
 * Valmae Beck, 64, Australian child murderer, complications of heart surgery.
 * Tony Hussein Hinde, 55, Australian-born Maldivian surfer, heart attack.
 * Jim Kerr, 68, American professional football player (Washington Redskins)
 * Franz Künstler, 107, German World War I veteran, last known surviving veteran of the Central Powers.
 * Hubert Macey, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).
 * Per Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic shooter.
 * Mick Nolan, 58, Australian footballer, cancer.
 * Neal Potter, 93, American politician.
 * Abram Raselemane, 30, South African footballer, apparent suicide.
 * Alejandro Romualdo, 82, Peruvian poet.
 * Keith Rosewarne, 83, Australian footballer.

28

 * Beryl Cook, 81, British painter.
 * Sven Davidson, 79, Swedish tennis player.
 * Robert H. Justman, 81, American television and film producer (Star Trek), Parkinson's disease.
 * Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer.
 * Danny Moss, 80, British jazz tenor saxophonist.
 * Nashoba's Key, 5, American racehorse, euthanized.
 * Dianne Odell, 61, American author with polio, power failure to iron lung.
 * Erin Spanevello, 21, Canadian fashion model, drug overdose.

29

 * Paula Gunn Allen, 68, Native American poet, novelist, and activist, lung cancer.
 * José Alejandro Bernales, 59, Chilean director general of Carabineros de Chile, helicopter crash.
 * Luc Bourdon, 21, Canadian ice hockey player, motorcycle accident.
 * Romeo A. Brawner, 72, Filipino appeals court judge (1995–2005), election commissioner (2005–2008), heart attack.
 * Len Devine, 84, Australian politician, MP for East Sydney (1963–1969).
 * Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flintstones), four-time Emmy winner, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
 * Donald MacLeod, 75, New Zealand cricketer.

30

 * Harry Brautigam, 59, Nicaraguan president of the BCIE since 2003, heart problem after air crash.
 * Campbell Burnap, 68, British jazz trombonist, cancer.
 * Harlan Cleveland, 90, American diplomat, educator and author, ambassador to NATO (1965–1969), natural causes.
 * Rodney Gordon, 75, British architect.
 * Graeme Miller, 67, Australian cricketer.
 * Noel Moore, 79, British civil servant, leader of decimalisation project, brain tumour.
 * Chris Morgan, 55, British journalist, apparent suicide in front of a train.
 * William Eldridge Odom, 75, American Army Lieutenant General and director of the National Security Agency.
 * Lorenzo Odone, 30, American ALD patient portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil.
 * Mike Scott, 75, British television producer and presenter.
 * Boris Shakhlin, 76, Russian-born Ukrainian gymnast, winner of seven Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union, cardiac arrest.
 * Suprakash Som, 60, Indian cricketer.
 * Nat Temple, 94, British bandleader.

31

 * Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall.
 * John Ambler, 83, British businessman.
 * Joe Axelson, 80, American executive and general manager of the National Basketball Association Sacramento Kings.
 * Nusret Çolpan, 56, Turkish painter and architect.
 * Detlef Gromoll, 70, American mathematician, brain hemorrhage.
 * Nelly Láinez, 88, Argentine actress, urinary infection.
 * Per-Erik Larsson, 79, Swedish skier.
 * Charles Moskos, 74, American sociologist, architect of the US military DADT gay and lesbian policy, cancer.
 * Paul Thomson, 91, American botanist, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association.
 * Allan Wiles, 87, New Zealand cricketer.