Deaths in November 2009

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Zev Aelony, 71, American civil rights activist.
 * Sakher Habash, 69, Palestinian party official (Fatah), stroke.
 * Esther Hautzig, 79, American Holocaust survivor and writer.
 * Endel Laas, 94, Estonian forest scientist.
 * Manfred Losch, 70, German Olympic athlete.
 * Seán Mac Fhionnghaile, 57, Irish actor, cancer.
 * Arturo Salazar Mejía, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Pasto.
 * Alda Merini, 78, Italian poet.
 * Gopal Mishra, 77, Indian journalist.
 * Gus Mitges, 90, Canadian politician, MP for Grey—Simcoe (1972–1988) and Bruce—Grey (1988–1993).
 * Alan Ogg, 42, American basketball player (Miami Heat), complications from staphylococcal infection.
 * Robert H. Rines, 87, American scientist, inventor, composer and Loch Ness Monster expert, heart failure.
 * Achim Stocker, 74, German football official, chairman of SC Freiburg, heart attack.
 * George Zoritch, 92, Russian-born American dancer.

2

 * Haya bint Abdulaziz Al Saud, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah.
 * Nien Cheng, 94, Chinese author and political prisoner.
 * Lou Filippo, 83, American boxing referee and judge, member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, stroke.
 * Evelyn Hofer, 87, German-born photographer.
 * Brian James, 91, Australian actor, complications from a fall.
 * Shabtai Kalmanovich, 61, Russian former KGB spy, president of WBC Spartak Moscow Region, shot.
 * Keith Kettleborough, 74, British footballer (Sheffield United).
 * José Luis López Vázquez, 87, Spanish actor.
 * Yael Lotan, 74, Israeli writer, editor and translator, liver cancer.
 * Phil Lumpkin, 57, American NBA player and high school basketball coach, pneumonia.
 * Ron Moeller, 71, American baseball player.
 * Roman Moravec, 58, Slovak Olympic athlete.
 * Beverley O'Sullivan, 28, Irish singer, car crash.
 * Amir Pnueli, 68, Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award winner.
 * Glenn Remick, 58, American founder of American Darters Association, member of National Darts Hall of Fame, amyloidosis.
 * Mark Smith, 49, British bassist (The Waterboys) and record producer.
 * Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, 73, British businessman and life peer.
 * Lonnie Zamora, 76, American alleged UFO witness, heart failure.

3

 * Charles August, 90, American businessman, founder of Monro Muffler Brake.
 * Francisco Ayala, 103, Spanish novelist, natural causes.
 * Archie Baird, 90, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen).
 * Carl Ballantine, 92, American actor (McHale's Navy), natural causes.
 * Brother Blue, 88, American storyteller, performance artist.
 * Dodo Chichinadze, 84, Georgian actress.
 * Sir John Crofton, 97, British medical pioneer.
 * Jean B. Cryor, 70, American politician, cancer.
 * Shel Dorf, 76, American founder of the San Diego Comic-Con, diabetes-related complications.
 * Parry Gordon, 64, English rugby league player.
 * Tamás Lossonczy, 105, Hungarian abstract painter.
 * Lorissa McComas, 38, American softcore model and actress.
 * Toshiyuki Mimura, 61, Japanese baseball player and manager (Hiroshima Toyo Carp).
 * Alice S. Rossi, 87, American sociologist and feminist.

4

 * Win Aung, 65, Burmese politician and military officer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998–2004).
 * William H. Avery, 98, American politician, representative for Kansas (1955–1965), Governor of Kansas (1965–1967).
 * Sir Don Beaven, 85, New Zealand scientist and diabetes researcher, house fire.
 * Ivan Biakov, 65, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning biathlete (1972, 1976)
 * Hubertus Brandenburg, 85, German-born Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (1977–1998).
 * Stefano Chiodi, 52, Italian footballer.
 * Art D'Lugoff, 85, American jazz nightclub owner (The Village Gate), heart attack.
 * Kabun Mutō, 82, Japanese politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1993), pancreatic cancer.
 * Thomas P. O'Malley, 79, American academic, president of Loyola Marymount University (1991–1999), heart attack.
 * Antonio Pelle, 77, Italian 'Ndrangheta boss, heart attack.
 * David Tree, 94, British actor.

5

 * Peter Chen Bolu, 96, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Daming.
 * I. F. Clarke, 91, British literary scholar.
 * Roy Collins, 75, English cricketer.
 * Adam Firestorm, 32, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler, suicide.
 * Luigi Fuin, 81, Italian footballer.
 * Félix Luna, 84, Argentinian historian.
 * Lucien Maelfait, 90, French cyclist.
 * Barrie Rickards, 71, British palaeontologist and angler, cancer.
 * Winifred Tumim, Lady Tumim, 73, British charity executive and campaigner.

6

 * Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar.
 * Nick Counter, 69, American film executive and lawyer.
 * Dimitri De Fauw, 28, Belgian track cyclist, suicide.
 * Abraham Escudero Montoya, 69, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Palmira.
 * Robert Hilborn Falls, 85, Canadian admiral, Chief of the Defence Staff (1977–1980).
 * Waldo Hunt, 88, American publisher.
 * Jacno, 52, French musician, cancer.
 * Otomar Krejča, 87, Czech theatre director.
 * Hans Lund, 59, American poker player, cancer.
 * Antonio Rosario Mennonna, 103, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
 * Tommy Reis, 95, American baseball player.
 * Donald Rix, 78, Canadian pathologist and philanthropist.
 * Manuel Solís Palma, 91, Panamanian President (1988–1989), pulmonary edema.
 * Ron Sproat, 77, American television writer (Dark Shadows), heart attack.

7

 * Yelena Bondarchuk, 47, Russian actress, breast cancer.
 * Gene D. Cohen, 65, American psychiatrist, prostate cancer.
 * Bob Dillinger, 91, American baseball player.
 * Anselmo Duarte, 89, Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director, complications from a stroke.
 * Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA.
 * Donald Harington, 73, American author, cancer.
 * Chris Harman, 66, British socialist journalist and activist.
 * Billy Ingham, 57, British footballer (Burnley).
 * Joe Maross, 86, American actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Alayna Morgan, 61, American obese woman.
 * Allan Mulder, 81, Australian politician, MP (1972–1975).
 * David C. Smith, 80, American historian.

8

 * Ellen Ahrndt, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * Hiley Edwards, 58, English cricketer (Devon), cancer.
 * Jerry Fuchs, 34, American drummer (Maserati, !!!), fall.
 * Armin Gessert, 46, German video game developer, heart attack.
 * Vitaly Ginzburg, 93, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 * Burleigh Hines, 74, American journalist.
 * Sir Patrick Howard-Dobson, 88, British army general.
 * Karl Kroeber, 83, American literary scholar of Native American literature, cancer.
 * Malcolm Laycock, 71, British radio DJ.
 * Igor Starygin, 63, Russian actor, complications from a stroke.

9

 * Sedley Andrus, 94, British herald.
 * Al Cervi, 92, American basketball player and coach (Rochester Royals, Syracuse Nationals).
 * Earl Cooley, 98, American smokejumper.
 * Clen Denning, 98, Australian footballer, oldest surviving Australian Football League player.
 * Henry L. Kimelman, 88, American Ambassador to Haiti (1980–1981), heart failure.
 * Earsell Mackbee, 68, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), complications following a stroke.
 * Ib Olsen, 80, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower.
 * Mehdi Sahabi, 66, Iranian writer and translator, heart attack.
 * Charles Proctor Sifton, 74, American federal judge, sarcoidosis.
 * Stephen Verney, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Repton (1977–1985).
 * Nick Waterlow, 69, British-born Australian artistic director and curator, stabbed.

10

 * Robert Cameron, 98, American aerial photographer.
 * Gheorghe Dinică, 75, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Robert Enke, 32, German footballer, suicide by train impact.
 * Tomaž Humar, 40, Slovenian mountaineer, mountaineering accident.
 * Simple Kapadia, 51, Indian actress and costume designer, cancer.
 * Dick Katz, 85, American jazz pianist and arranger, lung cancer.
 * David Lloyd, 75, American comedy writer ("Chuckles Bites the Dust"), prostate cancer.
 * Uolevi Manninen, 72, Finnish Olympic basketball player.
 * Hisaya Morishige, 96, Japanese actor, natural causes.
 * John Allen Muhammad, 48, American convicted spree killer (Beltway Sniper), executed by lethal injection.
 * Anne Mustoe, 76, British headmistress, cyclist and writer.
 * Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, Iranian doctor, whistleblower on use of torture, poisoned.
 * José Afonso Ribeiro, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Borba.

11

 * Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, 60, Spanish jurist, Advocate General of the European Court of Justice.
 * Keith Fagnou, 38, Canadian organic chemist, complications of H1N1 influenza.
 * Ehsan Fatahian, 28, Iranian Kurdish activist, executed by hanging.
 * William Ganz, 90, Slovak-born American cardiologist, co-inventor of the pulmonary artery catheter, natural causes.
 * Henry Jayasena, 78, Sri Lankan actor, colon cancer.
 * Irving Kriesberg, 90, American expressionist artist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Tom Merriman, 85, American jingle composer, complications from a fall.
 * Marvin Minoff, 78, American film and television producer (The Nixon Interviews, Patch Adams).
 * John Jay O'Connor, 79, American lawyer, husband of Sandra Day O'Connor, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Helge Reiss, 81, Norwegian actor.

12

 * Elisabeth Aasen, 87, Norwegian politician.
 * Mohamed Abdi Aware, Somali judge, Chief Justice of Puntland, shot.
 * Vagrich Bakhchanyan, 71, Ukrainian-born American painter, apparent suicide.
 * Frances Lasker Brody, 93, American art collector and philanthropist.
 * Eleanor Hovda, 69, American composer and dancer.
 * Robert Kendall, 82, American actor, heart attack.
 * Willy Kernen, 80, Swiss footballer, participated in World Cup (1950, 1954, 1962).
 * James R. Lilley, 81, American diplomat, ambassador to South Korea and China, complications linked to prostate cancer.
 * Henri Sérandour, 72, French International Olympic Committee member, former head of the French National Olympic Committee.
 * Florence Temko, 88, American origami expert, heart failure.
 * Paul Wendkos, 87, American television and film director (Gidget), complications of a stroke.
 * Emanuel Zisman, 74, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1988–1999).

13

 * Roy Butler, 83, American politician, first directly elected mayor of Austin, Texas (1971–1975), complications from a fall.
 * Emin Doybak, 78–79, Turkish Olympic sprinter.
 * Michał Gajownik, 27, Polish Olympic sprint canoer, traffic collision.
 * Ueli Gegenschatz, 38, Swiss BASE jumper, jumping accident.
 * Dell Hymes, 82, American anthropologist, linguist and folklorist, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
 * Bruce King, 85, American politician, three-term Governor of New Mexico, complications from heart procedure.
 * Ron Klimkowski, 65, American baseball player, heart failure.
 * Bernard Kolélas, 76, Congolese politician, Mayor of Brazzaville, prime minister (1997).
 * Mara Manzan, 57, Brazilian actress, lung cancer.
 * John J. O'Connor, 76, American television critic (The New York Times), lung cancer.
 * Armen Takhtajan, 99, Soviet botanist.

14

 * Nikolay Anikin, 77, Russian-born American Olympic gold medal skiing champion (1956 Olympics), cancer.
 * Edgar Fay, 101, British judge.
 * Moshe Gidron, 84, Israeli Major General.
 * John F. Gregory, 82, American optical engineer.
 * Thomas Hollyman, 89, American photographer.
 * Travis LaRue, 96, American politician, Mayor of Austin, Texas (1969–1971).
 * John McWilliam, 68, British politician, MP for Blaydon (1979–2005).
 * Lewis Millett, 88, American Medal of Honor recipient.
 * David A. Olsen, 71, American businessman.
 * Ladislav Sitenský, 90, Czech photographer.

15

 * Derek B, 44, British rapper, heart attack.
 * Tia Barrett, 62, New Zealand ambassador and diplomat, High Commissioner to the Cook Islands (2009).
 * Richard Carlyle, 95, Canadian actor.
 * Ray Charnley, 74, English footballer (Blackpool, Morecambe).
 * Dennis Cole, 69, American actor, renal failure.
 * Andriy Fedchuk, 29, Ukrainian Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer (2000), traffic collision.
 * Karol Galba, 88, Slovak football official.
 * Pierre Harmel, 98, Belgian politician, prime minister (1965–1966).
 * Natalicio Lima, 91, Brazilian guitarist (Los Indios Tabajaras), stomach cancer.
 * Ambrose Mathalaimuthu, 84, Indian Bishop of Coimbatore.
 * Hans Matthöfer, 84, German politician, minister of finance (1978–1982).
 * Anna Mendelssohn, 61, British poet and political activist (Angry Brigade), brain tumour.
 * Allan Murdmaa, 75, Estonian architect.
 * Ken Ober, 52, American comedian and game show host (Remote Control).
 * Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, 95, Serbian 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, cardiac arrest.
 * Jim Pead, 85, Australian politician.
 * Jocelyn Quivrin, 30, French actor, car accident.
 * Earl Wentz, 71, American composer and performer.

16

 * Pablo Amaringo, 71, Peruvian artist.
 * Eddie Bell, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Titans), heart failure.
 * Jeff Clyne, 72, British jazz bassist, heart attack.
 * Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure.
 * Robert J. Frankel, 68, American thoroughbred horse trainer, leukemia.
 * Jan Leighton, 87, American actor, complications from a stroke.
 * Anne-Sofie Østvedt, 89, Norwegian intelligence operative for XU.
 * Jack Wong Sue, 84, Australian Z Special Unit member and businessman.
 * Harry Taylor, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Bucky Williams, 102, American baseball player, second-oldest Negro league baseball player.
 * Edward Woodward, 79, British actor (The Equalizer, The Wicker Man, Hot Fuzz).

17

 * José Aboulker, 89, Algerian World War II resistance fighter.
 * Peter Armstrong, 80, American Roman Catholic priest, apparent heart attack.
 * John Craxton, 87, British painter.
 * Michael Dias, 88, Sri Lankan-born British legal scholar.
 * Niku Kheradmand, 77, Iranian actress, complications of a heart attack.
 * Nikolay Olyalin, 68, Russian actor.
 * Sy Syms, 83, American entrepreneur, founder and chairman of off-price clothier SYMS, heart failure.

18

 * Johnny Almond, 63, British jazz and rock musician (Mark-Almond), cancer.
 * Abrar Alvi, 82, Indian film director and screenwriter (Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam), stomach complications.
 * Albert Crewe, 82, British-born American physicist, invented scanning transmission electron microscope, Parkinson's disease.
 * Jeanne-Claude, 74, French environmental artist (The Gates), complications from a ruptured brain aneurysm.
 * Gordon Hewit, 51, British Olympic swimmer.
 * Red Robbins, 65, American basketball player, cancer.
 * Salem Saad, 31, Emirati footballer (Al-Nasr SC), heart attack.
 * Ana Vásquez-Bronfman, 77, Chilean sociologist and writer.

19

 * Frank Beattie, 76, Scottish footballer (Kilmarnock F.C.).
 * Johnny Delgado, 61, Filipino actor, lymphoma.
 * John Gray, 75, British banker.
 * Daul Kim, 20, South Korean fashion model, suicide by hanging.
 * Pat Mackie, 95, New Zealand-born Australian trade unionist.
 * Denis McNamara, 83, British Olympic wrestler.
 * David Nokes, 61, British scholar.
 * Sir Noel Power, 79, Australian acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong (1996–1997), heart attack.
 * Jim Stanfield, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Nao Takasugi, 87, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1993–1999), stroke.

20

 * Robert Foxcroft, 75, Canadian Olympic fencer.
 * Martino Gomiero, 85, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Adria-Rovigo.
 * Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 78, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Sindh (1973–1977); prime minister (1990).
 * Lino Lacedelli, 83, Italian mountaineer, first man to reach the summit of K2.
 * H. C. Robbins Landon, 83, American musicologist.
 * Celso Pitta, 63, Brazilian politician, Mayor of São Paulo (1997–2000), colorectal cancer.
 * Herbert Richers, 86, Brazilian filmmaker and voice artist, kidney failure.
 * Max Robertson, 94, British radio broadcaster.
 * Alejandro R. Ruiz, 85, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Lester Shubin, 84, American developer of the bulletproof Kevlar vest, heart attack.
 * Elisabeth Söderström, 82, Swedish soprano, complications from a stroke.
 * Roman Trakhtenberg, 41, Russian actor, television and radio presenter, heart attack.
 * Ted Weill, 84, American politician.
 * Charis Wilson, 95, American model and writer.

21

 * Gerhard Aspheim, 79, Norwegian jazz trombonist.
 * Bernard Bonnin, 70, Filipino actor, diabetes.
 * Sir Edward Fennessy, 97, British electronic engineer.
 * Konstantin Feoktistov, 83, Russian cosmonaut and aerospace engineer.
 * Frank Fidler, 86, English footballer (Bournemouth, Hereford United).
 * Tom Janik, 69, American footballer (Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills).
 * Ken Krueger, 83, American publisher, co-founder and chairman of San Diego Comic-Con International, heart attack.
 * Rena Kanokogi, 74, American judoka, multiple myeloma.
 * Johnny Påhlsson, 68, Swedish Olympic sport shooter.
 * Paige Palmer, 93, American fitness trainer.
 * Art Savage, 58, American CEO (San Jose Sharks) (1990–1996) and co-owner (Sacramento River Cats) (1999–2009), lung cancer.
 * Allen Shelton, 73, American banjo player, leukemia.

22

 * Billy Joe Daugherty, 57, American Christian minister, lymphoma.
 * Sir John Grugeon, 81, British politician.
 * Ali Kordan, 51, Iranian politician, Minister of the Interior (2008), multiple myeloma.
 * Juan Carlos Muñoz, 90, Argentinian footballer, heart attack.
 * Haydain Neale, 39, Canadian singer–songwriter (jacksoul), lung cancer.
 * Francisco Rodriguez, 25, American Golden Gloves boxer, brain injury sustained during match.
 * Émile Vanfasse, 69, French Polynesian politician, finance minister (2004–2006).

23

 * José Arraño Acevedo, 88, Chilean writer and historian, pneumonia.
 * Paul K. Carlton, 88, American Air Force general.
 * Jean-Édouard Desmedt, 83, Belgian scientist.
 * Philip Kueber, 75, Canadian Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) rower.
 * Pim Koopman, 56, Dutch progressive rock drummer (Kayak).
 * Richard Meale, 77, Australian composer.
 * Tony Parry, 64, British footballer (Hartlepool United), pneumonia.
 * Pat Quinn, 74, Irish businessman, founder of the Quinnsworth supermarket chain, renal failure.
 * Frederick H. Schultz, 80, American businessman and politician, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives (1969–1970).
 * Yang Xianyi, 94, Chinese translator.

24

 * Ayub Afridi, 70-79, Pakistani drug smuggler and politician.
 * Amy Black, 36, British mezzo-soprano opera singer.
 * Chan Hung-lit, 66, Hong Kong actor, heart failure.
 * Francis French, 7th Baron de Freyne, 82, Irish aristocrat.
 * Gonçalves Isabelinha, 100, Portuguese footballer and physician.
 * Irena Nawrocka, 92, Polish Olympic fencer.
 * George Parsons, 83, British rugby union and rugby league player.
 * Abe Pollin, 85, American businessman, owner of Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals, corticobasal degeneration.
 * Hale Smith, 84, American composer and arranger, complications of a stroke.
 * Samak Sundaravej, 74, Thai politician, prime minister (2008), liver cancer.

25

 * Albert Dolhats, 88, French cyclist.
 * Jean Serge Essous, 74, Congolese musician.
 * Beatrice Gray, 98, American actress.
 * Giorgio Carbone, 73, Italian self-proclaimed head of state of the Principality of Seborga micronation.
 * Frans Haarsma, 88, Dutch professor of pastoral theology.
 * William Norman, 77, New Zealand cricketer.

26

 * Avery Clayton, 62, American executive director, heart attack.
 * Peter Forakis, 82, American artist.
 * Robert J. Fox, 81, American Catholic priest, cancer.
 * Nikola Kovachev, 75, Bulgarian football player and manager.
 * Lis Løwert, 89, Danish film actress.
 * Geoffrey Moorhouse, 77, British journalist and author, stroke.
 * Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, 60, Romanian Olympic fencer.

27

 * Mariano Abarca, 51, Mexican activist, shot.
 * Al Alberts, 87, American singer (The Four Aces), kidney failure.
 * Jacques Baratier, 91, French film director and screenwriter.
 * Erich Böhme, 79, German journalist, editor of Der Spiegel (1973–1989), cancer.
 * Jacques Braunstein, 78, Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and jazz disc jockey, heart failure.
 * William Bresnan, 75, American businessman, founder of Bresnan Communications, cancer.
 * Jeffrey Grayson, 67, American businessman and criminal.
 * Bess Lomax Hawes, 88, American folklorist and musician, stroke.
 * Geneviève Joy, 90, French pianist.
 * Alice McGrath, 92, American activist (Sleepy Lagoon murder trial), infection from a chronic illness.
 * Sir Anthony Mullens, 73, British army general.
 * Mike Penner, 52, American sportswriter (Los Angeles Times), suicide.
 * Irving Tripp, 88, American comic book artist (Little Lulu), cancer.
 * Larry Turner, 70, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (since 1985).
 * Warren Vanders, 79, American actor, lung cancer.

28

 * René Barret, 87, French cyclist.
 * Gilles Carle, 81, Canadian film director and screenwriter, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * David Aaron Clark, 49, American pornographic actor and film director, pulmonary embolism.
 * Bjartmar Gjerde, 78, Norwegian politician, cabinet minister and broadcasting executive.
 * Bob Keane, 87, American music producer and manager, founder of Del-Fi Records, renal failure.
 * Eric Kemp, 94, British Church of England theologian, Bishop of Chichester (1974–2001).
 * Tony Kendall, 73, Italian actor (Kommissar X series).
 * Patrick Konchellah, 41, Kenyan runner, stomach cancer.
 * Samuel Martin, 85, American linguist.
 * Koichi Saito, 80, Japanese film director and photographer, pneumonia.
 * Jerry Shipkey, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Chicago Bears).
 * Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes.

29

 * Don Addis, 74, American strip artist, lung cancer.
 * Prince Alexandre of Belgium, 67, Belgian royal, pulmonary embolism.
 * Andrew Donald Booth, 91, British computer scientist.
 * Mary Call Darby Collins, 98, American First Lady of Florida (1955–1961).
 * George Cummins, 78, Irish footballer (Everton, Luton Town, Republic of Ireland).
 * Nora David, Baroness David, 96, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
 * Gilbert-Antoine Duchêne, 90, French Bishop of Saint-Claude (1975–1994).
 * Princess Farial of Egypt, 71, Egyptian royal, oldest child of King Farouk, stomach cancer.
 * Ghalib al-Hinai, 96, Omani Ibadi religious leader.
 * Robert Holdstock, 61, British science fiction author, Escherichia coli infection.
 * Solange Magnano, 38, Argentinian beauty queen (Miss Argentina, 1994), pulmonary embolism.
 * Richard Mayne, 83, British international civil servant, broadcaster and critic.
 * Karl Peglau, 82, German traffic psychologist, creator of the Ampelmännchen traffic lights.
 * Lee Pelty, 74, American stage actor, lung cancer.
 * Jerneja Perc, 38, Slovenian athlete, cancer.
 * John Storm Roberts, 73, American ethnomusician.
 * Roy Hendry Thomson, 77, British politician.

30

 * Christopher Anvil, 84, American science fiction writer.
 * George Atkins, 92, Canadian radio and TV presenter (CBC), founder of Farm Radio International, kidney failure.
 * Mustafa Avcioğlu-Çakmak, 99, Turkish Olympic wrestler.
 * Dot Bailey, 92, New Zealand cricketer.
 * George Bickford, 82, Australian football player.
 * Asim Butt, 42, Pakistani-born British cricketer.
 * Emile Eid, 84, Lebanese Roman Catholic titular bishop of Sarepta dei Maroniti.
 * Brent Green, 33, Australian football player, drowned.
 * Charles Miller Metzner, 97, American federal judge.
 * Paul Naschy, 75, Spanish actor, screenwriter and director, pancreatic cancer.
 * Milorad Pavić, 80, Serbian writer, heart failure.
 * Lucian Pulvermacher, 91, American head of the True Catholic Church.