Deaths in October 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Ian Collier, 65, British singer and actor (Doctor Who).
 * Robert Couturier, 103, French sculptor.
 * J. Don Ferguson, 74, American actor (Norma Rae, Maximum Overdrive, Major League: Back to the Minors), leukemia.
 * Bill Flagg, 79, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Peru (1973–1977).
 * Daphney Hlomuka, 59, South African actress, kidney cancer.
 * Val Jansante, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
 * Detlef Lewe, 69, German canoeist, 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, after brief illness.
 * House Peters, Jr., 92, American actor (Mr. Clean), pneumonia.
 * Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio), acute respiratory disease.
 * Arlene Sherman, 61, American television producer (Sesame Street).
 * LeJuan Simon, 27, Trinidadian athlete, complications of pulmonary hypertension.
 * Poornam Viswanathan, 88, Indian actor, multiple organ failure.
 * Boris Yefimov, 109, Russian political cartoonist.

2

 * George Anselevicius, 85, Lithuanian-born American architect.
 * Bonnie Bluh, 82, American feminist writer, aortic dissection.
 * Choi Jin-sil, 39, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging.
 * Rob Guest, 58, British-born New Zealand actor and singer, stroke.
 * Anna Hagemann, 89, German Olympic athlete.
 * Shaharom Husain, 88, Malaysian historian.
 * Kataejar Jibas, 55, Marshallese politician, mayor of Bikini Atoll since 2007, injuries from a car accident.
 * John Sjoberg, 67, British footballer (Leicester City F.C.).

3

 * Zulfiqar Ahmed, 82, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest.
 * Mahir al-Zubaydi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot.
 * Geoffrey Davis, 74, Australian doctor.
 * Jean Foyer, 87, French politician, Minister of Justice (1962–1967) and Minister of Health (1972–1973).
 * Frederick Charles Hurrell, 80, British Royal Air Force officer.
 * Hugo Ironside, 90, British soldier.
 * Johnny "J", 39, American hip-hop producer, apparent suicide by jumping.
 * Rajendra Singh Lodha, 66, Indian accountant, chairman of the Birla Corporation, heart attack.
 * George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, 87, British businessman and journalist, MP (1952–1973), viral infection.

4

 * Harry Bath, 83, Australian National Rugby League player and coach, after long illness.
 * Ted Briggs, 85, British sailor, last survivor of the sinking of HMS Hood (51).
 * Craig Fertig, 66, American football player and coach, kidney failure.
 * Al Gallodoro, 95, American jazz musician, after brief illness.
 * Derek Jones, 81, British colonial official, Hong Kong Secretary for Economic Services (1973–1976), Environment (1976–1981).
 * Saul Laskin, 90, Canadian politician, first mayor of Thunder Bay, heart attack.
 * Peter Vansittart, 88, British writer.

5

 * Ernest Beutler, 80, American hematologist, lymphoma.
 * Kim Chan, 90, Chinese-born American actor (Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Fifth Element, Lethal Weapon 4).
 * Leopoldo Elia, 82, Italian legal scholar, President of the Constitutional Court, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994).
 * Servando González, 85, Mexican documentary film director.
 * Mohamed Moumou, 43, Iraqi al-Qaeda second-in-command, shot.
 * Howard G. Munson, 84, American judge.
 * Iba N'Diaye, 80, Senegalese painter, heart failure.
 * Ken Ogata, 71, Japanese actor (The Ballad of Narayama), liver cancer.
 * Hans Richter, 89, German actor and director (Emil and the Detectives).
 * Lloyd Thaxton, 81, American television personality, multiple myeloma.

6

 * Murad Abro, 42, Pakistani politician, road accident.
 * Peter Avery, 85, British scholar and Iranian specialist.
 * Larry Belcher, 61, American politician, member of Kentucky House of Representatives (1999–2002, since 2006), car accident.
 * Paul Clark, 68, British judge.
 * Peter Cox, 82, Australian politician.
 * Paavo Haavikko, 77, Finnish poet and playwright, after long illness.
 * Olga Kaljakin, 57, American art director and film poster artist (The Last Samurai, Field of Dreams, Moonstruck), emphysema.
 * Nadia Nerina, 80, South African ballerina.
 * Janaka Perera, 62, Sri Lankan general and politician, bomb blast injuries.
 * Anne Margrethe Strømsheim, 94, Norwegian resistance member.
 * Sir John Young, 88, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Victoria (1974–1991), Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria (1974–1995).

7

 * Peter Copley, 93, British actor.
 * Cozzene, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Bruce Dal Canton, 66, American baseball player, esophageal cancer.
 * Leslie Hardman, 95, British Army Jewish chaplain at liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
 * George Kissell, 88, American baseball coach (St. Louis Cardinals), car accident.
 * Ivar Mathisen, 88, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) sprint canoer.
 * DeWayne McKinney, 47, American ATM entrepreneur wrongfully convicted of murder, traffic accident.
 * George Emil Palade, 95, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1974).
 * Princess Rooney, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Miles Richmond, 85, British painter.

8

 * David Akutagawa, 71, Japanese Canadian martial artist, heart attack.
 * Chicão, 59, Brazilian footballer.
 * Jim Drake, 77, British rugby league player.
 * Bob Friend, 70, British newscaster, cancer.
 * Gidget Gein, 39, American bassist (Marilyn Manson), drug overdose.
 * Pete Goegan, 74, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota North Stars, New York Rangers).
 * Tanya Halesworth, 73, Australian television news presenter, cancer.
 * Eileen Herlie, 90, British-born American actress (Hamlet, All My Children), complications of pneumonia.
 * Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld, 70, British politician, MP (1979–1997), cancer.
 * Cliff Malone, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), heart failure.
 * Les McCrabb, 93, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).

9

 * Karl Albert, 87, German philosopher and professor.
 * Albert Hall, 74, American hammer throw champion, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Milan Kymlicka, 72, Czech-born Canadian composer and conductor.
 * David Lett, 69, American winemaker, heart failure.
 * Bert Loxley, 74, British footballer and manager, after long illness.
 * Ardeshir Mohasses, 70, Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, heart attack.
 * Judith Wachs, 70, American musician (Voice of the Turtle) and promoter of Sephardic music, cancer.

10

 * James Benson, 63, American entrepreneur (SpaceDev), brain tumor.
 * Alton Ellis, 70, Jamaican singer, lymphatic cancer.
 * Sid Hudson, 93, American baseball player.
 * Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak, 100, Pakistani politician and diplomat, after long illness.
 * Gerald Leeman, 86, American wrestler, Olympic silver medallist (1948).
 * Kazuyoshi Miura, 61, Japanese businessman, murder suspect, suicide by hanging.
 * Javad Nurbakhsh, 81, Iranian spiritual leader.
 * Jiřina Petrovická, 85, Czech actress.
 * Alexey Prokurorov, 44, Russian cross-country skier, car accident.
 * Leo Rosner, 90, Polish-born Australian musician, Holocaust survivor in Schindler's List, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
 * Summing, 30, American thoroughbred racehorse and sire, natural causes.
 * Kurt Weinzierl, 77, Austrian actor.

11

 * Vija Artmane, 79, Latvian actress, complications from strokes.
 * Daniel Awdry, 84, British politician, MP for Chippenham (1962–1979).
 * William Claxton, 80, American photographer, complications of heart failure.
 * Kevin Foster, 39, American baseball player, renal cancer.
 * Jörg Haider, 58, Austrian politician, Governor of Carinthia (1989–1991, since 1999), leader of the FPÖ and BZÖ, car accident.
 * Russ Hamilton, 76, British singer.
 * Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, 42, Surinamese-born Dutch television producer, car accident.
 * Neal Hefti, 85, American composer ("Batman Theme", "The Odd Couple Theme"), heart attack.
 * William J. Higginson, 69, American poet and translator.
 * Randy Johnston, 20, American male model, accidental drug overdose.
 * Hayley Marie Kohle, 26, Canadian fashion model, suicide by jumping.
 * Badar Munir, 68, Pakistani actor, complications of cardiac arrest.
 * Scarlett, 13, American stray cat, name source of the Scarlett Award for Animal Heroism, animal euthanasia.
 * Mark Shivas, 70, British film and television producer, Head of BBC Drama (1988–1993).
 * Allan Spear, 71, American politician, first openly gay member of Minnesota Senate (1973–2000), complications of heart surgery.
 * Gil Stratton, 86, American television and radio sportscaster (Los Angeles Rams, Santa Anita Racetrack), heart failure.
 * Nelson Symonds, 75, Canadian jazz guitarist, heart attack,

12

 * Sukha Bose, 77, Indian cricket umpire.
 * Lenvil Elliott, 57, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals), heart attack.
 * Chuck Evans, 41, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), heart failure.
 * Sir Dick Franks, 88, British Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (1979–1982).
 * Roy K. Moore, 94, American FBI agent known for civil rights investigations, pneumonia.
 * Cliff Nobles, 67, American pop musician, cancer.
 * Rudolf Pangsepp, 87, Estonian book designer and artist.
 * James E. Reilly, 60, American soap opera writer, complications from cardiac surgery.
 * John R. Reilly, 80, American lawyer, adviser to six Democratic presidential candidates, cancer.
 * Allan Rosenfield, 75, American physician, dean of Columbia University School of Public Health (1986–2008), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Emil Steinberger, 79, American physician, lung cancer.

13

 * Khryss Adalia, 62, Filipino film, television and stage director, colorectal cancer.
 * Pablo Barrachina Estevan, 95, Spanish bishop of Orihuela-Alicante (1954–1989).
 * Alexei Cherepanov, 19, Russian ice hockey player, acute cardiomyopathy.
 * Arthur J. Crowns, 86, American politician and academic lawyer.
 * Guillaume Depardieu, 37, French actor, pneumonia.
 * Antonio José González Zumárraga, 83, Ecuadorian cardinal, stomach cancer.
 * Luciana Pignatelli, 73, Italian socialite, suicide.
 * Matthew John Rinaldo, 77, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1973–1993), Parkinson's disease.
 * Paul Rogers, 87, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1957–1979), lung cancer.
 * Frank Rosenthal, 79, American gaming executive, sports handicapper, inspiration for the 1995 film Casino, heart attack.
 * Eduardus Sangsun, 65, Indonesian bishop of Ruteng, heart attack.
 * Françoise Seigner, 80, French comedian and actress, pancreatic cancer.
 * Eduardo Serrano, 97, Venezuelan musician, conductor and composer.
 * Adam Watene, 31, Cook Islands rugby league player, heart attack.
 * Christopher Wicking, 65, British screenwriter.

14

 * Barrington J. Bayley, 71, British science fiction author, complications of colorectal cancer.
 * Richard Cooey, 41, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Robert Furman, 93, American spy during World War II, foreign intelligence chief for Manhattan Project, metastatic melanoma.
 * Antonio Iannucci, 94, Italian archbishop of Pescara-Penne (1959–1990).
 * Ray Lowry, 64, British cartoonist and illustrator, after long illness.
 * Anne Mackenzie-Stuart, 78, British political activist.
 * Pat Moss, 73, British rally driver, cancer.
 * Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, 82, British peer, activist for the disabled.
 * Kazys Petkevičius, 82, Lithuanian basketball player and coach.
 * Dame Daphne Purves, 99, New Zealand educator.

15

 * Edie Adams, 81, American actress (Li'l Abner, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Apartment), Tony winner (1957), pneumonia and cancer.
 * Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, 94, Turkish poet, chronic renal failure.
 * Nathan Davis, 91, American actor (Thief, Holes, Risky Business).
 * Chris Mims, 38, American football player.
 * Jack Narz, 85, American game show host (Concentration), complications from strokes.
 * Suzzanna, 66, Indonesian actress, complications of diabetes.
 * Eddie Thompson, 68, British businessman, chairman of Dundee United, prostate cancer.
 * Des Townson, 74, New Zealand yacht designer, cancer.
 * Tom Tresh, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers), heart attack.
 * Roderick Walker, 76, British SAS commander.
 * Wang Yung-ching, 91, Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire, founder of Formosa Plastics.

16

 * Germán Abad Valenzuela, 89, Ecuadorian radiologist.
 * Ere Kokkonen, 70, Finnish film director, after illness.
 * David Lee, 70, Canadian sound engineer.
 * Paul L. Montgomery, 72, American journalist and reporter (The New York Times), cancer.
 * Dagmar Normet, 87, Estonian writer and translator.
 * Jack Reynolds, 71, American professional wrestling announcer (WWWF/WWF), complications from surgery.

17

 * George M. Keller, 84, American oil executive, founder of Chevron Corporation, complications from orthopedic surgery.
 * Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, 95, German prince, member of the House of Wittelsbach.
 * Urmas Ott, 53, Estonian journalist and television host, heart attack.
 * Santo Bartolomeo Quadri, 88, Italian archbishop of Modena-Nonantola (1983–1996).
 * Bill Reilly, 70, American publisher, founder of Primedia, bone and prostate cancer.
 * Levi Stubbs, 72, American vocalist (The Four Tops), complications of cancer and stroke.
 * Nick Weatherspoon, 58, American basketball player, natural causes.
 * Ben Weider, 85, Canadian bodybuilding promoter and Napoleon scholar.

18

 * Raymond Delacy Adams, 97, American neurologist and neuropathologist, heart failure.
 * Daniel Aguillón, 24, Mexican boxer, brain death caused by knockout.
 * Evelyn Ay Sempier, 75, American beauty pageant winner, Miss America (1954), colorectal cancer.
 * Salvatore Boccaccio, 70, Italian bishop of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino.
 * Albert Boime, 75, American art historian, myelofibrosis.
 * Alfredo E. Evangelista, 82, Filipino archaeologist, discovered the Laguna Copperplate Inscription.
 * Charley Fox, 88, Canadian pilot credited with strafing Erwin Rommel's car, car accident.
 * Peter Gordeno, 69, British actor, singer and dancer.
 * Tormod Haugen, 63, Norwegian children's author, after long illness.
 * E. K. Mawlong, 62, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2000–2001).
 * Dave McKenna, 78, American jazz pianist, lung cancer.
 * Ralph Hanover, 28, Standardbred colt, euthanized.
 * James J. Rhoades, 66, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate since 1981, car accident.
 * Dee Dee Warwick, 66, American soul singer, sister of Dionne Warwick, after long illness.
 * Xie Jin, 84, Chinese film director.

19

 * Nazir Ahmed, 93, Indian scholar, writer, and teacher.
 * Richard Blackwell, 86, American fashion critic ("Mr. Blackwell's Ten Worst Dressed Women"), intestinal infection.
 * John A. Campbell, 67, Australian-born American lumber executive, president and CEO of Pacific Lumber Company, cancer.
 * Tony Dean, 67, American outdoors broadcaster, complications from appendectomy.
 * Marilyn Ferguson, 70, American writer (The Aquarian Conspiracy), heart attack.
 * Hal Kant, 77, American lawyer for the Grateful Dead, pancreatic cancer.
 * Lia Maivia, 81, Samoan wrestling promoter, wife of Peter Maivia, grandmother of Dwayne Johnson.
 * Harry T. Mangurian, Jr., 82, American businessman and horse breeder, former owner of the Boston Celtics, leukemia.
 * Mireille Marokvia, 99, French writer.
 * Rudy Ray Moore, 81, American comedian and actor (Dolemite), complications from diabetes.
 * Robert B. Nett, 86, American Medal of Honor recipient, after brief illness.
 * Nigel Plews, 74, British cricket umpire, renal cancer.
 * Gianni Raimondi, 85, Italian lyric tenor.
 * Gail Robinson, 62, American soprano, complications from rheumatoid arthritis.
 * Arthur Sendas, 72, Brazilian supermarket magnate, shot.
 * Lou Stringer, 91, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox).
 * Doreen Wilber, 78, American archer, 1972 Olympic gold medallist, Alzheimer's disease.

20

 * Emmanuelle Cinquin, 99, French religious sister, natural causes.
 * Shamsiah Fakeh, 84, Malaysian independence activist, lung infection.
 * Vittorio Foa, 98, Italian politician, journalist and writer.
 * James Gleeson, 92, Australian art critic and surrealist painter.
 * William Headline, 76, American CNN bureau chief, fall.
 * Gene Hickerson, 73, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, after long illness.
 * Pat Kavanagh, 68, British literary agent, wife of Julian Barnes, brain tumour.
 * Joe Lutz, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns), after long illness.
 * David Myers, 37, British rugby league player (Widnes and England), car accident.
 * John Ringham, 80, British actor.
 * Bobi Sourander, 79, Finnish-born Swedish journalist and author.
 * C. V. Sridhar, 73, Indian filmmaker, cardiac arrest.
 * Krzysztof Zaleski, 60, Polish actor, after long illness.

21

 * Muhammad Abdullah, 76, Bangladeshi academic.
 * Sonja Bernadotte, 64, German-born Swedish countess, breast cancer.
 * Alex Close, 86, Belgian road bicycle racer, winner of Tour of Belgium (1955) and Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1956).
 * Jake Crawford, 80, American Major League Baseball player.
 * George Edwards, 87, British footballer (Wales).
 * Richard J. Keane, 75, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly.
 * Peter Levinson, 74, American music industry biographer, fall.
 * Ram Ruhee, 81, Mauritian founder of the National Olympic Committee, IOC member, after long illness.
 * James John Skinner, 85, Irish-born Zambian jurist and politician.

22

 * Robert Adlard, 92, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player.
 * Robert C. Cannon, 91, American jurist.
 * William Warren Conolly, 87, Caymanian politician.
 * Lou Dorfsman, 90, American television graphic designer, heart failure.
 * David Evans, 73, British politician, MP (1987–1997), cancer.
 * Jan Hijzelendoorn, 79, Dutch Olympic cyclist.
 * Ernest Kombo, 67, Congolese bishop of Owando, cancer.
 * David Lloyd Meredith, 74, British actor.
 * Paritosh Sen, 90, Indian artist, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

23

 * Gianluigi Braschi, 45, Italian film producer (Life Is Beautiful), after long illness.
 * Derek Brewer, 85, British mediaevalist.
 * Oszkár Csuvik, 83, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic silver medalist (1948).
 * Danny Dill, 83, American songwriter ("Long Black Veil").
 * Kevin Finnegan, 60, British former European middleweight champion boxer.
 * E. Roger Muir, 89, American television producer, stroke.
 * Ivo Pukanić, 47, Croatian newspaper editor, assassination by car bomb.
 * F. W. Walbank, 98, British scholar of Greek history.

24

 * Moshe Cotel, 65, American pianist and composer, natural causes.
 * Howard French, 95, British newspaper editor.
 * Milton Katselas, 74, American film director, heart failure.
 * Premasiri Khemadasa, 71, Sri Lankan musician and composer.
 * Geoffrey McLean, 77, British police officer.
 * Merl Saunders, 74, American keyboardist (The Grateful Dead), complications from a stroke.
 * Xiao Ke, 101, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army, illness.
 * Helmut Zilk, 81, Austrian politician, Mayor of Vienna (1984–1994), heart failure.

25

 * John Axon, 48, British actor (The Royal), grandson of John Axon, heart attack.
 * Allen Blanchard, 79, Australian politician.
 * Gerard Damiano, 80, American adult film director (Deep Throat), stroke.
 * Colm Farrelly, 55, Irish record producer who discovered Sinéad O'Connor and The Pale, after short illness.
 * Bob Gambold, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles).
 * Irwin Gunsalus, 96, American biochemist, heart failure.
 * Amos E. Joel, Jr., 90, American inventor, pioneer of the cellphone.
 * Federico Luzzi, 28, Italian tennis player, leukemia.
 * Muslim Magomayev, 66, Azerbaijani singer.
 * Ian McColl, 81, British footballer, team manager for Scotland, natural causes.
 * Anne Pressly, 26, American television news anchor (KATV), injuries during home invasion.
 * Regal Intention, 23, Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.
 * Estelle Reiner, 94, American singer and actress (When Harry Met Sally...).
 * Hal Roth, 81, American sailor and author, lung cancer.
 * Tahereh Saffarzadeh, 72, Iranian poet and academic, cancer.
 * Maurice Stonefrost, 81, British civil servant.

26

 * Abu Ghadiya, 29-30, Syrian militant, shot.
 * Delfino Borroni, 110, Italian last known World War I veteran from Italy.
 * Gábor Delneky, 76, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
 * P. Cameron DeVore, 76, American First Amendment attorney, apparent heart attack.
 * Eileen Donaghy, 78, Irish singer, cancer.
 * Thomas Dunn, 82, American conductor, heart failure.
 * Tony Hillerman, 83, American mystery writer, pulmonary failure.
 * S. D. Jones, 63, Antiguan professional wrestler, stroke.
 * Pablo Montes, 62, Cuban athlete, heart attack.
 * Delmar Watson, 82, American child actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), prostate cancer.

27

 * Dean Barnett, 41, American columnist and blogger, complications from cystic fibrosis.
 * Chris Bryant, 72, British screenwriter and actor.
 * Richard Carr-Gomm, 86, British soldier and philanthropist.
 * Charles Dubin, 87, Canadian Chief Justice of Ontario (1990–1996), head of the Dubin Inquiry into drugs in sport, pneumonia.
 * Ray Ellis, 85, American musician, conductor and television producer, complications from melanoma.
 * Jack Houston, 90, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1957–1980).
 * Karl Kassulke, 67, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), heart attack.
 * Heinz Krügel, 87, German footballer and coach, after long illness.
 * Ed Levy, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees).
 * Es'kia Mphahlele, 88, South African writer and academic, natural causes.
 * Frank Nagai, 76, Japanese singer.
 * Bernard W. Rogers, 87, American general, Commander of the US European Command (1979–1987).
 * Louis Secco, 81, Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) ice hockey player.
 * Roy Stewart, 83, Jamaican-born British actor (Live and Let Die, Doctor Who).
 * Andy Young, 83, Scottish footballer (Raith Rovers).

28

 * Buck Adams, 52, American pornographic actor and director, complications from heart failure.
 * Dina Cocea, 95, Romanian actress, heart attack.
 * Kung Te-cheng, 88, Chinese-born Taiwanese 77th generation descendant of Confucius, heart and respiratory failure.
 * Alexander Lowen, 97, American psychotherapist.
 * Bill Martin, 65, American realist painter, complications of lymphoma.
 * Eric Nenno, 47, American murderer and sex offender, execution by lethal injection.
 * Pak Song-chol, 95, North Korean politician, Premier (1976–1977), after long illness.
 * Paul Pesthy, 70, American Olympic modern pentathlete and fencer.
 * Augusto Petró, 90, Brazilian bishop of Uruguaiana (1964–1995), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * John Ripley, 69, American Marine war hero.
 * Allan Scott, 85, Australian businessman and road transport magnate, complications from diabetes and heart condition.
 * George Sopkin, 94, American cellist, natural causes.
 * Ilus Vay, 85, Hungarian actress.

29

 * William Addison, 74, American chess player.
 * Shirwa Ahmed, 26, Somali-American bomber, detonation.
 * Gerald Arpino, 85, American dancer and choreographer, after long illness.
 * Mike Baker, 45, American singer (Shadow Gallery), heart attack.
 * Cor Brom, 76, Dutch footballer and coach, Parkinson's disease.
 * Anita Ellis, 88, Canadian-born American singer and actress, complications from Alzheimer's disease. (Death announced on this date).
 * Yiannis Koskiniatis, 25, Greek footballer, suicide by jumping.
 * Mae Mercer, 76, American blues singer.
 * William Wharton, 82, American painter and novelist (Birdy), infection.

30

 * Edith Evans Asbury, 98, American journalist (The New York Times), after long illness.
 * Fred Baron, 61, American trial lawyer and political fundraiser, multiple myeloma.
 * Robert H. Barrow, 86, American general, 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps (1979–1983).
 * Cundo Bermúdez, 94, Cuban artist.
 * Valentin Bubukin, 75, Russian footballer, after long illness.
 * John Cuckney, Baron Cuckney, 83, British financier and industrialist.
 * David Jeaffreson, 76, British colonial official, Hong Kong Secretary for Security (1982–1988), ICAC Commissioner (1988–1991).
 * Tom Moody, 78, American politician. Mayor of Columbus, Ohio (1972–1984).
 * Julius Neave, 89, British insurance executive.

31

 * Jonathan Bates, 68, British sound engineer (Gandhi, Flash Gordon, Cry Freedom).
 * John Daly, 71, British film producer, cancer.
 * Frank Navetta, 46, American guitarist (Descendents).
 * Sir John Page, 89, British politician, MP for Harrow West (1960–1987).
 * John Pearse, 69, British guitarist.
 * Studs Terkel, 96, American broadcaster and author (The Good War), complications from a fall.