Deaths in September 2008

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2008.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Thomas J. Bata, 93, Czech-born Canadian businessman (Bata Shoes).
 * Inge Bausenwein, 87, German Olympic athlete.
 * Calvin Beale, 85, American demographer, colon cancer.
 * Ian Edward Fraser, 87, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
 * Helen Galland, 83, American retail executive, president of Bonwit Teller (1980–1983), heart attack.
 * Kevin Heinze, 80, Australian pioneer gardening television presenter, heart attack.
 * Mel Ignatow, 70, American murderer, fall.
 * Carl Kaufmann, 72, German Olympic silver medallist (1960).
 * Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist, complications from pneumothorax.
 * Henry Wako Muloki, 87, Ugandan Kyabazinga of Busoga since 1995, esophageal cancer.
 * Michael Pate, 88, Australian actor and writer, pneumonia.
 * Jerry Reed, 71, American musician ("When You're Hot, You're Hot", "East Bound and Down") and actor (Smokey and the Bandit), complications from emphysema.
 * Oded Schramm, 46, Israeli mathematician, fall.
 * Gerry White, 64, British businessman, prostate cancer.

2

 * Andreas Zeier Cappelen, 93, Norwegian politician and minister.
 * Todd Cruz, 52, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist.
 * Joey Giardello, 78, American boxer, middleweight boxing champion (1963–1965), heart failure.
 * Abdullah al-Harari, 98, Ethiopian-born Lebanese scholar, founder of the Al-Ahbash movement, natural causes.
 * Bill Melendez, 91, Mexican-born American animator (Peanuts).
 * Dame Alison Munro, 94, British civil servant and headmistress.
 * Julia Pirie, 90, British MI5 spy.
 * Sir Denis Rooke, 84, British industrialist.

3

 * Charles-Robert Ageron, 84, French historian.
 * Abdulla Alishayev, Russian Dagestani journalist, shot.
 * Lalla Bahia, Moroccan royalty, third wife of Mohammed V.
 * Donald Blakeslee, 89, American Air Force officer.
 * Paul DiLascia, 49, American software developer.
 * Françoise Demulder, 61, French war photographer, heart attack.
 * Mark Guardado, 46, American mobster, President of Hells Angels San Francisco chapter, shot.
 * Michael Hammer, 60, American management theorist, cranial bleeding.
 * Earl Lunsford, 74, American Canadian Football League player (Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), Hall of Famer.
 * Ron Rivera, 60, American public health innovator, malaria.
 * Joan Segarra, 80, Spanish football player (FC Barcelona and manager.
 * May Shin, 91, Burmese actress and singer, pulmonary edema.
 * Pierre Van Dormael, 56, Belgian guitarist, cancer.
 * René Vingerhoet, 96, Belgian Olympic rower.
 * Géo Voumard, 87, Swiss composer and producer, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
 * Jerry Zawadzkas, 62, American football player.

4

 * Fernest Arceneaux, 68, American Creole Zydeco accordionist and singer.
 * Mary Dunn, 66, American Iyengar Yoga instructor, peritoneal cancer.
 * Colin Egar, 81, Australian test cricket umpire.
 * Dick Enderle, 60, American football player.
 * Fon Huffman, 95, American World War II veteran, last survivor of the Panay incident.
 * Abdul Samad Ismail, 84, Malaysian journalist, lung infection and kidney failure.
 * Alain Jacquet, 69, French pop artist, cancer.
 * Jenny, 55, American western lowland gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity (Dallas Zoo), euthanized.
 * Tommy Johnston, 81, British footballer, top scorer for Leyton Orient.
 * Erik Nielsen, 84, Canadian deputy prime minister (1984–1986), brother of Leslie Nielsen, heart attack.
 * Eduard Paukson, 72, Estonian astrologer.
 * Waldick Soriano, 75, Brazilian composer and singer, prostate cancer.
 * Fernando Torres, 80, Brazilian actor, voice-over artist, director and producer, husband of Fernanda Montenegro, emphysema.
 * Alina Vedmid, 68, Ukrainian politician.
 * Jerome Weber, 92, Canadian abbot of St. Peter-Muenster of Saskatchewan.

5

 * Kay Amert, 60, French scholar, cancer.
 * Raymond Bernabei, 83, American soccer player, complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
 * Miroslav Havel, 86, Czech-born Irish chief designer (Waterford Crystal).
 * Thubten Jigme Norbu, 86, Tibetan lama (Taktser Rinpoche), eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama.
 * Lucian Pye, 86, American political scientist and sinologist, expert on Chinese politics, pneumonia.
 * Luis Santibáñez, 72, Chilean football team manager, complications from a kidney condition.
 * Mila Schön, 91, Italian fashion designer.

6

 * Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala, 78, Egyptian politician, field marshal and defence minister, throat cancer.
 * Aril Edvardsen, 69, Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary.
 * Antonio Innocenti, 93, Italian cardinal.
 * Nicole Lai, 34, Singaporean singer, skin cancer.
 * Allan Lawrence, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Northumberland—Durham (1972–1988).
 * Ray Loring, 65, American professor and composer, heart attack.
 * Sören Nordin, 91, Swedish harness racing trainer.
 * Anita Page, 98, American actress (The Broadway Melody), natural causes.
 * Larry Shaben, 73, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1975–1989), cancer.
 * Bill Shorthouse, 86, British footballer.
 * Mike Swoboda, 69, American politician, mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri (2000–2008), complications of shooting.

7

 * Kune Biezeveld, 60, Dutch theologian.
 * Ilarion Ciobanu, 76, Romanian actor.
 * Dino Dvornik, 44, Croatian actor and pop singer.
 * David Fitzsimons, 58, Australian Olympic athlete.
 * Peter Glossop, 80, British operatic baritone.
 * Don Gutteridge, 96, American Major League Baseball player, coach and manager.
 * Don Haskins, 78, American college basketball coach, heart failure.
 * Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American author (Fletch), cancer.
 * Nagi Noda, 35, Japanese pop artist and director, injuries from traffic accident.
 * Gordon Stromberg, 80, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1971–1986).
 * Richard "Popcorn" Wylie, 69, American musician.

8

 * Ahn Jae-hwan, 36, South Korean actor, body found on this date after suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
 * Riaz Ahsan, 56, Pakistani statistician and mathematician, cancer.
 * Nathan Green Gordon, 92, American politician and Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. Governor of Arkansas (1947–1967), pneumonia.
 * Celia Gregory, 58, British actress.
 * Ron Guthrey, 92, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Christchurch (1968–1971).
 * Ralph Plaisted, 80, American Arctic explorer, natural causes.
 * Evan Tanner, 37, American mixed martial arts fighter and UFC middleweight champion, body found on this date after apparent heat exposure.
 * Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, 73, Indian violinist, after long illness.
 * George Zarnecki, 92, Polish art historian and medievalist.
 * Hector Zazou, 60, French composer and record producer.

9

 * Tina Allen, 58, American sculptor, pheumonia.
 * Betty Constable, 83, American squash player.
 * Eddie Crowder, 77, American football player and coach, complications of leukemia.
 * A. U. Fuimaono, 85, American Samoan politician, first Delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1970–1974).
 * Nina Lawson, 82, British wigmaker for the Metropolitan Opera, pernicious anaemia.
 * Jacob Lekgetho, 34, South African footballer.
 * P. N. Menon, 80, Indian film director, after long illness.
 * Warith Deen Mohammed, 74, American Islamic leader, son of Elijah Muhammad.
 * Richard Monette, 64, Canadian actor and director, pulmonary embolism.
 * Bheki Mseleku, 53, South African-born British jazz musician, diabetes.
 * Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 98, Laotian politician, president (1992–1998), natural causes.

10

 * Saleh al Aridi, 50, Lebanese pro-Syrian politician, car bomb.
 * Gérald Beaudoin, 79, Canadian lawyer and senator (1988–2004).
 * José Antonio Dammert Bellido, 91, Peruvian bishop.
 * Cameron Buchanan, 80, British footballer.
 * David Chipp, 81, British editor-in-chief (Press Association, Reuters), first resident correspondent for Reuters in China.
 * Patrick Flynn, 72, American composer and conductor, pulmonary embolism.
 * Robert Glasgow, 83, American organist and University of Michigan professor emeritus.
 * Florian Goebel, 35, German astrophysicist, fall.
 * Vernon Handley, 77, British conductor.
 * J. J. Harrington, 89, American politician.
 * Sherrill Headrick, 71, American football player, cancer.
 * Fitzroy Hoyte, 68, Trinidad Olympic cyclist.
 * Domagoj Kapec, 18, Croatian ice hockey player, car accident.
 * Frank Mundus, 82, American shark fisherman, alleged inspiration for Quint in Jaws, heart attack.
 * Gary O'Donnell, 40, British soldier, improvised explosive device.
 * Yuri Osipyan, 77, Russian physicist.
 * Reginald Shepherd, 45, American poet, cancer.
 * Paul Williams, 85, British politician, MP (1953–1964).

11

 * Bennett Campbell, 65, Canadian politician, premier of Prince Edward Island (1978–1979), cancer.
 * Dave Hanner, 78, American football player and coach (Green Bay Packers), heart attack.
 * Klaus Johann Jacobs, 71, German-born Swiss billionaire, cancer.
 * Fran Reed, 65, American teacher and fish skin artist, cancer.
 * Nils Johan Ringdal, 56, Norwegian author and historian.
 * Martin Tytell, 94, American manual typewriter expert, cancer.
 * Joan Winston, 77, American author, founder of Star Trek convention, Alzheimer's disease.

12

 * Camila Ashland, 97, American actress (Dark Shadows, 10).
 * George Brown, 85, American football player.
 * Simon Hantaï, 85, Hungarian-born French abstract artist.
 * Tomislav Ladan, 76, Croatian encyclopedist and polymath, malignant tumor.
 * Max Mermelstein, 65, American drug trafficker, cancer.
 * George Putnam, 94, American television news reporter, heart failure.
 * Bob Quinn, 93, Australian footballer (Port Adelaide) and Military Medal recipient.
 * Marjorie Thomas, 85, British opera singer, after long illness.
 * Paola S. Timiras, 85, American doctor, expert on the physiology of ageing, heart failure.
 * Ferenc Velkey, 92, Hungarian Olympic handball player.
 * Charlie Walker, 81, American country music singer, colon cancer.
 * David Foster Wallace, 46, American author and essayist (Infinite Jest), suicide by hanging.

13

 * Peter Camejo, 68, American politician and activist, lymphoma.
 * Dean Hoge, 71, American sociologist, specialist in American Catholicism, cancer.
 * Duncan Laing, 77, New Zealand swimming coach, cancer.
 * James Snow, 79, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1967–1985), diabetes.
 * Olin Stephens, 100, American yacht designer.
 * John Usher, 62, British academic lawyer, leukaemia.
 * Alice Van-Springsteen, 90, American stuntwoman, pneumonia.
 * Abdullah Wardak, Afghan governor of Logar Province, suicide attack.

14

 * John Burnside, 91, American inventor, brain cancer.
 * Hyman Golden, 85, American co-founder of Snapple Beverage Corporation, complications from stroke.
 * Ștefan Iordache, 67, Romanian actor, leukemia.
 * Georgi Kitov, 65, Bulgarian archaeologist, heart attack.
 * Lynn Kohlman, 62, American model and photographer, breast and brain cancer.
 * Lobsang Nyima Pal Sangpo, 79, Tibetan 100th Ganden Tripa (1994–2002), head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
 * Mu Tiezhu, 59, Chinese basketball player, heart attack.
 * Ralph Russell, 90, British Urdu scholar.
 * Gennady Troshev, 61, Russian politician and military commander (Second Chechen War), plane crash.

15

 * Marion Dewar, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (1978–1985), fall.
 * Barthélémy Djabla, 72, Ivorian archbishop of Gagnoa.
 * Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil, 85, Indian writer, cancer.
 * Jean-Jacques Guissart, 81, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower.
 * Charlotte Kohler, 99, American editor, heart failure.
 * Danny Lawson, 60, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings).
 * John Matshikiza, 53, South African actor, writer and poet, heart attack.
 * Juraj Njavro, 70, Croatian doctor and politician, after long illness.
 * J. Patrick Rooney, 80, American insurance advocate.
 * Stefano Rosso, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
 * Richard Wright, 65, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) and songwriter ("The Dark Side of the Moon"), cancer.

16

 * Verlie Abrams, 87, American football player.
 * Jack Alderman, 57, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Avraham Biran, 98, Israeli archaeologist, natural causes.
 * Elizabeth Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, 92, British peeress.
 * John Fancy, 95, British World War II RAF airman.
 * David Laycock, 61, English cricketer
 * Andrei Volkonsky, 75, Russian composer.
 * Charles Whitebread, 65, American professor of law, cancer.
 * Norman Whitfield, 68, American Motown songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine") and record producer, diabetes.

17

 * Princess Luluwah bint Abdulaziz Al Saud, 80, Saudi member of the royal family, sister of King Abdullah.
 * James Crumley, 68, American crime writer, complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases.
 * Didier Dagueneau, 52, French winemaker, plane crash.
 * José María Cirarda Lachiondo, 91, Spanish bishop of the Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela (1978–1993).
 * Anna Langford, 90, American politician, first African American woman to serve on the Chicago City Council, lung cancer.
 * Michael Omondi, 46, Kenyan field hockey player, after short illness.
 * Humberto Solás, 66, Cuban filmmaker, cancer.
 * Robert Steinberg, 61, American physician, co-founder of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, lymphoma.

18

 * Ekaterina Andreeva, 66, Uzbek arachnologist.
 * Mauricio Kagel, 76, Argentine-born German composer.
 * Peter Kastner, 64, Canadian actor, heart attack.
 * Ron Lancaster, 69, American Canadian Football League quarterback and coach, heart attack.
 * Howard Mann, 85, American actor and comedian, cancer.
 * Sherman Parker, 37, American politician, member of Missouri House of Representatives (2003–2006), brain aneurysm.
 * Fabiola Salazar, 42, Peruvian congresswoman since 2006, car accident.
 * Henry Z. Steinway, 93, American businessman (Steinway & Sons).
 * Don Ultang, 91, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer.
 * Florestano Vancini, 82, Italian film director and screenwriter, after long illness.
 * John Webb, 82, American judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1986–1998), Parkinson's disease.

19

 * Ernie Andres, 90, American college baseball coach and Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
 * Marcel Dierkens, 83, Luxembourgian cyclist.
 * Ned Harkness, 89, American ice hockey coach, stroke.
 * Jun Ichikawa, 59, Japanese film director.
 * David Jones, 74, British theatre and film director.
 * Dave Needham, 57, British bantamweight boxing champion (1974–1975).
 * Earl Palmer, 83, American rhythm and blues drummer, after long illness.
 * Robert Royston, 90, American landscape architect.
 * Dick Sudhalter, 69, American jazz trumpeter, pneumonia.

20

 * Nappy Brown, 78, American blues singer.
 * Francis A. Dennis, Liberian diplomat.
 * William Fox, 97, British actor.
 * Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, literary critic and designer, professor emeritus of visual communication (Nottingham Trent).
 * Steve Gray, 64, British musician.
 * Ken Harris, 45, American member of Baltimore City Council (1999–2007), shot.
 * Arne Haugestad, 73, Norwegian Supreme Court lawyer, Arne Treholt's defender.
 * Johnny H. Hayes, 67, American fundraiser for Al Gore's presidential campaigns, stomach cancer.
 * Willi Heidel, 92, Romanian Olympic field handball player.
 * Paul Howell, 57, British member of the European Parliament (1979–1994), plane crash.
 * George Larson, 96, Canadian Olympic swimmer.
 * Ed Sutton, 73, American football player, complications following heart bypass surgery.
 * John Taylor, 87, American military archivist at National Archives and Records Administration, heart failure.
 * Frank Valenti, 97, American mob boss (Rochester crime family).
 * Ivo Žďárek, 47, Czech ambassador to Vietnam (2004–2008) and Pakistan (2008), suicide bombing.

21

 * Mary Garber, 92, American sportswriter.
 * Carlos González Cruchaga, 87, Chilean bishop of the Diocese of Talca (1967–1996).
 * Nancy Hicks Maynard, 66, American journalist, advocate for diversity in journalism, organ failure.
 * Sir Brian Pippard, 88, British physicist, Cavendish Professor of Physics (1971–1984).
 * Barefoot Sanders, 83, American federal judge, natural causes.
 * Paul Tansey, 59, Irish economics editor (The Irish Times).
 * Brian Thomsen, 49, American author and editor, heart attack.
 * Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 92, Sri Lankan prime minister (1989–1993), president (1993–1994), after long illness.

22

 * Michael Andreevich, 88, Russian prince.
 * Plato Andros, 86, American National Football League player (Chicago Cardinals), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Olli Auero, 82, Finnish diplomat.
 * H. Dale Cook, 84, American federal judge since 1974, cancer.
 * Thomas Dörflein, 44, German zookeeper, surrogate parent of the polar bear Knut, heart attack.
 * Connie Haines, 87, American singer, myasthenia gravis.
 * Guillermo López Langarica, 40, Mexican YouTube celebrity, car accident.
 * Buddy McDonald, 85, American child actor (Our Gang), heart failure.
 * Petrus Schaesberg, 41, German art historian, suicide by jumping.

23

 * Mona Abul-Fadl, 62–63, Egyptian orientalist, breast cancer.
 * José Martins Achiam, 64, Portuguese karate coach, stroke.
 * Esther Figueiredo Ferraz, 92, Brazilian Minister of Education (1982–1985) and first female minister, stroke.
 * Richard Henyard, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Wally Hilgenberg, 66, American National Football League player (Minnesota Vikings), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Rudolf Illovszky, 86, Hungarian footballer and manager, pneumonia.
 * Peter Leonard, 66, Australian broadcaster, mesothelioma.
 * Pedro Masó, 81, Spanish film director and producer, natural causes.
 * Brock McElheran, 90, Canadian conductor and composer.
 * Loren Pope, 98, American education consultant, heart failure.
 * Sonja Savić, 47, Serbian actress, heroin overdose.
 * Ellen Tarry, 101, American children's author.
 * William Woodruff, 92, British historian and author.

24

 * Bengt Anderberg, 88, Swedish poet, novelist, editor and playwright.
 * Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, 56, Ghanaian finance minister since 2005, after short illness.
 * Oliver Crawford, 91, American television writer blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
 * Irene Dailey, 88, American actress (Five Easy Pieces, The Amityville Horror, Another World), colon cancer.
 * Sir Peter Derham, 83, Australian businessman and philanthropist, stroke.
 * Uno Laht, 84, Estonian writer.
 * Dick Lynch, 72, American football player and radio announcer (New York Giants), leukemia.
 * Maurits van Nierop, 25, Dutch international cricketer, fall.
 * Thiago Jotta da Silva, 24, Brazilian footballer, shot.
 * Cherry Smith, 65, Jamaican singer (The Wailers), heart attack.
 * Mickey Vernon, 90, American baseball player, stroke.
 * Vice Vukov, 72, Croatian singer and politician.
 * Claude Wilton, 89, Irish politician and solicitor.
 * Ruslan Yamadayev, 46, Chechen warlord and member of Russian State Duma, shot.

25

 * Glenn Andrews, 99, American politician, Representative (1965–1967), oldest surviving member of the House of Representatives.
 * Brian Donnelly, 59, New Zealand diplomat and politician, MP (1996–2008).
 * Edward Klima, 77, American linguist, complications from brain surgery.
 * Horațiu Rădulescu, 66, Romanian composer, spectral music pioneer.
 * Ralph Sazio, 86, Canadian football coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
 * Jimmy Sirrel, 86, British football manager (Notts County), after long illness.
 * Roger Vanderfield, 80, Australian rugby union referee, IRB chairman and ARU president.

26

 * Bernadette Greevy, 68, Irish mezzo-soprano, after short illness.
 * Joli Jászai, 101, Hungarian actress.
 * Géza Kalocsay, 95, Hungarian football player and manager.
 * Aggie Kukulowicz, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers), heart failure.
 * Phyllis Welch MacDonald, 95, American theater and film actress.
 * Raymond Macherot, 84, Belgian cartoonist.
 * Stanisław Marucha, 71, Polish Olympic shooter.
 * Jan Mazur, 88, Polish bishop of Siedlce.
 * Marian McQuade, 91, American founder of National Grandparents Day, heart failure.
 * Ernest Meissner, 71, Canadian Olympic diver.
 * Marc Moulin, 66, Belgian jazz musician and journalist, throat cancer.
 * Paul Newman, 83, American actor (The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, The Color of Money) and entrepreneur, Oscar winner (1987), lung cancer.
 * Cirio H. Santiago, 72, Filipino filmmaker and producer, complications from lung cancer.
 * Yonty Solomon, 71, South African pianist, brain tumour.

27

 * Len Browning, 80, British footballer.
 * John Houston, 78, British painter.
 * Mahendra Kapoor, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack.
 * Mario Maya, 71, Spanish dancer and choreographer, cancer.
 * Jimmy Murray, 72, British footballer, prostate cancer.
 * Henri Pachard, 69, American pornographic film director, throat cancer.
 * Olaf Poulsen, 88, Norwegian president of the International Skating Union (1980–1994).
 * Gerald Small, 52, American football player (Miami Dolphins).

28

 * Georges Adda, 92, Tunisian politician, heart attack.
 * Andrzej Badeński, 65, Polish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) athlete.
 * Osborn Elliott, 83, American editor of Newsweek (1961–1976), complications from cancer.
 * Jack Faulkner, 82, American football coach and administrator.
 * Margot Gayle, 100, American historic preservationist and author.
 * Malalai Kakar, 41, Afghan senior policewoman, shot.
 * Konstantin Pavlov, 75, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, after long illness.
 * Athos Tanzini, 95, Italian Olympic fencer.
 * Thomas Thewes, 76, American businessman, co-owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, leukemia.

29

 * Youssef Sabri Abu Taleb, 79, Egyptian general.
 * Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic, stroke.
 * Richard Clayton, 93, American actor and talent agent (Burt Reynolds, James Dean), heart failure.
 * Miguel Córcega, 79, Mexican actor and director.
 * Milt Davis, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer.
 * Tim Fortescue, 92, British politician, MP (1966–1974).
 * Elinor Guggenheimer, 96, American philanthropist and author.
 * Louis Guss, 90, American actor (Moonstruck, Highlander, The Godfather).
 * Stan Kann, 83, American organist and Tonight Show regular, complications from heart procedure.
 * Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, 72, Indian politician.
 * Antônio Sarto, 82, Brazilian bishop of Barra do Garças.
 * Glen Sheil, 78, Australian medical practitioner and politician, Senator (1974–1981, 1984–1990).
 * Anthony Spero, 79, American financier, leader of Bonanno crime family, after short illness.
 * Relus ter Beek, 64, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1989–1994), abolished conscription, lung cancer.
 * Jock Wilson, 105, British soldier, UK's oldest D-Day veteran.

30

 * Henry Adler, 93, American drummer, teacher of Buddy Rich.
 * Ed Brinkman, 66, American baseball player and coach, lung cancer.
 * Sam Calder, 92, Australian politician and World War II fighter pilot, MP (1966–1980).
 * J. L. Chestnut, 77, American civil rights lawyer, kidney failure.
 * Richard Haine, 91, British Royal Air Force officer.
 * J. B. Jeyaretnam, 82, Singaporean politician, MP (1981–1986), NCMP (1997–2001), heart failure.