Deaths in September 2009


 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Dick Berg, 87, American screenwriter and television producer, fall.
 * Jake Drake-Brockman, 53, British musician (Echo & the Bunnymen) and sound recordist, motorcycle accident.
 * Jock Buchanan, 74, Scottish footballer (Hibernian).
 * Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, 91, British television executive and conservationist.
 * Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito, 66, Brazilian judge (Supreme Federal Court) (2007–2009), pancreatic cancer.
 * Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani, 78, Indian admiral.
 * Jang Jin-young, 35, South Korean actress, stomach cancer.
 * Wycliffe Johnson, 47, Jamaican Reggae musician and composer, heart failure.
 * Erich Kunzel, 74, American conductor (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra), cancer.
 * Wayne E. Meyer, 83, American Rear-Admiral, Aegis Combat System manager, heart failure.
 * Francis Rogallo, 97, American aeronautical inventor (Rogallo wing).
 * John Stephens, 43, American football player (New England Patriots), NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1988), traffic collision.
 * Alexis Tioseco, 28, Filipino-born Canadian film critic, shot.
 * Sir Oliver Wright, 88, British diplomat.

2

 * Hylton Ackerman, 62, South African cricketer.
 * Guy Babylon, 52, American musician (Elton John band), heart attack.
 * Brian Boshier, 77, British cricketer.
 * Jon Eydmann, 41, British band manager (Suede), heart attack.
 * Donald Hamilton Fraser, 80, British painter.
 * Bill Hefner, 79, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for North Carolina (1975–1999), brain aneurysm.
 * Tibor Kristóf, 67, Hungarian voice actor, Hungarian voice of Sean Connery, Morgan Freeman and Darth Vader.
 * Abdullah Laghmani, 40s, Afghan Secret Service chief, bomb blast.
 * Mr Percival, 33, Australian pelican, animal actor (Storm Boy), natural causes.
 * John Poole, 82, British sculptor.
 * Christian Poveda, 54, French photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, shot.
 * Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (since 2004), helicopter crash.
 * Mohamed Alí Seineldín, 75, Argentine military commander and putschist (Carapintadas).
 * Robert Spinrad, 77, American computer pioneer, director of the Palo Alto Research Center, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Ismael Valenzuela, 74, American jockey, after long illness.
 * Jeffrey Wernick, 56, American animation executive (DIC Animation City) and sports agent.

3

 * Nicky Chapman, Baroness Chapman, 48, British peer, member of the House of Lords, brittle bone disease.
 * Hulda Regehr Clark, 80, Canadian alternative medicine practitioner.
 * Christine D'haen, 85, Belgian poet.
 * Giovanni Melis Fois, 92, Italian Bishop of Nuoro (1970–1992).
 * Caro Jones, 86, American casting director (Rocky, The Karate Kid, Green Acres), multiple myeloma.
 * Edith Kaplan, 85, American neuropsychologist.
 * Alec MacLachlan, 30, British hostage in Iraq (death confirmed on this date).
 * Ronald Sarre, 77, Australian cricketer.
 * Yukhym Shkolnykov, 70, Ukrainian association football coach.

4

 * Buddy Blattner, 89, American sportscaster, baseball and table tennis player, complications from lung cancer.
 * Iain Cuthbertson, 79, British actor (Gorillas in the Mist, The Railway Children).
 * Allan Ekelund, 91, Swedish film producer, collaborator with Ingmar Bergman.
 * Guy Guillabert, 78, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) rower.
 * Skip Miller, 62, American music industry executive, president of Motown Records, heart attack.
 * Franz Olah, 99, Austrian politician, Interior Minister (1963–1964).
 * Carl Reindel, 74, American actor (Bullitt, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Andromeda Strain).
 * Keith Waterhouse, 80, British author and playwright (Billy Liar), natural causes.
 * Bill Welch, 68, American politician, mayor of State College, Pennsylvania, complications after leg surgery.

5

 * Gani Fawehinmi, 71, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, lung cancer.
 * Carl Hovde, 82, American professor, Dean during the Columbia University protests of 1968, lung cancer.
 * Mickie Jones, 56, American bassist (Angel), liver cancer.
 * Jesse Mahelona, 26, American football player (Tennessee Titans), traffic collision.
 * Richard Merkin, 70, American artist.
 * Saifur Rahman, 77, Bangladeshi politician, longest-serving Finance Minister, traffic collision.
 * Ron Raikes, 61, American politician, Nebraska state senator (1998–2008), farm accident.
 * Richard D. Robinson, 88, American educator.
 * Charlie Waller, 87, American football coach.

6

 * Christopher John Banda, 36, Malawian footballer.
 * Harcharan Singh Brar, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1995–1996).
 * Vanja Drach, 77, Croatian actor.
 * Gerhart Friedlander, 93, German-born American nuclear chemist, coronary disease.
 * Helgi Hóseasson, 89, Icelandic activist.
 * José Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot.
 * Catherine Gaskin, 80, Irish-born Australian novelist, ovarian cancer.
 * Nada Iveljić, 79, Croatian writer.
 * John Merino, 42, Ecuadorian colonel, head of presidential security for Rafael Correa, swine flu.
 * David J. Ritchie, 58, American game designer.
 * Sim, 83, French comic actor. ′
 * Tatyana Ustinova, 96, Russian geologist.
 * Stephen White, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer, member of Ireland Team of the Century, after short illness.
 * Sir David Williams, 78, British academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1989–1996), cancer.

7

 * Medea Chakhava, 88, Georgian theatre and film actress.
 * Junior Coghlan, 93, American silent film actor.
 * Norman Curtis, 84, English football player and manager (Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers).
 * John T. Elson, 78, American religion editor (Time).
 * Eddie Locke, 79, American jazz drummer.
 * Fred Mills, 74, Canadian musician (Canadian Brass), traffic collision.
 * Ra'anan Naim, 73, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1981–1984).
 * Colin Sharp, 56, British musician and writer, brain haemorrhage.
 * Paul Lê Đắc Trọng, 91, Vietnamese Bishop of Hanoi (1994–2006).
 * Christos Vartzakis, 98, Greek athlete.

8

 * Aleksandr Aksyonov, 85, Belarusian PM of Byelorussian SSR (1978–1983), Soviet Ambassador to Poland (1983–1986).
 * Army Archerd, 90, American entertainment columnist (Variety), malignant mesothelioma.
 * Ray Barrett, 82, Australian film, television and theatre actor, brain hemorrhage.
 * Aage Bohr, 87, Danish physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1975).
 * Mike Bongiorno, 85, American-born Italian television presenter, heart failure.
 * Rica Erickson, 101, Australian naturalist, artist and author.
 * Henry S. Fitch, 99, American herpetologist.
 * Rogelio Borja Flores, 74, Filipino sports writer, respiratory failure.
 * Annie Le, 24, American graduate student, homicide.
 * Kyle Woodring, 42, American drummer (Survivor), apparent suicide by hanging.

9

 * Kevin Carmody, 84, Australian cricket umpire.
 * Eric Davidson, 94, Canadian blind mechanic, survivor of the Halifax Explosion.
 * Anthony G. Evans, 66, British scientist.
 * Léon Glovacki, 81, French footballer, played in 1954 FIFA World Cup.
 * James Krenov, 88, American cabinetmaker.
 * Stanley Cornwell Lewis, 103, British painter and illustrator.
 * Steve Mann, 66, American songwriter and guitarist.
 * Frank Mazzuca, 87, Canadian businessman, mayor of Capreol, Ontario.
 * Sultan Munadi, 32, Afghan journalist, translator and correspondent (The New York Times), shot.
 * Andrzej Śliwiński, 70, Polish Bishop of Elbląg (1992–2003).

10

 * John Asquith, 77, English cricketer.
 * Frank Batten, 82, American businessman, founder of The Weather Channel.
 * Lou Bender, 99, American basketball pioneer who popularized the sport in New York City, cancer.
 * Kerry Brown, 51, Canadian professional wrestler, liver failure.
 * Lisle C. Carter, 83, American administrator, complications from pneumonia.
 * Lyn Hamilton, 65, Canadian author, cancer.
 * Sam Hinton, 92, American folk singer and marine biologist.
 * Margaret Holmes, 100, Australian peace activist.
 * Robert H. Miller, 90, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1988–1990).
 * Gertrude Noone, 110, American supercentenarian, oldest person in Connecticut and world's oldest military veteran.
 * Patricia Robinson, 79, Trinidadian economist, First Lady (1997–2003), wife of A. N. R. Robinson.
 * Yoshifumi Tajima, 91, Japanese actor (Mothra vs. Godzilla), esophageal cancer.
 * Tony Thornton, 49, American professional boxer, injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.

11

 * Sarane Alexandrian, 82, French art historian and philosopher.
 * Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, Cuban politician, Vice President of the Council of State, cardiac arrest.
 * James E. Bromwell, 89, American politician, Representative for Iowa (1961–1965).
 * Jim Carroll, 60, American author (The Basketball Diaries), poet and musician, heart attack.
 * Mool Chand Chowhan, 82, Indian sports official.
 * Pierre Cossette, 85, Canadian television producer, brought the Grammy Awards to television.
 * Larry Gelbart, 81, American comedy writer (M*A*S*H) and blogger (The Huffington Post), cancer.
 * Bob Greenberg, 75, American record executive, stroke.
 * Zakes Mokae, 75, South African-born American actor (Gross Anatomy), complications from a stroke.
 * Georgios Papoulias, 82, Greek politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1989, 1990), suicide.
 * John Pattison, 92, New Zealand World War II pilot.
 * Henny van Schoonhoven, 39, Dutch footballer, cancer.
 * Crystal Lee Sutton, 68, American union organizer, inspiration for Norma Rae, brain cancer.
 * Felicia Tang, 31, Singaporean-born American actress and model, suffocated.
 * Yoshito Usui, 51, Japanese manga artist (Crayon Shin-chan), mountaineering accident.

12

 * Norman Borlaug, 95, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1970), cancer.
 * Dominik Brunner, 50, German businessman and manager, blunt trauma.
 * Jeanne Clemson, 87, American theatre director, actress and educator, Parkinson's disease.
 * Raj Singh Dungarpur, 73, Indian cricket player and administrator.
 * George Eckstein, 81, American television writer and producer (The Fugitive), lung cancer.
 * Edward Gelsthorpe, 88, American marketing executive.
 * Alfred Gottschalk, 79, German-born American President of Hebrew Union College, Reform Judaism leader, traffic collision.
 * William Hoffman, 84, American novelist.
 * Shah Abdul Karim, 93, Bangladeshi musician, respiratory problems.
 * Jack Kramer, 88, American tennis player, cancer.
 * Armando Manhiça, 66, Portuguese international footballer.
 * Brian Mier, 74, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Waverley (1982–1996).
 * Antônio Olinto, 90, Brazilian writer, multiple organ failure.
 * Danny Pang, 42, Taiwanese-born American hedge fund manager.
 * Willy Ronis, 99, French photographer.
 * T. R. Satishchandran, 80, Indian Administrative Service officer.
 * Fred Sherman, 86, American economist and business commentator.
 * Lawrence B. Slobodkin, 81, American ecologist.
 * Bill Sparkman, 51, American substitute teacher and census worker, hanged.

13

 * Philip Aziz, 86, Canadian artist, cancer.
 * Felix Bowness, 87, British actor (Hi-de-Hi!)
 * Paul Burke, 83, American actor (Naked City), leukemia.
 * Malcolm Casadaban, 60, American molecular genetics professor, plague.
 * Lonny Frey, 99, American baseball player, oldest living MLB All-Star.
 * Arnold Laven, 87, American film and television director (The Rifleman, The Big Valley), pneumonia.
 * Paul Shirtliff, 46, English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Northampton Town), cancer.
 * Sarah E. Wright, 80, American novelist, complications from cancer.

14

 * Keith Floyd, 65, British chef, heart attack.
 * Henry Gibson, 73, American actor (Laugh-In, The Blues Brothers, Boston Legal), cancer.
 * Bobby Graham, 69, British session drummer, stomach cancer.
 * Jing Shuping, 91, Chinese businessman, founder of Minsheng Bank.
 * Mike Leyland, 68, Australian travel documentary host (Leyland Brothers), complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * Ralph S. Moore, 102, American horticulturist, natural causes.
 * Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 30, Kenyan terrorist, airstrike.
 * Jody Powell, 65, American White House Press Secretary for President Jimmy Carter, heart attack.
 * John Rarick, 85, American politician, Representative for Louisiana (1967–1975), cancer.
 * Darren Sutherland, 27, Irish boxer, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, suicide by hanging.
 * Patrick Swayze, 57, American actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Point Break), pancreatic cancer.
 * Lily Tembo, 27, Zambian musician, songwriter and journalist, complications from gastritis.
 * Titus, 35, African silverback gorilla.
 * Bartholomew Yu Chengti, 90, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Elio Zagato, 88, Italian car designer.

15

 * Nicu Constantin, 70, Romanian actor.
 * George Crumbley, 86, American founder of the Peach Bowl.
 * Fred Cusick, 90, American sports commentator (Boston Bruins), complications from bladder cancer.
 * Leon Eisenberg, 87, American child psychiatrist, prostate cancer.
 * Tommy Greenhough, 77, British cricketer.
 * Troy Kennedy Martin, 77, British screenwriter (Z-Cars, Edge of Darkness, The Italian Job), liver cancer.
 * Michael Knox, 48, American co-founder of Park Place Productions, producer of John Madden Football, colon cancer.
 * Espiridion Laxa, 79, Filipino independent film producer, prostate cancer.
 * Gerald Lestz, 95, American columnist and author, founder of the Demuth Museum.
 * Vladimír Padrta, 56, Slovak Olympic basketball player.
 * Kallie Reyneke, 87, South African Olympic racewalker.
 * Trevor Rhone, 69, Jamaican playwright, heart attack.

16

 * Brian Barron, 69, British journalist and war correspondent, cancer.
 * Timothy Bateson, 83, British actor.
 * Myles Brand, 67, American NCAA president, pancreatic cancer.
 * W. Horace Carter, 88, American newspaper website, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack.
 * Monte Clark, 72, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions), cancer.
 * Luciano Emmer, 91, Italian film director (Three Girls from Rome).
 * Sotero Laurel, 90, Filipino politician, Senator (1986–1992), President Pro Tempore (1990–1991).
 * John Littlewood, 78, British chess player
 * Lori Mai, 31, German-American folk rock singer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Ernst Märzendorfer, 88, Austrian conductor.
 * Julian Niemczyk, 89, American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1986–1989), cardiac arrest.
 * Filip Nikolic, 35, French singer and actor, drug overdose.
 * Steve Romanik, 85, American football player (Chicago Bears).
 * Melvin Simon, 82, American shopping mall developer (Simon Property Group), producer (Porky's), Indiana Pacers owner.
 * Mary Travers, 72, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), leukemia.
 * Dorothy Wellman, 95, American dancer and actress, widow of William Wellman.

17

 * Tommy Burnett, 67, American politician, Tennessee House of Representatives (1970–1990).
 * Virginia Chadwick, 64, Australian politician, cancer.
 * Frank Deasy, 49, Irish Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (Prime Suspect: The Final Act), liver cancer.
 * Dick Durock, 72, American actor and stuntman (Swamp Thing), pancreatic cancer.
 * Bernie Fuchs, 76, American illustrator, esophageal cancer.
 * Dick Hoover, 79, American professional bowler.
 * Randy Johnson, 65, American football quarterback (Atlanta Falcons).
 * Leon Kirchner, 90, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, heart failure.
 * Bob Kowalkowski, 65, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions).
 * Robert Searcy, 88, American member of the Tuskegee Airmen, colorectal cancer.
 * Noordin Mohammad Top, 41, Malaysian terrorist, shot.
 * Geoff Williamson, 86, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) rower.

18

 * Peter Denyer, 62, British actor (Please Sir!).
 * James Donnewald, 84, American politician, Illinois Treasurer (1983–1987).
 * Doug Fisher, 89, Canadian journalist and politician, MP for Port Arthur (1957–1965).
 * Pearl Hackney, 92, British actress, widow of Eric Barker.
 * Mahlon Hoagland, 87, American biochemist.
 * Irving Kristol, 89, American neoconservative advocate and editor (The Public Interest), lung cancer.
 * Natalia Shvedova, 92, Russian lexicologist.
 * John J. Wild, 95, American physician, co-developer of ultrasound use in cancer detection.

19

 * Gabriel Beaudry, 82, Canadian Olympic rower.
 * Willy Breinholst, 91, Danish author.
 * Alan Deyermond, 77, British hispanist.
 * Arthur Ferrante, 88, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), natural causes.
 * Stevie Gray, 42, British footballer (Aberdeen FC).
 * Víctor Israel, 80, Spanish actor.
 * Monty Kaser, 67, American professional golfer, prostate cancer.
 * Milton Meltzer, 94, American historian and author, esophageal cancer.
 * Maurizio Montalbini, 56, Italian sociologist and caver, heart failure.
 * Elizaveta Mukasei, 97, Russian Soviet-era spy, wife of Mikhail Mukasei.
 * Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet, 79, Cuban-born businessman and philanthropist, founder of Sazón Goya Food Company, cancer.
 * Roc Raida, 37, American DJ (The X-Ecutioners), cardiac arrest after a spinal cord injury.
 * Joseph-Marie Sardou, 86, French archbishop Emeritus of Monaco.
 * Eduard Zimmermann, 80, German journalist and television presenter.

20

 * Mario Bertolo, 80, French cyclist.
 * Freddy Bienstock, 86, American music website (Carlin America).
 * Hernan Córdoba, 19, Colombian footballer, traffic collision.
 * Bertil Gärtner, 84, Swedish Lutheran bishop of Gothenburg (1970–1991).
 * John Hart, 91, American actor (The Lone Ranger).
 * Ken Hough, 80, New Zealand cricketer and footballer.
 * Yusuf Khan, 79-80, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Booker Moore, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), heart attack.
 * Bayo Ohu, 45, Nigerian journalist and news editor (The Guardian), shot.
 * Eddy Prentice, 88, New Zealand cricketer.

21

 * Robert Ginty, 60, American actor and director, cancer.
 * Michael Lockett, 29, British soldier, improvised explosive device.
 * Myroslav Marusyn, 85, Ukrainian archbishop, Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
 * Piers Merchant, 58, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1983–1987) and Beckenham (1992–1997), cancer.
 * Parviz Meshkatian, 54, Iranian musician and composer, cardiac arrest.
 * Junzo Shono, 88, Japanese author, member of the Japan Art Academy.
 * Sula Wolff, 85, British child psychiatrist.

22

 * Marco Achilli, 60, Italian footballer.
 * Manuel Bermejo Hernández, 73, Spanish politician, MP for Cáceres.
 * Kole Čašule, 88, Macedonian writer.
 * Edward Delaney, 79, Irish sculptor.
 * Olaf Dufseth, 91, Norwegian Olympic Nordic combined and cross-country skier.
 * Andréa Maltarolli, 46, Brazilian telenovela screenwriter (Beleza Pura), cancer.
 * Bruce McPhee, 82, Australian race car driver, won Hardie Ferodo 500 (1968).
 * Dirce Migliaccio, 76, Brazilian actress, pneumonia.
 * Summer Squall, 22, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1990 Preakness Stakes winner, euthanized.
 * Charlotte Turgeon, 97, American chef and author, influenza.
 * S. Varalakshmi, 84, Indian actress and singer, complications from a fall.
 * Wess, 64, Italian singer, placed third in Eurovision Song Contest 1975.

23

 * Paul B. Fay, 91, American politician, Acting Secretary of the Navy (1963), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Gigolo FRH, 26, German-bred dressage horse, four-time Olympic gold medalist, euthanized.
 * Ertuğrul Osman, 97, Turkish 43rd Head of the Imperial Ottoman Dynasty, lung and kidney failure.
 * Dennis Pacey, 80, British footballer (Leyton Orient, Millwall), aneurysm.
 * Stuart Robertson, 65, British-born Canadian journalist and gardener, complications from pneumonia.
 * Bill Speirs, 57, British trade union leader, after long illness.
 * George M. Sullivan, 87, American politician, Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1967–1981), lung cancer.
 * Marie Wadley, 102, American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum.
 * Don Yarborough, 83, American politician, Parkinson's disease.

24

 * Nelly Arcan, 36, Canadian novelist, suicide.
 * Susan Atkins, 61, American murderer ('Manson Family' member), brain cancer.
 * Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy, 80, Indian Bishop of Nellore.
 * Keith Batchelor, 78, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood, North Melbourne).
 * Terry Bly, 73, British footballer (Norwich City, Peterborough United), heart attack.
 * Forrest Church, 61, American Unitarian Universalist minister, author and theologian, esophageal cancer.
 * Cryptoclearance, 25, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic surgery.
 * Joseph Satoshi Fukahori, 84, Japanese Bishop of Takamatsu.
 * Joseph Gurwin, 89, Lithuanian-born American textile manufacturer and philanthropist, heart failure.
 * Kevork Hovnanian, 86, Iraqi-born American businessman, founder of Hovnanian Enterprises.
 * Rogers McVaugh, 100, American botanist.
 * Sir Howard Morrison, 74, New Zealand singer, heart attack.
 * Emile Norman, 91, American artist, natural causes.
 * Robert Sahakyants, 59, Armenian animator, complications from heart surgery.
 * Egon Solymossy, 87, Hungarian Olympic athlete (death announced on this date).
 * Mimi Weddell, 94, American actress (Student Bodies, The Thomas Crown Affair).
 * Margo Wilson, 66, Canadian psychologist.

25

 * István Bujtor, 67, Hungarian actor and director, coccidiosis.
 * Pierre Falardeau, 62, Canadian film director, cancer.
 * Alicia de Larrocha, 86, Spanish pianist.
 * Maria Gulovich Liu, 87, Slovakian resistance member, cancer.
 * Clifton Maloney, 71, American businessman, husband of U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, mountaineering accident.
 * Steeve Nguema Ndong, 37, Gabonese Olympic judoka.
 * Francis Noel-Baker, 89, British politician, MP for Brentford and Chiswick (1945–1950) and Swindon (1955–1969).
 * Bob Stupak, 67, American casino owner (Vegas World, Stratosphere Las Vegas), leukemia.
 * David Will, 72, British vice president of FIFA, former Brechin City F.C. chairman, cancer.

26

 * Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet, 70, British aristocrat, traffic collision.
 * Geoff Barrowcliffe, 77, British footballer (Derby County).
 * Tony Chua, 43-44, Filipino sports executive, Barako Bulls team manager, drowning during Tropical Storm Ondoy.
 * Zygmunt Chychła, 83, Polish boxer, 1952 Olympic gold medalist.
 * W. I. B. Crealock, 89, British yacht designer.
 * Amy Farris, 40, American fiddler and singer-songwriter, suicide.
 * John Hyson, 81, American museum curator and historian.
 * Paul Medhurst, 55, British-New Zealand cyclist.
 * Nihat Nikerel, 59, Turkish actor, heart attack.
 * Alfred Oglesby, 42, American football player (Miami Dolphins).
 * Soeprapto, 85, Indonesian politician, Governor of Jakarta (1982–1987).
 * David Underdown, 84, British historian, author of definitive work on Pride's Purge.

27

 * Alimsultan Alkhamatov, 44, Russian politician and official, head of the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, shot.
 * John Connell, 69, American artist.
 * Ivan Dykhovichny, 61, Russian film director, screenwriter, cancer.
 * Donald Fisher, 81, American businessman, founder of The Gap, cancer.
 * John Holmes, 57, British rugby league player, cancer.
 * Charles Snead Houston, 96, American physician, mountaineer, inventor, author and filmmaker.
 * Manuel Mandel, 72, Brazilian Olympic rower.
 * Donal McLaughlin, 102, American architect, designer of the Flag of the United Nations, esophageal cancer.
 * Dewald Roode, 69, South African academic, fall.
 * William Safire, 79, American speechwriter and journalist (The New York Times), pancreatic cancer.

28

 * Apostolos of Kilkis, 85, Greek bishop of Kilkis.
 * René Bliard, 76, French footballer (Stade Reims).
 * Guillermo Endara, 73, Panamanian politician, President (1989–1994).
 * Ulf Larsson, 53, Swedish actor, stage director and revue artist.
 * Best Ogedegbe, 55, Nigerian footballer, complications from surgery.
 * Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira, 83, Peruvian archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa.
 * Don Thompson, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).

29

 * Micheline Beauchemin, 79, Canadian tapestry and textile artist.
 * Henry Bellmon, 88, American Governor of Oklahoma (1963–1967; 1987–1991), U.S. Senator (1969–1981), Parkinson's disease.
 * Ebony Dickinson, 32, American basketball player, breast cancer.
 * Gunnar Haugan, 84, Norwegian character actor.
 * Julian Hope, 2nd Baron Glendevon, 59, British opera producer, cancer.
 * Margo Johns, 90, British actress.
 * Greg Ladanyi, 57, American record producer and recording engineer, complications from a fall.
 * Jean Ladd, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Ray Nettles, 60, American-born Canadian football player (BC Lions), cancer.
 * John L. Pollock, 69, American philosopher.
 * Pavel Popovich, 78, Ukrainian-born Soviet cosmonaut.
 * Ed Sherman, 97, American football coach (Muskingum College).
 * Nick Strutt, 62, British country musician.
 * Sperantza Vrana, 81, Greek film actress, singer and writer, heart attack.
 * Vladimir Yakovlev, 79, Soviet Olympic sailor.

30

 * Sir Alastair Aird, 78, British Royal courtier.
 * Pentti Airikkala, 64, Finnish rally driver, prostate cancer.
 * Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish writer and poet.
 * Robert S. Baker, 93, British film and television producer (The Saint, The Persuaders!).
 * John Couey, 51, American murderer, killer of Jessica Lunsford (the inspiration for Jessica's Law), prostate cancer.
 * Roland La Starza, 82, American actor and professional boxer.
 * Raúl Magaña, 69, Salvadoran footballer and manager, gastric cancer.
 * Byron Palmer, 89, American actor, natural causes.
 * Birender Singh, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana (1967), cardiac arrest.
 * Victor Van Schil, 69, Belgian cyclist.