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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

December 2008

1

• Thomas R. Adams, 87, American librarian. ^[1]
• Paul Benedict, 70, American television actor ( The Jeffersons ). ^[2]
• James Bree, 85, British actor ( On Her Majesty's Secret Service , Satan's Slave , Doctor Who ). ^[3]
• Beverly Dustrude, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL) ^[4]
• Betty Goodwin, 85, Canadian artist. ^[5]
• Jodami, 23, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, injury. ^[6]
• Tom Kirby, 61, Irish darts player, pancreatic cancer. ^[7]
• Siegfried Knappe, 91, German Wehrmacht artillery and General Staff officer, author (Soldat). ^[8]
• Mikel Laboa, 74, Spanish Basque singer and songwriter. ^[9]
• Raymond Lederer, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1977–1981), lung cancer. ^[10]
• Lav Mantula, 79, Yugoslavian football player and coach. ^[11]
• Emanuel Rackman, 98, American Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University. ^[12]
• H. Sridhar, 50, Indian sound engineer, heart attack. ^[13]
• Dorothy Sterling, 95, American writer and historian. ^[14]
• Sir John Wall, 78, British jurist and blind rights campaigner. ^[15]
• Joseph B. Wirthlin, 91, American Mormon prelate, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, natural causes. ^[16]

2

• Carlos María Abascal Carranza, 59, Mexican public official, Secretary of the Interior (2005–2006), cancer. ^[17]
• Kathleen Baskin-Ball, 50, American minister (United Methodist Church), cancer. ^[18]
• Frank Crean, 92, Australian politician, Treasurer (1972–1974), Deputy Prime Minister (1975), after short illness. ^[19]
• Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 81, American writer, filmmaker and scholar, after long illness. ^[20]
• Leïla Karam, 80, Lebanese actress, after long illness. ^[21]
• Margarita Karapanou, 62, Greek author, respiratory problems. ^[22]
• Pyotr Latyshev, 60, Russian politician, presidential envoy to Urals Federal District.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, 97, British aristocrat and politician. ^[23]
• Henry Molaison, 82, American amnesiac, subject of brain science study, respiratory failure. ^[24]
• Odetta, 77, American folk singer and human rights activist, heart disease. ^[25]
• Edward S. Rogers Jr., 75, Canadian businessman, CEO of Rogers Communications and owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, heart failure. ^[26]

3

• William Pierson, Jr., 97, American art historian. ^[27]
• Oliver Selfridge, 82, British-born American computer scientist, pioneer of artificial intelligence, injuries from a fall. ^[28]
• William Spoelhof, 98, American academic, President of Calvin College (1951–1976), complications from a fall. ^[29]
• Ignacio Uría Mendizábal, 71, Spanish businessman, shot. ^[30]
• Elmer Valentine, 85, American nightclub owner. ^[31]
• Derek Wadsworth, 69, British composer and jazz trombonist. ^[32]
• Alex Widmer, 52, Swiss executive, CEO of Julius Baer bank. ^[33]
• Robert Zajonc, 85, Polish-born American psychologist, pancreatic cancer. ^[34]

4

• Forrest J. Ackerman, 92, American science fiction expert, heart failure. ^[35]
• Steve Bradley, 32, American wrestler. ^[36]
• Jan Kemp, 59, American academic, exposed bias in passing college football players, complications from Alzheimer's disease. ^[37]
• Warren M. Robbins, 85, American art collector, complications from a fall. ^[38]
• Richard Van Allan, 73, British opera singer, lung cancer. ^[39]

5

• A. Bernard Ackerman, 72, American dermatopathologist, heart failure. ^[40]
• Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, 79, Estonian-born Russian primate of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1990, heart failure. ^[41]
• Jimmy Anderson, 55, American rodeo clown, heart disease. ^[42]
• George Brecht, 82, American artist (Fluxus), natural causes. ^[43]
• Martyn Crook, 52, Australian footballer and coach, heart attack. ^[44]
• Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, 80, Romanian politician, cancer. ^[45]
• Nina Foch, 84, Dutch-born American actress ( Executive Suite , Spartacus , The Ten Commandments ), myelodysplasia. ^[46]
• Joseph Gardner, 38, American convicted murderer and fugitive, execution by lethal injection. ^[47]
• Beverly Garland, 82, American actress ( My Three Sons ), after long illness. ^[48]
• Paris Herouni, 75, Armenian scientist and professor. ^[49]
• Sir Basil Kelly, 88, British politician and jurist, after short illness. ^[50]
• Rawson Macharia, 96, Kenyan perjurer against Jomo Kenyatta, traffic accident. ^[51]
• Jean-Pierre Nguema, 76, Gabonese politician, member of the Senate of Gabon. ^[52]
• Anca Parghel, 51, Romanian jazz singer, metastatic breast cancer. ^[53]
• Richard Topus, 84, American World War II messenger pigeon trainer and business executive, kidney failure. ^[54]
• Dick Vertlieb, 78, American baseball and basketball executive. ^[55]
• Wild Again, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. ^[56]

6

• Tamar Adar, 69, Israeli children's author and poet. ^[57]
• John Cumming, 78, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Scotland). ^[58]
• Larry Devlin, 86, American CIA agent, emphysema. ^[59]
• Sir Curtis Keeble, 86, British diplomat, Ambassador to the USSR (1978–1982). ^[60]
• Gérard Lauzier, 76, French cartoonist and film director, after long illness. ^[61]
• Elliot Manyika, 53, Zimbabwean politician, road accident. ^[62]
• Richard Marsland, 32, Australian radio host, apparent suicide. ^[63]
• Lloyd Ohlin, 90, American criminologist, complications of Shy–Drager syndrome. ^[64]
• Ivan Semedi, 87, Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Mukacheve. ^[65]
• Sunny von Bülow, 76, American heiress, cardiopulmonary arrest. ^[66]
• Peter Wardle, 77, New Zealand botanist. ^[67]

7

• Abul Ahsan, 71, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, cardiac arrest. ^[68]
• Marky Cielo, 20, Filipino Igorot actor, suspected acute pancreatitis. ^[69]
• Jimmy Gourley, 82, American jazz guitarist. ^[70]
• Herbert Hutner, 99, American chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts (1982–1990). ^[71]
• George Kuzma, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys. ^[72]
• Kerryn McCann, 41, Australian Olympic athlete, breast cancer. ^[73]
• Georges Nguyen Van Loc, 75, French police officer, writer and actor. ^[74]
• James H. Pomerene, 88, American electrical engineer. ^[75]
• Roger Sonnabend, 83, American hotelier. ^[76]
• John Ellis Williams, 84, British author. ^[77]
• Dennis Yost, 65, American singer (Classics IV), respiratory failure. ^[78]
• Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, 79, Pakistani journalist and philatelist, paralysis. ^[79]

8

• Maurice Andrieux, 83, French politician. ^[80]
• Manzoor Hussain Atif, 81, Pakistani field hockey player and administrator, after long illness. ^[81]
• Frank K. Edmondson, 96, American astronomer. ^[82]
• Xavier Perrot, 76, Swiss auto racer. ^[83]
• Oliver Postgate, 83, British animator ( Bagpuss , Clangers ). ^[84]
• Robert Prosky, 77, American actor ( The Natural , Broadcast News , Hill Street Blues ), complications following heart surgery. ^[85]
• Bob Spiers, 63, British television director ( Absolutely Fabulous , Fawlty Towers ). ^[86]
• William S. Stevens, 60, American lawyer, heart attack. ^[87]
• Hillary Waugh, 88, American mystery writer. ^[88]

9

• Jonathan Bailey, 69, British Angelican prelate, Bishop of Derby (1995–2005) and Clerk of the Closet (1997–2005). ^[89]
• Emmanuel Bitanga, 55, Cameroonian Olympic sprinter. ^[90]
• Ibrahim Dossey, 36, Ghanaian footballer, car accident. ^[91]
• James Fergason, 74, American inventor. ^[92]
• Yuri Glazkov, 69, Russian cosmonaut. ^[93]
• Dražan Jerković, 72, Croatian football player and manager, heart failure. ^[94]
• José María Larrauri Lafuente, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Vitoria. ^[95]
• Howard Pack, 90, American businessman, shipping magnate, heart failure. ^[96]
• William Neff Patman, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative for Texas (1981–1985), cancer. ^[97]
• Pentti Rummakko, 65, Finnish Olympic runner. ^[98]
• George Turman, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (1981–1989), natural causes. ^[99]

10

• Henning Christiansen, 76, Danish composer. ^[100]
• Mildred Constantine, 95, American curator (Museum of Modern Art), heart failure. ^[101]
• Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan, 44, Indian politician, car accident. ^[102]
• Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet ( The Monkey's Mask ), breast cancer. ^[103]
• Didith Reyes, 60, Filipino singer, heart attack and rupture of the pancreas. ^[104]
• Chris Richardson, 28, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), brain aneurysm. ^[105]
• Owen Wade, 87, British medical researcher and physician. ^[106]
• Mizuki Yamada, 80, Japanese Olympic sailor. ^[107]
• Sal Yvars, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants), amyloidosis. ^[108]

11

• Ali Alatas, 76, Indonesian politician, Foreign Minister (1988–1999), heart attack. ^[109]
• Maddie Blaustein, 48, American voice actress ( Pokémon , Yu-Gi-Oh! , Chaotic ), stomach virus. ^[110]
• Ron Carey, 72, American labor leader (Teamsters), lung cancer. ^[111]
• Robert Chandler, 80, American CBS executive, heart failure. ^[112]
• Elie Amsini Kiswaya, 80, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Sakania-Kipushi. ^[113]
• Angeliki Laiou, 67, Greek historian, anaplastic thyroid cancer. ^[114]
• Bettie Page, 85, American pin-up model and actress, complications from a heart attack. ^[115]
• Robert Shepherd, 71, American academic lawyer. ^[116]
• Yeh Shih-tao, 83, Taiwanese writer, colorectal cancer. ^[117]

12

• David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 96, British aristocrat and public servant. ^[118]
• Paddy Dooley, 82, Irish Olympic rower. ^[119]
• Avery Dulles, 90, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal. ^[120]
• Max Elbin, 88, American golfer, president of the PGA (1965−1968), heart failure. ^[121]
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 85, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1976). ^[122]
• Sigitas Geda, 65, Lithuanian poet. ^[123]
• Van Johnson, 92, American actor ( Battleground , The Caine Mutiny , Brigadoon ). ^[124]
• Emmanuel Kasonde, 72, Zambian economist and politician, Finance Minister (1967−1971). ^[125]
• Tassos Papadopoulos, 74, Cypriot politician, President (2003−2008), small cell lung carcinoma. ^[126]
• Maksym Pashayev, 20, Ukrainian footballer, car accident. ^[127]
• Amalia Solórzano, 97, Mexican First Lady (1934–1940), respiratory complications. ^[128]
• Robin Toner, 54, American journalist ( The New York Times ), colon cancer. ^[129]

13

• Doris Totten Chase, 85, American painter and sculptor. ^[130]
• Christmas Past, 29, American Thoroughbred racehorse, infirmities of old age. ^[131]
• Sir David Clutterbuck, 95, British admiral. ^[132]
• John Drake, 49, New Zealand rugby union player. ^[133]
• Mario Álvarez Dugan, 77, Dominican journalist and newspaper editor, heart problems. ^[134]
• Otto Felix, 65, American actor ( Up in Smoke ), amyloidosis. ^[135]
• Vince Karalius, 76, British rugby league player, cancer. ^[136]
• Shan Lloyd, 55, British journalist. ^[137]
• David Margolis, 78, American industrialist, cardiac arrest. ^[138]
• Maurice Meersman, 86, Belgian cyclist. ^[139]
• Kjartan Slettemark, 76, Norwegian political artist, heart failure. ^[140]
• Kathy Staff, 80, British actress ( Last of the Summer Wine , Crossroads , Mary Reilly ), brain tumour. ^[141]
• Horst Tappert, 85, German actor ( Derrick ). ^[142]

14

• Véronique Ahoyo, 69, Beninese politician, car accident. ^[143]
• K. P. Appan, 72, Indian literary critic. ^[144]
• Mike Bell, 37, American professional wrestler (WWF, ECW), heart attack. ^[145]
• Hank Goldup, 90, Canadian ice hockey player. ^[146]
• Henri G. Hers, 85, Belgian biochemist. ^[147]
• William Kaufmann, 90, American nuclear strategist, adviser to seven Defense Secretaries, Alzheimer's disease. ^[148]
• Carl Kotchian, 94, American aviation executive, president of Lockheed. ^[149]
• Gastón Parra Luzardo, 75, Venezuelan academic and banker, after long illness. ^[150]
• Candida Tobin, 82, British music educator. ^[151]
• Nick Willhite, 67, American baseball pitcher, cancer. ^[152]

15

• Hassib Ben Ammar, 84, Tunisian politician and journalist/editor. ^[153]
• Valentin Berlinsky, 83, Russian cellist, after long illness. ^[154]
• Mike Blum, 65, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), cerebral hemorrhage. ^[155]
• Carlo Caracciolo, 83, Italian publisher ( La Repubblica ). ^[156]
• León Febres Cordero, 77, Ecuadorian president (1984–1988), complications from pulmonary emphysema. ^[157]
• Davey Graham, 68, British guitarist, lung cancer. ^[158]
• Wanda Koczeska, 71, Polish actress. ^[159]
• David Lieber, 83, Polish-born American biblical scholar, lung ailment. ^[160]
• John W. Powell, 89, Chinese-born American journalist tried for sedition, complications from pneumonia. ^[161]
• Gian Franco Romagnoli, 82, Italian chef, author, television personality. ^[162]
• Clyde Sproat, 78, American musician. ^[163]
• Anne-Cath. Vestly, 88, Norwegian children's writer and actress. ^[164]
• John Webster, 95, Australian activist. ^[165]
• Jay E. Welch, 83, American musician, founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus. ^[166]

16

• Claudio Apollonio, 87, Italian ice hockey player. ^[167]
• Peg Batty, 88, New Zealand cricketer. ^[168]
• Evelyn Bonaci, 92, Maltese politician, MP. ^[169]
• Sam Bottoms, 53, American actor ( Apocalypse Now , The Last Picture Show , The Outlaw Josey Wales ), glioblastoma multiforme. ^[170]
• Richard Coleman, 78, British actor. ^[171]
• George Constantinou, 75, Cypriot-born Papua New Guinean businessman, aggravated assault during carjacking. ^[172]
• Serigne Lamine Diop, 74, Senegalese statistician and politician. ^[173]
• Julius Fast, 89, American writer. ^[174]
• Harold Gramatges, 90, Cuban composer and pianist. ^[175]
• Joe Krol, 89, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts). ^[176]
• Norberto Raffo, 69, Argentinian football player and manager (Banfield). ^[177]
• John E. Sprizzo, 73, American jurist, organ failure. ^[178]
• Zlatko Šugman, 76, Slovenian actor, illness. ^[179]

17

• Elizabeth Abrahams, 83, South African political activist and trade unionist. ^[180]
• Turgun Alimatov, 85, Uzbek musician. ^[181]
• Ismet Bajramović, 42, Bosnian reputed organized crime figure and wartime commander, suicide by gunshot. ^[182]
• Sammy Baugh, 94, American football player (Washington Redskins) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. ^[183]
• Freddy Breck, 66, German schlager singer, cancer. ^[184]
• Ved Prakash Goyal, 82, Indian politician, brain tumor. ^[185]
• Gregoire, 66, Congolese African-born primate, oldest known chimpanzee. ^[186]
• Ai Iijima, 36, Japanese media personality and AIDS activist, former adult film actress, pneumonia. ^[187]
• Justin Levens, 28, American mixed martial art fighter, possible suicide by gunshot. ^[188]
• Luis Félix López, 76, Ecuadorian writer and politician, Secretary of Government, cancer. ^[189]
• Willoughby Sharp, 72, American artist, art dealer, curator and impresario, throat cancer. ^[190]
• Dave Smith, 53, American baseball pitcher (Houston Astros), heart attack. ^[191]
• Feliciano Vierra Tavares, 88, American musician and singer, father of the Tavares Brothers, prostate cancer. ^[192]
• Henry Ashby Turner, 76, American historian, melanoma. ^[193]
• Nina Varlamova, 54, Russian politician, mayor of Kandalaksha, stabbed. ^[194]

18

• Majel Barrett, 76, American actress ( Star Trek ), leukemia. ^[195]
• Peter Malam Brothers, 91, British Royal Air Force pilot, Battle of Britain ace. ^[196]
• Pete Case, 67, American football player (New York Giants), after long illness. ^[197]
• John Costelloe, 47, American actor ( The Sopranos , Kazaam , Die Hard 2 ), suicide by gunshot. ^[198]
• Jack Douglas, 81, British comedy actor (Carry On films), pneumonia. ^[199]
• Mark Felt, 95, American public official, deputy director of the FBI, "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal, heart failure. ^[200]
• Hannah Frank, 100, British sculptor. ^[201]
• Nahla Hussain al-Shaly, 37, Iraqi women's rights activist, shot and decapitated. ^[202]
• Robert Jonquet, 83, French footballer, after long illness. ^[203]
• Ian MacMillan, 67, American author. ^[204]
• Mellory Manning, 27, New Zealand murder victim.
• Conor Cruise O'Brien, 91, Irish politician, writer and academic. ^[205]
• Ivan Rabuzin, 87, Croatian painter. ^[206]
• Harold Snyder, 86, American pharmaceuticals magnate, pioneer of generic drugs, respiratory failure. ^[207]
• Paul Weyrich, 66, American conservative activist, co-founder of The Heritage Foundation think tank, diabetes. ^[208]

19

• James Bevel, 72, American civil rights leader, pancreatic cancer. ^[209]
• Page Cavanaugh, 86, American jazz pianist and singer, kidney failure. ^[210]
• Carol Chomsky, 78, American linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky, cancer. ^[211]
• Michael Connell, 45, American political strategist, plane crash. ^[212]
• Kenny Cox, 68, American jazz musician, lung cancer. ^[213]
• Sir Bernard Crick, 79, British political theorist, cancer. ^[214]
• Dock Ellis, 63, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), cirrhosis. ^[215]
• Vi Hilbert, 90, American tribal leader. ^[216]
• Neal Kenyon, 79, American theater director. ^[217]
• Joe L. Kincheloe, 58, American professor, heart attack. ^[218]
• Matt Kofler, 49, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts). ^[219]
• Derek Stanford, 90, British poet and critic. ^[220]
• Sam Tingle, 87, Zimbabwean racing driver. ^[221]

20

• Samuele Bacchiocchi, 70, Italian theologian, liver cancer. ^[222]
• Joseph Conombo, 91, Burkinabé politician, Prime Minister of Upper Volta (1978–1980). ^[223]
• Jack Kuehler, 76, American electrical engineer, president of I.B.M. (1989–1993), Parkinson's disease. ^[224]
• Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso, 83, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the diocese of Santiago de Chile. ^[225]
• Olga Lepeshinskaya, 92, Ukrainian-born Russian ballerina. ^[226]
• Joel Mandelstam, 89, British biochemist and microbiologist. ^[227]
• Adrian Mitchell, 76, British poet, heart attack. ^[228]
• Robert Mulligan, 83, American film director ( To Kill a Mockingbird ), heart disease. ^[229]
• Albin Planinc, 64, Slovenian chess grandmaster, after long illness. ^[230]
• Dorothy Sarnoff, 94, American opera singer, actress and self-help consultant. ^[231]
• Igor Troubetzkoy, 96, Russian auto racer. ^[232]

21

• Chayben Abou-Nehra, 34, Belizean businessman, suicide by gunshot. ^[233]
• Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, 92, British noble. ^[234]
• James Fulton, 58, Canadian politician, MP for Skeena (1979–1993), colon cancer. ^[235]
• Teddy Gueritz, 89, British Royal Navy admiral. ^[236]
• Christopher Hibbert, 84, British historian. ^[237]
• Ron Hornaday, Sr., 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer. ^[238]
• Al Meyerhoff, 61, American lawyer, complications from leukemia. ^[239]
• Carlos Manuel Santiago, 82, Puerto Rican baseball player (Negro leagues), heart failure. ^[240]
• Dale Wasserman, 94, American playwright ( Man of La Mancha ), heart failure. ^[241]
• Maurice Zilber, 88, Egyptian horse trainer, cancer. ^[242]

22

• Yoshiro Asakuma, 94, Japanese Olympic athlete. ^[243]
• Anand Babla, 54, Fijian politician, MP (1992–2006), after long illness. ^[244]
• Coy Bacon, 66, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins). ^[245]
• Lansana Conté, 74, Guinean politician, President of Guinea since 1984, after long illness. ^[246]
• Norm Cook, 53, American basketball player (Kansas Jayhawks, Boston Celtics). ^[247]
• Ossie Dawson, 89, South African cricketer. ^[248]
• Jani Lehtonen, 40, Finnish pole vaulter. ^[249]
• Robert J. Marshall, 90, American minister, president of the Lutheran Church in America (1968–1978), heart failure. ^[250]
• Hugh Myers, 78, American chess player and author. ^[251]
• Erkki Puolakka, 83, Finnish Olympic runner. ^[252]
• Alfred Shaheen, 86, American textile manufacturer, popularized the Hawaiian shirt, complications of diabetes. ^[253]
• Guy Warren, 85, Ghanaian jazz musician, illness. ^[254]

23

• Clint Ballard, Jr., 77, American songwriter ("You're No Good"). ^[255]
• Manuel Benitez, 39, American child actor and FBI fugitive, shot. ^[256]
• Narciso Bernardo, 71, Filipino basketball player, cardiac arrest. ^[257]
• Thomas Congdon, 77, American editor, Parkinson's disease and heart failure. ^[258]
• Frank Krog, 54, Norwegian actor. ^[259]
• Mitsugu Saotome, 82, Japanese author. ^[260]
• Héctor Thomas, 70, Venezuelan Olympic decathlete, cancer. ^[261]
• Ron Unsworth, 85, British Olympic hurdler. ^[262]
• Thierry de la Villehuchet, 65, French money manager and businessman, apparent suicide by drug overdose and exsanguination. ^[263]
• Eric Charles Twelves Wilson, 96, British recipient of the Victoria Cross. ^[264]
• Arnold Jacob Wolf, 84, American rabbi, heart attack. ^[265]

24

• Ian Ballinger, 83, New Zealand sport shooter, 1968 Olympic medallist. ^[266]
• Ray Deakin, 49, British footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Burnley), brain cancer. ^[267]
• Stanley Eveling, 83, British playwright. ^[268]
• Gordon Fairweather, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Royal, New Brunswick (1962–1977). ^[269]
• Ralph Harris, 87, British journalist, respiratory failure. ^[270]
• Samuel P. Huntington, 81, American political scientist, heart failure and complications of diabetes. ^[271]
• Harold Pinter, 78, British playwright ( The Homecoming ), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2005), throat cancer. ^[272]
• Rik Renders, 86, Belgian cyclist. ^[273]
• Alf Robertson, 67, Swedish singer and composer. ^[274]
• Ruhlmann, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, aneurism. ^[275]

25

• Edd Cartier, 94, American illustrator ( The Shadow ). ^[276]
• Alvah Chapman, Jr., 87, American publisher and philanthropist, pneumonia. ^[277]
• Justin Eilers, 30, American mixed martial artist, shot. ^[278]
• Olívio Aurélio Fazza, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu. ^[279]
• Leo Frankowski, 65, American science fiction author. ^[280]
• William Glendon, 89, American attorney. ^[281]
• Lars Hollmer, 60, Swedish musician. ^[282]
• Eartha Kitt, 81, American singer and actress ( Batman , The Emperor's New Groove , Holes ), colon cancer. ^[283]
• Ann Savage, 87, American actress ( Detour ), complications from stroke. ^[284]
• Robert Ward, 70, American blues singer and guitarist. ^[285]
• Colin White, 57, British naval historian, cancer. ^[286]

26

• Jaroslav Fikejz, 81, Czech Olympic athlete. ^[287]
• Israel Horowitz, 92, American record producer. ^[288]
• Eberhard Kneisl, 92, Austrian Olympic alpine skier. ^[289]
• Gösta Krantz, 83, Swedish actor. ^[290]
• Mikhail Krichevsky, 111, Ukrainian supercentenarian. ^[291]
• Alan W. Lear, 55, Scottish writer. ^[292]
• George Miller, 69, British footballer and manager (Falkirk FC, Wolverhampton Wanderers), cancer. ^[293]
• Sir Kenneth Stoddart, 94, British Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside (1979–1989). ^[294]
• Dick Voris, 86, American football player and coach. ^[295]
• J. Lamar Worzel, 89, American oceanographer, heart attack. ^[296]
• Wyvetter H. Younge, 78, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives since 1975, surgical complications. ^[297]

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• Arild Andresen, 80, Norwegian footballer and ice hockey player (Vålerenga). ^[298]
• Rodrigo Arango Velásquez, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Diocese of Buga. ^[299]
• Delaney Bramlett, 69, American songwriter and record producer, complications from gallbladder surgery. ^[300]
• Sailor Brown, 93, British footballer and manager. ^[301]
• Roque Cordero, 91, Panamanian-born American composer. ^[302]
• John Fenton, 87, British Anglican priest and New Testament scholar. ^[303]
• Robert Graham, 70, Mexican-born American sculptor, husband of actress Anjelica Huston, after long illness. ^[304]
• Ian Harland, 76, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1989–2000), after long illness. ^[305]
• Michael Hicks, 80, British army general. ^[306]
• Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, 86, Malaysian King (1994–1999), Great Ruler of Negeri Sembilan since 1967. ^[307]
• Patricia Kneale, 83, British actress. ^[308]
• Iain MacLean, 55, Australian politician, Western Australian MLC for North Metropolitan (1994–1996) and MLA for Wanneroo (1996–2001). ^[309]
• Christine Maggiore, 52, American AIDS denialist, pneumonia. ^[310]
• Sahu Mewalal, 82, Indian footballer, natural causes. ^[311]
• Alfred Pfaff, 82, German footballer, 1954 FIFA World Cup winner. ^[312]

28

• Quentin C. Aanenson, 87, American fighter pilot, cancer. ^[313]
• A. O. L. Atkin, 83, American mathematician, complications from a fall. ^[314]
• Willie Clark, 90, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, St Johnstone). ^[315]
• Vincent Ford, 68, Jamaican reggae songwriter ("No Woman, No Cry"), complications from diabetes. ^[316]
• Donald Gleason, 88, American physician, creator of prostate cancer test, heart attack. ^[317]
• Sir Michael Levey, 81, British art historian, Director of the National Gallery (1973–1986). ^[318]
• Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, 92, American architect and industrial designer, created the United Nations logo, prostate cancer. ^[319]
• Haralamb Zincă, 85, Romanian writer, Alzheimer's disease. ^[320]

29

• Manjit Bawa, 67, Indian painter, after long illness. ^[321]
• William Ellis Green, 85, Australian cartoonist. ^[322]
• Jim Horne, 91, American model, heart failure. ^[323]
• Freddie Hubbard, 70, American jazz trumpeter, complications from a heart attack. ^[324]
• Victor H. Krulak, 95, American Marine Corps officer. ^[325]
• Vladislav Lalicki, 73, Serbian production designer. ^[326]
• Ted Lapidus, 79, French fashion designer, respiratory failure. ^[327]
• Daniel Nagrin, 91, American choreographer and dancer. ^[328]
• Alan Sargeson, 78, Australian chemist. ^[329]
• Harlington Wood Jr., 88, American lawyer. ^[330]
• Yang Jinzong, 76, Chinese chemical engineer. ^[331]

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• Roy Boehm, 84, American Navy SEAL commander. ^[332]
• Stewart Cleveland Cureton, 78, American pastor, President of the National Baptist Convention (1999). ^[333]
• Richard Genelle, 47, American actor ( Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Zeo ), heart attack. ^[334]
• Bernie Hamilton, 80, American actor ( Starsky and Hutch ), cardiac arrest. ^[335]
• Paul Hofmann, 96, Austrian writer, informant against the Nazis. ^[336]
• Peter Karmel, 86, Australian economist. ^[337]
• Roy Saari, 63, American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (1964). ^[338]

31

• Stan Kielty, 83, English rugby league player (Halifax, national team). ^[339]
• Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player, after long illness. ^[340]
• Kazbek Pagiyev, 49, Russian politician, mayor of Vladikavkaz, shot. ^[341]
• Brad Sullivan, 77, American actor ( Slap Shot , The Prince of Tides , The Sting ), liver cancer. ^[342]
• Vic Washington, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers). ^[343]
• Donald E. Westlake, 75, American mystery writer, heart attack. ^[344]

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External links

• List of December 2008 deaths at IMDb