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The following is a list of deaths in May 2009.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

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

May 2009

1

• Delara Darabi, 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging. ^[1]
• Fred Delmare, 87, German actor, complications from pneumonia. ^[2]
• Ric Estrada, 81, Cuban-born American penciler of comic books, prostate cancer. ^[3]
• Danny Gans, 52, American entertainer. ^[4]
• Norman Gash, 97, British historian. ^[5]
• Brian Grove, 88, Australian cricketer. ^[6]
• Albert Hamilton Gordon, 107, American businessman. ^[7]
• George Hannan, 98, Australian politician. ^[8]
• Jokke Kangaskorpi, 37, Finnish footballer. ^[9]
• Jack D. Maltester, 95, American politician, mayor of San Leandro, California. ^[10]
• Derek Noonan, 62, British rugby league and rugby union player. ^[11]
• Marc Rocco, 46, American film director ( Murder in the First , Where the Day Takes You ) and screenwriter. ^[12]
• Sunline, 13, New Zealand champion racehorse, euthanized. ^[13]
• John Wilke, 54, American investigative reporter, pancreatic cancer. ^[14]

2

• Alfred Appel, 75, American scholar, expert on Vladimir Nabokov, heart failure. ^[15]
• K. Balaji, 74, Indian Tamil actor and producer, multiple organ failure. ^[16]
• Augusto Boal, 78, Brazilian dramatist and theater director (Theatre of the Oppressed), respiratory failure. ^[17]
• Víctor Andrés Catena, 84, Spanish screenwriter and director. ^[18]
• Marilyn French, 79, American writer, heart failure. ^[19]
• Harold Hankins, 78, British electrical engineer and academic administrator, Vice-Chancellor of UMIST. ^[20]
• Kiyoshiro Imawano, 58, Japanese rock musician. ^[21]
• Janus Kamban, 95, Faroese sculptor and graphic designer. ^[22]
• Jack Kemp, 73, American politician and football player, candidate for Vice President (1996), cancer. ^[23]
• Carole C. Noon, 59, American primatologist, founder of Save the Chimps, pancreatic cancer. ^[24]
• Robert Pauley, 85, American executive, President of ABC Radio (1961–1967), heart failure. ^[25]
• Virginia Prince, 96, American transgender activist. ^[26]

3

• Dobby Campbell, 86, Scottish football player (Chelsea, Scotland) and manager. ^[27]
• Robert B. Choate, Jr., 84, American food lobbyist. ^[28]
• Committed, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. ^[29]
• John Elsworthy, 77, Welsh football player (Ipswich Town). ^[30]
• Hui Ki On, 65, Hong Kong public servant, Commissioner of Police (1994–2001), cancer. ^[31]
• Eleanor Perenyi, 91, American gardener and writer, cerebral hemorrhage. ^[32]
• Ram Shewalkar, 78, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest. ^[33]
• Ralph Thompson, 95, British animal artist. ^[34]

4

• Nicholas Clemente, 80, American judge (New York Supreme Court). ^[35]
• Dom DeLuise, 75, American actor and comedian ( The Cannonball Run , The Secret of NIMH ), writer and chef, kidney failure. ^[36]
• Sir Geoffrey Foot, 93, Australian politician. ^[37]
• Edward Stewart Kennedy, 97, American historian. ^[38]
• Charles Lugano, 59, Kenyan politician, after short illness. ^[39]
• Martha Mason, 71, American author, lived 60 years in an iron lung. ^[40]
• Fritz Muliar, 89, Austrian actor. ^[41]
• Jane Randolph, 93, American actress. ^[42]
• Gisela Stein, 73, German actress. ^[43]

5

• Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match. ^[44]
• David S. King, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative for Utah (1959–1963). ^[45]
• Richard Miller, 83, American operatic tenor and educator, Professor Emeritus of Voice (Oberlin Conservatory of Music). ^[46]
• Dewey Smith, 36, American diver. ^[47]
• Elsie B. Washington, 66, American author, wrote first African American romance novel, multiple sclerosis and cancer. ^[48]
• Murasaki Yamada, 60, Japanese manga artist. ^[49]

6

• Peyman Abadi, 37, Iranian actor, car accident. ^[50]
• Erik Bluemel, 32, American professor (University of Denver), bicycle accident. ^[51]
• Sam Cohn, 79, American talent agent, after short illness. ^[52]
• Leon Despres, 101, American attorney and politician, heart failure. ^[53]
• Ean Evans, 48, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer. ^[54]
• Sima Eyvazova, 75, Azerbaijani diplomat, first Permanent Representative to the UN. ^[55]
• Kevin Grubb, 31, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot. ^[56]
• Sid Laverents, 100, American amateur filmmaker, pneumonia. ^[57]
• Lev Losev, 71, Russian poet and literary critic. ^[58]
• Bob Meyer, 76, Australian logician, lung cancer. ^[59]
• W. Wesley Peterson, 85, American mathematician and computer scientist. ^[60]
• Valentin Varennikov, 85, Russian general. ^[61]
• Viola Wills, 69, American pop singer, cancer. ^[62]

7

• Robin Blaser, 83, American-born Canadian poet, Griffin Poetry Prize winner. ^[63]
• Mickey Carroll, 89, American actor ( The Wizard of Oz ). ^[64]
• Ian Cundy, 64, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Peterborough, mesothelioma. ^[65]
• Linda Dangcil, 66, American actress ( The Flying Nun ), throat cancer. ^[66]
• John Furia, Jr., 79, American screenwriter ( The Twilight Zone , Dr. Kildare ), President of the Writers Guild, West (1973–1975). ^[67]
• Alan Gilbertson, 81, New Zealand cricketer. ^[68]
• Tony Marsh, 77, British racing driver. ^[69]
• David Mellor, 78, British industrial designer, manufacturer and retailer. ^[70]
• Frank Melton, 60, American politician, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. ^[71]
• John Murphy, 95, Irish building contractor. ^[72]
• Danny Ozark, 85, American baseball manager. ^[73]
• Brian Sorenson, 79, New Zealand cricketer. ^[74]
• Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, 85, British politician and writer. ^[75]

8

• Gianni Baget Bozzo, 84, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician. ^[76]
• Fons Brydenbach, 54, Belgian athlete, cancer. ^[77]
• Dom DiMaggio, 92, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), brother of Joe DiMaggio, pneumonia. ^[78]
• Hideyuki Fujisawa, 83, Japanese Go player, aspiration pneumonia. ^[79]
• Carlos Kloppenburg, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Novo Hamburgo (1986–1995). ^[80]
• Ninel Kurgapkina, 80, Russian prima ballerina, road accident. ^[81]
• Greg Palmer, 61, American writer, television reporter and Emmy Award-winning journalist, lung cancer. ^[82]
• Bud Shrake, 77, American journalist and novelist, lung cancer. ^[83]
• Eunice Taylor, 75, American baseball player (Kenosha Comets). ^[84]

9

• Eileen Albright, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL) ^[85]
• Stephen Bruton, 60, American songwriter and guitarist (Kris Kristofferson band), throat cancer. ^[86]
• Chuck Daly, 78, American basketball coach, pancreatic cancer. ^[87]
• Travis Edmonson, 76, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bud & Travis), heart failure. ^[88]
• Michael Fox, 75, British-born Israeli lawyer. ^[89]
• Cyril Edwin Hart, 96, British forestry expert. ^[90]
• Henry T. King, 89, American attorney, Nuremberg trials prosecutor, cancer. ^[91]
• David Marcus, 85, Irish literary editor, after long illness. ^[92]
• Ernest Millington, 93, British politician and educator, last living World War II-era member of the British Parliament. ^[93]
• Eugene Smith, 88, American gospel singer. ^[94]
• Evgenios Spatharis, 85, Greek shadow play artist, fall. ^[95]
• Mendi Rodan, 80, Romanian-born Israeli conductor and violinist, cancer. ^[96]
• Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe, 46, Belgian-born Ukrainian equestrian. ^[97]
• George Zinkhan, 57, American academic and suspected murderer, suicide by gunshot. ^[98]

10

• Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, 45-46, Libyan Al-Qaeda paramilitary trainer accused of terrorism, alleged suicide. ^[99]
• Robert John Cornell, 89, American politician and Roman Catholic priest, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (1975–1979). ^[100]
• Sergio Escobedo, 78, Mexican Olympic modern pentathlete and fencer. ^[101]
• Johnnie Johnson, 91, English cricketer. ^[102]
• James Kirkup, 91, British poet, translator and travel writer, stroke. ^[103]
• Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, 47, Guatemalan lawyer, shot. ^[104]
• Clive Scott, 64, British keyboardist and songwriter (Jigsaw), stroke. ^[105]
• Brian Simnjanovski, 27, American football player (Berlin Thunder), car accident. ^[106]
• Robert J. Sinclair, 77, American executive, CEO of Saab-Scania of America, cancer. ^[107]

11

• Pat Booth, 66, British model and writer, cancer. ^[108]
• Lude Check, 91, Canadian ice hockey player. ^[109]
• Abel Goumba, 82, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1957–1958, 1959, 2003) and vice-president (2003–2005). ^[110]
• Claudio Huepe, 69, Chilean politician and diplomat, heart attack. ^[111]
• Bill Kelso, 69, American baseball player. ^[112]
• Mark Landon, 60, American actor, adopted son of Michael Landon. ^[113]
• Shanthi Lekha, 79, Sri Lankan actress. ^[114]
• Antonio Lopes dos Santos, 92, Portuguese general, Governor of Macau (1962–1966), Cape Verde (1969–1974). ^[115]
• S. M. Nanda, 93, Indian admiral, Chief of Naval Staff (1970–1973). ^[116]
• Peter Philips, 81, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1988). ^[117]
• Sir Richard Posnett, 89, British colonial administrator, Governor of Belize (1972–1976) and Bermuda (1981–1983). ^[118]
• Leonard Shlain, 71, American surgeon and writer, brain cancer. ^[119]

12

• Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, 74, British aristocrat and politician, heart failure. ^[120]
• Dame Heather Begg, 76, New Zealand operatic soprano, leukemia. ^[121]
• Mohan Saliya Ellawala, 61, Sri Lankan politician, Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province (2008–2009), after long illness. ^[122]
• Eden Ross Lipson, 66, American book editor, pancreatic cancer. ^[123]
• Thomas Nordseth-Tiller, 28, Norwegian screenwriter ( Max Manus ), cancer. ^[124]
• Roger Planchon, 77, French theatre director, heart attack. ^[125]
• Sidique Ali Merican, 78, Malaysian sprinter, stroke. ^[126]
• Ted Sampley, 63, American POW/MIA activist, complications from heart surgery. ^[127]
• Antonio Vega, 51, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (Nacha Pop), pneumonia. ^[128]
• Heini Walter, 81, Swiss racing driver. ^[129]

13

• Frank Aletter, 83, American character actor ( It's About Time ), cancer. ^[130]
• Ron Cameron, 85, Canadian Olympic rower.Ron Cameron
• Waldemar Levy Cardoso, 108, Brazilian Field Marshal, WWI-era veteran. ^[131]
• Achille Compagnoni, 94, Italian mountaineer, first person to ascend K2. ^[132]
• Don Cordner, 87, Australian footballer. ^[133]
• Rafael Escalona, 81, Colombian Vallenato composer and troubador. ^[134]
• Norbert Eschmann, 75, Swiss footballer. ^[135]
• Ernest Kline, 79, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1971–1979). ^[136]
• Iwan Schmid, 61, Swiss Olympic cyclist. ^[137]
• Anne Scott-James, 96, British journalist and author, widow of Sir Osbert Lancaster. ^[138]
• L. William Seidman, 88, American public servant, Chairman of the FDIC (1985–1991), after short illness. ^[139]
• Joe Tandy, 26, British auto racing team owner, car crash. ^[140]

14

• Barathea, 19, Irish racehorse, euthanized. ^[141]
• Monica Bleibtreu, 65, Austrian actress, screenwriter and drama teacher, cancer. ^[142]
• Bob Boyd, 81, American football player. ^[143]
• Newt Heisley, 88, American commercial artist, designer of POW/MIA flag, after long illness. ^[144]
• Ken Hollyman, 86, Welsh footballer (Cardiff City, Newport County). ^[145]
• Marian McDougall, 95, American amateur golfer. ^[146]
• Buddy Montgomery, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure. ^[147]
• William J. Passmore, 77, American jockey, complications from emphysema. ^[148]
• Bob Rosburg, 82, American golfer and television color analyst, fall. ^[149]
• George Williams, 69, American baseball player. ^[150]

15

• Susanna Agnelli, 87, Italian politician and writer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–1996). ^[151]
• Alexander Gordon Bearn, 86, British physician. ^[152]
• Broad Brush, 26, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. ^[153]
• Si Frumkin, 78, Lithuanian-born Holocaust survivor. ^[154]
• Alan Hackney, 84, British screenwriter. ^[155]
• Mordechai Limon, 85, Israeli admiral, Commander of the Navy (1950–1954). ^[156]
• Cheikh Hamidou Kane Mathiara, 69, Senegalese economist and politician. ^[157]
• Rodger McFarlane, 54, American gay rights activist, first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, suicide. ^[158]
• Mohammad-Amin Riahi, 86, Iranian historian and literary scholar. ^[159]
• Edwin S. Shneidman, 91, American suicidologist. ^[160]
• Helvi Sipilä, 94, Finnish diplomat. ^[161]
• Roy Talbot, 94, Bermudan calypso musician, last surviving member of original Talbot Brothers. ^[162]
• Bud Tingwell, 86, Australian actor, prostate cancer. ^[163]
• Wayman Tisdale, 44, American basketball player and jazz bassist, cancer. ^[164]
• Hubert van Es, 67, Dutch photographer at the fall of Saigon, brain hemorrhage. ^[165]

16

• Prospero Amatong, 77, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Governor of Davao del Norte (1992–1998), fall. ^[166]
• Antonio Chocano, 96, Guatemalan Olympic fencer and diplomat, emphysema. ^[167]
• John E. Connelly, 82, American entrepreneur, founder of Gateway Clipper Fleet, heart failure. ^[168]
• Henry David Halsey, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1972–1989), after short illness. ^[169]
• Sándor Katona, 66, Hungarian footballer and Olympic champion. ^[170]
• Craig G. Roberts, 78, American racehorse trainer. ^[171]
• Peter Sampson, 81, British footballer (Bristol Rovers), Alzheimer's disease. ^[172]

17

• Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani, 92, Iranian cleric, heart disease.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Mario Benedetti, 88, Uruguayan author and poet. ^[173]
• Daniel Carasso, 103, Greek-born French businessman (Groupe Danone). ^[174]
• Adolf Dickfeld, 99, German World War II Luftwaffe flying ace. ^[175]
• David Herbert Donald, 88, American historian, heart failure. ^[176]
• Murray Hamilton, 91, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1967–1982). ^[177]
• Masaru Hayami, 84, Japanese public servant, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1998–2003), respiratory failure. ^[178]
• David Ireland, 78, American sculptor and conceptual artist, pneumonia. ^[179]
• Jung Seung-hye, 44, South Korean film producer, colon cancer. ^[180]
• Sunwoo Jin, 87, Korean politician and activist. ^[181]
• Guillermo Lora, 87, Bolivian revolutionary leader, liver cancer. ^[182]
• Dame Patricia Mackinnon, 97, Australian community worker and philanthropist, President of the Royal Children's Hospital. ^[183]
• Prakash Mehra, 69, Indian film producer and director, pneumonia and multiple organ failure. ^[184]
• William Moore, 60, British loyalist paramilitary, member of the Shankill Butchers, suspected heart attack. ^[185]
• Zdeněk Pospíšil, 84, Czech Olympic sprinter. ^[186]
• Peter Slabakov, 86, Bulgarian actor. ^[187]
• Ron Snidow, 67, American football player (Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns), complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. ^[188]
• Octavia St. Laurent, 45, American trans woman and performer. ^[189]
• Al Tornabene, 86, American mobster. ^[190]

18

• Wayne Allwine, 62, American voice artist (Mickey Mouse). ^[191]
• Carole Cole, 64, American actress ( Sanford and Son , Grady ), daughter of Nat King Cole, lung cancer. ^[192]
• Dolla, 21, American rap artist, shot. ^[193]
• Sir David Hay, 92, Australian public servant, Ambassador to the United Nations, Administrator of Papua New Guinea. ^[194]
• K. Pattabhi Jois, 93, Indian yoga teacher, after short illness. ^[195]
• Paul Parin, 92, Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist. ^[196]
• Türkan Saylan, 74, Turkish doctor, cancer. ^[197]
• Lee Solters, 89, American press agent, natural causes. ^[198]
• Either killed in a missile attack or shot:
  • Balasingham Nadesan, Sri Lankan rebel, political chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). ^[199]
  • Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE. ^{[199] [200] [201]}
  • Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan (aka "Colonel Soosai"), 45, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE naval wing (Sea Tigers). ^{[200] [201]}
  • Shanmugalingam Sivashankar (aka "Pottu Amman"), Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE intelligence wing. ^{[200] [201]}

19

• Michael Preston Barr, 82, American composer, diabetes. ^[202]
• Robert F. Furchgott, 92, American scientist, Nobel Prize winner. ^[203]
• Andrei Ivanov, 42, Russian footballer. ^[204]
• Knut Hammer Larsen, 38, Norwegian footballer, leukemia. ^[205]
• Nicholas Maw, 73, British composer (Odyssey), heart failure. ^[206]
• Clint Smith, 95, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks). ^[207]
• Herbert York, 87, American physicist. ^[208]

20

• John Brown Jr., 88, American Navajo code talker. ^[209]
• Arthur Erickson, 84, Canadian architect (Simon Fraser University, Roy Thomson Hall). ^[210]
• Lucy Gordon, 28, British actress ( Spider-Man 3 , The Four Feathers ), suicide by hanging. ^[211]
• Alan Kelly, Sr., 72, Irish footballer (Preston North End, Republic of Ireland), cancer. ^[212]
• Matthew Krel, 64, Russian-born Australian conductor, founder of the SBS Youth Orchestra, encephalitis. ^[213]
• Randi Lindtner Næss, 104, Norwegian actress. ^[214]
• Nguyễn Bá Cẩn, 78, South Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1975). ^[215]
• Simon Oates, 77, British actor, prostate cancer. ^[216]
• Larry Rice, 63, American racing driver, lung cancer. ^[217]
• María Amelia López Soliño, 97, Spanish blogger, world's oldest blogger. ^[218]
• Noel Stanton, 82, British founder of The Jesus Army. ^[219]
• Paul Vinar, 69, Australian footballer. ^[220]
• Ralph D. Winter, 84, American missionary (U.S. Center for World Mission), multiple myeloma and lymphoma. ^[221]
• Oleg Yankovsky, 65, Russian actor, pancreatic cancer. ^[222]
• Yehoshua Zettler, 91, Israeli resistance fighter (Lehi). ^[223]
• Jerzy Zubrzycki, 89, Polish-born Australian sociologist. ^[224]

21

• Ghader Abdollahzadeh, 83, Kurdish traditional musician. ^[225]
• Joan Alexander, 94, American radio actress ( The Adventures of Superman ), intestinal blockage. ^[226]
• Walter da Silva, 68, Brazilian footballer and coach, heart attack. ^[227]
• Fathi Eljahmi, 68, Libyan political activist, blood infection. ^[228]
• Barry England, 77, British novelist and playwright. ^[229]
• Anatoli Kirilov, 42, Bulgarian football coach (PFC Spartak Varna), car accident. ^[230]
• Him Mark Lai, 83, American historian, bladder cancer. ^[231]
• Sam Maloof, 93, American woodworker, pneumonia. ^[232]
• Rolf McPherson, 96, American evangelist, son of Aimee Semple McPherson, natural causes. ^[233]
• Robert Müller, 28, German ice hockey player, brain cancer. ^[234]
• Kanagasabai Pathmanathan, 64, Sri Lankan politician. ^[235]
• Togo Tanaka, 93, American journalist, natural causes. ^[236]

22

• Alexander Mezhirov, 86, Russian poet. ^[237]
• Zé Rodrix, 61, Brazilian musician. ^[238]
• Yeo Woon Kye, 69, South Korean actress, kidney cancer. ^[239]

23

• Charles Albury, 88, American co-pilot of the Bockscar at atomic bombing of Nagasaki, heart failure. ^[240]
• Sir Derek Bowett, 82, British academic lawyer, President of Queens' College, Cambridge (1970–1982). ^[241]
• Raleigh Brown, 87, American politician, state representative (Texas), heart attack. ^[242]
• Lawrence Daly, 84, British trade union leader. ^[243]
• Joseph Duval, 80, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Rouen (1981–2004). ^[244]
• Ken Gill, 81, British trade union leader. ^[245]
• David Lunceford, 75, American football player, Alzheimer's disease. ^[246]
• Nicholas J. Phillips, 75, British physicist. ^[247]
• Tadeusz Pyka, 79, Polish politician. ^[248]
• Roh Moo-hyun, 62, South Korean politician, President (2003–2008), suicide by jumping. ^[249]
• Sir Tangaroa Tangaroa, 88, Cook Islands public servant, Queen's Representative (1985–1990). ^[250]

24

• Jay Bennett, 45, American musician (Wilco) and songwriter, accidental drug overdose. ^[251]
• Jack Lewis, 84, American screenwriter, lung cancer. ^[252]

25

• Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 48, Nigerian Pan African activist, car accident. ^[253]
• Billy Baxter, 70, Scottish footballer (Ipswich Town), cancer. ^[254]
• Rolf Brahde, 91, Norwegian astronomer. ^[255]
• Amos Elon, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist. ^[256]
• Charly Höllering, 65, German jazz musician, heart attack. ^[257]
• Haakon Lie, 103, Norwegian politician. ^[258]
• Tomás Paquete, 85, Portuguese Olympic sprinter. ^[259]
• Ivan van Sertima, 74, Guyanese-born British historian, linguist and anthropologist (Rutgers University). ^[260]

26

• Antonio Braga, 80, Italian composer. ^[261]
• Thomas Claw, 87, American WWII Navajo Code talker. ^[262]
• Commanche Court, 16, Irish thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. ^[263]
• Kaoru Kurimoto, 56, Japanese author, pancreatic cancer. ^[264]
• Doris Mühringer, 88, Austrian poet and children's writer. ^[265]
• Mihalis Papagiannakis, 68, Greek politician, MP, cancer. ^[266]
• Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director ( Three's Company ), complications from a heart attack and stroke. ^[267]
• Ronald Takaki, 70, American sociologist, professor of ethnic studies (University of California, Berkeley), suicide. ^[268]
• Marek Walczewski, 72, Polish actor. ^[269]
• Peter Zezel, 44, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs), haemolytic anemia. ^[270]

27

• Ammo Baba, 74, Iraqi footballer and athletic trainer, diabetes. ^[271]
• Thomas Franck, 77, American lawyer. ^[272]
• Sir Clive Granger, 74, British economist, Nobel Prize winner for economics. ^[273]
• Eugene F. Grant, 68, American attorney and politician, Mayor of Medford (1978–1980), leukaemia. ^[274]
• Mona Grey, 98, British public servant, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland. ^[275]
• Abram Hoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist. ^[276]
• Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian political activist, after long illness. ^[277]
• Carol Anne O'Marie, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease. ^[278]
• Sir William Refshauge, 96, Australian public health administrator. ^[279]
• Paul Sharratt, 75, British-born American television producer, cancer. ^[280]

28

• Mort Abrahams, 93, American film and television producer ( Planet of the Apes , The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ), natural causes. ^[281]
• Terence Alexander, 86, British film and television actor ( Bergerac ). ^[282]
• Terry Barr, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), Alzheimer's disease. ^[283]
• Manuel Collantes, 91, Filipino diplomat, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984), cardiac arrest. ^[284]
• Ed Dorohoy, 80, Canadian ice hockey player. ^[285]
• Carlton Forbes, 72, Jamaican-born British first-class cricketer. ^[286]
• Roger Kaffer, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet. ^[287]
• Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bilbao. ^[288]
• Lenrie Peters, 76, Gambian surgeon and novelist, after short illness. ^[289]
• Ercole Rabitti, 87, Italian footballer and trainer. ^[290]
• Oleg Shenin, 71, Russian politician, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991). ^[291]
• Umberto Silvestri, 93, Italian Olympic wrestler. ^[292]
• Betty Tancock, 98, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1932). ^[293]
• John Tolos, 78, Canadian professional wrestler, renal failure. ^[294]

29

• Hank Bassen, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack. ^[295]
• Kevin Beurle, 53, British scientist, hot air balloon accident. ^[296]
• Reginald Golledge, 71, Australian-born American geographer. ^[297]
• Phale Hale, 94, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives. ^[298]
• Ed Murray, 80, American politician, speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1987–1991). ^[299]
• Bill Perkins, 89, Australian footballer (Richmond). ^[300]
• Steve Prest, 43, British snooker player and coach, peritonitis. ^[301]
• Karine Ruby, 31, French Olympic gold (1998) and silver (2002) medal-winning snowboarder, fall. ^[302]
• Matt Zabitka, 88, American sportswriter. ^[303]

30

• Torsten Andersson, 82, Swedish painter. ^[304]
• Krystyna Borowicz, 86, Polish actress. ^[305]
• Luís Cabral, 78, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1973–1980). ^[306]
• Eva Dawes, 96, Canadian bronze medal-winning Olympic high jumper (1932), stroke. ^[307]
• Roberto Falaschi, 77, Italian cyclist. ^[308]
• Susanna Haapoja, 42, Finnish politician, cerebral haemorrhage. ^[309]
• Eric Hammond, 79, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the EETPU. ^[310]
• Ephraim Katzir, 93, Israeli biophysicist and politician, President (1973–1978). ^[311]
• Herma Kirchschläger, 93, Austrian widow of former President Rudolf Kirchschläger. ^[312]
• Waldemar Matuška, 76, Czech singer, pneumonia and heart failure. ^[313]
• Gaafar Nimeiry, 79, Sudanese politician, President (1969–1985). ^[314]
• Alexander Obregón, 32, Colombian footballer, car accident. ^[315]

31

• Martin Clemens, 94, British colonial administrator and soldier. ^[316]
• Millvina Dean, 97, British civil servant and cartographer, last living passenger aboard the RMS Titanic, pneumonia. ^[317]
• Brian Edrich, 86, British cricketer. ^[318]
• Sir John Holland, 94, Australian engineer, construction magnate. ^[319]
• Danny La Rue, 81, Irish-born British female impersonator and singer, prostate cancer. ^[320]
• Vyacheslav Nevinny, 74, Russian actor, diabetes. ^[321]
• Emil L. Smith, 97, American biochemist, heart attack. ^[322]
• Kamala Surayya, 75, Indian writer, after long illness. ^[323]
• George Tiller, 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot. ^[324]

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