Tajik leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, cancer. Rafael Ruiz, 89, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1948). James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure. 10 George Dawkes, 86, English cricketer, specialising in wicket keeping, for Derbyshire. Barbara George, 63, American R&B singer, lung infection. Irving São Paulo, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure. Yasuo Takei, 76, Japanese second-richest man of Japan and founder of Takefuji Corporation. 11 Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. David Thomas Dawson, 48, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. Mike Douglas, 86, American talk-show host and entertainer. Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, (1981–1998). Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet laureate. Yevgeny Sinyayev, 58, Soviet Olympic sprinter. 12 Victoria Gray Adams, 79, American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. Noel Everett, 70, New Zealand Olympic sailor Camille Loiseau, 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe. Raska Lukwiya, Ugandan commander in the Lord's Resistance Army, indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. Keren Tendler, 26, Israeli soldier and airborne mechanic, helicopter crash. Nicholas Webster, 94, American film and television director. 13 Bill Baker, 95, American baseball player. Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly (1959–1964). Jack Edwards, 88, British World War II soldier and prisoner of war rights campaigner. Kermit L. Hall, 61, American President of the University at Albany, member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association middleweight champion (1938–1939), stroke. Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist (Dissection), convicted of felony murder, suicide. Payao Poontarat, 49, Thai boxer, first Thai Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976), World Boxing Council champion, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 14 William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, 98, Australian animal pathologist. Johnny Duncan, 67, American country singer and songwriter, heart attack. John Godley, 3rd Baron Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers), complications from leukemia. Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, motorcycle accident. 15 Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. William Branson, 68, American economist. Lynton K. Caldwell, 92, American political scientist.