Baseball League). John Coletta, 74, English music manager and music producer, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. Neil Coulbeck, 54, British Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, suicide. Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor (Doc Hollywood, First Monday in October). Fortunato Libanori, 72, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. Derrick O'Brien, 31, American executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide. Ruth Schönthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer. John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer. Philippe Takla, 91, Lebanese politician, lawyer and diplomat, foreign minister of Lebanon. Wiarton Willie, 8, Canadian Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness. 12 Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy Below), stroke. Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. Loredana Nusciak, 64, Italian actress (Django, Ten Thousand Dollars for a Massacre) and model. 13 Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease. Pamela Cooper, 95, British refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. John Lyttelton, 11th Viscount Cobham, 63, British aristocrat. Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, 89, Spanish Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid. Tomasz Zaliwski, 75, Polish actor. 14 Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage. Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer. William Lash III, 45, American assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide after killing his 12-old autistic son. Christophe Mérieux, 39, French head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. Carrie Nye, 69, American actress, lung cancer. Len Teeuws, 79, American offensive and defensive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals. Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine, and massive bleeding. 15 Robert H. Brooks, 69, American chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Canadian Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. Howdy Groskloss, 100, American professional baseball player, oldest major league baseball player. Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member