Richard Bright, 68, American actor (The Godfather, Marathon Man, Once Upon a Time in America), traffic collision. Bill Hartley, 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist. Laurel Hester, 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer. Charles Leonard, 92, American US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter. Tom Sellers, 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack. Ruth Taylor, 44, Canadian poet, alcohol poisoning. Saulius Mykolaitis, 40, Lithuanian director, actor, and singer-songwriter. 19 Angelo Brignole, 81, Italian cyclist. Ken Keuffel, 82, American college football coach, prostate cancer. Erna Lazarus, 102, American screenwriter. Edward H. McNamara, 79, American county official. 20 Lou Gish, 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer. Curt Gowdy, 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia. Paul Marcinkus, 84, American Catholic archbishop, President of Vatican Bank and Pro-President of Vatican City State. Lucjan Wolanowski, 86, Polish journalist, writer and traveller. 21 Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language. Theodore Draper, 93, American historian and political commentator. Mirko Marjanović, 68, Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Serbia (1994–2000). Angelica Rozeanu, 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion, cirrhosis. Stefan Terlezki, 78, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983–1987. 22 Bill Bagnall, 80, American magazine publisher and editor (Motorcyclist). Atwar Bahjat, 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya, abducted and killed in Iraq. Anthony Burger, 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance. Hilde Domin, 96, German poet and writer. Donelson Hoopes, 73, American curator. Edward Nalbandian, 78, American businessman, owner of Zachary All Clothing in Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease. Flossie Page, 112, American supercentenarian, oldest person from Kansas. S. Rajaratnam, 90, Singaporean politician, first Senior Minister of Singapore, heart failure. John Sullivan, 61, English cricketer. Bill Tung, 72, Hong Kong actor, horse racing commentator. Richard Wawro, 52, Scottish autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer. 23 Giuseppe Amici, 67, Sammarinese politician, former Captain Regent of San Marino. Frederick Busch, 64, American author, heart attack. Said Mohamed Djohar, 87, Comorian politician, former President of Comoros. Muhammad Shamsul Huq, 93, Bangladeshi academic and former Minister of Foreign Affairs. Luna Leopold, 90, American ecologist and author. Machteld Mellink, 88, Netherlands-born American archaeologist of sites in Anatolia. Diane Shalet, 71, American actress and author. Earl Stallings, 89, American Baptist minister and activist, praised by Martin Luther King Jr. in the "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Telmo Zarraonaindía, 85, Spanish football player, heart attack. 24 Octavia Butler, 58, American science fiction author and MacArthur