Louki, 86, French actor and singer-songwriter. Saparmurat Niyazov, 66, Turkmen Communist party secretary (1985–1991), president (1990–2006), cardiac arrest. Philippa Pearce, 86, British children's author, stroke. Karl Strauss, 94, German-born brewer for Pabst and Karl Strauss Brewing Company, natural causes. Sydney Wooderson, 92, British lawyer and track athlete, world record holder for mile run (1937–1942), kidney failure. 22 Richard Boston, 67, British journalist and author, illness. Sam Chapman, 90, American athlete, Alzheimer's disease. Ervin Lázár, 70, Hungarian writer, Kossuth Prize winner, lung failure. Dennis Linde, 63, American songwriter ("Burning Love", "Goodbye Earl"), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Michael Morrison, 60, American pornographic actor. Elena Mukhina, 46, Russian gymnast, complications of quadriplegia. Terence O'Brien, 85, British diplomat, ambassador to Nepal, Burma and Indonesia. Phillip Pine, 86, American actor. Thomas Shoyama, 90, Canadian politician, heart failure and Parkinson's disease. Galina Ustvolskaya, 87, Russian composer, natural causes. 23 Sol Carter, 98, American baseball player. Charlie Drake, 81, British comedian, actor and singer (My Boomerang Won't Come Back), stroke-related illness. Wilma Dykeman, 86, American author and journalist, complications after hip fracture. Dutch Mason, 68, Canadian blues musician, complications from diabetes. Bo Mya, 79, Burmese rebel leader, complications of heart disease and diabetes. Rosina Raisbeck, 90, Australian soprano singer. Robert Stafford, 93, American politician, governor of Vermont (1959–1961) and senator (1971–1989), natural causes. Timothy J. Tobias, 54, American composer and musician. Marilyn Waltz, 75, American actress and Playboy model. 24 Braguinha, 99, Brazilian composer, multiple organ failure. Kenneth Sivertsen, 45, Norwegian folk singer, comedian and poet, brain trauma. Frank Stanton, 98, American president of CBS (1946–1971). 25 James Brown, 73, American soul singer and bandleader, heart failure related to pneumonia. John Butcher, 60, British Conservative MP (1979–1997), heart attack. Sir Bob Cotton, 91, Australian politician and ambassador to the United States (1982–1985, 1991–1994). Sven Lindberg, 88, Swedish actor. Ingerid Vardund, 79, Norwegian actress. 26 Robert Boehm, 92, American lawyer and chairman of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Sir Harold Bollers, 91, Guyanese jurist, Chief Justice. Chris Brown, 45, American baseball player, complications from burns. Bill DeArango, 84, American jazz guitarist. Gerald Ford, 93, American politician, President (1974–1977), Vice President (1973–1974), arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and diffuse arteriosclerosis. Ivar Formo, 55, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic Games champion, drowning. John Heath-Stubbs, 88, British poet and translator, lung cancer. Martin David Kruskal, 81, American mathematician (Princeton University), stroke. Fernand Nault, 85, Canadian ballet dancer and artistic director, Parkinson's disease. George Snell,