A.M. Rosenthal, 84, Canadian-born Executive Editor of The New York Times for 17 years, stroke. Soraya, 37, Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger, record producer, and singer, breast cancer. Aleksandr Zinovyev, 83, Russian logician, sociologist and writer, brain cancer. 11 Yossi Banai, 74, Israeli singer and actor, cancer. Sir Frank Mills, 82, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Ghana and Bangladesh. Byron Morrow, 95, American TV and film character actor. Michael O'Leary, 70, Irish politician and barrister, former leader of the Irish Labour Party, drowned in a swimming pool. Floyd Patterson, 71, American former boxing heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer. Ferdinando Tacconi, 83, Italian comics artist. Frankie Thomas, 85, American actor (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet), stroke. 12 Ted Berkman, 92, American author, scriptwriter (Bedtime for Bonzo). Hussein Maziq, 88, Libyan politician, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya. Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, 85, American politician, former U.S. representative from Mississippi. Arthur Porges, 90, American science fiction and fantasy writer. 13 Joan Diener, 76, American actress/soprano (Man of La Mancha), complications of cancer. Rick Farley, 53, Australian National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive for eight years. Ryan Francis, 19, American college basketball player, freshman point guard for the University of Southern California basketball team, homicide. Fernando Inchauste, 75, Bolivian Olympian. Jaroslav Pelikan, 82, American historian of Christianity, winner of the Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, lung cancer. Östen Sjöstrand, 80, Swedish poet, translator and member of the Swedish Academy. Peter Viereck, 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, American R&B musician, founder of Heatwave ("Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever"). 14 Lew Anderson, 84, American bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show, prostate cancer. James Botten, 67, South African international test cricketer, complications after colon operations. Steve Cooper, 47, American rock singer for Juggernaut and S.A. Slayer. William Ginsberg, 75, American professor of environmental law at Hofstra University and former New York City commissioner of parks and recreation. Reza Hassanzadeh, 33, Iranian professional soccer player with Teraktor Sazi F.C., injuries from car accident. Stanley Kunitz, 100, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate. Jim Lemon, 78, American Major League Baseball player, cancer. Paul Marco, c. 81, American film actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space). Bruce Merrifield, 84, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist. Günther Nenning, 84, Austrian journalist, author and political activist. Eva Norvind, Norwegian-born Mexican writer and actress, drowning accident. 15 Joyce Ballantyne, 88,