Allen, 69, American member of the North Carolina General Assembly. James Barr, 82, British Old Testament scholar. Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox, silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer. Freddy Fender, 69, American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer. Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed Church theologian. Gerry Studds, 69, American first openly gay congressman, represented Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism. 15 Eddie Blay, 68, Ghanaian Olympic boxer. Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic). William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages. Michael Forrester, 89, British army general. Robert Pfarr, 86, American Olympic cyclist. George Stevens, 74, American politician and Baptist minister. Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoon editor for Playboy. Varduhi Vardanyan, 30, Armenian singer, traffic collision. Maurice F. Weisner, 88, American admiral. 16 Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer. Donna Cook, 78, American baseball player (AAGPBL) Ross Davidson, 57, British former EastEnders actor, brain tumour. Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer. Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992). Harold Gardner, 107, American World War I veteran, served one day prior to the armistice. Tommy Johnson, 71, American musician known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure. John V. Murra, 90, Ukrainian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar. Valentín Paniagua, 70, Peruvian president (2000–2001), complications from heart surgery. Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism. Ernie Steele, 88, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles). Ondina Valla, 90, Italian athlete, first Italian female 1936 Olympic champion (80m hurdles), natural causes. Anatoly Voronin, 55, Russian business chief of ITAR TASS news agency, stabbed. 17 Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children). Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person), metastatic breast cancer. Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer. Megan Meier, 13, American cyberbullying victim, suicide by hanging. Ursula Moray Williams, 95, British children's author. Lieuwe Steiger, 82, Dutch goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and The Netherlands (1953–1954). Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. 18 Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist. Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation (1951–1998), International Olympic Committee whistleblower, stroke. Stanislovas Jančiukas, 68, Lithuanian fashion