film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence. Al Lewis, 82, American actor (The Munsters, Car 54, Where Are You?). Romano Mussolini, 78, Italian jazz musician and painter. Denne Petitclerc, 76, American journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway. Johnny Vaught, 96, American college football player, coach, and college athletics administrator, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach. 4 Jack Taylor (heavyweight man), once heaviest man in UK. Jenő Dalnoki, 73, Hungarian Olympic football player and manager (1952 gold medal, 1960 bronze medal). Friedrich Engel, 97, German Nazi SS officer. Betty Friedan, 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure. William Augustus Jones Jr., 71, American Civil Rights pioneer. Barbara W. Leyden, 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist. Joe McGuff, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Elena Carter Richardson, 57, Mexican-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer. Myron Waldman, 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons, congestive heart failure. 5 Norma Candal, 75, Puerto Rican comedian, actress and drama teacher, head injury. Franklin Cover, 77, American actor (The Jeffersons, Wall Street, The Stepford Wives), pneumonia. Reuven Frank, 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia. Stuart Mason, 57, English footballer. Ray Owen, 65, English rugby league player and administrator. Peter Philp, 85, British dramatist and antiques expert. Sir Alberto Rodrigues, 94, Hong Kong physician and politician. Jack Taylor, 60, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack. 6 John Brightman, Baron Brightman, 94, UK lawyer and former Lord of Appeal. Mario Condello, 53, Australian lawyer and gangland criminal, shot. Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 80, American comedian and actor, cancer. Stella Ross-Craig, 99, English illustrator, one of the most prodigious of flora illustrators. Esther Sandoval, 78, Puerto Rican actress. Karin Struck, 58, German writer, cancer. Kouji Totani, 57, Japanese voice actor, heart failure. 7 Glenn Lee Benner II, 43, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. Sándor Garay, 86, Hungarian Olympic athlete. George Millay, 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, lung cancer. Max Rosenn, 96, American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1970–2006). Mitchell Rupe, 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease. Alan Shalleck, 76, American TV writer, director (Curious George animated films), murdered. 8 Larry Black, 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics, aneurysm. Elton Dean, 60, English jazz saxophonist,