the International Rugby Board. 19 William G. Beasley, 86, British oriental historian. Dirk Dirksen, 69, American promoter of punk rock. Sir Edward Ford, 96, British assistant and private secretary to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II (1946–1967). Smith Hempstone, 77, American journalist and ambassador to Kenya (1989–1993), complications from diabetes. Emanuel Hurwitz, 87, British violinist. Khir Johari, 83, Malaysian Education Minister, heart attack. Evelyn Keppel, 77, American baseball player (AAGPBL). Ernest Pusey, 111, American supercentenarian, last Floridian World War I veteran. Julio Ramos, 71, Argentine journalist, director (Ámbito Financiero), leukemia. Jeremy Slate, 80, American actor (The Born Losers, The Devil's Brigade), esophageal cancer. 20 Robert Altman, 81, American film director (MASH, Nashville, Short Cuts), complications from leukemia. Zoia Ceauşescu, 56, Romanian mathematician, daughter of Nicolae Ceauşescu, lung cancer. William R. P. George, 94, British archdruid, bard, novelist, nephew of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Donald Hamilton, 90, American spy fiction writer. Walid Hassan, 47, Iraqi television comedian, shot. Chris Hayward, 81, American creator of Dudley Do-Right and The Munsters, illness. Hong Xuezhi, 94, Chinese general, unspecified illness. Kevin McClory, 80, Irish film producer (Never Say Never Again). Saúl Ubaldini, 69, Argentine labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist party, lung cancer. Andre Waters, 44, American football player, suicide. 21 Svein Erik Bakke, 59, Norwegian entrepreneur. Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, 80, Romanian priest, dissident Nicolae Ceauşescu's rule, pancreatic cancer. Dale DeArmond, 92, American artist and librarian, director of the Juneau Memorial Library (1958–1979). Pierre Gemayel, 34, Lebanese Minister of Industry, shot. Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 90, Dijiboutian first President, natural causes. Robert Lockwood, Jr., 91, American blues guitarist and singer, respiratory failure. Bernard Rimland, 78, American autism researcher, prostate cancer. Eliezer Waldenberg, 89, Israeli Haredi rabbi. Sir Harold Young, Australian Liberal politician, President of the Senate (1981–1983). 22 John Allan Cameron, 67, Canadian pioneer of Celtic music, bone cancer. Muriel Castanis, 80, American sculptor, lung failure. Pat Dobson, 64, American Major League Baseball pitcher, leukemia. Gilles Grégoire, 80, Canadian politician and co-founder of Parti Québécois. Roy Newell, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, cancer. John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, 87, British Minister of Transport (1970–1974) and MP (1951–1983). 23 Jerry Bails, 73, American popular culture and comic book historian, heart attack. Jesús Blancornelas, 70, Mexican journalist, founding editor of Zeta magazine, stomach cancer. Gerald M. Boyd, 56, American managing editor of The New York Times, lung cancer. Nick Clarke, 58, British BBC presenter