pop singer, suicide by hanging. 22 John Arthur, 60, American philosopher, lung cancer. Doug Blasdell, 44, American Bravo television network trainer on Work Out. L. M. Boyd, 79, American newspaper columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Toulo de Graffenried, 92, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1950–1956). Victoria Hopper, 97, British stage and film actress. Ramón Marsal, 72, Spanish footballer for Real Madrid. Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, 78, English Law Lord and first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, degenerative illness. Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 83, Rwandan pastor convicted of participation in the Rwandan genocide. Abbé Pierre, 94, French founder of the Emmaüs movement, lung infection. 23 Syed Hussein Alatas, 78, Malaysian academic, writer and Gerakan Party founding president, heart attack. Disco D, 26, American hip hop producer, suicide. E. Howard Hunt, 88, American Watergate scandal principal, pneumonia. Dick Joyce, 63, American baseball player. Ryszard Kapuściński, 74, Polish journalist, author of book about The Soccer War. John Majhor, 53, Canadian and American radio and TV broadcaster, cancer. Leopoldo Pirelli, 81, Italian chairman of Pirelli (1965–1996). Wally Ridley, 93, English record producer and songwriter. David M. Ronne, 63, American sound engineer. 24 İsmail Cem, 66, Turkish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2002), lung cancer. Jean-François Deniau, 78, French writer and statesman, member of the Académie française. Krystyna Feldman, 90, Polish actress, lung cancer. Wolfgang Iser, 80, German literary scholar and founder of Reader-response criticism. Bryan Kocis, 44, American gay pornography producer, stabbed. Guadalupe Larriva, 50, Ecuadorian Defense Minister, helicopter crash. John W. Lavelle, 57, American Member of the New York State Assembly, stroke. A. H. de Oliveira Marques, 73, Portuguese historian, heart failure. Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 115, Puerto Rican WW I veteran, was world's oldest person, natural causes. David Morris, 79, British Labour MEP (1984–99) and Chairman of CND Cymru. Charlotte Thompson Reid, 93, American singer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Mendy Samstein, 68, American civil rights activist, organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, carcinoid cancer. Daniel Stern, 79, American University of Houston professor, Warner Bros. and CBS Vice President, heart surgery complications. Peter Tompkins, 87, American journalist and writer (The Secret Life of Plants). 25 Ken Kavanaugh, 90, American National Football League player, complications from pneumonia. Majid Khadduri, 98, Iraqi–born American founder of the SAIS Middle East Studies program, failure to thrive. Jack Lang, 85, American sportswriter and secretary-treasurer of the Baseball Writers Association