British army general. 18 Noel Beaton, 78, Australian MP (Bendigo, 1960–1969) and journalist, after short illness. John W. Downey, 77, American classical musician. Vijay Hazare, 89, Indian cricketer, Captain of India (1951–1953), illness following intestinal cancer. Albert Nordengen, 81, Norwegian Conservative politician, Mayor of Oslo (1976–1990), heart failure. Anthony Sampson, 78, British journalist and author, official biographer of Nelson Mandela, heart attack. Princess Takamatsu, 92, Japanese member of the imperial family, blood poisoning. Glenn Vaughan, 60, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s). 19 Michael Alexander, 84, British soldier and Prominente German Prisoner of War. Gretchen Bender, 53, American video artist, cancer. Richard Best, 88, British film editor. Herbert C. Brown, 92, British Nobel Prize-winning chemist (Chemistry, 1979), heart attack. Mel Gabler, 89, American conservative textbook critic, brain hemorrhage after fall. Sir Charles Pereira, 91, British hydrologist, stroke. Renata Tebaldi, 82, Italian opera singer, after short illness. Thomas Yamamoto, 87, American artist. 20 Howard Feuer, 56, American casting director, colon cancer. Ernő Gottesmann, 97, son of Ernő Gottesmann and Paula Manoilovich. Liliane Maigné, 76, French actress. Helge Pukema, 87, American football player. Son Seals, 62, American blues musician, complications of diabetes. 21 Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Swedish prince. Michael Forrest, Welsh television actor. Richard Hamilton, 83, American actor (Men in Black, Pale Rider, Bret Maverick). Jack Newfield, 66, American journalist (Village Voice, New York Daily News, New York Post), metastatic kidney cancer. Mack Vickery, 66, American musician and songwriter, heart attack. Zvonimir Vučković, 88, Yugoslav Chetnik military commander. 22 Yusuf Soalih Ajura, 114, Ghanaian Islamic scholar, political activist and sect leader. Doug Ault, 54, American Major League Baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays), suicide by gunshot. Pauline Clotworthy, 92, Irish teacher of fashion design. Joseph Bennet Odunton, 83, Ghanaian public servant. John Tiedtke, 97, American farmer, professor, businessman and philanthropist. 23 Richard Abel Smith, 71, British Army officer and landowner, stroke. Reuven Adiv, 74, Israeli actor, director and drama teacher, heart attack. Richard Barnet, 75, American political activist. John W. Duarte, 85, British classical guitarist and writer, cancer. Ifor James, 73, British horn player. Roger Moorey, 67, British archaeologist and historian. P. V. Narasimha Rao, 83, Indian Prime Minister (1991–1996), heart attack. Anne Truitt, 83, American sculptor. 24 Capt. Richard Annand, 90, British soldier, first Victoria Cross recipient of World War II. Sir Anthony Meyer, 84, British Conservative MP (West Flintshire, 1970–1983; Clwyd North-West, 1983–1992), cancer. Johnny Oates, 58, American Major League Baseball