diver 7 Bobby Clatterbuck, 72, American football player. Howard Keel, 85, American actor and singer (Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Dallas), colon cancer. Gibson Kente, 72, South African playwright, AIDS. Herman Postma, 71, American scientist and educational leader (director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory). 8 Eddie Charlton, 75, Australian snooker player. Chandler Harper, 90, American golfer. Ruby de Mel, 86, Sri lankan actress. Lennox Miller, 58, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer. Sharad Panday, 70, Indian heart surgeon. Melba Phillips, 97, American physicist and educator, coronary artery disease. G. Sakunthala, 72, Indian film actress. 9 Iris Chang, 36, American historian and author (The Rape of Nanking), suicide. Emlyn Hughes, 57, British footballer (Liverpool F.C., England), brain tumour. Ed Kemmer, 83, American actor. Stieg Larsson, 50, Swedish author (Millennium). 10 Elizabeth Chater, 94, Canadian author of novels and poetry. Katy de la Cruz, 97, Filipino singer. Şeref Görkey, 91, Turkish footballer and manager. Walter Pukutiwara, Aboriginal artist. Erna Rosenstein, 91, Polish surrealist painter and poet, arterial sclerosis. 11 Dayton Allen, 85, American comedian, voice of Deputy Dawg and Mayor Phineas T. Bluster. Yasser Arafat, 75, Palestinian PLO leader, President of the Palestinian Authority, cause disputed, possible poisoning. J. P. Blecksmith, 24, American military officer, K.I.A. Shirley Briggs, 86, American artist, photographer, writer, and naturalist. Richard Dembo, 56, French César Award-winning director, intestinal obstruction. Sam Kogan, 58, Russian actor, director, and acting teacher, cancer. Raymond Murray, 91, United States Marine Corps officer. 12 Lelio Marino, 69, Italian-born American entrepreneur, owner of Modern Continental group. Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer. Norman Rose, 88, American radio and TV actor (All My Children, voice of Juan Valdez). Stanisław Skalski, 89, Polish World War II fighter ace. Mike Smith, 62, British cricketer, heart attack. 13 John Balance, 42, British musician (Coil), fall. Ellen Fairclough, 99, Canadian politician, first female cabinet minister. Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones, 35, American rapper, drug overdose. Harry Lampert, 88, American comic book and advertising artist, co-creator of The Flash, author of instructional books on contract bridge, cerebral hemorrhage. Domenic Mobilio, 35, Canadian soccer player, heart attack. Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer. Don Sharpe, 79, British sound editor (Aliens, Batman, Sleuth), Oscar winner (1987). Roy Thomas, 54, Canadian aboriginal artist, cancer. Keith Weller, 58, English footballer (Millwall. Leicester City), cancer. 14 Michel Colombier, 65, French composer, cancer. David Stanley Evans, 86, Welsh astronomer. Jesse Gonder, 68, American baseball player (New York