and manager. Ronald Golias, 76, Brazilian comedian. Jerry Juhl, 67, American writer and puppeteer (The Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock). Brett Kebble, 41, South African mining magnate, murdered. John McCabe, 84, American biographer of Laurel and Hardy. Ronald Pearsall, 77, English author. Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 47, Dutch film director, cancer. Mary Lee Settle, 87, American author (the Beulah Quintet), lung cancer. 28 Ahmad Abdullah, 64, Malaysian accountant and politician. Pol Bury, 83, Belgian sculptor. Sir Mark Heath, 78, British diplomat, Ambassador to the Holy See. Alan Matheney, 54, American convicted murderer, executed in Indiana. Constance Baker Motley, 84, American civil rights lawyer and the first female African American federal judge, congestive heart failure. Leo Sternbach, 97, Austrian-native chemist, known as the "Father of Valium". 29 Olga de Alaketu, 80, Benin-born Brazilian Candomblé high priestess, complications of diabetes. Patrick Caulfield, 69, British artist. Benjamin DeMott, 81, American writer, scholar, and cultural critic, cardiac arrest. Robert Dorgebray, 89, French Olympic cyclist. Austin Leslie, 71, American famed New Orleans chef (also the inspiration for the television show Frank's Place), hospitalized with pneumonia since his evacuation several days after Hurricane Katrina. Gordon McKeag, 77, English solicitor and football club chairman (Newcastle United F.C.). Gennadi Sarafanov, 63, Soviet Soyuz 15 cosmonaut. Mogens Schou, 86, Danish psychiatrist. Ivar Karl Ugi, 75, German chemist. 30 Basil Glass, 79, Northern Irish politician. Monika Hellwig, 74, German-born American theologian and Roman Catholic lay leader, cerebral hemorrhage. Andrew P. O'Meara, 98, United States Army general, stroke. Sergei Starostin, 52, Russian linguist. References 2005-09 09