and aid worker, car bombing in Iraq. Volker Vogeler, 74, German film director and screenwriter. Kay Walsh, 93, British actress. 17 Hans Gruijters, 73, Dutch politician and journalist. James Archibald Houston, 83, Canadian author and artist. Vishnu Kant Shastri, 76, Indian politician. Juan Pablo Torres, 58, Cuban trombonist, bandleader, arranger and producer, brain tumor. 18 Sir Piers Bengough, 75, British soldier and Her Majesty's Representative at Ascot. Donald Bruce, Baron Bruce of Donington, 92, British politician and peer. Peter F. Flaherty, 80, American politician and attorney. Bassel Fleihan, 42, Lebanese deputy and former minister, third-degree burns resulting from the blast that assassinated Rafiq Hariri. Clarence Gaines, 81, American Basketball Hall of Fame coach, stroke. Sam Mills, 45, American former NFL player and assistant coach, cancer. Kenneth Schermerhorn, 75, American music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. 19 Mike Brim, 39, American football player. George P. Cosmatos, 65, Italian-born Greek-American film director (Tombstone, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra), lung cancer. Ruth Hussey, 93, American film actress (The Philadelphia Story). Stan Levey, 79, American jazz drummer. Clement Meadmore, 76, Australian-born steel sculptor. Bryan Ottoson, 27, American Head Charge guitarist. Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 58, Danish jazz upright bassist. 20 Inday Ba, 32, Swedish actress (also known as N'Deaye Ba). Zygfryd Blaut, 62, Polish football player. Gene Frankel, 85, United States theater director. Ea Jansen, 83, Estonian historian. Fumio Niwa, 100, Japanese novelist. 21 Giordano Abbondati, 56, Italian figure skater. Ed Butka, 89, American baseball player. Zhang Chunqiao, 88, Chinese political theorist, member of the Gang of Four. Gwynfor Evans, 92, Welsh politician. Bill Kaysing, 82, American conspiracy theorist. Feroze Khan, 100, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic Champion 1928 (oldest Olympic gold medallist at the time of his death). Heinz Kluncker, 80, German trade union leader. Cyril Tawney, 74, British songwriter and folksinger. Jimmy Thompson, 79, British actor and comic. 22 Norman Bird, 80, British actor (Worzel Gummidge, The Lord of the Rings, Look and Read). Joseph Bogen, 78, American neurosurgeon, epileptic seizure researcher. Gregoire Boonzaier, 95, South African painter. Mary Dann, early 80s, American Indian activist. Erika Fuchs, 98, German Disney comics editor and translator. John Marshall, 72, American filmmaker. Philip Morrison, 89, American physicist and group leader in the Manhattan Project. Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 81, Scottish sculptor. Leonid Shamkovich, 81, Russian ex-Soviet grandmaster chess player. 23 Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, 94, Australian political celebrity, longest-serving Premier of Queensland.