journalist and non-fiction author. Edgar Evans, 94, British opera singer. George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, 88, British soldier, politician and businessman. Dennis Johnson, 52, American All-Star basketball player and coach, 1979 NBA Finals MVP, cardiac arrest. Samuel Hinga Norman, 67, Sierra Leone leader of pro-government Kamajors militia, heart failure. Fons Rademakers, 86, Dutch Academy Award-winning film director (The Assault), emphysema. Howard Ramsey, 108, American who was one of the last surviving US World War I combat veterans. George André Robertson, 77, British educator and cricketer. Ian Wallace, 60, British drummer (King Crimson, 21st Century Schizoid Band), esophageal cancer. 23 Heinz Berggruen, 93, German art collector and friend of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. Donnie Brooks, 71, American singer ("Mission Bell"), heart failure. Jock Dodds, 91, British footballer for Scotland and Blackpool F.C. Robert Engler, 84, American political scientist, heart ailment. Winthrop Jordan, 75, American historian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Will Maslow, 99, American Jewish leader and civil rights lawyer. Robert W. Richardson, 96, American railroad preservationist. John Ritchie, 65, British footballer for Stoke City F.C., club's record goalscorer. Pascal Yoadimnadji, 56, Chadian Prime Minister, brain haemorrhage. 24 Bryan Balkwill, 84, British conductor. Bruce Bennett, 100, American actor (New Adventures of Tarzan, Treasure of the Sierra Madre), 1928 Olympic medallist, hip fracture. Kåre Olav Berg, 62, Norwegian Olympic Nordic skier. Mordechai Breuer, 85, Israeli Bible researcher and Orthodox rabbi. Mario Chanes de Armas, 80, Cuban political prisoner. Charles Frederick Ehret, 83, American molecular biologist. Leroy Jenkins, 74, American composer and free jazz violinist, lung cancer. Lamar Lundy, 71, American football player, member of the Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" defensive line. Damien Nash, 24, American football running back for the Denver Broncos. George Preas, 73, American football lineman who won two NFL championships with the Baltimore Colts, Parkinson's disease. Paul Secon, 91, American businessman who founded Pottery Barn. 25 William Anderson, 85, American congressman from Tennessee and captain of the . P. Bhaskaran, 83, Indian director and lyricist in the Malayalam language. Jean Grelaud, 108, French WWI veteran, one of the last three 'official' World War I veterans. Mark Spoelstra, 66, American folk singer and veteran of the Greenwich Village music scene, pancreatic cancer. 26 John Robert Anderson, 78, Australian chemist. Angelo Arcidiacono, 51, Italian Olympic fencer. Raúl Alonso de Marco, 72, Uruguayan member of the Supreme Court of Justice (1992–2002). James O. Hall, 96, American historian. Alex Henshaw, 94, British test pilot