(1985–1990). 24 Jay Bennett, 45, American musician (Wilco) and songwriter, accidental drug overdose. Jack Lewis, 84, American screenwriter, lung cancer. 25 Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 48, Nigerian Pan African activist, car accident. Billy Baxter, 70, Scottish footballer (Ipswich Town), cancer. Rolf Brahde, 91, Norwegian astronomer. Amos Elon, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist. Charly Höllering, 65, German jazz musician, heart attack. Haakon Lie, 103, Norwegian politician. Tomás Paquete, 85, Portuguese Olympic sprinter. Ivan van Sertima, 74, Guyanese-born British historian, linguist and anthropologist (Rutgers University). 26 Antonio Braga, 80, Italian composer. Thomas Claw, 87, American WWII Navajo Code talker. Commanche Court, 16, Irish thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. Kaoru Kurimoto, 56, Japanese author, pancreatic cancer. Doris Mühringer, 88, Austrian poet and children's writer. Mihalis Papagiannakis, 68, Greek politician, MP, cancer. Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director (Three's Company), complications from a heart attack and stroke. Ronald Takaki, 70, American sociologist, professor of ethnic studies (University of California, Berkeley), suicide. Marek Walczewski, 72, Polish actor. Peter Zezel, 44, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs), haemolytic anemia. 27 Ammo Baba, 74, Iraqi footballer and athletic trainer, diabetes. Thomas Franck, 77, American lawyer. Sir Clive Granger, 74, British economist, Nobel Prize winner for economics. Eugene F. Grant, 68, American attorney and politician, Mayor of Medford (1978–1980), leukaemia. Mona Grey, 98, British public servant, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland. Abram Hoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist. Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian political activist, after long illness. Carol Anne O'Marie, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease. Sir William Refshauge, 96, Australian public health administrator. Paul Sharratt, 75, British-born American television producer, cancer. 28 Mort Abrahams, 93, American film and television producer (Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), natural causes. Terence Alexander, 86, British film and television actor (Bergerac). Terry Barr, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), Alzheimer's disease. Manuel Collantes, 91, Filipino diplomat, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984), cardiac arrest. Ed Dorohoy, 80, Canadian ice hockey player. Carlton Forbes, 72, Jamaican-born British first-class cricketer. Roger Kaffer, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet. Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bilbao. Lenrie Peters, 76, Gambian surgeon and novelist, after short illness. Ercole Rabitti, 87, Italian footballer and trainer. Oleg Shenin, 71, Russian politician, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991). Umberto Silvestri, 93, Italian Olympic wrestler. Betty