the South Vietnamese Joint General Staff (b. 1921) Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979) Claude Piron, Swiss linguist and psychologist (b. 1931) January 25 – Aziz Sedky, 36th prime minister of Egypt (b. 1920) January 26 – George Habash, Palestinian politician (b. 1926) January 27 Gordon B. Hinckley, American Mormon leader (b. 1910) Suharto, 2nd President of Indonesia (b. 1921) January 28 – Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (b. 1939) January 29 – Margaret Truman, American singer and writer (b. 1924) January 30 – Marcial Maciel, Mexican Catholic priest (b. 1920) January 31 – František Čapek, Czechoslovakian canoeist (b. 1914) February February 2 Joshua Lederberg, American Nobel molecular biologist (b. 1925) Barry Morse, English-Canadian actor (b. 1918) February 5 – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1918) February 6 – John Alvin, American cinematic artist and painter (b. 1948) February 7 – Andrew Bertie, 78th Grand Master of the Order of Malta (b. 1929) February 9 – Baba Amte, Indian social activist (b. 1914) February 10 – Roy Scheider, American actor (b. 1932) February 11 Tom Lantos, Hungarian-American politician (b. 1928) Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel (b. 1967) February 12 Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese militant (b. 1962) Badri Patarkatsishvili, Georgian businessman and politician (b. 1955) February 13 Kon Ichikawa, Japanese film director (b. 1915) Henri Salvador, French singer (b. 1917) February 16 – Brendan Hughes, Northern Irish paramilitary leader (b. 1948) February 18 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1922) February 19 Natalia Bessmertnova, Russian ballerina (b. 1941) Yegor Letov, Russian singer (b. 1964) February 23 Janez Drnovšek, two-time prime minister and second president of Slovenia (b. 1950) Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver (b. 1917) February 25 – Static Major, American musician (b. 1974) February 27 William F. Buckley Jr., American author and conservative commentator (b. 1925) Ivan Rebroff, German singer (b. 1931) March March 1 – Raúl Reyes, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1948) March 2 Sofiko Chiaureli, Georgian actress (b. 1937) Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966) March 3 Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1921) Norman Smith, English singer and record producer (b. 1923) March 4 – Gary Gygax, American writer and game designer (b. 1938) March 5 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (b. 1923) March 6 – Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918) March 12 – Howard Metzenbaum, American politician (b. 1917) March 14 – Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist (b. 1920)