Deaths in December 2009
Introduction The following is a list of notable '''deaths in December 2009'''.Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
December 2009 ===1===*Christoph Budde, 46, German football player (Borussia Mönchengladbach), swine flu. *Maurice Clemmons, 37, American felon, perpetrator of the 2009 shooting of Lakewood, Washington, police officers, shot. *Neil Dougall, 88, British footballer (Plymouth Argyle). *Tommy Henrich, 96, American baseball player (New York Yankees). *Bilal Omer Khan, 55, Pakistani general, victim of December 2009 Rawalpindi terrorist attack*Bill Lister, 86, American honky tonk singer. *Alberto Martínez, 59, Uruguayan football player (FK Austria Wien), heart failure. *Cordelia Oliver, 86, Scottish painter, journalist and art critic. *Ramses Shaffy, 76, Dutch singer and actor, esophageal cancer. *Shilendra Kumar Singh, 77, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan (2007–2009). *Éva Szörényi, 92, Hungarian actress, Kossuth Prize winner. *Donald Washington, Sr., 79, American jazz tenor saxophonist, lung cancer.===2===*Harold A. Ackerman, 81, American federal judge, natural causes. *Luis María Bandrés, 65, Spanish leader of Basque Nationalist Party. *Elizabeth Berridge, 89, British novelist. *Foge Fazio, 71, American football coach, leukemia. *Shoji Hashimoto, 75, Japanese go master, myocardial infarction. *Ikuo Hirayama, 79, Japanese painter, stroke. *Maggie Jones, 75, British actress (''Coronation Street''). *Jozo Križanović, 65, Bosnian politician, Croat member of the Presidency (2001–2002), complications from surgery. *Brian Morrison, 76, Australian priest and humanitarian. *Luiz Lombardi Neto, 69, Brazilian announcer (''Silvio Santos'' television program), stroke. *Aaron Schroeder, 83, American songwriter, Alzheimer's disease. *Ian Thompson, 74, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (1971–1993). *Vjekoslav Šutej, 58, Croatian conductor, leukemia. *Eric Woolfson, 64, Scottish singer and keyboardist (The Alan Parsons Project), cancer.===3===*Ibrahim Hassan Addou, Somali Higher Education Minister, bombing. *Qamar Aden Ali, 52, Somali Health Minister, bombing. *Swadesh Bose, 81, Bangladeshi economist. *Nat Boxer, 84, American Academy Award-winning sound engineer (''Apocalypse Now''), natural causes. *Estêvão Cardoso de Avellar, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Uberlândia (1978–1992). *Paula Hawkins, 82, American politician, Senator from Florida (1981–1987), complications from a fall. *István Iglódi, 65, Hungarian actor. *Leila Lopes, 50, Brazilian actress, suicide. *Bert Main, 90, Australian zoologist. *Brian Harold Mason, 92, New Zealand scientist, renal failure. *Curtis Nkondo, 81, South African politician, activist and diplomat. *Pat Power, 67, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Jika Jika (1992–1999). *Sam Salt, 69, British rear admiral, captain of  during the Falklands War. *Peter Scanlon, 78, American accountant and chairman (Coopers & Lybrand), cancer. *Åsmund L. Strømnes, 82, Norwegian educationalist. *Valbjörn Þorláksson, 75, Icelandic decathlete. *Richard Todd, 90, Irish-born British Academy Award-nominated actor (''The Hasty Heart'', ''The Dam Busters''), (''The Longest Day''), cancer. *Ahmed Abdulahi Waayeel, Somali Education Minister, bombing. *Bobby Wayne Woods, 44, American convicted rapist, kidnapper and murderer, execution by lethal injection. *Torrie Zito, 76, American pianist and arranger, emphysema.===4===*Richard T. Antoun, 77, American anthropologist and professor, stabbed. *Harold Bell, 90, American marketer, licensing agent and technical advisor, creator of Woodsy Owl. *Liam Clancy, 74, Irish folk singer (The Clancy Brothers), pulmonary fibrosis. *Tim Costello, 64, American labor and anti-globalization advocate, pancreatic cancer. *Matthew Luo Duxi, 90, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Jiading. *Jérôme-Michel-Francis Martin, 68, French Roman Catholic Bishop of Berbérati (1987–1991). *Bryan O'Byrne, 78, American character actor. *Spyridon, 83, Greek Metropolitan Bishop of Lagkadas, after long illness. *Vyacheslav Tikhonov, 81, Russian actor (''Seventeen Moments of Spring''). *Stephen Toulmin, 87, British philosopher and author, heart failure. *Jordi Solé Tura, 79, Spanish politician and lawyer, co-author of Spanish Constitution and Minister of Culture (1991–1993). *Umaga, 36, American professional wrestler, prescription drug overdose. *Mall Vaasma, 64, Estonian mycologist. *Mary Curtis Verna, 88, American operatic soprano (Metropolitan Opera), complications from a broken hip. *Francis Wilford-Smith, 82, British cartoonist.===5===*Jerry Birn, 86, American television writer. *Nina Fishman, 63, British historian and political activist, cancer. *Alfred Hrdlicka, 81, Austrian architect and draughtsman. *Otto Graf Lambsdorff, 82, German politician, Minister of Economics (1977–1982; 1982–1984). *William Lederer, 97, American author (''The Ugly American''), respiratory failure. *Kálmán Markovits, 78, Hungarian Olympic gold (1952, 1956) and bronze (1960) medalist in water polo. *Tim "Barrel Man" McKernan, 69, American fan of the Denver Broncos, lung failure. *Garfield Morgan, 78, British actor (''The Sweeney''), cancer. *Malcolm Perry, 80, American attending physician to President John F. Kennedy after his assassination, lung cancer. *Manuel Prado y Colón de Carvajal, 78, Spanish diplomat. *Dumitru Puntea, 66, Moldovan politician. *Jim Rohn, 79, American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker, pulmonary fibrosis. *Jack Rose, 38, American guitarist, heart attack. *Princess Vimolchatra of Thailand, 88, Thai royal, cousin of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, renal failure. *William A. Wilson (diplomat), 95, American Ambassador to the Holy See (1984–1986).===6===*Dennis P. Collins, 85, American politician, mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey (1974–1990). *Rupprecht Geiger, 101, German painter. *Dermott Monteith, 66, Irish cricketer. *John Pittenger, 79, American politician, Pennsylvania Secretary of Education (1972–1976), Parkinson's disease. *Bina Rai, 78, Indian actress (''Anarkali''), heart attack. *Daouda Sow, 76, Senegalese politician, President of National Assembly (1984–1998).===7===*Bruce C. Allen, 54, American guitarist and vocalist (The Suburbs), organ failure. *Frank M. Coffin, 90, American politician, Representative from Maine (1957–1961), complications of aortic aneurysm surgery. *Royden G. Derrick, 94, American general authority of the LDS Church, natural causes. *Al Dorow, 80, American football player (Washington Redskins, New York Titans), bone cancer. *Shunkichi Hamada, 99, Japanese Olympic silver medal-winning (1932) field hockey player. *Rose Kaufman, 70, American screenwriter, cancer. *Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican archeologist. *Grady Patterson, 85, American politician, South Carolina state Treasurer (1966–1995; 1999–2007), natural causes. *Carlene Hatcher Polite, 77, American novelist, cancer. *Mark Ritts, 63, American actor and puppeteer (''Beakman's World''), kidney cancer. *Ray Solomonoff, 83, American physicist and artificial intelligence pioneer. *Pyotr Vail, 60, Russian essayist and journalist.===8===*James Bingham, 84, British artist. *Kenneth Biros, 51, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. *Joan Bridge, 97, British costume designer. *Su Cruickshank, 63, Australian jazz singer and actress (''Young Einstein''), heart and kidney failure. *Luis Días, 57, Dominican musician and songwriter, heart attack. *Dean Fasano, 54, American vocalist (Prophet, Message), coronary artery disease. *John Givens, 83, American basketball coach (Kentucky Colonels, 1967). *Arthur Glasser, 95, American missionary and theologian. *Karel Klančnik, 92, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper. *Elza Medeiros, 88, Brazilian nurse, World War II veteran. *William C. McInnes, 86, American Jesuit, president of Fairfield University (1964–1973); USF (1973–1976). *Anthony Sanusi, 98, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Ijebu-Ode (1969–1990). *Fred Sheffield, 86, American basketball player. *Sir Philip Watson, 90, British admiral.===9===*Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, 64, Brazilian television presenter and politician, lung cancer. *Gene Barry, 90, American actor (''The War of the Worlds'', ''Burke's Law'', ''Bat Masterson''), heart failure. *Roger Jacobi, 62, British archaeologist. *Sa'ad Khair, 56, Jordanian secret service chief, heart attack. *Piotr Krzywicki, 45, Polish politician, pancreatic cancer. *Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, 79, Guatemalan President (1974–1978), complications from cancer. *Rodrigo Carazo Odio, 82, Costa Rican politician, President (1978–1982), heart failure. *Faramarz Payvar, 77, Iranian composer and santur player, brain damage. *Onofre Cândido Rosa, 85, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Jardim (1981–1999). *Goldie Semple, 56, Canadian stage actor, breast cancer. *Norman Sykes, 83, English footballer (Bristol Rovers).===10===*Apolonia Muñoz Abarca, 89, American activist. *Gene Carpenter, 70, American football coach. *Dilip Chitre, 70, Indian poet, cancer. *Kenny Dino, 70, American pop singer. *Jean-Robert Gauthier, 80, Canadian MP for Ottawa East (1972–1974), Ottawa—Vanier (1974–1994); Senator (1994–2004), stroke. *Sir John Gingell, 84, British Air Chief Marshal and Black Rod (1985–1992). *Thomas Hoving, 78, American director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1967–1977), lung cancer. *Sir Alan Huggins, 88, British jurist, vice-president of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong (1980–1987). *Colin James, 83, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Winchester (1985–1995), chest infection. *József Kóczián, 83, Hungarian table tennis player. *William L. Reilly, 94, American Jesuit and philosophy professor, President of Le Moyne College (1964–1976).===11===*Brindley Benn, 86, Guyanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister, natural causes. *Francisco Piquer, 87, Spanish actor. *Ciarán Mac Mathúna, 84, Irish radio presenter and music collector. *Eric Wrinkles, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.===12===*Val Avery, 85, American actor (''The Killing of a Chinese Bookie)''. *Klavdiya Boyarskikh, 70, Russian cross-country skier, Olympic gold medalist (1964). *Charles MacAlester Copland, 99, British Anglican priest, Dean of Argyll and The Isles (1977–1979). *Charles Davis, 84, American actor, heart attack. *Ali Gharbi, 54, Tunisian swimmer. *Robert G. Heft, 67, American designer of the 50-star American flag. *Howard Wesley Johnson, 87, American educator, president of MIT (1966–1971). *Napoleon A. Jones Jr., 69, American federal judge. *Manuel Ruiz Sosa, 72, Spanish footballer and coach. *Eugene van Tamelen, 84, American chemist, cancer.===13===*Dan Barton, 88, American actor and voice-over actor, heart failure and kidney disease. *Julian Fane, 82, British author. *Moyra Fraser, 86, Australian-born British actress (''As Time Goes By''). *Yvonne King, 89, American singer (The King Sisters). *Börje Langefors, 94, Swedish engineer and computer scientist. *Arne Næss, 84, Norwegian politician, Mayor of Bergen. *Piergiorgio Nesti, 78, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche. *Paul Samuelson, 94, American economist, Nobel Prize winner (1970). *Sha'ari Tadin, 77, Singaporean educator and public servant, Parkinson's disease. *Thomas F. Stroock, 84, American politician, Ambassador to Guatemala (1989–1992). *Larry Sultan, 63, American photographer, cancer. *Wilton Cezar Xavier, 62, Brazilian footballer.===14===*Alan A'Court, 75, English footballer (Liverpool, England), cancer. *Jack Denham, 85, Australian horse trainer, winner of 1997 Caulfield and Melbourne Cup (Might and Power). *Chris Feinstein, 42, American bassist (The Cardinals). *Stocker Fontelieu, 86, American actor and executive director (New Orleans theatre), complications from a fall. *Conard Fowkes, 76, American actor (''Dark Shadows''). *Miodrag Jovanović, 87, Serbian Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) footballer. *George McKinnon, 91, American basketball and baseball coach. *David Pecaut, 54, Canadian municipal entrepreneur, colorectal cancer. *Daniel Piscopo, 89, Maltese politician. *Sol Price, 93, American businessman, founder of Price Club, natural causes.===15===*Curtis Allina, 87, American businessman, executive of Pez Candy (1955–1979), heart failure.*C. D. B. Bryan, 73, American author (''Friendly Fire''), cancer. *Sir Chris Clarke, 68, British politician, leader of Somerset County Council. *Milena Müllerová, 86, Czech gymnast, Olympic champion (1948). *Arnaldo Ribeiro, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop of Ribeirão Preto (1988–2006). *Oral Roberts, 91, American evangelist, founder of Oral Roberts University, complications from pneumonia. *James Rossant, 81, American architect, designer of Reston, Virginia, leukemia. *Herbert Spiegel, 95, American psychiatrist.===16===*Arturo Beltrán Leyva, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot. *Arthur Cores, 52, American businessman, founder of Boston Market, esophageal cancer. *Drexell R. Davis, 88, American politician, Kentucky Secretary of State and state treasurer. *Roy E. Disney, 79, American entertainment executive (The Walt Disney Company), nephew of Walt Disney, stomach cancer. *Karel Dufek, 93, Czechoslovak diplomat, Spanish Civil War veteran. *Yegor Gaidar, 53, Russian politician, acting Prime Minister (1992), thrombus. *Dennis Herod, 86, English footballer (Stoke City). *Fred Honsberger, 58, American radio personality.*T. G. H. James, 86, British egyptologist. *Kelly Kwalik, 53-54, Indonesian West Papua separatist leader and commander (Free Papua Movement), shot. *Dame Victoire Ridsdale, Lady Ridsdale, 88, British politician, World War II intelligence agent, inspiration for Miss Moneypenny. *Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, 69, South African politician, Minister of Health (1999–2008), complications from a liver transplant. *Vladimir Turchinsky, 46, Russian actor, bodybuilder and showman, heart attack. *Josef Voß, 72, German Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Munster, Titular Bishop of Thisiduo (since 1988). *Bob Waldmire, 64, American Route 66 artist, cancer.===17===*Amin al-Hafiz, 88, Syrian politician, President (1963–1966).*P.R. Anthonis, 98, Sri Lankan surgeon. *Alaina Reed Hall, 63, American actress (''Sesame Street, 227''), breast cancer. *Chris Henry, 26, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), blunt force trauma after fall from vehicle. *Warren Hogan, 80, Australian economics professor and government adviser, cancer. *Jennifer Jones, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress (''The Song of Bernadette''), natural causes. *Michel Leblond, 77, French Olympic footballer. *Miljenko Mihić, 75, Serbian football coach. *Dan O'Bannon, 63, American screenwriter (''Alien'', ''Total Recall'', ''Blue Thunder''), Crohn's disease. *Samuel Victor Perry, 91, British biochemist. *Hans Pfenninger, 80, Swiss Olympic cyclist. *Albert Ràfols-Casamada, 86, Spanish artist.===18===*Fred Bachrach, 95, Dutch art historian. *Charlie Balun, 61, American artist and journalist, cancer. *José Bardina, 70, Spanish-Venezuelan actor, bladder cancer. *Oskar Danon, 96, Bosnian conductor and composer. *John Henry Fischer, 99, American educator, President of Teachers College, Columbia University (1962–1974), heart failure. *Connie Hines, 78, American actress (''Mister Ed''), heart failure. *Harold Lundrigan, 81, Canadian businessman. *Archimandrite Joasaph, 47, American Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem of the ROCOR, cancer. *László Nagy, 88, Hungarian-born Swiss Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (1968–1988). *Job (Osacky), 63, American archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America. *Georgina Parkinson, 71, English ballet dancer and ballet mistress, cancer. *Mike Simpson, 47, American politician, Michigan state Representative (since 2006), heart attack. *Del St. John, 78, Canadian-born Austrian ice hockey player. *Bob Willoughby, 82, American photographer, cancer. *Robin Wood, 78, British film critic, leukemia. *Rex Yetman, 76, Canadian bluegrass mandolin player *Jack Zilly, 88, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).===19===*Charles Birch, 91, Australian geneticist. *Tony Bukovich, 94, American ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings). *Margaret Christensen, 88, Australian actress. *Edith Diaz, 70, Puerto Rican-born American actress, heart failure. *Lincoln Gordon, 96, American diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Brazil (1961–1966), President of Johns Hopkins University (1967–1971). *Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, 87, Iranian cleric and dissident, natural causes. *Zeki Ökten, 68, Turkish film director, heart disease. *Kim Peek, 58, American savant, inspiration for ''Rain Man'', heart attack. *Donald Pickering, 76, British actor. *Roger Rawson, 70, American politician, former majority leader of the Utah House of Representatives, liver disease. *Loren Singer, 86, American novelist (''The Parallax View'').===20===*Joan Brosnan Walsh, 71, Irish actress (''Fair City''), motor neurone disease. *Jack Brownsword, 86, British footballer (Scunthorpe United). *Neil Farrington, 38, British drummer (Cerebral Fix). *Erik Gates, 47, American electrician and model rocket expert (''MythBusters''), injuries sustained in a fall from roof. *James Gurley, 69, American guitarist (Big Brother and the Holding Company), heart attack. *Jack Hixon, 88, British football scout. *Arun Krushnaji Kamble, 56, Indian Dalit activist, drowned. (body discovered on this date)*Yiannis Moralis, 93, Greek visual artist. *Brittany Murphy, 32, American actress (''Clueless'', ''King of the Hill'', ''8 Mile''), pneumonia. *Shari Rhodes, 71, American casting director (''Jaws'', ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'', ''Breaking Bad''). *Vera Rich, 73, British poet, journalist, historian, and translator. *Lester Rodney, 98, American sports journalist. *Arnold Stang, 91, American actor (''Top Cat'', ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World''), pneumonia. *Ira Trombley, 57, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives (since 2002), natural causes.===21===*Suryakant Acharya, 80, Indian politician, natural causes. *Jaime Agudelo, 84, Colombian comedian, respiratory failure. *Craigie Aitchison, 83, British painter. *Dick Archer, 82, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1980–1992). *Ann Nixon Cooper, 107, American civil rights activist, mentioned in President Obama's election victory speech. *James Cowley, 90, British recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal. *Rick Hube, 62, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives (since 1998). *David Isaacs, 63, Jamaican singer (The Itals). *Pete King, 80, British saxophonist, co-founder of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. *Edwin G. Krebs, 91, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist. *Christos Lambrakis, 75, Greek businessman, publisher and journalist, multiple organ failure. *Marianne Stone, 87, British character actress (''Carry On'' series).===22===*Al Bernardin, 81, American restaurateur, inventor of the Quarter Pounder, stroke. *Mick Cocks, 54, Australian guitarist (Rose Tattoo), liver cancer. *Luis Francisco Cuéllar, 69, Colombian politician, Governor of Caqueta, assassination by cut throat. *Michael Currie, 81, American actor (''Dark Shadows'', ''Sudden Impact''). *Bernhard Droog, 88, Dutch actor, pneumonia. *Milena Dvorská, 71, Czech film actress. *Edward Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, 93, British army general. *Andy Manson, 73, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1995–2000). *Duncan Paterson, 66, Scottish rugby union player and administrator. *Sir Bob Phillis, 64, British media executive, cancer. *Albert Scanlon, 74, English footballer (Manchester United), survivor of Munich air disaster. *Piers Wardle, 49, British artist, brain haemorrhage.===23===*Lucas Abadamloora, 71, Ghanaian Roman Catholic Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga (1994–2009). *Lilo Allgayer, 94, German Olympic fencer. *Ike Aronowicz, 86, Israeli captain of the . *Grigory Baklanov, 86, Russian novelist. *Charles Bullen, 90, American politician, Utah House of Representatives (1971–1977) and Senate (1977–1985). *Robert L. Howard, 70, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (1971), pancreatic cancer. *Micah Naftalin, 76, American advocate for Soviet Jews. *Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, 99, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region (1964–1968; 1981–1983). *Peter O'Hagan, Irish politician. *Edward Schillebeeckx, 95, Belgian theologian. *Rainer Zepperitz, 79, Indonesian-born German double bassist.===24===*Marcus Bakker, 86, Dutch politician, party leader of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (1963–1982). *Stan Benjamin, 95, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and scout (Houston Astros). *Giulio Bosetti, 79, Italian actor and film director, cancer. *Rafael Caldera, 93, Venezuelan politician, President (1969–1974; 1994–1999). *George Cowling, 89, British weatherman. *Victor Khain, 95, Russian geologist. *Terry Lawless, 76, British boxing manager and trainer. *Henry van Lieshout, 77, Dutch-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic Bishop of Lae (1966–2007). *George Michael, 70, American sportscaster and disc jockey, chronic lymphocytic leukemia. *Masahiko Shimura, 29, Japanese singer and musician, co-founder of the rock band Fujifabric. *Eysteinn Þórðarson, 75, Icelandic Olympic skier. Eysteinn Þórðarson*Gero von Wilpert, 76, German literary scientist. *Brian Young, 79, British naval officer.===25===*Christopher Bell, 35, American disability studies scholar. *Tony Bellamy, 63, American musician (Redbone), liver failure. *Bill Burich, 92, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). *Charles Capps, 84, American politician, member of Mississippi House of Representatives (1972–2005). *Asheem Chakravarty, 50, Indian jazz fusion musician (Indian Ocean), heart attack. *Vic Chesnutt, 45, American folk rock musician, muscle relaxant overdose. *Rusty Dedrick, 91, American swing and bebop jazz trumpeter. *Knut Haugland, 92, Norwegian explorer and World War II veteran, last surviving member of the Kon-Tiki expedition. *Rick Kane, 55, American football player (Detroit Lions), pneumonia. *Morris E. Lasker, 92, American federal judge, cancer. *Rachel Wetzsteon, 42, American poet, suicide.===26===*Charles F. Baird, 87, American politician. *Dennis Brutus, 85, South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist, prostate cancer. *Giuseppe Chiappella, 85, Italian football player and manager. *Peder Lunde, 91, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) sailor. *Arthur McIntyre, 91, British cricketer. *Yves Rocher, 79, French entrepreneur and mayor of La Gacilly, founder of Yves Rocher Cosmetics. *Ihor Ševčenko, 87, Polish philologist. *Percy Sutton, 89, American civil rights activist, politician and attorney, Manhattan Borough President (1966–1977). *Jacques Sylla, 63, Malagasy politician, Prime Minister of Madagascar (2002–2007). *David Taylor, 63, British politician, MP for North West Leicestershire (since 1997), heart attack. *Norval White, 83, American author ''(AIA Guide to New York City)'', heart attack. *Felix Wurman, 51, American cellist, cancer.===27===*Maryam Babangida, 61, Nigerian First Lady, wife of former President Ibrahim Babangida, ovarian cancer. *Gunnar Kemnitz, 82, Brazilian Olympic diver. *Terry L. Punt, 60, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1989–2009) and State Representative (1979–1988). *Narra Venkateswara Rao, 62, Indian actor, cancer. *Isaac Schwartz, 86, Russian composer (''White Sun of the Desert''). *Takashi Takabayashi, 78, Japanese footballer.===28===*Allen Batsford, 77, British football manager (Wimbledon), heart attack. *Habib Bourguiba, Jr., 82, Tunisian diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1964–1970).*D. F. Cartwright, 93, British businessman. *Sir Jack Harman, 89, British general. *Zoltán Horváth, 30, Romanian-born Hungarian basketball player, car accident. *Terry Matte, 66, Canadian television news producer, cancer. *Manfred R. Schroeder, 83, German physicist.*J. David Singer, 84, American political scientist. *Witold Skulicz, 83, Polish artist. *The Rev, 28, American hard rock and heavy metal drummer (Avenged Sevenfold), drug overdose.===29===*Roberto Amadei, 76, Italian Roman Catholic monsignor, bishop of Bergamo (1991–2009).*C. Aswath, 71, Indian Kannada singer, liver and renal failure. *Carlo Cerioni, 84, Italian Olympic basketball player. Carlo Cerioni*David Levine, 83, American caricaturist (''The New York Review of Books''), prostate cancer. *Paul Sapsford, 60, New Zealand rugby union player (Otago, national team), injuries sustained in a jetboat accident. *Akmal Shaikh, 53, Pakistani-born British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection.*M. S. Sivasankariah, 82, Indian cricket umpire. *Robert H. Smith, 81, American real estate developer and philanthropist, creator of Crystal City, Virginia, stroke. *Steve Williams, 49, American professional wrestler, throat cancer.===30===*Anthony Alaimo, 89, American federal judge (Southern District of Georgia). *Bessie Blount Griffin, 95, American inventor and forensic scientist. *Peter Corren, 62, Canadian gay rights activist, cancer. *Adrian Kivumbi Ddungu, 86, Ugandan Roman Catholic Bishop of Masaka. *Maldwyn Evans, 72, Welsh bowler, world champion (1972). *Rowland S. Howard, 50, Australian musician and songwriter (The Birthday Party), liver cancer. *Michelle Lang, 34, Canadian reporter (''Calgary Herald''), IED explosion. *Ruth Lilly, 94, American philanthropist (Eli Lilly and Company), heart failure. *Alberto Lysy, 74, Argentine violinist and composer. *Gloria Nord, 87, American skater. *Walter Pérez, 85, Uruguayan Olympic sprinter. *Vasiliy Shandybin, 68, Russian politician. *Peter Shirayanagi, 81, Japanese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. *Jacqueline Sturm, 82, New Zealand writer and poet. *Vishnuvardhan, 59, Indian Kannada actor, cardiac arrest. *Abdurrahman Wahid, 69, Indonesian politician, President (1999–2001), heart failure. *Norman Walker, 74, Australian rules footballer. *Perry Wilson, 93, American actress ''(Fear Strikes Out''). *Leon Yao Liang, 86, Chinese bishop. *Ivan Zulueta, 66, Spanish designer and film director.===31===*Arthur E. Bartlett, 76, American realtor, co-founder of Century 21, Alzheimer's disease. *Umalat Magomedov, 30, leader of the Vilayat Dagestan, terrorist, killed by Russian troops. *Tod Campeau, 86, Canadian ice hockey player. *Giulio Corsini, 76, Italian football player and manager. *John Cushnie, 66, Irish gardening expert and radio presenter, heart attack. *Cahal Daly, 92, Irish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic church, Primate of All Ireland (1990–1996). *Maurice Dupras, 86, Canadian politician. *Ann Linnea Sandberg, 71, American immunologist. *George M. Holmes, 80, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (1975–1977, 1979–2009). *Ross Johnstone, 83, Canadian ice hockey player. *Rashidi Kawawa, 83, Tanzanian politician, Prime Minister of Tanganyika (1962) and Tanzania (1972–1977). *Justin Keating, 79, Irish humanist and Labour Party politician (Minister for Industry and Commerce, 1973–1977). *Helen Lewis, 93, Czech-born British dancer and concentration camp survivor. *Guido Lorraine, 97, Polish-born British actor. *William May, 56, American-born Australian artistic director (''Walking with Dinosaurs – The Live Experience''), pneumonia. *Glauco Onorato, 73, Italian actor and voice actor. *Bill Powell, 93, American golf course designer, stroke. *Qian Xinzhong, 98, Chinese politician, Minister of Health (1965–1973, 1979–1983). *Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf, 69, Egyptian Chaldean Bishop of Cairo (since 1984). *Frans Seda, 83, Indonesian economist, Minister of Finance (1966–1968). *William Tuohy, 83, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, complications from heart surgery. *Mikhail Vartanov, 72, Russian actor.
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