Deaths in September 2009
Introduction *Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
September 2009 ===1===*Dick Berg, 87, American screenwriter and television producer, fall. *Jake Drake-Brockman, 53, British musician (Echo & the Bunnymen) and sound recordist, motorcycle accident. *Jock Buchanan, 74, Scottish footballer (Hibernian). *Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, 91, British television executive and conservationist. *Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito, 66, Brazilian judge (Supreme Federal Court) (2007–2009), pancreatic cancer. *Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani, 78, Indian admiral. *Jang Jin-young, 35, South Korean actress, stomach cancer. *Wycliffe Johnson, 47, Jamaican Reggae musician and composer, heart failure. *Erich Kunzel, 74, American conductor (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra), cancer. *Wayne E. Meyer, 83, American Rear-Admiral, Aegis Combat System manager, heart failure. *Francis Rogallo, 97, American aeronautical inventor (Rogallo wing). *John Stephens, 43, American football player (New England Patriots), NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1988), traffic collision. *Alexis Tioseco, 28, Filipino-born Canadian film critic, shot. *Sir Oliver Wright, 88, British diplomat.===2===*Guy Babylon, 52, American musician (Elton John band), heart attack. *Brian Boshier, 77, British cricketer. *Jon Eydmann, 41, British band manager (Suede), heart attack. *Donald Hamilton Fraser, 80, British painter. *Bill Hefner, 79, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for North Carolina (1975–1999), brain aneurysm. *Tibor Kristóf, 67, Hungarian voice actor, Hungarian voice of Sean Connery, Morgan Freeman and Darth Vader. *Abdullah Laghmani, 40s, Afghan Secret Service chief, bomb blast. *Mr Percival, 33, Australian pelican, animal actor (''Storm Boy''), natural causes. *John Poole, 82, British sculptor. *Christian Poveda, 54, French photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, shot.*Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (since 2004), helicopter crash. *Mohamed Alí Seineldín, 75, Argentine military commander and putschist (Carapintadas). *Robert Spinrad, 77, American computer pioneer, director of the Palo Alto Research Center, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. *Ismael Valenzuela, 74, American jockey, after long illness. *Jeffrey Wernick, 56, American animation executive (DIC Animation City) and sports agent.===3===*Nicola Chapman, Baroness Chapman, 48, British peer, member of the House of Lords, brittle bone disease. *Hulda Regehr Clark, 80, Canadian alternative medicine practitioner. *Christine D'haen, 85, Belgian poet. *Giovanni Melis Fois, 92, Italian Bishop of Nuoro (1970–1992). *Caro Jones, 86, American casting director (''Rocky'', ''The Karate Kid'', ''Green Acres''), multiple myeloma. *Edith Kaplan, 85, American neuropsychologist. *Alec MacLachlan, 30, British hostage in Iraq (death confirmed on this date). *Ronald Sarre, 77, Australian cricketer. *Yukhym Shkolnykov, 70, Ukrainian association football coach.===4===*Buddy Blattner, 89, American sportscaster, baseball and table tennis player, complications from lung cancer. *Iain Cuthbertson, 79, British actor (''Gorillas in the Mist'', ''The Railway Children''). *Allan Ekelund, 91, Swedish film producer, collaborator with Ingmar Bergman. *Guy Guillabert, 78, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) rower. *Skip Miller, 62, American music industry executive, president of Motown Records, heart attack. *Franz Olah, 99, Austrian politician, Interior Minister (1963–1964). *Carl Reindel, 74, American actor (''Bullitt'', ''Tora! Tora! Tora! '', ''The Andromeda Strain''). *Keith Waterhouse, 80, British author and playwright (''Billy Liar''), natural causes. *Bill Welch, 68, American politician, mayor of State College, Pennsylvania, complications after leg surgery.===5===*Gani Fawehinmi, 71, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, lung cancer. *Carl Hovde, 82, American professor, Dean during the Columbia University protests of 1968, lung cancer. *Mickie Jones, 56, American bassist (Angel), liver cancer. *Jesse Mahelona, 26, American football player (Tennessee Titans), traffic collision. *Richard Merkin, 70, American artist. *Saifur Rahman, 77, Bangladeshi politician, longest-serving Finance Minister, traffic collision. *Ron Raikes, 61, American politician, Nebraska state senator (1998–2008), farm accident. *Richard D. Robinson, 88, American educator. *Charlie Waller, 87, American football coach.===6===*Christopher John Banda, 36, Malawian footballer. *Harcharan Singh Brar, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1995–1996). *Vanja Drach, 77, Croatian actor. *Gerhart Friedlander, 93, German-born American nuclear chemist, coronary disease. *Helgi Hóseasson, 89, Icelandic activist. *Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot. *Catherine Gaskin, 80, Irish-born Australian novelist, ovarian cancer. *Nada Iveljić, 79, Croatian writer. *John Merino, 42, Ecuadorian colonel, head of presidential security for Rafael Correa, swine flu. *David J. Ritchie, 58, American game designer. *Sim, 83, French comic actor. ′*Tatyana Ustinova, 96, Russian geologist. *Stephen White, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer, member of Ireland Team of the Century, after short illness. *Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, 78, British academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1989–1996), cancer.===7===*Medea Chakhava, 88, Georgian theatre and film actress. *Frank Coghlan, Jr., 93, American silent film actor. *Norman Curtis, 84, English football player and manager (Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers). *John T. Elson, 78, American religion editor (''Time''). *Eddie Locke, 79, American jazz drummer. *Fred Mills, 74, Canadian musician (Canadian Brass), traffic collision. *Ra'anan Naim, 73, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1981–1984). *Colin Sharp, 56, British musician and writer, brain haemorrhage. *Paul Lê Dac Trong, 91, Vietnamese Bishop of Hanoi (1994–2006). *Christos Vartzakis, 98, Greek athlete.===8===*Aleksandr Aksyonov, 85, Belarusian PM of Byelorussian SSR (1978–1983), Soviet Ambassador to Poland (1983–1986). *Army Archerd, 90, American entertainment columnist (''Variety''), malignant mesothelioma. *Ray Barrett, 82, Australian film, television and theatre actor, brain hemorrhage. *Aage Bohr, 87, Danish physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1975). *Mike Bongiorno, 85, American-born Italian television presenter, heart failure. *Rica Erickson, 101, Australian naturalist, artist and author. *Henry Sheldon Fitch, 99, American herpetologist. *Rogelio Borja Flores, 74, Filipino sports writer, respiratory failure. *Annie Le, 24, American graduate student, homicide. *Kyle Woodring, 42, American drummer (Survivor), apparent suicide by hanging.===9===*Kevin Carmody, 84, Australian cricket umpire. *Eric Davidson, 94, Canadian blind mechanic, survivor of the Halifax Explosion. *Anthony G. Evans, 66, British scientist. *Léon Glovacki, 81, French footballer, played in 1954 FIFA World Cup. *James Krenov, 88, American cabinetmaker. *Stanley Cornwell Lewis, 103, British painter and illustrator. *Steve Mann, 66, American songwriter and guitarist. *Frank Mazzuca, 87, Canadian businessman, mayor of Capreol, Ontario. *Sultan Munadi, 32, Afghan journalist, translator and correspondent (''The New York Times''), shot. *Andrzej Śliwiński, 70, Polish Bishop of Elbląg (1992–2003).===10===*John Asquith, 77, English cricketer. *Frank Batten, 82, American businessman, founder of The Weather Channel. *Lou Bender, 99, American basketball pioneer who popularized the sport in New York City, cancer. *Kerry Brown, 51, Canadian professional wrestler, liver failure. *Lisle Carter, Jr, 83, American administrator, complications from pneumonia. *Lyn Hamilton, 65, Canadian author, cancer. *Sam Hinton, 92, American folk singer and marine biologist. *Margaret Holmes, 100, Australian peace activist. *Robert H. Miller, 90, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1988–1990). *Gertrude Noone, 110, American supercentenarian, oldest person in Connecticut and world's oldest military veteran. *Patricia Robinson, 79, Trinidadian economist, First Lady (1997–2003), wife of A. N. R. Robinson. *Yoshifumi Tajima, 91, Japanese actor in Kaiju films, esophageal cancer. *Tony Thornton, 49, American professional boxer, injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.===11===*Sarane Alexandrian, 82, French art historian and philosopher. *Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, Cuban politician, Vice President of the Council of State, cardiac arrest. *James E. Bromwell, 89, American politician, Representative for Iowa (1961–1965). *Jim Carroll, 60, American author (''The Basketball Diaries''), poet and musician, heart attack. *Mool Chand Chowhan, 82, Indian sports official. *Pierre Cossette, 85, Canadian television producer, brought the Grammy Awards to television. *Larry Gelbart, 81, American comedy writer (''M*A*S*H'') and blogger (''The Huffington Post''), cancer. *Bob Greenberg, 75, American record executive, stroke. *Zakes Mokae, 75, South African-born American actor (''Gross Anatomy''), complications from a stroke. *Georgios Papoulias, 82, Greek politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1989, 1990), suicide. *John Pattison, 92, New Zealand World War II pilot. *Henny van Schoonhoven, 39, Dutch footballer, cancer. *Crystal Lee Sutton, 68, American union organizer, inspiration for ''Norma Rae'', brain cancer. *Felicia Tang, 31, Singaporean-born American actress and model, suffocated. *Yoshito Usui, 51, Japanese manga artist (''Crayon Shin-chan''), mountaineering accident.===12===*Thabet bin Laden, 49, Saudi businessman and patriarch, brother of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. *Norman Borlaug, 95, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1970), cancer. *Dominik Brunner, 50, German businessman and manager, blunt trauma. *Jeanne Clemson, 87, American theatre director, actress and educator, Parkinson's disease. *Raj Singh Dungarpur, 73, Indian cricket player and administrator. *George Eckstein, 81, American television writer and producer (''The Fugitive''), lung cancer. *Edward Gelsthorpe, 88, American marketing executive. *Alfred Gottschalk, 79, German-born American President of Hebrew Union College, Reform Judaism leader, traffic collision. *William Hoffman, 84, American novelist. *Shah Abdul Karim, 93, Bangladeshi musician, respiratory problems. *Jack Kramer, 88, American tennis player, cancer. *Armando Manhiça, 66, Portuguese international footballer. *Brian Mier, 74, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Waverley (1982–1996). *Antônio Olinto, 90, Brazilian writer, multiple organ failure. *Danny Pang, 42, Taiwanese-born American hedge fund manager. *Willy Ronis, 99, French photographer.*T. R. Satishchandran, 80, Indian Administrative Service officer. *Fred Sherman, 86, American economist and business commentator. *Lawrence B. Slobodkin, 81, American ecologist. *Bill Sparkman, 51, American substitute teacher and census worker, hanged.===13===*Philip Aziz, 86, Canadian artist, cancer. *Felix Bowness, 87, British actor (''Hi-de-Hi!'') *Paul Burke, 83, American actor (''Naked City''), leukemia. *Malcolm Casadaban, 60, American molecular genetics professor, plague. *Lonny Frey, 99, American baseball player, oldest living MLB All-Star. *Arnold Laven, 87, American film and television director (''The Rifleman'', ''The Big Valley''), pneumonia. *Paul Shirtliff, 46, English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Northampton Town), cancer. *Sarah E. Wright, 80, American novelist, complications from cancer.===14===*Keith Floyd, 65, British chef, heart attack. *Henry Gibson, 73, American actor (''Laugh-In'', ''Boston Legal''), cancer. *Bobby Graham, 69, British session drummer, stomach cancer. *Jing Shuping, 91, Chinese businessman, founder of Minsheng Bank. *Mike Leyland, 68, Australian travel documentary host (Leyland Brothers), complications of Parkinson's disease. *Ralph S. Moore, 102, American horticulturist, natural causes. *Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 30, Kenyan terrorist, airstrike. *Jody Powell, 65, American White House Press Secretary for President Jimmy Carter, heart attack. *John Rarick, 85, American politician, Representative for Louisiana (1967–1975), cancer. *Darren Sutherland, 27, Irish boxer, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, suicide by hanging. *Patrick Swayze, 57, American actor (''Dirty Dancing'', ''Red Dawn'', ''The Outsiders''), pancreatic cancer. *Lily Tembo, 27, Zambian musician, songwriter and journalist, complications from gastritis. *Titus, 35, African silverback gorilla. *Bartholomew Yu Chengti, 90, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate. *Elio Zagato, 88, Italian car designer.===15===*Nicu Constantin, 70, Romanian actor. *George Crumbley, 86, American founder of the Peach Bowl. *Fred Cusick, 90, American sports commentator (Boston Bruins), complications from bladder cancer. *Leon Eisenberg, 87, American child psychiatrist, prostate cancer. *Tommy Greenhough, 77, British cricketer. *Troy Kennedy Martin, 77, British screenwriter (''Z-Cars'', ''Edge of Darkness'', ''The Italian Job''), liver cancer. *Michael Knox, 48, American co-founder of Park Place Productions, producer of John Madden Football, colon cancer. *Espiridion Laxa, 79, Filipino independent film producer, prostate cancer. *Gerald Lestz, 95, American columnist and author, founder of the Demuth Museum. *Vladimír Padrta, 56, Slovak Olympic basketball player. *Kallie Reyneke, 87, South African Olympic racewalker. *Trevor Rhone, 69, Jamaican playwright, heart attack.===16===*Brian Barron, 69, British journalist and war correspondent, cancer. *Timothy Bateson, 83, British actor. *Myles Brand, 67, American NCAA president, pancreatic cancer.*W. Horace Carter, 88, American newspaper website, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack. *Monte Clark, 72, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions), cancer. *Luciano Emmer, 91, Italian film director (''Three Girls from Rome''). *Sotero Laurel, 90, Filipino politician, Senator (1986–1992), President Pro Tempore (1990–1991). *John Littlewood, 78, British chess player*Lori Mai, 31, German-American folk rock singer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. *Ernst Märzendorfer, 88, Austrian conductor. *Julian Niemczyk, 89, American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1986–1989), cardiac arrest. *Filip Nikolic, 35, French singer and actor, drug overdose. *Steve Romanik, 85, American football player (Chicago Bears). *Melvin Simon, 82, American shopping mall developer (Simon Property Group), producer (''Porky's''), Indiana Pacers owner. *Mary Travers, 72, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), leukemia. *Dorothy Wellman, 95, American dancer and actress, widow of William Wellman.===17===*Tommy Burnett, 67, American politician, Tennessee House of Representatives (1970–1990). *Virginia Chadwick, 64, Australian politician, cancer. *Frank Deasy, 49, Irish Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (''Prime Suspect: The Final Act''), liver cancer. *Dick Durock, 72, American actor and stuntman (''Swamp Thing''), pancreatic cancer. *Bernie Fuchs, 76, American illustrator, esophageal cancer. *Dick Hoover, 79, American professional bowler. *Randy Johnson, 65, American football quarterback (Atlanta Falcons). *Leon Kirchner, 90, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, heart failure. *Bob Kowalkowski, 65, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions). *Robert Searcy, 88, American member of the Tuskegee Airmen, colorectal cancer. *Noordin Mohammad Top, 41, Malaysian terrorist, shot. *Geoff Williamson, 86, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) rower.===18===*Peter Denyer, 62, British actor (''Please Sir!''). *James Donnewald, 84, American politician, Illinois Treasurer (1983–1987). *Doug Fisher, 89, Canadian journalist and politician, MP for Port Arthur (1957–1965). *Pearl Hackney, 92, British actress, widow of Eric Barker. *Mahlon Hoagland, 87, American biochemist. *Irving Kristol, 89, American neoconservative advocate and editor (''The Public Interest''), lung cancer. *Natalia Shvedova, 92, Russian lexicologist. *John J. Wild, 95, American physician, co-developer of ultrasound use in cancer detection.===19===*Gabriel Beaudry, 82, Canadian Olympic rower. *Willy Breinholst, 91, Danish author. *Alan Deyermond, 77, British hispanist. *Arthur Ferrante, 88, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), natural causes. *Stevie Gray, 42, British footballer (Aberdeen FC, 1983–1990). *Víctor Israel, 80, Spanish actor. *Monty Kaser, 67, American professional golfer, prostate cancer. *Milton Meltzer, 94, American historian and author, esophageal cancer. *Maurizio Montalbini, 56, Italian sociologist and caver, heart failure. *Elizaveta Mukasei, 97, Russian Soviet-era spy, wife of Mikhail Mukasei. *Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet, 79, Cuban-born businessman and philanthropist, founder of Sazón Goya Food Company, cancer. *Roc Raida, 37, American DJ (The X-Ecutioners), cardiac arrest after a spinal cord injury. *Joseph-Marie Sardou, 86, French archbishop Emeritus of Monaco. *Eduard Zimmermann, 80, German journalist and television presenter.===20===*Mario Bertolo, 80, French cyclist. *Freddy Bienstock, 86, American music website (Carlin America). *Herman Córdoba, 19, Colombian footballer, traffic collision. *Bertil Gärtner, 84, Swedish Lutheran bishop of Gothenburg (1970–1991). *John Hart, 91, American actor (''The Lone Ranger''). *Ken Hough, 80, New Zealand cricketer and footballer. *Yusuf Khan, 79-80, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest. *Booker Moore, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), heart attack. *Bayo Ohu, 45, Nigerian journalist and news editor (''The Guardian''), shot. *Eddy Prentice, 88, New Zealand cricketer.===21===*Robert Ginty, 60, American actor and director, cancer. *Michael Lockett, 29, British soldier, improvised explosive device. *Miroslav Stefan Marusyn, 85, Ukrainian archbishop, Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. *Piers Merchant, 58, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1983–1987) and Beckenham (1992–1997), cancer. *Parviz Meshkatian, 54, Iranian musician and composer, cardiac arrest. *Junzo Shono, 88, Japanese author, member of the Japan Art Academy. *Sula Wolff, 85, British child psychiatrist.===22===*Marco Achilli, 60, Italian footballer. *Manuel Bermejo Hernández, 73, Spanish politician, MP for Cáceres. *Kole Čašule, 88, Macedonian writer. *Edward Delaney, 79, Irish sculptor. *Olaf Dufseth, 91, Norwegian Olympic Nordic combined and cross-country skier. *Andrea Maltarolli, 46, Brazilian telenovela screenwriter (''Beleza Pura''), cancer. *Bruce McPhee, 82, Australian race car driver, won Hardie Ferodo 500 (1968). *Dirce Migliaccio, 76, Brazilian actress, pneumonia. *Summer Squall, 22, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1990 Preakness Stakes winner, euthanized. *Charlotte Turgeon, 97, American chef and author, influenza.*S. Varalakshmi, 84, Indian actress and singer, complications from a fall. *Lucy Vodden, 46, British inspiration for The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", lupus. *Wess, 64, Italian singer, placed third in Eurovision Song Contest 1975.===23===*Paul B. Fay, 91, American politician, Acting Secretary of the Navy (1963), Alzheimer's disease. *Gigolo FRH, 26, German-bred dressage horse, four-time Olympic gold medalist, euthanized. *Ertuğrul Osman, 97, Turkish 43rd Head of the Imperial Ottoman Dynasty, lung and kidney failure. *Dennis Pacey, 80, British footballer (Leyton Orient, Millwall), aneurysm. *Stuart Robertson, 65, British-born Canadian journalist and gardener, complications from pneumonia. *Bill Speirs, 57, British trade union leader, after long illness. *George M. Sullivan, 87, American politician, Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1967–1981), lung cancer. *Marie Wadley, 102, American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum. *Don Yarborough, 83, American politician, Parkinson's disease.===24===*Nelly Arcan, 36, Canadian novelist, suicide. *Susan Atkins, 61, American murderer ('Manson Family' member), brain cancer. *Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy, 80, Indian Bishop of Nellore. *Keith Batchelor, 78, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood, North Melbourne). *Terry Bly, 73, British footballer (Norwich City, Peterborough United), heart attack. *Forrest Church, 61, American Unitarian Universalist minister, author and theologian, esophageal cancer. *Cryptoclearance, 25, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic surgery. *Joseph Satoshi Fukahori, 84, Japanese Bishop of Takamatsu. *Joseph Gurwin, 89, Lithuanian-born American textile manufacturer and philanthropist, heart failure. *Kevork Hovnanian, 86, Iraqi-born American businessman, founder of Hovnanian Enterprises. *Rogers McVaugh, 100, American botanist. *Sir Howard Morrison, 74, New Zealand singer, heart attack. *Emile Norman, 91, American artist, natural causes. *Robert Sahakyants, 59, Armenian animator, complications from heart surgery. *Egon Solymossy, 87, Hungarian Olympic athlete (death announced on this date). *Mimi Weddell, 94, American actress (''Student Bodies'', ''The Thomas Crown Affair''). *Margo Wilson, 66, Canadian psychologist.===25===*István Bujtor, 67, Hungarian actor and director, coccidiosis. *Pierre Falardeau, 62, Canadian film director, cancer. *Alicia de Larrocha, 86, Spanish pianist. *Maria Gulovich Liu, 87, Slovakian resistance member, cancer. *Clifton Maloney, 71, American businessman, husband of U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, mountaineering accident. *Steeve Nguema Ndong, 37, Gabonese Olympic judoka. *Francis Noel-Baker, 89, British politician, MP for Brentford and Chiswick (1945–1950) and Swindon (1955–1969). *Bob Stupak, 67, American casino owner (Vegas World, Stratosphere Las Vegas), leukemia. *David Will, 72, British vice president of FIFA, former Brechin City F.C. chairman, cancer.===26===*Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet, 70, British aristocrat, traffic collision. *Geoff Barrowcliffe, 77, British footballer (Derby County). *Tony Chua, 43-44, Filipino sports executive, Barako Bulls team manager, drowning during Tropical Storm Ondoy. *Zygmunt Chychła, 83, Polish boxer, 1952 Olympic gold medalist.*W. I. B. Crealock, 89, British yacht designer. *Amy Farris, 40, American fiddler and singer-songwriter, suicide. *John Hyson, 81, American museum curator and historian. *Paul Medhurst, 55, British-New Zealand cyclist. *Nihat Nikerel, 59, Turkish actor, heart attack. *Alfred Oglesby, 42, American football player (Miami Dolphins).*R. Soeprapto, 85, Indonesian politician, Governor of Jakarta (1982–1987). *David Underdown, 84, British historian, author of definitive work on Pride's Purge.===27===*Alimsultan Alkhamatov, 44, Russian politician and official, head of the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, shot. *John Connell, 69, American artist. *Ivan Dykhovichny, 61, Russian film director, screenwriter, cancer. *Donald Fisher, 81, American businessman, founder of The Gap, cancer. *John Holmes, 57, British rugby league player, cancer. *Henry Hopkins, 81, American curator and museum director, cancer. *Charles Snead Houston, 96, American physician, mountaineer, inventor, author and filmmaker. *Manuel Mandel, 72, Brazilian Olympic rower. *Donal McLaughlin, 102, American architect, designer of the Flag of the United Nations, esophageal cancer. *Brian Redman, 31, American bass player (3 Inches of Blood, Trial), scooter accident. *Dewald Roode, 69, South African academic, fall. *William Safire, 79, American speechwriter and journalist (''The New York Times''), pancreatic cancer.===28===*Apostolos, 85, Greek bishop of Kilkis. *René Bliard, 76, French footballer (Stade Reims). *Annie Butler, 112, British supercentenarian. *Guillermo Endara, 73, Panamanian politician, President (1989–1994). *Ulf Larsson, 53, Swedish actor, stage director and revue artist. *Best Ogedegbe, 55, Nigerian footballer, complications from surgery. *Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira, 83, Peruvian archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa. *Don Thompson, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).===29===*Micheline Beauchemin, 79, Canadian tapestry and textile artist. *Henry Bellmon, 88, American Governor of Oklahoma (1963–1967; 1987–1991), U.S. Senator (1969–1981), Parkinson's disease. *Ebony Dickinson, 32, American basketball player, breast cancer. *Gunnar Haugan, 84, Norwegian character actor. *Julian Hope, 2nd Baron Glendevon, 59, British opera producer, cancer. *Margo Johns, 90, British actress. *Greg Ladanyi, 57, American record producer and recording engineer, complications from a fall. *Jean Ladd, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL). *Ray Nettles, 60, American-born Canadian football player (BC Lions), cancer. *John L. Pollock, 69, American philosopher. *Pavel Popovich, 78, Ukrainian-born Soviet cosmonaut. *Ed Sherman, 97, American football coach (Muskingum College). *Nick Strutt, 62, British country musician. *Sperantza Vrana, 81, Greek film actress, singer and writer, heart attack. *Vladimir Yakovlev, 79, Soviet Olympic sailor.===30===*Sir Alastair Aird, 78, British Royal courtier. *Pentti Airikkala, 64, Finnish rally driver, prostate cancer. *Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish writer and poet. *Robert S. Baker, 93, British film and television producer (''The Saint'', ''The Persuaders!''). *John Couey, 51, American murderer, killer of Jessica Lunsford (the inspiration for Jessica's Law), prostate cancer. *Roland La Starza, 82, American actor and professional boxer. *Raúl Magaña, 69, Salvadoran footballer and manager, gastric cancer. *Byron Palmer, 89, American actor, natural causes. *Rao Birender Singh, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana (1967), cardiac arrest. *Victor Van Schil, 69, Belgian cyclist.
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