The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2008.
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.
May 2008
1
- Aden Hashi Farah Ayro, Somalian politician and Al-Shabaab member, air strike.[1]
- Paulo Amaral, 84, Brazilian football player (Flamengo) and coach (Juventus).[2]
- SM Nasimuddin SM Amin, 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza, lung cancer.[3]
- Bernard Archard, 91, British actor (Krull, Doctor Who, Emmerdale).[4]
- Buzzie Bavasi, 93, American baseball executive (Dodgers, Angels, Padres).[5]
- Mary Berry, 90, British musicologist and nun.[6]
- Philipp von Boeselager, 90, German World War II anti-Hitler conspirator.[7]
- Nirmala Deshpande, 78, Indian peace activist, after brief illness.[8]
- Elaine Dundy, 86, American writer and actress.[9]
- Aden Hashi Farah, Somali leader of Al-Shabab insurgent group, air strike.[10]
- Jim Hager, 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw), heart attack.[11]
- Mark Kendall, 49, British footballer (Spurs, Newport, Wolves).[12]
- Sir Anthony Mamo, 99, Maltese politician, first president of the Republic of Malta.[13]
- Alberto Estima de Oliveira, 74, Portuguese poet.[14]
- Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging.[15]
- Marcel Van Der Auwera, 84, Belgian fencer.[16]
- J. J. Voskuil, 81, Dutch novelist.[17]
2
- Josephine Apieu Jenaro Aken, 53, South Sudanese civil servant, plane crash.[18]
- Robert Brachtenbach, 77, American jurist, Washington State Supreme Court justice (1972–1994), throat cancer.[19]
- Carole Dekeijser, 48, Belgian painter, lung cancer.[20]
- Dominic Dim Deng, 58, Sudanese politician, defence minister for Southern Sudan, plane crash.[21]
- Robert M. Isaac, 80, American politician, mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado (1979–1997), pneumonia.[22]
- Sergio Lauricella, 86, Italian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) composer.[23]
- Mildred Loving, 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia).[24]
- Ilyas Malayev, 72, Uzbekistani musician and poet, pancreatic cancer.[25]
- Beverlee McKinsey, 72, American actress (Another World, Guiding Light, Bronco Billy), complications from kidney transplant.[26]
- Izold Pustõlnik, 70, Ukrainian-born Estonian astronomer.[27]
- Daniel Sekhoto, 37, South African football player.[28]
- Mike Titcomb, 75, British rugby union referee, kidney failure.[29]
- Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr., 93, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Ruffian).[30]
- Justin Yak, Sudanese politician, minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash.[21]
3
- Charles Caccia, 78, Canadian politician, environmentalist, Liberal MP for Davenport (1968–2004), complications of stroke.[31]
- Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 82, Spanish prime minister (1981–1982), natural causes.[32]
- Eight Belles, 3, American racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby 2nd-place finisher, euthanized.[33]
- Martin Finnegan, 27, Irish motorbike racer, race crash.[34]
- Fay Gale, 75, Australian cultural geographer.[35]
- Lynne Cooper Harvey, 92, American radio producer, Radio Hall of Fame member, wife of Paul Harvey, leukemia.[36]
- Ted Key, 95, American cartoonist (Hazel), bladder cancer and stroke.[37]
- Hanon Reznikov, 57, American playwright.[38]
- Morgan Sparks, 91, American engineer, inventor of the first practical bipolar junction transistor.[39]
- Ngugi wa Mirii, 57, Kenyan playwright, car accident.[40]
4
- Roger Aeschlimann, 84, Swiss cyclist.[41]
- John Altieri, 38, American actor (Jersey Boys), pneumonia.[42]
- Fred Baur, 89, American chemist, inventor of the Pringles can.[43]
- Alvin Colt, 92, American Tony Award-winning costume designer (On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Pipe Dream, Li'l Abner).[44]
- John Greenwood, 57, British businessman and catering executive, motor neurone disease.[45]
- Fred Haines, 72, American screenwriter and film director, lung cancer.[46]
- Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham, 71, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.[47]
- Kishan Maharaj, 84, Indian musician, leading exponent of the Benares gharana tabla, stroke.[48]
- Colin Murdoch, 79, New Zealand inventor of the disposable hypodermic syringe and the tranquilizer gun, cancer.[49]
5
- Sam Aubrey, 85, American basketball player and coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys).[50]
- Thomas Boggs, 63, American drummer (Box Tops), owner of Huey's Restaurants.[51]
- Hugh Bradner, 92, American scientist credited with inventing the wetsuit, complications of pneumonia.[52]
- Pak Kyongni, 82, South Korean novelist, lung cancer.[53]
- Irv Robbins, 90, American businessman, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain.[54][55]
- Zvonko Sabolović, 84, Yugoslav Olympic sprinter.[56]
- Alma Hogan Snell, 85, American Crow tribal nation historian, herbalist, granddaughter of Pretty Shield.[57]
- Jerry Wallace, 79, American country music singer, heart failure.[58]
- Witold Woyda, 68, Polish fencer, double gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, lung cancer.[59]
6
- John Jay Iselin, 74, American public television innovator, descendant of John Jay, pneumonia.[60]
- Franz Jackson, 95, American saxophonist.[61]
- Harvey Karman, 84, American psychologist and women's reproductive health advocate, inventor of the Karman cannula, stroke.[62]
- William Earl Lynd, 53, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.[63]
- Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, 74, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.[64]
- D.C. Minner, 73, American blues musician.[65]
- John Reames, 65, British football manager and administrator, cancer.[66]
- Mark Saunders, 32, British barrister, shot by police.[67]
7
- William Douglas Allen, 94, British physicist and electrical engineer.[68]
- John Earle, 64, Irish saxophonist.[69]
- Neeraj Grover, 26, Indian television executive and producer (Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?), beaten.[70]
- Rachel Hoffman, 23, American police informant, murdered.[71]
- Clifford L. Jones, 80, American politician, Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman, prostate cancer.[72]
- Donald Montrose, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Stockton (1986–1999).[73]
- Thijs Wöltgens, 64, Dutch politician, mayor of Kerkrade (1994–2000), senator (1995–2005).[74]
- Gernot Zippe, 90, Austrian engineer.[75]
8
- Al-Bandari bint Abdulaziz, 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.[76]
- Eddy Arnold, 89, American country music singer.[77]
- Willem Brakman, 85, Dutch author.[78]
- Ian Brodie, 72, British foreign correspondent (The Daily Telegraph).[79]
- Jose Feria, 91, Filipino supreme court justice (1986–1987).[80]
- Yasuharu Furuta, 93, Japanese Olympic hurdler.[81]
- Murray Jarvik, 84, American academic and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, heart failure.[82]
- Larry Levine, 80, American Grammy-winning audio engineer (Wall of Sound), emphysema.[83]
- Luigi Malerba, 81, Italian writer.[84]
- Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, 41, Mexican federal police anti-drug coordinator, shot.[85]
- François Sterchele, 26, Belgian footballer (Belgium, Club Brugge), car accident.[86]
9
- James Atkinson, 92, British physicist.[87]
- Firoz Dastur, 89, Indian Hindustani classical musician (Kirana Gharana), anaemia.[88]
- Jack Gibson, 79, Australian rugby league player and coach, selected as "Coach of the Century".[89]
- Judy Grable, 72, American female professional wrestler.[90]
- Shmuel Katz, 93, Israeli writer, historian and journalist.[91]
- Arthur Kroeger, 76, Canadian civil servant (1958–1992), academic and chancellor of Carleton University (1993–2002).[92]
- Baptiste Manzini, 87, American football player.[93]
- Nuala O'Faolain, 68, Irish journalist and author, lung cancer.[94][95]
- Mamadou N'Diaye, 68, Senegalese Olympic sprinter.[96]
- Ronald Parise, 56, American astronaut, brain tumor.[97]
- Esteban Robles Espinosa, Mexican police commander, shot.[98]
- Pascal Sevran, 62, French television presenter and producer, lyricist and writer, lung cancer.[99]
- Sinan Sofuoğlu, 25, Turkish motorcycle racer, training crash.[100]
- Artur da Távola, 72, Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, heart disease.[101]
10
- Sir John Barraclough, 90, British air marshal.[102]
- Leyla Gencer, 79, Turkish soprano opera singer, respiratory and cardiac failure.[103]
- Paul Haeberlin, 84, French chef and restaurateur (L'Auberge de l'Ill).[104]
- Jessica Jacobs, 17, Australian singer and actress (The Saddle Club), fell under train.[105][106]
- Liao Feng-Teh, 57, Taiwanese incoming interior minister, heart attack.[107]
- Eusebio Ríos, 73, Spanish international footballer and coach.[108]
- Mario Schiano, 74, Italian jazz saxophonist, after long Illness.[109]
- Peter Thurnham, 69, British MP for Bolton North East (1983–1997), pancreatic cancer.[110]
11
- Sir Austin Bide, 92, British chemist and industrialist.[111]
- Sam Dauya, 70, Zimbabwean founder of Dynamos F.C. football team.[112]
- Alema Leota, 80, American alleged organized crime leader, 1978 candidate for governor of Hawaii, injuries from car accident.[113]
- Raymattja Marika, 49, Australian Yolngu scholar, linguist, educator and cultural advocate, heart attack.[114]
- Bruno Neves, 27, Portuguese cyclist, crash during race.[115]
- Dottie Rambo, 74, American gospel singer, bus crash.[116]
- John Rutsey, 55, Canadian drummer (Rush), heart attack.[117]
- Heather Stohler, 29, American model for Calvin Klein, fire.[118]
- Dick Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke.[119]
- Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease.[120]
- Curtis Whitley, 39, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Carolina Panthers, Oakland Raiders).[121]
12
- Seton Airlie, 88, Scottish footballer.[122]
- Penny Banner, 73, American professional wrestler, cancer.[123]
- David Daniels, 74, American poet.[124]
- Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist (Warlock), kidney disease and cancer.[125]
- Lidiya Masterkova, 81, Russian-born French painter.[126]
- Natural Blitz, 7–8, Australian-bred stallion.[127]
- Robert Rauschenberg, 82, American pop artist, heart failure.[128]
- Bruce Sayers, 80, British electrical engineer.[129]
- Irena Sendler, 98, Polish humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.[130]
13
- Jill Adams, 77, British actress, cancer.[131]
- Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 78, Kuwaiti emir (2006).[132]
- Dolores Alexander, 76, American feminist, writer, and reporter.[133]
- Charles Gary Allison, 69–70, American screenwriter and film producer.[134]
- Lucius D. Battle, 89, American ambassador to Egypt (1964–1967), Parkinson's disease.[135]
- Bernardin Gantin, 86, Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[136]
- John Phillip Law, 70, American actor (Barbarella).[137]
- Larry McKeon, 63, American politician, first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly, stroke.[138]
- Colea Răutu, 95, Romanian actor, cirrhosis.[139]
- Ron Stone, 72, American news anchor (KHOU, KPRC in Houston), prostate cancer.[140]
- Costică Toma, 80, Romanian football goalkeeper (Romania, Steaua București).[141]
- Maheswary Velautham, Sri Lankan lawyer and activist, shot.[142]
- Roger Harold Metford Warner, 95, British antiques dealer.[143]
14
- Frith Banbury, 96, British stage director and actor, liver cancer.[144]
- Dagmar Barnouw, 72, German cultural historian.[145]
- Arthur Burks, 92, American mathematician and computer pioneer, Alzheimer's disease.[146]
- Warren Cowan, 87, American publicist, cancer.[147]
- Roger Ellis, 70, American football player, cancer.[148]
- John Forbes-Robertson, 80, British actor.[149]
- Derek Goodwin, 88, British ornithologist.[150]
- Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese writer.[151]
- Jay Morago, 90, American governor of the Gila River Indian Community (1954–1960), cancer.[152]
- Tonderai Ndira, 33, Zimbabwean political dissident, murdered.[153]
- Yuri Rytkheu, 78, Russian Chukchi language writer.[154]
- Mário Schoemberger, 56, Brazilian film, television and stage actor, cancer.[155]
- Richard David Vine, 82, American diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland (1979–1981).[156]
15
- Del Ankers, 91, American cinematographer and photographer (Muppets commercials).[157]
- Henry Austin, 88, Indian diplomat and politician, ambassador to Portugal.[158]
- Tommy Burns, 51, Scottish football player and manager (Celtic, Kilmarnock, Reading), melanoma.[159]
- Tove Billington Bye, 79, Norwegian politician.[160]
- Alexander Courage, 88, American television composer (Star Trek, The Waltons) and orchestrator (Jurassic Park).[161]
- Anthony Denness, 71, English cricketer.[162]
- Walt Dickerson, 80, American vibraphonist, cardiac arrest.[163]
- Robert Dunlop, 47, British motorcycle racer, chest injuries.[164]
- Will Elder, 86, American comic book artist (Mad, Little Annie Fanny), Parkinson's disease.[165][166]
- Bob Florence, 75, American jazz composer and arranger, pneumonia.[167]
- Youssef Idilbi, 32, Dutch actor, suicide.[168]
- Willis Lamb, 94, American physicist, Nobel laureate in physics (1955), complications of gallstone disorder.[169]
- Earl Leggett, 75, American football player and coach.[170]
- Yanks Music, 14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[171]
16
- Charles J. Adams, 91, American politician.[citation needed]
- Aonosato Sakari, 72, Japanese sumo wrestler.[172]
- William Blease, Baron Blease, 93, British politician.[173]
- Henry Canoy, 84, Filipino businessman, founder of Radio Mindanao Network.[174]
- Sandy Howard, 80, American film and television producer (A Man Called Horse), Alzheimer's disease.[175]
- David Mitton, 69, British animation director (Thomas & Friends, Thunderbirds), heart attack.[176]
- Robert Mondavi, 94, American winemaker, benefactor of the Mondavi Center, member of the California Hall of Fame.[177]
- Igor Polyakov, 95, Russian rower, 1952 Olympic silver medalist.[178]
- Marc Rabémila, 70, Malagasy Olympic athlete.[179]
- Jimmy Slyde, 80, American tap dancer.[180]
- Peter Rolfe Vaughan, 73, English scientist, heart attack.[181]
17
- Jolyon Brettingham Smith, 58, British composer, musicologist and radio presenter.[182]
- John Fitzsimmons, 68, British Roman Catholic priest and broadcaster, after long illness.[183]
- Thomas Flatley, 76, American real estate tycoon and philanthropist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[184]
- Zélia Gattai, 91, Brazilian writer and novelist, wife of Jorge Amado.[185]
- Wilfrid Mellers, 94, British composer and author.[186]
- D. Aubrey Moodie, 99, Canadian politician.[187]
- Jack Rayner, 87, Australian rugby league player.[188]
- Sophan Sophiaan, 64, Indonesian actor and politician, motorcycle accident.[189]
- Joyce Trimmer, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (1988–1994), cancer.[190]
- Lionel Van Deerlin, 93, American politician and journalist, representative from California (1963–1981).[191]
18
- Lionel Algama, 73, Sri Lankan singer, composer and a musician.[192]
- Pietro Cascella, 87, Italian contemporary artist.[193]
- Irma Córdoba, 94, Argentine actress, natural causes.[194]
- Jonathan James, 24, American cyber criminal.[195]
- John Lucas, 85, Barbadian-born Canadian cricketer.[196]
- Lloyd Moore, 95, American NASCAR driver (1949–1955).[197]
- Elemore Morgan, Jr., 76, American landscape artist.[198]
- Jack Norris, 99, American football player.[199]
- Joseph Pevney, 96, American television and film director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase, Trapper John, M.D.).[200]
19
- Nigel Cassidy, 62, British footballer.[201]
- Larry Coutre, 80, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[202]
- Jack Duffy, 81, Canadian comedian, natural causes.[203]
- Chaim Flom, 56, Israeli scholar and rosh yeshiva.[204]
- Huntington Hartford, 97, American businessman and philanthropist.[205]
- Barclay Howard, 55, British golfer.[206]
- Rimma Kazakova, 76, Russian poet.[207]
- Mariam McGlone, 92, American dancer and choreographer.[208]
- Kjell Kristian Rike, 63, Norwegian sports commentator.[209]
- André Schlupp, 78, French Olympic basketball player.[210]
- Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright, myasthenia gravis.[211]
20
- Iona Banks, 87, British actress (Pobol y Cwm).[212]
- Crispin Beltran, 75, Filipino congressman and labor leader, head injuries from a fall.[213]
- Viktor Bortsov, 73, Russian actor, intestinal cancer.[214]
- Margot Boyd, 94, British actress (The Archers).[215]
- Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison, 71, British footballer and trade unionist.[216]
- Charles William John Eliot, 79, Canadian academic administrator, president of the University of Prince Edward Island (1985–1995), complications of a stroke.[217]
- Joachim Erwin, 58, German politician, mayor of Düsseldorf, colorectal cancer.[218]
- Gonzalo Figueroa Garcia Huidobro, 77, Chilean archaeologist.[219]
- Herb Hash, 97, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox), stroke.[220]
- Harald Hein, 58, German Olympic fencer.[221]
- Zelma Henderson, 88, American last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, pancreatic cancer.[222]
- Hamilton Jordan, 63, American politician, Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff (1979–1980), mesothelioma.[223]
- Baine Kerr, 88, American lawyer and oil executive.[224]
- Cy Leonard, 82, Canadian ventriloquist.[225]
- Ali Sadikin, 80, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta (1966–1977), liver cancer.[226]
- S. K. Trimurti, 96, Indonesian journalist, first minister of labor and employment, natural causes.[227]
21
- Bert André, 66, Dutch actor (Flodder), intracranial hemorrhage[228]
- Earl Wesley Berry, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[229]
- Mel Casson, 87, American cartoonist (Redeye).[230]
- Brian Keenan, 66, Irish IRA commander, cancer.[231]
- Ted Lanyon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.[232]
- Michelle Meldrum, 39, American rock guitarist (Phantom Blue, Meldrum), cystic growth on the brain.[233]
- John Aloysius Morgan, 98, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.[234]
- Siegmund Nissel, 86, German-born British violinist (Amadeus Quartet).[235]
- Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, 77, Portuguese artist and engraver, long illness.[236]
- Torcato Sepúlveda, 57, Portuguese journalist.[237]
- Jeheskel Shoshani, 65, Israeli-born American elephant expert, bus explosion.[238]
22
- Melek Amet, 47, Romanian model, ovarian cancer.[citation needed]
- Robert Asprin, 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures), heart attack.[239]
- Charlie Booth, 104, Australian athlete, inventor of the starting block.[240]
- Harry Lange, 77, German production designer and art director (2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal).[241]
- Jack Mildren, 58, American football player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (1990–1995), stomach cancer.[242]
- Paul Patrick, 58, British gay rights activist, chronic lung condition.[243]
- Hana Maria Pravda, 90, Czech actress and Holocaust survivor.[244]
- Tubby T, 33, British dancehall/garage musician, stroke.[245]
23
- Nigel Anderson, 88, British soldier, landowner, and politician.[246]
- Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and critic.[247]
- Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer, founder of the International Center of Photography.[248]
- Roberto Freire, 81, Brazilian writer and psychiatrist, created somatherapy.[249]
- Dritan Hoxha, 39, Albanian businessman, car accident.[250]
- Thelma Keane, 82, Australian-born American who inspired husband Bil's comic strip The Family Circus, Alzheimer's disease.[251]
- Heinz Kwiatkowski, 81, German footballer, member of 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning team.[252]
- Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, 40, Spanish mountaineer and alpinist, pulmonary edema while climbing Annapurna.[253]
- Jefferson Peres, 76, Brazilian senator from Amazonas, heart attack.[254]
- Utah Phillips, 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure.[255]
- Jack Smith, 72, English football player (Hartlepool United, Swindon Town, Margate) and manager.[256]
24
- Adam Baruch, 63, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic, diabetes complications.[257]
- Bob Beck, 63, Guamanian zoologist and conservationist, worked to save Guam rail native birds.[258]
- Tano Cimarosa, 86, Italian actor.[259]
- Reg Flewin, 87, British footballer.[260]
- Rob Knox, 18, British actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), stabbed.[261]
- Eugenio Garza Lagüera, 84, Mexican businessman, president of FEMSA, natural causes.[262]
- Isaac Lipschits, 77, Dutch political scientist and historian, natural causes.[263]
- Dick Martin, 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), respiratory complications.[264]
- Jimmy McGriff, 72, American jazz and blues organist, multiple sclerosis.[265]
- Sonny Okosun, 61, Nigerian musician, colon cancer.[266]
25
- Nadia Arslan, 59, Lebanese actress, breast cancer.[267]
- Louise Firouz, 74, American horse breeder.[268]
- George Garrett, 78, American novelist and poet, cancer.[269]
- Geremi González, 33, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, lightning strike.[270]
- James D. Griffin, 78, American mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.[271]
- Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian chess grandmaster.[272]
- Ítalo Argentino Lúder, 91, Argentine acting president (1975).[273]
- Tom McHale, 45, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).[274]
- Mitch Mullany, 39, American comedian and actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, The Wayans Bros., The Sweetest Thing), diabetes-related stroke.[275]
- J. R. Simplot, 99, American businessman, original McDonald's french fries supplier.[276]
- Olaf Sørensen, 90, Danish Olympic runner.[277]
- Ernst Stuhlinger, 94, German-born American rocket scientist.[278]
- Camu Tao, 30, American rapper-producer, lung cancer.[279]
- Kenneth H. Wood, 90, American author and administrator, editor of the Adventist Review, heart failure.[280]
26
- Dolly Aglay, 41, Filipino financial journalist, cancer.[281]
- Jerry C. Begay, 83, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran.[282]
- Dick Evans, 90, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Cardinals).[283]
- Hans Haasmann, 92, Dutch Olympic diver Hans Haasmann Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
- Earle Hagen, 88, American film and television theme composer (The Andy Griffith Show, The Mod Squad, I Spy).[284]
- Howlin' Dave, 52, Filipino radio disc jockey and proponent of Pinoy rock, stroke.[285]
- John Hulme, 63, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Reading, Bury).[286]
- Roy Koerner, 75, British polar scientist and explorer.[287]
- Yuriy Konovalov, 78, Soviet-born Azerbaijani Olympic track athlete, 4 × 100 m relay silver medallist (1956 and 1960).[288]
- Donald L. Pilling, 64, American admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1997–2000), leukemia.[289]
- Sydney Pollack, 73, American film director and actor (Tootsie, Out of Africa, Michael Clayton), Oscar winner (1986), stomach cancer.[290]
- Alan Renouf, 89, Australian head of DFAT, ambassador to United States (1977–1979), France and Yugoslavia, leukemia.[291]
- Kermit Scott, 71, American philosophy professor, namesake of Kermit the Frog.[292]
- Robert G. Voight, 87, American academic.[293]
27
- Ed Arno, 91, Austrian-American cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist.[294]
- Valmae Beck, 64, Australian child murderer, complications of heart surgery.[295]
- Tony Hussein Hinde, 55, Australian-born Maldivian surfer, heart attack.[296]
- Jim Kerr, 68, American professional football player (Washington Redskins)[297]
- Franz Künstler, 107, German World War I veteran, last known surviving veteran of the Central Powers.[298]
- Hubert Macey, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).[299]
- Per Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic shooter.[300]
- Mick Nolan, 58, Australian footballer, cancer.[301]
- Neal Potter, 93, American politician.[302]
- Abram Raselemane, 30, South African footballer, apparent suicide.[303]
- Alejandro Romualdo, 82, Peruvian poet.[304]
- Keith Rosewarne, 83, Australian footballer.[305]
28
- Beryl Cook, 81, British painter.[306]
- Sven Davidson, 79, Swedish tennis player.[307]
- Robert H. Justman, 81, American television and film producer (Star Trek), Parkinson's disease.[308]
- Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer.[309]
- Danny Moss, 80, British jazz tenor saxophonist.[310]
- Nashoba's Key, 5, American racehorse, euthanized.[311]
- Dianne Odell, 61, American author with polio, power failure to iron lung.[312]
- Erin Spanevello, 21, Canadian fashion model, drug overdose.[313]
29
- Paula Gunn Allen, 68, Native American poet, novelist, and activist, lung cancer.[314]
- José Alejandro Bernales, 59, Chilean director general of Carabineros de Chile, helicopter crash.[315]
- Luc Bourdon, 21, Canadian ice hockey player, motorcycle accident.[316]
- Romeo A. Brawner, 72, Filipino appeals court judge (1995–2005), election commissioner (2005–2008), heart attack.[317]
- Len Devine, 84, Australian politician, MP for East Sydney (1963–1969).[318]
- Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flintstones), four-time Emmy winner, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[319]
- Donald MacLeod, 75, New Zealand cricketer.[320]
30
- Harry Brautigam, 59, Nicaraguan president of the BCIE since 2003, heart problem after air crash.[321]
- Campbell Burnap, 68, British jazz trombonist, cancer.[322]
- Harlan Cleveland, 90, American diplomat, educator and author, ambassador to NATO (1965–1969), natural causes.[323]
- Rodney Gordon, 75, British architect.[324]
- Graeme Miller, 67, Australian cricketer.[325]
- Noel Moore, 79, British civil servant, leader of decimalisation project, brain tumour.[326]
- Chris Morgan, 55, British journalist, apparent suicide in front of a train.[327]
- William Eldridge Odom, 75, American Army Lieutenant General and director of the National Security Agency.[328]
- Lorenzo Odone, 30, American ALD patient portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil.[329]
- Mike Scott, 75, British television producer and presenter.[330]
- Boris Shakhlin, 76, Russian-born Ukrainian gymnast, winner of seven Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union, cardiac arrest.[331]
- Suprakash Som, 60, Indian cricketer.[332]
- Nat Temple, 94, British bandleader.[333]
31
- Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall.[334]
- John Ambler, 83, British businessman.[citation needed]
- Joe Axelson, 80, American executive and general manager of the National Basketball Association Sacramento Kings.[335]
- Nusret Çolpan, 56, Turkish painter and architect.[336]
- Detlef Gromoll, 70, American mathematician, brain hemorrhage.[337]
- Nelly Láinez, 88, Argentine actress, urinary infection.[338]
- Per-Erik Larsson, 79, Swedish skier.[339]
- Charles Moskos, 74, American sociologist, architect of the US military DADT gay and lesbian policy, cancer.[340]
- Paul Thomson, 91, American botanist, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association.[341]
- Allan Wiles, 87, New Zealand cricketer.[342]
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