Deaths in June 2007

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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2007.

30

• Jim Corbett, 82, American politician, Mayor of Tucson, Arizona (1967–1971), Arizona legislator (1956–1958), heart problems. [1]
• Bruce Greensill, 65, Australian rugby union player and administrator, represented Auckland and Sydney. [2]
• Jan Herman Linge, 85, Norwegian boat designer, Soling and Yngling class. [3]
• Will Schaefer, 78, American composer of background music for I Dream of Jeannie and The Flintstones, cancer. [4]
• John Svenson, 58, American developer, co-owner of the Boston Celtics, cancer. [5]
• Robert E. Sweeney, 82, American politician, US Representative from Ohio (1965-1967), heart problems. [6]
• Sahib Singh Verma, 64, Indian Chief Minister of Delhi (1996–1998), Bharatiya Janata Party leader, car accident. [7]

29

• Frank W. Burke, 87, American politician, US Representative (1959–1963), Mayor of Louisville (1969–1973). [8]
• Raymond E. Douglas, 58, American NY Times executive who helped add color to its pages, pulmonary embolism. [9]
• Alban Garon, 77, Canadian Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada (2003–2004), murdered. [10] [11]
• John Hansl, 82, Croatian ex-concentration camp guard whose US citizenship was revoked in 2005, congestive heart failure. [12]
• Harry Henshel, 88, American watchmaker, last member of the Bulova family to head that company. [13]
• Joseph Hernon, 70, American historian and author, cancer. [14]
• George McCorkle, 60, American guitarist with The Marshall Tucker Band, cancer. [15]
• Eddie Rutherford, 86, British footballer (Scotland, Rangers). [16]
• Fred Saberhagen, 77, American writer of Berserker series, cancer. [17]
• Joel Siegel, 63, American film critic for Good Morning America on ABC, colon cancer. [18]
• Alojzij Šuštar, 86, Slovenian former Archbishop of Ljubljana. [19] (Slovenian)
• Maurice Wohl, 83, British philanthropist and businessman, heart problems. [20]
• Edward Yang, 59, Taiwanese film director (Yi Yi), colon cancer. [21]

28

• Philip Baloun, 61, American events planner, pancreatic cancer. [22]
• Inez Baskin, 91, American journalist, covered the Montgomery Bus Boycott. [23]
• Leo Burmester, 63, American actor, leukemia. [24]
• Dean Colvard, 93, American President of Mississippi State Univ (1960–1966), Chancellor of Univ of North Carolina (1966–1978). [25]
• Moshe Decter, 85, American advocate for Jewish causes, heart failure. [26]
• Eugene B. Fluckey, 93, American submarine commander awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II. [27]
• Hugh Johns, 83, British football commentator with ITV. [28]
• Bruce Kennedy, 68, American businessman, former chairman and CEO of Alaska Airlines, light plane crash. [29] [30]
• Abraham Klausner, 92, American rabbi, supporter of Holocaust survivors, complications of Parkinson's disease. [31]
• Kiichi Miyazawa, 87, Japanese Prime Minister (1991–1993), natural causes. [32]
• Gregory Reeves, 57, American journalist, complications from ALS. [33]
• Howie Schneider, 77, American cartoonist (Eek and Meek), complications of heart surgery. [34]
• Catherine Troeh, 96, American native people activist and historian. [35]
• Jess Weiss, 90, American anesthesiologist. [36]

27

• Patrick Allotey, 28, Ghanaian footballer for Feyenoord and Ghana. [37] (Dutch)
• Yulia Arustamova, 24, Russian cyclist, European champion, suicide by hanging. [38] (Russian)
• Tom Atkinson, 85, British publisher, founder of Luath Press. [39]
• Arthur Campbell, 89, British sports administrator for cycling and the Commonwealth Games. [40]
• Ramiz Delalić, 44, Bosnian gangster and warlord known as Ćelo, shot. [41]
• William Hutt, 87, Canadian actor, leukemia. [42]
• Jimmy Marks, 62, American Romani civil rights leader, heart attack. [43]
• Ashraf Marwan, 62, Egyptian son-in-law of former President Nasser, alleged double agent. [44]
• Emilio Ochoa, 99, Cuban who was last living signatory of the 1940 Constitution, cardiac arrest. [45]
• Silas Rhodes, 91, American educator, founder of the School of Visual Arts. [46]
• Dragutin Tadijanović, 101, Croatian author. [47]

26

• Tina Brozman, 54, American Bankruptcy Court judge, complications of ovarian cancer. [48]
• Liz Claiborne, 78, Belgian-born American fashion designer, cancer. [49]
• Jupp Derwall, 80, German football coach of West Germany (1978–1984), heart attack. [50]
• Filipe Ferrer, 70, Portuguese actor and director, after long illness. [51] (Portuguese)
• Fasal al Gaood, Iraqi former governor of Al Anbar, Sunni tribal sheik prominent in alliance against Al Qaeda, suicide bomb victim. [52]
• Lucien Hervé, 96, Hungarian-born French photographer, after long illness. [53] (Hungarian)
• Bobby Hussey, 67, American basketball coach at Virginia Tech and Davidson College. [54]
• Dame Thea King, 81, British clarinetist. [55]
• Patrick Knight, 39, American convicted double murderer, execution by lethal injection. [56]
• Luigi Meneghello, 85, Italian writer and essayist. [57] (Italian)
• Joey Sadler, 92, New Zealand All Blacks rugby union player. [58]
• Malcolm Slesser, 80, British scientist and mountaineer, fall from clifftop. [59]

25

• Alida Bosshardt, 94, Dutch "public face" of the Salvation Army. [60]
• Claude Brosset, 63, French actor. [61] (French)
• Dana Bullen, 75, American journalist and advocate for freedom of the press, cancer. [62]
• J. Fred Duckett, 74, American sports announcer and teacher, cancer. [63]
• Jeeva, 43, Indian director and cinematographer. [64]
• Mahasti, 61, Iranian pop singer, colon cancer. [65]
• Bill Moss, 76, American gospel musician (The Celestials), emphysema. [66]
• Adrian Mung'andu, 84, Zambian Catholic archbishop of Lusaka (1984–1996). [67]

24

• Byron Baer, 77, American legislator for New Jersey (1971–2005), heart failure. [68]
• Gillian Baverstock, 75, British novelist, daughter of Enid Blyton. [69]
• Chris Benoit, 40, Canadian professional wrestler, suicide by hanging. [70]
• Edouard Brunner, 75, Swiss diplomat and United Nations mediator. [71]
• Derek Dougan, 69, Northern Irish footballer (Wolves, Northern Ireland). [72]
• Vladimir Fedyaev, Bulgarian president of PBC CSKA Sofia, car accident. [73]
• Jack Flynt, 92, United States Representative from Georgia (1954–1979). [74]
• Alan Jenkins, 81, British journalist, former editor Glasgow Herald. [75]
• Emil Koen, 33, Bulgarian manager of PBC CSKA Sofia, car accident. [76]
• Robert Kroon, 82, Dutch journalist, pancreatic cancer. [77]
• Charles W. Lindberg, 86, American last surviving marine who raised the first flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. [78]
• David Mason, 85, British reporter for Associated Press. [79]
• Fritz Massmann, 80, American basketball trainer for the New York Nets (1970–1992). [80]
• Natasja Saad, 32, Danish rapper, car accident. [81] (Danish)
• Joy Simonson, 88, American feminist, complications of pneumonia. [82]
• Ralph Stayer, 92, American businessman, founder of Johnsonville Foods. [83]
• Eva Tucker, 96, American philanthropist. [84]
• Ray Welch, 68, American radio advertising announcer, cancer. [85]
• Maurice Wood, 90, British Anglican Bishop of Norwich (1971-1985). [86]

23

• Rod Beck, 38, American Major League Baseball pitcher. [87]
• Gloria Helfgott, 79, American artist known for her book art, scleroderma. [88]
• Hans Sennholz, 85, German-born economist. [89]
• Nguyen Chanh Thi, 84, South Vietnamese general during the Vietnam War. [90]
• Roscoe Ward, 88, American subject of documentary Brother's Keeper. [91]

22

• Billie Beatty, 73, American gospel guitarist, heart attack. [92]
• Bernd Becher, 75, German photographer, complications of heart surgery. [93]
• Eugene Bell, 88, American biologist who developed a way of growing skin for skin grafts, heart failure. [94]
• Nancy Benoit, 43, American professional wrestler and manager, wife of wrestler Chris Benoit, murder by strangulation. [95]
• Luciano Fabro, 70, Italian artist and theorist in Arte Provera movement, heart attack. [96]
• Lenar Gilmullin, 22, Russian footballer (FC Rubin Kazan), motorcycle accident. [97] (Russian)
• William L. Hungate, 84, American judge, U.S. Representative (1964–1977), complications of surgery. [98]
• Richard W. James, 82, American oceanographer, subdural hematoma. [99]
• George Kovacs, 80, American lighting designer, emphysema. [100]
• Ralph Morano, 74, American harness racing trainer and driver. [101]
• Erik Parlevliet, 43, Dutch field hockey player, after long illness. [102] (Dutch)
• Guy Vander Jagt, 75, United States Representative from Michigan (1966–1993), pancreatic cancer. [103]

21

• Georg Danzer, 60, Austrian singer, lung cancer. [104] (German)
• Bob Evans, 89, American founder of Bob Evans Restaurants, pneumonia. [105]
• Douglas Hill, 72, Canadian author. [106]
• Peter M. Liba, 67, Canadian Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba (1999–2004). [107]
• Jean Paul Mather, 92, American educator, President of University of Massachusetts (1954–1960). [108]
• Mbuyu Mibanga, Congolese legislator, deputy of the National Assembly, plane crash. [109]
• Marshall Shulman, 91, American Sovietologist who founded the Averell Harriman Institute at Columbia University. [110]
• Mary Ellen Solt, 86, American poet and critic, stroke. [111]
• John Todd, 96, American computer scientist and mathematician. [112]

20

• Nazik Al-Malaika, 84, Iraqi poet, old age. [113]
• Rudy Autio, 80, American sculptor, leukemia. [114]
• Shayne Bower, 42, Canadian professional wrestler known as "Biff Wellington", heart attack. [115]
• Anita Guha, Indian actress, heart failure. [116]
• Donna King Conkling, 88, American singer, member of The King Sisters. [117]
• J.B. Handelsman, 85, American cartoonist for The New Yorker, lung cancer. [118]
• Margaret Helfland, 59, American architect and urban planner, colon cancer. [119]
• Mamadou Konte, 65, Senegalese music producer, founder of the Africa Fete music festival and record label. [120]
• Jim Shoulders, 79, American Pro Rodeo Hall of Famer, heart ailment. [121]
• Bart Tromp, 62, Dutch political scientist and columnist, professor of International Relations at University of Amsterdam. [122] (Dutch)
• John Tyers, 92, American opera singer. [123]

19

• Antonio Aguilar, 88, Mexican actor, pneumonia. [124]
• Tommy Eytle , 80, Guyanese-born British actor. [125]
• El Fary, 69, Spanish singer, lung cancer. [126]
• Terry Hoeppner, 59, American football coach for Indiana University, brain tumor. [127]
• Piara Khabra, 82, British Labour MP for Ealing, Southall (1992–2007). [128]
• Alberto Mijangos, 81, Mexican-American painter, lymphoma. [129]
• Ze'ev Schiff, 74, Israeli military journalist, heart disease. [130]
• Klausjürgen Wussow, 78, German actor (Schwarzwaldklinik), after long illness. [131] (German)

18

• Jules Baker, 88, American activist, co-founder and President of the "National Association for Human Development", heart failure. [132]
• Bill Barber, 87, American jazz tuba player, played with Miles Davis and John Coltrane, heart failure. [133]
• Vilma Espín, 77, Cuban wife of acting President Raúl Castro, president of Cuban Women's Federation. [134]
• Pablo Estramín, 47, Uruguayan singer and composer, cancer. [135] (Spanish)
• Kenneth Franklin, 84, American astronomer at the Hayden Planetarium. [136]
• Efrain Guigui, 81, American conductor, Vermont Symphony Orchestra (1974-1989), cancer. [137]
• Tung Hua Lin, 96, Chinese engineer, designed China's first twin-engine aircraft, heart failure. [138]
• Donald Malcolm, 88, American academic, Dean of Business and Economics at CSULA (1972–1981). [139]
• Bernard Manning, 76, British comedian, kidney failure. [140]
• Hank Medress, 68, American singer (The Tokens), producer of The Chiffons and Tony Orlando and Dawn, lung cancer. [141]
• Georges Thurston, 55, Canadian author and composer known as "Boule Noire" (Afro), colorectal cancer. [142]
• Cheves Walling, 91, American organic chemist, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. [143]

17

• Jamal Abdul Karim al-Dabban, 68, Iraqi Sunni religious leader, heart attack. [144]
• Elias Blake, 77, American educator, President of Clark College. [145]
• Ben Brocklehurst, 85, British cricketer and publisher. [146]
• Angelo Felici, 87, Italian Catholic Cardinal, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. [147]
• Gianfranco Ferrè, 62, Italian fashion designer, brain haemorrhage. [148]
• Ed Friendly, 85, American television producer (Little House on the Prairie, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), cancer. [149]
• Emanuele Narducci, 57, Italian Latinist. [150] (Italian)
• Jan Nathan, 68, American book publisher, founded Independent Book Publishers Association, cancer. [151]
• Jay Newman, 59, Canadian philosopher, cancer. [152]
• Abilio Jose Osorio Soares, 60, Indonesia's last governor of East Timor. [153]
• Joseph Thompson, 56, American blogger, brain tumor. [154]
• Serena Wilson, 73, American dancer who popularized belly dancing, pulmonary embolism. [155]
• Robert Vincent Wright, 88, American television scriptwriter (Maverick, Bonanza, Lost in Space), bronchitis and pneumonia. [156]

16

• Robin Beard, 67, American Representative from Tennessee (1973–1983), brain tumor. [157]
• Norman Hackerman, 95, American former president of the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University, heart disease. [158]
• Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, 76, Iranian religious leader. [159]
• Harold O'Connor, 86, American baseball player with the Boston Braves, accident. [160]
• Rennie Stewart, 89, British military officer known for his role in preserving HMS Unicorn. [161]
• Thommie Walsh, 57, American dancer (A Chorus Line) and Tony Award-winning choreographer, lymphoma. [162]
• Lola Wasserstein, 89, American mother of playwright Wendy Wasserstein who inspired some of her daughter's characters. [163]

15

• Richard Bell, 61, Canadian keyboardist for Janis Joplin and The Band, cancer. [164]
• Claudia Cohen, 56, American socialite and journalist, ovarian cancer. [165]
• Hugo Corro, 53, Argentine WBA and WBC middleweight boxing champion (1978–1979). [166]
• Marcel-Jacques Dubois, 87, French-born priest and professor of Philosophy, won Israel Prize. [167]
• Paul R. Gibson, 83, American businessman, heart and respiratory ailments. [168]
• John Harding, 54, British coach of Barnet F.C., heart attack. [169]
• Sherri Martel, 49, American professional wrestler and valet. [170]
• Francisco Seruca Salgado, 62, Portuguese journalist for RTP, founder of the Socialist Party. [171] (Portuguese)
• Haydn Sherley, 83, New Zealand radio presenter (In a Mellow Tone). [172]
• Alex Thomson, 78, British Academy Award-nominated cinematographer (Excalibur). [173]
• Larry Whiteside, 69, American baseball journalist. [174]

14

• Ruth Graham, 87, American wife of evangelist Billy Graham. [175]
• William LeMessurier, 81, American structural engineer, complications from surgery following a fall. [176]
• Robin Olds, 84, American fighter pilot in the United States Air Force, heart failure. [177]
• Humberto Reynoso, 74, Argentinian professional wrestler. [178]
• Jacques Simonet, 43, Belgian politician and mayor of Anderlecht, heart attack. [179] (Dutch)
• Frank Taylor, 104, American museum curator, founding director of the National Museum of American History, respiratory failure. [180]
• Peter Ucko, 68, British archaeologist, complications of diabetes. [181]
• Kurt Waldheim, 88, Austrian President (1986–1992), UN Sec-General (1972–1981), WWII Wehrmacht officer, heart failure. [182] [183]
• John Ward, 89, British artist. [184]

13

• Fentress Bracewell, 85, American lawyer, founder of Bracewell & Giuliani legal firm, Alzheimer's disease. [185]
• Kai Davidson, 44, British musician and manager (The Proclaimers). [186].
• Jessie Davis, 26, American murder victim. [187]
• Randolph Dial, 62, American convicted murderer, spent 11 years on the run with warden's wife, cancer. [188]
• Walid Eido, 65, Lebanese politician, bomb. [189]
• Ramchandra Gandhi, 70, Indian philosopher and author. [190]
• Sir David Hatch, 68, British managing director of BBC Radio, comic actor (I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again). [191]
• Oskar Morawetz, 90, Canadian classical composer. [192]
• Néstor Rossi, 82, Argentinean footballer, played in 1958 FIFA World Cup. [193]
• Jacek Skubikowski, 53, Polish singer, composer, guitar player, TV and theatrical presenter, throat cancer. [194] (Polish)

12

• Donald D. Clancy, 85, American Mayor of Cincinnati (1957–1960), US Representative from Ohio (1961–1977), Parkinson's disease. [195]
• Colin Fletcher, 85, American writer on hiking, complications of old age and injuries from a 2001 car accident. [196]
• Tito Gómez, 59, Puerto Rican salsa singer, former member of Ray Barretto and Sonora Ponceña bands, heart attack. [197]
• Don Herbert, 89, American TV host ("Mr. Wizard"), bone cancer. [198]
• Sir Wally Herbert, 72, British polar explorer. [199]
• Jay Monroe, 80, American inventor of the tensor lamp, suicide by gunshot. [200]
• Mac Morgan, 89, American bass-baritone opera singer, complications of appendicectomy. [201]
• Jim Norton, 68, American football player (Houston Oilers, 1960–1969). [202]
• Guy de Rothschild, 98, French banker and member of the Rothschild family. [203]
• Frank Scarrabelotti, 109, Australia's oldest living man. [204]
• Robert Schwartz, 84, American Defense official captured during PFLP 1970 aircraft hijacking, heart failure. [205]
• Ingolf Håkon Teigene, 58, Norwegian TV host and news anchor, heart failure. [206] (Norwegian)
• Samuel Isaac Weissman, 94, American chemist known for his work on the Manhattan Project. [207]

11

• Bobby Beaton, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, professional boxer and boxing referee. [208]
• Elias Blake, 77, American educator, President of Clark College (1977–1987), cardiopulmonary disease. [209]
• Eamonn Coleman, 59, Northern Irish Gaelic football coach (Derry GAA), Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [210]
• Vern Hoscheit, 85, American Major League Baseball bullpen coach. [211]
• Cole Kugel, 105, American who was the nation's oldest licensed pilot. [212]
• Roger Landry, 60, American legislator, Maine House of Representatives (2003-2004). [213]
• Ray Mears, 80, American basketball coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers (1963–1977). [214]
• Mala Powers, 75, American film actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, Outrage), leukemia.[215]
• German Vega, 75, Puerto Rican musician, founding member of Los Hispanos. [216]
• Julie Thoma Wright, 49, American businesswoman, founder and co-owner of Wright auction house, colorectal cancer. [217]

10

• August H. Auer, Jr., 67, American-born New Zealand atmospheric scientist and meteorologist, heart attack. [218]
• George Burrarrawanga, 50, Australian singer with the Warumpi Band. [219] [220]
• Tommy Eytle, 79, British actor (Eastenders) and jazz singer. [221]
• Dorothy Goodwin, 92, American professor emeritus at University of Connecticut, former member of Connecticut General Assembly. [222]
• Charley Harper, 84, American wildlife artist, pneumonia. [223]
• Jim Killingsworth, 83, American basketball coach at Texas Christian University (1979–1987), complications of a stroke. [224]
• Laurence Mancuso, 72, American founding abbot of Monks of New Skete, complications of injuries from a fall. [225]
• John Ostashek, 71, Canadian Yukon Party Leader (1992–1999) and Yukon Government Leader (1992–1996), cancer. [226] [227]
• Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, 58, Israeli religious leader and philosopher, cancer. [228]
• William Graydon Tanner, 77, American Director-Treasurer of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (1986–1996). [229]
• Parviz Varjavand, 73, Iranian archaeologist, heart failure. [230]

9

• Frankie Abernathy, 25, American cast member of The Real World: San Diego, cystic fibrosis. [231]
• Rudolf Arnheim, 102, German-born American author, psychologist, and theorist of film and visual art. [232]
• Lorne Carr, 96, Canadian NHL hockey player for the New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs. [233] [234]
• Eddie Crush, 90, British cricketer for Kent (1946–1949). [235]
• Harry Ewing, Baron Ewing of Kirkford, 76, British Labour politician, cancer. [236]
• Achieng Oneko, 87, Kenyan freedom fighter and politician, heart attack. [237]
• Ousmane Sembène, 84, Senegalese film director, producer and writer, after long illness. [238]
• Juanita Swedenburg, 82, American winemaker, congestive heart failure. [239]
• Roy Torcaso, 96, American notary public, won landmark decision for refusing to swear religious oath, prostate cancer. [240]
• Martin Weber, 102, American graphic designer, designed posterization. [241]
• Elias Wen, 110, Chinese-born Protopresbyter (senior clergy) of the Russian Orthodox Church. [242]

8

• Tucker Collins, 54, American pathologist and vascular researcher, brain tumor. [243]
• Hideo Kanze, 79, Japanese Noh actor and director, intestinal cancer. [244]
• Nellie Lutcher, 94, American jazz singer and pianist, pneumonia. [245]
• Aden Abdulle Osman, 99, first President of Somalia (1960–1967). [246]
• Adrian Pintea, 52, Romanian actor, cirrhosis. [247] (Romanian)
• Marc Ramsbotham, 34, British Isle of Man TT motorcycle racer, race crash. [248]
• Lynne Randell, 57, Australian singer best known for "Ciao Baby", apparent suicide. [249] [250]
• Richard Rorty, 75, American philosopher, pancreatic cancer. [251]
• Israel Shenker, 82, American journalist and author. [252]

7

• Roger Armstrong, 89, American comic artist and writer from 1941 to 1989 for Western Publishing and others. [253]
• Gilbert Gude, 84, United States Representative from Maryland (1967–1977), heart failure. [254]
• Michael Hamburger, 83, British poet, translator, critic. [255]
• Robert Tracy, 52, American dance writer, complications of infection with HIV. [256]
• Sahar Hussein al-Haideri, 44, Iraqi journalist, shot. [257]

6

• Warren Bradley, 73, British footballer who played for Manchester United and England. [258]
• Tony De Santis, 93, American owner of Drury Lane Theatre, cancer. [259]
• Augen Mar Divannasyos, 55, Indian bishop in the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, car accident. [260]
• Larry Hamlin, 58, American theater producer, founder of the National Black Theater Festival. [261]
• William C. Mercer, 88, American former President and Chairman of New England Telephone, heart failure. [262]
• Luke Sela, 64, Papua New Guinean journalist, editor of the PNG Post Courier (1978–2000). [263]
• Zakia Zaki, 35, Afghan director of Radio Peace, shot. [264]

5

• Sam Baker, 76, American football player, complications of diabetes. [265]
• João Canedo, 62, Portuguese radio presenter for TSF. [266] (Portuguese)
• Giovanni Antonio Carta, 107, one of the last eight surviving veterans of World War I from Italy. [267]
• Gert-Jan Dröge, 64, Dutch TV personality, lung cancer. [268] (Dutch)
• Diana Mason, 84, New Zealand doctor and anti-abortion activist, cancer. [269]
• Povel Ramel, 85, Swedish artist, singer, pianist, comedian, actor, author. [270]
• Edwin Traisman, 91, American food scientist who developed McDonald's french fries and helped develop Cheez Whiz, heart attack. [271]
• Jean Vollum, 80, American philanthropist and widow of Tektronix founder Howard Vollum, congestive heart failure. [272]

4

• Loganathan Arumugam, 54, Malaysian musician (Alleycats), lung cancer. [273]
• Roberto Barbosa, Portuguese photographer and professor at IADE and Ar.Co. [274] (Portuguese)
• Clete Boyer, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves) and coach, stroke. [275]
• Tom Burns, 75, Australian politician, former Queensland opposition leader, Deputy Premier and ALP national president. [276]
• Jim Clark, 84, American sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama who opposed voting rights in Selma, stroke and heart condition. [277]
• Don Doyle, 82, American lawyer and lawmaker, served in the Iowa legislature for 30 years, prostate cancer. [278]
• Ray Erlenborn, 92, American child actor and sound effect technician. [279]
• Bill France, Jr., 74, American CEO of NASCAR (1972–2003), cancer. [280] [281]
• Hedley Mortlock, 66, New Zealand journalist, editor of NZ Truth (1987–1997), cancer. [282]
• Sotiris Moustakas, 67, Greek Cypriot actor, cancer. [283]
• Freddie Scott, 74, American singer ("Hey Girl"), heart attack. [284] [285]
• Craig L. Thomas, 74, American Senator from Wyoming since 1995, leukemia. [286]

3

• Juan Antonio "Arguru" Argüelles, Spanish musician and programmer, founder of DiscoDSP, car accident. [287]
• Richard Attipoe, Togolese Minister for Sport, helicopter crash. [288]
• Iván Darvas, 82, Hungarian Kossuth Prize-winning actor. [289] (Hungarian)
• Ragheed Ganni, 35, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic priest, shot. [290]
• Nelson Levy, 58, Tahitian founding head of Air Tahiti Nui, leading figure in French Polynesian tourism, heart attack. [291] [292]
• Leonard Nathan, 82, American poet, National Book Award nominee, UC Berkeley professor of Rhetoric, Alzheimer's disease. [293]

2

• Sandy Barr, 69, American wrestler, heart attack. [294]
• Marion Francis Forst, 96, oldest Roman Catholic bishop in the United States. [295]
• Steve Gilliard, 42, American blogger, heart and kidney failure. [296]
• Kentaro Haneda, 58, Japanese pianist, composer and arranger, liver cancer. [297]
• Wolfgang Hilbig, 65, German author. [298]
• Huang Ju, 68, Chinese Vice Premier, Politburo Standing Committee member, former Mayor of Shanghai. [299] [300]
• Charles Maynes, 68, American Assistant Secretary of State (1977–1980), editor of Foreign Policy for 18 years. [301]
• Martin Meyerson, 84, American academic, President of Penn (1971-1982) and Chancellor of UC Berkeley. [302]
• John Moriarty, 69, Irish poet and philosopher, cancer. [303]
• Kelsey Smith, 18, American kidnapping and murder victim. [304]

1

• Warren M. Anderson, 91, American legislator, Temporary President and Majority Leader of the NY Senate (1973–1989). [305]
• Jan Beneš, 71, Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter, suicide. [306] [307] (Czech)
• Kasma Booty, 75, Malaysian actress, pneumonia. [308]
• Sir John Gilmour, 94, British Conservative MP for East Fife (1961-1979) and Lord Lieutenant of Fife (1980-1987). [309]
• Ernest Hofstetter, 95, Swiss pioneer climber of Mount Everest. [310]
• Karl Evald Johansson, 58, Norwegian actor, screenwriter and artist, cancer. [311] (Norwegian)
• Charlie Johnson, 58, American basketball player, cancer. [312]
• Charles Kinkead, 93 Jamaican photojournalist, stroke. [313]
• Pamela Low, 79, American flavorist who created the coating for Cap'n Crunch. [314]
• Marly de Oliveira, 69, Brazilian poet ("O Mar de Permeio"), multiple organ failure. [315]
• R. K. Patil, 99, Indian politician and Minister in Provincial Government, natural causes. [316]
• Arn Shein, 78, American sports writer. [317]
• Dave Smalley, 72, American coach of US Naval Academy men's and women's basketball teams, complications of cancer. [318]
• Helen Stetter, 113, American who was world's fourth-oldest living person and Nebraska's oldest person. [319]
• Tony Thompson, 31, American lead vocalist of the R&B group Hi-Five, apparent drug overdose. [320]