Deaths in June 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2006.

30

• Robert Gernhardt, 68, German satirist [1]
• Albert Sherman, 88, publisher of the Newport Daily News, cancer. [2]

29

• Caroline Kearney, 22, Irish Triathlete,collision with a car while on a training cycle ride in Montpellier [3]
• Fabián Bielinsky, 47, Argentinean film director, heart attack. [4]
• Tom Brown, 79, West Texas oilman who founded Brown & Roper. [5]
• Lloyd Richards, 87, first African-American Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure. [6]
• Ross Tompkins, 68, pianist for Tonight Show band. [7]
• Randy Walker, 52, Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack [8]
• Mercedes Quezada de Fox, 87, mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox Quezada, respiratory arrest. [9]

28

• Sedley Alley, 50, American convicted murderer and rapist, executed via lethal injection. [10]
• Jim Baen, 62, science fiction editor and publisher. [11]
• Theodore Black, 77, American executive, former CEO of Ingersoll Rand. [12]
• Walter Cox, 87, former president of Clemson University. [13]
• Boban Giankovic, 43, Serbian basketball player in Greece, heart attack. [14]
• Herman Merinoff, 77, American liquor distributor, co-chair of the Charmer-Sunbelt Group. [15]
• Mahmoud Mestiri, 77, former foreign minister of Tunisia [16]
• George Page, 71, creator and narrator of the PBS series Nature. [17]
• Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 87, English barrister, politician and author. [18]
• Mickey Sims, 51, former player with the Cleveland Browns, heart attack. [19]
• Wing Commander George Unwin, 93, Battle of Britain ace. [20]
• Lennie Weinrib, 71, American actor. [21]

27

• Eileen Barton, 76, American singer, actress
• Robert Carrier, 82, American celebrity chef.[22]
• J. Robert Elliott, 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley. [23]
• Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, 46, Mexican serial killer, execution via lethal injection. [24]
• Don Wright, 97, Canadian composer and lyricist. [25]

26

• Bob Allan, 54, former Chief Executive of the Glasgow Housing Association. [26]
• Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death. [27]
• Al Brounstein, 86, Canadian-born American Napa Valley vintner, Parkinson's disease. [28]
• Joe Carter, 57. gospel singer who took his "A Song in the Night" show to five continents playing 300 shows in five continents. [29]
• Donald Halperin, 60, former New York state senator. [30]
• Johnny Jenkins, 67, American blues guitarist who who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix. [31] [32]
• Lieutenant General Parami Kulatunga, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast. [33]
• Eric Rofes, 51, American author and AIDS educator. [34]
• Abbye Stockton, 88, pioneering woman weightlifter and bodybuilder, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [35]
• Stephen Tiger, 57, member of Native American band Tiger Tiger who performed with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin and recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native American Music Association, head injury. [http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/arts/sfl-otiger01jul01,0,7938089.story?coll=sfla-features-arts
• Stan Torgerson, 82, radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games. [36]

25

• Elkan Allan, 83, created Ready, Steady, Go! and developed the first television listings for the UK in the Sunday Times. [37]
• Eliyahu Asheri, 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and executed by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
• Charles Barrow, 84, former justice of the Texas Supreme Court. [38]
• B. D. Nag Chowdhury, 89, Indian nuclear scientist, cerebral haemorrhage. [39]
• Richard DeVore, 73, Colorado sculptor, lung cancer. [40]
• Alexis Giannoulias, 69, founder of the Broadway Bank in Chicago and father of Alexi Giannoulias a Democrat politician, heart attack. [41]
• Kenneth Griffith, 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease. [42]
• Akbar Hossain, 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, heart attack [43]
• Irving Kaplansky, 89, American mathematician. [44]
• Dibya Khaling, 56, lyricist and composer of Nepali music responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest. [45]
• Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer. [46] [47]
• Sophie Maslow, 95, American choreographer. [48]
• Melvin Moss, 83, American anatomist and former dean of Columbia University's dental school. [49]
• Gad Navon, 84, Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbi, cancer. [50]
• Jaap Penraat, 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II. [51]
• Michael Ruane, 78, Massachusetts legislator 1975-2005, cancer. [52]
• Seema Aissen Weatherwax, 100, Ukrainian photographer
• Roberta Weston, 118?, claimed to be the world's oldest woman but no documentary proof of claim. [53]

24

• John Conger, 85, psychologist and former dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. [54]
• Denice Denton, 46, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide. [55]
• Ben Garry, 50, played NFL for the Baltimore Colts, car crash. [56]
• Jeffrey Harbers, 54, Microsoft executive who worked on developing many software programs including Microsoft Office, plane crash. [57]
• Tichaona Jokonya, 67, Information & Publicity Minister in Zimbabwe, cardiac arrest. [58]
• Ígor Medio, 34, and Carlos Redondo, 40, members of Felpeyu folk band, from Asturias, Spain, car accident. [59]
• John F. Oates, 71, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classics at Duke University and one of America's leading papyrologists. [60]
• Patsy Ramsey, 49, mother of the late JonBenét Ramsey, ovarian cancer. [61], [62]
• Lyle Stuart, 83, American journalist and publisher. [63]
• Gerald Tomlinson, 73, mystery and baseball writer. [64]
• Tom Triplett, 71, Savannah, Georgia Politician, Former Georgia Representative. [65]
• Ric Weiland, 53, Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC, COBOL and Microsoft Works, suicide. [66]

23

• Martin Adler, 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu, Somalia. [67]
• Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin, heart failure. [68]
• Grady Johnson, 66, former WWF wrestler known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure. [69]
• Budhi Kunderan, 66, former India wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer. [70]
• Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer (Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Beverly Hills 90210), complications of stroke. [71]

22

• Heinz Ansbacher, 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler. [72]
• Anna Castelli Ferrieri, 87, Italian architect and designer. [73]
• Moose, 16, canine star of U.S. sit-com Frasier, played the character Eddie, "Skip" on film "My Dog Skip". [74]
• Pinuccia Nava, 86, Italian actress of the 1940s and 1950s on stage (the "Nava Sisters"), screen and TV (clown "Scaramacai"). [75]

21

• Theo Bell, 52, National Football League receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma. [76]
• Monsignor Denis Faul, 73, former chaplain at the Maze Prison, outspoken critic of The Troubles and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, cancer. [77]
• Khamis al-Obeidi, 39, defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, assassinated. [78]
• David Walton, 43, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee [79]
• Jonathan Wordsworth, 73, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust. [80]

20

• Ken Browne, 72, New Zealand steeplechase jockey and trainer. [81]
• Bill Daniel, 90, former Governor of Guam. [82]
• Evelyn Dubrow, 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. [83]
• E. Pierce Marshall, 67, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection. [84]
• Jerome Martin (aka Redd Angel), 29, South African singer, car wreck. [85]
• Lamont Reese, 28, American convicted murderer, executed. [86]
• Charles H. Sawyer, 91, birth control researcher, Alzheimer's disease. [87]
• William Shurcliff, 97, physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb. [88]
• Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang. [89]
• Vincent Usolor, former Nigerian Senator, died in his sleep. [90]

19

• Hugh Baird, 76, footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians and Scotland. [91]
• Myldred Jones, 96, Californian social worker who founded youth shelter in Los Alamitos, California and helped to launch other youth services. [92]
• Duane Roland, 53, guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet. [93]
• Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer. [94]
• István 'Joni' Szulovszky, 55, Hungarian musician, founding member of A.E. Bizottság. [95]
• Melvin Watson, 98, American Baptist minister who trained Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders, complications from surgery [96]

18

• Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician. [97]
• Des Colquhoun, 75, former editor-in-chief and columnist for the The Adelaide Advertiser, died in his sleep. [98]
• Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, Former Democratic United States Member of Congress from 1965-1967 from New York
• Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter and protege of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. [99]
• Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer. [100]
• Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer. [101] [102]
• René Renou, 54, French vintner. [103]
• Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director (Mr. Skeffington, The Young Philadelphians), natural causes. [104][105]
• Richard Stahl, 74, American comedy actor, Parkinson's disease. [106][107]
• Arthur Wood, 93, executive at Sears, Roebuck & Company responsible for building Sears Tower, complications of pneumonia. [108]

17

• Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League. [109]
• Cláudio Besserman Vianna, (a.k.a. Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack [110]
• Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Invaders from Mars). Emphysema and heart disease. [111][112]
• Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002-2006), cause unknown. [113]
• Bill Lamb, 76, American public television executive, co-founder of WNET and former chief of KCET. [114]
• Charles Older, 88, Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall. [115][116]
• Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader. [117]
• Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of "Salad Days", cancer. [118]
• Bob Weaver, 77, Miami, Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer. [119]
• William Yallup Sr, 79, Yakama Nation elder. [120]

16

• Jimmy Allison, 77, Scottish unionist and Scottish organiser for the Labour Party between 1977 and 1990. [121] [122]
• Irving Berk, 100, Romania-born American founder of Berk Trade and Business School. [123]
• Roland Boyes, 69, Former Labour politician and photographer. Alzheimer's disease. [124]
• Barbara Epstein, 76, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, lung cancer. [125]
• Robert Hatch, 75, American public relations executive for Children's Television Workshop and the Peace Corps. [126]
• Arthur Malvin, 83, Emmy award winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness. [127]
• Robert W. Mann, 81, American mechanical engineer and designer. [128]
• Scott Manning, 48, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing. [129]
• Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor, [130]
• Judy Wolpe, 62, cabinet member in two states and wife of former U.S. representative Howard Wolpe, drowning. [131] [132]

15

• Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli. [133]
• Rabi Das, 34, leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal, shot dead by suspected Maoists. [134]
• Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist. [135]
• Jabu Sithole, 34, Zulu weatherman on the South African Broadcasting Corporation, AIDS. [136]
• Grand Rabbi Israel Dan Taub, 78, Modzitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Israel. [137]

14

• Samuel Ackerman, 58, Chairman and CEO of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, heart attack. [138]
• Josiah Beeman, 70, former US ambassador to New Zealand and Western Samoa, campaign manager for Jerry Brown, kidney failure.
• H. Monroe Browne, 89, former US ambassador to New Zealand. [139]
• Khurshid Zahan Hoque, 69, Bangladesh's Minister for Women and Children, cirrhosis of the liver. [140]
• Craig Morris, 66, American pre-Columbian archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History. [141]
• Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer [142]
• Ndabezinhle Sigogo, Zimbabwean novelist and poet. [143]
• Irving Sunshine, 90, leader in forensic toxicology, multiple myeloma. [144]
• Klaas Verboom, 58, Canadian artist, liver cancer. [145]

13

• Freddie Gorman, 77, US songwriter. [146]
• Patricia Guiver, 76, animal welfare advocate and mystery novelist, complications of heart surgery. [147]
• Charles Haughey, 80, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, prostate cancer. [148]
• Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure. [149]
• Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue. [150]
• Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease. [151]
• Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer. [152]

12

• Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot [153]
• Chakufwa Chihana, 67, veteran Malawi opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour. [154]
• Michael Dornheim, 51, award-winning journalist with Aviation Week, car crash. [155]
• Michael Fajans, 58, Amercian painter, motorcycle accident. [156] [157]
• Wes Hill, 76, Niagara River expert. [158]
• Clifford Hocking, 74, Australian entrepreneur [159]
• György Ligeti, 83, composer of the opera Le Grand Macabre; some of his music was also used on 2001: A Space Odyssey. [160]
• José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist. [161]
• Evan Settle, 93, former University of Kentucky basketballer. [162]
• Frank Streeter, 88, American philanthropist and book collector. [163]
• Mel Streeter, 75, architect and University of Oregon basketball player, amyloidosis. [164]
• Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, billionaire Canadian media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack. [165]
• Nijiro Tokuda, 111, oldest man in Japan [166]
• Paul Xanthos, 85, tennis coach at Pierce College for three decades winning 23 Conference titles, died in his sleep. [167]

11

• Michael Bartosh, 28, Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall. [168]
• James Cameron, 92, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma. [169]
• Pierre Clerdent, 97, Belgian politician (Liège), and holder of the Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur. [170]
• Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor. [171]
• Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist. Complications of diabetes. [172]
• William Hundley, 80, American lawyer. [173]
• Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker. [174]
• Mike Quarry, 55, light heavyweight boxer who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia. [175]
• Major Bruce Shand, 89, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales, cancer. [176]
• Daniel Steiner, 72, American president of the New England Conservatory, lung disease. [177] [178]
• John Udeh, 50, prolific writer on development issues and former Federal Commissioner representing Enugu State 1999-2003. [179]
• George Washington, 76, American boxing trainer. [180]

10

• Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, former President of North Yemen. [181]
• Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis. Mastocytosis.[182] [183]
• Moe Drabowsky, 70, Polish-born American Major League Baseball player, multiple myeloma. [184]
• German Goldenshteyn, 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician. [185]
• Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College. [186]
• Kenneth Jack, 81, Australian artist. [187]
• Charles Johnson, 96, Negro League baseballer for the Chicago American Giants, complications of prostate cancer. [188]
• Philip Merrill, 72, publisher and diplomat, suicide. [189]
• Ruddy Thomas, 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack. [190]

9

• Kinga Choszcz aka "Freespirit", Polish author (Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World), cerebral malaria. [191]
• Drafi Deutscher, 60, German singer. [de]
• Michael Forrestall, 73, Canadian senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems. [192]
• Patricia Janus, 74, American poet, heart attack brought on by liver cancer.
• Enzo Siciliano, 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus. [193]

8

• Thomas G. Arthur, 84, caterer who developed the Dodger Dog, heart attack. [194] [195]
• Will Baxter, 99, first professor of accounting in the UK. [196]
• Audrey Campbell, 76, actress best known for playing "Olga" in an infamous sexploitation film trilogy, undisclosed causes [197]
• Jake Copass, 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia. [198]
• Robert Donner, 75, American character actor probably best known for playing Exidor on Mork and Mindy, aneurysm. [199]
• Jack Jackson (nom de plume Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press. [200]
• Abouna Matta El Meskeen, 87, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt. [201]
• Terry McCann, 74, Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and helped found USA Wrestling, cancer (see [202]).
• Mary Martin McLaughlin, 87, American scholar of the Middle Ages. [203]
• John C. Roberts, 72, founder of Australian construction company Multiplex. Complications of diabetes. [204]
• Jamal Abu Samhadana, leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC. Killed by Israeli air strike. [205]
• Talcott Seelye, 84, former United States ambassador to Tunisia and Syria. [206]
• Sir Peter Smithers, 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe. [207]

7

• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 39, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. [208]
• Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. [209]
• Betty Beale, 94, Washington, District of Columbia society columnist. [210]
• Carl Dengler, 91, blind Rochester, New York bandleader and percussionist. [211]
• Joseph Dorfman, 65, Russian-Israeli composer of new music and a Shostakovich scholar.[212]
• Dr. Morton Kligerman, 88, American cancer researcher and professor of oncology and radiology. [213]
• Scott Palmer, 38, bassist for the reggae band John Brown's Body, cancer of the gall bladder. [214]
• Ingo Preminger, 95, Hollywood talent agent and producer (M*A*S*H), brother of Otto Preminger. [215] [216]
• Howard Rosenstone, 68, American theatrical agent. [217]
• Louis B. Sohn, 92, Lviv-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter. [218]
• John Tenta (aka Earthquake), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation, bladder cancer. [219]

6

• Professor Leslie Alcock, 81, pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle. [220]
• Scobey Hartley, 74, Alberta oilman, heart attack [221]
• Frank Lanza, 74, Chairman and CEO of L-3 Communications following surgery. [222]
• Arnold Newman, 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture". [223] [224].
• Billy Preston, 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing") known for his work with the Beatles, malignant hypertension leading to kidney failure. [225]
• Hilton Ruiz, 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall. [226] [227]
• Léon Weil, 109, French World War I veteran. [228]

5

• Ray Cale, 83, Dual international for Wales in rugby union and rugby league. [229] [230]
• Frederick Franck, 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist. [231]
• Eric Gregg, 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke. [232] [233][234]
• Wayne Hage, 69, American cattle rancher who sued the US National Forest Service over grazing rights. [235]
• Caleb Hammond, 90, American president of C. S. Hammond & Company mapmakers. [236]
• Carlene Lewis, 51, American lawyer who sued Merck over the drug Vioxx. [237]
• Henri Magne, 53, French rally co-driver (navigator) [238] [239]
• Robert Ross, 86, leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip. [240]
• Elizabeth Fretwell, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company. [241]

4

• Alec Bregonzi, 76, British actor [242]
• Bill Fleming, 92, former MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs
• Peter Greenwell, 76, British composer and pianist known for his work with Noel Coward who later developed a tribute show described by Allan Jay Lerner as "the best Noel Coward since Noel Coward.[243]
• Raul Indipwo, 72, Portuguese singer, born in Angola, cancer [244]
• Ron Jones, 41, former Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage [245]
• Richard Kapp, 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi. [246]
• Anthony Marreco, 90, junior British prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International. [247]
• Eric Molobi, 58, South African anti-apartheid activist and businessman, lung cancer. [248]
• William M. Steger, 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960. [249]
• Robert Taylor, 68, former New York Giants defensive end who played in the 1963 NFL championship game, complications following surgery for colon cancer. [250]

3

• Dick Anderson, 73, scuba diver. [251]
• Leo Clarke, 82, Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia, 1976-1995. [252]
• William Dimitr Jr., 76, Rhode Island Superior Court judge, cancer. [253]
• Brian Duke, 79, tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness. [254]
• Johnny Grande, 76, pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer. [255]
• George Kashdan, 78, American comic book writer and editor for DC Comics. [256]
• Janet Sandell, 70, South African social activist, ovarian cancer. [257]
• Doug Serrurier, 85, former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor. [258]
• Prudence Watson, Canadian lawyer, brain tumor. [259]
• Ni Wen-ya, 105, former President of the Legislative Yuan. [260]
• Robin Williams Jr., 91, American sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association. [261]

2

• Sol Cantor, 95, American discount store pioneer. [262]
• Jennifer Eley, 44, prize-winning American classical concert pianist. [263]
• Barbara Furrer Goodman, 74, American educator, former chair of the board of trustees of the Teachers College at Columbia University. [264]
• Bernard Loomis, 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and Star Wars action figures, heart disease. [265]
• Vivek Maitra, Indian politician, possible foul play. [266]
• Leon Pownall, 63, Canadian actor, cancer. [267]
• Frank Spencer, 87, FBI agent who investigated the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. [268]
• Vince Welnick, 55, member of The Grateful Dead, suicide. [269]
• Edward Yates, 87, director of American Bandstand (1952–1969). [270]

1

• Perry Bass, 91, Texas oilman and philanthropist. [271]
• Dr. Charles Brush III, 83, American archaeologist and former president of the Explorer's Club. [272]
• Arthur Espenet Carpenter, 86, American furniture craftsman. [273]
• Shokichi Iyanaga, 100, influential Japanese mathematician [274]
• Rocío Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer. [275]
• Allan Prior, 84, British television scriptwriter (Z Cars, Howard's Way, The Charmer), father of folk singer Maddy Prior. [276]
• Calvin Pullins, Prince, 74, US-wrestler
• Abdul Latif Sharif. 59, Egyptian, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
• Claude Terrail, 88, owner of the restaurant La Tour d'Argent. [277]
• William D. Winn, 59, professor of education at the University of Washington. [278]