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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.
1
- Leopoldo Alas Mínguez, 45, Spanish writer, poet and editor.[1]
- Carlos Aponte, 69, Colombian footballer.[2]
- Rolf Bae, 33, Norwegian mountaineer, climbing accident.[3]
- Pauline Baynes, 85, British illustrator (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings).[4]
- Peter Jackson, 80, Australian fashion designer, prostate cancer.[5]
- Ashok Mankad, 61, Indian cricketer.[6]
- Chief Mqalo, 91, South African Chief of the AmaKhuze Tribe, Alice.[7]
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 92, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.[8]
- Butch White, 72, British cricketer (Hampshire, Glamorgan, England).[9]
2
- Fujio Akatsuka, 72, Japanese manga artist, pneumonia.[10]
- Frederic Apcar, 93, Russian-born French acrobatic dancer and producer/impresario.[11]
- Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde, 81, British aristocrat and banker.[12]
- Geoffrey Ballard, 76, Canadian businessman and fuel cell scientist, founder of Ballard Power Systems.[13]
- Pérez Celis, 69, Argentine plastic artist, leukaemia.[14]
- Affonso Évora, 89, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) basketball player.[15]
- Helga Gitmark, 78, Norwegian politician.[16]
- Christopher González, 65, Jamaican sculptor and painter, cancer.[17]
- Kåre Grøndahl Hagem, 93, Norwegian politician.[18]
- Meherban Karim, 29, Pakistani mountaineer, climbing accident.
- Allen Kolstad, 76, American politician, lieutenant governor of Montana (1988–1991), cancer.[19]
- Ger McDonnell, 37, Irish mountaineer, first Irishman to reach K2 summit, climbing accident.[20]
- Peter Rodman, 64, American foreign policy expert, leukemia.[21]
- John F. Seiberling, 89, American politician, representative from Ohio (1971–1987), respiratory failure.[22]
3
- Anton Allemann, 72, Swiss footballer (PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Nürnberg, Grasshopper Zürich), heart attack.[23]
- Skip Caray, 68, American broadcaster for baseball (Atlanta Braves) and basketball (Atlanta Hawks), bronchitis.[24]
- Erik Darling, 74, American songwriter, folk musician, lymphoma.[25]
- Roger Dean, 65, British guitarist, brain cancer.[26]
- Babatunde Jose, 82, Nigerian journalist and newspaper editor.[27]
- Jeffrey S. Medkeff, 39, American astronomer and science writer, liver cancer.[28]
- Robert Montgomery, 78, American lawyer.[29]
- Aurelius H. Piper Sr., 92, American hereditary chief of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation since 1959, natural causes.[30]
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian novelist and historian, Nobel Prize winner (1970), heart failure.[31]
- Louis Teicher, 83, American classical pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), heart failure.[32]
4
- Alberto Achacaz Walakial, 79, Chilean craftsman, one of the last full-blooded Alacaluf, blood poisoning.[33]
- Sally Insul, 92, American actress, heart failure.[34]
- Craig Jones, 23, British motorcycle racer, head injuries from a race crash.[35]
- Peter Kass, 85, American actor, director and teacher.[36]
- Eri Kawai, 43, Japanese pop and classical singer, liver cancer.[37]
- Victor McCaffery, 89, Australian cricketer.[38]
- Robert Maheu, 90, American businessman, aide to Howard Hughes.[39]
- Nicola Rescigno, 92, American opera conductor, complications from broken femur.[40]
- Johnny Thio, 63, Belgian football player and coach, myocardial rupture.[41]
- Greg Weld, 64, American racing driver and businessman, heart attack.[42]
5
- Aziz Abdullah Ahmed, 80-81, Iraqi Kurdish judge, Alzheimer's disease.[43]
- Jaroslav Alexa, 59, Czech Olympic athlete.[44]
- Bruno Dallansky, 79, Austrian actor.[45]
- Robert Hazard, 59, American musician and songwriter ("Girls Just Want to Have Fun"), pancreatic cancer.[46]
- Jack Kamen, 88, American comic book artist (Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror), cancer.[47]
- Reg Lindsay, 79, Australian country music singer and songwriter, pneumonia.[48]
- Shelby Linville, 78, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats), cancer.[49]
- José Medellín, 33, Mexican convicted murderer, execution in Texas by lethal injection.[50]
- Gary Mooney, 78, American animator (Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, George of the Jungle), cancer.[51]
- Daniel L. Norris, 73, Canadian commissioner of the Northwest Territories (1989–1994), heart failure.[52]
- Eva Pflug, 79, German actress (Raumpatrouille Orion).[53]
- Manuel de Almeida Trindade, 90, Portuguese bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aveiro (1962–1988).[54]
6
- Bertil Ahlin, 81, Swedish boxer.[55]
- Robert Nason Beck, 80, American scientist, myelodysplasia.[56]
- John K. Cooley, 80, American author (Unholy Wars), journalist and expert of Middle East affairs, cancer.[57]
- Ela-Mana-Mou, 32, British Thoroughbred race horse and sire, euthanized.[58]
- Gene Galusha, 66, American actor and narrator.[59]
- Roy Howard, 85, Australian cricketer.[60]
- Karl Kuehl, 70, American baseball scout, coach and manager (Montreal Expos), pulmonary fibrosis.[61]
- Tony Russo, 71, American whistleblower (Pentagon Papers).[62]
- Jud Taylor, 68, American television director and actor (Dr. Kildare, Star Trek, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), kidney failure.[63]
- Reg Whitehouse, 75, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders).[64]
7
- Bernie Brillstein, 77, American film producer (Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, ALF), chronic pulmonary disease.[65]
- Juan Bustos, 72, Chilean politician, liver cancer.[66]
- Simon Gray, 71, British playwright, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[67]
- Ralph Klein, 77, Israeli basketball player and coach, intestinal cancer.[68]
- Andrea Pininfarina, 51, Italian businessman, CEO of Pininfarina, motorcycle accident.[69]
- Clarence Rost, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.[70]
8
- Ann-Mari Aasland, 93, Norwegian politician.[71]
- Rio Alex Bulo, 30, Indonesian Serial Killer
- Ralph Edward Dodge, 101, American bishop of the Methodist Church.[72]
- Antonio Gava, 78, Italian politician, minister of the interior (1988–1990), after long illness.[73]
- Orville Moody, 74, American professional golfer, winner of 1969 U.S. Open.[74]
- Eleo Pomare, 70, Colombian modern dance choreographer, cancer.[75]
- Henk Starreveld, 94, Dutch Olympic canoer.[76]
9
- Giorgi Antsukhelidze, 23, Georgian soldier, shot.[77]
- Sir Stanley Bailey, 81, British chief constable of Northumbria Police (1975–1991).[78]
- Peter Coe, 88, British athletics coach, father of Sebastian Coe.[79]
- Colm Condon, 87, Irish lawyer, Attorney General (1965–1973).[80]
- Bob Cunis, 67, New Zealand cricketer.[81]
- Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet, complications from open heart surgery.[82]
- Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott, 85, British judge.[83]
- Ken Griffiths, 78, English footballer (Port Vale).[84]
- Jacob Landau, 74, American journalist, attorney, co-founder of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, after long illness.[85]
- Bernie Mac, 50, American comedian and actor (The Bernie Mac Show, Ocean's Eleven, Friday), complications from pneumonia.[86]
- Gilbert Morand, 85, French military patrol runner.[87]
- Roy Simmonds, 79, Australian rules footballer (Hawthorn), cancer.[88]
- Greg Urwin, 61, Australian diplomat, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (2004–2008), cancer.[89]
- Denis Vetchinov, 32, Russian army major, recipient of Hero of the Russian Federation award, killed in action.[90]
- Vivian Shun-wen Wu, 95, Taiwanese entrepreneur, chairwoman of Yulon Motor, heart failure.[91]
10
- Louise Armstrong, 71, American children's writer.[92]
- Sir William Christie, 95, North Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (1972–1975).[93]
- Lee Clark, 71, Canadian politician, MP for Brandon—Souris (1983–1993).[94]
- John Esmonde, 71, British television writer, half of Esmonde and Larbey (Please Sir!, The Good Life).[95]
- Isaac Hayes, 65, American soul and funk musician ("Theme from Shaft") and actor (South Park, The Rockford Files), Oscar winner (1972), stroke.[96]
- Cezmi Kartay, 88, Turkish civil servant and politician (chairman of SODEP).[97]
- William A. Knowlton, 88, American general.[98]
- Howard G. Minsky, 94, American film producer (Love Story).[99]
- Terence Rigby, 71, British actor (Get Carter, Watership Down, Mona Lisa Smile), lung cancer.[100]
- Alexander Slobodyanik, 65, Ukrainian pianist, meningitis.[101]
- František Tikal, 75, Czech ice hockey player.[102]
- David Young, 76, British Bishop of Ripon (1977–1999).[103]
11
- Arase Nagahide, 59, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.[104]
- Agneta Bolme Börjefors, 67, Swedish television presenter and royal reporter.[105]
- Sheikh Abdul Aziz, 55–56, Kashmir politician, shot.[106]
- Henry B. R. Brown, 82, American investment banker, aneurysm.[107]
- John S. Bull, 73, American NASA astronaut.[108]
- Sir Bill Cotton, 80, British television executive.[109]
- George Deem, 75, American artist, lung cancer.[110]
- George Furth, 75, American playwright (Company) and actor (Blazing Saddles, The Cannonball Run).[111]
- Don Helms, 81, American steel guitarist.[112]
- James Hoyt, 83, American soldier, member of the Buchenwald liberation team.[113]
- Anatoly Khrapaty, 45, Kazakh Olympic weightlifter (USSR and Kazakhstan), motorcycle accident.[114]
- Günther Schifter, 84, Austrian journalist and radio presenter.[115]
- Fred Sinowatz, 79, Austrian politician, chancellor of Austria (1983–1986).[116]
- Darren Taylor, 42, American gang member turned peacemaker, cancer.[117]
- Rhoshii Wells, 31, American boxer, Olympic medallist, shot.[118]
12
- Christie Allen, 53, Australian pop singer, pancreatic cancer.[119]
- Michael Baxandall, 74, British art historian, Parkinson's disease.[120]
- Gilles Bilodeau, 53, Canadian NHL and World Hockey Association player (Quebec Nordiques).[121]
- Mick Clough, 80, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1976–1988, 1991–1999).[122]
- Dottie Wiltse Collins, 84, American AAGPBL baseball pitcher (Fort Wayne Daisies).[123]
- Leon Dorsey, 32, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[124]
- Donald Erb, 81, American avant-garde composer.[125]
- George Gick, 92, American Major League Baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[126]
- Rust Hills, 83, American fiction editor (Esquire), cardiac arrest.[127]
- Lester Hogan, 88, American physicist, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[128]
- Vilma Jamnická, 101, Austro-Hungarian-born Slovakian actress and astrologer.[129]
- Francis Lacassin, 76, French editor.[130]
- Patricia W. Malone, 84, American naval officer.[131]
- Aditya Prakash, 84, Indian architect.[132]
- Herm Schneidman, 94, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[133]
- Stan Storimans, 39, Dutch photojournalist and cameraman, mortar fire.[134]
- Bill Stulla, 97, American children's television show host.[135]
13
- Sandy Allen, 53, American tallest woman in the world (according to Guinness World Records).[136]
- Henri Cartan, 104, French mathematician.[137]
- Bill Gwatney, 48, American politician, Arkansas state senator (1992–2002), Democratic Party of Arkansas chairman, shot.[138]
- John MacDougall, 60, British politician, MP for Glenrothes since 2005 and Central Fife (2001–2005), mesothelioma.[139]
- Nollaig Ó Gadhra, 64, Irish language activist, journalist and historian, co-founder of Teilifís na Gaeilge.[140]
- Roy Prosser, 66, Australian international rugby union player, heart attack.[141]
- Dino Toso, 39, Italian automotive engineer, Renault F1 director of aerodynamics, cancer.[142]
- Jack Weil, 107, American founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear, oldest working CEO.[143]
- Stuart Cary Welch, 80, American scholar and collector of Indian and Islamic art.[144]
14
- Seiji Aochi, 66, Japanese ski jumper, stomach cancer.[145]
- Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, 66, British politician and local government leader, cancer.[146]
- Ralph Feigin, 70, American pediatrician, lung cancer.[147]
- Luigi Grossi, 83, Italian Olympic sprinter.[148]
- Percy Irausquin, 39, Aruban fashion designer, cerebral hemorrhage.[149]
- Carlton John, 92-93, Trinidadian West Indian cricket umpire.[150]
- Marius Maziers, 93, French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[151]
- Michael Anthony Rodriguez, 45, American murderer, member of the Texas Seven, execution by lethal injection.[152]
- Lita Roza, 82, British singer, first British female to top the UK singles chart.[153]
- Bob Worthington, 72, American honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States (1985–2008).[154]
15
- Carlos Meglia, 50, Argentine comic book artist (Cybersix).[155]
- James Orthwein, 84, American businessman, cancer.[156]
- Gladys Powers, 109, British-born last World War I veteran living in Canada, served with the WAAC and WRAF.[157]
- Leroy Sievers, 53, American journalist, colon cancer.[158]
- Vic Toweel, 79, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion (1952–1954).[159]
- Jerry Wexler, 91, American record producer, heart failure.[160]
- Darrin Winston, 42, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, 1997–1998), leukemia.[161]
16
- Hugh Butt, 98, American physician.[162]
- Dorival Caymmi, 94, Brazilian songwriter and singer, multiple organ failure.[163]
- Roberta Collins, 63, American actress (Death Race 2000, Eaten Alive), drug overdose.[164]
- Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, 84, Tahitian archbishop of Papeete (1973–1999), ruptured aneurysm.[165]
- Ronnie Drew, 73, Irish singer, founding member of The Dubliners, throat cancer.[166][167]
- Jack Dunham, 98, American animator and television producer, creator of the St. Hubert Chicken.[168]
- Masanobu Fukuoka, 95, Japanese microbiologist, pioneer of no-till grain cultivation.[169]
- Elena Leușteanu, 73, Romanian gymnast and three-time Olympic medalist, pancreatic cancer.[170]
- Fanny Mikey, 78, Argentine-born Colombian theatre actress, renal failure.[171]
- Johnny Moore, 70, Jamaican trumpeter, founding member of The Skatalites, cancer.[172]
- Alfred Rainer, 20, Austrian Nordic combined skier, paragliding accident.[173]
- Helge Uuetoa, 71, Estonian stage designer, beaten.[174]
17
- Marie Fisher, 77, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1978–1988).[175]
- Dave Freeman, 47, American author (100 Things To Do Before You Die), injuries from fall.[176]
- Maudie Hopkins, 93, last certified American Civil War widow.[177]
- Sir Edwin Nixon, 83, English businessman, chief executive of IBM UK.[178]
- Philip Saffman, 77, American mathematician.[179]
- Franco Sensi, 82, Italian businessman, president of A.S. Roma since 1993, respiratory failure.[180]
18
- Kazys Abromavičius, 80, Lithuanian painter.[181]
- Jeannette Eyerly, 100, American author and columnist.[182]
- Manny Farber, 91, American film critic and painter.[183]
- Bob Humphrys, 56, British BBC sports presenter, lung cancer.[184]
- Genuine Risk, 31, American racehorse, 1980 Kentucky Derby winner.[185]
- Pervis Jackson, 70, American R&B bass singer (The Spinners), cancer.[186]
- Jumoke, 18, American western lowland gorilla, complications of early pregnancy.[187]
- Floyd Peters, 72, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[188]
19
- Leo Abse, 91, British politician, MP (1958–1987), reformer of laws on homosexuality and divorce.[189]
- Carlos Arguelles, 90, Filipino architect.[190]
- Julius Carry, 56, American actor (The Last Dragon, Disco Godfather, Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place), pancreatic cancer.[191]
- Binyamin Gibli, 89, Israeli head of military intelligence.[192]
- Algimantas Masiulis, 77, Lithuanian actor.[193]
- LeRoi Moore, 46, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band), complications from ATV accident.[194]
- Mikhail Mukasei, 101, Russian spy.[195]
- Levy Mwanawasa, 59, Zambian politician, president since 2002, complications from stroke.[196]
- Diane Webber, 76, American model and actress.[197]
20
- Tunku Abdullah, 83, Malaysian businessman.[198]
- Mario Bertok, 79, Croatian chess grandmaster and journalist, drowned.[199]
- Marshall Brown, 90, American basketball player and coach.[200]
- Chao Yao-tung, 92, Taiwanese minister of economic affairs, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[201]
- Ed Freeman, 80, American U.S. Army helicopter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor, complications of Parkinson's disease.[202]
- Phil Guy, 68, American blues guitarist, brother of Buddy Guy, pancreatic cancer.[203]
- Larry Hennessy, 79, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors, Syracuse Nationals).[204]
- Hua Guofeng, 87, Chinese premier (1976–1980), chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (1976–1981).[205]
- Clair Isbister, 92, Australian paediatrician.[206]
- Edward Jaworski, 82, American Olympic water polo player (1952).[207]
- Dick Jones, 97, American politician.[208]
- Eric Longworth, 90, British actor (Dad's Army).[209]
- Leopoldo Serran, 66, Brazilian screenwriter, liver cancer.[210]
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, American member of the House of Representatives from Ohio since 1999, cerebral hemorrhage.[211]
- Gene Upshaw, 63, American NFL player (Oakland Raiders), executive director of NFLPA, pancreatic cancer.[212]
21
- Robert E. Armstrong, 82, American politician.[213]
- Fred Crane, 90, American film and television actor (Gone with the Wind), complications from surgery.[214]
- Iosif Constantin Drăgan, 91, Romanian businessman and historian.[215]
- Jerry Finn, 39, American record producer (Blink-182, Green Day, Morrissey), cerebral hemorrhage.[216]
- Don Fox, 72, British rugby league player (Wakefield).[217]
- Buddy Harman, 79, American session musician, heart failure.[218]
- Lee Eon, 27, South Korean actor and model, motorcycle accident.[219]
- Ágústa Þorsteinsdóttir, 66, Icelandic Olympic swimmer.[220]
- Laurence Urdang, 81, American lexicographer, heart failure.[221]
- Wolfgang Vogel, 82, German lawyer, negotiator in prisoner exchange programs during the Cold War.[222]
22
- Kenny Ailshie, 59, American horse trainer, suicide by gunshot.[223]
- Frank Cornish, 40, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), apparent heart attack.[224]
- James H. Faulkner, 92, American publisher, politician and educator.[225]
- Jeff MacKay, 59, American actor (Magnum, P.I., Tales of the Gold Monkey, JAG), liver complications.[226]
- Michael J. Manning, 65, Australian-born Papua New Guinean anti-corruption activist and economist, heart attack.[227]
- Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, 94, American abstract expressionist art collector, natural causes.[228]
- Robert Pintenat, 60, French football player.[229]
- Ralph Young, 90, American singer (Sandler and Young).[230]
23
- Jimmy Cleveland, 82, American jazz trombonist.[231]
- Ruth Cohen, 78, American actress (Seinfeld), heart attack.[232]
- Leo Elter, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins), heart failure.[233]
- Steve Foley, 49, American drummer (The Replacements, Bash & Pop), drug overdose.[234]
- Doris Gibson, 98, Peruvian journalist, founder of Caretas magazine.[235]
- Ian Hibell, 74, British cyclist, hit and run car crash.[236]
- Yuri Nosenko, 81, Soviet-born Ukrainian KGB agent who defected to United States, after a long illness.[237]
- John Russell, 89, British-born American art critic and author.[238]
- Thomas Huckle Weller, 93, American virologist, Nobel Prize winner (Medicine, 1954).[239]
24
- Gerard W. Ford, 83, American co-founder of Ford Modeling Agency, endocarditis.[240]
- Riitta Immonen, 90, Finnish fashion designer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Marimekko.[241]
- Tad Mosel, 86, American Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright (All the Way Home).[242]
- Morris Sullivan, 91, American film producer (All Dogs Go to Heaven).[243]
- Peter Sutton, 65, British sound engineer (The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Crystal, Little Shop of Horrors), Oscar winner (1981), leukemia.[244]
- Wei Wei, 88, Chinese poet and writer, liver cancer.[245]
25
- Elmer H. Antonsen, 78, American philologist.[citation needed]
- Randa Chahal Sabag, 54, Lebanese film maker, cancer.[246]
- Marpessa Dawn, 74, American actress (Black Orpheus), heart attack.[247]
- Kevin Duckworth, 44, American NBA basketball player, heart failure resulting from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.[248]
- Ahmad Faraz, 74, Pakistani poet.[249]
- Hardwicke Knight, 97, New Zealand historian and photographer.[250]
- Pavle Kozjek, 49, Slovenian mountaineer, climbing accident.[251]
- Jabir Herbert Muhammad, 79, American businessman, long-time manager of Muhammad Ali, complications from heart surgery.[252]
- Vassili Nesterenko, 73, Belarusian physicist.[253]
- Pehr Henrik Nordgren, 64, Finnish composer, cancer.[254]
- Mario Fernando Peña Angulo, 56, Peruvian congressman, lymphoma.[255]
- Josef Tal, 97, Israeli composer, natural causes.[256]
- John Thoday, 91, British geneticist.[257]
26
- Pierre Colas, 32, German Mayanist scholar, assistant professor in anthropology at Vanderbilt University, shot.[258]
- Bobby Cummings, 72, English footballer (Aberdeen, Newcastle United).[259]
- Bob Mountford, 56, British footballer (Port Vale, Rochdale), cancer.[260]
- Edgardo Vega Yunqué, 72, Puerto Rican novelist.[261]
- Hazel Warp, 93, American stuntwoman (Gone with the Wind).[262]
- Barbara Warren, 65, American triathlete, bicycle crash.[263]
27
- Sally Abston, 74, American surgeon and scientist, kidney failure and hypertension.[264]
- Del Martin, 87, American gay rights activist, first legal same-sex marriage in California, complications from bone fracture.[265]
- Isa Meireles, 76, Portuguese journalist and writer.[266]
- Chittaranjan Mitra, 82, Indian scientist and administrator.[267]
- Abie Nathan, 81, Israeli peace activist, founder of Voice of Peace radio station.[268]
- Mark Priestley, 32, Australian actor (All Saints), suicide by jumping.[269]
- Olavo Setúbal, 85, Brazilian politician and banker, mayor of São Paulo (1975–1979), heart failure.[270]
28
- İlhan Berk, 89, Turkish poet.[271]
- Harold Challenor, 86, British war hero (Operation Speedwell) and corrupt Metropolitan police officer.[272]
- Phil Hill, 81, American racing driver, 1961 Formula One world champion, complications of Parkinson's disease.[273]
- Ralph Kovel, 88, American antiques expert and author, complications of broken hip.[274]
- Chidananda Saraswati, 91, Indian spiritual leader, president of the Divine Life Society.[275]
- Sigurbjörn Einarsson, 97, Icelandic bishop of the Church of Iceland (1959–1981).[276]
- Wonderful Smith, 97, American comedian, natural causes.[277]
- Michel Vastel, 68, Canadian journalist and columnist, throat cancer.[278]
29
- William Appling, 75, American conductor, pianist, educator and arranger.[279]
- Bridget Cracroft-Eley, 74, British Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire since 1995.[280]
- Jayshree Gadkar, 66, Indian actress.[281]
- David Gordon Allen d'Aldecamb Lumsden, 75, British Garioch Pursuivant.[282]
- Bela E. Kennedy, American politician, 90, Michigan state legislator.[283]
- Geoffrey Perkins, 55, British comedy producer, writer and performer, head of comedy for BBC, road accident.[284]
- Peter Snow, 81, British artist and theatre designer.[285]
30
- K. K. Birla, 89, Indian industrialist and politician, after brief illness.[286]
- Tommy Bolt, 92, American professional golfer, 1958 U.S. Open champion, liver failure.[287]
- Robin Bullough, 78, British mathematical physicist.[288]
- Brian Hambly, 71, Australian rugby league player.[289]
- Killer Kowalski, 81, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.[290]
- Eldon Rathburn, 92, Canadian composer, after brief illness.[291]
- Gilberto Rincón Gallardo, 69, Mexican politician, presidential candidate.[292]
- William Howard Wriggins, 90, American academic, ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives (1977–1979).[293]
31
- Cynthia Ahearn, 55, American echinodermologist and museum specialist.[294]
- Meir Avizohar, 84, Israeli politician and academic.[295]
- Jean-Marie Berckmans, 54, Belgian writer, lung disease.[296]
- Ken Campbell, 66, British actor (A Fish Called Wanda).[297]
- Jamie Dolan, 39, British footballer (Motherwell F.C.), heart attack.[298]
- Harmohinder Singh Gill, 75, Indian-born American scientist.[299]
- Edwin O. Guthman, 89, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, amyloidosis.[300]
- Ike Pappas, 75, American CBS journalist, broadcast murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, heart failure.[301]
- Victor Yates, 69, New Zealand rugby footballer.[302]
- Magomed Yevloyev, 37, Ingush journalist and owner of the opposition news website Ingushetiya.ru, shot.[303]
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