Deaths in December 2007
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2007.
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.
December 2007
1
- Rassim al-Jumaili, 69, Iraqi actor and comedian, kidney failure.[1]
- Jennifer Davidson, 38, American executive, senior vice president of programming and scheduling for Cartoon Network.[2]
- Elisabeth Eybers, 92, South African-born poet.[3]
- Tony Fall, 67, British rally driver and Opel Motorsport Team director, heart attack.[4]
- Ken McGregor, 78, Australian tennis player, stomach cancer.[5]
- Danny Newman, 88, American publicist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, pulmonary fibrosis.[6]
- Anton Rodgers, 74, British actor.[7]
- Ivo Rojnica, 92, Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent.[8]
2
- Jennifer Alexander, 35, Canadian-born American ballet dancer, traffic collision.[9]
- Robert O. Anderson, 90, American founder and former CEO of ARCO.[10]
- Nelly Beltrán, 82, Argentine actress.[11]
- Elizabeth Hardwick, 91, American co-founder of The New York Review of Books.[12]
- Doreen Kartinyeri, 72, Ngarrindjeri elder and historian.[13]
- David Maybury-Lewis, 78, British anthropologist.[14]
- Eleonora Rossi Drago, 82, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage.[15]
- Les Shannon, 81, English football player (Liverpool, Burnley) and manager (Bury, Blackpool).[16]
- Thomas F. Torrance, 94, Scottish theologian.[17]
3
- Art Arfons, 81, American jet-car driver and drag racer, three-time world land speed record holder.[18]
- John Belgrave, 67, New Zealand public servant, Chief Ombudsman (2003–2007), cancer.[19]
- Jaime Fuster, 66, Puerto Rican politician and jurist, Resident Commissioner (1985–1992), heart attack.[20]
- Susumu Katsumata, 63, Japanese manga artist and illustrator, melanoma.[21]
- James Kemsley, 59, Australian cartoonist (Ginger Meggs), motor neurone disease.[22]
- Keshav Meshram, 70, Indian writer and critic, lung cancer.[23]
- Lord Bloody Wog Rolo, 62, Australian activist, renal cell carcinoma.[24]
- Heloneida Studart, 76, Brazilian writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, advocate for women's rights, and political figure.[25]
4
- Chad "Pimp C" Butler, 33, American rap artist (UGK), sleep apnea and accidental overdose.[26][27]
- Jake Gaudaur, 87, Canadian Commissioner of the Canadian Football League (1968–1984), cancer.[28]
- Jay H. Gordon, 77, American politician, Vermont Auditor of Accounts (1965–1969), smoke inhalation.[29]
- Stanley McArdle, 85, British admiral.[30]
- Norval Morrisseau, 75, Canadian Ojibwe artist, founder of the Woodlands Style, Parkinson's disease.[31]
- Chip Reese, 56, American professional poker player, heart attack.[32]
- Herman Rose, 98, American cityscape painter, cancer.[33]
- Carlos Valdes, 81, Cuban conga player, respiratory failure.[34]
5
- M. V. Dhond, 93, Indian literary and art critic.[35]
- Christine Finn, 78, English actress.[36]
- Robin Gloag, 64, British co-founder of Stagecoach Group, traffic collision.[37]
- Arnold Hardy, 85, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, complications from hip surgery.[38]
- Robert A. Hawkins, 19, American mass murderer, suicide by gunshot.[39]
- Andrew Imbrie, 86, American composer.[40]
- Dan Iosif, 57, Romanian revolutionary, lung cancer.[41]
- Jillian Kesner-Graver, 58, American actress (Happy Days), Orson Welles historian, staph infection.[42]
- Alois Kracher, 48, Austrian winemaker, pancreatic cancer.[43]
- Peter Orton, 64, English television producer, cancer.[44]
- George Paraskevaides, 91, Cypriot businessman (Joannou & Paraskevaides) and philanthropist.[45]
- Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, German composer.[46]
- Tony Tenser, 87, British film producer.[47]
- Harry Thomson Jones, 82, British racehorse trainer.[48]
- Rene Villanueva, 53, Filipino playwright and author, stroke.[49]
- John Winter, 83, Australian athlete, 1948 Olympics high jump gold medalist.[50]
6
- Wolfgang Assbrock, 55, German politician, member of the CDU and Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.[51]
- Mike Donkin, 56, British reporter and journalist (BBC News), cancer.[52]
- Katy French, 24, Irish model, suspected overdose.[53]
- Jacques Hébert, 84, Canadian politician, Senator (1983–1998).[54]
- John Hill, 95, British politician, Conservative MP for South Norfolk (1955–1974).[55]
- John Pilkington Hudson, 97, British horticulturist and bomb disposal expert.[56]
- Gennadi Kinko, 65, Soviet Estonian rower.[57]
- Murray Klein, 84, American businessman, co-owner of New York City's Zabar's food emporium, lung cancer.[58]
- Shelley Rohde, 74, British journalist and author.[59]
- Ken Southworth, 89, American animator (Scooby-Doo, Q. T. Hush, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), stroke.[60]
- András Szöllősy, 86, Hungarian composer.[61]
7
- Noel Forster, 75, British artist.[62]
- Fuad Hassan, 78, Indonesian Minister of Education (1985–1993), cancer.[63]
- John Hollowbread, 73, British football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur, Southampton).[64]
- Sartono Kartodirdjo, 86, Indonesian historian.[65]
8
- Donald Burton, 73, British actor, husband of actress Carroll Baker, emphysema.[66]
- Ioan Fiscuteanu, 70, Romanian actor, colon cancer.[67]
- Dmitry Grigorieff, 89, American Episcopalian prelate, dean emeritus of Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, D.C., cardiac arrest.[68]
- Roger King, 63, American TV executive (King World, CBS), developed Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and The Oprah Winfrey Show, stroke.[69]
- Gerardo García Pimentel, 24, Mexican crime reporter, shot.[70]
- Al Scaduto, 79, American cartoonist (They'll Do It Every Time).[71]
9
- John Stuart Archer, 64, British chemical engineer and academic administrator.[72]
- István Borzsák, 92, Hungarian classical scholar.[73]
- Edward Dutkiewicz, 46, British artist.[74]
- Wayne Howard, 58, American comic book artist (Charlton Comics), heart attack.[75]
- Apichet Kittikorncharoen, 25, Thai singer, brain injury.[76]
- Jim Langley, 78, British footballer for England, Fulham, and QPR, heart attack.[77]
- Matthew J. Murray, 24, American spree killer, suicide by gunshot.[78]
- Elspeth Rostow, 90, American academic, University of Texas dean, widow of Walt Whitman Rostow, heart attack.[79]
- Kurt Schmied, 81, Austrian footballer, former member of the national team.[80]
- Thore Skogman, 76, Swedish musician, stroke.[81]
- Rafael Sperafico, 26, Brazilian racing driver, race crash.[82]
- J. Fife Symington Jr., 97, American diplomat to Trinidad and Tobago, complications of old age.[83]
- Gordon Zahn, 84, American Catholic peace activist, co-founder of Pax Christi USA, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[84]
10
- Ashleigh Aston Moore, 26, American-born Canadian actress (Now and Then), accidental heroin overdose.[85]
- George Morris, 76, American football player (Georgia Tech, San Francisco 49ers), apparent heart attack.[86]
- Aqsa Parvez, 16, Canadian allegedly killed for refusing to wear hijab, strangled.[87]
- Jerry Ricks, 67, American blues guitarist.[88]
- James Roxburgh, 86, British prelate, Bishop of Barking.[89]
- Gordon Samuels, 84, Australian governor of New South Wales (1996–2001).[90]
- Henrietta Yurchenko, 91, American folklorist.[91]
11
- Allan Berube, 61, American gay historian and writer, complications from stomach ulcers.[92]
- José Luis Calva, 38, Mexican writer, serial killer and cannibal, suicide by hanging.[93]
- Yuriy Chervochkin, 22, Russian opposition activist, beating.
- Freddie Fields, 84, American Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive, lung cancer.[94]
- Pat Hannigan, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers).[95]
- Christie Hennessy, 62, Irish singer and songwriter, cancer.[96]
- Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, world's oldest Catholic priest.[97]
- Carl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, 89, Austrian son of Emperor Charles I of Austria.[98]
- Ottomar Pinto, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor of Roraima (2004–2007), heart attack.[99]
- Tatsuzō Shimaoka, 88, Japanese potter, living national treasure, acute liver failure.[100]
- Terry Yates, 57, American biologist, discovered source of hantavirus, brain cancer.[101]
12
- Basuki, 51, Indonesian comedian.[102]
- Ted Corbitt, 88, American ultramarathon runner, respiratory complications.[103]
- Shawn Eckardt, 40, American bodyguard and businessman, conspired to assault Nancy Kerrigan, natural causes.[104]
- Josep Guinovart, 80, Spanish artist.[105]
- François al-Hajj, 54, Lebanese Army general, roadside bomb.[106][107]
- Rosemarie Koczy, 72, Holocaust survivor, German artist and teacher known for her many works dealing with the Holocaust.[108]
- Márcio Montarroyos, 59, Brazilian jazz trumpeter, lung cancer.[109]
- Jim Nevill, 80, British police officer, former head of Scotland Yard anti-terrorist squad.[110]
- Alfons Maria Stickler, 97, Austrian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[111]
- Ike Turner, 76, American R&B musician and record producer, ex-husband of singer Tina Turner, cocaine overdose.[112][113]
- Schuster Vance, 47, American actor, cancer.[114]
- Lee Vincent, 91, American bassist and radio personality (WILK), heart failure.[115]
- Yuli Vorontsov, 78, Russian diplomat, former ambassador to the United Nations and United States.[116]
13
- Philippe Clay, 80, French singer and actor.[117]
- Fuat Deniz, 40, Swedish-Assyrian sociologist, stabbed.[118]
- Wiggo Hanssen, 84, Norwegian Olympic speed skater.[119]
- Laura Huxley, 96, American musician and author, widow of Aldous Huxley, cancer.[120]
- Jan Jakub Kotík, 35, Czech artist and rock drummer, cancer.[121]
- Alain Payet, 60, French adult film director.[122]
- Robert Russin, 93, American sculptor.[123]
- Floyd Westerman, 71, American musician, actor (Dances With Wolves, Walker, Texas Ranger, Hidalgo) and Native American activist, leukemia.[124]
14
- Issam Al Zaim, 67, Syrian economist, former Minister of Industry, heart attack.[125]
- Hank Kaplan, 87, American boxing historian, cancer.[126]
- Maria Lauterbach, 20, American marine and murder victim.[127]
- Clarence Marshall, 82, American Major League Baseball pitcher (New York Yankees).[128]
- Frank Morgan, 73, American saxophonist.[129]
- Johnny Science, 52, American drag king, heart failure.[130]
- Emory Sekaquaptewa, 78, American indigenous Hopi anthropologist.[131]
- Krishna Srinivas, 94, Indian poet and writer.[132]
- Jan Švéda, 76, Czech Olympic rower.[133]
15
- John Berg, 58, American actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.[134]
- Jean Bottéro, 93, French Assyriologist.[135]
- St. Clair Bourne, 64, American documentary filmmaker (Half Past Autumn), pulmonary embolism.[136]
- Julia Carson, 69, American member of the House of Representatives from Indiana since 1997, lung cancer.[137]
- Gerard Fairtlough, 77, British biochemist and entrepreneur.[138]
- Andrzeja Górska, 91, Polish nun, abbess of the Grey Ursulines.[139]
- Ryan Gracie, 33, Brazilian martial artist.[140]
- Clem Jones, 89, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane (1961–1975), pneumonia.[141]
- Matjaž Klopčič, 73, Slovenian film director.[142]
- Diane Middlebrook, 68, American biographer and poet, cancer.[143]
- Caetano N'Tchama, 52, Bissau-Guinean politician, Prime Minister (2000-2001).[144]
- Giuseppe Rinaldi, 88, Italian actor and voice actor.[145]
- Tejeshwar Singh, 60, Indian publisher, newsreader and theatre activist, cardiac arrest.[146]
- Ace Vergel, 55, Filipino actor, cardiac arrest.[147]
- Jonathan Witchell, 33, British BBC reporter for Radio Kent.[148]
16
- Joe Ethridge, 79, American football player in the National Football League (NFL).[149]
- Dan Fogelberg, 56, American singer-songwriter ("Same Old Lang Syne"), prostate cancer.[150]
- Harald Genzmer, 98, German composer of classical music.[151]
- Ismail Gulgee, 81, Pakistani painter, strangled.[152]
- Serge Vinçon, 58, French politician.[153]
17
- Don Chevrier, 69, Canadian sportscaster.[154]
- Joel Dorn, 65, American jazz, pop and R&B record producer, heart attack.[155]
- Jim Holstein, 77, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).[156]
- Tom Murphy, 83, American politician, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives (1973–2002), complications of a stroke.[157]
- Celestino Piatti, 85, Swiss graphic artist, painter and book designer.[158]
- Marnesba Tackett, 99, American civil rights activist.[159]
- Jack Zander, 99, American animator (Tom and Jerry).[160]
18
- Walter Bowart, 68, American co-founder of East Village Other, colon cancer.[161]
- Gerald Le Dain, 83, Canadian jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court.[162]
- Carl Graff-Wang, 64, Norwegian Olympic handball player.[163]
- Samuel Karlin, 83, American mathematician, heart attack.[164]
- Jack Linkletter, 70, American television host, son of Art Linkletter, lymphoma.[165]
- Motiur Rahman, 58, Indian politician, Rashtriya Janata Dal member of the Rajya Sabha since 2005, heart attack.[166]
- Bill Strauss, 60, American writer and satirist, founder of political comedy group Capitol Steps, pancreatic cancer.[167]
19
- Frank Capra, Jr., 73, American movie studio executive, son of director Frank Capra, prostate cancer.[168]
- James Costigan, 81, American actor and television writer (Eleanor and Franklin), heart failure.[169]
- Desmond C. Derbyshire, 83, British linguist.[170]
- John A. Garraty, 87, American historian, heart failure.[171]
- Albert L. O'Neil, 87, American politician, Boston City Council (1971–1999).[172]
20
- Tommy Byrne, 87, American baseball player.[173]
- Jeanne Carmen, 77, American actress and pin-up girl, lymphoma.[174]
- Arabella Churchill, 58, British founder of Children's World charity, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, pancreatic cancer.[175]
- Russell Coffey, 109, American serviceman, one of three known remaining American veterans of World War I.[176]
- Lorne Davis, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens) and scout (Edmonton Oilers).[177]
- Ted Finn, 68, Canadian intelligence official, director of CSIS (1984–1987).[178]
- John Gibbs, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Coventry (1976–1985).[179]
- Peer Hultberg, 72, Danish author and psychoanalyst.[180]
- Geoffrey Martin, 79, British historian and Keeper of the Public Records (1982–1988).[181]
- Lydia Mendoza, 91, American Tejano music singer and guitarist.[182]
- Raphaël Nguyễn Văn Diệp, 81, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor bishop of Vĩnh Long (1975–2007).[183]
- Robbie Williams, 45, Australian politician, first Indigenous Australian Brisbane City councillor, former ATSIC commissioner, heart attack.[184]
21
- Adolfas Akelaitis, 97, Lithuanian Olympic athlete.[185]
- Carol Bly, 77, American author and poet, ovarian cancer.[186]
- Kex Gorin, 56, British drummer (Magnum), kidney cancer.[187]
- Ken Hendricks, 66, American contractor and billionaire, fall from roof.[188]
- Hans Imhoff, 85, German businessman, founder of Imhoff Chocolate Museum in Cologne.[189]
- Jack Lamabe, 71, American Major League Baseball pitcher.[190]
- Ken Lee, 75, Chinese-born Australian businessman, owner and co-founder of Bing Lee superstores, cancer.[191]
- Saadia Marciano, 57, Israeli Black Panthers leader, member of the Knesset.[192]
- Norton Nascimento, 45, Brazilian actor, heart failure.[193]
- Jeani Read, 60, Canadian journalist, cancer.[194]
- Battista Serioli, 107, Italian World War I veteran.[195]
22
- Joe Ames, 86, American singer (Ames Brothers), heart attack.[196]
- Philip Bednall, 76, Australian cricketer.[197]
- Chrysostomos I, 80, Cypriot prelate, Archbishop of Cyprus (1977–2006).[198]
- Sir Charles Court, 96, Australian politician, Premier of Western Australia (1974–1982).[199]
- Andy Davis, 80, American football player (Washington Redskins).[200]
- Sylvan Fox, 79, American journalist, complications from pneumonia.[201]
- Andrew Glyn, 64, British economist.[202]
- Julien Gracq, 97, French writer.[203]
- Lucien Teisseire, 88, French road bicycle racer.[204]
- Marvin Wachman, 90, American historian, President of Lincoln University and Temple University, heart failure.[205]
- Ruth Wallis, 87, American singer-songwriter, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[206]
- Takashi Yamamoto, 58, Japanese politician.[207]
23
- Dale Baird, 71, American thoroughbred horse trainer, traffic collision.[208]
- Donald Chant, 79, Canadian biologist and environmental advocate.[209]
- Evelyn Gandy, 87, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi (1976–1980).[210]
- W.F. Ganong, 83, American neuroendocrinologist, prostate cancer.[211]
- Michael Kidd, 92, American film and stage choreographer, cancer.[212]
- Aloísio Lorscheider, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal, heart failure.[213]
- Tyler MacDuff, 82, American actor.[214]
- Hans Mild, 73, Swedish footballer and ice hockey player.[215]
- Oscar Peterson, 82, Canadian jazz pianist, kidney failure and complications from a stroke.[216]
- Rhoda Pritzker, 93, American philanthropist, member of the Pritzker family.[217]
- Ferreira Queimado, 94, Portuguese former chairman of S.L. Benfica, after long illness.[218]
- Kevin Sinclair, 65, New Zealand-born Hong Kong reporter, editor and columnist for the South China Morning Post, cancer.[219]
- Osvaldo Reyes, 88, Chilean painter, stroke.[220]
- Frank Swaelen, 77, Belgian politician, former president of the Senate and minister of state.[221]
24
- Jim Angel, 67, Australian radio newsreader, stroke.[222]
- Cláudio Camunguelo, 60, Brazilian composer and singer, diabetes.[223]
- Reinhard Heß, 62, German ski jumping coach, pancreatic cancer.[224]
- Wilhelmina Jashemski, 97, American archaeologist, renal failure.[225]
- Andreas Matzbacher, 25, Austrian cyclist, traffic collision.[226]
- Sir Nicholas Pumfrey, 56, British judge, stroke.[227]
- George Warrington, 55, American transportation official, President of Amtrak (1998–2002), pancreatic cancer.[228]
25
- Jim Beauchamp, 68, American Major League Baseball player and coach, leukemia.[229]
- Tommy Harmer, 79, British footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Watford and Chelsea).[230]
- John Hayes, 80, New Zealand test cricketer.[231]
- Patricia Kirkwood, 86, British actress, Alzheimer's disease.[232]
- Hugh Massingberd, 60, British genealogist and journalist, former Daily Telegraph obituary editor.[233]
- Mighty King Kong, 34, Kenyan reggae musician.[234]
- William MacDonald, 90, American Christian author.[235][better source needed]
- Hans Otte, 81, German avant-garde composer and pianist.[236]
- G. P. Sippy, 93, Indian film producer and director.[237]
- Carlos Eduardo Sousa Jr., 17, American student, tiger attack.[238]
- Tatiana, 4, American-born Siberian tiger at San Francisco Zoo, mauled a visitor to death, shot.[238]
- Sir George Vallings, 75, British vice admiral, throat cancer.[239]
26
- Raúl Bernao, 66, Argentine footballer, hepatitis.[240]
- Sir Phillip Bridges, 85, British barrister and judge, Chief Justice of the Gambia.[241]
- Jim Castiglia, 89, American football and baseball player, natural causes.[242]
- Joe Dolan, 68, Irish singer and entertainer, brain haemorrhage.[243]
- Andrew Grima, 86, British jeweller.[244]
- Voitto Liukkonen, 67, Finnish sports commentator.[245]
- Paul D. MacLean, 94, American physician, developed triune brain concept, heart attack.[246]
- Nina Menshikova, 79, Russian actress.[247]
- Stu Nahan, 81, American sportscaster, lymphoma.[248]
- John Pappenheimer, 92, American physiologist, respiratory failure.[249]
27
- Kit Ahern, 92, Irish politician.[250]
- Ben D. Altamirano, 77, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate since 1971, heart attack.[251]
- Ben Bamfuchile, 47, Zambian coach of the Namibia national football team, after short illness.[252]
- Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister (1988–1990, 1993–1996), assassinated.[253]
- Edward A. Brennan, 73, American businessman, former chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company.[254]
- Sir Howard Colvin, 88, British architectural historian.[255]
- Steven Florio, 58, American businessman, former CEO of Condé Nast, heart attack.[256]
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 85, Polish film director.[257]
- Jaan Kross, 87, Estonian writer.[258]
- Ed LaDou, 52, American pizza chef, popularized gourmet California-style pizzas, cancer.[259]
- Marie-Jeanne, 87, American ballet dancer, congestive heart failure[260]
- Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, 94, Brazilian pretender to the title Emperor of Brazil.[261]
- Peter Wing, 93, Canadian politician, mayor of Kamloops, North America's first mayor of Chinese descent, stroke.[262]
28
- Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, 25, Iranian basketball player, traffic collision.[citation needed]
- Jiří Pauer, 88, Czech composer, theatre director and academic.[263]
- Serigne Saliou Mbacké, 92, Senegalese religious leader, fifth caliph of the Mouride Islamic movement.[264]
- Amarnath Sehgal, 85, Indian sculptor.[265]
- Sun Daolin, 86, Chinese actor.[266]
- Tab Thacker, 45, American wrestler and actor (Police Academy, City Heat, Wildcats), complications from diabetes.[267]
29
- Olayr Coan, 48, Brazilian actor and theater director, traffic collision.[268]
- Phil Dusenberry, 71, American advertising executive, lung cancer.[269]
- Kevin Greening, 44, British former BBC Radio 1 disc jockey.[270]
- Vincent Gruppuso, 67, American businessman, founder of Kozy Shack puddings, complications from diabetes.[271]
- Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, 74, Yemeni politician, Parliamentary speaker since 1993, cancer.[272]
- Joan Ingpen, 91, British classical music manager (Ingpen & Williams), launched the career of Luciano Pavarotti.[273]
- Rex King-Clark, 94, British soldier and racing driver.[274]
- Robert Morris, 81, English cricketer.[275]
- Nonja, 55, Indonesian Sumatran orangutan thought to be world's oldest.[276]
- Phil O'Donnell, 35, Scottish footballer (Motherwell) with one Scotland cap, heart failure.[277][278]
- Scott M. Robinson, 54, American key grip.
- H. D. Thoreau, Jr., 84, American track-and-field authority and Olympics official, complications from Alzheimer's and stroke.[279]
- Shu Uemura, 79, Japanese makeup artist, pneumonia.[280]
30
- Bert Bolin, 82, Swedish meteorologist, stomach cancer.[281]
- Kinkri Devi, 82, Indian environmentalist.[282]
- Laila Kaland, 68, Norwegian politician, MP (1985–2001), after long illness.[283]
- Jorge Machiñena, 71, Uruguayan deputy (1985–2000), President of the Chamber (1996–1997), heart attack.[284]
- Leonard B. Meyer, 89, American musicologist.[285]
- Victor Navarra, 55, American coordinator for New York Marathon, cancer.[286]
- Doreen Norton, 85, British nursing pioneer.[287]
- Willie Robinson, 81, American blues singer, injuries from a fire.[288]
- Louis Wolfson, 95, American businessman, bred and raced 1978 U.S. Triple Crown champion Affirmed, colon cancer.[289]
31
- Alberto Alonso, 90, Cuban dancer and choreographer, heart attack.[290]
- Tommy Dickson, 78, British footballer (Linfield, Northern Ireland), after long illness.[291]
- Tony Elliott, 48, American football player (New Orleans Saints), natural causes.[292]
- Ralph Emmerson, 94, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Knaresborough (1972–1979).[293]
- Michael Goldberg, 83, American abstract expressionist painter, heart attack.[294]
- Bill Idelson, 88, American actor and script writer, complications from a broken hip.[295]
- Kathryn Ish, 71, American television, voiceover and theater actress (Laverne & Shirley), cancer.[296]
- Milton L. Klein, 97, Canadian politician, MP for Cartier (1963–1968).[297]
- Markku Peltola, 51, Finnish actor and musician.[298]
- Muhammad Osman Said, 85, Libyan Prime Minister (1960–1963).[299]
- Ettore Sottsass, 90, Italian designer, heart failure.[300]
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