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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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
- Salvatore Bonanno, 75, American mobster, heart attack.[1]
- Peter Caffrey, 58, Irish actor (Ballykissangel, Coronation Street, Glenroe), complications from stroke.[2]
- Pratap Chandra Chunder, 89, Indian Cabinet Minister (1977–1980), heart disease.[3]
- Harold Corsini, 88, American photographer, stroke.[4]
- Chuck Daniel, 74, American baseball player.[5]
- Harald Deilmann, 87, German architect and author.[6]
- Len Dockett, 87, Australian footballer.[7]
- Irena Górska-Damięcka, 97, Polish actress.[8]
- John Granville, 33, American diplomat, homicide.[9]
- Philip Hogarty, 19, Irish Chess Union president, traffic collision.[10]
- Erich Kästner, 107, German jurist and last known World War I veteran.[11]
- T. Maheswaran, 47, Sri Lankan politician, Cabinet Minister, assassination by gunshot.[12]
- Lucas Sang, 46, Kenyan runner and 1988 Olympian, homicide.[13]
- Wanda Sieradzka de Ruig, 84, Polish author, poet, journalist and translator.[14]
- Oleg Tolmachev, 88, Russian ice hockey player and coach.[15]
2
- Henri Andrieux, 76, French Olympic cyclist.[16]
- Joyce Carlson, 84, American artist, designer of Disney's It's a Small World rides, cancer.[17]
- Lee S. Dreyfus, 81, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983).[18]
- George MacDonald Fraser, 82, British novelist (Harry Paget Flashman) and screenwriter (Octopussy, The Three Musketeers), cancer.[19]
- Brice Mack, 90, American animator (Cinderella, Peter Pan, Fantasia).[20]
- Keith McCance, 78, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1979–1989).[21]
- G. G. Njuguna Ngengi, Kenyan politician, homicide.[22]
- Julio Martínez Pradanos, 84, Chilean sports journalist, cancer.[23]
- Robert C. Schnitzer, 101, American actor, producer and educator.[24]
- Günter Schubert, 69, German actor.[25]
- Gerry Staley, 87, American baseball pitcher (Chicago White Sox), natural causes.[26]
- Galyani Vadhana, 84, Thai princess, eldest sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, cancer.[27]
- Edward F. Welch, Jr., 83, American admiral, heart failure.[28]
3
- Aleksandr Abdulov, 54, Russian actor, lung cancer.[29]
- Jack Aranson, 83, British actor, pneumonia.[30]
- Edelmiro Arévalo, 78, Paraguayan football player.[31]
- Yo-Sam Choi, 35, South Korean boxer, WBC Light Flyweight Champion, cerebral hemorrhage.[32]
- Henri Chopin, 85, French poet and artist.[33]
- Natasha Collins, 31, British television presenter.[34]
- Werner Dollinger, 89, German politician.[35]
- Petru Dugulescu, 62, Romanian Baptist pastor, poet and politician, heart attack.[36]
- Milt Dunnell, 102, Canadian sportswriter.[37]
- Butch Felker, 62, American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, cancer.[38]
- Gilbert A Harrison, 92, American magazine editor.[39]
- Joseph Lazarow, 84, American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey.[40]
- Herman Le Compte, 78, Belgian doctor, the 'Vitamin Doctor', heart attack.[41]
- Antônio Matias, 44, Portuguese judoka.[42]
- Andrew J. Olmsted, 37, American army blogger in Iraq, shot.[43]
- Lisandro Otero, 75, Cuban author.[44]
- Nikolay Puzanov, 69, Russian Soviet biathlete, 1968 Olympic Gold medalist.[45]
- Manolo Reyes, 83, American pioneering Spanish-language newscaster, Parkinson's disease.[46]
- Jimmy Stewart, 76, British racing driver.[47]
- O.G. Style, 37, American rapper, brain aneurysm.[48]
4
- Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan, 67, Russian footballer, hit by car.[49]
- Bjørn Odmar Andersen, 64, Norwegian footballer.[50]
- Sir Bernard Audley, 83, British businessman and philanthropist.[51]
- Keith Baxter, 36, British drummer of rock band 3 Colours Red, liver failure.[52]
- Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, 75, Nicaraguan editor of El Nuevo Diario, heart failure.[53]
- Stig Claesson, 79, Swedish writer.[54]
- Vernon Derrick, 74, American musician.[55]
- Emilio Benavent Escuín, 93, Spanish Bishop of Granada.[56]
- Mort Garson, 83, Canadian electronic musician, renal failure.[57]
- Herbert Keppler, 82, American photojournalist.[58]
- Marianne Kiefer, 79, German actress.[59]
- Jimmy Nah, 40, Singaporean actor and comedian.[60]
- John O'Donohue, 52, Irish poet, philosopher and priest.[61]
- Graham Percy, 69, British illustrator of children's books.[62]
- Jens Quistgaard, 88, Danish industrial designer for Dansk International Designs.[63]
- Bill Ramsey, 87, American baseball player.[64]
- Henry Savory, 93, British cricketer.[65]
- Bert Walker, 88, New Zealand politician, Cabinet Minister.[66]
- Claude Whatham, 80, British film and television director.[67]
5
- Luis E. Aguilar Leon, 81, Cuban journalist, professor and historian.[citation needed]
- Tony Ambrose, 74, British rally driver.[68]
- John Ashley, 77, Canadian referee in the National Hockey League, heart failure.[69]
- Rowan Ayers, 85, British television producer.[70]
- Michel Conte, 75, French born, naturalized Canadian choreographer, lyricist and composer of film music and television music.[71]
- Giovanni Rinaldo Coronas, 89, Italian politician, police chief and Interior Minister.[72]
- Phillip S. Figa, 56, American federal judge, brain tumor.[73]
- Raymond Forni, 66, French politician, National Assembly president, leukemia.[74]
- Thomas Cecil Gray, 94, British pioneer in anaesthetics.[75]
- Clinton Grybas, 32, Australian sports commentator, epidural hematoma.[76]
- Louis Hon, 83, French footballer.[77]
- Edward Kłosiński, 65, Polish cinematographer.[78]
- Ronald Lee Moore, 40, American fugitive and suspected serial killer, suicide by hanging.[79]
- Luiz Pacheco, 82, Portuguese writer.[80]
- Irene Reid, 77, American jazz singer, cardiac arrest
- İhsan Saraçlar, 79, Turkish jurist and politician.[81]
6
- Shmuel Berenbaum, 87, American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva, stomach cancer.[82]
- Jack Brod, 98, American last original tenant of the Empire State Building.[83]
- Arafan Camara, 60, Guinean politician.[84]
- Bob LeMond, 94, American radio and television announcer (Leave It to Beaver).[85]
- Cy Leslie, 85, American founder of Pickwick Records and MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group.[86]
- Alekos Michaelides, 74, Cypriot politician, Foreign Minister.[87]
- Yunus Mohamed, 57, South African lawyer and anti-Apartheid activist.[88]
- Ken Nelson, 96, American record producer and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.[89]
- Anders Paulrud, 56, Swedish writer and journalist, lung cancer.[90]
- Regal Discovery, 15, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.[91]
- Pramod Karan Sethi, 80, Indian orthopaedic surgeon, inventor of the Jaipur foot, cardiac arrest.[92]
- Charlie Steele Jr., 77, New Zealand football player.[93]
- Vittorio Tomassetti, 77, Italian Bishop of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola.[94]
7
- Philip Agee, 72, American CIA agent, complications from perforated ulcer surgery.[95]
- Raffaello de Banfield, 85, British composer.[96]
- Robert Chandran, 57, Singaporean CEO of Chemoil, helicopter crash.[97]
- Maryvonne Dupureur, 70, French runner and 1964 Olympic medalist.[98]
- Houston I. Flournoy, 78, American member of California State Assembly (1961–1967), California State Controller (1967–1975).[99]
- Detlef Kraus, 88, German pianist.[100]
- Andrey Kurennoy, 35, Russian track and field athlete, national triple jump champion.[101]
- Buddy LeRoux, 77, American owner of the Boston Red Sox, natural causes.[102]
- Boris Lurie, 83, American artist and writer.[103]
- Vincent Meli, 87, American member of the Detroit Partnership, bone cancer.[104]
- Bozo Miller, 89, American competitive eater, natural causes.[105]
- Hans Monderman, 62, Dutch traffic engineer, cancer.[106]
- Marcel Mouly, 88, French painter.[107]
- Njoo Kiem Bie, 81, Indonesian badminton player.[108]
- Palace Music, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[109]
- Alwyn Schlebusch, 90, South African politician, Vice State President (1981–1984).[110]
- Jean-Claude Vrinat, 71, French owner of Taillevent restaurant, lung cancer.[111]
- Wei Wenhua, 41, Chinese blogger, beaten.[112]
8
- D. M. Dassanayake, 54, Sri Lankan Minister of Nation Building, roadside bomb.[113]
- Jim Dooley, 77, American football player and coach (Chicago Bears), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[114]
- Guy Hance, 74, Belgian politician.[115]
- Bjarni Jónsson, 73, Icelandic painter.[116]
- Moshe Levi, 71, Israeli Chief of Staff of the Defense Forces (1983–1987), stroke.[117]
- George Moore, 84, Australian jockey and trainer.[118]
- Clyde Otis, 83, American songwriter and record producer.[119]
- Irvan Perez, 85, American Isleño décima singer and woodcarver, heart attack.[120]
- Steve Ridzik, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), heart disease.[121]
- Mohammad Sadli, 85, Indonesian politician.[122]
- Shaadi, 21, American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.[123]
- Cissie Stewart, 96, British Olympic swimmer.[124]
- Xu Genjun, 72, Chinese biochemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[125]
9
- Paul Aimson, 64, English footballer (Manchester City, York City), heart attack.[126]
- Jorge Anaya, 81, Argentinian admiral, heart failure.[127]
- Bobby Beasley, 72, Irish jockey and racehorse trainer.[128]
- Sir Adam Butler, 76, British MP (1970–1987) and minister.[129]
- Václav Čevona, 85, Czech Olympic athlete.[130]
- Sophie Elliott, 22, New Zealand murder victim.
- Carmine Furletti, 81, Brazilian industrialist, president of Cruzeiro.[131]
- Gemina, 21, American-born African Baringo giraffe at the Santa Barbara Zoo with neck deformity, euthanized.[132]
- Mehran Ghassemi, 30, Iranian journalist, heart failure.[133]
- Johnny Grant, 84, American entertainer, honorary Mayor of Hollywood.[134]
- Sir John Harvey-Jones, 83, British businessman and media personality.[135]
- Walter J. Kavanaugh, 74, American politician, complications from diabetes.[136]
- Roi Kwabena, 51, Trinidadian cultural anthropologist, lung cancer.[137]
- Sara Misquez, 62, American president of the Mescalero Apache of New Mexico (1999–2003), traffic collision.[138]
- Peter O'Donnell, 68, Australian gold medal-winning Olympic sailor (1964), cancer.[139]
- Erna Sondheim, 103, German fencer.[140]
- Lew Spence, 87, American songwriter.[141]
- Sir John Willis, 70, British Air Chief Marshal.[142]
- Tim Willoughby, 53, Australian 1984 Olympic rowing medallist, heart attack.[143]
10
- Pandiyan, 49, Tamil Actor and Politician (Times of India), liver failure due to jaundice.[144]
- Christopher Bowman, 40, American Olympic figure skater, accidental drug overdose.[145]
- Jack Eagle, 81, American comedian and actor (Stepmom, Isn't She Great).[146]
- Ray M. Flavin, 95, American politician.[147]
- Abdelaziz Gorgi, 79, Tunisian painter.[148]
- Andrés Henestrosa, 101, Mexican writer and politician, proponent of the Zapotec language.[149]
- George Laking, 95, New Zealand diplomat and public servant.[150]
- Andrée Marlière, 73, Belgian prima ballerina, choreographer and painter, cancer.[151]
- Allan McEachern, 81, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.[152]
- Mikhail Minin, 85, Russian soldier who raised the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building in 1945.[153]
- Sir Geoffrey Musson, 97, British army general.[154]
- Katsutoshi Nagasawa, 84, Japanese composer.[155]
- Maila Nurmi, 85, Finnish actress (Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Beat Generation).[156]
- Zhang Lichang, 68, Chinese politician, Politbureau member.[157]
11
- Mohammad Alam, 61, Bangladeshi photo journalist.[158]
- José Bello, 103, Spanish intellectual and writer.[159]
- Pete Candoli, 84, American big band-era jazz trumpeter, prostate cancer.[160]
- Murray Cohl, 78, Canadian film producer, co-founder of the Toronto Film Festival and Canada's Walk of Fame, liver cancer.[161]
- Sir Edmund Hillary, 88, New Zealand mountaineer and the first person (with Tenzing Norgay) to reach summit of Mount Everest, heart failure.[162]
- Carl Karcher, 90, American founder of Carl's Jr. restaurants, complications from Parkinson's disease.[163]
- Frank Loughran, 77, Australian international footballer.[164]
- Nancy Phelan, 94, Australian writer.[165]
12
- Charlie Aitken, 75, Scottish footballer.[166]
- Gennady Bachinsky, 36, Russian television and radio personality, traffic collision.[167]
- Isobel Bennett, 98, Australian marine scientist.[168]
- Gwendolyn T. Britt, 66, American Maryland State Senator since 2003.[169]
- Sir Howard Dalton, 63, British microbiologist, Chief Scientific Adviser at DEFRA.[170]
- Adriano González León, 76, Venezuelan writer.[171]
- Ángel González Muñiz, 82, Spanish poet.[172]
- Marty Hendin, 59, American vice president of community relations for St. Louis Cardinals, cancer.[173]
- Leszek Jezierski, 79, Polish footballer and trainer.[174]
- Anatoly Kyarov, 50, Russian head of the Kabardino-Balkaria police, shot.[175]
- Jennifer Musa, 90, Irish-born Pakistani politician.[176]
- Louis Alexandre Raimon, 85, French hairdresser.[177]
- Stanisław Wycech, 105, Polish last World War I veteran.[178]
13
- Joe Burk, 93, American rowing champion, complications of surgery.[179]
- John Harvey, 87, British politician, MP for Walthamstow East (1955–1966).[180]
- Sergej Larin, 51, Lithuanian tenor.[181]
- Johnny Podres, 75, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers), 1955 World Series MVP.[182]
- Jafar Shahidi, 89, Iranian linguist and historian.[citation needed]
- Doreen Tovey, 89, British writer.[183]
- Patricia Verdugo, 61, Chilean writer, journalist and human rights violations investigator, cancer.[184]
- Walter Zimper, 65, Austrian politician.[185]
14
- Józef Bartosik, 90, Polish World War II veteran and rear admiral.[186]
- Don Cardwell, 72, American baseball pitcher.[187]
- Kaj Christiansen, 86, Danish association football player.[188]
- Selim Al Deen, 58, Bangladeshi dramatist, cardiac arrest.[189]
- Judah Folkman, 74, American cancer researcher, apparent heart attack.[190]
- Thor Hesla, 45, American USAid worker in the 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack.[191]
- Richard Knerr, 82, American co-founder of Wham-O, inventor of the frisbee and Hula Hoop, stroke.[192]
- Vincenz Liechtenstein, 57, Austrian politician.[193]
- Tommy Limby, 60, Swedish cross-country skier.[194]
- Joseph Payne, 70, British musician.[195]
- Johnny Steele, 91, British football manager of Barnsley (1960–1971, 1972–1973).[196]
- Carsten Thomassen, 38, Norwegian journalist, 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack.[197]
- Milton Wolff, 92, American Spanish Civil War veteran.[198]
- Wu Jin, 74, Taiwanese Minister for Education (1996–1998), cancer.[199]
15
- K. M. Adimoolam, 69, Indian abstract artist.[200]
- Rupe Andrews, 81, Canadian football player.[201]
- Roger Anger, 84, French architect.[202]
- Arthur I. Appleton, 92, American businessman.[203]
- Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, 43, British video game developer (Paperboy, Zombies Ate My Neighbors), pancreatic cancer.[204]
- Eduardo Hontiveros, 84, Filipino Jesuit composer of Roman Catholic liturgical songs, stroke.[205]
- John D. Lawson, 84, British scientist.[206]
- Adele Longmire, 89, American actress.[207]
- Jason MacIntyre, 34, British road bicycle racer, traffic collision.[208]
- Ronald Noll, 78, American conductor, complications from diabetes and heart disease.[209]
- Brad Renfro, 25, American actor (The Client, Ghost World, Apt Pupil), accidental heroin overdose.[210]
- Anthony M. Solomon, 88, American President of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1980–1985), kidney failure.[211]
16
- Jorge de Bagration, 63, Spanish race car driver, claimant to throne of the Royal House of Georgia, hepatitis.[212]
- Chen Xilu, 79, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Hengshui, organ failure.[213]
- Nikola Kljusev, 80, Macedonian politician and economist, Prime Minister of Macedonia (1991–1992).[214]
- Pierre Lambert, 87, French Trotskyist leader and 1988 presidential candidate.[215]
- Munjuku Nguvauva II, 85, Namibian traditional tribal chief, complications from strokes.[216]
- Gerry Tordoff, 78, English cricketer (Somerset).[217]
- Hone Tuwhare, 85, New Zealand Māori poet.[218]
- Bungo Yoshida, 73, Japanese Bunraku puppeteer, liver cancer.[219]
- Elias Zoghby, 96, Egyptian Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Baalbek.[220]
17
- Manfred Abelein, 77, German politician.[221]
- Mofida Ahmed, 88, Indian politician.[222]
- Carlos, 64, French singer, cancer.[223]
- Joseph M. Champlin, 77, American Roman Catholic priest, bone marrow, cancer.[224]
- Trevor Drayton, 52, Australian winemaker, explosion.[225]
- Tony Dean, 75, British racing driver.[226]
- Bobby Fischer, 64, American chess grandmaster, world champion (1972–1975), kidney failure.[227]
- Edward D. Hoch, 77, American writer of detective fiction, heart attack.[228]
- Ernie Holmes, 59, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), traffic collision.[229]
- Mildred Callahan Jones, 64, American decorative flag pioneer.[230]
- Denise Amber Lee, 21, American kidnap victim, shot.[231]
- Carole Lynne, 89, British actress, wife of Bernard Delfont.[232]
- John McHale, 86, American baseball player.[233]
- Allan Melvin, 84, American actor (The Phil Silvers Show, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family), cancer.[234]
- Madeleine Milhaud, 105, French actress, wife of Darius Milhaud.[235]
- Giuliana Penzi, 90, Italian dancer and choreographer.[236]
- Della Purves, 62, British botanical artist, liver disease.[237]
- William E. Schaufele Jr., 84, American diplomat, U. S. Ambassador to Upper Volta (1969–1971), U. S. Ambassador to Poland (1978–1980).[238]
- Trevor Sprigg, 61, Australian politician, Western Australian Legislative Assembly whip, heart attack.[239]
- Jinzo Toriumi, 78, Japanese novelist and screenwriter (Speed Racer, Gatchaman, Armored Trooper Votoms), liver cancer.[240]
- Eddy Williams, 92, Australian cricketer.[241]
18
- Uzi Cohen, 55, Israeli Likud politician, heart attack.[242]
- Pier Miranda Ferraro, 83, Italian opera tenor, cardiac arrest.[243]
- Wally Fielding, 88, British footballer (Everton).[244]
- Georgia Frontiere, 80, American majority-owner of Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams, breast cancer.[245]
- Ruth Hamilton, 109, American talk show host, member of New Hampshire General Court (1964–1966, 1973–1975).[246]
- Bertram "Jimmy" James, 92, British World War II airman, participant in The Great Escape.[247]
- Frank Lewin, 82, American composer, heart failure.[248]
- Sir Frederick Mason, 94, British diplomat, Ambassador to Chile.[249]
- Lois Nettleton, 80, American actress (A Face in the Crowd, All That Glitters, In the Heat of the Night), lung cancer.[250]
- Paul Nixon, 93, American Olympic cyclist.[251]
- Ugo Pirro, 87, Italian screenwriter.[252]
- John Stroger, 78, American politician, President of the Cook County, Illinois Board, stroke.[253]
19
- Sir Derek Alun-Jones, 74, British businessman.[254]
- Valentim Amões, 48, Angolan politician and businessman, plane crash.[255]
- Georgina Bruni, 61, British UFO researcher and author, cancer.[256]
- Creighton Burns, 82, Australian editor (The Age, 1981–1989), cancer.[257]
- Victor S. Johnson, Jr., 91, American lawyer, president of Aladdin Industries, colon cancer.[258]
- Frances Lewine, 86, American journalist and White House Correspondent, stroke.[259]
- Morris Maddocks, 79, British Bishop of Selby (1972–1983).[260]
- Mildred Noble, 86, American writer and Native American activist, complications from liver cancer.[261]
- Andy Palacio, 47, Belizean musician, UNESCO Artist for Peace and Garifuna activist, heart attack followed by stroke.[262]
- Lou Palmer, 75, American radio personality and announcer, brain hemorrhage.[263]
- Suzanne Pleshette, 70, American actress (The Bob Newhart Show, The Birds, Spirited Away), respiratory failure.[264]
- Eugene Sawyer, 73, American politician, Mayor of Chicago (1987–1989), strokes.[265]
- John Stewart, 68, American musician (The Kingston Trio), stroke.[266]
- Trevor Taylor, 50, Jamaican-born German singer (Bad Boys Blue), heart attack.[267]
- H. Bradford Westerfield, 79, American political scientist, complications of Parkinson's disease.[268]
- Don Wittman, 71, Canadian sports broadcaster for CBC, cancer.[269]
20
- Clark Allen, 82, American entertainer, artist, and businessman, respiratory failure.[270]
- Louis de Cazenave, 110, French supercentenarian, second-to-last official surviving French World War I veteran, natural causes.[271]
- Brianna Denison, 19, American college student.
- Ken Gee, 92, Australian judge.[272]
- Harry Gill, 85, British Royal Air Force officer.[273]
- Talivaldis Kenins, 88, Canadian composer.[274]
- Margit Kristian, 94, Yugoslavian Olympic fencer.[275]
- Abdul Latif, 56, British restaurateur, heart attack.[276]
- Duilio Loi, 78, Italian boxer, Alzheimer's disease.[277]
- Tommy McQuater, 93, British jazz trumpeter.[278]
- Donald Odanga, Kenyan basketball player, accidental shooting.[279]
- Ghorban Soleimani, 87, Iranian vocalist and dotar player.[280]
- James LeVoy Sorenson, 86, American medical device inventor and billionaire philanthropist, cancer.[281]
- Georges Wahler, 74, French Olympic shooter.[282]
- Eudoxia Woodward, 88, American painter, cancer.[283]
21
- Rooster Andrews, 84, American football player.[284]
- Pam Barrett, 54, Canadian politician, cancer.[285]
- Billy Elliott, 82, British footballer (Sunderland).[286]
- Evan G. Galbraith, 79, American diplomat, Ambassador to France (1981–1985), cancer.[287]
- Burton Hatlen, 71, American literary scholar, founder of National Poetry Foundation, mentor to Stephen King, pneumonia.[288]
- Peggy Jay, 95, British politician.[289]
- Wesley Ngetich Kimutai, 30, Kenyan marathon runner, homicide by poison arrow.[290]
- Kenneth Parnell, 76, American convicted child molester and kidnapper, natural causes.[291]
- Jiří Sequens, 85, Czech film director.[292]
- Marie Smith Jones, 89, American last known native speaker of the Eyak language, natural causes.[293]
- Luiz Carlos Tourinho, 43, Brazilian actor, cerebral aneurysm.[294]
22
- Orhan Aksoy, 78, Turkish director and screenwriter.[295]
- Bernie Boston, 74, American photographer ("flower power" movement), blood disease.[296]
- Dora Bria, 49, Brazilian windsurfing champion, traffic collision.[297]
- Mike Cacic, 71, Canadian football player (BC Lions).[298]
- Diane Chenery-Wickens, 48, British television make-up artist, murder (last seen alive on this date).[299]
- Lance Clemons, 60, American baseball relief pitcher, cancer.[300]
- Roberto Gari, 88, American actor and artist, heart attack.[301]
- Helge Hansen, 82, Danish Olympic cyclist.[302]
- Heath Ledger, 28, Australian actor (The Dark Knight, Brokeback Mountain, 10 Things I Hate About You), Oscar winner (2009), accidental drug overdose.[303]
- Miles Lerman, 88, American founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[304]
- Ştefan Niculescu, 80, Romanian composer.[305]
- Claude Piron, 76, Swiss linguist and Esperanto author.[306]
- Kevin Stoney, 87, British actor (Doctor Who), skin cancer.[307]
23
- Andrzej Andrzejewski, 46, Polish Brigadier General of the Polish Air Force, plane crash.[308]
- David Askevold, 67, Canadian artist.[309]
- Felix Carlebach, 96, British rabbi.[310]
- Steve Duplantis, 35, American pro golf caddy, traffic collision.[311]
- Leticia de Oyuela, 74, Honduran historian.[312]
- Stein Rønning, 42, Norwegian karate world champion (1990).[313]
24
- Lee Embree, 92, American photographer, took first air-to-air photographs of 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, kidney infection.[314]
- Art Frantz, 86, American baseball umpire, heart failure.[315]
- Johannes Heggland, 88, Norwegian author and politician.[316]
- Dorothy Hennessey, 94, American nun and activist.[317]
- J. Robert Hooper, 71, American politician, Maryland State Senator (1999–2007), colon cancer.[318]
- Megat Junid, 65, Malaysian MP, Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (1997–1999) prostate cancer.[319]
- Randy Salerno, 45, American news reporter (CBS, WBBM-TV), snowmobile accident.[320]
- Jahna Steele, 49, American transgender showgirl.[321]
25
- Christopher Allport, 60, American actor (To Live and Die in L.A., Another World, Felicity), avalanche.[322]
- Evelyn Barbirolli, 97, British oboist, wife of Sir John Barbirolli.[323]
- Annette Cameron, 88, Australian political activist.[324]
- Richard Darman, 64, American Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1989–1993), leukemia.[325]
- Ralph Dupas, 72, American boxer, complications of boxing-induced brain damage.[326]
- Louisa Horton, 87, American actress (All My Sons, Swashbuckler, Alice, Sweet Alice).[327]
- Andreas Hönisch, 77, Polish Superior General of Servi Jesu et Mariae, founder of the Catholic Scouts of Europe.[328]
- Roc Kirby, 89, Australian founder of Village Roadshow Limited.[329]
- Robert Miller, 24, American soldier, posthumous Medal of Honor recipient, killed in action.[330]
- Cândido Rubens Padín, 92, Brazilian Bishop of Bauru.[331]
- Aziz Sedki, 87, Egyptian Prime Minister (1972–1973).[332]
- P. K. Thomas, 81, Welsh neurologist.[333]
- Gary Wiggins, 55, Australian cyclist.[334]
26
- John Ardagh, 79, British journalist and author.[335]
- Christian Brando, 49, American actor and convicted killer, son of Marlon Brando, pneumonia.[336]
- Abraham Brumberg, 81, American writer and editor, heart failure.[337]
- Raymond Daniels, 28, Irish footballer (Wicklow GAA), suspected heart attack.[338]
- Igor Dmitriev, 80, Russian actor.[339]
- George Habash, 81, Palestinian founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heart attack.[340]
- Bryan Jennett, 81, British neurosurgeon.[341]
- Arthur Kramer, 81, American lawyer, founder of Kramer Levin, stroke.[342]
- Padraic McGuinness, 69, Australian journalist and editor, cancer.[343]
- Viktor Schreckengost, 101, American artist and industrial designer.[344]
- Robert Weaver, 87, Canadian editor and broadcaster.[345]
- Lovie Yancey, 96, American businessman, founder of Fatburger, pneumonia.[346]
- Zhang Hanzhi, 72, Chinese diplomat and linguist, English tutor for Mao, Nixon interpreter for 1972 visit, lung-related illness.[347]
27
- Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, 80, German politician, president of German Red Cross (1982–1994).[348]
- Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, American President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[349]
- Mike Holovak, 88, American football player and coach (Boston Patriots), pneumonia.[350]
- Ken Hunt, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).[351]
- John W. Ingram, 79, American railroad executive (Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad).[352]
- Anna Loginova, 29, Russian bodyguard for boxer Kostya Tszyu, head injury during carjacking.[353]
- Gerry McIntyre, 78, Irish Olympic athlete.[354]
- Alan G. Rogers, 40, American Army major, first known gay combat fatality of Iraq War, improvised explosive device.[355]
- Valery Shumakov, 76, Russian transplantologist, founder of the Transplant and Artificial Organs Research Institute.[356]
- Irene Stegun, 88, American mathematician.[357]
- Suharto, 86, Indonesian President (1967–1998), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[358]
- Louie Welch, 89, American mayor of Houston, Texas (1964–1973), lung cancer.[359]
28
- Crisologo Abines, 60, Filipino politician, heart attack.[360]
- Les Anning, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.[361]
- Christodoulos, 69, Greek primate of the Church of Greece, cancer.[362]
- Frances Dewey Wormser, 104, American vaudeville and Broadway theater actress.[363]
- Dagfinn Grønoset, 87, Norwegian author.[364]
- John Gunnell, 74, British politician, MP (1992–2001).[365]
- Tapio Hämäläinen, 85, Finnish actor and theater counsellor.[366]
- Gerry Patrick Hemming, 70, American anti-Castro mercenary.[367]
- Bengt Lindström, 82, Swedish painter.[368]
- Larry Smith, 68, American college football coach, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.[369]
- Marie Takvam, 81, Norwegian author and actor.[370]
- Ginty Vrede, 22, Dutch Muay Thai martial artist, heart attack.[371]
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- Kastuś Akuła, 82, Belarusian writer.[372]
- Robert M. Ball, 93, American Commissioner of Social Security (1962–1973).[373]
- Margaret Truman, 83, American author, daughter of President Harry S. Truman.[374]
- Rubens Gerchman, 66, Brazilian painter, lung cancer.[375]
- Roberta Gale, 93, American actress.[376]
- Helga Goetze, 85, German artist and writer, stroke.[377]
- James Heathman, 90, American who found the 1931 TWA plane crash that killed Knute Rockne, pneumonia.[378]
- Raymond Jacobs, 82, American soldier, claimed to be in photo of first flag raised on Iwo Jima.[citation needed]
- Philippe Khorsand, 59, French actor.[379]
- Sebastian Kräuter, 85, Romanian author and Bishop of Timişoara.[380]
- Abu Laith al-Libi, 41, Libyan-born Afghan al-Qaeda leader, missile strike.[381]
- Erzsébet Nagy, 80, Hungarian writer, daughter of Prime Minister Imre Nagy.[382]
- Manuel Padilla Jr., 52, American actor (American Graffiti, Tarzan, The Flying Nun), colon cancer.
- Mugabe Were, 39, Kenyan legislator, homicide by gunshot.[383]
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- Jeremy Beadle, 59, British television presenter (You've Been Framed, Beadle's About), pneumonia.[384]
- Claude Faraldo, 71, French actor, screenwriter and film director.[385]
- Daniel Gráč, 64, Czech Olympic cyclist.[386]
- Herbert Kenwith, 90, American television director, complications of prostate cancer.[387]
- Miles Kington, 66, British newspaper columnist and humorist.[388]
- Marcial Maciel, 87, Mexican religious leader, founder of the Legionaries of Christ.[389]
- Roland Selmeczi, 38, Hungarian actor, traffic collision.[390]
- Wilber Varela, 50, Colombian drug trafficker, shot.[391]
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- Arif Ali, 46, Pakistani-born British regional director for the Associated Press, cancer.[392]
- Sanan Alizade, 64, Azerbaijani politician, heart attack.[393]
- Veronika Bayer, 67, German actress.[394]
- František Čapek, 93, Czech canoeist, Olympic C1 10,000m gold medallist in 1948, heart ailment.[395]
- Joe Clark, 87, English footballer.[396]
- Sir Ivar Colquhoun, 8th Baronet, 92, British aristocrat.[397]
- Sir Donald Hawley, 86, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Malaysia (1977–1981).[398]
- Jim Lacey, 73, Australian administrator of Lord Howe Island, general manager of Western Plains Zoo.[399]
- Zeltim Odie Peterson, 10, American purebred pedigreed pug, heart attack.[400]
- Mark Schwed, 52, American television critic and journalist.[401]
- Bertie Smalls, 72, British criminal turned informant.[402]
- David Kimutai Too, 39, Kenyan legislator, shot.[403]
- Volodia Teitelboim, 91, Chilean politician.[404]
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