Deaths in December 2006

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

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• Marv Breeding, 72, American Major League Baseball player for the Orioles and Dodgers. [1]
• Maurice Cook, 75, English football player. [2]
• Lida Hensley, 81, American president of the Universal Life Church. [3]
• Yaacov Hodorov, 79, Israeli football goalkeeper, stroke-related. [4]
• Kemal Kolenovic, 28, Montenegran middleweight boxer, vehicular homicide. [5]
• Seymour Lipset, 84, American sociologist, stroke. [6]
• Tim Maseko, 71, South African High Commissioner to Namibia, heart attack. [7]
• Liese Prokop, 65, Austrian athlete and Minister of the Interior (2004–2006), aortic dissection. [8]
• Mercedes Rein, 76, Uruguayan writer, professor and translator. [9] (Spanish)
• Joe Walton, 81, British football player with Preston North End (1948–61). [10]

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• David Armstrong, 65, Australian CEO of Community Aid Abroad (1987–92), heart failure. [11]
• Charles Boswell, 97, American Mayor of Indianapolis (1957–1962). [12]
• Frank Campanella, 87, American character actor. [13]
• Chandralekha, 78, Indian dancer and choreographer, cancer. [14]
• Mitzi Cunliffe, 88, American sculptor. [15]
• Ron Fineman, 54, Los Angeles-based broadcast journalist, colon cancer. [16]
• Frances Helm, 83, American actress [17]
• Saddam Hussein, 69, 5th President of Iraq (1979–2003), execution by hanging. [18] [19][20]
• Antony Lambton, 84, British Conservative government minister. [21]
• Donald Murray, 82, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Boston Globe, heart failure. [22]
• Michel Plasse, 58, Canadian ice hockey player, cardiac arrest. [23] (French)
• Gerald Washington, 57, American Mayor-elect of Westlake, Louisiana, shot. [24]

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• Luis Gandara Alonso,103, el sacerdote más longevo de la congregacion salesiana
• Harald Bredesen, 88, American Lutheran pastor and proponent of speaking in tongues, injuries following a fall. [25]
• Bud Delp, 74, American racehorse trainer inducted into the Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame, cancer. [26] [27]
• Johnny Gibson, 101, American 400 metre hurdles world record holder (1927–28). [28]
• John Lust, 94, last surviving crewmember of the United States Navy's rigid airship program. [29]
• Cynthia Steljes, 46, Canadian musician and founder of Quartetto Gelato, pleural mesothelioma. [30] [31]
• Charlie Tyra, 71, American basketball player, congestive heart failure. [32]

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• Arthur Chisnall, 81, British concert promoter. [33]
• Don Edgren, 83, American engineer for Walt Disney parks, hemorrhagic stroke. [34]
• Jamal Karimi-Rad, 50, Iranian Minister of Justice, car accident. [35]
• Stanislav Landgraf, 68, Russian actor. [36] (Russian)
• Thomas Lyson, 58, American sociologist at Cornell University, cancer. [37]
• Norman "Mandy" Mitchell-Innes, 92, oldest English test cricket player, natural causes. [38]
• Jack Myers, 93, American science editor of Highlights for Children magazine, bladder cancer. [39] [40]
• Jared Nathan, 21, American actor (ZOOM), car accident. [41]
• Tiny Naude, 70, South African Rugby union player, heart condition. [42]
• Tommy Sandlin, 62, Swedish ice hockey national coach (1978–1980, 1987–1990), heart attack. [43]
• Gershon Shaked, 77, Israeli professor of Hebrew Literature and author. [44]
• Aroldo Tieri, 89, Italian actor, natural causes. [45]

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• Sahib al-Amiri, adviser to Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, shot. [46]
• James Andelin, 89, American actor, congestive heart failure and emphysema. [47]
• Richard Dean, 50, American model, fashion photographer and host of TV makeover show Cover Shot; pancreatic cancer. [48]
• Pierre Delanoë, 88, French lyricist, cardiac arrest. [49]
• Wais Faizi, Afghan hotelier [50]
• Scotty Glacken, 62, Georgetown University football coach (1970–1992). [51]
• Itche Goldberg, 102, Polish-born American writer and Yiddish language preservationist. [52] [53]
• Boris Gudz, 104, Soviet spy involved in capture of Sidney Reilly. [54]
• Marmaduke Hussey (Lord Hussey of North Bradley), 83, British newspaper executive and Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors (1986–1996). [55]

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• Robert Boehm, 92, American lawyer and chairman of the Center for Constitutional Rights. [56]
• Chris Brown, 45, American baseball player, complications from burns. [57]
• Andi Engel, 64, German film distributor. [58]
• Gerald Ford, 93, 38th President of the United States (1974-1977). [59] [60] [61] [62] [63]
• Ivar Formo, 55, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic Games champion, drowning. [64]
• John Heath-Stubbs, 88, British poet and translator, lung cancer. [65]
• Max Kelly, 76, Australian mathematics professor and leading researcher into category theory. [66]
• Martin Kruskal, 81, American mathematician at Princeton University, stroke. [67]
• Nelva Méndez de Falcone, 76, Argentinian pioneering member of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, lung disease. [68]
• Fernand Nault, 85, Canadian ballet dancer and artistic director, Parkinson's disease. [69]

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• James Brown, 73, American soul singer and bandleader, heart failure related to pneumonia. [70] [71] [72] [73]
• José Antonio del Busto, 74, Peruvian historian, cancer. [74] [75] (Spanish)
• John Butcher, 60, British Conservative Member of Parliament (1979–1997), heart attack. [76]
• Sir Robert Cotton, 91, Australian government minister and ambassador to the United States, illness. [77]
• Steve Hyde, 46, New Zealand musician, entertainer and technical expert, heart attack. [78]
• Ingerid Vardund, 79, Norwegian actress. [79] (Norwegian)

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• Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga ("Braguinha"), 99, Brazilian songwriter, multiple organ failure. [80]
• Uri Dan, 71, Israeli author and political confidant, cancer. [81]
• Rev. James N. Loughran, 66, American president of Saint Peter's College, New Jersey, injuries from a fall. [82]
• Kenneth Sivertsen, 45, Norwegian folk singer, comedian and poet, brain trauma. [83] (Norwegian)
• Frank Stanton, 98, American CBS President (1946–1971), died in sleep. [84] [85]

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• Yaakov Besser, 72, Israeli poet, writer, literary editor and founder of the literary monthly Iton 77, cancer. [86] (Hebrew)
• John Bowman, 59, Black Panther noted for being constantly shadowed by the FBI, liver cancer. [87]
• Sol Carter, 98, American baseball player. [88]
• Rudolf de Crignis, 58, Swiss-born American artist, brain tumour. [89]
• Charlie Drake, 81, British comedian, actor and singer (My Boomerang Won't Come Back), stroke-related illness. [90]
• Wilma Dykeman, 86, American author & journalist, complications after hip fracture. [91]
• Carter Gilmore, 80, African-American civil rights activist and politician, cancer. [92]
• Norman "Dutch" Mason, 68, Canadian blues musician, complications from diabetes. [93]
• Bo Mya, 79, Myanmar rebel leader, complications of heart disease and diabetes. [94]
• Robert Stafford, 93, American Governor of Vermont (1959–1961) and U.S. Senator, natural causes. [95] [96]
• Ralph Stebbins, 43, American Mega Millions lottery winner of $208 million, heart attack. [97]
• Marilyn Waltz, 75, American actress and Playboy model. [98]

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• Peter Bath, 79, British founder of Palmair and owner of Bath Travel, illness. [99]
• Richard Boston, 67, British journalist and author, illness. [100]
• Sam Chapman, 90, American athlete, Alzheimer's disease. [101]
• Ervin Lázár, 70, Hungarian Kossuth Prize winner, writer and storyteller, lung failure. [102] (Hungarian)
• Dennis Linde, 63, American songwriter ("Burning Love", "Goodbye Earl"), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. [103] [104]
• Graham May, 54, New Zealand Commonwealth Games gold medal weightlifter, heart condition. [105]
• Elena Mukhina, 46, Soviet gymnast, complications of quadriplegia. [106]
• Daniel Raichel, 71, American mechanical engineer, melanoma. [107]
• Thomas Shoyama, 90, Canadian politician and academic instrumental in establishing Medicare, congestive heart failure and Parkinson's disease. [108]
• Dr. Craig Hugh Smyth, 91, American Renaissance art historian, heart attack. [109]
• Galina Ustvolskaya, 87, Russian composer, natural causes. [110]

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• Scobie Breasley, 92, Australian jockey, stroke. [111]
• Dee Johnson, 54, American ex-wife of Gary E. Johnson the Governor of New Mexico (1995–2003), natural causes. [112]
• Ricardo da Costa Oliveira, 30, Brazilian-born Macedonian football player, heart attack. [113]
• Edwin David Edwards, 62, American banking executive at Citibank, cancer. [114]
• Lois Hall, 80, American TV and movie actress, heart attack and stroke. [115]
• Colin Mair, 86, British rector of Kelvinside Academy. [116]
• Saparmurat Niyazov, 66, President of Turkmenistan, cardiac arrest. [117][118][119]
• Ramon Obusan, 68, National Artist of the Philippines for Dance, cardiac arrest. [120]
• Philippa Pearce, 86, British children's author, stroke. [121]
• Karl Strauss, 94, German-born brewmaster for Pabst and Karl Strauss Brewing Company, natural causes. [122]
• Nelly Vágó, 69, Hungarian costume designer, ovarian cancer. [123] (Hungarian)
• Sydney Wooderson, 92, British laywer and track athlete, world record for mile run (1937–1942), kidney failure. [124] [125]

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• Yukio Aoshima, 74, Japanese comedian and Governor of Tokyo (1995–99), myelodysplastic syndrome. [126]
• Clyde Bakkemo, 68, American record company executive instrumental in the formation of the Traveling Wilburys, abdominal aneurysm.

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• John Bishop, 77, American playwright (The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940) and screenwriter, cancer. [128]
• Elkan Blout, 87, American biochemist at Harvard University and the Polaroid Corporation, pneumonia. [129]
• Anne Rogers Clark, 77, American Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show judge, kidney failure associated with colon cancer. [130]
• Bent Juel-Jensen, 84, Danish–born bibliophile. [131]
• Tsepo Letlaka, 80, South African PAC activist and cabinet minister, illness. [132]
• Ma Ji, 72, Chinese xiangsheng actor, heart attack. [133]
• Tadayuki Nakashima, 35, Japanese comedian and member of comedic duo Cunning, pneumonia and complications from leukemia. [134]
• Piergiorgio Welby, 60, Italian poet and euthanasia advocate, removal of life support. [135]
• Neville Willoughby, 69, Jamaican radio broadcaster, car accident. [136]

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• Mary Bates Burns, 89, Canadian swing singer, heart failure. [137]
• Jack Burnley, 95, American comic book artist and illustrator, natural causes. [138]
• Cristin Keleher, 34, American stalker of George Harrison, shot. [139]
• Banglan Khan, Pakistani tribal leader, land mine explosion. [140]
• Galen Martin, 79, American civil rights activist, complications of cycling accident. [141]
• Maj-Britt Nilsson, 82, Swedish actress known for Ingmar Bergman films (Summer Interlude, Secrets of Women). [142]
• Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, Taliban commander, airstrike. [143]
• Danuta Rinn, 70, Polish singer, cancer. [144] (Polish)
• Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley, 82, Austrian-born first female member of the London Stock Exchange. [145]

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• Sheik Abdul-Ameer al-Jamri, 67, Bahraini Shiite cleric, heart failure and kidney failure. [146]
• Joseph Barbera, 95, American cartoonist and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions, natural causes. [147] [148]
• Ruth Bernhard, 101, American photographer, natural causes. [149]
• Denis Carter, Baron Carter, 74, British Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords (1997–2002), cancer. [150]
• Mike Dickin, 63, British talkSPORT radio presenter, car accident. [151]
• Scott Mateer, 46, American Grammy-nominated songwriter and DJ, complications of diabetes and high blood pressure. [152]
• Mavor Moore, 87, Canadian writer, actor, radio & TV producer and founder of theatrical institutions, illness. [153]
• Daniel Pinkham, 83, American composer, natural causes. [154]
• Bertie Reed, 63, South African solo yachtsman, liver cancer. [155]

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• Joe Gill, 87, American comic book writer. [156]
• Kyoko Kishida, 76, Japanese actress, respiratory failure caused by brain tumour. [157]
• Esko Nikkari, 68, Finnish actor, pneumonia. [158] (Finnish)
• Denis Payton, 63, British saxophone player for The Dave Clark Five, cancer. [159]
• Larry Sherry, 71, pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, MVP of the 1959 World Series, cancer. [160]

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• Luis Bersamin, 62, Philippine congressman representing the province of Abra, shot. [161] [162]
• Don Jardine, 66, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack and leukemia. [163]
• Chicho Jesurun, 59, Dutch baseballer and baseball coach from the Netherlands Antilles, heart attack. [164] (Dutch)
• Goce Nikolovski, 59, Macedonian singer, suicide.[165]
• Taliep Petersen, South African theatre impresario, shot. [166]
• John Rae, 75, English educator and writer, Headmaster of Westminster School (1970-1986). [167]
• Pnina Salzman, 84, Israeli pianist known as the "First Lady of Piano", natural causes. [168]
• Cecil Travis, 93, American baseball player, natural causes. [169]
• Yehoshua Yogel, 91, leading Zionist rabbi, illness. [170]
• Larry Zox, 69, American artist, cancer. [171]

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• Al Beye, 24, Senegal-born basketball player with Montana State University, car accident. [172]
• Federico Crescentini, 24, San Marino football player, drowned. [173]
• Alessio Ferramosca, 17, Italian football player for Juventus F.C. youth team, drowned. [174]
• Frank Johnson, 63, British journalist, editor of The Spectator (1995–1999), cancer. [175]
• Tom McManamon, 39, Irish musician with Shane MacGowan and The Popes, liver failure. [176]
• Riccardo Neri, 17, Italian football player for Juventus F.C. youth team, drowned. [177]
• Clay Regazzoni, 67, Swiss Formula One racing driver (1970–1980), car accident. [178]
• Mary Stolz, 86, American young adult novelist (Belling the Tiger, The Noonday Friends), natural causes. [179]
• Allan Stone, 74, American art dealer, died in sleep. [180]

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• Anton Balasingham, 69, Sri Lankan senior negotiator for LTTE, cancer. [181] [182]
• John Bridge, 91, recipient of the George Cross and George Medal, natural causes. [183]
• Hallie D'Amore, 64, makeup artist for Forrest Gump, suicide. [184]
• Ahmet Ertegun, 83, Turkish-born co-founder of Atlantic Records, head injury from a fall at a Rolling Stones concert. [185] [186]
• Mike Evans, 57, American actor best known as Lionel Jefferson on the television series The Jeffersons, throat cancer. [187]
• Kate Fleming, 41, American actress and audiobook producer and narrator, drowning. [188]
• Joshua Freeman, 42, American real estate developer and part owner of the NHL Washington Capitals, helicopter accident. [189]
• John Hamilton, 84, British politician and Leader of Liverpool City Council (1983–1986), lung disease. [190]
• Robert Long, 63, Dutch singer, cancer. [191] (Dutch)
• Robert Schaefer, 80, American television and comic book writer, collaborator with Eric Freiwald. [192]
• Flint Schulhofer, 80, American horse trainer of two Belmont Stakes winners, cancer. [193]
• Sivuca, 76, Brazilian accordionist and composer, cancer. [194]
• Iraj Zand, 54, Iranian painter and sculptor, cancer. [195]

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• Henry Beachell, 100, American agriculturalist and recipient of the 1996 World Food Prize, complications from health problems. [196] [197]
• Eileen Caddy, 89, British co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation, natural causes. [198]
• Richard Carlson, 45, American author (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff), heart attack. [199]
• Loyola de Palacio, 56, Spanish Vice-President of the European Commission, cancer. [200]
• Ángel Nieves Díaz, 55, Puerto Rican murderer, capital punishment by lethal injection. [201]
• Lamar Hunt, 74, American owner of Kansas City Chiefs who coined the term Super Bowl, complications from prostate cancer. [202] [203]
• Bernard Kleiman, 78, American general counsel to the United Steelworkers of America, heart attack. [204]
• Charles Peter McColough, 84, Canadian CEO of Xerox Corporation, cardiac arrest.[205]
• Catherine Pollard, 88, first female Scout leader for the Boy Scouts of America, cancer. [206]
• "Homesick" James Williamson, 96, African-American blues musician, natural causes. [207]

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• Paul Arizin, 78, American Basketball Hall of Famer (Philadelphia Warriors), in his sleep. [208]
• William H. Booth, 84, American jurist, complications of a stroke. [209]
• Peter Boyle, 71, American actor (Young Frankenstein, Everybody Loves Raymond), multiple myeloma. [210]
• Kenny Davern, 71, American jazz clarinetist, heart attack. [211] [212]
• Shane Halligan, 16, American student at Springfield Township High School who killed himself at school, suicide by gunshot. [213]
• Cor van der Hart, 78, Dutch footballer, natural causes. [214]
• Oscar Klein, 76, Austrian-born jazz trumpeter, heart attack. [215]
• Eliyathamby Ratnasabapathy, 68, Tamil militant leader in Sri Lankan civil war, illness. [216]
• Ellis Rubin, 81, Miami attorney and author, cancer. [217] [218]
• Raymond P. Shafer, 89, Governor of Pennsylvania (1967–1971), complications from congestive heart failure. [219] [220]
• Alan Shugart, 76, American pioneer of the disk drive and co-founder of Seagate Technology, complications from heart surgery. [221] [222]
• Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray, 83, member of the reformed House of Lords and Conservative Whip, pneumonia. [223]

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• Elizabeth Bolden, 116, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death, old age. [224] [225]
• Bob Bronzan, 87, American football coach (San Jose State University, Philadelphia Eagles), congestive heart failure and kidney failure. [226]
• Kenneth Cummins, 106, British veteran of the First World War, natural causes. [227]
• Tom Gregory, 79, American television news anchor and announcer, heart disease. [228]
• Homer Ledford, 79, bluegrass music legend, guitar and dulcimer luthier, stroke. [229]
• Lo Tak Shing, 71, Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, stroke. [230] [231]
• J. A. Riggs, Jr., 73, American executive vice president of the New York Times, heart attack. [232]
• Walter Ward, 66, lead singer of The Olympics, unspecified illness. [233]

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• Samuel Benedict Goldberg, 106, last World War I veteran in Rhode Island, old age. [234]
• Dr. Mario Llerena, 93, Cuban intellectual, author and former Castro supporter turned critic, natural causes. [235]
• John Mohawk, 61, Seneca historian and Director of the University at Buffalo Indigenous Studies Program, cancer. [236]
• Cardinal Salvatore Pappalardo, 88, Archbishop of Palermo (1970–1996), natural causes. [237]
• Augusto Pinochet, 91, ex-president of Chile, complications from heart attack. [238]
• David Yomtoob, 37, American subject of book The Gift Of Life, heart failure during liver transplant. [239]

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• Alberto D'Aguanno, 42, Italian Mediaset TV sport journalist, complications from illness. [240] [241] (Italian)
• Peter Derow, 62, American classical scholar, heart attack. [242]
• Georgia Gibbs, 87, American singer ("Kiss of Fire") known for her work on Your Hit Parade, leukemia. [243] [244]
• Ralph Gomberg, 85, former principal oboist at the Boston Symphony, primary lateral sclerosis. [245]
• Johnny Hutch, 93, British acrobat and comedian (The Benny Hill Show), natural causes. [246]
• Andrei Lomakin, 42, Russian ice hockey player, gold medallist at 1988 Winter Olympics, long illness, [247]
• Fred Marsden, 66, British drummer for Gerry & the Pacemakers, cancer. [248][249]
• Martin Nodell, 91, American comic book and advertising artist, creator of the Golden Age Green Lantern, natural causes. [250]
• Francesco Rosetta, 84, Italian football player, cancer. [251] (Italian)
• Tremayne Rodd (3rd Baron Rennell), 71, Scottish rugby player. [252]

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• Angelo Cali, 91, American co-founder of the Cali Realty Corporation, now part of the Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, natural causes. [253]
• Sir Colin Figures, 81, head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (1982–1985), natural causes. [254]
• Ernie Fladell, 81, founder of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, complications following a heart attack. [255]
• Raúl Marciel Pérez, activist for indigenous peoples of Mexico, shot. [256]
• Martha Tilton, 91, American jazz and swing singer with Benny Goodman, natural causes. [257] [258]
• José Uribe, 47, Dominican baseball shortstop, mostly with the San Francisco Giants (1984–1993), car accident. [259]
• Joan Worth, 72, American artist and producer. [260]

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• Lyuben Berov, 81, Bulgarian prime minister (1992–1994), cancer. [261]
• Kevin Berry, 61, Australian gold medal winner in the 200m butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics, brain tumour. [262]
• Desmond Briscoe, 81, British sound engineer and founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, natural causes. [263]
• Moses Hardy, 113, oldest known man in the United States and last African-American veteran of World War I, natural causes. [264] [265]
• J. B. Hunt, Sr., 79, American trucking executive and founder of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., head injuries from a fall. [266] [267]
• Kim Hyung-chil, 47, South Korean equestrian at the 2006 Asian Games, crushed by falling horse. [268] [269].
• Jeane Kirkpatrick, 80, former American U.N. ambassador, congestive heart failure. [270] [271]
• Jay McShann, 90, African-American blues/swing pianist, bandleader and singer. natural causes. [272] [273]
• Ben Ruffin, 64, Chair of the UNC Board of Governors, political advisor; heart attack. [274]
• John Sieburth, 79, Canadian marine scientist and penguin researcher, complications of dementia. [275]
• Frank Tremaine, 92, American reporter who broke news of the attack on Pearl Harbor, pulmonary illness. [276]

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• Khan Akhmedov, 70, Prime Minister of Turkmenistan (1989–1992), heart attack. [277]
• Darren "Wiz" Brown, 44, British musician and lead singer of Mega City Four, stroke. [278]
• Russell Buchanan, 106, United States World War I veteran, stroke. [279]
• Hugo Cores, 69, Uruguayan historian, labor leader and politician, Deputy (1990-1994), stroke. [280] (Spanish)
• Dr. Samuel Devons, 92, British physicist and historian of science at Columbia University, congestive heart failure. [281]
• Andy Dill, 39, American gay porn actor and movie producer, meningitis. [282]
• Jeffery Ede, 88, British Keeper of Public records, natural causes. [283]
• Andra Franklin, 47, American former NFL player with the Miami Dolphins, congestive heart failure. [284]
• Leon Mandelbaum, 86, American founder of Mandee and Annie Sez clothing chains, natural causes. [285]
• Mavis Pugh, 92, British actress (You Rang M'Lord?), natural causes. [286]
• Robert Rosenblum, 79, American art historian, curator, and author, colon cancer. [287]
• William Salcer, 82, Czechoslovakian-born inventor and Holocaust survivor, leukemia. [288]

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• Peter Blake, 86, German-born American architect, author, editor, and curator, complications from a respiratory infection. [289]
• David Bronstein, 82, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster and writer, champion of USSR, natural causes. [290] [291]
• Eric Cox, 83, Australian rugby league player, referee and administrator, pneumonia and stroke. [292]
• Michael Gilden, 44, American actor (NCIS, Return of the Jedi), apparent suicide. [293] [294]
• Michael A. Guido, 52, six-term mayor of Dearborn, Michigan and president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, cancer. [295]
• Gernot Jurtin, 51, Austrian football player, cancer. [296]
• Yvonne Scarlett-Golden, 80, first black female mayor of Daytona Beach, Florida, cancer. [297]
• Van Smith, 61, American costume and makeup designer, heart attack. [298]
• Shahdan Zahari, 33, Malaysian striker for Pahang FA (1993–1996), complications from paralysis. [299]

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• Sir Peter Gadsden, 77, Lord Mayor of London 1979-80, sudden death. [300]
• Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 84, Burkinabé politician, natural causes. [301]
• James Kim, 35, American CNET editor, exposure and hypothermia. [302] [303] [304]
• Wolfram Kistner, 83, South African theologian and anti-apartheid activist, natural causes. [305]
• Ronnie Lippin, 59, American publicist and manager, worked with Eric Clapton, Brian Wilson, and Prince, breast cancer. [306]
• Arthur Shimkin, 84, American Grammy Award-winning producer of children's records, bladder cancer. [307]
• Len Sutton, 81, American Indianapolis 500 racing driver, cancer. [308]
• Ruth Webb, 88, American talent agent, cancer. [309]

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• Eleanor Thomas Elliott, 80, American advocate for women's rights and chair of the board of Barnard College, car accident. [310]
• Craig Hinton, 42, British science fiction author, heart attack. [311]
• Henry Pearson, 92, American op art painter, natural causes. [312]
• Logan Whitehurst, 29, American singer/songwriter (The Velvet Teen), brain cancer. [313][314]

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• Bob Berry, 80, English test cricket player, natural causes. [315]
• Kari Edwards, 52, American poet, artist and gender activist, heart failure. [316]
• Kurt Lipstein, 97, German-born British academic, Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cambridge, natural causes. [317]
• Dave Mount, 59, British drummer for 1970s glam rock band Mud, heart attack. [318] [319]
• Herbie Nayokpuk, 77, Alaskan Native Iditarod dog-sled racer, complications from stroke. [320]
• George Tindall, 85, American historian and author, complications of diabetes. [321]
• Mariska Veres, 59, Dutch singer of Shocking Blue, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970 with "Venus", cancer. [322] [323] (Dutch)
• Richard Vernon, 53, American operatic bass with the Metropolitan Opera, sudden death. [324]
• Kurt Wasserfallen, 59, Swiss politician, member of the Swiss National Council, cancer. [325], [326] (German)
• Dwayne Wilcox, 66, American drag racer during the 1950s and 1960s, renal failure brought on by diabetes. [327]

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• Robert N. Anthony, 90, American Harvard Business School professor, author and United States Department of Defense comptroller, cancer. [328]
• Claude Jade, 58, French actress (Baisers Volés, L'Amour en Fuite, Topaz), metastatic eye cancer. [329] [330]
• Dr. Herbert Gursky, 76, American astrophysicist for the Naval Research Laboratory, stomach cancer[331]
• Geoffrey Guy, 86, British airman and colonial governor. [332]
• Sid Raymond, 97, American character actor and voice of Baby Huey, complications of a stroke. [333]
• Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, "Snake King" of Malaysia, venomous snakebite. [334]
• Edi Sudrajat, 68, Indonesian defense minister (1993–1998), respiratory failure. [335]
• Rosie Lee Tompkins, 70, African-American quiltmaker, cancer. [336]