Deaths in October 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.

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• P. W. Botha, 90, South African politician, Prime Minister (1978–1984), State President (1984–1989), heart attack. [1]
• Shane Drury, 27, American professional bull rider in the PRCA, Ewing's sarcoma. [2]
• William Franklyn, 81, English actor, prostate cancer. [3]
• Peter Fryer, 79, English journalist who reported on the Hungarian Revolution. [4]
• Michael Genovese, 87, American alleged Mafia boss of Pittsburgh. [5]
• Mabel Grosvenor, 101, Canadian physician and granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell. [6]
• Dr. George B. Thomas, 92, American mathematician and author, natural causes. [7]
• Nicholas John Vine-Hall, 62, Australian genealogist, cancer. [8]

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• Clifford Geertz, 80, American cultural anthropologist, complications following heart surgery. [9]
• Jens Christian Hauge, 91, Norwegian WWII resistance leader, and first postwar defence minister, natural causes. [10] [11]
• Stephen Kaye, 75, American lawyer and author, cancer. [12]
• Junji Kinoshita, 92, Japanese playwright, pneumonia. [13]
• Cesar Nazareno, 65, Filipino former head of the Philippine National Police, aneurysm. [14]
• Ian Rilen, 58, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo), bladder cancer. [15]
• Aud Schønemann, 83, Norwegian actress best known for comedy roles. [16] (Norwegian)
• Mose Tolliver, 82, Alabaman folk artist, pneumonia.[17]

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• Nigel Kneale, 84, English scriptwriter (The Quatermass Experiment), stroke. [18]
• Mohammadu Maccido, 78, Sultan of Sokoto, spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims, aeroplane crash. [19]
• Silas Simmons, 111, American Negro league baseball player, longest-living known professional baseball player in history. [20] [21]
• Friedel Stern, 89, German-born Israeli cartoonist. [22]

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• Robert Anderson, 85, American president and chairman of Rockwell International Corporation. [23]
• Red Auerbach, 89, American coach of the Boston Celtics (1950–1966), heart attack. [24]
• Tina Aumont, 60, French actress, pulmonary embolism. [25] (Italian)
• György Bence, 64, Hungarian philosopher. [26] (Hungarian)
• Trevor Berbick, 51, Jamaican former heavyweight boxing champion and last boxer to face Muhammad Ali, homicide. [27]
• Brian Brolly, 70, British co-manager of Wings (1973-78), Managing Director of Really Useful Group (1978-88), co-founder of Classic FM, heart attack. [28]
• Henry Fok, 83, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist, and CCPPC official, lymphoma. [29]
• Richard Gilman, 83, American drama and literary critic, lung cancer. [30]
• Peter Gingold, 90, German anti-fascist. [31] (German)
• Jack McGinley, 85, American businessman, part owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, cancer. [32]
• Marijohn Wilkin, 86, American country songwriter, a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, heart failure. [33]

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• John Raymond Broadbent, 92, Australian Army officer and distinguished lawyer. [34]
• Ephraim Chamba, 71, Zimbabwean broadcaster, car accident. [35]
• József Gregor, 66, Hungarian opera singer (bass) and father of actress Bernadett Gregor. [36] [37]
• Thomas Russell Jones, 93, African-American New York state assemblyman and judge. [38]
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, Pakistani former President, pneumonia. [39]
• Humphrey Khoza, 58, South African businessman who set up the country's national lottery, car crash. [40]
• Marlin McKeever, 66, former American football player, head injuries from a fall. [41]
• Joe Niekro, 61, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm. [42]
• Muhammad Qasim, 32, goalkeeper for the Pakistani field hockey team, cancer. [43]
• Albrecht von Goertz, 92, German-born American automobile designer. [44]
• Bradley Roland Will, 36, American Indymedia reporter, shot dead whilst covering a Mexican teachers' strike. [45]

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• Gary Coull, 52, Canadian journalist, and co-founder of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange brokerage CLSA, cancer. [46] [47]
• Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian composer, cancer. [48] (Portuguese)
• Tillman Franks, 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes. [49]
• Michel Habib-Deloncle, 84, French politician, former Secretary of State. [50]
• Ralph R. Harding, 77, former Idaho congressman. [51]
• Pontus Hultén, 82, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director. [52] (Swedish)
• John Kentish, 96, English operatic tenor.[53]
• Charlie Leigh, 60, American kick returner for unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins, lung cancer. [54]
• Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia. [55] (Japanese)
• Theodore Taylor, 85, American writer best known for The Cay, heart attack. [56]

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• Paul Ableman, 79, English playwright and novelist.[57]
• Gerrard Haworth, 95, founder of office furniture company Haworth. [58]
• Bernice Kanner, 57, American advertising columnist and journalist, aneurysm. [59] [60]
• Edward Kenney, Sr., 85, baseball executive in the Boston Red Sox farm system from 1949-91, complications of diabetes.[61]
• Kintaro Ohki, known professionally as Kim Il, 77, South Korean World Wrestling Association champion, heart attack. [62]
• Daniel Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [63]
• Robert Rosenberg, 54, Israeli author, cancer. [64]
• Gregory Summers, 48, convicted U.S. murderer, executed by lethal injection.[65]
• Tom Wagoner, 75, responsible for springing open the starting gates each year at the Kentucky Derby. [66]

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• David Conn, 56, District Attorney in the Menendez Brothers trial, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [67]
• Ray Johnson, 72, former CFL and Western Mustangs player and coach. [68]
• Sally Lilienthal, 87, American disarmament activist, founder of the Ploughshares Fund, pneumonia following a bone infection. [69] [70]
• Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. [71]
• Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, heart failure. [72]
• Benjamin Meed, 88, Polish-born president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. [73]
• Jack Radtke, 93, American baseball player [74]
• Rafael Ramírez Heredia, 67, Mexican writer, lung cancer [75]
• William Montgomery Watt, 97, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. [76]
• Daisy (dog), 13, Rudolph Moshammer's dog, often appeared together in the media. [77]

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• Leonid Hambro, 86, American concert pianist. [78]
• Dr. Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, 91, American doctor and abortion rights advocate, the only doctor ever convicted in the US of performing an abortion in a hospital. [79]
• Charles Horton, 81, founder of Physicians for Peace, cancer. [80]
• Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease. [81] (Italian)
• Lawrence W. Levine, 73, American cultural historian, cancer. [82]
• Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident. [83]
• Mary Murray, 81, Massachusetts Republican representative between 1976 and 2000, cancer. [84]
• Jack E. Scholl, 80, former head of Dr. Scholl's and executive director of the Dr. Scholl Foundation. [85]
• Todd Skinner, 48, pioneering free climber, climbing accident. [86] [87]
• Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist. [88]

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• Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records, Unknown Causes. [89] [90]
• Lucho DeCastro, Touring car driver, air crash. [91]
• Masayuki Fujio, 89, former Japanese Minister of Education. [92]
• Choe Gyuha, 87, former South Korean president. [93]
• Arthur Hill, 84, Canadian Tony Award-winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Andromeda Strain), Alzheimer's disease. [94] [95]
• Lembit Lauri, 77, Estonian journalist
• Mancs, 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Spider Special Rescue Team of Miskolc, pneumonia [96]
• William Marquard, 86, former CEO of American Standard Companies. [97]
• Richard Mayes, 83, English stage and television actor.
• Michael Mayne, 77, English clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996), cancer of the jaw. [98]
• Manoj Punj, 36 Indian director. [99]
• Arnold Sundgaard, 96, American lyricist, librettist and playwright. [100]

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• Peter Barkworth, 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke. [101][102]
• Paul Biegel, 81, Dutch writer of children's literature. [103] (Dutch)
• Pye Chamberlayne, 68, American radio journalist, heart attack. [104]
• Daryl Duke, 77, Canadian film director (The Thorn Birds), pulmonary fibrosis. [105]
• Nersi Gorgia, 68, Iranian film actor. [106]
• Bryan Hipp, Diabolic and Cradle of Filth guitarist, unknown [107]
• Bob Mann, 82, American football player, one of the Detroit Lions' first black players. [108]
• Arthur Peacocke, 81, English scientist and theologian. [109]
• Milton Selzer, 87, American actor. [110]
• Erik Walker, 23, Tampa Bay Devil Rays minor league pitcher, drowning. [111]
• Paul Walters, 59, BBC radio and TV producer. [112]
• Sandy West, 47, drummer and vocalist with The Runaways, lung cancer. [113]

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• Maxi Baier, 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Parkinson's disease. [114]
• Don Burroughs, 75, American football player from 1955–1964, cancer. [115]
• Takuya Fujioka (藤岡琢也), 76, Japanese actor (Daikichi Okakura in the Japanese soap opera Wataru Seken wa oni Bakari). [116]
• Princess Irene Galitzine, 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer. [117] [118]
• Ted Johnson, 72, founder and former president of the World of Outlaws, lung cancer. [119]
• Dr. Lawrence Kolb, 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement, natural causes. [120]
• Eric Newby, 86, British travel writer, natural causes. [121]
• Mary Gay Taylor, 71, radio journalist for WCBS-AM. [122]
• Jane Wyatt, 96, American actress (Father Knows Best, Star Trek), natural causes. [123]
• Elizabth Claro, 18, Australia/Australian five-time Australian Gaelic dancing champion
• Timothy Bowen Jr., 23 American Best Man I have ever known! Driller Assistant for Ardman and Associates in Cocoa, FL Played the guitar so beautiful, loved lemons with salt, we miss you baby, more than anything. He will never be forgotten, his presence taught me what life really is and how to enjoy every wonder of it. nothing in this world could ever even reflect an image as glorious as his soul that has shined on our lives (me and jacob)I want everyone who reads this to always see the little things, the colors of the world and just seize the day, because you could loose it all and never have another chance. life is real. don't let it pass you by. Tim I will see you again I love you forever! *Michelle Lynn Potts*

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• Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross, 81, British founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and life peer, heart attack. [124]
• Dr. Arthur Holleb, 85, American surgical oncologist and educator, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. [125]
• Phyllis Kirk, 79, American actress (House of Wax, The Thin Man), post cerebral aneurysm. [126] [127]
• Ernest Maftei, 86, Romanian actor, lung cancer. [128]
• Dr. Leonard Pepkowitz, 91, American chemist and advisor to the Atomic Energy Commission. [129]
• Srividya, 53, Indian actress, cancer. [130]

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• Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist. [131]
• Oberia Coffin, 122?, American woman who may have been world's oldest person. [132]
• Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation from 1951–1998, IOC whistleblower, stroke. [133]
• Dr. Edithe Levit, 79, American doctor and educator, former president of the National Board of Medical Examiners. [134]
• Achille Millo, 84, Italian actor. [135] (Italian)
• Lisa Norris, 16, Scottish teenage cancer patient and accidental overdose victim [136]
• Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature from 1999–2004, brain hemorrhage. [137] [138] (German)
• Anna Russell, 94, British/Canadian comedian and classical music satirist. [139] [140]
• Spoony Singh, 83, Indian born founder of the Hollywood Wax Museum. [141] [142]
• Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. [143] [144]

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• Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children). [145]
• Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person), metastatic breast cancer. [146]
• Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer. [147] [148]
• Ursula Moray Williams, 95, English children's author. [149]
• Sandra Regina Arantes do Nascimento, 42, Brazilian politician, daughter of footballer Pelé, breast cancer. [150]
• Lieuwe Steiger, 82, goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and the Netherlands (1953–1954), natural causes. [151] (Dutch)
• Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. [152]

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• Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer. [153]
• Ross Davidson, 57, former EastEnders actor, brain tumor. [154]
• Sid Davis, 90, American educational filmmaker, lung cancer. [155] [156]
• Richard Duvall, 44, British co-founder of Egg Banking plc and Zopa, cancer. [157]
• Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992). [158]
• Harold Gardner, 107, WWI veteran, served a single day prior to the November 11 armistice. [159]
• Tommy Johnson, 71, session musician best known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure. [160]
• Dr. John Murra, 90, Ukranian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar. [161]
• Valentín Paniagua, 70, former president of Peru, complications from heart surgery. [162]
• Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster, pulmonary embolism. [163]
• Ernie Steele, 88, played in two NFL championship games for the Philadelphia Eagles. [164]
• Sigmund Strochlitz, 89, Polish Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [165]
• Trebisonda "Ondina" Valla, 90, first Italian female Olympic champion, 80m hurdles, 1936, natural causes. [166]
• Anatoly Voronin, 55, the business chief of Russian Itar-TASS news agency, apparent murder [167]

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• Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic). [168]
• William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages. [169]
• Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoons editor for Playboy. [170]

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• Marja Bakker, 59, Dutch-born organizer of the Boston Marathon, only female president of the Boston Athletic Association Running Club. [171]
• James Barr, 82, Scottish Hebrew Bible scholar. [172]
• Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox and silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer. [173] [174] (Dutch)
• Gino Empry, 83, Canadian entertainment publicist and promoter. [175]
• Freddy Fender, 69, Mexican-American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer. [176]
• Thomas Hlongwane, former South African football (soccer) player, cancer. [177]
• Herbert Leonard, 84, American TV and movie producer (Route 66, Naked City, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin). [178] [179] [180]
• Soni Pabla, 30, Punjabi singer, heart attack. [181]
• Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed theologian. [182]
• Gerry Studds, 69, first openly homosexual U.S. Congressman, Democratic Representative for Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism. [183][184]

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• Bernard Allen, 69, North Carolina General Assembly member. [185]
• Mason Andrews, 87, delivered first test tube baby in the United States; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. [186]
• Deborah Blumer, 64, Massachusetts State Representative, heart attack. [187] [188]
• Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes. [189] [190]
• Mayme Clayton, 83, black history archivist, pancreatic cancer. [191]
• Pál Kállai, 73, Hungarian jockey. [192]
• Bob Lassiter, 61, American talk radio personality. [193]
• Dino Cardinal Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household from 1986–1998. [194]
• Edward Newlands, 64, Scottish oncologist, pioneered etoposide to improve the treatment of testicular and ovarian cancers, temozolomide for astrocytoma. [195]
• Dr. S. Peter Rosen, 73, British-American physicist. [196]
• Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena. [197]
• Wang Guangmei, 85, wife of late Chinese Communist leader Liu Shaoqi. [198]

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• Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet. [199]
• Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies. [200] [201]
• Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 78, American CEO of Pullman Inc.
• Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965-70). [202]
• Dr. Saul Farber, 88, American dean of the New York University Medical School, complications from circulatory problems. [203]
• Richard Hunter, 60, Ngarrindjeri elder and South Australian citizen of the year. [204]
• Eugène Martin, 91, driver in very first Grand Prix. [205] (French)
• Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers), congestive heart failure. [206]

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• Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983). [207]
• Klaus Hiendl, 62, German businessman, injuries from a car crash. [208]
• Howard Kerzner, 42, South African resort developer, CEO of Kerzner International Ltd., helicopter crash. [209][210]
• Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher with the New York Yankees, plane crash. [211] [212]
• Benito Martínez, 126?, claimant to the title of world's oldest person. [213]
• Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British Judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985). [214]
• Jimmy Peters, 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens and the Detroit Red Wings. [215]
• Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach at Boston College. [216]
• Sheikh Raad Mutar Saleh, Mandaean leader in Iraq, assassination.[217]
• Norman Salsitz, 86, Polish-born resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor, and author. [218]
• Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer. [219] (French)
• John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy. [220]

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• Norsehah Abu Bakar, 44, Malaysian singer, lung cancer. [221]
• Jerry Belson, 68, Emmy-winning American television comedy writer (The Tracey Ullman Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show), prostate cancer. [222] [223]
• Francis Berry, 91, English poet and literary critic. [224]
• Harold Farb, 83, developer who expanded Houston by more than 30,000 apartments over the course of his career, heart attack. [225].
• Josie Orr, 85, former first lady of Indiana as wife of Gov. Robert D. Orr. [226]
• Robert Richenburg, 89, abstract expressionist painter. [227]
• Ian Scott, 72, former Attorney-General of Ontario. [228]
• Edgar Summerlin, 78, American tenor saxophonist and composer of jazz church music. [229]
• Lalit Suri, 59, Indian hotelier and parliamentarian, heart attack. [230]

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• Sedat Alp, 93, first archaeologist in Turkey to specialize in Hittitology. [231] (Turkish)
• Haris Charalambous, 21, University of Toledo basketball player. [232]
• Jacqueline-Charlotte Dufresnoy (known as Coccinelle), 75, French transsexual singer, stroke. [233] (French)
• Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979). [234]
• Jeff Getty, 49, AIDS activist and first recipient of a cross-species bone marrow transplant, heart failure. [235] [236]
• Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. [237] (Polish)
• Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer. [238]
• Paul Hunter, 27, English snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours. [239]
• Dr Nelson Leonard, 90, American bioorganic chemist and chloroquine researcher. [240]
• Sheldon Meyer, 80, American historian and editor at Oxford University Press. [241]
• Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack. [242]
• Glenn Myernick, 51, assistant coach of the United States men's national soccer team, heart attack. [243]
• Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, former CEO of Novell. [244]
• Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack. [245]
• Morris Tarshis, 87, American lawyer, former director of the New York City Bureau of Franchises. [246]

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• Eve Adamson, 68, American theater director, founder of the Jean Cocteau Repertory, daughter of lyricist Harold Adamson. [247]
• Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for anti-segregation editorials in the Chronicle Star. [248]
• Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop. [249] (Slovak)
• Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist for the Oldham Chronicle and father of actress Anne Kirkbride. [250]
• Yaakov Maltz, 83, former Supreme Court of Israel Justice and State Comptroller, heart attack. [251] (Hebrew)
• Ivan Murrell, 63, Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres [252]
• Mark Porter, 31, New Zealand racing driver, injuries received at the Mount Panorama Circuit. [253]

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• Winifred Bennett, 71, American amateur historian, suggested DNA testing to establish a relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. [254]
• Charlie Bradberry, 24, NASCAR driver, non-racing automobile accident. [255]
• Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter with 24 Oras, road accident. [256]
• Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant. [257]
• Karen Fischer, 30, German journalist, shot dead in Afghanistan. [258]
• Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish cyclist, suicide. [259]
• Joseph Lynch, 93, Royal Navy sailor who won the George Cross. [260]
• Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot dead in Moscow. [261] [262]
• Peter Rossi, 84, American sociologist who studied homelessness. [263]
• Christian Struwe, 38, German journalist, shot dead in Afghanistan. [264]

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• Puck Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics. [265] (Dutch)
• Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader. [266]
• Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director. [267] (Spanish)
• Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues,heart failure and bone marrow cancer. [268]
• Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker. [269]
• Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist [270]
• Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer. [271]

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• Al Antczak, 84, longtime editor of The Tidings, the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, pneumonia. [272]
• Robert Dentith, 29, British radio presenter of "The Unsigned Show" on Kerrang! Radio. [273]
• Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire. [274]
• George King, 78, college basketball coach. [275]
• Lieutenant General Liao Hansheng, 95, former Deputy Defence Minister of China. [276]
• Speedy O. Long, 78, Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972), cousin of Huey Long. [277] [278]
• Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress who played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street. [279]
• Antonio Peña, 53, promoter of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, heart attack. [280]
• Jackie Rae, 84, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer. [281]
• Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm. [282]
• Dick Wagner, 78, American former President of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash. [283] [284]
• Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer. [285]

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• Nigel Angus, 62, Scottish race horse trainer. [286]
• R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer for The New York Times, thoracic cancer. [287]
• Tom Bell, 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here, Prime Suspect), after short illness. [288]
• Gary Comer, 78, founder of the clothing chain Lands' End, and philanthropist, prostate cancer. [289]
• General František Fajtl, 94, Czech WWII fighter pilot, after long illness. [290]
• Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who held the world altitude record.[291]
• Ralph Griswold, 72, creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer. [292]
• Vic Heyliger, 87, Hall of Fame ice hockey coach of the US national team and at three colleges. [293]
• Gene Janson, 72, Chicago-based character actor, heart attack on stage during a performance. [294]
• Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer. [295]
• Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director. [296] (Italian)
• Katarina Tomasevski, 53, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.[297]

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• Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist. [298]
• Vice-Admiral Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic [299]
• John Crank, 90, English mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation.[300]
• Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5,795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble. [301]
• Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete and Olympic silver medalist, heart attack. [302] [303]
• Danial Shapiro, 48, American dancer and choreographer. [304]

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• Martha Batista, 82, First Lady of Cuba (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista. [305]
• Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen. [306] [307]
• Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident.[308]
• Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress, star of blaxploitation movie Cleopatra Jones, complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis. [309]
• Brian Fitzpatrick, 75, former All Blacks rugby union player. [310]
• Dr. Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician. [311] [312]
• Arthur L. Jones, 61, award winning journalist and presidential spokesman, complications from leukemia treatment. [313]
• Goran Mijatović, 36, Serbian businessman and owner of first league soccer club FK Bežanija, car bomb. [314]
• Paul Richardson, 74, Philadelphia Phillies' longtime organist, prostate cancer. [315]
• Clyde Vollmer, 85, Major League Baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds [316]
• Willem Zonggonau, ca. 64, West Papuan independence activist, heart attack. [317]
• Thoudam Damodar Singh, 69, Founder and Director, Bhaktivedanta Institute, Heart Attack [318]

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• Frank Beyer, 74, German film director (Jacob the Liar). [319] [320]
• Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall AO, 96, Australian mining industrialist. [321]
• Atanas Mihaylov, 57, Bulgarian soccer player. [322]
• Jakob Oeri-Hoffmann, 86, Swiss pharmaceutical executive, director of Roche Holding AG. [323]
• Judith Pizarro, 41, Puerto Rican actress, cardiac arrest. [324] (Spanish).
• Rafael Quintero Ibarbia, 66, Cuban-born CIA agent. [325]
• David Salten, 93, American educator and desegregation expert. [326]
• André Viger, 54, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner and Paralympian, cancer. [327]
• Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic and President and co-founder of Comic Market, lung cancer. [328]