Deaths in May 2008

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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

## May 2008

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### 1

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* Aden Hashi Farah Ayro, Somalian politician and Al-Shabaab member, airstrike.[1]
* Paulo Amaral, 84, Brazilian football player (Flamengo) and coach (Juventus).[2]
* SM Nasimuddin SM Amin, 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza, lung cancer.[3]
* Bernard Archard, 91, British actor (Krull, Doctor Who, Emmerdale).[4]
* Buzzie Bavasi, 93, American baseball executive (Dodgers, Angels, Padres).[5]
* Mary Berry, 90, British musicologist and nun.[6]
* Philipp von Boeselager, 90, German World War II anti-Hitler conspirator.[7]
* Nirmala Deshpande, 78, Indian peace activist, after brief illness.[8]
* Elaine Dundy, 86, American writer and actress.[9]
* Aden Hashi Farah, Somali leader of Al-Shabab insurgent group, air strike.[10]
* Jim Hager, 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw), heart attack.[11]
* Mark Kendall, 49, British footballer (Spurs, Newport, Wolves).[12]
* Sir Anthony Mamo, 99, Maltese politician, first president of the Republic of Malta.[13]
* Alberto Estima de Oliveira, 74, Portuguese poet.[14]
* Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging.[15]
* Marcel Van Der Auwera, 84, Belgian fencer.[16]
* J. J. Voskuil, 81, Dutch novelist.[17]

### 2

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* Josephine Apieu Jenaro Aken, 53, South Sudanese civil servant, plane crash.[18]
* Robert Brachtenbach, 77, American jurist, Washington State Supreme Court justice (1972–1994), throat cancer.[19]
* Carole Dekeijser, 48, Belgian painter, lung cancer.[20]
* Dominic Dim Deng, 58, Sudanese politician, defence minister for Southern Sudan, plane crash.[21]
* Robert M. Isaac, 80, American politician, mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado (1979–1997), pneumonia.[22]
* Sergio Lauricella, 86, Italian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) composer.[23]
* Mildred Loving, 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia).[24]
* Ilyas Malayev, 72, Uzbekistani musician and poet, pancreatic cancer.[25]
* Beverlee McKinsey, 72, American actress (Another World, Guiding Light, Bronco Billy), complications from kidney transplant.[26]
* Izold Pustõlnik, 70, Ukrainian-born Estonian astronomer.[27]
* Daniel Sekhoto, 37, South African football player.[28]
* Mike Titcomb, 75, British rugby union referee, kidney failure.[29]
* Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr., 93, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Ruffian).[30]
* Justin Yak, Sudanese politician, minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash.[21]

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* Charles Caccia, 78, Canadian politician, environmentalist, Liberal MP for Davenport (1968–2004), complications of stroke.[31]
* Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 82, Spanish prime minister (1981–1982), natural causes.[32]
* Eight Belles, 3, American racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby 2nd-place finisher, euthanized.[33]
* Martin Finnegan, 28, Irish motorbike racer, race crash.[34]
* Fay Gale, 75, Australian cultural geographer.[35]
* Lynne Cooper Harvey, 92, American radio producer, Radio Hall of Fame member, wife of Paul Harvey, leukemia.[36]
* Ted Key, 95, American cartoonist (Hazel), bladder cancer and stroke.[37]
* Hanon Reznikov, 57, American playwright.[38]
* Morgan Sparks, 91, American engineer, inventor of the first practical bipolar junction transistor.[39]
* Ngugi wa Mirii, 57, Kenyan playwright, car accident.[40]

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* Roger Aeschlimann, 84, Swiss cyclist.[41]
* John Altieri, 38, American actor (Jersey Boys), pneumonia.[42]
* Fred Baur, 89, American chemist, inventor of the Pringles can.[43]
* Alvin Colt, 92, American Tony Award-winning costume designer (On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Pipe Dream, Li'l Abner).[44]
* John Greenwood, 57, British businessman and catering executive, motor neurone disease.[45]
* Fred Haines, 72, American screenwriter and film director, lung cancer.[46]
* Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham, 71, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.[47]
* Kishan Maharaj, 84, Indian musician, leading exponent of the Benares gharana tabla, stroke.[48]
* Colin Murdoch, 79, New Zealand inventor of the disposable hypodermic syringe and the tranquilizer gun, cancer.[49]

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* Sam Aubrey, 85, American basketball player and coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys).[50]
* Thomas Boggs, 63, American drummer (Box Tops), owner of Huey's Restaurants.[51]
* Hugh Bradner, 92, American scientist credited with inventing the wetsuit, complications of pneumonia.[52]
* Pak Kyongni, 82, South Korean novelist, lung cancer.[53]
* Irv Robbins, 90, American businessman, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain.[54][55]
* Zvonko Sabolović, 84, Yugoslav Olympic sprinter.[56]
* Alma Hogan Snell, 85, American Crow tribal nation historian, herbalist, granddaughter of Pretty Shield.[57]
* Jerry Wallace, 79, American country music singer, heart failure.[58]
* Witold Woyda, 68, Polish fencer, double gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, lung cancer.[59]

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* John Jay Iselin, 74, American public television innovator, descendant of John Jay, pneumonia.[60]
* Franz Jackson, 95, American saxophonist.[61]
* Harvey Karman, 84, American psychologist and women's reproductive health advocate, inventor of the Karman cannula, stroke.[62]
* William Earl Lynd, 53, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.[63]
* Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, 74, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.[64]
* D.C. Minner, 73, American blues musician.[65]
* John Reames, 65, British football manager and administrator, cancer.[66]
* Mark Saunders, 32, British barrister, shot by police.[67]

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* William Douglas Allen, 94, British physicist and electrical engineer.[68]
* John Earle, 64, Irish saxophonist.[69]
* Neeraj Grover, 26, Indian television executive and producer (Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?), beaten.[70]
* Rachel Hoffman, 23, American police informant, murdered.[71]
* Clifford L. Jones, 80, American politician, Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman, prostate cancer.[72]
* Donald Montrose, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Stockton (1986–1999).[73]
* Thijs Wöltgens, 64, Dutch politician, mayor of Kerkrade (1994–2000), senator (1995–2005).[74]
* Gernot Zippe, 90, Austrian engineer.[75]

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* Al-Bandari bint Abdulaziz, 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.[76]
* Eddy Arnold, 89, American country music singer.[77]
* Willem Brakman, 85, Dutch author.[78]
* Ian Brodie, 72, British foreign correspondent (The Daily Telegraph).[79]
* Jose Feria, 91, Filipino supreme court justice (1986–1987).[80]
* Yasuharu Furuta, 93, Japanese Olympic hurdler.[81]
* Murray Jarvik, 84, American academic and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, heart failure.[82]
* Larry Levine, 80, American Grammy-winning audio engineer (Wall of Sound), emphysema.[83]
* Luigi Malerba, 81, Italian writer.[84]
* Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, 41, Mexican federal police anti-drug coordinator, shot.[85]
* François Sterchele, 26, Belgian footballer (Belgium, Club Brugge), car accident.[86]

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* James Atkinson, 92, British physicist.[87]
* Firoz Dastur, 89, Indian Hindustani classical musician (Kirana Gharana), anaemia.[88]
* Jack Gibson, 79, Australian rugby league player and coach, selected as "Coach of the Century".[89]
* Judy Grable, 72, American female professional wrestler.[90]
* Shmuel Katz, 93, Israeli writer, historian and journalist.[91]
* Arthur Kroeger, 76, Canadian civil servant (1958–1992), academic and chancellor of Carleton University (1993–2002).[92]
* Baptiste Manzini, 87, American football player.[93]
* Nuala O'Faolain, 68, Irish journalist and author, lung cancer.[94][95]
* Mamadou N'Diaye, 68, Senegalese Olympic sprinter.[96]
* Ronald Parise, 56, American astronaut, brain tumor.[97]
* Esteban Robles Espinosa, Mexican police commander, shot.[98]
* Pascal Sevran, 62, French television presenter and producer, lyricist and writer, lung cancer.[99]
* Sinan Sofuoğlu, 25, Turkish motorcycle racer, training crash.[100]
* Artur da Távola, 72, Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, heart disease.[101]

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* Sir John Barraclough, 90, British air marshal.[102]
* Leyla Gencer, 79, Turkish soprano opera singer, respiratory and cardiac failure.[103]
* Paul Haeberlin, 84, French chef and restaurateur (L'Auberge de l'Ill).[104]
* Jessica Jacobs, 17, Australian singer and actress (The Saddle Club), fell under train.[105][106]
* Jimmy Mizen, 16, English schoolboy.
* Liao Feng-Teh, 57, Taiwanese incoming interior minister, heart attack.[107]
* Eusebio Ríos, 73, Spanish international footballer and coach.[108]
* Mario Schiano, 74, Italian jazz saxophonist, after long Illness.[109]
* Peter Thurnham, 69, British MP for Bolton North East (1983–1997), pancreatic cancer.[110]

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* Sir Austin Bide, 92, British chemist and industrialist.[111]
* Markus Casey, 51, Irish archaeologist, plane crash.[112]
* Sam Dauya, 70, Zimbabwean founder of Dynamos F.C. football team.[113]
* Alema Leota, 80, American alleged organized crime leader, 1978 candidate for governor of Hawaii, injuries from car accident.[114]
* Raymattja Marika, 49, Australian Yolngu scholar, linguist, educator and cultural advocate, heart attack.[115]
* Bruno Neves, 26, Portuguese cyclist, crash during race.[116]
* Dottie Rambo, 74, American gospel singer, bus crash.[117]
* John Rutsey, 55, Canadian drummer (Rush), heart attack.[118]
* Heather Stohler, 29, American model for Calvin Klein, fire.[119]
* Dick Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke.[120]
* Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease.[121]
* Curtis Whitley, 39, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Carolina Panthers, Oakland Raiders).[122]

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* Seton Airlie, 88, Scottish footballer.[123]
* Penny Banner, 73, American professional wrestler, cancer.[124]
* David Daniels, 74, American poet.[125]
* Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist (Warlock), kidney disease and cancer.[126]
* Lidiya Masterkova, 81, Russian-born French painter.[127]
* Natural Blitz, 7–8, Australian-bred stallion.[128]
* Robert Rauschenberg, 82, American pop artist, heart failure.[129]
* Bruce Sayers, 80, British electrical engineer.[130]
* Irena Sendler, 98, Polish humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.[131]

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* Jill Adams, 77, British actress, cancer.[132]
* Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 78, Kuwaiti emir (2006).[133]
* Dolores Alexander, 76, American feminist, writer, and reporter.[134]
* Charles Gary Allison, 69–70, American screenwriter and film producer.[135]
* Lucius D. Battle, 89, American ambassador to Egypt (1964–1967), Parkinson's disease.[136]
* Bernardin Gantin, 86, Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.[137]
* John Phillip Law, 70, American actor (Barbarella).[138]
* Larry McKeon, 63, American politician, first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly, stroke.[139]
* Colea Răutu, 95, Romanian actor, cirrhosis.[140]
* Ron Stone, 72, American news anchor (KHOU, KPRC in Houston), prostate cancer.[141]
* Costică Toma, 80, Romanian football goalkeeper (Romania, Steaua București).[142]
* Maheswary Velautham, Sri Lankan lawyer and activist, shot.[143]
* Roger Harold Metford Warner, 95, British antiques dealer.[144]

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* Frith Banbury, 96, British stage director and actor, liver cancer.[145]
* Dagmar Barnouw, 72, German cultural historian.[146]
* Arthur Burks, 92, American mathematician and computer pioneer, Alzheimer's disease.[147]
* Warren Cowan, 87, American publicist, cancer.[148]
* Roger Ellis, 70, American football player, cancer.[149]
* John Forbes-Robertson, 80, British actor.[150]
* Derek Goodwin, 88, British ornithologist.[151]
* Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese writer.[152]
* Jay Morago, 90, American governor of the Gila River Indian Community (1954–1960), cancer.[153]
* Tonderai Ndira, 33, Zimbabwean political dissident, murdered.[154]
* Yuri Rytkheu, 78, Russian Chukchi language writer.[155]
* Mário Schoemberger, 56, Brazilian film, television and stage actor, cancer.[156]
* Richard David Vine, 82, American diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland (1979–1981).[157]

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* Del Ankers, 91, American cinematographer and photographer (Muppets commercials).[158]
* Henry Austin, 88, Indian diplomat and politician, ambassador to Portugal.[159]
* Tommy Burns, 51, Scottish football player and manager (Celtic, Kilmarnock, Reading), melanoma.[160]
* Tove Billington Bye, 79, Norwegian politician.[161]
* Alexander Courage, 88, American television composer (Star Trek, The Waltons) and orchestrator (Jurassic Park).[162]
* Anthony Denness, 71, English cricketer.[163]
* Walt Dickerson, 80, American vibraphonist, cardiac arrest.[164]
* Robert Dunlop, 47, British motorcycle racer, chest injuries.[165]
* Will Elder, 86, American comic book artist (Mad, Little Annie Fanny), Parkinson's disease.[166][167]
* Bob Florence, 75, American jazz composer and arranger, pneumonia.[168]
* Richard Funkhouser, 90, American geologist and diplomat, ambassador to Gabon (1969-1970), suicide by gunshot.[169]
* Youssef Idilbi, 32, Dutch actor, suicide by jumping.[170]
* Willis Lamb, 94, American physicist, Nobel laureate in physics (1955), complications of gallstone disorder.[171]
* Earl Leggett, 75, American football player and coach.[172]
* Yanks Music, 14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[173]
* Morsal Obeidi, 16, German-Afghan murder victim, honour killing.

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* Charles J. Adams, 91, American politician.[citation needed]
* Aonosato Sakari, 72, Japanese sumo wrestler.[174]
* William Blease, Baron Blease, 93, British politician.[175]
* Henry Canoy, 84, Filipino businessman, founder of Radio Mindanao Network.[176]
* Sandy Howard, 80, American film and television producer (A Man Called Horse), Alzheimer's disease.[177]
* David Mitton, 69, British animation director (Thomas & Friends, Thunderbirds), heart attack.[178]
* Robert Mondavi, 94, American winemaker, benefactor of the Mondavi Center, member of the California Hall of Fame.[179]
* Igor Polyakov, 95, Russian rower, 1952 Olympic silver medalist.[180]
* Marc Rabémila, 70, Malagasy Olympic athlete.[181]
* Jimmy Slyde, 80, American tap dancer.[182]
* Peter Rolfe Vaughan, 73, English scientist, heart attack.[183]

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* Jolyon Brettingham Smith, 58, British composer, musicologist and radio presenter.[184]
* John Fitzsimmons, 68, British Roman Catholic priest and broadcaster, after long illness.[185]
* Thomas Flatley, 76, American real estate tycoon and philanthropist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[186]
* Zélia Gattai, 91, Brazilian writer and novelist, wife of Jorge Amado.[187]
* Wilfrid Mellers, 94, British composer and author.[188]
* D. Aubrey Moodie, 99, Canadian politician.[189]
* Jack Rayner, 87, Australian rugby league player.[190]
* Sophan Sophiaan, 64, Indonesian actor and politician, motorcycle accident.[191]
* Joyce Trimmer, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (1988–1994), cancer.[192]
* Lionel Van Deerlin, 93, American politician and journalist, representative from California (1963–1981).[193]

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* Lionel Algama, 73, Sri Lankan singer, composer and a musician.[194]
* Pietro Cascella, 87, Italian contemporary artist.[195]
* Irma Córdoba, 94, Argentine actress, natural causes.[196]
* Jonathan James, 24, American cyber criminal.[197]
* John Lucas, 85, Barbadian-born Canadian cricketer.[198]
* Lloyd Moore, 95, American NASCAR driver (1949–1955).[199]
* Elemore Morgan, Jr., 76, American landscape artist.[200]
* Jack Norris, 99, American football player.[201]
* Joseph Pevney, 96, American television and film director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase, Trapper John, M.D.).[202]

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* Nigel Cassidy, 62, British footballer.[203]
* Larry Coutre, 80, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[204]
* Jack Duffy, 81, Canadian comedian, natural causes.[205]
* Chaim Flom, 56, Israeli scholar and rosh yeshiva.[206]
* Huntington Hartford, 97, American businessman and philanthropist.[207]
* Barclay Howard, 55, British golfer.[208]
* Rimma Kazakova, 76, Russian poet.[209]
* Mariam McGlone, 92, American dancer and choreographer.[210]
* Kjell Kristian Rike, 63, Norwegian sports commentator.[211]
* André Schlupp, 78, French Olympic basketball player.[212]
* Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright, myasthenia gravis.[213]

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* Iona Banks, 87, British actress (Pobol y Cwm).[214]
* Crispin Beltran, 75, Filipino congressman and labor leader, head injuries from a fall.[215]
* Viktor Bortsov, 73, Russian actor, intestinal cancer.[216]
* Margot Boyd, 94, British actress (The Archers).[217]
* Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison, 71, British footballer and trade unionist.[218]
* Charles William John Eliot, 79, Canadian academic administrator, president of the University of Prince Edward Island (1985–1995), complications of a stroke.[219]
* Joachim Erwin, 58, German politician, mayor of Düsseldorf, colorectal cancer.[220]
* Gonzalo Figueroa Garcia Huidobro, 77, Chilean archaeologist.[221]
* Herb Hash, 97, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox), stroke.[222]
* Harald Hein, 58, German Olympic fencer.[223]
* Zelma Henderson, 88, American last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, pancreatic cancer.[224]
* Hamilton Jordan, 63, American politician, Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff (1979–1980), mesothelioma.[225]
* Baine Kerr, 88, American lawyer and oil executive.[226]
* Cy Leonard, 82, Canadian ventriloquist.[227]
* Ali Sadikin, 80, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta (1966–1977), liver cancer.[228]
* S. K. Trimurti, 96, Indonesian journalist, first minister of labor and employment, natural causes.[229]

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* Bert André, 66, Dutch actor (Flodder), intracranial hemorrhage[230]
* Earl Wesley Berry, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[231]
* Mel Casson, 87, American cartoonist (Redeye).[232]
* Brian Keenan, 66, Irish IRA commander, cancer.[233]
* Ted Lanyon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.[234]
* Michelle Meldrum, 39, American rock guitarist (Phantom Blue, Meldrum), cystic growth on the brain.[235]
* John Aloysius Morgan, 98, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.[236]
* Siegmund Nissel, 86, German-born British violinist (Amadeus Quartet).[237]
* Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, 77, Portuguese artist and engraver, long illness.[238]
* Torcato Sepúlveda, 57, Portuguese journalist.[239]
* Jeheskel Shoshani, 65, Israeli-born American elephant expert, bus explosion.[240]

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* Melek Amet, 47, Romanian model, ovarian cancer.[citation needed]
* Robert Asprin, 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures), heart attack.[241]
* Charlie Booth, 104, Australian athlete, inventor of the starting block.[242]
* Harry Lange, 77, German production designer and art director (2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal).[243]
* Jack Mildren, 58, American football player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (1990–1995), stomach cancer.[244]
* Paul Patrick, 58, British gay rights activist, chronic lung condition.[245]
* Hana Maria Pravda, 90, Czech actress and Holocaust survivor.[246]
* Tubby T, 33, British dancehall/garage musician, stroke.[247]

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* Nigel Anderson, 88, British soldier, landowner, and politician.[248]
* Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and critic.[249]
* Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer, founder of the International Center of Photography.[250]
* Roberto Freire, 81, Brazilian writer and psychiatrist, created somatherapy.[251]
* Dritan Hoxha, 39, Albanian businessman, car accident.[252]
* Thelma Keane, 82, Australian-born American who inspired husband Bil's comic strip The Family Circus, Alzheimer's disease.[253]
* Heinz Kwiatkowski, 81, German footballer, member of 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning team.[254]
* Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, 40, Spanish mountaineer and alpinist, pulmonary edema while climbing Annapurna.[255]
* Jefferson Peres, 76, Brazilian senator from Amazonas, heart attack.[256]
* Utah Phillips, 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure.[257]
* Jack Smith, 72, English football player (Hartlepool United, Swindon Town, Margate) and manager.[258]

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* Adam Baruch, 63, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic, diabetes complications.[259]
* Bob Beck, 63, Guamanian zoologist and conservationist, worked to save Guam rail native birds.[260]
* Tano Cimarosa, 86, Italian actor.[261]
* Reg Flewin, 87, British footballer.[262]
* Rob Knox, 18, British actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), stabbed.[263]
* Eugenio Garza Lagüera, 84, Mexican businessman, president of FEMSA, natural causes.[264]
* Isaac Lipschits, 77, Dutch political scientist and historian, natural causes.[265]
* Dick Martin, 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), respiratory complications.[266]
* Jimmy McGriff, 72, American jazz and blues organist, multiple sclerosis.[267]
* Sonny Okosun, 61, Nigerian musician, colon cancer.[268]

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* Nadia Arslan, 59, Lebanese actress, breast cancer.[269]
* Louise Firouz, 74, American horse breeder.[270]
* George Garrett, 78, American novelist and poet, cancer.[271]
* Geremi González, 33, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, lightning strike.[272]
* James D. Griffin, 78, American mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.[273]
* Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian chess grandmaster.[274]
* Ítalo Argentino Lúder, 91, Argentine acting president (1975).[275]
* Tom McHale, 45, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).[276]
* Mitch Mullany, 39, American comedian and actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, The Wayans Bros., The Sweetest Thing), diabetes-related stroke.[277]
* J. R. Simplot, 99, American businessman, original McDonald's french fries supplier.[278]
* Olaf Sørensen, 90, Danish Olympic runner.[279]
* Ernst Stuhlinger, 94, German-born American rocket scientist.[280]
* Camu Tao, 30, American rapper-producer, lung cancer.[281]
* Kenneth H. Wood, 90, American author and administrator, editor of the Adventist Review, heart failure.[282]

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* Dolly Aglay, 41, Filipino financial journalist, cancer.[283]
* Jerry C. Begay, 83, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran.[284]
* Dick Evans, 90, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Cardinals).[285]
* Hans Haasmann, 92, Dutch Olympic diver Hans Haasmann Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
* Earle Hagen, 88, American film and television theme composer (The Andy Griffith Show, The Mod Squad, I Spy).[286]
* Howlin' Dave, 52, Filipino radio disc jockey and proponent of Pinoy rock, stroke.[287]
* John Hulme, 63, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Reading, Bury).[288]
* Roy Koerner, 75, British polar scientist and explorer.[289]
* Yuriy Konovalov, 78, Soviet-born Azerbaijani Olympic track athlete, 4 × 100 m relay silver medallist (1956 and 1960).[290]
* Donald L. Pilling, 64, American admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1997–2000), leukemia.[291]
* Sydney Pollack, 73, American film director and actor (Tootsie, Out of Africa, Michael Clayton), Oscar winner (1986), stomach cancer.[292]
* Alan Renouf, 89, Australian head of DFAT, ambassador to United States (1977–1979), France and Yugoslavia, leukemia.[293]
* Kermit Scott, 71, American philosophy professor, namesake of Kermit the Frog.[294]
* Robert G. Voight, 87, American academic.[295]

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* Ed Arno, 91, Austrian-American cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist.[296]
* Valmae Beck, 64, Australian child murderer, complications of heart surgery.[297]
* Tony Hussein Hinde, 55, Australian-born Maldivian surfer, heart attack.[298]
* Jim Kerr, 68, American professional football player (Washington Redskins)[299]
* Franz Künstler, 107, German World War I veteran, last known surviving veteran of the Central Powers.[300]
* Hubert Macey, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).[301]
* Per Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic shooter.[302]
* Gabisile Nkosi, 34, South African artist, printmaker and activist, murdered[303]
* Mick Nolan, 58, Australian footballer, cancer.[304]
* Neal Potter, 93, American politician.[305]
* Abram Raselemane, 30, South African footballer, apparent suicide by hanging.[306]
* Alejandro Romualdo, 82, Peruvian poet.[307]
* Keith Rosewarne, 83, Australian footballer.[308]

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* Beryl Cook, 81, British painter.[309]
* Sven Davidson, 79, Swedish tennis player.[310]
* Robert H. Justman, 81, American television and film producer (Star Trek), Parkinson's disease.[311]
* Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer.[312]
* Danny Moss, 80, British jazz tenor saxophonist.[313]
* Nashoba's Key, 5, American racehorse, euthanized.[314]
* Dianne Odell, 61, American author with polio, power failure to iron lung.[315]
* Erin Spanevello, 21, Canadian fashion model, drug overdose.[316]

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* Paula Gunn Allen, 68, Native American poet, novelist, and activist, lung cancer.[317]
* José Alejandro Bernales, 59, Chilean director general of Carabineros de Chile, helicopter crash.[318]
* Luc Bourdon, 21, Canadian ice hockey player, motorcycle accident.[319]
* Romeo A. Brawner, 72, Filipino appeals court judge (1995–2005), election commissioner (2005–2008), heart attack.[320]
* Len Devine, 84, Australian politician, MP for East Sydney (1963–1969).[321]
* Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flintstones), four-time Emmy winner, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[322]
* Donald MacLeod, 75, New Zealand cricketer.[323]

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* Harry Brautigam, 59, Nicaraguan president of the BCIE since 2003, heart problem after air crash.[324]
* Campbell Burnap, 68, British jazz trombonist, cancer.[325]
* Harlan Cleveland, 90, American diplomat, educator and author, ambassador to NATO (1965–1969), natural causes.[326]
* Rodney Gordon, 75, British architect.[327]
* John W. Keys, 66, American government official, commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (2001-2006), plane crash.[328]
* Graeme Miller, 67, Australian cricketer.[329]
* Noel Moore, 79, British civil servant, leader of decimalisation project, brain tumour.[330]
* Chris Morgan, 55, British journalist, apparent suicide in front of a train.[331]
* William Eldridge Odom, 75, American Army Lieutenant General and director of the National Security Agency.[332]
* Lorenzo Odone, 30, American ALD patient portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil.[333]
* Mike Scott, 75, British television producer and presenter.[334]
* Boris Shakhlin, 76, Russian-born Ukrainian gymnast, winner of seven Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union, cardiac arrest.[335]
* Suprakash Som, 60, Indian cricketer.[336]
* Nat Temple, 94, British bandleader.[337]

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* Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall.[338]
* John Ambler, 83, British businessman.[citation needed]
* Joe Axelson, 80, American executive and general manager of the National Basketball Association Sacramento Kings.[339]
* Nusret Çolpan, 56, Turkish painter and architect.[340]
* Detlef Gromoll, 70, American mathematician, brain hemorrhage.[341]
* Nelly Láinez, 88, Argentine actress, urinary infection.[342]
* Per-Erik Larsson, 79, Swedish skier.[343]
* Charles Moskos, 74, American sociologist, architect of the US military DADT gay and lesbian policy, cancer.[344]
* Paul Thomson, 91, American botanist, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association.[345]
* Allan Wiles, 87, New Zealand cricketer.[346]

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