Deaths in May 2009

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The following is a list of deaths in May 2009.

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 2009

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### 1

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* Delara Darabi, 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging.[1]
* Fred Delmare, 87, German actor, complications from pneumonia.[2]
* Ric Estrada, 81, Cuban-born American comic book artist (Superman, Batman), co-creator of Power Girl, prostate cancer.[3]
* Danny Gans, 52, American entertainer.[4]
* Norman Gash, 97, British historian.[5]
* Brian Grove, 88, Australian cricketer.[6]
* Albert Hamilton Gordon, 107, American businessman.[7]
* George Hannan, 98, Australian politician.[8]
* Jokke Kangaskorpi, 37, Finnish footballer.[9]
* Jack D. Maltester, 95, American politician, mayor of San Leandro, California.[10]
* Derek Noonan, 62, British rugby league and rugby union player.[11]
* Marc Rocco, 46, American film director (Murder in the First, Where the Day Takes You) and screenwriter.[12]
* Sunline, 13, New Zealand champion racehorse, euthanized.[13]
* John Wilke, 54, American investigative reporter, pancreatic cancer.[14]

### 2

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* Alfred Appel Jr., 75, American scholar, expert on Vladimir Nabokov, heart failure.[15]
* K. Balaji, 74, Indian Tamil actor and producer, multiple organ failure.[16]
* Augusto Boal, 78, Brazilian dramatist and theater director (Theatre of the Oppressed), respiratory failure.[17]
* Víctor Andrés Catena, 84, Spanish screenwriter and director.[18]
* Marilyn French, 79, American writer, heart failure.[19]
* Harold Hankins, 78, British electrical engineer and academic administrator, Vice-Chancellor of UMIST.[20]
* Kiyoshiro Imawano, 58, Japanese rock musician.[21]
* Janus Kamban, 95, Faroese sculptor and graphic designer.[22]
* Jack Kemp, 73, American politician and football player, candidate for Vice President (1996), cancer.[23]
* Carole C. Noon, 59, American primatologist, founder of Save the Chimps, pancreatic cancer.[24]
* Robert Pauley, 85, American executive, President of ABC Radio (1961–1967), heart failure.[25]
* Virginia Prince, 96, American transgender activist.[26]

### 3

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* Bobby Campbell, 86, Scottish football player (Chelsea, Scotland) and manager.[27]
* Robert B. Choate Jr., 84, American food lobbyist.[28]
* Committed, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[29]
* Echo, 63-64, African bush elephant.[30]
* John Elsworthy, 77, Welsh football player (Ipswich Town).[31]
* Eddie Hui, 65, Hong Kong public servant, Commissioner of Police (1994–2001), cancer.[32]
* Eleanor Perenyi, 91, American gardener and writer, cerebral hemorrhage.[33]
* Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar, 78, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest.[34]
* Ralph Thompson, 95, British animal artist.[35]

### 4

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* Nicholas Clemente, 80, American judge (New York Supreme Court).[36]
* Dom DeLuise, 75, American actor (The Cannonball Run, The Secret of NIMH, Spaceballs), kidney failure.[37]
* Sir Geoffrey Foot, 93, Australian politician.[38]
* Edward Stewart Kennedy, 97, American historian.[39]
* Charles Lugano, 59, Kenyan politician, after short illness.[40]
* Martha Mason, 71, American author, lived 60 years in an iron lung.[41]
* Fritz Muliar, 89, Austrian actor.[42]
* Jane Randolph, 93, American actress.[43]
* Gisela Stein, 73, German actress.[44]

### 5

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* Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.[45]
* David S. King, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative for Utah (1959–1963).[46]
* Richard Miller, 83, American operatic tenor and educator, Professor Emeritus of Voice (Oberlin Conservatory of Music).[47]
* Dewey Smith, 36, American diver.[48]
* Elsie B. Washington, 66, American author, wrote first African American romance novel, multiple sclerosis and cancer.[49]
* Murasaki Yamada, 60, Japanese manga artist.[50]

### 6

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* Peyman Abadi, 37, Iranian actor, car accident.[51]
* Erik Bluemel, 32, American professor (University of Denver), bicycle accident.[52]
* Sam Cohn, 79, American talent agent, after short illness.[53]
* Leon Despres, 101, American attorney and politician, heart failure.[54]
* Ean Evans, 48, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer.[55]
* Sima Eyvazova, 75, Azerbaijani diplomat, first Permanent Representative to the UN.[56]
* Kevin Grubb, 31, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot.[57]
* Sid Laverents, 100, American amateur filmmaker, pneumonia.[58]
* Lev Loseff, 71, Russian poet and literary critic.[59]
* Bob Meyer, 76, Australian logician, lung cancer.[60]
* W. Wesley Peterson, 85, American mathematician and computer scientist.[61]
* Valentin Varennikov, 85, Russian general.[62]
* Viola Wills, 69, American pop singer, cancer.[63]

### 7

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* Robin Blaser, 83, American-born Canadian poet, Griffin Poetry Prize winner.[64]
* Mickey Carroll, 89, American actor (The Wizard of Oz).[65]
* Ian Cundy, 64, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Peterborough, mesothelioma.[66]
* Linda Dangcil, 66, American actress (The Flying Nun, Jem, The Bad Pack), throat cancer.[67]
* John Furia Jr., 79, American screenwriter (The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare), President of the Writers Guild, West (1973–1975).[68]
* Alan Gilbertson, 81, New Zealand cricketer.[69]
* Tony Marsh, 77, British racing driver.[70]
* David Mellor, 78, British industrial designer, manufacturer and retailer.[71]
* Frank Melton, 60, American politician, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.[72]
* John Murphy, 95, Irish building contractor.[73]
* Danny Ozark, 85, American baseball manager.[74]
* Brian Sorenson, 79, New Zealand cricketer.[75]
* Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, 85, British politician and writer.[76]

### 8

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* Gianni Baget Bozzo, 84, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician.[77]
* Fons Brydenbach, 54, Belgian athlete, cancer.[78]
* Dom DiMaggio, 92, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), brother of Joe DiMaggio, pneumonia.[79]
* Hideyuki Fujisawa, 83, Japanese Go player, aspiration pneumonia.[80]
* Carlos Kloppenburg, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Novo Hamburgo (1986–1995).[81]
* Ninel Kurgapkina, 80, Russian prima ballerina, road accident.[82]
* Greg Palmer, 61, American writer, television reporter and Emmy Award-winning journalist, lung cancer.[83]
* Bud Shrake, 77, American journalist and novelist, lung cancer.[84]
* Eunice Taylor, 75, American baseball player (Kenosha Comets).[85]

### 9

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* Eileen Albright, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[86]
* Stephen Bruton, 60, American songwriter and guitarist (Kris Kristofferson band), throat cancer.[87]
* Chuck Daly, 78, American basketball coach, pancreatic cancer.[88]
* Travis Edmonson, 76, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bud & Travis), heart failure.[89]
* Michael Fox, 75, British-born Israeli lawyer.[90]
* Cyril Edwin Hart, 96, British forestry expert.[91]
* Henry T. King, 89, American attorney, Nuremberg trials prosecutor, cancer.[92]
* David Marcus, 85, Irish literary editor, after long illness.[93]
* Ernest Millington, 93, British politician and educator, last living World War II-era member of the British Parliament.[94]
* Eugene Smith, 88, American gospel singer.[95]
* Evgenios Spatharis, 85, Greek shadow play artist, fall.[96]
* Mendi Rodan, 80, Romanian-born Israeli conductor and violinist, cancer.[97]
* Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe, 46, Belgian-born Ukrainian equestrian.[98]
* George Zinkhan, 57, American academic and suspected murderer, suicide by gunshot.[99]

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* Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, 45-46, Libyan Al-Qaeda paramilitary trainer accused of terrorism, alleged suicide.[100]
* Robert John Cornell, 89, American politician and Roman Catholic priest, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (1975–1979).[101]
* Ronald Easterbrook, 78, British criminal.[102]
* Sergio Escobedo, 78, Mexican Olympic modern pentathlete and fencer.[103]
* Johnnie Johnson, 91, English cricketer.[104]
* James Kirkup, 91, British poet, translator and travel writer, stroke.[105]
* Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, 47, Guatemalan lawyer, shot.[106]
* Brian Simnjanovski, 27, American football player (Berlin Thunder), car accident.[107]
* Robert J. Sinclair, 77, American executive, CEO of Saab-Scania of America, cancer.[108]

### 11

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* Pat Booth, 66, British model and writer, cancer.[109]
* Lude Check, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.[110]
* Abel Goumba, 82, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1957–1958, 1959, 2003) and vice-president (2003–2005).[111]
* Claudio Huepe, 69, Chilean politician and diplomat, heart attack.[112]
* Bill Kelso, 69, American baseball player.[113]
* Roy Kline, 93, Australian footballer.[114]
* Mark Landon, 60, American actor, adopted son of Michael Landon.[115]
* Shanthi Lekha, 79, Sri Lankan actress.[116]
* António Lopes dos Santos, 92, Portuguese general, Governor of Macau (1962–1966), Cape Verde (1969–1974).[117]
* Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, 93, Indian admiral, Chief of Naval Staff (1970–1973).[118]
* Peter Philips, 81, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1988).[119]
* Sir Richard Posnett, 89, British colonial administrator, Governor of Belize (1972–1976) and Bermuda (1981–1983).[120]
* Leonard Shlain, 71, American surgeon and writer, brain cancer.[121]

### 12

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* Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, 74, British aristocrat and politician, heart failure.[122]
* Dame Heather Begg, 76, New Zealand operatic soprano, leukemia.[123]
* Mohan Ellawala, 61, Sri Lankan politician, Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province (2008–2009), after long illness.[124]
* Eden Ross Lipson, 66, American book editor, pancreatic cancer.[125]
* Thomas Nordseth-Tiller, 28, Norwegian screenwriter (Max Manus), cancer.[126]
* Roger Planchon, 77, French theatre director, heart attack.[127]
* Sidique Ali Merican, 78, Malaysian sprinter, stroke.[128]
* Ted Sampley, 63, American POW/MIA activist, complications from heart surgery.[129]
* Antonio Vega, 51, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (Nacha Pop), pneumonia.[130]
* Heini Walter, 81, Swiss racing driver.[131]

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* Frank Aletter, 83, American character actor (It's About Time), cancer.[132]
* Ron Cameron, 85, Canadian Olympic rower.[133]
* Waldemar Levy Cardoso, 108, Brazilian Field Marshal, WWI-era veteran.[134]
* Achille Compagnoni, 94, Italian mountaineer, first person to ascend K2.[135]
* Don Cordner, 87, Australian footballer.[136]
* Rafael Escalona, 81, Colombian Vallenato composer and troubador.[137]
* Norbert Eschmann, 75, Swiss footballer.[138]
* Ernest Kline, 79, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1971–1979).[139]
* Iwan Schmid, 61, Swiss Olympic cyclist.[140]
* Anne Scott-James, 96, British journalist and author, widow of Sir Osbert Lancaster.[141]
* L. William Seidman, 88, American public servant, Chairman of the FDIC (1985–1991), after short illness.[142]
* Joe Tandy, 26, British auto racing team owner, car crash.[143]

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* Barathea, 19, Irish racehorse, euthanized.[144]
* Monica Bleibtreu, 65, Austrian actress, screenwriter and drama teacher, cancer.[145]
* Bob Boyd, 81, American football player.[146]
* Newt Heisley, 88, American commercial artist, designer of POW/MIA flag, after long illness.[147]
* Ken Hollyman, 86, Welsh footballer (Cardiff City, Newport County).[148]
* Marian McDougall, 95, American amateur golfer.[149]
* Buddy Montgomery, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure.[150]
* William J. Passmore, 77, American jockey, complications from emphysema.[151]
* Bob Rosburg, 82, American golfer and television color analyst, fall.[152]
* George Williams, 69, American baseball player.[153]

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* Susanna Agnelli, 87, Italian politician and writer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–1996).[154]
* Alexander Gordon Bearn, 86, British physician.[155]
* Broad Brush, 26, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[156]
* Si Frumkin, 78, Lithuanian-born Holocaust survivor.[157]
* Alan Hackney, 84, British screenwriter.[158]
* Mordechai Limon, 85, Israeli admiral, Commander of the Navy (1950–1954).[159]
* Cheikh Hamidou Kane Mathiara, 69, Senegalese economist and politician.[160]
* Rodger McFarlane, 54, American gay rights activist, first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, suicide.[161]
* Mohammad-Amin Riahi, 86, Iranian historian and literary scholar.[162]
* Edwin S. Shneidman, 91, American suicidologist.[163]
* Helvi Sipilä, 94, Finnish diplomat.[164]
* Roy Talbot, 94, Bermudan calypso musician, last surviving member of original Talbot Brothers.[165]
* Bud Tingwell, 86, Australian actor, prostate cancer.[166]
* Wayman Tisdale, 44, American basketball player and jazz bassist, cancer.[167]
* Hubert van Es, 67, Dutch photographer at the fall of Saigon, brain hemorrhage.[168]

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* Prospero Amatong, 77, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Governor of Davao del Norte (1992–1998), fall.[169]
* Antonio Chocano, 96, Guatemalan Olympic fencer and diplomat, emphysema.[170]
* John E. Connelly, 82, American entrepreneur, founder of Gateway Clipper Fleet, heart failure.[171]
* David Halsey, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1972–1989), after short illness.[172]
* Sándor Katona, 66, Hungarian footballer and Olympic champion.[173]
* Richardene Kloppers, 83, Namibian teacher.[174]
* Craig G. Roberts, 78, American racehorse trainer.[175]
* Peter Sampson, 81, British footballer (Bristol Rovers), Alzheimer's disease.[176]

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* Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani, 92, Iranian cleric, heart disease.[citation needed]
* Mario Benedetti, 88, Uruguayan author and poet.[177]
* Daniel Carasso, 103, Greek-born French businessman (Groupe Danone).[178]
* Adolf Dickfeld, 99, German World War II Luftwaffe flying ace.[179]
* David Herbert Donald, 88, American historian, heart failure.[180]
* Murray Hamilton, 91, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1967–1982).[181]
* Masaru Hayami, 84, Japanese public servant, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1998–2003), respiratory failure.[182]
* David Ireland, 78, American sculptor and conceptual artist, pneumonia.[183]
* Jung Seung-hye, 44, South Korean film producer, colon cancer.[184]
* Sunwoo Jin, 87, Korean politician and activist.[185]
* Guillermo Lora, 87, Bolivian revolutionary leader, liver cancer.[186]
* Dame Patricia Mackinnon, 97, Australian community worker and philanthropist, President of the Royal Children's Hospital.[187]
* Prakash Mehra, 69, Indian film producer and director, pneumonia and multiple organ failure.[188]
* William Moore, 60, British loyalist paramilitary, member of the Shankill Butchers, suspected heart attack.[189]
* Zdeněk Pospíšil, 84, Czech Olympic sprinter.[190]
* Peter Slabakov, 86, Bulgarian actor.[191]
* Ron Snidow, 67, American football player (Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns), complications from Lou Gehrig's disease.[192]
* Octavia St. Laurent, 45, American trans woman and performer.[193]
* Al Tornabene, 86, American mobster.[194]

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* Wayne Allwine, 62, American voice artist (Mickey Mouse).[195]
* Carole Cole, 64, American actress (Sanford and Son, Grady), daughter of Nat King Cole, lung cancer.[196]
* Dolla, 21, American rap artist, shot.[197]
* Sir David Hay, 92, Australian public servant, Ambassador to the United Nations, Administrator of Papua New Guinea.[198]
* Isaipriya, 26-27, Sri Lankan journalist, killed.[199]
* K. Pattabhi Jois, 93, Indian yoga teacher, after short illness.[200]
* Paul Parin, 92, Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist.[201]
* Türkan Saylan, 74, Turkish doctor, cancer.[202]
* Lee Solters, 89, American press agent, natural causes.[203]
* Either killed in a missile attack or shot:
* Pottu Amman, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE intelligence wing.[204][205]
* Balasingham Nadesan, Sri Lankan rebel, political chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).[206]
* Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE.[206][204][205]
* Soosai, 45, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE naval wing (Sea Tigers).[204][205]

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* Michael Preston Barr, 82, American composer, diabetes.[207]
* Robert F. Furchgott, 92, American scientist, Nobel Prize winner.[208]
* Andrei Ivanov, 42, Russian footballer.[209]
* Knut Hammer Larsen, 38, Norwegian footballer, leukemia.[210]
* Nicholas Maw, 73, British composer (Odyssey), heart failure.[211]
* Clint Smith, 95, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks).[212]
* Herbert York, 87, American physicist.[213]

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* John Brown Jr., 88, American Navajo code talker.[214]
* Arthur Erickson, 84, Canadian architect (Simon Fraser University, Roy Thomson Hall).[215]
* Lucy Gordon, 28, British actress (Spider-Man 3, The Four Feathers), suicide by hanging.[216]
* Alan Kelly Sr., 72, Irish footballer (Preston North End, Republic of Ireland), cancer.[217]
* Matthew Krel, 64, Russian-born Australian conductor, founder of the SBS Youth Orchestra, encephalitis.[218]
* Randi Lindtner Næss, 104, Norwegian actress.[219]
* Nguyễn Bá Cẩn, 78, South Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1975).[220]
* Simon Oates, 77, British actor, prostate cancer.[221]
* Larry Rice, 63, American racing driver, lung cancer.[222]
* Roslyn L. Schulte, 25, United States Air Force officer, killed in action.
* María Amelia López Soliño, 97, Spanish blogger, world's oldest blogger.[223]
* Noel Stanton, 82, British founder of The Jesus Army.[224]
* Paul Vinar, 69, Australian footballer.[225]
* Ralph D. Winter, 84, American missionary (U.S. Center for World Mission), multiple myeloma and lymphoma.[226]
* Oleg Yankovsky, 65, Russian actor, pancreatic cancer.[227]
* Yehoshua Zettler, 91, Israeli resistance fighter (Lehi).[228]
* Jerzy Zubrzycki, 89, Polish-born Australian sociologist.[229]

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* Ghader Abdollahzadeh, 83, Kurdish traditional musician.[230]
* Joan Alexander, 94, American radio actress (The Adventures of Superman), intestinal blockage.[231]
* Walter da Silva, 68, Brazilian footballer and coach, heart attack.[232]
* Fathi Eljahmi, 68, Libyan political activist, blood infection.[233]
* Barry England, 77, British novelist and playwright.[234]
* Anatoli Kirilov, 42, Bulgarian football coach (PFC Spartak Varna), car accident.[235]
* Him Mark Lai, 83, American historian, bladder cancer.[236]
* Sam Maloof, 93, American woodworker, pneumonia.[237]
* Rolf McPherson, 96, American evangelist, son of Aimee Semple McPherson, natural causes.[238]
* Robert Müller, 28, German ice hockey player, brain cancer.[239]
* K. Pathmanathan, 64, Sri Lankan politician.[240]
* Togo Tanaka, 93, American journalist, natural causes.[241]

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* Yves Duval, 75, Belgian comics author.[242]
* Henry Jerrim, 93, Australian bishop.[243]
* Alexander Mezhirov, 86, Russian poet.[244]
* Zé Rodrix, 61, Brazilian musician.[245]
* Yeo Woon-kay, 69, South Korean actress, kidney cancer.[246]

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* Charles Donald Albury, 88, American co-pilot of the Bockscar at atomic bombing of Nagasaki, heart failure.[247]
* Sir Derek Bowett, 82, British academic lawyer, President of Queens' College, Cambridge (1970–1982).[248]
* Raleigh Brown, 87, American politician, state representative (Texas), heart attack.[249]
* Lawrence Daly, 84, British trade union leader.[250]
* Joseph Duval, 80, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Rouen (1981–2004).[251]
* Ken Gill, 81, British trade union leader.[252]
* David Lunceford, 75, American football player, Alzheimer's disease.[253]
* Nicholas J. Phillips, 75, British physicist.[254]
* Tadeusz Pyka, 79, Polish politician.[255]
* Roh Moo-hyun, 62, South Korean politician, President (2003–2008), suicide by jumping.[256]
* Sir Tangaroa Tangaroa, 88, Cook Islands public servant, Queen's Representative (1985–1990).[257]

### 24

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* Jay Bennett, 45, American musician (Wilco) and songwriter, accidental drug overdose.[258]
* Jack Lewis, 84, American screenwriter, lung cancer.[259]

### 25

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* Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 48, Nigerian Pan African activist, car accident.[260]
* Billy Baxter, 70, Scottish footballer (Ipswich Town), cancer.[261]
* Rolf Brahde, 91, Norwegian astronomer.[262]
* Amos Elon, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist.[263]
* John R. Guthrie, 87, American general.[264]
* Charly Höllering, 65, German jazz musician, heart attack.[265]
* Reg Libbis, 75, Australian rower.[266]
* Haakon Lie, 103, Norwegian politician.[267]
* Tomás Paquete, 85, Portuguese Olympic sprinter.[268]
* Ivan van Sertima, 74, Guyanese-born British historian, linguist and anthropologist (Rutgers University).[269]

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* Antonio Braga, 80, Italian composer.[270]
* Thomas Claw, 87, American WWII Navajo Code talker.[271]
* Commanche Court, 16, Irish thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[272]
* Arcangelo Ianelli, 86, Brazilian painter.[273]
* Kaoru Kurimoto, 56, Japanese author, pancreatic cancer.[274]
* Doris Mühringer, 88, Austrian poet and children's writer.[275]
* Mihalis Papagiannakis, 68, Greek politician, MP, cancer.[276]
* Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director (Three's Company), complications from a heart attack and stroke.[277]
* Ronald Takaki, 70, American sociologist, professor of ethnic studies (University of California, Berkeley), suicide.[278]
* Marek Walczewski, 72, Polish actor.[279]
* Peter Zezel, 44, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs), haemolytic anemia.[280]

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* Ammo Baba, 74, Iraqi footballer and athletic trainer, diabetes.[281]
* Thomas M. Franck, 77, American lawyer.[282]
* Sir Clive Granger, 74, British economist, Nobel Prize winner for economics.[283]
* Mona Grey, 98, British public servant, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland.[284]
* Abram Hoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist.[285]
* Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian political activist, after long illness.[286]
* Carol Anne O'Marie, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease.[287]
* Sir William Refshauge, 96, Australian public health administrator.[288]
* Paul Sharratt, 75, British-born American television producer, cancer.[289]

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* Mort Abrahams, 93, American film and television producer (Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), natural causes.[290]
* Terence Alexander, 86, British film and television actor (Bergerac).[291]
* Terry Barr, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), Alzheimer's disease.[292]
* Manuel Collantes, 91, Filipino diplomat, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984), cardiac arrest.[293]
* Ed Dorohoy, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.[294]
* Carlton Forbes, 72, Jamaican-born British first-class cricketer.[295]
* Marciano Guzman, Filipino poet.[296]
* Roger Kaffer, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet.[297]
* Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bilbao.[298]
* Lenrie Peters, 76, Gambian surgeon and novelist, after short illness.[299]
* Ercole Rabitti, 87, Italian footballer and trainer.[300]
* Oleg Shenin, 71, Russian politician, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991).[301]
* Umberto Silvestri, 93, Italian Olympic wrestler.[302]
* Betty Tancock, 98, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1932).[303]
* John Tolos, 78, Canadian professional wrestler, renal failure.[304]

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* Hank Bassen, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack.[305]
* Kevin Beurle, 53, British scientist, hot air balloon accident.[306]
* Reginald Golledge, 71, Australian-born American geographer.[307]
* Phale Hale, 94, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.[308]
* Ed Murray, 80, American politician, speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1987–1991).[309]
* Bill Perkins, 89, Australian footballer (Richmond).[310]
* Steve Prest, 43, British snooker player and coach, peritonitis.[311]
* Karine Ruby, 31, French Olympic gold (1998) and silver (2002) medal-winning snowboarder, fall.[312]
* Matt Zabitka, 88, American sportswriter.[313]

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* Torsten Andersson, 82, Swedish painter.[314]
* Krystyna Borowicz, 86, Polish actress.[315]
* Luís Cabral, 78, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1973–1980).[316]
* Eva Dawes, 96, Canadian bronze medal-winning Olympic high jumper (1932), stroke.[317]
* Roberto Falaschi, 77, Italian cyclist.[318]
* Susanna Haapoja, 42, Finnish politician, cerebral haemorrhage.[319]
* Eric Hammond, 79, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the EETPU.[320]
* Ephraim Katzir, 93, Israeli biophysicist and politician, President (1973–1978).[321]
* Herma Kirchschläger, 93, Austrian widow of former President Rudolf Kirchschläger.[322]
* Waldemar Matuška, 76, Czech singer, pneumonia and heart failure.[323]
* Gaafar Nimeiry, 79, Sudanese politician, President (1969–1985).[324]
* Alexander Obregón, 31, Colombian footballer, car accident.[325]

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* Martin Clemens, 94, British colonial administrator and soldier.[326]
* Millvina Dean, 97, British civil servant and cartographer, last living passenger aboard the RMS Titanic, pneumonia.[327]
* Brian Edrich, 86, British cricketer.[328]
* Sir John Holland, 94, Australian engineer, construction magnate.[329]
* Danny La Rue, 81, Irish-born British female impersonator and singer, prostate cancer.[330]
* Vyacheslav Nevinny, 74, Russian actor, diabetes.[331]
* Emil L. Smith, 97, American biochemist, heart attack.[332]
* Kamala Surayya, 75, Indian writer, after long illness.[333]
* George Tiller, 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot.[334]

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284. ^ "Dr Mona Grey OBE FRCN SRN SCM". Royal College of Nursing. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
285. ^ "Controversial Victoria psychiatrist Abram Hoffer dies at age 91". Times Colonist. Archived from the original on June 12, 2009. Retrieved May 29, 2009.
286. ^ "Legendary Haitian Political Leader Father Gerard Jean-Juste passes away". Archived from the original on June 24, 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
287. ^ "Services Monday for Bay Area nun, mystery novelist". East Bay Times. May 30, 2009.
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