Deaths in August 2009

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The following is a list of deaths in August 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.

August 2009[edit]

1[edit]

• Jerome Anderson, 55, American basketball player (Boston Celtics) and coach.^[1]
• Corazon Aquino, 76, Filipino politician, first female President (1986–1992), colon cancer.^[2]
• Devendra Nath Dwivedi, 74, Indian politician, Governor designate of Gujarat.^[3]
• Edward D. Ives, 83, American folklorist and professor.^[4]
• Keith Macklin, 78, British journalist and broadcaster.^[5]
• George Taylor Morris, 62, American radio personality, throat cancer.^[6]
• Nicholas D'Antonio Salza, 93, Honduran Bishop of Juticalpa (1963–1977).^[7]
• Naomi Sims, 61, American model and author, breast cancer.^[8]
• Rana Chandra Singh, 78, Pakistani politician.^[9]
• Howard Smit, 98, American film make-up artist (The Wizard of Oz).^[10]
• Panakkad Sayeed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal, 73, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.^[11]
• Borka Vučić, 83, Serbian politician and banker, traffic collision.^[12]

2[edit]

• Shafiq al-Hout, 77, Palestinian politician, co-founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization, cancer.^[13]
• Adolf Endler, 78, German writer.^[14]
• Hironoshin Furuhashi, 80, Japanese swimmer, Vice President of FINA.^[15]
• Mark Green, 92, British prelate, Bishop of Aston (1972–1982).^[16]
• Billy Lee Riley, 75, American rockabilly musician, cancer.^[17]
• Stanley Robertson, 68, British folk singer and storyteller.^[18]
• Michael A. Wiener, 71, American radio mogul (Infinity Broadcasting) and philanthropist, cancer.^[19]
• Sidney Zion, 75, American journalist, cancer.^[20]

3[edit]

• Subhas Chakraborty, 66, Indian politician.^[21]
• Christopher Elrington, 79, English historian, general editor of the Victoria County History.^[22]
• Zelik Epstein, 96, American rabbi and rosh yeshiva.^[23]
• Charles Gwathmey, 71, American architect, esophageal cancer.^[24]
• Walter Philip Leber, 90, American Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (1967–1971).^[25]
• Nikolaos Makarezos, 90, Greek army officer, leader of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.^[26]
• Reiko Ohara, 62, Japanese actress, intracerebral hemorrhage.^[27]
• Svend Ove Pedersen, 88, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) rower.^[28]
• Zinovy Vysokovsky, 76, Russian actor.^[29]

4[edit]

• Hirotugu Akaike, 81, Japanese statistician, pneumonia.^[30]
• David Ames, 72, American football player (New York Titans), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[31]
• Svend Auken, 66, Danish politician, prostate cancer.^[32]
• Benson, appr. 25, British common carp, voted as Britain's Favourite Carp (death announced on this date).^[33]
• George I. Cannon, 89, American church leader (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).^[34]
• Ross Dufty, 81, Australian cricketer.^[35]
• Sir David Haslam, 86, British admiral.^[36]
• Jo O-ryeon, 56, South Korean Olympic swimmer.^[37]
• Ergash Karimov, 75, Uzbek actor and comedian.^[38]
• Amos Kenan, 82, Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist, Alzheimer's disease.^[39]
• Günther Morbach, 81, German classical bass in opera and concert.^[40]
• Joseph Msika, 85, Zimbabwean politician, Vice President, stroke.^[41]
• Gonzalo Santos, 68, Northern Mariana Island Cabinet member, educator and principal, lung cancer.^[42]
• Blake Snyder, 51, American screenwriter (Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, Blank Check) and author (Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need), cardiac arrest.^[43]
• Ole A. Sørli, 63, Norwegian manager and record producer.^[44]
• Mbah Surip, 60, Indonesian reggae singer, heart attack.^[45]
• Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi, 78, American federal judge.^[46]
• Martha Ware, 91, American judge, first female judge in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.^[47]
• James Wiegold, 75, Welsh mathematician, leukemia.^[48]

5[edit]

• G. A. Cohen, 68, Canadian Marxist political philosopher.^[49]
• Jordi Sabater Pi, 87, Spanish ethologist, discovered albino gorilla Snowflake.^[50]
• Sheikha Hessa bint Salman Al Khalifa, appr. 76, Bahraini royal, widow of Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, mother of King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah.^[51]
• Baitullah Mehsud, appr. 35, Pakistani militant, injuries resulting from a military strike.^[52]
• Budd Schulberg, 95, American screenwriter (On the Waterfront, The Harder They Fall, A Face in the Crowd), Oscar winner (1955).^[53]
• Daljit Singh, 73-74, Indian cricketer.^[54]
• Al Tomko, 77, Canadian professional wrestler, pancreatic cancer.^[55]

6[edit]

• Bahadır Akkuzu, 54, Turkish musician, heart attack.^[56]
• Rolf Back, 81, Finnish Olympic sprinter. Rolf Back
• Helen Brotherton, 95, British conservationist.^[57]
• Maup Caransa, 93, Dutch property developer.^[58]
• Riccardo Cassin, 100, Italian mountaineer.^[59]
• Savka Dabčević-Kučar, 85, Croatian politician.^[60]
• Willy DeVille, 58, American singer–songwriter (Mink DeVille), pancreatic cancer.^[61]
• Stanley Haidasz, 86, Canadian politician, MP for Trinity (1957–1958) and Parkdale (1962–1978), Senator (1978–1998).^[62]
• Charles Harrison, 67, British art historian.^[63]
• John Hughes, 59, American film director (The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and screenwriter (Home Alone), heart attack.^[64]
• Anthony Impreveduto, 61, American corrupt politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1987–2004), lymphoma.^[65]
• Jack T. Kirby, 70, American historian, winner of the 2007 Bancroft Prize, heart failure.^[66]
• Anilza Leoni, 75, Brazilian actress, emphysema.^[67]
• Donald Marshall Jr., 55, Canadian wrongfully convicted of murder, complications from a lung transplant.^[68]
• Murali, 55, Indian actor, heart attack.^[69]
• Willibrordus S. Rendra, 73, Indonesian poet.^[70]
• Sam, 4, Australian koala made famous after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, euthanised.^[71]
• Aram Tigran, 75, Armenian singer and oud player.^[72]
• Otha Young, 66, American musician and songwriter, cancer.^[73]

7[edit]

• Jimmy Bedford, 69, American distiller (Jack Daniel's), heart attack.^[74]
• Frank G. Dickey, 91, American educator, president of the University of Kentucky (1956–1963).^[75]
• Gibson, 7, American Great Dane therapy dog, recognized by Guinness Book of World Records as world's tallest dog, bone cancer.^[76]
• Carleen Hutchins, 98, American violin maker.^[77]
• Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, 80, Iraqi politician, Vice President (1975–2003).^[78]
• Gulshan Kumar Mehta, 72, Indian songwriter, heart failure.^[79]
• John Harber Phillips, 75, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Victoria (1991–2003).^[80]
• Danko Popović, 81, Serbian writer.^[81]
• Louis E. Saavedra, 76, American politician, Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico (1973; 1989–1993), brain cancer.^[82]
• Mike Seeger, 75, American folk musician, folklorist and banjo player, cancer.^[83]
• Paul Silver, 60, American seismologist, traffic collision.^[84]
• Sergio Stefanini, 87, Italian Olympic basketball player^[85]
• Tatiana Stepa, 46, Romanian folk singer, cervical cancer.^[86]
• Seiichi Tagawa, 91, Japanese politician, party leader (New Liberal Club).^[87]
• Anne Wexler, 79, American political adviser and lobbyist, breast cancer.^[88]

8[edit]

• Alfonso Calderón, 78, Chilean writer and poet, heart attack.^[89]
• Yehuda Cohen, 95, Israeli Supreme Court justice.^[90]
• Cal Ermer, 85, American baseball coach and manager (Minnesota Twins).^[91]
• Harold Hitchcock, 95, British artist.^[92]
• Daniel Jarque, 26, Spanish footballer, heart attack.^[93]
• Pål Kraby, 77, Norwegian barrister and businessman.^[94]
• Peter Milton, 80, Australian politician, MP (1980–1990).^[95]
• Jone Railomo, 28, Fijian rugby player, member of the Fiji 2007 Rugby World Cup team.^[96]
• Barnett Rosenberg, 82, American chemist, discovered cisplatin.^[97]
• Raul Solnado, 79, Portuguese actor and comedian, cardiovascular disease.^[98]
• Michael Viner, 65, American record producer (Incredible Bongo Band), cancer.^[99]
• Jerry Wisdom, 61, Bahamian Olympic sprinter.^[100]

9[edit]

• Frank Borth, 91, American comic book artist.^[101]
• Tommy Clinton, 83, Irish footballer (Everton, Republic of Ireland).^[102]
• Thierry Jonquet, 55, French writer.^[103]
• William Lindsay Osteen Sr., 79, American judge of the District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (1991–2006).^[104]
• John Quade, 71, American character actor (Every Which Way But Loose, The Outlaw Josey Wales).^[105]
• Rodney Scott Webb, 74, American federal judge, cancer.^[106]
• Jasmine You, 30, Japanese bassist (Versailles).^[107]

10[edit]

• Laurie Bickerton, 92, Australian football player.^[108]
• Josef Burg, 97, Ukrainian Yiddish writer, stroke.^[109]
• Alik Djabrailov, 42, Russian charity worker, shot.^[110]
• Peter Dunnill, 71, British biochemical engineer.^[111]
• Albert L. Gordon, 94, American gay rights legal activist.^[112]
• Rita Inos, 55, Northern Mariana Island educator and politician, first female candidate for Lieutenant Governor, cancer.^[113]
• Andy Kessler, 48, American skateboarder, wasp sting.^[114]
• Ede Király, 82, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) figure skater.^[115]
• Urpo Korhonen, 86, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) cross-country skier.^[116]
• Sylvia Lennick, 93, Canadian actress and comedian, complications from pneumonia.^[117]
• Merlyn Mantle, 77, American author, widow of Mickey Mantle, Alzheimer's disease.^[118]
• Art McKinlay, 77, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) rower, heart attack.^[119]
• Zarema Sadulayeva, 33, Russian activist, head of children's aid organization in Chechnya, shot.^[120]
• Renzo Sambo, 67, Italian Olympic gold medal-winning (1968) rower.^[121]
• Thomas C. Slater, 68, American politician, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (since 1994), lung cancer.^[122]
• Yosef Tamir, 94, Israeli politician and environmental activist, member of the Knesset (1965–1981).^[123]
• Francisco Valdés, 66, Chilean footballer, heart failure.^[124]

11[edit]

• Bektas Abubakirov, 36, Kazakhstani boxer.^[125]
• Malik Akhmedilov, 33, Russian journalist, shot.^[126]
• Campbell R. Bridges, 71, British gemologist and adventurer, speared.^[127]
• Nuala Fennell, 73, Irish politician.^[128]
• José Ramón García Antón, 61, Spanish engineer and politician in Valencian Community.^[129]
• Tom Hennies, 70, American police officer and politician.^[130]
• Valeriu Lazarov, 73, Romanian-born Spanish television producer.^[131]
• Aykut Oray, 67, Turkish actor, heart attack.^[132]
• Behjat Sadr, 85, Iranian painter, heart attack.^[133]
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, American activist, founder of the Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy.^[134]
• Jan Sillo, 32, South African footballer, traffic collision.^[135]
• Kitty White, 86, American jazz vocalist, stroke.^[136]
• Margaret Bush Wilson, 90, American lawyer and activist, multiple organ failure.^[137]

12[edit]

• Rashied Ali, 74, American jazz drummer, heart attack.^[138]
• Ruslan Amerkhanov, Russian official, Ingushetia construction minister, shot.^[139]
• Howard M. Ervin, 93, American Christian scholar.^[140]
• Ruth Ford, 98, American model and actress.^[141]
• Gladys Gillem, 88, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.^[142]
• John Gregson, Baron Gregson, 85, British businessman and politician.^[143]
• Stephen MacDonald, 76, British actor, director and playwright.^[144]
• Zaw One, 64, Burmese actor and singer, liver disease.^[145]
• Nalin Seneviratne, 78, Sri Lankan general, Commander of the Army (1985–1988).^[146]
• Karl Von Hess, 90, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.^[147]
• Shingo Yamashiro, 70, Japanese actor, pneumonia.^[148]

13[edit]

• John Bentley, 92, British actor (Crossroads).^[149]
• M. Watt Espy, 77, American researcher and author on capital punishment.^[150]
• Lavelle Felton, 29, American basketball player (Paderborn Baskets), shot.^[151]
• Brian McLaughlin, 54, British footballer (Celtic, Motherwell).^[152]
• Joseph Gilles Napoléon Ouellet, 87, Canadian archbishop of Rimouski.^[153]
• Les Paul, 94, American guitarist and inventor, complications from pneumonia.^[154]
• Al Purvis, 80, Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning ice hockey player (1952).^[155]
• Dobby Walker, 90, American labor lawyer, stroke.^[156]
• Eleutherius Winance, 100, Belgian-born American monk, philosophy professor, founder of St. Andrew's Abbey, heart attack.^[157]

14[edit]

• Frank Branston, 70, British politician, Mayor of Bedford, aortic aneurysm.^[158]
• John Hughes, 84, British politician, MP for Coventry North East (1987–1992).^[159]
• Ted Kennedy, 83, Canadian hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs), heart failure.^[160]
• Lawrence Lucie, 101, American jazz guitarist.^[161]
• Kimani Maruge, 90, Kenyan student, oldest man to start primary school, stomach cancer.^[162]
• Philip Saltzman, 80, Mexican-born American television writer and producer (Columbo, Barnaby Jones).^[163]
• Gerolf Steiner, 101, German zoologist.^[164]

15[edit]

• Charles Anderson, 91, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1951–1953).^[165]
• Kenneth Bacon, 64, American president of Refugees International, Asst Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, melanoma.^[166]
• Florin Bogardo, 67, Romanian singer.^[167]
• Virginia Davis, 90, American child actress.^[168]
• Jim Dickinson, 67, American musician and record producer.^[169]
• Shūe Matsubayashi, 89, Japanese film director, heart failure.^[170]
• Abdel Latif Moussa, 50, Palestinian cleric, leader of Jund Ansar Allah, bomb blast.^[171]
• Sammy Petrillo, 74, American comedian, cancer.^[172]
• André Prokovsky, 70, French dancer, cancer.^[173]
• Louis Rosen, 91, American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project), inventor of the atom smasher, subdural hematoma.^[174]
• John Stroud, 54, British television director.^[175]
• Malcolm Richard Wilkey, 90, American federal judge and diplomat.^[176]

16[edit]

• Alistair Campbell, 84, New Zealand poet.^[177]
• Mualla Eyüboğlu, 90, Turkish architect, one of the country's first female architects, heart failure.^[178]
• Paul Healion, 31, Irish cyclist, traffic collision.^[179]
• Warren E. Hearnes, 86, American politician, Governor of Missouri (1965–1973).^[180]
• Khalid bin Mahfouz, 60, Saudi Arabian billionaire banker, heart attack.^[181]
• Richard Moore, 83, American cinematographer, co-founder of Panavision.^[182]
• John Mulagada, 71, Indian Bishop of Eluru, first Dalit to become a bishop.^[183]
• Ed Reimers, 96, American character actor (Star Trek, The Barefoot Executive).^[184]
• Laurie Rowley, 68, British comedy writer (The Two Ronnies, Not the Nine O'Clock News), heart attack.^[185]
• Robert Thieme, 91, American dispensationalist theologian.^[186]
• Igor Tkachenko, 45, Russian Air Force pilot (Russian Knights), stunt collision.^[187]
• Burl Toler, 81, American football official, first African American official in the NFL.^[188]

17[edit]

• Paul Hogue, 69, American basketball player, heart and kidney failure.^[189]
• Patricia Kippax, 67, British Olympic sprinter.^[190]
• Tullio Kezich, 80, Italian film critic.^[191]
• Grażyna Miller, 52, Polish poet and translator.^[192]
• Gildo Rodrigues, 69, Brazilian association football manager.^[193]
• Tiffany Simelane, 21, Swazi beauty pageant contestant, Miss Swaziland 2008, suicide by poisoning.^[194]
• Reno Thomas, 87, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.^[195]
• Davey Williams, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants).^[196]
• Viola Wyse, 61, Canadian Coast Salish tribal leader and civil servant.^[197]

18[edit]

• Mir Maswood Ali, 80, Indian-born Canadian mathematician, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.^[198]
• Hildegard Behrens, 72, German soprano, aortic aneurysm.^[199]
• Charles Bond, 94, American Air Force general, pilot with Flying Tigers, dementia.^[200]
• Wilf Diedricks, 64, South African cricket umpire.^[201]
• Rose Friedman, 98, Ukrainian-born American economist, widow of Milton Friedman.^[202]
• Jason Getsy, 33, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[203]
• Dic Jones, 75, Welsh poet.^[204]
• Kim Dae-jung, 85, South Korean politician, President (1998–2003), Nobel Peace Prize recipient, heart failure.^[205]
• Hugo Loetscher, 79, Swiss author, complications from surgery.^[206]
• Jack McGeorge, 60, American munitions analyst and BDSM activist, complications from heart surgery.^[207]
• Peter Mui, 56, American fashion designer, heart failure.^[208]
• Robert Novak, 78, American conservative author and pundit, brain cancer.^[209]
• Fernanda Pivano, 92, Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.^[210]
• Rufus Rogers, 96, New Zealand politician.^[211]
• Mária Vadász, 59, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning team handball player at 1976 Olympics.^[212]
• Geertje Wielema, 75, Dutch swimmer.^[213]

19[edit]

• Paul Ashbee, 91, British archaeologist.^[214]
• Carlos González Nova, 92, Mexican businessman.^[215]
• Donald M. Grant, 82, American science fiction publisher.^[216]
• Don Hewitt, 86, American television producer, creator of 60 Minutes, pancreatic cancer.^[217]
• Harry Kermode, 87, Canadian Olympic basketball player.^[218]
• John Marek, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[219]
• Anthony Petro Mayalla, 69, Tanzanian archbishop of Mwanza (since 1987).^[220]
• Edward Rondthaler, 104, American typographer.^[221]
• Vic Snell, 81, English footballer (Ipswich Town).^[222]
• Park M. Strader, 64, American politician, cancer.^[223]
• Bobby Thomson, 65, British footballer, prostate cancer.^[224]

20[edit]

• Marcel-André Buffet, 87, French Olympic sailor.^[225]
• Semyon Farada, 75, Russian actor.^[226]
• Larry Knechtel, 69, American keyboardist (Bread), bassist and session musician (The Beach Boys, The Doors), heart attack.^[227]
• Karla Kuskin, 77, American children's author and illustrator, corticobasal degeneration.^[228]
• Dudu Topaz, 62, Israeli actor, suicide by hanging.^[229]
• Gordon Woods, 57, American veterinary scientist, created first cloned mule (Idaho Gem).^[230]

21[edit]

• Ernest Brown, 93, American tap dancer.^[231]
• Johnny Carter, 75, American singer (The Flamingos, The Dells), lung cancer.^[232]
• Edward Goldsmith, 80, British environmentalist.^[233]
• Christopher John Lamb, 59, British biochemist.^[234]
• Chris McCubbins, 63, American-born Canadian Olympic athlete, leukemia.^[235]
• Leo Obstbaum, 40, Argentine-born Spanish design director for the 2010 Winter Olympics.^[236]
• Rex Shelley, 78, Singaporean author, lung cancer.^[237]
• Geoffrey Tozer, 54, Australian pianist, liver disease.^[238]
• Dean Turner, 37, Australian bassist (Magic Dirt), lung cancer.^[239]
• Pedro Yoma, 82, Chilean Olympic track and field athlete.^[240]

22[edit]

• David Avadon, 60, American illusionist, heart attack.^[241]
• Horst E. Brandt, 86, German film director.^[242]
• Vicki Cruse, 40, American aerobatic pilot, air show accident.^[243]
• Muriel Duckworth, 100, Canadian feminist and activist, complications from a fall.^[244]
• Elmer Kelton, 83, American Western novelist.^[245]
• Iftikhar Ali Khan, Pakistani general, Defence Secretary (1997–1999), heart attack.^[246]
• Erkki Laine, 51, Finnish ice hockey player, drowned.^[247]
• Beryl Sprinkel, 85, American economist, Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome.^[248]
• Adrien Zeller, 69, French politician and humanist, heart attack.^[249]

23[edit]

• Alexander Bozhkov, 58, Bulgarian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1997–1999), cancer.^[250]
• Stanley Kaplan, 90, American businessman and scholastic test preparation pioneer, founder of Kaplan, Inc., heart disease.^[251]
• Anna-Maria Müller, 60, German luger, 1972 Winter Olympics women's singles gold medalist.^[252]
• Pierre Samuel, 87, French mathematician, arms control and environmental activist.^[253]
• Jan Sedivka, 91, Australian violinist.^[254]
• Edzo Toxopeus, 91, Dutch politician, Minister of the Interior (1959–1965).^[255]
• William Williams, 93, American businessman and team owner (Cincinnati Bengals, Cincinnati Reds).^[256]

24[edit]

• Joseph Corbett Jr., 80, American murderer and kidnapper, suicide by gunshot.^[257]
• Sir Harry Fang, 86, Hong Kong orthopaedic surgeon, President of Rehabilitation International (1980–1984), respiratory failure.^[258]
• Frank Marcus Fernando, 77, Sri Lankan Bishop of Chilaw.^[259]
• Leif Flengsrud, 86, Norwegian Olympic cyclist.^[260]
• Janullah Hashimzada, 40, Afghan journalist, Pakistan bureau chief for Shamshad TV, shot.^[261]
• Kashin, 40, New Zealand Asian elephant sponsored by ASB Bank, euthanised.^[262]
• Joe Maneri, 82, American jazz composer, musician and inventor, complications from heart surgery.^[263]
• Eduardo Roquero, 59, Filipino politician, Representative (2004–2007), four-time Mayor of San Jose del Monte.^[264]
• Toni Sailer, 73, Austrian ski racer, laryngeal cancer.^[265]
• T. J. Turner, 46, American football player (Miami Dolphins), complications from a stroke.^[266]
• Jim Urbanek, 64, American football player (Miami Dolphins).^[267]

25[edit]

• Berle Adams, 92, American music industry executive (MCA).^[268]
• Bob Carroll, 73, American historian and author.^[269]
• William Emerson, 86, American journalist and editor, stroke.^[270]
• Nikos Garoufallou, 72, Greek actor, traffic collision.^[271]
• Ted Kennedy, 77, American politician, Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009), brain cancer.^[272]
• Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, 92, Venezuelan politician, Minister of Agriculture (1945–1947), director of the Human Rights Foundation.^[273]
• Carl K. Moeddel, 71, American Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati (1993–2007).^[274]
• Ray Ramsey, 88, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), complications from a fall.^[275]
• Mandé Sidibé, 69, Malian politician and economist, Prime Minister (2000–2002).^[276]

26[edit]

• Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, 56, Iraqi politician, lung cancer.^[277]
• Hyman Bloom, 96, Latvian-born American painter of mystical Jewish works.^[278]
• Per Christensen, 75, Norwegian actor (Hotel Cæsar, Elling).^[279]
• Sadie Corré, 91, British actress (The Rocky Horror Picture Show).^[280]
• Dominick Dunne, 83, American writer and investigative journalist, bladder cancer.^[281]
• Ellie Greenwich, 68, American songwriter ("Be My Baby", "Chapel of Love"), heart attack.^[282]
• Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet, 103, British-born New Zealand businessman.^[283]
• Billy Kenneally, 83, Irish politician.^[284]
• William Korey, 87, American lobbyist, Anti-Defamation League director, cardiac arrhythmia.^[285]
• Lin Hui-kuan, 51, Taiwanese politician, MLY (2002–2009), sepsis.^[286]
• Birger Skeie, 58, Norwegian marine services company chairman, heart attack.^[287]

27[edit]

• Harry Bell, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.^[288]
• Nicholas Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham, 67, British aristocrat and politician.^[289]
• Shota Chochishvili, 59, Georgian Olympic gold medalist in judo, leukemia.^[290]
• Alex Grass, 82, American businessman, founder of Rite Aid drugstores, lung cancer.^[291]
• Dave Laut, 52, American Olympic bronze medalist in shot put, shot.^[292]
• Sergey Mikhalkov, 96, Russian writer and poet (National Anthem of the Soviet Union and National Anthem of Russia).^{[citation needed]}
• Rafiu Oluwa, 78, Nigerian Olympic sprinter.^[293]
• Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez, 96, Spanish politician.^[294]
• Virgilio Savona, 89, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra), Parkinson's disease.^[295]
• Shing Fui-On, 54, Hong Kong actor, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.^[296]

28[edit]

• Chanel, 21, American world's oldest dog.^[297]
• DJ AM, 36, American club disc jockey and musician (Crazy Town), suspected drug overdose.^[298]
• Richard Egan, 73, American businessman and diplomat, suicide by gunshot.^[299]
• Emil Glad, 81, Croatian actor.^[300]
• Noël Jones, 76, British prelate, Bishop of Sodor and Man (1989–2003), cancer.^[301]
• Günter Kießling, 83, German general.^[302]
• Eli Thompson, 36, American skydiver, skydiving accident.^[303]
• Wayne Tippit, 76, American character actor (Melrose Place), respiratory insufficiency.^[304]
• Henk van Ulsen, 82, Dutch actor.^[305]

29[edit]

• Gennaro Angiulo, 90, American Mafia underboss, renal failure.^[306]
• Chris Connor, 81, American jazz singer, cancer.^[307]
• Simon Dee, 74, British radio disc jockey and television presenter, bone cancer.^[308]
• Sam Etcheverry, 79, American-born Canadian football player, member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, cancer.^[309]
• Gustavo Martínez Frías, 74, Colombian archbishop of Nueva Pamplona.^[310]
• Frank Gardner, 78, Australian motor racing driver.^[311]
• Pete Horeck, 86, Canadian ice hockey player, prostate cancer.^[312]
• Mady Rahl, 94, German actress.^[313]
• Dave Smith, 76, American college football player and coach, cancer.^[314]
• Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress.^[315]

30[edit]

• Medardas Čobotas, 81, Lithuanian politician.^[316]
• Ildikó Kishonti, 62, Hungarian actress.^[317]
• Marie Knight, 84, American gospel singer, pneumonia.^[318]
• Sheila Lukins, 66, American cook and food writer, brain cancer.^[319]
• Robert J. Matthews, 82, American Latter-day Saints educator and scholar, open-heart surgery complications.^[320]
• Christos Palaiologos, 59, Greek left-wing politician, former mayor of Livadeia,^[321]
• Jack Phillips, 87, American baseball player.^[322]
• Mark Pringle, 50, Australian triathlete, road accident.^[323]
• Kiki Sørum, 70, Norwegian fashion journalist.^[324]
• Nancy Talbot, 89, American businesswoman, co-founder of Talbots retail stores, Alzheimer's disease.^[325]
• Percy Tetzlaff, 89, New Zealand rugby union player (Waikato, Auckland, national team).^[326]
• Simon Thirgood, 46, British biologist and ecologist, building collapse.^[327]

31[edit]

• Asbjørn Aarseth, 73, Norwegian literary historian.^[328]
• Abu Abbas, 75, Bangladeshi politician.^[329]
• William Wright Abbot, 87, American archivist and historian, congestive heart failure.^[330]
• John Choi Young-su, 67, South Korean archbishop of Daegu.^[331]
• Ping Duenas, 78, Guamanian politician, heart attack.^[332]
• Barry Flanagan, 68, British sculptor, motor neurone disease.^[333]
• Jesse Fortune, 79, American blues singer.^[334]
• Frederick Gore, 95, British artist.^[335]
• Amos Hawley, 98, American sociologist.^[336]
• Eddie Higgins, 77, American jazz pianist, cancer.^[337]
• Torsten Lindberg, 92, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) football player.^[338]
• Eraño Manalo, 84, Filipino Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (1963–2009), cardiopulmonary arrest.^[339]
• Jack Manning, 93, American film, stage and television actor.^[340]
• Anna Belle Clement O'Brien, 86, American politician, Tennessee state senator (1976–1996), complications from a fall.^[341]
• George Piranian, 95, American mathematician.^[342]

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