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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2008.

31

• Arif Ali, 46, Pakistani-born British Associated Press regional product director, cancer.
• Veronika Bayer, 67, German actress. (German)
• František Čapek, 93, Czech canoeist, Olympic C1 10,000m gold medallist in 1948, heart ailment.
• Jim Lacey, 73, Australian former administrator of Lord Howe Island, general manager of Western Plains Zoo.
• John W. Myers, 96, American WWII chief test pilot for, and later executive of, Northrop Corporation.
• Mark Schwed, 52, American television critic and journalist.
• Bertie Smalls, 72, British criminal turned supergrass.
• Volodia Teitelboim, 91, Chilean writer and communist activist, cancer.
• David Kimutai Too, 39, Kenyan legislator, shot.

30

• Jeremy Beadle, 59, British television presenter (You've Been Framed, Beadle's About), pneumonia.
• Sean Finnegan, 43, American hardcore punk drummer (Void), apparent heart attack.
• Kim Chang-ik, 50, South Korean drummer (Sanulrim), road accident.
• Miles Kington, 66, British newspaper columnist and humorist.
• Marcial Maciel, 87, Mexican founder of the Legionaries of Christ.
• Roland Selmeczi, 38, Hungarian actor, car accident. (Hungarian)
• Wilber Varela, 50, Colombian drug trafficker, shot.

29

• Robert M. Ball, 93, American Commissioner of Social Security (1962–1973).
• Margaret Truman Daniel, 83, American author, daughter of former US President Harry S. Truman.
• Rubens Gerchman, 66, Brazilian painter, lung cancer. (Portuguese)
• James Heathman, 90, American who found the 1931 TWA Flight 599 plane crash that killed Knute Rockne, pneumonia.
• Raymond Jacobs, 82, American who claimed to be in photo of first flag raised on Iwo Jima.
• Jack D. Johnson, 79, American country music manager, heart failure.
• Philippe Khorsand, 59, French actor. (French)
• Sebastian Kräuter, 85, Romanian bishop and author. (Romanian)
• Abu Laith al-Libi, 41, Libyan-born al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan, missile strike.
• Erzsébet Nagy, 80, Hungarian writer, daughter of executed Prime Minister Imre Nagy.
• Leszek Owsiany, 89, Polish Air Force pilot in World War II. (Polish)
• Manuel Padilla, Jr., 51, American actor (American Graffiti, Jai in Tarzan).
• Mugabe Were, 39, Kenyan legislator, homicide by gunshot.

28

• Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, 69, Primate of the Church of Greece, cancer.
• Lynn Demarest, 85, American photographer, cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Frances Dewey Wormser, 104, American vaudeville and Broadway theater actress.
• Dagfinn Grønoset, 87, Norwegian author. (Norwegian)
• John Gunnell, 74, British politician, Labour Member of Parliament (1992–2001).
• Dwight Hemion, 81, American television director and producer, renal failure.
• Gerry Patrick Hemming, 70, American anti-Castro mercenary.
• Bengt Lindström, 82, Swedish painter. (Swedish)
• Yosef Nachmias, 96, Israeli second General Commissioner of Police. (Hebrew)
• Larry Smith, 68, American college football coach, chronic lymphatic leukemia.
• Marie Takvam, 81, Norwegian author and actor. (Norwegian)
• Ginty Vrede, 22, Dutch Muay Thai martial arts fighter, heart attack.

27

• Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, 80, German politician, president of German Red Cross (1982–1994). (German)
• Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, American President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Mike Holovak, 88, American football player and former head coach of the Boston Patriots, pneumonia.
• Ken Hunt, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
• Anna Loginova, 29, Russian bodyguard for boxer Kostya Tszyu, head injury during carjacking.
• Valery Shumakov, 76, Russian transplantologist, founder of the Transplant and Artificial Organs Research Institute.
• Suharto, 86, Indonesian President (1967–1998), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Louie Welch, 89, American mayor of Houston, Texas (1964–1973), lung cancer.

26

• John Ardagh, 79, British journalist and author.
• Christian Brando, 49, American actor and convicted killer, son of Marlon Brando, pneumonia.
• Abraham Brumberg, 81, American writer and editor, heart failure.
• Raymond Daniels, 28, Irish footballer (Wicklow GAA), suspected heart attack.
• Igor Dmitriev, 80, Russian actor. (Russian)
• George Habash, 81, Palestinian founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, heart attack.
• Padraic McGuinness, 69, Australian journalist and editor, cancer.
• Jeff Salen, 55, American guitarist, founder of punk band Tuff Darts, heart attack.
• Viktor Schreckengost, 101, American artist and industrial designer.
• Aziz Sedki, 87, Egyptian Prime Minister (1972–1973).
• Lovie Yancey, 96, American founder of Fatburger restaurant chain, pneumonia.
• Zhang Hanzhi, 72, Chinese diplomat and linguist, English tutor for Mao, Nixon interpreter for 1972 visit, lung-related illness.

25

• Christopher Allport, 60, American television actor, avalanche.
• Evelyn Barbirolli, 97, British oboist, widow of Sir John Barbirolli.
• Richard Darman, 64, American Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1989–1993), leukemia.
• Ralph Dupas, 72, American boxer, complications of boxing-induced brain damage.
• Louisa Horton Hill, 87, American actress (All My Sons).
• Andreas Hönisch, 77, Silesian Superior General of Servi Jesu et Mariae, founder of the Catholic Scouts of Europe.
• Roc Kirby, 89, Australian founder of Village Roadshow Limited.

24

• Lee Embree, 92, American photographer, took first air-to-air photographs of 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, kidney infection.
• Art Frantz, 86, American baseball umpire, heart failure.
• Johannes Heggland, 88, Norwegian author and politician. (Norwegian)
• Dorothy Hennessey, 94, American nun and activist.
• J. Robert Hooper, 71, American politician, Maryland state senator (1999–2007), colon cancer.
• Megat Junid Megat Ayub, 65, Malaysian former cabinet minister, prostate cancer.
• Randy Salerno, 45, American CBS news reporter (WBBM in Chicago), snowmobile accident.
• Jahna Steele, 49, American transgender showgirl.

23

• Andrzej Andrzejewski, 46, Polish Brigadier General of the Polish Air Force, plane crash.
• Felix Carlebach, 96, British rabbi.
• Steve Duplantis, 35, American pro golf caddy, car accident.
• Leticia de Oyuela, 74, Honduran historian. (Spanish)
• Stein Rønning, 42, Norwegian karate world champion (1990). (Norwegian)

22

• Bernie Boston, 74, American photographer of the "flower power" movement, blood disease.
• Dora Bria, 49, Brazilian six-time windsurfing champion, car accident.
• Lance Clemons, 60, American baseball relief pitcher, cancer.
• Roberto Gari, 88, American actor and artist, heart attack.
• Heath Ledger, 28, Australian Academy Award-nominated actor (Brokeback Mountain), accidental prescription drug overdose.
• Miles Lerman, 88, American creator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• Ştefan Niculescu, 80, Romanian composer. (Romanian)
• Claude Piron, 76, Swiss linguist and Esperanto author. (Esperanto)

21

• Pam Barrett, 54, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Billy Elliott, 82, British footballer (Sunderland).
• Evan G. Galbraith, 79, American diplomat, ambassador to France (1981–1985), cancer.
• Burton Hatlen, 71, American literary scholar, founder of National Poetry Foundation, mentor to Stephen King, pneumonia.
• Peggy Jay, 95, British Labour Party politician.
• Wesley Ngetich, 34, Kenyan marathon runner, homicide by poison arrow.
• Kenneth Parnell, 76, American convicted child molester and kidnapper, natural causes.
• Jiří Sequens, 85, Czech film director. (Czech)
• Marie Smith Jones, 89, American last known native speaker of the Eyak language, natural causes.
• Luiz Carlos Tourinho, 43, Brazilian actor, cerebral aneurysm. (Portuguese)

20

• Georgina Bruni, 60, British UFO researcher and author, cancer.
• Louis de Cazenave, 110, French supercentenarian, one of the last two official surviving French WWI veterans, natural causes.
• Talivaldis Kenins, 88, Canadian composer.
• Abdul Latif, 56, British restaurateur, heart attack.
• Duilio Loi, 78, Italian boxer, Alzheimer's disease. (Italian)
• Tommy McQuater, 93, British jazz trumpeter.
• Donald Odanga, Kenyan former international basketball player, accidental shooting.
• Ghorban Soleimani, 87, Iranian vocalist and dotar player.
• James LeVoy Sorenson, 86, American medical device inventor and billionaire philanthropist, cancer.
• Kevin Stoney, 86, British actor.
• Eudoxia Woodward, 88, American painter, cancer.

19

• Valentim Amões, 48, Angolan politician and businessman, air crash. (Portuguese)
• Creighton Burns, 82, Australian editor of The Age newspaper (1981–1989), cancer.
• Victor S. Johnson, Jr., 91, American lawyer, president of Aladdin Industries, colon cancer.
• Frances Lewine, 86, American journalist and White House Correspondent, stroke.
• Morris Maddocks, 79, British Bishop of Selby (1972–1983).
• Mildred Noble, 86, American writer and Native American activist, complications from liver cancer.
• Andy Palacio, 47, Belizean musician, UNESCO Artist for Peace and Garifuna activist, heart attack followed by stroke.
• Suzanne Pleshette, 70, American actress (The Bob Newhart Show, The Birds), respiratory failure.
• Eugene Sawyer, 73, American politician, Mayor of Chicago (1987–1989), series of strokes.
• John Stewart, 68, American musician (The Kingston Trio), stroke.
• H. Bradford Westerfield, 79, American political scientist, complications of Parkinson's Disease.
• Don Wittman, 71, Canadian sports broadcaster for CBC, cancer.

18

• Uzi Cohen, 55, Israeli Likud politician, heart attack.
• Pier Miranda Ferraro, 83, Italian opera tenor, cardiac arrest.
• Wally Fielding, 88, British footballer (Everton).
• Georgia Frontiere, 80, American majority-owner of NFL team Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams, breast cancer.
• Bertram James, 92, British World War II airman, participant in The Great Escape.
• Richard Knerr, 82, American co-founder of Wham-O, inventor of the frisbee and Hula Hoop, stroke.
• Frank Lewin, 82, American composer, heart failure.
• Lois Nettleton, 80, American actress (A Face in the Crowd), lung cancer.
• Lou Palmer, 75, American radio personality and announcer, brain hemorrhage.
• Ugo Pirro, 87, Italian screenwriter.
• Anthony M. Solomon, 88, American President of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1980–1985), kidney failure.
• John Stroger, 78, American politician, former President of the Cook County, Illinois Board, stroke.

17

• Carlos, 64, French singer, cancer. (French)
• Trevor Drayton, 52, Australian winemaker, accidental explosion.
• Bobby Fischer, 64, American chess grandmaster, world champion (1972–1975), kidney failure.
• Edward D. Hoch, 77, American writer of detective fiction, heart attack.
• Ernie Holmes, 59, American Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle (1972–1977), car accident.
• Alejandro Illescas, Mexican voice actor. (Spanish)
• Mildred Callahan Jones, 64, American decorative flag pioneer.
• Carole Lynne, 89, British actress, widow of Baron Delfont.
• John McHale, 86, American player and executive in Major League Baseball.
• Allan Melvin, 84, American actor (The Phil Silvers Show, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family), cancer.
• Madeleine Milhaud, 105, French actress, widow of composer Darius Milhaud.
• Della Purves, 62, British botanical artist, liver disease.
• Trevor Sprigg, 61, Australian Liberal politician, Western Australian Legislative Assembly whip, heart attack.
• Jinzo Toriumi, 78, Japanese novelist and screenwriter (Speed Racer, Gatchaman, Armored Trooper Votoms), liver cancer.

16

• Jorge de Bagration, 63, Spanish racing car driver, claimant to throne of the Royal House of Georgia, hepatitis.
• Raymond Cambefort, 107, third-last surviving French World War I veteran. (French)
• Chen Xilu, 80, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Hengshui, organ failure.
• Nikola Kljusev, 80, Macedonian politician and economist, first Prime Minister of Macedonia (1991–1992).
• Pierre Lambert, 87, French Trotskyist leader and presidential candidate. (French)
• Munjuku Nguvauva II, 84, Namibian traditional tribal chief, complications from strokes.
• Hone Tuwhare, 85, New Zealand Māori poet.
• Bungo Yoshida, 73, Japanese Bunraku puppeteer, liver cancer.
• Elias Zoghby, 96, Egyptian Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Baalbek.

15

• K. M. Adimoolam, 69, Indian abstract artist.
• Mark Haigh-Hutchinson, 43, British video game developer (Paperboy, Zombies Ate My Neighbors), pancreatic cancer.
• Eduardo Hontiveros, 84, Filipino Jesuit composer of Roman Catholic liturgical songs, stroke.
• Jason MacIntyre, 34, British road bicycle racer, road accident.
• Brad Renfro, 25, American actor (The Client, Ghost World), accidental heroin overdose.

14

• Józef Bartosik, 90, Polish World War II veteran and rear admiral.
• Don Cardwell, 72, American baseball pitcher.
• Selim Al Deen, 58, Bangladeshi dramatist, cardiac arrest.
• Judah Folkman, 74, American cancer researcher, apparent heart attack.
• Vincenz Liechtenstein, 57, Austrian politician. (German)
• Tommy Limby, 60, Swedish cross-country skier. (Swedish)
• Johnny Steele, 91, British football manager of Barnsley FC (1960–1971, 1972–1973).
• Carsten Thomassen, 38, Norwegian journalist, terrorist attack.
• Milton Wolff, 92, American veteran of the Spanish Civil War.
• Wu Jin, 74, Taiwanese Minister for Education (1996–1998), cancer.

13

• Joe Burk, 93, American rowing champion, complications of surgery.
• John Harvey, 87, British politician, Conservative MP for Walthamstow East (1955–1966).
• Sergey Larin, 51, Lithuanian tenor.
• Johnny Podres, 75, American baseball pitcher (Brooklyn Dodgers), first World Series MVP.
• Jafar Shahidi, 89, Iranian linguist and historian.
• Patricia Verdugo, 61, Chilean writer, journalist and human rights violations investigator, cancer.
• Walter Zimper, 65, Austrian politician. (German)

12

• Gennady Bachinsky, 36, Russian television and radio personality, car accident.
• Isobel Bennett, 98, Australian marine scientist.
• Gwendolyn T. Britt, 66, American Maryland state senator since 2003.
• Sir Howard Dalton, 63, British microbiologist, former Chief Scientific Adviser at DEFRA.
• Ángel González, 82, Spanish poet.
• Adriano González León, Venezuelan writer. (Spanish)
• Marty Hendin, 59, American vice president of community relations for the St. Louis Cardinals, cancer.
• Leszek Jezierski, 79, Polish football player and trainer. (Polish)
• Anatoly Kyarov, Russian head of the Kabardino-Balkaria police, shot.
• Jennifer Musa, 90, Irish-born Pakistani politician.
• Louis Alexandre Raimon, 85, French hairdresser.
• Terrell Rogers, 39, American anti-violence activist, homicide.
• Stanisław Wycech, 105, last known Polish World War I veteran.

11

• José Bello, 103, Spanish intellectual and writer.
• Pete Candoli, 84, American big band-era jazz trumpeter, prostate cancer.
• Murray Cohl, 78, Canadian film producer, co-founder of the Toronto Film Festival and Canada's Walk of Fame, liver cancer.
• Sir Edmund Hillary, 88, New Zealand mountaineer, first (with Tenzing Norgay) to reach summit of Mount Everest, heart failure.
• Carl Karcher, 90, American founder of Carl's Jr restaurants, complications from Parkinson's Disease.
• Frank Loughran, 77, Australian soccer international player.
• Nancy Phelan, 94, Australian writer.

10

• Rod Allen, 63, British singer and bassist (The Fortunes), liver cancer.
• Christopher Bowman, 40, American Olympic figure skater, accidental drug overdose.
• Dave Day, American banjoist/rhythm guitarist (The Monks), heart attack.
• Jack Eagle, 81, American actor and comedian.
• Andrés Henestrosa, 101, Mexican writer and politician, major proponent of the Zapotec language.
• George Laking, 95, New Zealand diplomat and public servant.
• Allan McEachern, 81, Canadian jurist, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
• Mikhail Minin, 85, Russian soldier who raised the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building in 1945.
• Katsutoshi Nagasawa, 84, Japanese composer. (Japanese)
• Maila Nurmi, 86, Finnish actress (Vampira in Plan 9 from Outer Space).

9

• Paul Aimson, 64, British footballer, heart attack.
• Jorge Anaya, 81, Argentinian admiral, heart failure.
• Adam Butler, 76, British Member of Parliament (1970–1987) and minister.
• Carmine Furletti, 81, Brazilian industrialist, former president of Cruzeiro. (Portuguese)
• Gemina, 21, African Baringo giraffe at the Santa Barbara Zoo with a neck deformity, euthanized.
• Mehran Ghassemi, 30, Iranian journalist, heart failure. (Persian)
• Johnny Grant, 84, American entertainer, honorary Mayor of Hollywood.
• Sir John Harvey-Jones, 83, British businessman and media personality.
• Walter J. Kavanaugh, 74, American Republican Party politician, complications from diabetes.
• Roi Kwabena, 51, Trinidadian cultural anthropologist, lung cancer.
• Sara Misquez, 62, American president of the Mescalero Apache of New Mexico (1999–2003), car accident.
• Lew Spence, 87, American songwriter.
• Sir John Willis, 70, British Air Chief Marshal.
• Tim Willoughby, 53, Australian Olympic rowing medallist, heart attack.

8

• D. M. Dassanayake, 54, Sri Lankan Minister of Nation Building, roadside bomb.
• Jim Dooley, 77, American professional football player and coach (Chicago Bears), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• David Grove, New Zealand developer of Clean Language.
• Guy Hance, 74, Belgian politician. (French)
• Bjarni Jónsson, 73, Icelandic painter. (Icelandic)
• Moshe Levi, 71, Israeli Chief of Staff of the Defense Forces (1983–1987), stroke.
• George Moore, 84, Australian former champion jockey and trainer.
• Clyde Otis, 83, American songwriter and record producer.
• Steve Ridzik, 78, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), heart disease.
• Mohammad Sadli, 85, Indonesian politician.

7

• Philip Agee, 72, American former CIA agent, complications from perforated ulcer surgery.
• Raffaello de Banfield, 85, British composer. (German)
• Robert Chandran, 57, Singaporean CEO of Chemoil, helicopter crash.
• Maryvonne Dupureur, 70, French athlete and Olympic medalist. (French)
• Houston I. Flournoy, 78, American member of California State Assembly (1961–1967), California State Controller (1967–1975).
• Detlef Kraus, 88, German pianist. (German)
• Andrey Kurennoy, 35, Russian athlete, former national triple jump champion.
• Buddy LeRoux, 77, American former owner of the Boston Red Sox, natural causes.
• Boris Lurie, 83, American artist and writer.
• Vincent Meli, 87, American member of the Detroit Partnership, bone cancer.
• Bozo Miller, 99, American competitive eater, natural causes.
• Hans Monderman, 62, Dutch traffic engineer.
• Marcel Mouly, 88, French painter. (French)
• Njoo Kiem Bie, 81, Indonesian professional badminton player. (Indonesian)
• Alwyn Schlebusch, 90, South African politician, Vice State President (1981–1984).
• Jean-Claude Vrinat, 71, French owner of Taillevent restaurant, lung cancer.
• Wei Wenhua, 41, Chinese blogger and murder victim, beaten.

6

• Shmuel Berenbaum, 87, American Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva, stomach cancer.
• Jack Brod, 98, American last original tenant of the Empire State Building.
• Arafan Camara, 60, Guinean politican. (Portuguese)
• Bob LeMond, 94, American radio and television announcer (Leave It to Beaver).
• Cy Leslie, 85, American founder of Pickwick Records and MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group.
• Alekos Michaelides, 74, Cypriot politician, former foreign minister.
• Yunus Mohamed, 57, South African lawyer and anti-Apartheid activist.
• Ken Nelson, 96, American record producer and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• Anders Paulrud, 56, Swedish writer and journalist, lung cancer.
• Pramod Karan Sethi, 80, Indian orthopaedic surgeon, inventor of the Jaipur leg, cardiac arrest.
• Vittorio Tomassetti, 77, Italian Roman Catholic bishop emeritus of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola. (Italian)

5

• John Ashley, 77, Canadian referee in the National Hockey League, heart failure.
• Rowan Ayers, 85, British television producer.
• Giovanni Rinaldo Coronas, 89, Italian politician, former police chief and interior minister. (Italian)
• Phillip S. Figa, 56, American federal judge, brain tumor.
• Raymond Forni, 66, French politician, former National Assembly president, leukemia.
• Thomas Cecil Gray, 94, British pioneer in anaesthetics.
• Clinton Grybas, 32, Australian sports commentator.
• Louis Hon, 83, French footballer.
• Edward Kłosiński, 65, Polish cinematographer. (Polish)
• İhsan Saraçlar, 79, Turkish jurist and politician. (Turkish)
• Jana Shearer, 21, American murder victim.

4

• Vyacheslav Ambartsumyan, 67, Russian footballer, champion of USSR, hit by car. (Russian)
• Bjørn Odmar Andersen, 64, Norwegian footballer. (Norwegian)
• Sir Bernard Audley, 83, British businessman and philanthropist.
• Keith Baxter, 36, British drummer of rock band 3 Colours Red, liver failure.
• Brandi Borr, 39, American stand-up comedian, breast cancer.
• Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, 75, Nicaraguan editor of El Nuevo Diario, heart failure. (Spanish)
• Joyce Carlson, 84, American artist, designer of Disney's It's a Small World rides, cancer.
• Stig Claesson, 79, Swedish writer. (Swedish)
• Vernon Derrick, 74, American musician.
• Mort Garson, 83, Canadian electronic musician, renal failure.
• Herbert Keppler, 82, American photojournalist.
• Marianne Kiefer, 79, German actress. (German)
• Mary Marques, 111, American supercentenarian, Massachusetts' oldest person.
• Jimmy Nah, 39, Singaporean comedian.
• José Luiz Pacheco, 82, Portuguese author and critic. (Portuguese)
• Graham Percy, 69, British illustrator of children's books.
• Bill Ramsey, 87, American baseball player.
• Herbert John Walker, 88, New Zealand politician, former cabinet minister.

3

• Aleksandr Abdulov, 54, Russian actor, lung cancer. (Russian)
• Jack Aranson, 83, British actor, pneumonia.
• Henri Chopin, 85, French poet and artist.
• Natasha Collins, 31, British television presenter.
• Werner Dollinger, 89, German politician. (German)
• Petru Dugulescu, 62, Romanian Baptist pastor, poet and politician, heart attack.
• Milt Dunnell, 102, Canadian sportswriter.
• Butch Felker, 62, American mayor of Topeka, Kansas, cancer.
• Joseph Lazarow, 84, American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
• Herman Le Compte, 78, Belgian doctor, the 'Vitamin Doctor', heart attack. (Dutch),
• Antônio Matias, 44, Portuguese judoka. (Portuguese)
• John O'Donohue, 52, Irish poet, philosopher and priest.
• Andrew J. Olmsted, 37, American army blogger in Iraq, shot.
• Lisandro Otero, 75, Cuban author. (Portuguese)
• Nikolay Puzanov, 69, Russian Soviet biathlete, 1968 Olympic Gold medalist. (Russian)
• Manolo Reyes, 83, American pioneering Spanish-language newscaster, Parkinson's disease.
• Jimmy Stewart, 76, British racing driver.
• O. G. Style, 37, American rapper, brain aneurysm.

2

• Yo-Sam Choi, 35, South Korean boxer, former WBC Light Flyweight Champion, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Lee S. Dreyfus, 81, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983).
• George MacDonald Fraser, 82, British novelist and non-fiction writer (Flashman series), cancer.
• Brice Mack, 90, American background painter for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
• Ben Marlin, 31, American bassist (Disgorge), cancer.
• G. G. Njuguna Ngengi, Kenyan politician, homicide.
• Julio Martínez Pradanos, 84, Chilean sports journalist, cancer.
• Robert C. Schnitzer, 101, American actor, producer, educator, and theater administrator.
• Günter Schubert, 69, German actor.
• Gerry Staley, 87, American baseball pitcher (Chicago White Sox), natural causes.
• Galyani Vadhana, 84, Thai princess, eldest sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, cancer.

1

• Salvatore Bonanno, 75, American mobster, heart attack.
• Peter Caffrey, 58, Irish actor.
• Pratap Chandra Chunder, 88, Indian cabinet minister (1977–1980), heart disease.
• Dennis Clifton, 54, American musician (Cornbread Red) and studio engineer, cancer.
• Harold Corsini, 88, American photographer, stroke.
• Harald Deilmann, 87, German architect and author. (German)
• Len Dockett, 87, Australian football player.
• Ralph Emmerson, 94, British Bishop of Knaresborough (1972–1979).
• Irena Górska-Damięcka, 97, Polish actress. (Polish)
• John Granville, 33, American diplomat, homicide.
• Erich Kästner, 107, German jurist and last known German World War I veteran.
• Thiyagarajah Maheswaran, 47, Sri Lankan politician, former cabinet minister, assassination by gunshot.
• Lucas Sang, 46, Kenyan runner and 1988 Olympian, homicide.
• Wanda Sieradzka de Ruig, 85, Polish author, poet, journalist and translator. (Polish)
• Oleg Tolmachev, 88, Russian ice hockey player and coach. (Russian)

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