Deaths in August 2008
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2008.
August 2008
1
- Carlos Aponte, 69, Colombian footballer.[1] (Spanish)
- Rolf Bae, 33, Norwegian mountaineer, fall from K2.[2]
- Pauline Baynes, 85, British illustrator (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings).[3]
- Peter Jackson, 80, Australian fashion designer, prostate cancer.[4]
- Ashok Mankad, 61, Indian cricketer.[5]
- Chief Mqalo, 91, South African Chief of the AmaKhuze Tribe, Alice.[6]
- Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 92, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.[7]
- Butch White, 72, British cricketer (Hampshire, Glamorgan, England).[8]
2
- Fujio Akatsuka, 72, Japanese manga artist, pneumonia.
- Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde, 81, British aristocrat and banker.[9]
- Geoffrey Ballard, 76, Canadian businessman and fuel cell scientist, founder of Ballard Power Systems.[10]
- Pérez Celis, 69, Argentine plastic artist, leukaemia.[11]
- Affonso Évora, 89, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) basketball player.[12]
- Helga Gitmark, 78, Norwegian politician.[13] (Norwegian)
- Christopher González, 65, Jamaican sculptor and painter, cancer.[14]
- Kåre Grøndahl Hagem, 93, Norwegian politician.[15] (Norwegian)
- Allen Kolstad, 76, American politician, lieutenant governor of Montana (1988–1991), cancer.[16]
- Ger McDonnell, 37, Irish mountaineer, first Irishman to reach K2 summit, climbing accident.[17]
- Peter Rodman, 64, American foreign policy expert, leukemia.[18]
- John F. Seiberling, 89, American politician, representative from Ohio (1971–1987), respiratory failure.[19]
3
- Anton Allemann, 72, Swiss footballer (PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Nürnberg, Grasshopper Zürich), heart attack.[20] (German)
- Skip Caray, 68, American broadcaster for baseball (Atlanta Braves) and basketball (Hawks), son of Harry Caray, bronchitis.[21]
- Erik Darling, 74, American songwriter, folk musician, lymphoma.[22]
- Roger Dean, 65, British guitarist, brain cancer.[23]
- Babatunde Jose, 82, Nigerian journalist and newspaper editor.[24]
- Jeffrey S. Medkeff, 39, American astronomer and science writer, liver cancer.[25]
- Robert Montgomery, 78, American lawyer.[26]
- Aurelius H. Piper Sr., 92, American hereditary chief of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation since 1959, natural causes.[27]
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian novelist and historian, Nobel Prize winner (1970), heart failure.[28]
- Louis Teicher, 83, American classical pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), heart failure.[29]
4
- Alberto Achacaz Walakial, 79, Chilean craftsman, one of the last full-blooded Alacaluf, blood poisoning.[30]
- Sally Insul, 92, American actress, heart failure.[31]
- Craig Jones, 23, British motorcycle racer, head injuries from a race crash.[32]
- Peter Kass, 85, American actor, director and teacher.[33]
- Eri Kawai, 43, Japanese pop and classical singer, liver cancer.[34]
- Victor McCaffery, 89, Australian cricketer.[35]
- Robert Maheu, 90, American businessman, aide to Howard Hughes.[36]
- Nicola Rescigno, 92, American opera conductor, complications from broken femur.[37]
- Johnny Thio, 63, Belgian football player and coach, myocardial rupture.[38]
- Greg Weld, 64, American racing driver and businessman, heart attack.[39]
5
- Jaroslav Alexa, 59, Czech Olympic athlete.
- Bruno Dallansky, 79, Austrian actor.[40]
- Robert Hazard, 59, American musician and songwriter ("Girls Just Want to Have Fun"), pancreatic cancer.[41]
- Jack Kamen, 88, American comic book artist (Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror), cancer.[42]
- Reg Lindsay, 79, Australian country music singer and songwriter, pneumonia.[43]
- Shelby Linville, 78, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats), cancer.[44]
- José Medellín, 33, Mexican convicted murderer, execution in Texas by lethal injection.[45]
- Gary Mooney, 78, American animator (Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, George of the Jungle), cancer.[46]
- Daniel L. Norris, 73, Canadian commissioner of the Northwest Territories (1989–1994), heart failure.[47]
- Eva Pflug, 79, German actress (Raumpatrouille Orion).[48]
- Manuel de Almeida Trindade, 90, Portuguese bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aveiro (1962–1988).[49] (Portuguese)
6
- Robert Nason Beck, 80, American scientist, myelodysplasia.[50]
- John K. Cooley, 80, American author (Unholy Wars), journalist and expert of Middle East affairs, cancer.[51]
- Princess Francine of Montenegro, 58, Montenegrin fashion designer, wife of Prince Nicholas of Montenegro.[52]
- Gene Galusha, 66, American actor and narrator.[53]
- Simon Gray, 71, British playwright, abdominal aortic aneurysm.[54]
- Roy Howard, 85, Australian cricketer.[55]
- Karl Kuehl, 70, American baseball scout, coach and manager (Montreal Expos), pulmonary fibrosis.[56]
- Anthony Russo, 71, American whistleblower (Pentagon Papers).[57]
- Jud Taylor, 68, American television director and actor (Dr. Kildare, Star Trek, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), kidney failure.[58]
- Reg Whitehouse, 75, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders).[59]
7
- Bernie Brillstein, 77, American film producer (Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, ALF), chronic pulmonary disease.[60]
- Juan Bustos, 72, Chilean politician, liver cancer.[61]
- Ralph Klein, 77, Israeli basketball player and coach, intestinal cancer.[62]
- Andrea Pininfarina, 51, Italian businessman, CEO of Pininfarina, motorcycle accident.[63]
- Clarence Rost, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.[64]
8
- Ralph Edward Dodge, 101, American bishop of the Methodist Church.[65]
- Antonio Gava, 78, Italian politician, minister of the interior (1988–1990), after long illness.[66]
- Orville Moody, 74, American professional golfer, winner of 1969 U.S. Open.[67]
- Eleo Pomare, 70, Colombian modern dance choreographer, cancer.[68]
- Henk Starreveld, 94, Dutch Olympic canoer.[69]
9
- Sir Stanley Bailey, 81, British chief constable of Northumbria Police (1975–1991).[70]
- Peter Coe, 88, British athletics coach, father of Sebastian Coe.[71]
- Colm Condon, 87, Irish lawyer, Attorney General (1965–1973).[72]
- Bob Cunis, 67, New Zealand cricketer.[73]
- Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet, complications from open heart surgery.[74]
- Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott, 85, British judge.[75]
- Ken Griffiths, 78, English footballer (Port Vale).[76]
- Jacob Landau, 74, American journalist, attorney, co-founder of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, after long illness.[77]
- Bernie Mac, 50, American comedian and actor (The Bernie Mac Show, Ocean's Eleven, Friday), complications from pneumonia.[78]
- Gilbert Morand, 85, French military patrol runner.[79] (French)
- Greg Urwin, 61, Australian diplomat, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (2004–2008), cancer.[80]
- Denis Vetchinov, 32, Russian army major, recipient of Hero of the Russian Federation award, killed in action.[81]
- Vivian Shun-wen Wu, 95, Taiwanese entrepreneur, chairwoman of Yulon Motor, heart failure.[82]
10
- Sir William Christie, 95, North Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (1972–1975).[83]
- Lee Clark, 71, Canadian politician, MP for Brandon—Souris (1983–1993).[84]
- John Esmonde, 71, British television writer, half of Esmonde and Larbey (Please Sir!, The Good Life).[85]
- Isaac Hayes, 65, American soul and funk musician ("Theme from Shaft") and actor (South Park, The Rockford Files), Oscar winner (1972), stroke.[86]
- Cezmi Kartay, 88, Turkish civil servant and politician ( chairman of SODEP)
- William A. Knowlton, 88, American general.[87]
- Howard G. Minsky, 94, American film producer (Love Story).[88]
- Terence Rigby, 71, British actor (Get Carter, Watership Down, Mona Lisa Smile), lung cancer.[89]
- Alexander Slobodyanik, 65, Ukrainian pianist, meningitis.[90]
- František Tikal, 75, Czech ice hockey player.[91] (German)
- David Nigel de Lorentz Young, 76, British Bishop of Ripon (1977–1999).[92]
11
- Agneta Bolme Börjefors, 67, Swedish television presenter and royal reporter.[93] (Swedish)
- Henry B. R. Brown, 82, American investment banker, aneurysm.[94]
- John S. Bull, 73, American NASA astronaut.[95]
- Sir Bill Cotton, 80, British television executive.[96]
- George Deem, 75, American artist, lung cancer.[97]
- George Furth, 75, American playwright, actor and librettist, collaborator with Stephen Sondheim.[98]
- Don Helms, 81, American steel guitarist.[99]
- James Hoyt, 83, American soldier, member of the Buchenwald liberation team.[100]
- Anatoly Khrapaty, 45, Kazakh Olympic weightlifter (USSR and Kazakhstan), motorcycle accident.[101]
- Günther Schifter, 84, Austrian journalist and radio presenter.[102] (German)
- Fred Sinowatz, 79, Austrian politician, chancellor of Austria (1983–1986).[103]
- Darren Taylor, 42, American gang member turned peacemaker, cancer.[104]
- Rhoshii Wells, 31, American boxer, Olympic medallist, shot.[105]
12
- Christie Allen, 53, Australian pop singer, pancreatic cancer.[106]
- Michael Baxandall, 74, British art historian, Parkinson's disease.[107]
- Gilles Bilodeau, 53, Canadian NHL and World Hockey Association player (Quebec Nordiques).[108]
- Mick Clough, 80, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1976–1988, 1991–1999).[109]
- Dottie Wiltse Collins, 84, American AAGPBL baseball pitcher (Fort Wayne Daisies).[110]
- Donald Erb, 81, American avant-garde composer.[111]
- George Gick, 92, American Major League Baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[112]
- Rust Hills, 83, American fiction editor (Esquire), cardiac arrest.[113]
- Lester Hogan, 88, American physicist, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[114]
- Vilma Jamnická, 101, Austro-Hungarian-born Slovakian actress and astrologer.[115] (Slovak)
- Francis Lacassin, 76, French editor.[116] (France)
- Aditya Prakash, 84, Indian architect.[117]
- Herm Schneidman, 94, American football player (Green Bay Packers).[118]
- Stan Storimans, 39, Dutch photojournalist and cameraman, mortar fire.[119]
- Bill Stulla, 97, American children's television show host.[120]
13
- Sandy Allen, 53, American tallest woman in the world (according to Guinness World Records).[121]
- Henri Cartan, 104, French mathematician.[122]
- Bill Gwatney, 48, American politician, Arkansas state senator (1992–2002), Democratic Party of Arkansas chairman, shot.[123]
- John MacDougall, 60, British politician, MP for Glenrothes since 2005 and Central Fife (2001–2005), mesothelioma.[124]
- Missy, 40, American pornographic actress, accidental overdose of prescription medication.[125]
- Nollaig Ó Gadhra, 64, Irish language activist, journalist and historian, co-founder of Teilifís na Gaeilge.[126]
- Roy Prosser, 66, Australian international rugby union player, heart attack.[127]
- Dino Toso, 39, Italian automotive engineer, Renault F1 director of aerodynamics, cancer.[128]
- Jack Weil, 107, American founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear, oldest working CEO.[129]
- Stuart Cary Welch, 80, American scholar and collector of Indian and Islamic art.[130]
14
- Seiji Aochi, 66, Japanese ski jumper, stomach cancer.
- Allen Bares, 71, American member of the Louisiana State Legislature (1972–1992), French language proponent, stroke.[131]
- Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, 66, British politician and local government leader, cancer.[132]
- Ralph Feigin, 70, American pediatrician, lung cancer.[133]
- Luigi Grossi, 83, Italian Olympic sprinter.
- Percy Irausquin, 39, Aruban fashion designer, cerebral hemorrhage.[134]
- Carlton John, 92/93, Trinidadian West Indian cricket umpire.[135]
- Marius Maziers, 93, French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[136]
- Michael Anthony Rodriguez, 45, American murderer, member of the Texas Seven, execution by lethal injection.[137]
- Lita Roza, 82, British singer, first British female to top the UK singles chart.[138]
- Bob Worthington, 72, American honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States (1985–2008).[139]
15
- Carlos Meglia, 50, Argentine comic book artist (Cybersix).[140]
- James Orthwein, 84, American businessman, cancer.[141]
- Gladys Powers, 109, British-born last World War I veteran living in Canada, served with the WAAC and WRAF.[142]
- Leroy Sievers, 53, American journalist, colon cancer.[143]
- Vic Toweel, 79, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion (1952–1954).[144]
- Jerry Wexler, 91, American record producer, heart failure.[145]
- Darrin Winston, 42, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, 1997–1998), leukemia.[146]
16
- Hugh Butt, 98, American physician.[147]
- Dorival Caymmi, 94, Brazilian songwriter and singer, multiple organ failure.[148]
- Roberta Collins, 63, American actress (Death Race 2000, Eaten Alive), drug overdose.[149]
- Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, 84, Tahitian archbishop of Papeete (1973–1999), ruptured aneurysm.[150]
- Ronnie Drew, 73, Irish singer, founding member of The Dubliners, after long illness.[151]
- Masanobu Fukuoka, 95, Japanese microbiologist, pioneer of no-till grain cultivation.[152]
- Elena Leuşteanu, 73, Romanian gymnast and three-time Olympic medalist, pancreatic cancer.[153]
- Fanny Mikey, 78, Argentine-born Colombian theatre actress, renal failure.[154]
- Johnny Moore, 70, Jamaican trumpeter, founding member of The Skatalites, cancer.[155]
- Alfred Rainer, 20, Austrian Nordic combined skier, paragliding accident.[156]
- Helge Uuetoa, 71, Estonian stage designer, beaten.[157] (Estonian)
17
- Marie Fisher, 77, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1978–1988).[158]
- Dave Freeman, 47, American author (100 Things To Do Before You Die), injuries from fall.[159]
- Maudie Hopkins, 93, American last certified Civil War widow.[160]
- Sir Edwin Nixon, 83, English businessman, chief executive of IBM UK.[161]
- Philip Saffman, 77, American mathematician.[162]
- Franco Sensi, 82, Italian businessman, president of A.S. Roma since 1993, respiratory failure.[163]
18
- Jeannette Eyerly, 100, American author and columnist.[164]
- Manny Farber, 91, American film critic and painter.[165]
- Genuine Risk, 31, American racehorse, 1980 Kentucky Derby winner.[166]
- Pervis Jackson, 70, American R&B bass singer (The Spinners), cancer.[167]
- Jumoke, 18, American western lowland gorilla, complications of early pregnancy.[168]
- Floyd Peters, 72, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[169]
19
- Leo Abse, 91, British politician, MP (1958–1987), reformer of laws on homosexuality and divorce.[170]
- Julius Carry, 56, American actor (The Last Dragon, Disco Godfather, Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place), pancreatic cancer.[171]
- Binyamin Gibli, 89, Israeli head of military intelligence.[172]
- Bob Humphrys, 56, British BBC sports presenter, lung cancer.[173]
- Algimantas Masiulis, 77, Lithuanian actor.[174] (Russian)
- Habib Miyan, 140?, Indian claimant to title of world's oldest person.[175]
- LeRoi Moore, 46, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band), complications from ATV accident.[176]
- Mikhail Mukasei, 101, Russian spy.[177]
- Levy Mwanawasa, 59, Zambian politician, president since 2002, complications from stroke.[178]
- Diane Webber, 76, American model and actress.[179]
20
- Mario Bertok, 79, Croatian chess grandmaster and journalist, drowned.[180] (Croatian)
- Marshall Brown, 90, American basketball player and coach.[181]
- Chao Yao-dong, 92, Taiwanese minister of economic affairs, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[182] (Chinese)
- Ed Freeman, 80, American U.S. Army helicopter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor, complications of Parkinson's disease.[183]
- Phil Guy, 68, American blues guitarist, brother of Buddy Guy, pancreatic cancer.[184]
- Larry Hennessy, 79, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors, Syracuse Nationals).[185]
- Hua Guofeng, 87, Chinese premier (1976–1980), chairman of the Communist Party of China (1976–1981).[186]
- Clair Isbister, 92, Australian paediatrician.[187]
- Edward Jaworski, 82, American Olympic water polo player (1952).[188]
- Dick Jones, 97, American politician, Wyoming state senator (1955–1974), complications from surgery.[189]
- Eric Longworth, 90, British actor (Dad's Army).[190]
- Leopoldo Serran, 66, Brazilian screenwriter, liver cancer.[191]
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, American member of the House of Representatives from Ohio since 1999, cerebral hemorrhage.[192]
- Gene Upshaw, 63, American NFL player (Oakland Raiders), executive director of NFLPA, pancreatic cancer.[193]
21
- Fred Crane, 90, American film and television actor (Gone with the Wind), complications from surgery.[194]
- Iosif Constantin Drăgan, 91, Romanian businessman and historian.[195]
- Jerry Finn, 39, American record producer (Blink-182, Green Day, Morrissey), cerebral hemorrhage.[196]
- Don Fox, 72, British rugby league player (Wakefield).[197]
- Buddy Harman, 79, American session musician, heart failure.[198]
- Lee Eon, 27, South Korean actor and model, motorcycle accident.[199]
- Ágústa Þorsteinsdóttir, 66, Icelandic Olympic swimmer.[200]
- Laurence Urdang, 81, American lexicographer, heart failure.[201]
- Wolfgang Vogel, 82, German lawyer, negotiator in prisoner exchange programs during the Cold War.[202]
22
- Frank Cornish, 40, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), apparent heart attack.[203]
- James H. Faulkner, 92, American publisher, politician and educator.[204]
- Jeff MacKay, 59, American film and television actor, (Magnum, P.I., Tales of the Gold Monkey), liver complications.[205]
- Mike J. Manning, 65, Australian-born Papua New Guinean anti-corruption activist and economist, heart attack.[206]
- Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, 94, American abstract expressionist art collector, natural causes.[207]
- Robert Pintenat, 60, French football player.[208]
- Ralph Young, 90, American singer (Sandler and Young).[209]
23
- Jimmy Cleveland, 82, American jazz trombonist.[210]
- Ruth Cohen, 78, American actress and extra (Seinfeld), heart attack.[211]
- Leo Elter, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins), heart failure.[212]
- Steve Foley, 49, American drummer (The Replacements, Bash & Pop), drug overdose.[213]
- Doris Gibson, 98, Peruvian journalist, founder of Caretas magazine.[214]
- Ian Hibell, 74, British cyclist, hit and run car crash.[215]
- Yuri Nosenko, 81, Soviet-born Ukrainian KGB agent who defected to United States, after a long illness.[216]
- John Russell, 89, British-born American art critic and author.[217]
- Thomas Huckle Weller, 93, American virologist, Nobel Prize winner (Medicine, 1954).[218]
24
- Gerard W. Ford, 83, American co-founder of Ford Modeling Agency, endocarditis.[219]
- Riitta Immonen, 90, Finnish fashion designer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Marimekko.[220]
- Tad Mosel, 86, American Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright (All the Way Home).[221]
- Morris Sullivan, 91, American co-founder of Sullivan Bluth Studios (An American Tail, The Land Before Time).[222]
- Wei Wei, 88, Chinese poet and writer, liver cancer.[223]
25
- Randa Chahal, 54, Lebanese film maker, cancer.[224]
- Marpessa Dawn, 74, American actress (Black Orpheus), heart attack.[225]
- Kevin Duckworth, 44, American NBA basketball player, heart failure resulting from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.[226]
- Ahmed Faraz, 74, Pakistani poet.[227]
- Hardwicke Knight, 97, New Zealand historian.[228]
- Pavle Kozjek, 49, Slovenian mountaineer, climbing accident.[229]
- Jabir Herbert Muhammad, 79, American businessman, long-time manager of Muhammad Ali, complications from heart surgery.[230]
- Vassili Nesterenko, 73, Belarusian physicist.[231] (French)
- Pehr Henrik Nordgren, 64, Finnish composer, after long illness.[232] (Finnish)
- Mario Peña, 56, Peruvian congressman, lymphoma.[233]
- Josef Tal, 97, Israeli composer, natural causes.[234] (German)
- John Thoday, 91, British geneticist.[235]
26
- Pierre Colas, 32, German Mayanist scholar, assistant professor in anthropology at Vanderbilt University, shot.[236]
- Bob Mountford, 56, British footballer (Port Vale, Rochdale), cancer.[237]
- Edgardo Vega Yunqué, 72, Puerto Rican novelist.[238]
- Hazel Warp, 93, American stuntwoman (Gone with the Wind).[239]
- Barbara Warren, 65, American triathlete, bicycle crash.[240]
27
- Del Martin, 87, American gay rights activist, first legal same-sex marriage in California, complications from bone fracture.[241]
- Isa Meireles, 76, Portuguese journalist and writer.[242] (Portuguese)
- Chittaranjan Mitra, 82, Indian scientist and administrator.[243]
- Abie Nathan, 81, Israeli peace activist, founder of Voice of Peace radio station.[244]
- Mark Priestley, 32, Australian actor (All Saints), suicide.[245]
- Olavo Setúbal, 85, Brazilian politician and banker, mayor of São Paulo (1975–1979), heart failure.[246]
28
- İlhan Berk, 89, Turkish poet.[247]
- Harold Challenor, 86, British war hero (Operation Speedwell) and corrupt Metropolitan police officer.[248]
- Bobby Cummings, 72, English footballer (Aberdeen, Newcastle United).[249] (death reported on this date)
- Phil Hill, 81, American racing driver, 1961 Formula One world champion, complications of Parkinson's disease.[250]
- Ralph Kovel, 88, American antiques expert and author, complications of broken hip.[251]
- Gilbert Moorer, 67, American rhythm & blues singer (The Esquires), complications from throat cancer.[252]
- Swami Chidananda Saraswati, 91, Indian spiritual leader, president of the Divine Life Society.[253]
- Sigurbjörn Einarsson, 97, Icelandic bishop of the Church of Iceland (1959–1981).[254] (Icelandic)
- Wonderful Smith, 97, American comedian, natural causes.[255]
- Michel Vastel, 68, Canadian journalist and columnist, throat cancer.[256]
29
- Bridget Cracroft-Eley, 74, British Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire since 1995.[257]
- Jayshree Gadkar, 66, Indian actress.[258]
- David Lumsden of Cushnie, 75, British Garioch Pursuivant.[259]
- Geoffrey Perkins, 55, British comedy producer, writer and performer, head of comedy for BBC, road accident.[260]
- Peter Snow, 81, British artist and theatre designer.[261]
30
- Krishna Kumar Birla, 89, Indian industrialist and politician, after brief illness.[262]
- Tommy Bolt, 92, American professional golfer, 1958 U.S. Open champion, liver failure.[263]
- Robin Bullough, 78, British mathematical physicist.[264]
- Brian Hambly, 71, Australian rugby league player.[265]
- Killer Kowalski, 81, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.[266]
- Eldon Rathburn, 92, Canadian composer, after brief illness.[267]
- Gilberto Rincón Gallardo, 69, Mexican politician, presidential candidate.[268]
- William Howard Wriggins, 90, American academic, ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives (1977–1979).[269]
31
- Meir Avizohar, 84, Israeli politician and academic.[270]
- Jean-Marie Berckmans, 54, Belgian writer, lung disease.[271] (Dutch)
- Ken Campbell, 66, British actor (A Fish Called Wanda).[272]
- Jamie Dolan, 39, British footballer (Motherwell F.C.), heart attack.[273]
- Edwin O. Guthman, 89, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, amyloidosis.[274]
- Ike Pappas, 75, American CBS journalist, broadcast murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, heart failure.[275]
- Victor Yates, 69, New Zealand rugby footballer.[276]
- Magomed Yevloyev, 37, Ingush journalist and owner of the opposition news website Ingushetiya.ru, shot.[277]
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