# Deaths in April 2008
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2008.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## April 2008
### 1

* Mosko Alkalai, 77, Israeli actor (Blaumilch Canal, The Fox in the Chicken Coop, Yana's Friends), respiratory failure.
* Triston Jay Amero, 26, American hotel bomber, pulmonary edema.
* Shosh Atari, 58, Israeli radio presenter and actress, heart attack.
* Péter Baczakó, 56, Hungarian weightlifter, 1980 Olympic champion, cancer.
* Sabin Bălaşa, 75, Romanian painter, heart attack.
* Sherry Britton, 89, American burlesque dancer and actor (Guys and Dolls).
* Audrey Cahn, 102, Australian nutritionist and microbiologist.
* Jim Finney, 83, British football referee.
* Gabriel Mkhumane, Swazi opposition leader, shot.
* Licínio Pereira da Silva, 63, Portuguese last political prisoner of PIDE during Estado Novo, nosocomial infection.
* Floyd Simmons, 84, American decathlon Olympic bronze medallist (1948, 1952) and actor (South Pacific).
* Otto Soemarwoto, 82, Indonesian professor and ecologist, Order of the Golden Ark recipient.
* Marvin Stone, 26, American basketball player for Saudi Arabian Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) team, heart attack.

### 2

* Norberto Collado Abreu, 87, Cuban naval officer, helmsman of the yacht Granma which carried Fidel Castro to Cuba in 1956.
* Paul Arden, 67, British creative director and author.
* Johnny Byrne, 72, Irish writer and script editor (Doctor Who, Heartbeat).
* Sir Geoffrey Cox, 97, British founder of ITN News at Ten.
* David Henshaw, 76, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Geelong (1982–1996).
* Ray Poole, 86, American football player (New York Giants), cancer.
* Yakup Satar, 110, Crimean-born supercentenarian, believed to be the last Turkish veteran of World War I.
* Mona Seilitz, 65, Swedish actress and entertainer, breast cancer.
* Livio Spanghero, 88, Italian Olympic sailor.
* Adam Studziński, 97, Polish Roman Catholic Dominican priest, World War II chaplain of Polish forces.
* Taotao, 36, Chinese oldest captive giant panda, brain thrombus and cerebral hemorrhage.

### 3

* Percival Allen, 91, British geologist.
* Andrew Crozier, 64, British poet, brain tumour.
* Hrvoje Ćustić, 24, Croatian footballer (NK Zadar), head injury.
* William Denman Eberle, 84, American businessman, U.S. Trade Representative (1971–1974), kidney failure.
* Frosty Freeze, 44, American B-boy, breakdancer and member of the Rock Steady Crew.
* Jeremy R. Knowles, 72, British-born Harvard University dean of Arts and Sciences (1991–2002), prostate cancer.
* Ivan Korade, 44, Croatian general and murder suspect, apparent suicide by gunshot.
* Leslie MacPhail, 55, Belgian Olympic judoka.
* Vladimír Preclík, 78, Czech sculptor and writer.
* Robert Tomasulo, 73, American computer scientist.

### 4

* Harley Dickinson, 69, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1982–1992).
* Fay McKay, 78, American entertainer ("The Twelve Daze of Christmas").
* Jerry Rosholt, 85, American journalist and historian.
* Michael White, 59, Australian inventor of narrative therapy, cardiac arrest.
* Wu Xueqian, 87, Chinese politician, foreign minister (1982–1988).

### 5

* Giuseppe Attardi, 84, American molecular biologist.
* Iris Burton, 77, American talent agent, pneumonia and complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Eugene Ehrlich, 85, American lexicographer and author.
* Alex Grasshoff, 79, American documentary filmmaker known for having his Academy Award revoked.
* Charlton Heston, 84, American actor (Ben-Hur, Ten Commandments, Planet of the Apes), president of the NRA (1998–2003), Oscar winner (1960), pneumonia.
* Walt Masterson, 87, American baseball player, stroke.
* McKelvey, 9, British race horse, euthanised after fall during Grand National.
* Frank Opsal, 79, Canadian Olympic shooter.
* Steve Sinnott, 56, British general secretary of the National Union of Teachers since 2004, heart attack.
* Wang Donglei, 23, Chinese footballer, car accident.
* Sibte Hasan Zaidi, 89, Indian pathologist and toxicologist.

### 6

* James Barrier, 55, American wrestler.
* Lakshman de Alwis, 68, Sri Lankan national athletics coach, suicide bomb attack.
* Tony Davies, 68, New Zealand rugby union player (All Blacks).
* Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, 55, Sri Lankan highways minister, suicide bomb attack.
* Abdou Latif Guèye, 52, Senegalese politician, sixth vice-president of the National Assembly (2007–2008), car accident.
* Kuruppu Karunaratne, 47, Sri Lankan Olympic marathon runner, suicide bomb attack.
* Naziur Rahman Manzur, 59, Bangladeshi politician, mayor of Dhaka City Corporation.
* Abraham Osheroff, 92, American social activist, veteran of the Spanish Civil War (Abraham Lincoln Brigade), heart attack.
* Gib Shanley, 76, American radio sportscaster (Cleveland Browns), pneumonia.
* Jeu Sprengers, 69, Dutch chairman of the Royal Dutch Football Association.
* Teoh Chye Hin, 94, Malaysian secretary-general of the Asian Football Confederation (1974–1978).
* Sir Francis Vallat, 95, British international lawyer.

### 7

* Ludu Daw Amar, 92, Burmese journalist, writer and activist.
* Kunio Egashira, 70, Japanese chairman of Ajinomoto, pancreatic cancer.
* Ruth Greenglass, 84, American atomic spy for the Soviet Union, wife of David Greenglass, sister-in-law of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
* Bob Howard, 63, American football player (San Diego Chargers), cancer.
* Sir Frank Little, 82, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Melbourne (1974–1996).
* Mark Speight, 42, British TV presenter (SMart), suicide by hanging.
* Gloria Taylor, 57, British activist and mother of murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor, heart attack.
* Andrei Tolubeyev, 63, Russian actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Esko Tommola, 77, Finnish news anchor, after long illness.
* Phil Urso, 82, American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer.

### 8

* Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley, 79, British Green Party member of the House of Lords.
* Cedella Booker, 81, Jamaican mother of Bob Marley, natural causes.
* John Button, 74, Australian senator, minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce (1983–1993), pancreatic cancer.
* Loren Driscoll, 79, American tenor.
* Graham Higman, 91, British mathematician.
* Seaman Jacobs, 96, American television writer (The Red Skelton Show, F Troop, The Jeffersons), cardiac arrest.
* Stanley Kamel, 65, American actor (Monk, Domino, Cagney & Lacey), heart attack.
* Hersh Lyons, 92, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Kunio Ogawa, 80, Japanese novelist.
* Nadezhda Rumyantseva, 77, Russian actress, brain tumor.
* Jacqueline Voltaire, 59, British-born Mexican soap opera actress for Televisa, malignant melanoma.
* Kees Wijdekop, 94, Dutch Olympic canoer.
* Herbert Zearfoss, 78, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

### 9

* Ángel Aguiar, 81, Cuban gymnast.
* Abu Ubaidah al-Masri, 40s, Pakistani al-Qaeda senior operative, death from probable hepatitis confirmed on this date.
* George Butler, 76, American record producer and A&R man (Blue Note, Columbia), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Herman Carr, 83, American physicist, pioneer of MRI, heart disease.
* Diego Catalán, 80, Spanish philologist, grandson of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, heart disease.
* Paul Dumont, 87, Canadian ice hockey administrator, kidney failure.
* Burt Glinn, 82, American photographer, kidney failure and pneumonia.
* Michael Golomb, 98, American mathematician.
* Erkki Junkkarinen, 78, Finnish singer.
* Bob Kames, 82, American polka musician, songwriter and popularizer of the Chicken Dance, prostate cancer.
* Daniela Klemenschits, 25, Austrian tennis player, abdominal cancer.
* Jacques Morel, 85, French actor, voice of Obelix.
* Choubeila Rached, 75, Tunisian singer.
* Marvin Sylvor, 75, American carousel designer, kidney failure.

### 10

* Francis Coleman, 84, Canadian-born British conductor, television producer and director.
* Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, 88, Mexican cardinal, archbishop emeritus of Mexico.
* Peter Dubovský, 86, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Banská Bystrica (1991–1997).
* Robert W. Greene, 78, American investigative journalist, heart failure.
* Dickson Mabon, 82, British Labour and Social Democratic Party MP (1955–1983).
* Jeremiah J. M. Nyagah, 87, Kenyan politician, pneumonia.
* Marcel Pertry, 86, Belgian footballer (Cercle Brugge).
* Gopal Raju, 80, American website pioneer of Indian ethnic media in USA (India Abroad, Indo-Asian News Service), jaundice.
* Kim Santow, 67, Australian judge (NSW Supreme Court), chancellor of the University of Sydney (2001–2007), brain tumour.
* Juan Ramón Sánchez, 51, Spanish actor, singer and artist (Barrio Sésamo), lung cancer.

### 11

* Claude Abbes, 80, French football player.
* J. Leon Altemose, 68, American developer and contractor.
* Fraser Colman, 83, New Zealand politician, MP for Pencarrow (1978–1987).
* Clyde Cook, 72, American president of Biola University (1982–2007).
* Raymond E. Dana, 93, American politician.
* Joan Hunter Dunn, 92, British muse of poet John Betjeman.
* Willoughby Goddard, 81, British actor (Young Sherlock Holmes).
* Harry Goonatilake, 78, Sri Lankan Air Force Commander (1976–1981).
* Donald Macfadyen, Lord Macfadyen, 62, Scottish jurist.
* Bob Pellegrini, 73, American football linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles).
* Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson, 91, American author, daughter of Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke, heart failure.

### 12

* Duilio Agostini, 82, Italian racer.
* Cecilia Colledge, 87, British figure skater and 1936 Olympic silver medallist.
* Valda Cooper, 92, Australian-born American journalist for the Associated Press.
* Dieter Eppler, 81, German film actor and radio drama director.
* Donald Forbes, 73, British convicted murderer.
* Patrick Hillery, 84, Irish president (1976–1990) and minister (1959–1973), European commissioner for Ortoli Commission.
* Abbas Katouzian, 86, Iranian painter.
* Artur Maurício, 63, Portuguese Constitutional Court president (2004–2007), after long illness.
* Buzz Nutter, 77, American football player (Colts, Steelers), heart failure.
* Augusta Wallace, 78, New Zealand district judge (1975–1990), after long illness.
* Dwaine Wilson, 47, American former Canadian Football League player, drowned.
* Jerry Zucker, 58, Israeli-born American businessman, cancer.

### 13

* Elías Amézaga, 86, Spanish writer.
* Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, 51, American kidnapper, heart attack.
* Larry Elliott, 72, American college football coach (Washburn University).
* Robert Greacen, 87, Irish poet.
* Michael Mills, 80, Irish first government ombudsman (1984–1994).
* Kedamangalam Sadanandan, 82, Indian actor.
* John Archibald Wheeler, 96, American physicist who coined the term "black hole", pneumonia.
* Khasan Yandiev, 52, Russian deputy head of Ingushetia Supreme Court, shot.
* Ross Yockey, 64, American Emmy Award-winning author, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

### 14

* Olivia Cenizal, 81, Filipino actress, colon disease.
* Miguel Galván, 50, Mexican actor and comedian, respiratory arrest.
* Werner "Frick" Groebli, 92, Swiss ice skating comedian (Frick and Frack).
* Tommy Holmes, 91, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
* Ollie Johnston, 95, American animator (Cinderella, Pinocchio, Mary Poppins), the last of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men".
* Marisa Sannia, 61, Italian singer.
* Robert Somervaille, 86, Australian lawyer, chairman of the Australian Telecommunications Commission (1987–1991).
* June Travis, 93, American actress.

### 15

* Imre Antal, 72, Hungarian pianist, TV personality, actor and humorist, cancer.
* David K. Brown, 79-80, British naval architect.
* David Cass, 71, American economist.
* Sean Costello, 28, American blues guitarist and singer, accidental drug overdose.
* Hazel Court, 82, British actress (The Masque of the Red Death, The Raven), heart attack.
* Cliff Davies, 59, American musician, drummer for Ted Nugent, apparent suicide by gunshot.
* Brian Davison, 65, British musician, drummer for progressive rock band The Nice.
* Parvin Dowlatabadi, 84, Iranian children's author and poet, heart attack.
* Renata Fronzi, 82, Argentine-born Brazilian actress, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Hendrik S. Houthakker, 83, American economist.
* Fernand Jaccard, 100, Swiss football midfielder.
* Benoît Lamy, 62, Belgian motion picture writer-director, murdered.
* Madeline Lee, 84, American actress and theatrical producer, wife of Jack Gilford.
* Krister Stendahl, 86, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop.
* Mahinārangi Tocker, 52, New Zealand musician, asthma attack.

### 16

* Lou Allen, 83, American football player.
* Joseph Cameron Alston, 81, American badminton player and FBI agent.
* Lucia Cunanan, 80, Filipino restaurateur credited with inventing sisig, murdered.
* Joe Feeney, 76, American tenor (The Lawrence Welk Show), emphysema.
* Edward Norton Lorenz, 90, American professor of meteorology, cancer.
* Fadel Shana'a, 24, Palestinian Reuters cameraman, flechette shell.
* Joseph Solman, 99, American painter with Works Progress Administration.

### 17

* Edna Andrade, 91, American abstract artist.
* Aimé Césaire, 94, French Martiniquan poet and politician.
* Richard Chopping, 90, British illustrator (James Bond).
* Gwyneth Dunwoody, 77, British Labour MP for Crewe and Nantwich, following open heart surgery.
* Danny Federici, 58, American keyboardist (Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band), melanoma.
* Nicolette Goulet, 52, American actress (Ryan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, The Guiding Light), breast cancer.
* Zoya Krakhmalnikova, 79, Russian Christian dissident and writer.
* Lloyd Lamble, 94, Australian actor.
* Viktor Nosov, 67, Ukrainian football player and coach.
* George Pollard, 89, American portrait painter (Harry Truman, Muhammad Ali), pneumonia.
* Rosario Sánchez Mora, 88, Spanish female anti-Franco veteran of the Spanish Civil War.
* Mikhail Tanich, 84, Russian poet, kidney problems.
* Su-Lin Young, 96, American explorer.

### 18

* Refat Appazov, 87, Soviet-Crimean Tatar rocket scientist.
* Peter Howard, 80, American music director and arranger, complications of Parkinson's Disease.
* Michael de Larrabeiti, 73, British author (The Borrible Trilogy).
* Kay Linaker, 94, American actress and screenwriter (The Blob).
* Joy Page, 83, American actress (Casablanca), complications from a stroke and pneumonia.
* Rosalie Ritz, 84, American courtroom artist (O.J. Simpson Trial, Sirhan Sirhan trial), lung cancer.
* William W. Warner, 88, American biologist and writer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Charles S. Minter Jr., 93, Vice Admiral Of United States Navy and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland ( 1964–1965 ) .

### 19

* Mohammad Abbas Baig, 90, Pakistani officer.
* Hanan Al-Agha, 59-60, Palestinian-Jordanian writer, poet and plastic artist.
* Bob Bledsaw, 65, American founder of Judges Guild, cancer.
* Alessandro Cevese, 57, Italian ambassador to South Africa, Lesotho, Mauritius and Madagascar, car accident.
* Lawrence Hertzog, 56, American television writer and producer (Nowhere Man), cancer.
* Alfonso López Trujillo, 72, Colombian Catholic archbishop, president of Pontifical Council for the Family, diabetes.
* John Marzano, 45, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), co-host of Leading Off on mlb.com, injuries from a fall.
* Germaine Tillion, 100, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance.
* Constant Vanden Stock, 93, Belgian president of RSC Anderlecht football club.

### 20

* Richard Alexander, 73, British politician, Conservative MP for Newark (1979–1997), cancer.
* Bebe Barron, 82, American composer, pioneer of electronic music.
* Frank Michael Beyer, 80, German composer.
* Gazanfer Bilge, 85, Turkish freestyle wrestler, 1948 Olympic champion.
* Farid Chopel, 55, French actor and singer, cancer.
* Monica Lovinescu, 84, Romanian writer.
* Derek McKay, 58, Scottish footballer (Deveronvale, Dundee, Aberdeen, Barrow), heart attack.
* VL Mike, 32, American rapper, shot.
* Nissan Nativ, 86, Israeli director, actor and acting teacher.
* Tariq Niazi, 68, Pakistani field hockey player, member of 1968 Olympic gold medal team, cardiac arrest.
* Geoff Polites, 60, Australian CEO of Jaguar Land Rover.
* William R. Snodgrass, 85, American government official, Comptroller of Tennessee (1955–1999).
* Harry Ulinski, 83, American football player (Washington Redskins), sepsis.
* Geoff Ward, 81, English cricketer (Kent and Essex).

### 21

* Michel Allex, 60, French chocolatier and politician.
* Monna Bell, 70, Chilean singer, stroke.
* Fayr Jag, 8, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised.
* Darell Garretson, 76, American professional basketball referee.
* Sharp Cat, 13-14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Aaron Shearer, 88, American classical guitarist.
* Carmen Silva, 92, Brazilian actress, multiple organ failure.
* Al Wilson, 68, American soul singer ("Show and Tell"), kidney failure.

### 22

* Jack Ansell, 86, English footballer.
* Cameron Argetsinger, 87, American auto racing pioneer.
* Bob Childers, 61, American singer-songwriter, emphysema.
* Ed Chynoweth, 66, Canadian president of the Western Hockey League (1972–1995) and CHL (1975–1995), cancer.
* Paul Davis, 60, American singer ("I Go Crazy", "'65 Love Affair", "Cool Night"), heart attack.
* Safdar Kiyani, 60, Pakistani teacher and pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Balochistan, shot.
* Dora Ratjen, 89, German high jumper, disguised as female to compete for Nazi Germany at 1936 Summer Olympics.
* Francisco Martins Rodrigues, 81, Portuguese anti-Fascist resistant, Marxist-Leninist Committee founder, cancer.
* Daniel Lee Siebert, 54, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.

### 23

* Abdellatief Abouheif, 78, Egyptian marathon swimmer.
* Jean-Daniel Cadinot, 64, French film director and producer, heart attack.
* Don Gillis, 85, Canadian-born American sportscaster.
* Martha Kostuch, 58, Canadian environmentalist, multiple system atrophy.
* Cook Lougheed, 86, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
* Loreto Paras-Sulit, 99, Filipino writer.
* Rustam Sani, 64, Malaysian politician, sociologist, political scientist and blogger.
* Harold Stephenson, 87, British first-class wicketkeeper (Somerset).
* William H. Stewart, 86, American surgeon general (1965–1969), complications from renal failure.

### 24

* Lucy Appleby, 88, British traditional cheesemaker.
* Tristram Cary, 82, British film and television composer (Doctor Who, The Ladykillers, Quatermass and the Pit).
* James Day, 89, American television host, respiratory failure.
* Harry Geris, 60, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
* Jimmy Giuffre, 86, American jazz clarinetist, pneumonia.
* Carlos Robalo, 76, Portuguese politician, Secretary of State (1980–1981).
* Trilochan Singh, 85, Indian field hockey player, member of the gold medal-winning 1948 Summer Olympics team.

### 25

* Enrico Donati, 99, Italian-born American surrealist painter and sculptor.
* Sonny Grandelius, 79, American football player and coach.
* R. Laird Harris, 97, American Presbyterian minister and Old Testament scholar.
* Humphrey Lyttelton, 86, British jazz trumpeter and chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, following surgery for aortic aneurysm.
* John H. McConnell, 84, American owner of Worthington Industries and the Columbus Blue Jackets.

### 26

* Anzar Shah Kashmiri, 80, Indian Islamic scholar, heart and kidney problems.
* Henry Brant, 94, Canadian-born American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.
* Moisey Feigin, 103, Russian artist, Guinness World Record–holder for the oldest professional working artist.
* Wallace Gichere, 53, Kenyan photojournalist.
* Yossi Harel, 90, Israeli captain of Exodus, cardiac arrest.
* Carmen Scarpitta, 74, Italian actress,

### 27

* Abraham Adesanya, 85, Nigerian politician, lawyer, and activist.
* Ram Babu Gupta, 72, Indian cricket umpire.
* Art Johnson, 88, American baseball player.
* Ron O'Brien, 56, American disc jockey, pneumonia.
* Mike Patrick, 55, American former NFL punter (New England Patriots).
* Hal Stein, 79, American jazz musician.
* Marios Tokas, 54, Greek Cypriot composer, cancer.
* Sallie Wilson, 76, American ballerina, cancer.
* Frances Yeend, 95, American soprano opera singer.

### 28

* Alfredo José Anzola, 33, Venezuelan businessman, plane crash.
* Diana Barnato Walker, 90, British aviator, first British woman to break the sound barrier.
* John Barron, 74, Irish hurler.
* Ivan Caesar, 41, American football player (Boston College, Minnesota Vikings, Portland Forest Dragons), shot.
* Max Cherry, 81, Australian Olympics and Commonwealth Games athletics coach, heart attack.
* Tarka Cordell, 40, British musician, suicide by hanging.
* John Patrick Crecine, 69, American president of Georgia Tech (1987–1994).
* Hans Eder, 81, Austrian Olympic skier.
* Jack Hanrahan, 75, American television writer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Get Smart, Dennis the Menace), Emmy winner (1968).
* Sir Derek Higgs, 64, British chairman of Alliance & Leicester, heart attack.
* Ed Marion, 81, American official in the National Football League from 1960 to 1987.
* Will Robinson, 96, American coach, first African American Division I college basketball (ISU) coach, Detroit Pistons scout.
* Eudy Simelane, 31, South African footballer.

### 29

* Jadesola Akande, 67, Nigerian lawyer, author and academic.
* John Berkey, 75, American science fiction artist.
* Bo Yang, 88, Taiwanese writer.
* Ernesto Bonino, 86, Italian singer.
* Gordon Bradley, 74, British footballer and coach (North American Soccer League), Alzheimer's disease.
* Lewis Croft, 88, American actor (The Wizard of Oz).
* Chuck Daigh, 84, American racing driver, heart and respiratory disease.
* Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, 87, Iranian Anglican Bishop, first ethnic Iranian Christian bishop since the 7th century.
* Julie Ege, 64, Norwegian actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Service), breast cancer.
* Tatsuo Hasegawa, 92, Japanese automotive engineer, development chief of the first Toyota Corolla.
* Albert Hofmann, 102, Swiss researcher, chemist and discoverer of LSD, heart attack.
* Sir Anthony Kershaw, 92, British Conservative MP (1955–1987).
* Francis Mahoney, 80, American basketball player (Boston Celtics).
* Terlingua, 32, American thoroughbred horse, infirmities of old age.
* Charles Tilly, 78, American sociologist, historian and political scientist.
* Micky Waller, 66, British drummer (Jeff Beck Group, Cyril Davies), liver failure.

### 30

* Jean Ancel, 67-68, Romanian-born Israeli author and historian.
* John Cargher, 89, Australian radio broadcaster, hosted Singers of Renown since 1966.
* Juancho Evertsz, 85, Dutch Antillean politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1973–1977).
* Ling Ling, 22, Chinese panda, lived in Ueno Zoo, Tokyo, oldest giant panda in Japan, heart failure.
* M. G. Pandithan, 68, Malaysian politician, leukemia.
* Clarence Ross, 84, American bodybuilder.
* Allan Sparrow, 63, Canadian politician, activist and Toronto city councillor (1974–1980), colorectal cancer.