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## September 2009
### 1

* Dick Berg, 87, American screenwriter and television producer, fall.
* Jake Drake-Brockman, 53, British musician (Echo & the Bunnymen) and sound recordist, motorcycle accident.
* Jock Buchanan, 74, Scottish footballer (Hibernian).
* Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, 91, British television executive and conservationist.
* Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito, 66, Brazilian judge (Supreme Federal Court) (2007–2009), pancreatic cancer.
* Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani, 78, Indian admiral.
* Jang Jin-young, 37, South Korean actress, stomach cancer.
* Wycliffe Johnson, 47, Jamaican Reggae musician and composer, heart failure.
* Erich Kunzel, 74, American conductor (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra), cancer.
* Wayne E. Meyer, 83, American Rear-Admiral, Aegis Combat System manager, heart failure.
* Francis Rogallo, 97, American aeronautical inventor (Rogallo wing).
* John Stephens, 43, American football player (New England Patriots), NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1988), traffic collision.
* Alexis Tioseco, 28, Filipino-born Canadian film critic, shot.
* Sir Oliver Wright, 88, British diplomat.

### 2

* Hylton Ackerman, 62, South African cricketer.
* Guy Babylon, 52, American musician (Elton John band), heart attack.
* Brian Boshier, 77, British cricketer.
* Jon Eydmann, 41, British band manager (Suede), heart attack.
* Donald Hamilton Fraser, 80, British painter.
* Bill Hefner, 79, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for North Carolina (1975–1999), brain aneurysm.
* Virve Kiple, 82, Estonian ballet dancer, actress, and director.
* Tibor Kristóf, 67, Hungarian voice actor, Hungarian voice of Sean Connery, Morgan Freeman and Darth Vader.
* Abdullah Laghmani, 40s, Afghan Secret Service chief, bomb blast.
* Mr Percival, 33, Australian pelican, animal actor (Storm Boy), natural causes.
* John Poole, 82, British sculptor.
* Christian Poveda, 52, French photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, shot.
* Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (since 2004), helicopter crash.
* Mohamed Alí Seineldín, 75, Argentine military commander and putschist (Carapintadas).
* Robert Spinrad, 77, American computer pioneer, director of the Palo Alto Research Center, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Ismael Valenzuela, 74, American jockey, after long illness.
* Jeffrey Wernick, 56, American animation executive (DIC Animation City) and sports agent.

### 3

* Nicky Chapman, Baroness Chapman, 48, British peer, member of the House of Lords, brittle bone disease.
* Hulda Regehr Clark, 80, Canadian alternative medicine practitioner.
* Christine D'haen, 85, Belgian poet.
* Giovanni Melis Fois, 92, Italian Bishop of Nuoro (1970–1992).
* Caro Jones, 86, American casting director (Rocky, The Karate Kid, Green Acres), multiple myeloma.
* Edith Kaplan, 85, American neuropsychologist.
* Alec MacLachlan, 30, British hostage in Iraq (death confirmed on this date).
* Ronald Sarre, 77, Australian cricketer.
* Yukhym Shkolnykov, 70, Ukrainian association football coach.

### 4

* Buddy Blattner, 89, American sportscaster, baseball and table tennis player, complications from lung cancer.
* Iain Cuthbertson, 79, British actor (Gorillas in the Mist, The Railway Children).
* Allan Ekelund, 91, Swedish film producer, collaborator with Ingmar Bergman.
* Guy Guillabert, 78, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) rower.
* Siegfried Gurschler, 83, Austrian sports shooter.
* Skip Miller, 62, American music industry executive, president of Motown Records, heart attack.
* Franz Olah, 99, Austrian politician, Interior Minister (1963–1964).
* Carl Reindel, 74, American actor (Bullitt, Tora! Tora! Tora!, The Andromeda Strain).
* Keith Waterhouse, 80, British author and playwright (Billy Liar), natural causes.
* Bill Welch, 68, American politician, mayor of State College, Pennsylvania, complications after leg surgery.

### 5

* Gani Fawehinmi, 71, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, lung cancer.
* Carl Hovde, 82, American professor, Dean during the Columbia University protests of 1968, lung cancer.
* Mickie Jones, 56, American bassist (Angel), liver cancer.
* Liang Shoupan, 93, Chinese aerospace engineer.
* Jesse Mahelona, 26, American football player (Tennessee Titans), traffic collision.
* Richard Merkin, 70, American artist.
* Saifur Rahman, 77, Bangladeshi politician, longest-serving Finance Minister, traffic collision.
* Ron Raikes, 61, American politician, Nebraska state senator (1998–2008), farm accident.
* Richard D. Robinson, 88, American educator.
* Charlie Waller, 87, American football coach.

### 6

* Christopher John Banda, 35, Malawian footballer.
* Harcharan Singh Brar, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1995–1996).
* Vanja Drach, 77, Croatian actor.
* Gerhart Friedlander, 93, German-born American nuclear chemist, coronary disease.
* Helgi Hóseasson, 89, Icelandic activist.
* José Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot.
* Catherine Gaskin, 80, Irish-born Australian novelist, ovarian cancer.
* Nada Iveljić, 79, Croatian writer.
* John Merino, 42, Ecuadorian colonel, head of presidential security for Rafael Correa, swine flu.
* David J. Ritchie, 58, American game designer.
* Sim, 83, French comic actor.
* Tatyana Ustinova, 96, Russian geologist.
* Stephen White, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer, member of Ireland Team of the Century, after short illness.
* Sir David Williams, 78, British academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1989–1996), cancer.

### 7

* Medea Chakhava, 88, Georgian theatre and film actress.
* Junior Coghlan, 93, American silent film actor.
* Norman Curtis, 84, English football player and manager (Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers).
* John T. Elson, 78, American religion editor (Time).
* Eddie Locke, 79, American jazz drummer.
* Fred Mills, 74, Canadian musician (Canadian Brass), traffic collision.
* Ra'anan Naim, 73, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1981–1984).
* Colin Sharp, 56, British musician and writer, brain haemorrhage.
* Paul Lê Đắc Trọng, 91, Vietnamese Bishop of Hanoi (1994–2006).
* Christos Vartzakis, 98, Greek athlete.

### 8

* Aleksandr Aksyonov, 85, Belarusian PM of Byelorussian SSR (1978–1983), Soviet Ambassador to Poland (1983–1986).
* Army Archerd, 90, American entertainment columnist (Variety), malignant mesothelioma.
* Ray Barrett, 82, Australian film, television and theatre actor, brain hemorrhage.
* Aage Bohr, 87, Danish physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1975).
* Mike Bongiorno, 85, American-born Italian television presenter, heart failure.
* Rica Erickson, 101, Australian naturalist, artist and author.
* Henry S. Fitch, 99, American herpetologist.
* Rogelio Borja Flores, 74, Filipino sports writer, respiratory failure.
* Annie Le, 24, American graduate student, strangled.
* Kyle Woodring, 42, American drummer (Survivor), apparent suicide by hanging.

### 9

* Kevin Carmody, 84, Australian cricket umpire.
* Eric Davidson, 94, Canadian blind mechanic, survivor of the Halifax Explosion.
* Anthony G. Evans, 66, British scientist.
* Léon Glovacki, 81, French footballer, played in 1954 FIFA World Cup.
* James Krenov, 88, American cabinetmaker.
* Stanley Cornwell Lewis, 103, British painter and illustrator.
* Steve Mann, 66, American songwriter and guitarist.
* Frank Mazzuca, 87, Canadian businessman, mayor of Capreol, Ontario.
* Sultan Munadi, 32, Afghan journalist, translator and correspondent (The New York Times), shot.
* Andrzej Śliwiński, 70, Polish Bishop of Elbląg (1992–2003).

### 10

* John Asquith, 77, English cricketer.
* Frank Batten, 82, American businessman, founder of The Weather Channel.
* Lou Bender, 99, American basketball pioneer who popularized the sport in New York City, cancer.
* Kerry Brown, 51, Canadian professional wrestler, liver failure.
* Lisle C. Carter, 83, American administrator, complications from pneumonia.
* Lyn Hamilton, 65, Canadian author, cancer.
* Sam Hinton, 92, American folk singer and marine biologist.
* Margaret Holmes, 100, Australian peace activist.
* Robert H. Miller, 90, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1988–1990).
* Gertrude Noone, 110, American supercentenarian, oldest person in Connecticut and world's oldest military veteran.
* Patricia Robinson, 79, Trinidadian economist, First Lady (1997–2003), wife of A. N. R. Robinson.
* Yoshifumi Tajima, 91, Japanese actor (Mothra vs. Godzilla), esophageal cancer.
* Tony Thornton, 49, American professional boxer, injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.

### 11

* Sarane Alexandrian, 82, French art historian and philosopher.
* Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, Cuban politician, Vice President of the Council of State, cardiac arrest.
* James E. Bromwell, 89, American politician, Representative for Iowa (1961–1965).
* Jim Carroll, 60, American author (The Basketball Diaries), poet and musician, heart attack.
* Mool Chand Chowhan, 82, Indian sports official.
* Pierre Cossette, 85, Canadian television producer, brought the Grammy Awards to television.
* Larry Gelbart, 81, American comedy writer (M*A*S*H) and blogger (The Huffington Post), cancer.
* Bob Greenberg, 75, American record executive, stroke.
* Zakes Mokae, 75, South African-born American actor (Gross Anatomy), complications from a stroke.
* Georgios Papoulias, 82, Greek politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1989, 1990), suicide by gunshot.
* John Pattison, 92, New Zealand World War II pilot.
* Henny van Schoonhoven, 39, Dutch footballer, cancer.
* Crystal Lee Sutton, 68, American union organizer, inspiration for Norma Rae, brain cancer.
* Felicia Tang, 31, Singaporean-born American actress and model, suffocated.
* Yoshito Usui, 51, Japanese manga artist (Crayon Shin-chan), mountaineering accident.

### 12

* Norman Borlaug, 95, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1970), cancer.
* Dominik Brunner, 50, German businessman and manager, blunt trauma.
* Jeanne Clemson, 87, American theatre director, actress and educator, Parkinson's disease.
* Raj Singh Dungarpur, 73, Indian cricket player and administrator.
* George Eckstein, 81, American television writer and producer (The Fugitive), lung cancer.
* Edward Gelsthorpe, 88, American marketing executive.
* Alfred Gottschalk, 79, German-born American President of Hebrew Union College, Reform Judaism leader, traffic collision.
* William Hoffman, 84, American novelist.
* Shah Abdul Karim, 93, Bangladeshi musician, respiratory problems.
* Jack Kramer, 88, American tennis player, cancer.
* Armando Manhiça, 66, Portuguese international footballer.
* Brian Mier, 74, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Waverley (1982–1996).
* Antônio Olinto, 90, Brazilian writer, multiple organ failure.
* Danny Pang, 42, Taiwanese-born American hedge fund manager.
* Willy Ronis, 99, French photographer.
* T. R. Satishchandran, 80, Indian Administrative Service officer.
* Fred Sherman, 86, American economist and business commentator.
* Lawrence B. Slobodkin, 81, American ecologist.
* Bill Sparkman, 51, American substitute teacher and census worker, hanged.

### 13

* Philip Aziz, 86, Canadian artist, cancer.
* Felix Bowness, 87, British actor (Hi-de-Hi!).
* Paul Burke, 83, American actor (Naked City), leukemia.
* Malcolm Casadaban, 60, American molecular genetics professor, plague.
* Lonny Frey, 99, American baseball player, oldest living MLB All-Star.
* Arnold Laven, 87, American film and television director (The Rifleman, The Big Valley), pneumonia.
* Paul Shirtliff, 46, English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Northampton Town), cancer.
* Sarah E. Wright, 80, American novelist, complications from cancer.

### 14

* Keith Floyd, 65, British chef, heart attack.
* Henry Gibson, 73, American actor (Laugh-In, The Blues Brothers, Boston Legal), cancer.
* Bobby Graham, 69, British session drummer, stomach cancer.
* Jing Shuping, 91, Chinese businessman, founder of Minsheng Bank.
* Mike Leyland, 68, Australian travel documentary host (Leyland Brothers), complications of Parkinson's disease.
* Ralph S. Moore, 102, American horticulturist, natural causes.
* Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 30, Kenyan terrorist, airstrike.
* Jody Powell, 65, American White House Press Secretary for President Jimmy Carter, heart attack.
* John Rarick, 85, American politician, Representative for Louisiana (1967–1975), cancer.
* Darren Sutherland, 27, Irish boxer, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, suicide by hanging.
* Patrick Swayze, 57, American actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Point Break), pancreatic cancer.
* Lily Tembo, 27, Zambian musician, songwriter and journalist, complications from gastritis.
* Titus, 35, African silverback gorilla.
* Bartholomew Yu Chengti, 90, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate.
* Elio Zagato, 88, Italian car designer.

### 15

* Nicu Constantin, 70, Romanian actor.
* George Crumbley, 86, American founder of the Peach Bowl.
* Fred Cusick, 90, American sports commentator (Boston Bruins), complications from bladder cancer.
* Leon Eisenberg, 87, American child psychiatrist, prostate cancer.
* Tommy Greenhough, 77, British cricketer.
* Troy Kennedy Martin, 77, British screenwriter (Z-Cars, Edge of Darkness, The Italian Job), liver cancer.
* Michael Knox, 48, American co-founder of Park Place Productions, producer of John Madden Football, colon cancer.
* Espiridion Laxa, 79, Filipino independent film producer, prostate cancer.
* Gerald Lestz, 95, American columnist and author, founder of the Demuth Museum.
* Vladimír Padrta, 56, Slovak Olympic basketball player.
* Kallie Reyneke, 87, South African Olympic racewalker.
* Trevor Rhone, 69, Jamaican playwright, heart attack.

### 16

* Brian Barron, 69, British journalist and war correspondent, cancer.
* Timothy Bateson, 83, British actor.
* Myles Brand, 67, American NCAA president, pancreatic cancer.
* W. Horace Carter, 88, American newspaper website, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack.
* Monte Clark, 72, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions), cancer.
* Luciano Emmer, 91, Italian film director (Three Girls from Rome).
* Sotero Laurel, 90, Filipino politician, Senator (1986–1992), President Pro Tempore (1990–1991).
* John Littlewood, 78, British chess player
* Lori Mai, 31, German-American folk rock singer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Ernst Märzendorfer, 88, Austrian conductor.
* Julian Niemczyk, 89, American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1986–1989), cardiac arrest.
* Filip Nikolic, 35, French singer and actor, drug overdose.
* Steve Romanik, 85, American football player (Chicago Bears).
* Melvin Simon, 82, American shopping mall developer (Simon Property Group), producer (Porky's), Indiana Pacers owner.
* Mary Travers, 72, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), leukemia.
* Dorothy Wellman, 95, American dancer and actress, widow of William Wellman.

### 17

* Tommy Burnett, 67, American politician, Tennessee House of Representatives (1970–1990).
* Virginia Chadwick, 64, Australian politician, cancer.
* Frank Deasy, 49, Irish Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (Prime Suspect: The Final Act), liver cancer.
* Dick Durock, 72, American actor and stuntman (Swamp Thing), pancreatic cancer.
* Sue Eakin, 90, American history professor.
* Bernie Fuchs, 76, American illustrator, esophageal cancer.
* Dick Hoover, 79, American professional bowler.
* Randy Johnson, 65, American football quarterback (Atlanta Falcons).
* Leon Kirchner, 90, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, heart failure.
* Bob Kowalkowski, 65, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions).
* Robert Searcy, 88, American member of the Tuskegee Airmen, colorectal cancer.
* Noordin Mohammad Top, 41, Malaysian terrorist, shot.
* Geoff Williamson, 86, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) rower.

### 18

* Peter Denyer, 62, British actor (Please Sir!).
* James Donnewald, 84, American politician, Illinois Treasurer (1983–1987).
* Doug Fisher, 89, Canadian journalist and politician, MP for Port Arthur (1957–1965).
* Pearl Hackney, 92, British actress, widow of Eric Barker.
* Mahlon Hoagland, 87, American biochemist.
* Doreen Jensen, 76, Canadian sculptor.
* Irving Kristol, 89, American neoconservative advocate and editor (The Public Interest), lung cancer.
* Natalia Shvedova, 92, Russian lexicologist.
* John J. Wild, 95, American physician, co-developer of ultrasound use in cancer detection.

### 19

* Gabriel Beaudry, 82, Canadian Olympic rower.
* Willy Breinholst, 91, Danish author.
* Alan Deyermond, 77, British hispanist.
* Arthur Ferrante, 88, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), natural causes.
* Stevie Gray, 42, British footballer (Aberdeen FC).
* Víctor Israel, 80, Spanish actor.
* Monty Kaser, 67, American professional golfer, prostate cancer.
* Milton Meltzer, 94, American historian and author, esophageal cancer.
* Maurizio Montalbini, 56, Italian sociologist and caver, heart failure.
* Elizaveta Mukasei, 97, Russian Soviet-era spy, wife of Mikhail Mukasei.
* Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet, 79, Cuban-born businessman and philanthropist, founder of Sazón Goya Food Company, cancer.
* Roc Raida, 37, American DJ (The X-Ecutioners), cardiac arrest after a spinal cord injury.
* Joseph-Marie Sardou, 86, French archbishop Emeritus of Monaco.
* Eduard Zimmermann, 80, German journalist and television presenter.

### 20

* Mario Bertolo, 80, French cyclist.
* Freddy Bienstock, 86, American music website (Carlin America).
* Hernan Córdoba, 19, Colombian footballer, traffic collision.
* Bertil Gärtner, 84, Swedish Lutheran bishop of Gothenburg (1970–1991).
* John Hart, 91, American actor (The Lone Ranger).
* Ken Hough, 80, New Zealand cricketer and footballer.
* Yusuf Khan, 79-80, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest.
* Booker Moore, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), heart attack.
* Bayo Ohu, 45, Nigerian journalist and news editor (The Guardian), shot.
* Eddy Prentice, 88, New Zealand cricketer.

### 21

* Robert Ginty, 60, American actor and director, cancer.
* Michael Lockett, 29, British soldier, improvised explosive device.
* Myroslav Marusyn, 85, Ukrainian archbishop, Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
* Piers Merchant, 58, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1983–1987) and Beckenham (1992–1997), cancer.
* Parviz Meshkatian, 54, Iranian musician and composer, cardiac arrest.
* Junzo Shono, 88, Japanese author, member of the Japan Art Academy.
* Sula Wolff, 85, British child psychiatrist.

### 22

* Marco Achilli, 60, Italian footballer.
* Manuel Bermejo Hernández, 73, Spanish politician, MP for Cáceres.
* Kole Čašule, 88, Macedonian writer.
* Edward Delaney, 79, Irish sculptor.
* Olaf Dufseth, 91, Norwegian Olympic Nordic combined and cross-country skier.
* Andréa Maltarolli, 46, Brazilian telenovela screenwriter (Beleza Pura), cancer.
* Bruce McPhee, 82, Australian race car driver, won Hardie Ferodo 500 (1968).
* Dirce Migliaccio, 75, Brazilian actress, pneumonia.
* Summer Squall, 22, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1990 Preakness Stakes winner, euthanized.
* Charlotte Turgeon, 97, American chef and author, influenza.
* S. Varalakshmi, 84, Indian actress and singer, complications from a fall.
* Wess, 64, Italian singer, placed third in Eurovision Song Contest 1975.

### 23

* Paul B. Fay, 91, American politician, Acting Secretary of the Navy (1963), Alzheimer's disease.
* Gigolo FRH, 26, German-bred dressage horse, four-time Olympic gold medalist, euthanized.
* Ertuğrul Osman, 97, Turkish 43rd Head of the Imperial Ottoman Dynasty, lung and kidney failure.
* Dennis Pacey, 80, British footballer (Leyton Orient, Millwall), aneurysm.
* Stuart Robertson, 65, British-born Canadian journalist and gardener, complications from pneumonia.
* Bill Speirs, 57, British trade union leader, after long illness.
* George M. Sullivan, 87, American politician, Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1967–1981), lung cancer.
* Marie Wadley, 102, American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum.
* Don Yarborough, 83, American politician, Parkinson's disease.

### 24

* Nelly Arcan, 36, Canadian novelist, suicide by hanging.
* Susan Atkins, 61, American murderer ('Manson Family' member), brain cancer.
* Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy, 80, Indian Bishop of Nellore.
* Keith Batchelor, 78, Australian rules footballer (Collingwood, North Melbourne).
* Terry Bly, 73, British footballer (Norwich City, Peterborough United), heart attack.
* Forrest Church, 61, American Unitarian Universalist minister, author and theologian, esophageal cancer.
* Cryptoclearance, 25, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic surgery.
* Joseph Satoshi Fukahori, 84, Japanese Bishop of Takamatsu.
* Joseph Gurwin, 89, Lithuanian-born American textile manufacturer and philanthropist, heart failure.
* Kevork Hovnanian, 86, Iraqi-born American businessman, founder of Hovnanian Enterprises.
* Rogers McVaugh, 100, American botanist.
* Sir Howard Morrison, 74, New Zealand singer, heart attack.
* Emile Norman, 91, American artist, natural causes.
* Robert Sahakyants, 59, Armenian animator, complications from heart surgery.
* Egon Solymossy, 87, Hungarian Olympic athlete (death announced on this date).
* Mimi Weddell, 94, American actress (Student Bodies, The Thomas Crown Affair).
* Margo Wilson, 66, Canadian psychologist.

### 25

* István Bujtor, 67, Hungarian actor and director, coccidiosis.
* Pierre Falardeau, 62, Canadian film director, cancer.
* Alicia de Larrocha, 86, Spanish pianist.
* Maria Gulovich Liu, 87, Slovakian resistance member, cancer.
* Clifton Maloney, 71, American businessman, husband of U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, mountaineering accident.
* Steeve Nguema Ndong, 37, Gabonese Olympic judoka.
* Francis Noel-Baker, 89, British politician, MP for Brentford and Chiswick (1945–1950) and Swindon (1955–1969).
* Bob Stupak, 67, American casino owner (Vegas World, Stratosphere Las Vegas), leukemia.
* David Will, 72, British vice president of FIFA, former Brechin City F.C. chairman, cancer.

### 26

* Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet, 70, British aristocrat, traffic collision.
* Geoff Barrowcliffe, 77, British footballer (Derby County).
* Tony Chua, 43-44, Filipino sports executive, Barako Bulls team manager, drowning during Tropical Storm Ondoy.
* Zygmunt Chychła, 83, Polish boxer, 1952 Olympic gold medalist.
* W. I. B. Crealock, 89, British yacht designer.
* Amy Farris, 40, American fiddler and singer-songwriter, suicide.
* John Hyson, 81, American museum curator and historian.
* Ingvi Sigurður Ingvarsson, 84, Icelandic diplomat.
* Paul Medhurst, 55, British-New Zealand cyclist.
* Nihat Nikerel, 59, Turkish actor, heart attack.
* Alfred Oglesby, 42, American football player (Miami Dolphins).
* Soeprapto, 85, Indonesian politician, Governor of Jakarta (1982–1987).
* David Underdown, 84, British historian, author of definitive work on Pride's Purge.

### 27

* Alimsultan Alkhamatov, 44, Russian politician and official, head of the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, shot.
* John Connell, 69, American artist.
* Ivan Dykhovichny, 61, Russian film director, screenwriter, cancer.
* Donald Fisher, 81, American businessman, founder of The Gap, cancer.
* John Holmes, 57, British rugby league player, cancer.
* Charles Snead Houston, 96, American physician, mountaineer, inventor, author and filmmaker.
* Hans-Heinrich Jescheck, 94, German professor.
* Li Hou, 86, Chinese politician.
* Manuel Mandel, 72, Brazilian Olympic rower.
* Donal McLaughlin, 102, American architect, designer of the Flag of the United Nations, esophageal cancer.
* Dewald Roode, 69, South African academic, fall.
* William Safire, 79, American speechwriter and journalist (The New York Times), pancreatic cancer.

### 28

* Apostolos of Kilkis, 85, Greek bishop of Kilkis.
* René Bliard, 76, French footballer (Stade Reims).
* Guillermo Endara, 73, Panamanian politician, President (1989–1994).
* Imre Katzenbach, 45, Hungarian footballer.
* Ulf Larsson, 53, Swedish actor, stage director and revue artist.
* Best Ogedegbe, 55, Nigerian footballer, complications from surgery.
* Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira, 83, Peruvian archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa.
* Don Thompson, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).

### 29

* Micheline Beauchemin, 79, Canadian tapestry and textile artist.
* Henry Bellmon, 88, American Governor of Oklahoma (1963–1967; 1987–1991), U.S. Senator (1969–1981), Parkinson's disease.
* Ebony Dickinson, 32, American basketball player, breast cancer.
* Gunnar Haugan, 84, Norwegian character actor.
* Julian Hope, 2nd Baron Glendevon, 59, British opera producer, cancer.
* Margo Johns, 90, British actress.
* Greg Ladanyi, 57, American record producer and recording engineer, complications from a fall.
* Jean Ladd, 86, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Ray Nettles, 60, American-born Canadian football player (BC Lions), cancer.
* John L. Pollock, 69, American philosopher.
* Pavel Popovich, 78, Ukrainian-born Soviet cosmonaut.
* Ed Sherman, 97, American football coach (Muskingum College).
* Nick Strutt, 62, British country musician.
* Sperantza Vrana, 81, Greek film actress, singer and writer, heart attack.
* Vladimir Yakovlev, 79, Soviet Olympic sailor.

### 30

* Sir Alastair Aird, 78, British Royal courtier.
* Pentti Airikkala, 64, Finnish rally driver, prostate cancer.
* Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish writer and poet.
* Robert S. Baker, 93, British film and television producer (The Saint, The Persuaders!).
* John Couey, 51, American murderer, killer of Jessica Lunsford (the inspiration for Jessica's Law), prostate cancer.
* Robert Haase, 86, American lawyer.
* Roland La Starza, 82, American actor and professional boxer.
* Raúl Magaña, 69, Salvadoran footballer and manager, gastric cancer.
* Byron Palmer, 89, American actor, natural causes.
* Birender Singh, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana (1967), cardiac arrest.
* Victor Van Schil, 69, Belgian cyclist.