# Deaths in July 2009
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The following is a list of deaths in July 2009.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## July 2009
### 1

* Alexis Argüello, 57, Nicaraguan former triple world champion boxer and politician, mayor of Managua, suspected suicide by gunshot.
* Marwa El-Sherbini, 31, Egyptian pharmacist and vilification victim, stabbed.
* Karl Malden, 97, American actor (A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, The Streets of San Francisco), Oscar winner (1952).
* Anna Karen Morrow, 94, American actress (Peyton Place), natural causes.
* John Henry Moss, 90, American baseball executive (South Atlantic League), mayor of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
* Onni Palaste, 91, Finnish soldier and writer, Winter War veteran, natural causes.
* David Pears, 87, British philosopher.
* Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer.
* Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court.
* Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), heart failure.
* Rupert Thorneloe, 39, British soldier, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, improvised explosive device.
* Norman Welton, 81, American journalist, photo editor for the Associated Press, colon cancer.
* Jean Yoyotte, 81, French Egyptologist.
* Lyudmila Zykina, 80, Russian singer, Hero of Socialist Labor, cardiac arrest.

### 2

* Adésio, 76, Brazilian footballer.
* Pasquale Borgomeo, 76, Vatican director of Radio Vatican, after long illness.
* Steve Brennan, 57, Irish-born American reporter and editor (The Hollywood Reporter), cancer.
* M. K. Chandrashekaran, 72, Indian zoologist, after brief illness.
* Susan Fernandez, 52, Filipina activist and singer, ovarian cancer.
* Kaj Hansen, 68, Danish football player.
* Martin Hengel, 82, German theologian.
* Colin Hillman, 64, Welsh rugby player and coach, pancreatic cancer.
* Herb Klein, 91, American journalist, White House Communications Director for President Richard Nixon.
* Tyeb Mehta, 84, Indian painter, heart attack.
* David Morley, 86, British paediatrician.
* James Oluleye, 79, Nigerian army general and politician.
* Robert Daniel Potter, 86, American judge, member of the District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (1981–1994).
* Petro Ruçi, 52, Albanian football player (Flamurtari, national team).
* Bert Schneider, 71, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
* Clyde Shugart, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins), stroke.
* Robert E. L. Taylor, 96, American publisher and chairman of the Philadelphia Bulletin.

### 3

* Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorian poet and writer.
* Alauddin Al-Azad, 77, Bangladeshi author, natural causes.
* John Barry, 84, American president and CEO of WD-40, pulmonary fibrosis.
* John Blackburn, 84, American administrator (University of Alabama), myelodysplastic syndrome.
* Frank Devine, 77, New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor, after long illness.
* Charles K. Eastman, 79, American screenwriter and script doctor, heart disease.
* Gabriel Fino Noriega, 42, Honduran journalist, shot.
* E. J. Josey, 85, American librarian and civil rights activist, natural causes.
* John Keel, 79, American ufologist and writer (The Mothman Prophecies), heart failure.
* Barbara Margolis, 79, American prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter for New York City, cancer.
* Victor Smorgon, 96, Ukrainian-born Australian industrialist, natural causes.

### 4

* Jim Chapin, 89, American jazz drummer.
* Robert E. Hopkins, 94, American optical engineer.
* Brenda Joyce, 92, American actress (Tarzan and the Amazons).
* Béla Király, 97, Hungarian general and historian, natural causes.
* Allen Klein, 77, American businessman, Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, Alzheimer's disease.
* Drake Levin, 62, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders), cancer.
* Robert Louis-Dreyfus, 63, French-born Swiss billionaire, leukemia.
* Steve McNair, 36, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens), shot.
* Hugh Millais, 79, British actor and adventurer.
* Robert Mitchell, 96, American organist, pneumonia.
* Khan Mohammad, 81, Pakistani cricketer, prostate cancer.
* Leo Mol, 94, Ukrainian-born Canadian sculptor.
* Lasse Strömstedt, 74, Swedish writer.
* Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, 70, Congolese politician, Minister of State.
* Laurence Villiers, 7th Earl of Clarendon, 76, British aristocrat.

### 5

* John Bachar, 52, American rock climber, fall.
* Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker, 86, British diplomat and politician, MP for Blackpool South (1964–1992), pneumonia.
* Lou Creekmur, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* Alfonso de Andrés, 71, Spanish Olympic athlete.
* Takeo Doi, 89, Japanese psychoanalyst.
* Harry Elliot, 89, British space scientist.
* Alfred John Ellory, 89, British flautist.
* Mihai Iacob, 76, Romanian film director.
* Naomi Lewis, 97, British poet.
* Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, 95, British politician, MP for Poole (1964–1979).
* John Orman, 60, American professor and politician, self-appointed chairman of Connecticut for Lieberman party.
* Bob Titchenal, 91, American football player and coach.
* Waldo Von Erich, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, fall.

### 6

* Vasily Aksyonov, 76, Russian novelist, stroke.
* Mihai Baicu, 33, Romanian footballer, heart attack.
* Patrick Tracy Burris, 41, American criminal, suspected South Carolina spree killer, shot.
* Rene Capo, 48, Cuban-born American Olympic judoka (1988, 1996), lung cancer.
* Johnny Collins, 71, British folk singer.
* Marlon Green, 80, American pilot.
* Oscar G. Mayer Jr., 95, American business executive (Oscar Mayer).
* Robert McNamara, 93, American business executive, Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), natural causes.
* Mathieu Montcourt, 24, French tennis player, cardiac arrest.
* Jim Reid, 75, British folk musician, after short illness.
* Robert L. Short, 76, American theologian (The Gospel According to Peanuts).
* Martin Streek, 45, Canadian disc jockey, suspected suicide.
* Bleddyn Williams, 86, British rugby player, captain of Wales and British Lions, after long illness.

### 7

* Anabaa, 17, American Thoroughbred racehorse, peritonitis after undergoing surgery from colic.
* Mikhail Bachvarov, 73, Bulgarian Olympic sprinter.
* Richard Reader Harris, 96, British businessman and politician, MP for Heston and Isleworth (1950–1970).
* John Marshall, 77, American sculptor.

### 8

* Harry Gray, 89, American CEO and chairman of United Technologies Corporation.
* Bertha Hertogh, 72, Dutch woman whose adoption led to ethnic riots in Singapore in 1950, leukemia.
* Robert Isabell, 57, American event planner, heart attack.
* Edward Kenna, 90, Australian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross.
* Judi Ann Mason, 54, American screenwriter, television producer (Good Times) and playwright, aortic dissection.
* Waldo McBurney, 106, American beekeeper, oldest worker in the United States.
* Nelson Munsey, 61, American football player (Baltimore Colts), heart disease.
* Edgar O'Ballance, 90, British military historian.
* Lou Pagliaro, 90, American table tennis player, national champion (1940–1942, 1952).
* Yury Shlyapin, 77, Russian water polo player, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).

### 9

* William C. Conner, 89, American federal judge (District Court for the Southern District of New York).
* Magomed Gadaborshev, Russian Colonel, Head of Ingushetia Forensics and Investigations Center, shot.
* George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, 91, British Army officer, patron of military charities and artist.
* Jessie Hollins, 39, American baseball player, drowned.
* Ron Kennedy, 56, Canadian ice hockey player and trainer, brain cancer.
* Frank Mickens, 63, American educator, natural causes.
* Kinuthia Murugu, Kenyan Permanent Secretary, shot.
* Henri Verbrugghe, 79, Belgian Olympic canoer.

### 10

* John Caldwell, 71, Irish boxer, Olympic medalist (1956), world bantamweight champion (1961–1962), cancer.
* Sir Edward Downes, 85, British conductor, assisted suicide.
* Ebba Haslund, 91, Norwegian author.
* Jack B. Horner, 87, American politician.
* Patrick J. McManus, 54, American politician, Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts (1992–2001).
* Frank Seipelt, 48, German Olympic weightlifter (1984, 1988 and 1992 Olympics).
* Edward Durell Stone Jr., 76, American landscape architect.
* Zena Marshall, 83, Kenyan-born British actress (Dr. No), after short illness.

### 11

* Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, 69, Spanish woman believed to be world's oldest mother, cancer.
* Manuel Carrascalão, 75, East Timorese politician, cerebral embolism.
* Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, 68, Australian child molester, multiple organ failure.
* Reg Fleming, 73, Canadian hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
* Arturo Gatti, 37, Canadian boxer, strangulation.
* Paul Hemphill, 73, American author, throat cancer.
* Ji Xianlin, 97, Chinese linguist, paleographer, historian and writer, heart attack.
* Lawyer Ron, 6, American Thoroughbred racehorse, complications after colic surgery.
* Mark Mandala, 72, American television executive, president of ABC (1986–1994), heart attack.
* Žan Marolt, 44, Bosnia-Herzegovinian actor.
* Geraint Owen, 43, British actor, cerebral haemorrhage.
* Cecil Smith, 92, American television and drama critic, journalist, screenwriter, television host, and World War II bomber pilot, congestive heart failure.

### 12

* Doris Barr, 87, Canadian baseball player, original member of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
* Charles N. Brown, 72, American founding editor of Locus magazine.
* Vinod Chaubey, 49, Indian police officer, shot in the Rajnandgaon ambush.
* Tommy Cummings, 80, British football player (Burnley F.C.).
* James Klass, 43, British DJ, colon cancer.
* Donald MacCormick, 70, British television journalist, heart attack.
* Shesha Palihakkara, 81, Sri Lankan dancer, actor and producer.
* Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland, 67, British politician and barrister, MEP (1979–1994), pulmonary embolism.
* S. G. Sender, 78, Belgian pastry chef, after long illness.
* Pavel Smeyan, 52, Russian singer and actor, cancer.
* Nikola Stanchev, 78, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist.
* Simon Vinkenoog, 80, Dutch poet and writer.
* Jane Weinberger, 91, American author, widow of Caspar Weinberger, stroke.

### 13

* Uma Aaltonen, 68, Finnish author, journalist and politician.
* Amin al-Hafez, 83, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister (1973).
* Giuseppe Alessi, 103, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1947–1949, 1955–1956).
* Robert Cushman, 62, American photograph curator (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).
* Neil Munro, 62, Canadian director, actor and playwright, after long illness.
* Nilu Phule, 79, Indian Marathi and Hindi film actor, esophageal cancer.
* Vince Powell, 80, British scriptwriter (Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language).
* Beverly Roberts, 96, American actress, natural causes.
* Don Schneider, 86, American football player (Buffalo Bills).
* Dash Snow, 27, American artist, heroin overdose.

### 14

* Pat Brady, 83, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), lymphoma.
* Lucio Ceccarini, 78, Italian water polo player.
* Sam Church, 72, American labor leader (UMWA), complications of surgery.
* Joe DiGangi, 94, American bullpen catcher (New York Yankees), natural causes.
* John Fautenberry, 46, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Phyllis Gotlieb, 83, Canadian science fiction author,
* Christopher Hipp, 47, American inventor (blade server) and entrepreneur, suspected embolism.
* Dallas McKennon, 89, American actor and voice actor (Gumby, Buzz Buzzard, Archie Andrews), natural causes.
* Kujtim Majaci, 47, Albanian footballer, heart attack.
* Heinrich Schweiger, 77, Austrian actor, cardiovascular disease.
* Muzaffer Tokaç, 86, Turkish footballer.
* Jean Sommeng Vorachak, 76, Laotian Apostolic Vicar of Savannakhet.
* Bill Young, 95, New Zealand politician and diplomat.
* Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, 74, Polish actor and director.

### 15

* Avraham Ahituv, 79, German-born Israeli intelligence chief, Director of the Shin Bet (1974–1980).
* Khursheed Kamal Aziz, 81, Pakistani historian.
* Seddon Bennington, 61, New Zealand chief executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, hypothermia.
* Jacques de Champlain, 71, Canadian medical researcher, heart attack.
* Adama Drabo, 75-76, Malian filmmaker and playwright.
* Natalya Estemirova, 51, Russian human rights activist in Chechnya and Ingushetia, shot.
* Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, 78, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) sprint canoeist.
* Brian Goodwin, 78, Canadian mathematician, fall from a bicycle.
* Julius Shulman, 98, American architectural photographer.

### 16

* Thomas Dao, 88, Chinese-born American physician, expert in breast cancer treatment, Pick's Disease.
* Leslie Fernandez, 91, British WW2 Special Forces saboteur and trainer of Violette Szabó.
* Charles Gonthier, 80, Canadian jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1989–2003).
* Maurice Grimaud, 95, French police chief of Paris during the 1968 student uprising.
* Otto Heino, 94, American ceramicist and potter, acute renal failure.
* Jerry Holland, 54, American-born Canadian fiddler and composer, cancer.
* Paulo Lopes de Faria, 78, Brazilian archbishop of Diamantina.
* Bud Marshall, 67, American football player.
* D. K. Pattammal, 90, Indian Carnatic singer, after short illness.
* Angelo Rizzo, 83, Italian archbishop of Ragusa.
* Ashraf W. Tabani, 79, Pakistani businessman and politician, Governor of Sindh (1987–1988).
* Yury Verlinsky, 65, Russian medical researcher, colorectal cancer.

### 17

* Meir Amit, 88, Israeli major general and politician.
* Gordon Burn, 61, British writer, cancer.
* Walter Cronkite, 92, American television news anchor, cerebrovascular disease.
* Richard H. Hall, 78, American ufologist, colon cancer.
* Vladimir Ilyin, 81, Soviet football player.
* Jim Kirby, 86, American baseball player.
* Leszek Kołakowski, 81, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas and essayist.
* Jean Margéot, 93, Mauritian cardinal.
* Gordon Waller, 64, British singer (Peter and Gordon), cardiac arrest.

### 18

* Henry Allingham, 113, British supercentenarian, world's oldest man and World War I veteran.
* Annagul Annakuliyeva, 85, Turkmen opera singer and actress.
* Jill Balcon, 84, British actress, widow of Cecil Day-Lewis and mother of Daniel Day-Lewis, brain tumour.
* Yasmine Belmadi, 33, French actor, traffic collision.
* Lionel Casson, 94, American professor of Classics (New York University), author on ancient maritime history, pneumonia.
* Roberta Hill, 73, American obsessed cinephile.
* Ricardo Londoño, 59, Colombian racing driver, shot.
* Denis Redman, 99, British army general.
* Steven Rothenberg, 50, American studio executive (Lions Gate Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment), stomach cancer.
* Graham Stanton, 69, New Zealand-born British theologian.
* Robert Uffen, 85, Canadian geophysicist.
* Joel Weisman, 66, American physician and pioneer in AIDS detection, heart disease.

### 19

* Sue Burns, 58, American businesswoman, principal owner of the San Francisco Giants, lung cancer.
* Alan Garnett Davenport, 76, Canadian engineer.
* Karen Harup, 84, Danish swimmer, Olympic champion (1948).
* Ingeborg Hunzinger, 94, German sculptor.
* Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American author (Angela's Ashes), melanoma.
* Gilberto Mestrinho, 81, Brazilian Governor of Amazonas (1959–1963, 1983–1987, 1991–1995), lung cancer.
* Cecil Mountford, 90, New Zealand rugby league player and coach.
* Frank Rickwood, 88, Australian oil executive.
* Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes.
* Ray Shaw, 75, American journalist and work (American City Business Journals), complications from a wasp sting.
* Bryan Stanley, 83, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union.
* Henry Surtees, 18, British racing driver, Formula Two race accident.
* Ebbe Wallén, 92, Swedish Olympic bobsledder.

### 20

* Gene Amondson, 65, American politician, Prohibition Party nominee for U.S. President, stroke.
* Gretel Bolliger, 87, Swiss Olympic athlete Gretel Bolliger
* Ria Brieffies, 52, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots), lung cancer.
* Edward T. Hall, 95, American anthropologist.
* Bobby Knoxall, 75, British comedian.
* Vedat Okyar, 64, Turkish journalist and footballer (Beşiktaş J.K.), colorectal cancer.
* Stan Polley, 87, American music manager.
* H. James Starr, 78, American politician.
* Paul Fouad Tabet, 79, Lebanese archbishop, Nuncio to Greece (1996–2005).
* Gösta Werner, 101, Swedish film director.
* Carl Willey, 78, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets), lung cancer.

### 21

* Stacy Barnett, 22, American murder victim.
* John Dawson, 64, American musician (New Riders of the Purple Sage), stomach cancer.
* Armando del Moral, 93, Spanish-born American film journalist, natural causes.
* Nelson Demarco, 84, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1952, 1956).
* Heinz Edelmann, 75, Czech-born German illustrator and designer, heart disease and renal failure.
* Gidget, 15, American chihuahua, Taco Bell mascot, stroke.
* John Goosey, 21, American murder victim.
* Gangubai Hangal, 96, Indian Hindustani classical singer, cardiac arrest.
* Marcel Jacob, 45, Swedish musician, suicide.
* Yoshinori Kanada, 57, Japanese animator (My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky), heart attack.
* Les Lye, 84, Canadian actor and broadcaster (You Can't Do That on Television).
* Hiroshi Wakasugi, 74, Japanese orchestra conductor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.

### 22

* Howard Engle, 89, American pediatrician, lead plaintiff in landmark tobacco lawsuit, lymphoma.
* Richard M. Givan, 88, American judge, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1969–1994).
* Peter Krieg, 61, German documentary filmmaker.
* Mark Leduc, 47, Canadian boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1992), heat stroke.
* Herbert Morris, 94, American rower, Olympic gold medalist (1936).
* Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Billy Parks, 61, American football player, melanoma.
* Lynn Pressman Raymond, 97, American president of Pressman Toy Corporation.
* John Ryan, 88, British cartoonist (Captain Pugwash).
* Damian Steele, 33, American professional wrestler, brain aneurysm.
* Aygyl Tajiyeva, 64, Turkmen politician and opposition activist, stroke.

### 23

* Virginia Carroll, 95, American actress and model, natural causes.
* E. Lynn Harris, 54, American author.
* Conyers Herring, 94, American physicist.
* Talis Kitsing, 33, Estonian reality TV star.
* Danny McBride, 63, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sha Na Na), natural causes.
* Duse Nacaratti, 67, Brazilian actress, respiratory failure.
* Thomas N. Schroth, 88, American editor (Congressional Quarterly), founder of The National Journal, heart failure.

### 24

* José Carlos da Costa Araújo, 47, Brazilian goalkeeper, reserve at 1990 World Cup, abdominal cancer.
* Omar Dani, 85, Indonesian Commander of the National Air Force (1962–1965).
* Friedrich Goldmann, 68, German composer and conductor.
* Austin Gresham, 84, British pathologist.
* G. Alexander Heard, 92, American presidential advisor, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1963–1982).
* John Panton, 92, Scottish golfer.
* Sir Edward Peck, 93, British diplomat, Permanent Representative to NATO (1970–1975).
* Harry Towb, 83, British actor, cancer.

### 25

* Yasmin Ahmad, 51, Malaysian film director, brain hemorrhage.
* Rick Bryan, 47, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack.
* Gladys Bustamante, 97, Jamaican trade unionist and activist, wife of Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante.
* Alexis Cohen, 25, American singer, American Idol contestant, hit-and-run.
* Vernon Forrest, 38, American former world welterweight and super welterweight (light middleweight) champion boxer, shot.
* Gerald Gardner, 83, Irish-born American mathematician, evidence led to ban on sex-segregated classified advertising. leukemia.
* Erling Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian Olympic cyclist.
* Ken Major, 80, British architect.
* Stanley Middleton, 89, British author, cancer.
* Harry Patch, 111, British supercentenarian, fourth-last surviving World War I veteran.
* Lorrie Pickering, 90, New Zealand politician.
* Sarath Ranawaka, 58, Sri Lankan politician, after short illness.

### 26

* John Brockway, 80, British swimmer.
* Traugott Buhre, 80, German actor.
* Bhaskar Chandavarkar, 73, Indian sitarist and composer, cancer.
* Merce Cunningham, 90, American choreographer, natural causes.
* Richard Ferguson, 73, British barrister, Queen's Counsel for Northern Ireland and former politician.
* Clayton Hill, 78, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth), complications from pneumonia.
* Lois Hunt, 84, American lyric soprano, complications from cardiac surgery.
* Marcey Jacobson, 97, American photographer of indigenous peoples in Mexico, heart failure.
* Jim King, 69, American politician, Florida state senator since 1999, pancreatic cancer.
* Maria Sílvia, 65, Brazilian actress, lung cancer.
* Michael Steinberg, 80, American musicologist.
* Sérgio Viotti, 82, Brazilian actor, cardiac arrest.
* Jerry Yanover, 62, Canadian political advisor.

### 27

* Bernadette Cozart, 60, American gardener, urban gardening advocate, heart attack.
* Dick Holub, 87, American basketball player (NY Knicks) and coach (FDU).
* Lars Käll, 75, Swedish Olympic sailor.
* Domingos Lam, 81, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop of Macau.
* Joseph C. Muren, 73, American Mormon general authority.
* Lee Orr, 92, Canadian Olympic athlete.
* Luis Quintana, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player (California Angels), natural causes.
* George Russell, 86, American jazz composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Larry Siemering, 98, American college football head coach, complications from a fall.
* Sybil, 3, British Downing Street cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office (2007–2008), after short illness.
* Aeronwy Thomas, 66, British translator and writer, daughter of Dylan Thomas, cancer.
* Michaël Zeeman, 50, Dutch literary critic, journalist, poet and writer, brain cancer.

### 28

* Stelios Georgousopoulos, 43, Greek Olympian windsurfer, illness.
* Bob Hahn, 83, American basketball player.
* Hermann J. Huber, 54, German journalist and writer, heart attack.
* Reverend Ike, 74, American evangelist, stroke.
* Jim Johnson, 68, American football coach (Philadelphia Eagles), melanoma.
* Kaori Kawamura, 38, Japanese singer, breast cancer.
* Brian Mears, 78, British Chairman of Chelsea Football Club (1969–1991).
* Leela Naidu, 69, Indian actress, Miss India (1954), after long illness.
* Tony Rosenthal, 94, American sculptor, stroke.
* William G. Tapply, 69, American writer, leukemia,
* Peter Tahourdin, 80, British-born Australian composer.
* Yukio Yamaji, 25, Japanese serial killer, execution by hanging.

### 29

* Remi Abiola, 55, Nigerian actress, cancer.
* Dina Babbitt, 86, Czech-born American artist and Holocaust survivor, abdominal cancer.
* Rajan P. Dev, 58, Indian actor, after short illness.
* Gayatri Devi, 90, Indian royal, last Maharani of Jaipur (1939–1970), paralytic ileus.
* Steve Fiorilla, 48, American artist.
* Joanne Jordan, 88, American actress and spokesmodel, Parkinson's disease.
* Ernest W. Lefever, 90, American foreign policy expert, founder of Ethics and Public Policy Center, dementia with Lewy bodies.
* Paul McGrillen, 37, Scottish footballer (Motherwell F.C.).
* Olga A. Méndez, 84, American politician, New York State Senator (1978–2004), breast cancer.
* Steven Miessner, 48, American Academy Awards administrator, heart attack.
* Hideaki Motoyama, 40, Japanese Olympic badminton player.
* Renato Pagliari, 69, Italian-born British singer (Renée and Renato), brain cancer.
* Edward Richardson, 79, Australian cricketer.
* Zhuo Lin, 93, Chinese consultant, widow of Deng Xiaoping.

### 30

* Zahirul Islam Abbasi, 66, Pakistani general.
* Kola Abdulai, 62, Nigerian Olympic sprinter.
* Renato Izzo, 80, Italian actor, voice actor and screenwriter.
* Yuri Kurnenin, 55, Belarusian football player and coach.
* Joy Langan, 66, Canadian politician, MP for Mission—Coquitlam (1988–1993), breast cancer.
* Yoshihisa Maitani, 76, Japanese camera designer.
* Mohammed Yusuf, 39, Nigerian sect leader, shot.
* Peter Zadek, 83, German stage director, film director and screenwriter, illness.

### 31

* Sir Edward Archdale, 87, British Royal Navy officer.
* John Donnelly, 82, Scottish footballer (Celtic, Preston North End).
* Tim Guest, 34, British writer, suspected heart attack.
* David Hawkes, 86, British sinologist.
* Chris Humphries, 62, British botanist.
* Ted Nierenberg, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Dansk International Designs, pancreatic cancer.
* Sir Bobby Robson, 76, British footballer and manager, lung cancer.
* Jean-Paul Roussillon, 78, French actor.
* Harry Alan Towers, 88, British film producer and screenwriter, after short illness.