# Deaths in November 2008
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 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.

## November 2008
### 1

* Badaró, 74, Brazilian-Portuguese actor and comedian, stomach cancer.
* Jimmy Carl Black, 70, American Cheyenne drummer and vocalist (The Mothers of Invention), lung cancer.
* Dermot Curtis, 76, Irish footballer (Bristol City, Ipswich Town, Republic of Ireland), after long illness.
* David de Caires, 70, Guyanese journalist and editor, founder of Stabroek News, complications from heart attack.
* Flockton Grey, 28, British racehorse, heart attack.
* Oscar Lathlin, 61, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba since 1990.
* Nathaniel Mayer, 64, American rhythm & blues singer, stroke.
* Jacques Piccard, 86, Belgian-born Swiss oceanographer and explorer.
* Rosetta Reitz, 84, American jazz historian and record company founder, cardiopulmonary disease.
* Jack Reno, 72, American country music singer, brain cancer.
* Shakir Stewart, 34, American vice president of Def Jam Recordings, suicide by gunshot.
* Yma Sumac, 86, Peruvian soprano, cancer.
* Tan Jiazhen, 99, Chinese geneticist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Tony Tarracino, 92, American saloon keeper and politician, heart and lung ailments.

### 2

* Ahmed al-Mirghani, 67, Sudanese politician, President (1986–1989).
* Joseph Alliluyev, 63, Russian cardiologist, grandson of Joseph Stalin.
* James Armsey, 90, American automotive executive, director of the Ford Foundation (1960–1967).
* George F. Grant, 102, American angler, author and conservationist, natural causes.
* Kenneth P. Johnson, 74, American newspaper editor (Dallas Times Herald), heart infection.
* Jim Koleff, 55, Canadian hockey player and coach, cancer.
* Domenico Leccisi, 88, Italian politician, stole corpse of Benito Mussolini, heart and respiratory disease.
* Henry Loomis, 89, American Director of Voice of America (1958–1965), Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Pick's diseases.
* Jacques Lunis, 85, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) athlete.
* Elijah Mudenda, 81, Zambian politician, Prime Minister (1975–1977).
* Bill Stall, 71, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (Los Angeles Times), complications from pulmonary disease.
* Terence Tolbert, 44, American political campaign director for Barack Obama in Nevada, heart attack.

### 3

* John Adams, 89, British rear admiral.
* Charles T. Cross, 86, American diplomat, Ambassador to Singapore (1969–1972), Consul General in Hong Kong (1974–1977).
* Mike Davis, 68, American boating advocate.
* Alan Ford, 84, American Olympic swimmer, emphysema.
* Jean Fournet, 95, French conductor.
* Edward McMichael, 53, American tuba player, bludgeoned.
* Brooks Mileson, 60, British football club owner (Gretna F.C.), complications from chronic fatigue syndrome and brain infection.
* Lalit Mohan Sharma, 80, Indian jurist, Chief Justice (1992–1993).
* Edward Sheehan, 78, American foreign correspondent, allergic reaction to medication.
* Lhofei Shiozawa, 67, Brazilian judoka.
* Josep Maria Socías, 71, Spanish lawyer and politician, Mayor of Barcelona (1976–1979).
* Cecil W. Stoughton, 88, American Presidential photographer (Kennedy, Johnson), complications from hip replacement.
* John Trudeau, 81, American music promoter, founder of the Britt Festival, heart failure.
* I. Bernard Weinstein, 78, American cancer researcher, kidney disease.

### 4

* Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, 96, Russian politician, chairman of Tuvan Parliament (1940–1944), world's first female head of state.
* Evelio Arias Ramos, 42, Mexican actor, comedian and singer.
* Ernesto Aura, 68, Spanish voice actor, cancer.
* Lennart Bergelin, 83, Swedish tennis player and coach, heart failure.
* Paddy Buckley, 83, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen, St Johnstone).
* Jheryl Busby, 59, American record executive.
* Gérald Coppenrath, 86, French journalist and Senator (1958–1962) for Tahiti, brother of Hubert and Michel Coppenrath.
* Michael Crichton, 66, American author (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain) and television producer (ER), throat cancer.
* Rosella Hightower, 88, American ballerina, stroke.
* Byron Lee, 73, Jamaican musician and record producer, bladder cancer.
* Syd Lucas, 108, British World War I veteran.
* Juan Camilo Mouriño, 37, Mexican Secretary of the Interior since 2008, plane crash.
* Orlando Owoh, 76, Nigerian musician, stroke.
* José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, 51, Mexican politician, plane crash.

### 5

* Ian Anderson, 54, Scottish footballer.
* V. T. Arasu, 82, Singaporean journalist, civil servant, editor and author, pancreatic cancer.
* Věra Černá, 70, Czech Olympic athlete.
* Baldev Raj Chopra, 94, Indian film director (Naya Daur, Dhund, Kanoon).
* Sofron Dmyterko, 91, Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk.
* Sir Paul Greening, 80, British admiral and courtier.
* Michael Higgins, 88, American actor (Rumble Fish, The Stepford Wives, Swimfan), heart failure.
* Félix Lebuhotel, 76, French cyclist.
* John Leonard, 69, American media and cultural critic, complications from lung cancer.
* Norm Marshall, 89, Canadian broadcaster.
* Clark Miller, 70, American football player, heart attack.
* John Odom, 26, American professional baseball player, accidental drug overdose.

### 6

* Ronald Davis, 52, American health advocate, president of the AMA (2007–2008), pancreatic cancer.
* Mahmoud Haroon, 88, Pakistani politician and newspaper founder.
* Sir John Hermon, 79, British police officer, Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (1980–1989), Alzheimer's disease.
* Larry James, 61, American track athlete and Olympic gold medalist (1968), cancer.
* Phil Reed, 59, American politician, member of New York City Council (1998–2005), complications of pneumonia from leukemia.
* Joe Wendryhoski, 69, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans Saints), cancer and stroke.
* George Winterton, 61, Australian lawyer and professor of constitutional law, cancer.

### 7

* Carl Allen, 88, American football player.
* Tetsuya Chikushi, 73, Japanese journalist and news anchor, lung cancer.
* José Bezerra Coutinho, 98, Brazilian bishop of Estância.
* Heiko Engelkes, 75, German television journalist (ARD), cancer.
* Hedley Howarth, 64, New Zealand cricketer.
* Wik Jongsma, 65, Dutch actor, cancer.
* Hidetaka Nishiyama, 80, Japanese karate master, cancer.
* Heather Pick, 38, American newscaster (WBNS-TV), breast cancer.
* Jody Reynolds, 75, American singer and guitarist, liver cancer.
* Lyle Williams, 66, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for Ohio (1979–1985), heart attack.
* Abraham Woods, 80, American civil rights leader, cancer.

### 8

* Bodil Aakre, 86, Norwegian jurist and politician.
* Arne Argus, 83, Swedish newspaper journalist and sports executive.
* Mary Lou Beschorner, 79, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
* James Byrne, 62, Irish musician.
* Richard Fortman, 93, American checkers champion.
* Régis Genaux, 35, Belgian footballer, heart failure due to pulmonary embolism.
* Joe Hyams, 85, American Hollywood columnist and author, coronary artery disease.
* Mieczysław Rakowski, 81, Polish politician, Prime Minister (1988–1989), Workers' Party Chairman (1989–1990), cancer.
* Florence Wald, 91, American nurse, hospice pioneer.

### 9

* Joanne H. Alter, 81, American activist and politician, cancer.
* Gerald Arthur, 95, Australian cricketer.
* Fernand Goux, 108, French penultimate veteran of World War I.
* Huda bin Abdul Haq, 48, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad.
* Anton Huiskes, 80, Dutch Olympic speed skater.
* Hok Lundy, 58, Cambodian National Police Commissioner, helicopter crash.
* Carl D. Keith, 88, American co-inventor of the catalytic converter.
* Miriam Makeba, 76, South African singer ("Pata Pata", "Soweto Blues"), heart attack.
* John Milsum, 83, Canadian control engineer.
* Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, 46, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad.
* Preacher Roe, 92, American baseball pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Brooklyn Dodgers), colon cancer.
* Stanisław Różewicz, 84, Polish film director (Westerplatte, Birth Certificate).
* Imam Samudra, 38, Indonesian terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad.

### 10

* Sarah Blacher Cohen, 72, American professor of Jewish literature, complications of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
* Kiyosi Itô, 93, Japanese mathematician, respiratory failure.
* Nikola Kavaja, 76, Serbian anti-communist activist and aircraft hijacker, heart attack.
* Li Ximing, 82, Chinese leader of Beijing Communist Party.
* Howard Reig, 87, American television announcer.
* Arthur Shawcross, 63, American serial killer, cardiac arrest.
* Wannes Van de Velde, 71, Belgian singer and artist, leukemia.

### 11

* Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, 105, Turkish last veteran of the Turkish War of Independence.
* C. Harmon Brown, 78, American physician, pioneer of sports medicine, cancer.
* Tom Hunt, 85, American chairman of Hunt Petroleum, leukemia.
* Ľubomír Kadnár, 67, Czechoslovak Olympic sprint canoer.
* Francisco Lozano, 76, Mexican Olympic cyclist.
* Alessandro Maggiolini, 77, Italian Bishop of Como, lung cancer.
* María Elena Marqués, 83, Mexican actress, heart failure.
* Lasse Sandberg, 84, Swedish writer and illustrator of children's literature.
* Herb Score, 75, American baseball pitcher and broadcaster (Cleveland Indians), after long illness.
* Jack Scott, 85, British weather forecaster, cancer.
* Kanhaiyalal Sethia, 89, Indian poet.

### 12

* Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor, 73, British aristocrat and patron of the arts, cancer.
* Tim L. Hall, 83, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1975–1977).
* Catherine Baker Knoll, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania since 2003, neuroendocrine cancer.
* Vladas Michelevičius, 84, Lithuanian bishop of Vilkaviškis.
* Mitch Mitchell, 61, British drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), natural causes.
* Margaret Moncrieff, 87, British cellist.
* George Morrison, 59, Canadian ice hockey player, brain tumour.
* Rex Neame, 72, English cricketer.
* Serge Nigg, 84, French composer.
* Raymond Routledge, 77, American bodybuilder, AAU Mr. America (1961).

### 13

* Jules Archer, 93, American author.
* Marcello Fondato, 84, Italian screenwriter (Black Sabbath, Blood and Black Lace) and director (Watch Out, We're Mad!).
* Bette Garber, 65, American photographer, pneumonia.
* Mustapha Oukacha, 75, Moroccan politician, president of the Assembly of Councillors.
* Ian Ridley, 74, Australian footballer (Melbourne Demons), emphysema.
* Paco Ignacio Taibo I, 84, Mexican writer and journalist, pneumonia.

### 14

* Knut Bjørnsen, 76, Norwegian sports commentator and journalist, pancreatic cancer.
* Michael Ugwu Eneja, 89, Nigerian Bishop of Enugu.
* Sir Bernard Feilden, 89, British conservation activist and restoration architect.
* Lung Fong, 54, Hong Kong actor, lung cancer,
* Irving Gertz, 93, American composer.
* Christel Goltz, 96, German soprano.
* Kristin Hunter, 77, American writer.
* Adrian Kantrowitz, 90, American physician, performed the first pediatric heart transplant, heart failure.
* Tsvetanka Khristova, 46, Bulgarian athlete, Olympic dual medallist in discus throw, cancer.
* Robert Leith-Macgregor, 91, British World War II pilot.
* Charles Le Quintrec, 82, French poet.
* Shaukat Hussein Mazari, 60, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
* Ajit Kumar Panja, 72, Indian politician, oral cancer.

### 15

* Glen Brand, 85, American wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1948).
* Matthew Cianciulli, 66, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1977–1979), heart failure.
* Peter Fellgett, 86, British physicist.
* Donald Finkel, 79, American poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Grace Hartigan, 86, American painter, liver failure.
* Louis Ormont, 90, American psychologist.
* Ivan Southall, 87, Australian children's author, cancer.

### 16

* Salah al-Deen Hafez, 70, Egyptian writer.
* Bruno Maldaner, 84, Brazilian Bishop of Frederico Westphalen.
* Jan Krugier, 80, Polish born Swiss art dealer and holocaust survivor.
* Luisín Landáez, 77, Venezuelan-Chilean cumbia singer.
* Tony Reedus, 49, American jazz drummer.
* Reg Varney, 92, British comedy actor (On the Buses).

### 17

* Don Albinson, 86, American industrial designer.
* Peter Aldis, 81, British footballer.
* Yaakov Alperon, 53, Israeli organized crime mobster, car bomb.
* Irv Anderson, 81, American politician.
* Eugene Andolsek, 87, American artistic draughtsman, pneumonia and sepsis.
* Sir James Baddiley, 90, British microbiologist.
* Irving Brecher, 94, American comedy writer, heart attack.
* Ennio De Concini, 84, Italian Academy Award–winning screenwriter (Divorce Italian Style, Black Sunday, War and Peace).
* Debby, 42, Soviet-born Canadian oldest living polar bear, third-oldest known bear, euthanasia due to multiple organ failure.
* Malcolm Dalrymple, 85, British Olympic athlete.
* Jean-Marie Demange, 65, French member of the National Assembly, Mayor of Thionville (1995–2008), suicide by gunshot.
* Jay Katz, 86, German-born American physician and medical ethicist, heart failure.
* Tafadzwa Madondo, 27, Zimbabwean cricketer, motorcycle accident.
* George Stephen Morrison, 89, American admiral, father of Jim Morrison.
* Pete Newell, 93, Canadian-born American basketball coach.
* Guy Peellaert, 74, Belgian painter, illustrator and photographer, cancer.
* Floyd Weaver, 67, American baseball player.

### 18

* Manuel Castro Ruiz, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop (1965–1969) and Archbishop (1969–1995) of Yucatán.
* George C. Chesbro, 68, American novelist, heart failure.
* George Green, 81, American NASCAR racing driver.
* Paul H. Todd, Jr., 87, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from Michigan (1965–1967).

### 19

* Farah Weheliye Addo, 68, Somali sports administrator, heart attack.
* Ameer Faisal Alavi, 54, Pakistani general, shot.
* Chester Anderson, 90, American football and wrestling coach.
* Clive Barnes, 81, American theatre and dance critic, liver cancer.
* Karl Bissinger, 94, American photographer.
* Carole Caldwell Graebner, 65, American tennis player, cancer.
* John Michael Hayes, 89, American screenwriter (Rear Window, BUtterfield 8, To Catch a Thief).
* Norman McVicker, 68, English cricketer.
* M. N. Nambiar, 89, Indian actor, after short illness.
* Edel von Rothe, 83, German ballerina,

### 20

* Teresa Amuli, 61, Mozambican politician, brain tumor.
* Raffaele Andreassi, 84, Italian film director.
* Seth Anthony, 93, Ghanaian soldier and diplomat.
* Aurora Correa, 78, Spanish-born Mexican exiled, writer and educator.
* Boris Fyodorov, 50, Russian politician and banker, stroke.
* Bennie Gonzales, 84, American Southwestern-style architect (Heard Museum), Alzheimer's disease.
* Betty James, 90, American businesswoman, co-founder of the Slinky company, wife of Richard T. James.
* Bob Jeter, 71, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears), heart attack.
* Jan Machulski, 80, Polish actor (Vabank), heart attack.
* Jim Mattox, 65, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1977–1983), Texas Attorney General (1983–1991).
* June Vincent, 88, American actor.

### 21

* Jules Aarons, 87, American space physicist.
* Jimmy Abson, 88, Canadian football player.
* Augustus Barber, 87, American businessman, cardiac arrest.
* Giacomo Bozzano, 75, Italian Olympic boxer.
* Marco Allen Chapman, 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Tom Gish, 82, American journalist and publisher, kidney failure and heart problems.
* Gleb Plaksin, 83, French-born Russian actor.
* Andrew Rowe, 73, British politician, MP for Faversham and Mid Kent (1983–2001), prostate cancer.

### 22

* Garnet Bougoure, 85, Australian jockey.
* MC Breed, 37, American rapper, kidney failure.
* Alan Gordon, 64, American songwriter ("Happy Together").
* Mario Fernando Hernández, 41, Honduran politician, Deputy Speaker of the National Congress, shot.
* Ibrahim Nasir, 82, Maldivian President (1968–1978).
* Rashid Rauf, 27, British-born Pakistani al-Qaeda terrorist, air strike.
* Sandy Ruby, 67, American entrepreneur, founder of Tech Hifi and Computer City, diabetes.
* Ted Wykes, 87, Australian cricket umpire, cancer.

### 23

* Ahmad Aghalou, 59, Iranian actor.
* Richard Hickox, 60, British conductor, heart attack.
* Jean Markale, 80, French writer and poet.
* Fred McAlister, 80, American baseball scout (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Mihail Velsvebel, 82, Estonian Olympic athlete.

### 24

* Charlotte Armstrong, 84, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
* Tom Burgess, 82, Canadian baseball player and coach, cancer.
* Frank Cieciorka, 69, American graphic artist and anti-war activist, emphysema.
* Richey James Edwards, 27, British musician (Manic Street Preachers), declared dead on this date (missing since February 1995).
* Bep Guidolin, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
* Michael Lee, 39, British rock drummer, seizure.
* Kenny MacLean, 52, Canadian bassist (Platinum Blonde), heart attack.
* Ray Perrault, 82, Canadian politician, Senator (1973–2001), Liberal Leader of Senate (1974–1982), Parkinson's disease.
* John Frederick Powell, 93, British air marshal.
* Stefan Schörghuber, 47, German brewing magnate, heart failure.
* John R. Stallings, 73, American mathematician.
* Cecil H. Underwood, 86, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1957–1961, 1997–2001).

### 25

* Sunday Ajibade Adenihun, 69, Nigerian politician, heart attack.
* William Dowd, 86, American harpsichord maker.
* Beno Eckmann, 91, Swiss mathematician.
* Ruth Alice Erickson, 95, American Director of the Navy Nurse Corps (1962–1966), pneumonia.
* Christian Fechner, 64, French film producer.
* Helmut Friedlaender, 95, German-born American book collector.
* William Gibson, 94, American playwright (The Miracle Worker).
* Leonard Goodwin, 93, British pharmacologist.
* Randy Gumpert, 90, American baseball player.
* David M. Jones, 94, American Air Force officer, Doolittle Raider.
* George Keegan, 80, Australian politician, heart attack.
* Max Oppy, 84, Australian footballer (Richmond).
* Brian Pearce, 93, British Marxist historian and translator.
* Dudley Savage, 88, British BBC radio presenter.
* Gerald Schoenfeld, 84, American theater impresario.
* Antanas Vaičius, 82, Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Administrator (1982–1989) and Bishop (1989–2001) of Telšiai.

### 26

* Kees Aarts, 66, Dutch soccer player.
* Bob Blake, 94, American ice hockey player.
* Ralph Burkei, 51, German television producer, fall.
* Edna Parker, 115, American supercentenarian, oldest validated living person.
* Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 83, Austrian-born American astrophysicist, leukemia.
* De'Angelo Wilson, 29, American actor (8 Mile, Antwone Fisher), suicide by hanging.
* Yang Jia, 28, Chinese mass murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Vitaly Karayev, 46, Russian mayor of Vladikavkaz.
* Notable people killed in the 2008 Mumbai attacks:
** Ashok Kamte, 43, Indian additional commissioner of Mumbai Police.
** Hemant Karkare, 54, Indian chief of the Mumbai Anti Terrorist Squad.
** Vijay Salaskar, 51, Indian encounter specialist with Mumbai Police.
** Loumia Hiridjee, 46, Malagasy-born French businesswoman.
** Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, Israeli-born American rabbi.
** Andreas Liveras, 73, Cypriot-born British business tycoon.

### 27

* Adi Da, 69, American-born Fijian artist.
* George MacPherson Docherty, 97, British-born American clergyman.
* Armand Fabella, 78, Filipino educator, Secretary of Education (1992–1994).
* Gideon Gechtman, 66, Israeli artist, heart failure.
* Gil Heron, 87, Jamaican footballer.
* Paul Hibbert, 56, Australian cricketer.
* Cullen Hightower, 84, American author of quips and quotes.
* Frances Janssen, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Patricia Marand, 74, American actress, brain cancer.
* Andrew McKelvey, 74, American founder of Monster.com, pancreatic cancer.
* Mike Minogue, 85, New Zealand politician, MP (1976–1984), cancer.
* Verne Orr, 92, American politician, Secretary of the Air Force (1981–1985).
* Pekka Pohjola, 56, Finnish bassist and composer.
* Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 77, Indian Prime Minister (1989–1990), blood cancer and renal failure.
* Andy Tomasic, 90, American football and baseball player.
* Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, 83, American scholar of Greek and Roman art, complications from a stroke.

### 28

* Alan Abbott, 82, English cricketer.
* Raja Perempuan Budriah, 84, Queen of Malaysia (1960–1965).
* Bill Finnegan, 80, American television and film producer (The Fabulous Baker Boys, Hawaii Five-O), Parkinson's disease.
* John Harryson, 82, Swedish actor and entertainer.
* Joža Karas, 82, Polish-born American musician and teacher.
* Sir Hugh Laddie, 62, British intellectual property lawyer and High Court judge, cancer.
* Raymond Meyzenq, 73, French cyclist.
* Red Murff, 87, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves) and scout.
* Victor Nieto, 92, Colombian founder and director of the Cartagena Film Festival.
* Edoardo Ricci, 80, Italian Bishop of San Miniato.
* German Skurygin, 45, Russian race walker, heart attack.
* Wo Weihan, 59, Chinese biochemist, executed.
* Helena Wolińska-Brus, 89, Polish military prosecutor, pneumonia.
* Robert Zarinsky, 68, American serial killer, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Tukaram Omble, 54, Indian Assistant Sub-Inspector of Mumbai Police, shot.
* Sandeep Unnikrishnan, 31, Major of NSG Commando, shot.
* Gajender Singh Bisht, 36, NSG commando and Havildar, shot.

### 29

* Bill Drake, 71, American radio programmer.
* Ulises Dumont, 71, Argentine actor, heart problems.
* Arthur Kantrowitz, 95, American physicist and engineer.
* Chhabildas Mehta, 83, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Gujarat (1994–1995)
* Sten Rudholm, 90, Swedish jurist, member of the Swedish Academy, natural causes.
* Jørn Utzon, 90, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House), heart attack.
* Georgi Vyun, 54, Russian football player and coach.
* Robert Wade, 87, New Zealand-born British chess champion, pneumonia.

### 30

* Béatrix Beck, 94, Belgian writer.
* Thomas S. Crow, 74, American military officer, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (1979–1982), cancer.
* Naomi Datta, 86, British bacteriologist.
* Doris Dungey, 47, American financial blogger, ovarian cancer.
* Munetaka Higuchi, 49, Japanese drummer (Loudness), liver cancer.
* Ralph A. Lewin, 87, American biologist.
* Pit Martin, 64, Canadian ice hockey player, drowned.
* Nick George Montos, 92, American felon, oldest inmate in Massachusetts.
* Peter Rees, Baron Rees, 81, British politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1983–1985).
* Miroslav Sláma, 91, Czechoslovakian Olympic ice hockey player.