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

## May 2008
### 1

* Aden Hashi Farah Ayro, Somalian politician and Al-Shabaab member, airstrike.
* Paulo Amaral, 84, Brazilian football player (Flamengo) and coach (Juventus).
* SM Nasimuddin SM Amin, 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza, lung cancer.
* Bernard Archard, 91, British actor (Krull, Doctor Who, Emmerdale).
* Buzzie Bavasi, 93, American baseball executive (Dodgers, Angels, Padres).
* Mary Berry, 90, British musicologist and nun.
* Philipp von Boeselager, 90, German World War II anti-Hitler conspirator.
* Nirmala Deshpande, 78, Indian peace activist, after brief illness.
* Elaine Dundy, 86, American writer and actress.
* Aden Hashi Farah, Somali leader of Al-Shabab insurgent group, air strike.
* Jim Hager, 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw), heart attack.
* Mark Kendall, 49, British footballer (Spurs, Newport, Wolves).
* Sir Anthony Mamo, 99, Maltese politician, first president of the Republic of Malta.
* Alberto Estima de Oliveira, 74, Portuguese poet.
* Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging.
* Marcel Van Der Auwera, 84, Belgian fencer.
* J. J. Voskuil, 81, Dutch novelist.

### 2

* Josephine Apieu Jenaro Aken, 53, South Sudanese civil servant, plane crash.
* Robert Brachtenbach, 77, American jurist, Washington State Supreme Court justice (1972–1994), throat cancer.
* Carole Dekeijser, 48, Belgian painter, lung cancer.
* Dominic Dim Deng, 58, Sudanese politician, defence minister for Southern Sudan, plane crash.
* Robert M. Isaac, 80, American politician, mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado (1979–1997), pneumonia.
* Sergio Lauricella, 86, Italian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) composer.
* Mildred Loving, 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia).
* Ilyas Malayev, 72, Uzbekistani musician and poet, pancreatic cancer.
* Beverlee McKinsey, 72, American actress (Another World, Guiding Light, Bronco Billy), complications from kidney transplant.
* Izold Pustõlnik, 70, Ukrainian-born Estonian astronomer.
* Daniel Sekhoto, 37, South African football player.
* Mike Titcomb, 75, British rugby union referee, kidney failure.
* Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr., 93, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Ruffian).
* Justin Yak, Sudanese politician, minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash.

### 3

* Charles Caccia, 78, Canadian politician, environmentalist, Liberal MP for Davenport (1968–2004), complications of stroke.
* Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 82, Spanish prime minister (1981–1982), natural causes.
* Eight Belles, 3, American racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby 2nd-place finisher, euthanized.
* Martin Finnegan, 27, Irish motorbike racer, race crash.
* Fay Gale, 75, Australian cultural geographer.
* Lynne Cooper Harvey, 92, American radio producer, Radio Hall of Fame member, wife of Paul Harvey, leukemia.
* Ted Key, 95, American cartoonist (Hazel), bladder cancer and stroke.
* Hanon Reznikov, 57, American playwright.
* Morgan Sparks, 91, American engineer, inventor of the first practical bipolar junction transistor.
* Ngugi wa Mirii, 57, Kenyan playwright, car accident.

### 4

* Roger Aeschlimann, 84, Swiss cyclist.
* John Altieri, 38, American actor (Jersey Boys), pneumonia.
* Fred Baur, 89, American chemist, inventor of the Pringles can.
* Alvin Colt, 92, American Tony Award-winning costume designer (On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Pipe Dream, Li'l Abner).
* John Greenwood, 57, British businessman and catering executive, motor neurone disease.
* Fred Haines, 72, American screenwriter and film director, lung cancer.
* Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham, 71, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.
* Kishan Maharaj, 84, Indian musician, leading exponent of the Benares gharana tabla, stroke.
* Colin Murdoch, 79, New Zealand inventor of the disposable hypodermic syringe and the tranquilizer gun, cancer.

### 5

* Sam Aubrey, 85, American basketball player and coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys).
* Thomas Boggs, 63, American drummer (Box Tops), owner of Huey's Restaurants.
* Hugh Bradner, 92, American scientist credited with inventing the wetsuit, complications of pneumonia.
* Pak Kyongni, 82, South Korean novelist, lung cancer.
* Irv Robbins, 90, American businessman, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain.
* Zvonko Sabolović, 84, Yugoslav Olympic sprinter.
* Alma Hogan Snell, 85, American Crow tribal nation historian, herbalist, granddaughter of Pretty Shield.
* Jerry Wallace, 79, American country music singer, heart failure.
* Witold Woyda, 68, Polish fencer, double gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, lung cancer.

### 6

* John Jay Iselin, 74, American public television innovator, descendant of John Jay, pneumonia.
* Franz Jackson, 95, American saxophonist.
* Harvey Karman, 84, American psychologist and women's reproductive health advocate, inventor of the Karman cannula, stroke.
* William Earl Lynd, 53, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
* Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, 74, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.
* D.C. Minner, 73, American blues musician.
* John Reames, 65, British football manager and administrator, cancer.
* Mark Saunders, 32, British barrister, shot by police.

### 7

* William Douglas Allen, 94, British physicist and electrical engineer.
* John Earle, 64, Irish saxophonist.
* Neeraj Grover, 26, Indian television executive and producer (Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?), beaten.
* Rachel Hoffman, 23, American police informant, murdered.
* Clifford L. Jones, 80, American politician, Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman, prostate cancer.
* Donald Montrose, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Stockton (1986–1999).
* Thijs Wöltgens, 64, Dutch politician, mayor of Kerkrade (1994–2000), senator (1995–2005).
* Gernot Zippe, 90, Austrian engineer.

### 8

* Al-Bandari bint Abdulaziz, 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
* Eddy Arnold, 89, American country music singer.
* Willem Brakman, 85, Dutch author.
* Ian Brodie, 72, British foreign correspondent (The Daily Telegraph).
* Jose Feria, 91, Filipino supreme court justice (1986–1987).
* Yasuharu Furuta, 93, Japanese Olympic hurdler.
* Murray Jarvik, 84, American academic and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, heart failure.
* Larry Levine, 80, American Grammy-winning audio engineer (Wall of Sound), emphysema.
* Luigi Malerba, 81, Italian writer.
* Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, 41, Mexican federal police anti-drug coordinator, shot.
* François Sterchele, 26, Belgian footballer (Belgium, Club Brugge), car accident.

### 9

* James Atkinson, 92, British physicist.
* Firoz Dastur, 89, Indian Hindustani classical musician (Kirana Gharana), anaemia.
* Jack Gibson, 79, Australian rugby league player and coach, selected as "Coach of the Century".
* Judy Grable, 72, American female professional wrestler.
* Shmuel Katz, 93, Israeli writer, historian and journalist.
* Arthur Kroeger, 76, Canadian civil servant (1958–1992), academic and chancellor of Carleton University (1993–2002).
* Baptiste Manzini, 87, American football player.
* Nuala O'Faolain, 68, Irish journalist and author, lung cancer.
* Mamadou N'Diaye, 68, Senegalese Olympic sprinter.
* Ronald Parise, 56, American astronaut, brain tumor.
* Esteban Robles Espinosa, Mexican police commander, shot.
* Pascal Sevran, 62, French television presenter and producer, lyricist and writer, lung cancer.
* Sinan Sofuoğlu, 25, Turkish motorcycle racer, training crash.
* Artur da Távola, 72, Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, heart disease.

### 10

* Sir John Barraclough, 90, British air marshal.
* Leyla Gencer, 79, Turkish soprano opera singer, respiratory and cardiac failure.
* Paul Haeberlin, 84, French chef and restaurateur (L'Auberge de l'Ill).
* Jessica Jacobs, 17, Australian singer and actress (The Saddle Club), fell under train.
* Jimmy Mizen, 16, English schoolboy.
* Liao Feng-Teh, 57, Taiwanese incoming interior minister, heart attack.
* Eusebio Ríos, 73, Spanish international footballer and coach.
* Mario Schiano, 74, Italian jazz saxophonist, after long Illness.
* Peter Thurnham, 69, British MP for Bolton North East (1983–1997), pancreatic cancer.

### 11

* Sir Austin Bide, 92, British chemist and industrialist.
* Sam Dauya, 70, Zimbabwean founder of Dynamos F.C. football team.
* Alema Leota, 80, American alleged organized crime leader, 1978 candidate for governor of Hawaii, injuries from car accident.
* Raymattja Marika, 49, Australian Yolngu scholar, linguist, educator and cultural advocate, heart attack.
* Bruno Neves, 27, Portuguese cyclist, crash during race.
* Dottie Rambo, 74, American gospel singer, bus crash.
* John Rutsey, 55, Canadian drummer (Rush), heart attack.
* Heather Stohler, 29, American model for Calvin Klein, fire.
* Dick Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke.
* Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease.
* Curtis Whitley, 39, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Carolina Panthers, Oakland Raiders).

### 12

* Seton Airlie, 88, Scottish footballer.
* Penny Banner, 73, American professional wrestler, cancer.
* David Daniels, 74, American poet.
* Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist (Warlock), kidney disease and cancer.
* Lidiya Masterkova, 81, Russian-born French painter.
* Natural Blitz, 7–8, Australian-bred stallion.
* Robert Rauschenberg, 82, American pop artist, heart failure.
* Bruce Sayers, 80, British electrical engineer.
* Irena Sendler, 98, Polish humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

### 13

* Jill Adams, 77, British actress, cancer.
* Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 78, Kuwaiti emir (2006).
* Dolores Alexander, 76, American feminist, writer, and reporter.
* Charles Gary Allison, 69–70, American screenwriter and film producer.
* Lucius D. Battle, 89, American ambassador to Egypt (1964–1967), Parkinson's disease.
* Bernardin Gantin, 86, Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
* John Phillip Law, 70, American actor (Barbarella).
* Larry McKeon, 63, American politician, first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly, stroke.
* Colea Răutu, 95, Romanian actor, cirrhosis.
* Ron Stone, 72, American news anchor (KHOU, KPRC in Houston), prostate cancer.
* Costică Toma, 80, Romanian football goalkeeper (Romania, Steaua București).
* Maheswary Velautham, Sri Lankan lawyer and activist, shot.
* Roger Harold Metford Warner, 95, British antiques dealer.

### 14

* Frith Banbury, 96, British stage director and actor, liver cancer.
* Dagmar Barnouw, 72, German cultural historian.
* Arthur Burks, 92, American mathematician and computer pioneer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Warren Cowan, 87, American publicist, cancer.
* Roger Ellis, 70, American football player, cancer.
* John Forbes-Robertson, 80, British actor.
* Derek Goodwin, 88, British ornithologist.
* Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese writer.
* Jay Morago, 90, American governor of the Gila River Indian Community (1954–1960), cancer.
* Tonderai Ndira, 33, Zimbabwean political dissident, murdered.
* Yuri Rytkheu, 78, Russian Chukchi language writer.
* Mário Schoemberger, 56, Brazilian film, television and stage actor, cancer.
* Richard David Vine, 82, American diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland (1979–1981).

### 15

* Del Ankers, 91, American cinematographer and photographer (Muppets commercials).
* Henry Austin, 88, Indian diplomat and politician, ambassador to Portugal.
* Tommy Burns, 51, Scottish football player and manager (Celtic, Kilmarnock, Reading), melanoma.
* Tove Billington Bye, 79, Norwegian politician.
* Alexander Courage, 88, American television composer (Star Trek, The Waltons) and orchestrator (Jurassic Park).
* Anthony Denness, 71, English cricketer.
* Walt Dickerson, 80, American vibraphonist, cardiac arrest.
* Robert Dunlop, 47, British motorcycle racer, chest injuries.
* Will Elder, 86, American comic book artist (Mad, Little Annie Fanny), Parkinson's disease.
* Bob Florence, 75, American jazz composer and arranger, pneumonia.
* Youssef Idilbi, 32, Dutch actor, suicide by jumping.
* Willis Lamb, 94, American physicist, Nobel laureate in physics (1955), complications of gallstone disorder.
* Earl Leggett, 75, American football player and coach.
* Yanks Music, 14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Morsal Obeidi, 16, German-Afghan murder victim, honour killing.

### 16

* Charles J. Adams, 91, American politician.
* Aonosato Sakari, 72, Japanese sumo wrestler.
* William Blease, Baron Blease, 93, British politician.
* Henry Canoy, 84, Filipino businessman, founder of Radio Mindanao Network.
* Sandy Howard, 80, American film and television producer (A Man Called Horse), Alzheimer's disease.
* David Mitton, 69, British animation director (Thomas & Friends, Thunderbirds), heart attack.
* Robert Mondavi, 94, American winemaker, benefactor of the Mondavi Center, member of the California Hall of Fame.
* Igor Polyakov, 95, Russian rower, 1952 Olympic silver medalist.
* Marc Rabémila, 70, Malagasy Olympic athlete.
* Jimmy Slyde, 80, American tap dancer.
* Peter Rolfe Vaughan, 73, English scientist, heart attack.

### 17

* Jolyon Brettingham Smith, 58, British composer, musicologist and radio presenter.
* John Fitzsimmons, 68, British Roman Catholic priest and broadcaster, after long illness.
* Thomas Flatley, 76, American real estate tycoon and philanthropist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Zélia Gattai, 91, Brazilian writer and novelist, wife of Jorge Amado.
* Wilfrid Mellers, 94, British composer and author.
* D. Aubrey Moodie, 99, Canadian politician.
* Jack Rayner, 87, Australian rugby league player.
* Sophan Sophiaan, 64, Indonesian actor and politician, motorcycle accident.
* Joyce Trimmer, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (1988–1994), cancer.
* Lionel Van Deerlin, 93, American politician and journalist, representative from California (1963–1981).

### 18

* Lionel Algama, 73, Sri Lankan singer, composer and a musician.
* Pietro Cascella, 87, Italian contemporary artist.
* Irma Córdoba, 94, Argentine actress, natural causes.
* Jonathan James, 24, American cyber criminal.
* John Lucas, 85, Barbadian-born Canadian cricketer.
* Lloyd Moore, 95, American NASCAR driver (1949–1955).
* Elemore Morgan, Jr., 76, American landscape artist.
* Jack Norris, 99, American football player.
* Joseph Pevney, 96, American television and film director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase, Trapper John, M.D.).

### 19

* Nigel Cassidy, 62, British footballer.
* Larry Coutre, 80, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
* Jack Duffy, 81, Canadian comedian, natural causes.
* Chaim Flom, 56, Israeli scholar and rosh yeshiva.
* Huntington Hartford, 97, American businessman and philanthropist.
* Barclay Howard, 55, British golfer.
* Rimma Kazakova, 76, Russian poet.
* Mariam McGlone, 92, American dancer and choreographer.
* Kjell Kristian Rike, 63, Norwegian sports commentator.
* André Schlupp, 78, French Olympic basketball player.
* Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright, myasthenia gravis.

### 20

* Iona Banks, 87, British actress (Pobol y Cwm).
* Crispin Beltran, 75, Filipino congressman and labor leader, head injuries from a fall.
* Viktor Bortsov, 73, Russian actor, intestinal cancer.
* Margot Boyd, 94, British actress (The Archers).
* Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison, 71, British footballer and trade unionist.
* Charles William John Eliot, 79, Canadian academic administrator, president of the University of Prince Edward Island (1985–1995), complications of a stroke.
* Joachim Erwin, 58, German politician, mayor of Düsseldorf, colorectal cancer.
* Gonzalo Figueroa Garcia Huidobro, 77, Chilean archaeologist.
* Herb Hash, 97, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox), stroke.
* Harald Hein, 58, German Olympic fencer.
* Zelma Henderson, 88, American last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, pancreatic cancer.
* Hamilton Jordan, 63, American politician, Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff (1979–1980), mesothelioma.
* Baine Kerr, 88, American lawyer and oil executive.
* Cy Leonard, 82, Canadian ventriloquist.
* Ali Sadikin, 80, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta (1966–1977), liver cancer.
* S. K. Trimurti, 96, Indonesian journalist, first minister of labor and employment, natural causes.

### 21

* Bert André, 66, Dutch actor (Flodder), intracranial hemorrhage
* Earl Wesley Berry, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Mel Casson, 87, American cartoonist (Redeye).
* Brian Keenan, 66, Irish IRA commander, cancer.
* Ted Lanyon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Michelle Meldrum, 39, American rock guitarist (Phantom Blue, Meldrum), cystic growth on the brain.
* John Aloysius Morgan, 98, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.
* Siegmund Nissel, 86, German-born British violinist (Amadeus Quartet).
* Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, 77, Portuguese artist and engraver, long illness.
* Torcato Sepúlveda, 57, Portuguese journalist.
* Jeheskel Shoshani, 65, Israeli-born American elephant expert, bus explosion.

### 22

* Melek Amet, 47, Romanian model, ovarian cancer.
* Robert Asprin, 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures), heart attack.
* Charlie Booth, 104, Australian athlete, inventor of the starting block.
* Harry Lange, 77, German production designer and art director (2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal).
* Jack Mildren, 58, American football player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (1990–1995), stomach cancer.
* Paul Patrick, 58, British gay rights activist, chronic lung condition.
* Hana Maria Pravda, 90, Czech actress and Holocaust survivor.
* Tubby T, 33, British dancehall/garage musician, stroke.

### 23

* Nigel Anderson, 88, British soldier, landowner, and politician.
* Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and critic.
* Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer, founder of the International Center of Photography.
* Roberto Freire, 81, Brazilian writer and psychiatrist, created somatherapy.
* Dritan Hoxha, 39, Albanian businessman, car accident.
* Thelma Keane, 82, Australian-born American who inspired husband Bil's comic strip The Family Circus, Alzheimer's disease.
* Heinz Kwiatkowski, 81, German footballer, member of 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning team.
* Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, 40, Spanish mountaineer and alpinist, pulmonary edema while climbing Annapurna.
* Jefferson Peres, 76, Brazilian senator from Amazonas, heart attack.
* Utah Phillips, 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure.
* Jack Smith, 72, English football player (Hartlepool United, Swindon Town, Margate) and manager.

### 24

* Adam Baruch, 63, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic, diabetes complications.
* Bob Beck, 63, Guamanian zoologist and conservationist, worked to save Guam rail native birds.
* Tano Cimarosa, 86, Italian actor.
* Reg Flewin, 87, British footballer.
* Rob Knox, 18, British actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), stabbed.
* Eugenio Garza Lagüera, 84, Mexican businessman, president of FEMSA, natural causes.
* Isaac Lipschits, 77, Dutch political scientist and historian, natural causes.
* Dick Martin, 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), respiratory complications.
* Jimmy McGriff, 72, American jazz and blues organist, multiple sclerosis.
* Sonny Okosun, 61, Nigerian musician, colon cancer.

### 25

* Nadia Arslan, 59, Lebanese actress, breast cancer.
* Louise Firouz, 74, American horse breeder.
* George Garrett, 78, American novelist and poet, cancer.
* Geremi González, 33, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, lightning strike.
* James D. Griffin, 78, American mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
* Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian chess grandmaster.
* Ítalo Argentino Lúder, 91, Argentine acting president (1975).
* Tom McHale, 45, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
* Mitch Mullany, 39, American comedian and actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, The Wayans Bros., The Sweetest Thing), diabetes-related stroke.
* J. R. Simplot, 99, American businessman, original McDonald's french fries supplier.
* Olaf Sørensen, 90, Danish Olympic runner.
* Ernst Stuhlinger, 94, German-born American rocket scientist.
* Camu Tao, 30, American rapper-producer, lung cancer.
* Kenneth H. Wood, 90, American author and administrator, editor of the Adventist Review, heart failure.

### 26

* Dolly Aglay, 41, Filipino financial journalist, cancer.
* Jerry C. Begay, 83, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran.
* Dick Evans, 90, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Cardinals).
* Hans Haasmann, 92, Dutch Olympic diver Hans Haasmann Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
* Earle Hagen, 88, American film and television theme composer (The Andy Griffith Show, The Mod Squad, I Spy).
* Howlin' Dave, 52, Filipino radio disc jockey and proponent of Pinoy rock, stroke.
* John Hulme, 63, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Reading, Bury).
* Roy Koerner, 75, British polar scientist and explorer.
* Yuriy Konovalov, 78, Soviet-born Azerbaijani Olympic track athlete, 4 × 100 m relay silver medallist (1956 and 1960).
* Donald L. Pilling, 64, American admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1997–2000), leukemia.
* Sydney Pollack, 73, American film director and actor (Tootsie, Out of Africa, Michael Clayton), Oscar winner (1986), stomach cancer.
* Alan Renouf, 89, Australian head of DFAT, ambassador to United States (1977–1979), France and Yugoslavia, leukemia.
* Kermit Scott, 71, American philosophy professor, namesake of Kermit the Frog.
* Robert G. Voight, 87, American academic.

### 27

* Ed Arno, 91, Austrian-American cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist.
* Valmae Beck, 64, Australian child murderer, complications of heart surgery.
* Tony Hussein Hinde, 55, Australian-born Maldivian surfer, heart attack.
* Jim Kerr, 68, American professional football player (Washington Redskins)
* Franz Künstler, 107, German World War I veteran, last known surviving veteran of the Central Powers.
* Hubert Macey, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).
* Per Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic shooter.
* Mick Nolan, 58, Australian footballer, cancer.
* Neal Potter, 93, American politician.
* Abram Raselemane, 30, South African footballer, apparent suicide by hanging.
* Alejandro Romualdo, 82, Peruvian poet.
* Keith Rosewarne, 83, Australian footballer.

### 28

* Beryl Cook, 81, British painter.
* Sven Davidson, 79, Swedish tennis player.
* Robert H. Justman, 81, American television and film producer (Star Trek), Parkinson's disease.
* Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer.
* Danny Moss, 80, British jazz tenor saxophonist.
* Nashoba's Key, 5, American racehorse, euthanized.
* Dianne Odell, 61, American author with polio, power failure to iron lung.
* Erin Spanevello, 21, Canadian fashion model, drug overdose.

### 29

* Paula Gunn Allen, 68, Native American poet, novelist, and activist, lung cancer.
* José Alejandro Bernales, 59, Chilean director general of Carabineros de Chile, helicopter crash.
* Luc Bourdon, 21, Canadian ice hockey player, motorcycle accident.
* Romeo A. Brawner, 72, Filipino appeals court judge (1995–2005), election commissioner (2005–2008), heart attack.
* Len Devine, 84, Australian politician, MP for East Sydney (1963–1969).
* Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flintstones), four-time Emmy winner, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
* Donald MacLeod, 75, New Zealand cricketer.

### 30

* Harry Brautigam, 59, Nicaraguan president of the BCIE since 2003, heart problem after air crash.
* Campbell Burnap, 68, British jazz trombonist, cancer.
* Harlan Cleveland, 90, American diplomat, educator and author, ambassador to NATO (1965–1969), natural causes.
* Rodney Gordon, 75, British architect.
* Graeme Miller, 67, Australian cricketer.
* Noel Moore, 79, British civil servant, leader of decimalisation project, brain tumour.
* Chris Morgan, 55, British journalist, apparent suicide in front of a train.
* William Eldridge Odom, 75, American Army Lieutenant General and director of the National Security Agency.
* Lorenzo Odone, 30, American ALD patient portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil.
* Mike Scott, 75, British television producer and presenter.
* Boris Shakhlin, 76, Russian-born Ukrainian gymnast, winner of seven Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union, cardiac arrest.
* Suprakash Som, 60, Indian cricketer.
* Nat Temple, 94, British bandleader.

### 31

* Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall.
* John Ambler, 83, British businessman.
* Joe Axelson, 80, American executive and general manager of the National Basketball Association Sacramento Kings.
* Nusret Çolpan, 56, Turkish painter and architect.
* Detlef Gromoll, 70, American mathematician, brain hemorrhage.
* Nelly Láinez, 88, Argentine actress, urinary infection.
* Per-Erik Larsson, 79, Swedish skier.
* Charles Moskos, 74, American sociologist, architect of the US military DADT gay and lesbian policy, cancer.
* Paul Thomson, 91, American botanist, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association.
* Allan Wiles, 87, New Zealand cricketer.