# Deaths in February 2009
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

## February 2009
### 1

* Charles W. Akers, 88, American historian.
* Joe Ades, 74, American salesman.
* Anna Donald, 42, Australian epidemiologist, breast cancer.
* Lukas Foss, 86, American composer, conductor, pianist and educator, heart attack.
* Tim Grundy, 50, British radio and television presenter, heart attack.
* Michael Homer, 50, American business executive (Netscape), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
* Ranbir Singh Hooda, 94, Indian politician, after long illness.
* Peter Howson, 89, Australian politician, Minister for Air (1964–1968) and Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (1971–1972), fall.
* Arieh Levavi, 96, Lithuanian-born Israeli public servant, ambassador to Argentina during capture of Adolf Eichmann.
* Yoya Martínez, 96, Chilean actress, natural causes.
* Jim McWithey, 81, American race car driver.
* Roy Magee, 79, Northern Irish peace activist.
* Sir Alan Muir Wood, 87, British civil engineer.
* Edward Joseph O'Donnell, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lafayette (1994–2002).
* John Roy Whinnery, 92, American electrical engineer and educator.

### 2

* Donald Alexander, 87, American government official, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1973–1977), cancer.
* Paul Birch, 46, English footballer (Aston Villa, Wolves), bone cancer.
* Ralph Carpenter, 99, American antique and architecture preservationist, natural causes.
* Alan Davies, 75, English rugby league player, (Oldham, Wigan, Great Britain).
* Lublin Dilja, 51, Albanian ambassador.
* Yusril Djalinus, 64, Indonesian journalist, co-founder of Tempo Magazine, stroke.
* Phil Easton, 59, English radio presenter and football announcer.
* Russ Germain, 62, Canadian radio presenter, lung cancer.
* Paul Galloway, 74, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune), heart attack.
* Susan Hibbert, 84, British secretary, last surviving British witness to signing of the World War II German Instrument of Surrender.
* Howard Kanovitz, 79, American painter, bacterial infection after heart surgery.
* Ralph Kaplowitz, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), kidney failure.
* Fredrik Kayser, 90, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II, after long illness.
* John A. Knight, 77, American church leader, General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene (1985–2001).
* James E. Long, 68, American politician, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance (1985–2009), complications of a stroke.
* Jean Martin, 86, French actor (The Battle of Algiers, The Day of the Jackal), cancer.
* Ezzat Negahban, 82, Iranian archaeologist.
* Louis Proost, 73, Belgian racing cyclist.
* Joe M. Rodgers, 75, American construction executive, Ambassador to France (1985–1989), cancer.
* Sunny Skylar, 95, American songwriter.
* Ralf Veidemann, 96, Estonian footballer.
* Jim Wilson, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and wrestler, cancer.
* Kazuhiro Yamauchi, 76, Japanese baseball player, liver failure.

### 3

* Ben Blank, 87, American television graphics innovator (CBS, ABC), complications from a stroke.
* Tom Brumley, 73, American steel guitarist (The Buckaroos), heart attack.
* Rabindra Kumar Das Gupta, 93, Indian scholar of Bengali and English literature.
* Kurt Demmler, 65, German songwriter, suicide by hanging.
* Sid Finney, 79, British ice hockey player.
* Millard Fuller, 74, American co-founder of Habitat for Humanity International, after short illness.
* Henry Hsu, 96, Chinese-born Taiwanese athlete and politician, MLY (1973–1987), heart failure.
* Warren Kimbro, 74, American Black Panther member, convicted murderer and charitable organization executive, heart attack.
* Mike Maloy, 59, American-born Austrian basketball player, influenza.
* Max Neuhaus, 69, American musician, cancer.
* António dos Reis Rodrigues, 90, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate Bishop of Madarsuma (1966–1998).
* Jorge Serguera, 76, Cuban journalist, President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (death announced on this date).
* Sheng-yen, 79, Chinese-born Taiwanese Buddhist Zen master, kidney disease.
* Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, 84, Ukrainian writer, after long illness.

### 4

* Antonie Dixon, 40, New Zealand murderer, suicide.
* Christophe Dupouey, 40, French cyclist, World Cross Country Champion (1996), suicide.
* Arnljot Eggen, 85, Norwegian writer.
* Ramón Hernández, 68, Puerto Rican baseball player.
* Lux Interior, 62, American singer, songwriter and musician (The Cramps), aortic dissection.
* Ed Schwartz, 62, American radio personality, kidney and heart disease.
* Mark Shepherd, 86, American chairman of Texas Instruments (1976–1988), complications from pulmonary fibrosis.
* David Snow, 84, British ornithologist.

### 5

* Sigurd Andersson, 82, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) cross-country skier.
* Albert Barillé, 88, French television screenwriter and producer.
* John W. Grace, 82, Canadian Privacy Commissioner (1983–1990), heart attack.
* Khalid Hasan, 74, Pakistani journalist and author, cancer.
* George Hughes, 83, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Payton Jordan, 91, American coach of 1968 United States Olympic track and field team, cancer.
* Leo Orenstein, 89, Canadian director, producer and writer.
* Raaphi Persitz, 74, Israeli chess master.
* Dana Vávrová, 41, Czech-German actress and film director, cervical cancer.
* Noah Weinberg, 78, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah.
* Xiangzhong Yang, 49, Chinese-born American stem cell scientist, cancer.
* Anthony Finigan, 83, British actor.

### 6

* Bashir Ahmad, 68, Indian-born Scottish politician, MSP for Glasgow region, heart attack.
* Philip Carey, 83, American actor (One Life to Live), lung cancer.
* Anthony Finigan, 83, British actor.
* Alfred Flores, 92, Guamanian rancher and politician, member of the Legislature of Guam.
* George Karpati, 74, Canadian neurologist.
* Shirley Jean Rickert, 82, American actress (Our Gang).
* Susan Walsh, 60, American actress (Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos, Multiple Maniacs).
* James Whitmore, 87, American actor (Oklahoma!. Planet of the Apes, The Shawshank Redemption), Emmy winner (2000), lung cancer.

### 7

* Molly Bee, 69, American country singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), complications from a stroke.
* Jack Cover, 88, American scientist, inventor of the Taser, pneumonia.
* Blossom Dearie, 82, American jazz singer and pianist (Schoolhouse Rock!), after long illness.
* Reg Evans, 80, Australian actor, bushfire.
* John Gabler, 78, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees, Washington Senators).
* Sir George Godber, 100, British physician and public servant, Chief Medical Officer (1960–1973).
* Richard Gordon, 61, British author, heart attack.
* Joe Haverty, 72, Irish footballer (Arsenal, Blackburn Rovers, Millwall, Republic of Ireland).
* Betty Jameson, 89, American golfer, three-time major championship winner.
* Jacques Lancelot, 88, French clarinetist, heart failure.
* Mel Kaufman, 50, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Brian Naylor, 78, Australian news presenter, bushfire.
* Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack.
* Piotr Stańczak, 42, Polish geologist, beheaded.
* Richard Zann, 64, Australian ornithologist, bushfire.

### 8

* Marian Cozma, 26, Romanian handball player, stabbed.
* William Alexander Deer, 98, British geologist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1971–1973).
* Sigurdur Helgason, 87, Icelandic business executive, CEO of Icelandair and pioneer of low cost airlines.
* Harry Hillaker, 89, American aeronautical engineer.
* Paul Himmel, 94-95, American photographer.
* Wenche Klouman, 90, Norwegian actress.
* Wesley L. McDonald, 84, American admiral and naval aviator.
* Neil McNeill, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1961–1963).
* Giorgio Melchiori, 88, Italian literary critic.
* Francis Dennis Ramsay, 83, Scottish painter.
* Terry Spencer, 90, British RAF fighter pilot and war photographer, cancer.
* Bob Stephen, 50, Canadian football player, heart attack.

### 9

* Robert Anderson, 91, American Academy Award–nominated playwright and screenwriter, pneumonia.
* Kazys Bradūnas, 91, Lithuanian émigré poet and editor.
* Marc Burrows, 30, British footballer, cancer.
* Gareth Alban Davies, 82, British academic and poet.
* Reg Davies, 79, Welsh footballer (Newcastle United, Swansea Town, Wales).
* Eluana Englaro, 38, Italian patient in right to die case, withdrawal of nutrition.
* Neville Hamilton, 48, British footballer.
* Webster Kitchell, 77, American religious leader.
* Vic Lewis, 89, British jazz guitarist.
* Orlando "Cachaíto" López, 76, Cuban bassist (Buena Vista Social Club), complications from prostate surgery.
* Don Maclennan, 79, South African poet and playwright.
* Maria Orwid, 78, Polish psychiatrist.
* Peer Portner, 69, Kenyan-born British developer of ventricular assist device, cancer.
* Sean F. Scott, 39, American amyotrophic lateral sclerosis activist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

### 10

* Jan Błoński, 78, Polish literary critic, Holocaust scholar.
* Carolyn George, 81, American dancer and photographer, primary lateral sclerosis.
* Eva Gustavson, 91, Norwegian-American contralto.
* Leila Hadley, 83, American travel writer.
* Philippe Kourouma, 76, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of N’Zérékoré.
* Berting Labra, 75, Filipino character actor, emphysema.
* Jeremy Lusk, 24, American motocross racer, brain injury.
* Jean-Baptiste Mintsa-Mi-Mba, 60, Gabonese politician.
* Nate Schenker, 91, American football player.

### 11

* Estelle Bennett, 67, American singer (The Ronettes), colon cancer.
* Fred Graves, 84, Canadian Olympic rower.
* Virgil Lee Griffin, 64, American Ku Klux Klan leader.
* Vlastibor Klimeš, 84, Czech architect.
* Willem Johan Kolff, 97, Dutch-born American physician, inventor of the artificial kidney.
* Sir Peter Leng, 83, British Army general.
* Penny Ramsey, 61, Australian actress, cancer.
* Rail Rzayev, 64, Azerbaijani general, head of the Air Force, shot.
* Marina Svetlova, 86, French-born American ballerina and teacher, complications from stroke.
* Mildred Wolfe, 96, American artist, after long illness.
* Shyamala Gopalan, 70, Tamil-born American biomedical scientist, colon cancer.

### 12

* Hermann Becht, 69, German opera singer.
* Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, 70, Indian professor of combinatorics and graph theory.
* Giacomo Bulgarelli, 68, Italian footballer, after long illness.
* Evan Ira Farber, 87, American Faculty Emeritus (Earlham College).
* Ed Grothus, 85, American anti-nuclear activist, cancer.
* Lis Hartel, 87, Danish equestrian.
* Hugh Leonard, 82, Irish playwright, multiple ailments.
* Mat Mathews, 84, Dutch jazz accordionist.
* Domenica Niehoff, 63, German prostitution activist, complications from lung disease.
* Malcolm Toon, 92, American ambassador (Czechoslovakia 1969–71, Yugoslavia 1971–75, Israel 1975–76, USSR 1976–79).
* Ted Uhlaender, 68, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds), heart attack.
* Aasiya Zubair, 36, American businesswoman, co-founder of Bridges TV, beheaded.
* Notable Americans killed in the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407:
** Alison Des Forges, 66, human rights activist.
** Beverly Eckert, 57, activist, member of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee.
** Coleman Mellett, 34, jazz guitarist.
** Gerry Niewood, 65, jazz saxophonist.

### 13

* Gianna Maria Canale, 81, Italian actress.
* Joe Goldstein, 81, American sports promoter, heart attack and stroke.
* Geshe Gyeltsen, 85, Tibetan spiritual leader, founder of Thubten Dhargye Ling.
* Alfred J. Kahn, 90, American child welfare expert.
* Jean Laroyenne, 78, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) fencer.
* Dilys Laye, 74, British actress, cancer.
* Julius Patching, 92, Australian Olympic official.
* Corky Trinidad, 69, Filipino-born American cartoonist, pancreatic cancer.
* Edward Upward, 105, British writer, chest infection.
* Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, 83, Azerbaijani poet, after long illness.

### 14

* Sir Bernard Ashley, 82, British businessman, cancer.
* Louie Bellson, 84, American jazz drummer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Geoffrey Collin, 87, British army general.
* Luís Andrés Edo, 82, Spanish anarchist.
* Kjersti Graver, 63, Norwegian public servant, Consumer Ombudsman (1987–1995).
* Buck Griffin, 85, American rockabilly musician, heart failure.
* Alfred A. Knopf Jr., 90, American publisher, son of Alfred A. Knopf, complications from fall.
* John McGlinn, 55, American conductor and historian of musicals.
* Boris Yavitz, 85, Georgian-born American academic, dean of Columbia Business School (1975–1982), prostate cancer.

### 15

* Joe Cuba, 78, American musician, complications of a bacterial infection.
* Noble Doss, 88, American football player.
* Diether Haenicke, 73, American academic, Western Michigan University President (1985–1998, 2006–2007), head injury.
* William R. Sharpe Jr., 80, American politician, West Virginia Senate (1960–1980, 1984–2009), President pro tem (1990–2009).
* Carl Venne, 62, American chairman of the Crow Nation since 2002, natural causes.

### 16

* Pyotr Abrassimov, 96, Belarusian partisan.
* Dorothy Bridges, 93, American actress and poet, wife of Lloyd Bridges, mother of Beau and Jeff Bridges, age-related causes.
* Konrad Dannenberg, 96, German-born American rocket scientist, natural causes.
* Sir Ernest Harrison, 82, British businessman.
* Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, 86, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Seoul (1968–1998).
* Edward Salia, 56, Ghanaian politician, Minister of State (1995), throat infection.
* Travis, 13, American-born chimpanzee, television commercial animal, shot.

### 17

* Doris Abrahams, 88, American theatrical producer (Equus), heart failure.
* Eric Blau, 87, American theatrical producer (Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris), pneumonia.
* Conchita Cintrón, 86, Chilean-born Portuguese bullfighter, heart attack.
* Edhi Handoko, 48, Indonesian chess grandmaster, heart attack.
* Hisae Imai, 77, Japanese photographer.
* Victor Kiernan, 95, British historian.
* Gazanfer Özcan, 78, Turkish actor, heart failure.
* Robert Robideau, 61, American Native Americans activist.
* Shabnam Romani, 80, Pakistani poet and writer, after long illness.
* Gyula Sáringer, 81, Hungarian agronomist.
* Brad Van Pelt, 57, American football player (New York Giants), heart attack.
* Mike Whitmarsh, 46, American beach volleyball and basketball player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

### 18

* Jacques Bino, 50, French Guadeloupean trade union official, shot.
* Viking Björk, 90, Swedish surgeon.
* J. Max Bond Jr., 73, American architect, cancer.
* Chet Bulger, 91, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), natural causes.
* Snooks Eaglin, 73, American guitarist, heart attack.
* Raymond Alvah Hanson, 85, American inventor.
* John Kanzius, 64, American inventor, pneumonia.
* Robert Luff, 94, British theatre producer and impresario.
* Luigi Nobile, 87, Italian footballer.
* Tayeb Salih, 80, Sudanese writer (Season of Migration to the North).
* Kamila Skolimowska, 26, Polish hammer thrower, 2000 Olympics gold medalist, pulmonary embolism.
* Miika Tenkula, 34, Finnish guitarist and songwriter (Sentenced).
* Andrew Tsien Chih-ch'un, 83, Taiwanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hwalien (1992–2001), heart attack.

### 19

* Jerry Anderson, 76, Puerto Rican diver.
* Frank Carlton, 72, English rugby league player.
* Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing, 78, British life peer and civil servant, cancer.
* Kelly Groucutt, 63, British bass guitar player (Electric Light Orchestra), heart attack.
* Edmund Hlawka, 92, Austrian mathematician.
* Ibrahim Hussein, 72, Malaysian artist, heart attack.
* Ian Jenkins, 64, British public official, Surgeon General (2002–2006), Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle (2008–2009).
* Oreste Lionello, 81, Italian actor and voice actor.
* Nonnie Moore, 87, American fashion editor (GQ, Harper's Bazaar), choking accident.
* Raymond Mulinghausen, 88, French Olympic diver.
* Keith W. Nolan, 44, American military historian.
* Harrison Ridley Jr., 70, American jazz presenter, after short illness.
* Anna Watt, 85, British entertainer (Fran and Anna), natural causes.
* Thomas Welsh, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Allentown (1983–1997).
* James White, 86, British politician, MP for Glasgow Pollok (1970–1987).

### 20

* Marcella Althaus-Reid, 56, Argentine-born British Queer theologian, professor of contextual theology (University of Edinburgh).
* Friedrich Berentzen, 81, German industrialist.
* James I. C. Boyd, 87, British railway historian.
* Fine Cotton, 32, Australian thoroughbred racehorse involved in sports betting substitution scandal.
* Antonio De Rosso, 68, Italian religious leader, founder of the Orthodox Church in Italy.
* Roland Gutsch, 83, German engineer.
* Mary Jacobus, 52, American journalist, cerebral hemorrhage.
* William J. Jorden, 85, American journalist and diplomat, lung cancer.
* Larry H. Miller, 64, American businessman, owner of the Utah Jazz, complications of diabetes.
* Christopher Nolan, 43, Irish author, winner of the Whitbread Prize (1988), pulmonary aspiration.
* Július Nôta, 37, Slovak footballer and coach, stabbed.
* Robert Quarry, 83, American film and television actor.
* Fats Sadi, 81, Belgian jazz musician, vocalist and composer.
* Socks, 19, American Presidential cat of the Clinton family, euthanized.
* Shraga Weil, 90, Israeli painter.

### 21

* Ian Alger, 82, American psychiatrist, heart failure.
* François De Pauw, 82, Belgian Olympic basketball player.
* Fannie Kauffman, 84, Canadian-born Mexican actress and comedian, natural causes.
* Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, 79, Russian-born Israeli mathematician, Parkinson's disease.
* Mary Printz, 85, American switchboard operator, inspiration for Bells Are Ringing.
* Wilton G. S. Sankawulo, 71, Liberian politician and academic, Chairman of the Council of State (1995–1996), heart failure.
* Victor Zarnowitz, 89, Polish-born American economist, heart attack.

### 22

* Candido Cannavò, 78, Italian sports journalist, editor-in-chief of La Gazzetta dello Sport (1983–2002), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Barbara Marshall, 64, American journalist and politician, member of the Honolulu City Council since 2002, colon cancer.
* Rhena Schweitzer Miller, 90, American humanitarian, daughter of Albert Schweitzer.
* Derrell Palmer, 86, American football player (Cleveland Browns), natural causes.
* Paul Joseph Phạm Đình Tụng, 89, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal, archbishop of Hanoi (1994–2005).
* Sławomir Rutka, 33, Polish football player, suicide by hanging.
* Safi Taha, 85, Lebanese Olympic wrestler.
* Howard Zieff, 81, American film director (Private Benjamin, My Girl, The Main Event), complications from Parkinson's disease.

### 23

* Marie Boas Hall, 89, American historian.
* Dean Champion, 69, American professor of criminal justice, leukemia.
* Tom Cole, 75, American screenwriter and playwright, multiple myeloma.
* Sverre Fehn, 84, Norwegian architect.
* Lorna Frampton, 88, British Olympic swimmer.
* Frank Gallacher, 65, Scottish-born Australian actor.
* Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, 96, Canadian portrait sculptor.
* August Kiuru, 86, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948, 1956) cross-country skier.
* Seppo Kolehmainen, 76, Finnish actor, after long illness.
* James Leslie, 50, British politician, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim (1998–2003), heart attack.
* Noel Martin, 86, American graphic designer, leukemia.
* Laurence Payne, 89, British actor (Sexton Blake).
* Tuulikki Pietilä, 92, Finnish graphic artist.
* Franciszek Starowieyski, 78, Polish artist.
* Jean Studer, 94, Swiss Olympic athlete.
* Scott Symons, 75, Canadian writer.
* David Taylor, 79, American banker.

### 24

* Jean Battersby, 80, Australian arts executive, esophageal cancer.
* Svatopluk Havelka, 83, Czech composer.
* Edward Judd, 76, British actor (The Day the Earth Caught Fire).
* Antoinette K-Doe, 66, American bar owner, heart attack.
* Pearl Lang, 87, American dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
* James D. McGinnis, 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1977–1981), cancer.

### 25

* Randall Bewley, 53, American guitarist (Pylon), heart attack.
* Ian Carr, 75, British writer and musician (Nucleus), after long illness.
* Philip José Farmer, 91, American writer (Riverworld).
* Bill Holm, 65, American author and poet, heart attack.
* Molly Kool, 93, Canadian sailor, North America's first licensed female sea captain.
* Roger C. Kormendi, 59, American economist, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
* Howard Menger, 87, American ufologist.
* Eisha Stephen Atieno Odhiambo, 63, Kenyan academic, dementia.
* Clarence Swensen, 91, American actor (munchkin in The Wizard of Oz), complications of a stroke.
* Max Théret, 96, French businessman, founder of the Fnac electronics retailer.
* Bangladeshi military officers killed in the Bangladesh Rifles revolt:
** Shakil Ahmed, 51, director general of BGB (since 2006).
** Mohammad Shawkat Imam, 47.

### 26

* Rick Beckett, 54, American radio broadcaster (WOOD (AM)), heart attack.
* William H. Behle, 99, American ornithologist.
* Ruth Drexel, 78, German actress (Der Bulle von Tölz).
* Johnny Kerr, 76, American basketball player, coach, and color commentator (Chicago Bulls), prostate cancer.
* Morley Street, 25, British racehorse.
* Sir Michael Quinlan, 78, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence (1988–1992).
* Wendy Richard, 65, British actress (Are You Being Served?, EastEnders), breast cancer.
* Nell Soto, 82, American politician, member of the California State Senate (2000–2006), complications from stroke.
* Ruth Spalding, 95, British actor, director and writer.
* Wilbert Tatum, 76, American publisher (New York Amsterdam News), multiple organ failure.
* Norm Van Lier, 61, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls).

### 27

* Rosalie Silber Abrams, 92, American politician.
* John Alvin, 91, American actor, complications of a fall.
* Alan Landers, 68, American smoking model turned opponent, throat and lung cancer.
* Robert E. A. Lee, 87, American documentary film producer, cancer.
* James Page Mackey, 95, Canadian chief of Toronto Police Service (1958–1970).
* Manea Mănescu, 92, Romanian Prime Minister (1974–1979).
* Alastair McCorquodale, 83, British athlete and cricketer, silver medallist at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
* John Francis Marchment Middleton, 87, British anthropologist.
* Gerriet Postma, 76, Dutch painter.
* Dorothea Holt Redmond, 98, American movie artist and illustrator.
* Geoffrey Smith, 80, British gardening expert and presenter.

### 28

* Tomás Altamirano Mantovani, 49, Panamanian politician, National Assembly deputy, traffic accident.
* Mark H. Beers, 54, American geriatrician, complications from diabetes.
* Ode Burrell, 69, American football player (Houston Oilers), complications from diabetes.
* Paul Harvey, 90, American radio broadcaster.
* Johnny Holiday, 96, American actor.
* Alvin Klein, 73, American theater critic, heart attack.
* Manila, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse, aortic ring rupture.
* Miguel Serrano, 91, Chilean poet, diplomat and neo-Nazi, stroke.
* Richard A. Sofio, 62, American politician and former member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1987 to 1990.
* Tom Sturdivant, 78, American baseball player (New York Yankees).