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

## September 2008
### 1

* Thomas J. Bata, 93, Czech-born Canadian businessman (Bata Shoes).
* Inge Bausenwein, 87, German Olympic athlete.
* Calvin Beale, 85, American demographer, colon cancer.
* Ian Edward Fraser, 87, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
* Helen Galland, 83, American retail executive, president of Bonwit Teller (1980–1983), heart attack.
* Kevin Heinze, 80, Australian pioneer gardening television presenter, heart attack.
* Mel Ignatow, 70, American murderer, fall.
* Carl Kaufmann, 72, German Olympic silver medallist (1960).
* Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Don LaFontaine, 68, American voice-over artist, complications from pneumothorax.
* Henry Wako Muloki, 87, Ugandan Kyabazinga of Busoga since 1995, esophageal cancer.
* Michael Pate, 88, Australian actor and writer, pneumonia.
* Jerry Reed, 71, American musician ("When You're Hot, You're Hot", "East Bound and Down") and actor (Smokey and the Bandit), complications from emphysema.
* Oded Schramm, 46, Israeli mathematician, fall.
* Gerry White, 64, British businessman, prostate cancer.

### 2

* Andreas Zeier Cappelen, 93, Norwegian politician and minister.
* Todd Cruz, 52, American Major League Baseball player.
* Arne Domnérus, 83, Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist.
* Joey Giardello, 78, American boxer, middleweight boxing champion (1963–1965), heart failure.
* Abdullah al-Harari, 98, Ethiopian-born Lebanese scholar, founder of the Al-Ahbash movement, natural causes.
* Bill Melendez, 91, Mexican-born American animator (Peanuts).
* Dame Alison Munro, 94, British civil servant and headmistress.
* Julia Pirie, 90, British MI5 spy.
* Sir Denis Rooke, 84, British industrialist.

### 3

* Charles-Robert Ageron, 84, French historian.
* Abdulla Alishayev, Russian Dagestani journalist, shot.
* Lalla Bahia, Moroccan royalty, third wife of Mohammed V.
* Donald Blakeslee, 89, American Air Force officer.
* Paul DiLascia, 49, American software developer.
* Françoise Demulder, 61, French war photographer, heart attack.
* Mark Guardado, 46, American mobster, President of Hells Angels San Francisco chapter, shot.
* Michael Hammer, 60, American management theorist, cranial bleeding.
* Earl Lunsford, 74, American Canadian Football League player (Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), Hall of Famer.
* Ron Rivera, 60, American public health innovator, malaria.
* Joan Segarra, 80, Spanish football player (FC Barcelona and manager.
* May Shin, 91, Burmese actress and singer, pulmonary edema.
* Pierre Van Dormael, 56, Belgian guitarist, cancer.
* René Vingerhoet, 96, Belgian Olympic rower.
* Géo Voumard, 87, Swiss composer and producer, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
* Jerry Zawadzkas, 62, American football player.

### 4

* Fernest Arceneaux, 68, American Creole Zydeco accordionist and singer.
* Mary Dunn, 66, American Iyengar Yoga instructor, peritoneal cancer.
* Colin Egar, 81, Australian test cricket umpire.
* Dick Enderle, 60, American football player.
* Fon Huffman, 95, American World War II veteran, last survivor of the Panay incident.
* Abdul Samad Ismail, 84, Malaysian journalist, lung infection and kidney failure.
* Alain Jacquet, 69, French pop artist, cancer.
* Jenny, 55, American western lowland gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity (Dallas Zoo), euthanized.
* Tommy Johnston, 81, British footballer, top scorer for Leyton Orient.
* Francesca Lancellotti, 91, Italian farmer declared venerable.
* Erik Nielsen, 84, Canadian deputy prime minister (1984–1986), brother of Leslie Nielsen, heart attack.
* Eduard Paukson, 72, Estonian astrologer.
* Waldick Soriano, 75, Brazilian composer and singer, prostate cancer.
* Fernando Torres, 80, Brazilian actor, voice-over artist, director and producer, husband of Fernanda Montenegro, emphysema.
* Alina Vedmid, 68, Ukrainian politician.
* Jerome Weber, 92, Canadian abbot of St. Peter-Muenster of Saskatchewan.

### 5

* Kay Amert, 60, French scholar, cancer.
* Raymond Bernabei, 83, American soccer player, complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Robert Giroux, 94, American editor and publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
* Miroslav Havel, 86, Czech-born Irish chief designer (Waterford Crystal).
* Thubten Jigme Norbu, 86, Tibetan lama (Taktser Rinpoche), eldest brother of the 14th Dalai Lama.
* Lucian Pye, 86, American political scientist and sinologist, expert on Chinese politics, pneumonia.
* Luis Santibáñez, 72, Chilean football team manager, complications from a kidney condition.
* Mila Schön, 91, Italian fashion designer.

### 6

* Abd Al-Halim Abu-Ghazala, 78, Egyptian politician, field marshal and defence minister, throat cancer.
* Aril Edvardsen, 69, Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary.
* Antonio Innocenti, 93, Italian cardinal.
* Nicole Lai, 34, Singaporean singer, skin cancer.
* Allan Lawrence, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Northumberland—Durham (1972–1988).
* Ray Loring, 65, American professor and composer, heart attack.
* Sören Nordin, 91, Swedish harness racing trainer.
* Anita Page, 98, American actress (The Broadway Melody), natural causes.
* Larry Shaben, 73, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1975–1989), cancer.
* Bill Shorthouse, 86, British footballer.
* Mike Swoboda, 69, American politician, mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri (2000–2008), complications from gunshot wounds.

### 7

* Kune Biezeveld, 60, Dutch theologian.
* Ilarion Ciobanu, 76, Romanian actor.
* Dino Dvornik, 44, Croatian actor and pop singer.
* David Fitzsimons, 58, Australian Olympic athlete.
* Peter Glossop, 80, British operatic baritone.
* Don Gutteridge, 96, American Major League Baseball player, coach and manager.
* Don Haskins, 78, American college basketball coach, heart failure.
* Gregory Mcdonald, 71, American author (Fletch), cancer.
* Nagi Noda, 35, Japanese pop artist and director, complications from a traffic collision.
* Gordon Stromberg, 80, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1971–1986).
* Richard "Popcorn" Wylie, 69, American musician.

### 8

* Ahn Jae-hwan, 36, South Korean actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. (body discovered on this date)
* Riaz Ahsan, 56, Pakistani statistician and mathematician, cancer.
* Nathan Green Gordon, 92, American politician and Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. Governor of Arkansas (1947–1967), pneumonia.
* Celia Gregory, 58, British actress.
* Ron Guthrey, 92, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Christchurch (1968–1971).
* Ralph Plaisted, 80, American Arctic explorer, natural causes.
* Evan Tanner, 37, American mixed martial arts fighter and UFC middleweight champion, hyperthermia. (body discovered on this date)
* Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, 73, Indian violinist, after long illness.
* George Zarnecki, 92, Polish art historian and medievalist.
* Hector Zazou, 60, French composer and record producer.

### 9

* Tina Allen, 58, American sculptor, pneumonia.
* Betty Constable, 83, American squash player.
* Eddie Crowder, 77, American football player and coach, complications of leukemia.
* A. U. Fuimaono, 85, American Samoan politician, first Delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1970–1974).
* Nina Lawson, 82, British wigmaker for the Metropolitan Opera, pernicious anaemia.
* Jacob Lekgetho, 34, South African footballer.
* P. N. Menon, 80, Indian film director, after long illness.
* Warith Deen Mohammed, 74, American Islamic leader, son of Elijah Muhammad.
* Richard Monette, 64, Canadian actor and director, pulmonary embolism.
* Bheki Mseleku, 53, South African-born British jazz musician, diabetes.
* Nouhak Phoumsavanh, 98, Laotian politician, president (1992–1998), natural causes.

### 10

* Saleh al Aridi, 50, Lebanese pro-Syrian politician, car bomb.
* Gérald Beaudoin, 79, Canadian lawyer and senator (1988–2004).
* José Antonio Dammert Bellido, 91, Peruvian bishop.
* Cameron Buchanan, 80, British footballer.
* David Chipp, 81, British editor-in-chief (Press Association, Reuters), first resident correspondent for Reuters in China.
* Patrick Flynn, 72, American composer and conductor, pulmonary embolism.
* Robert Glasgow, 83, American organist and University of Michigan professor emeritus.
* Florian Goebel, 35, German astrophysicist, fall.
* Vernon Handley, 77, British conductor.
* J. J. Harrington, 89, American politician.
* Sherrill Headrick, 71, American football player, cancer.
* Fitzroy Hoyte, 68, Trinidad Olympic cyclist, traffic collision.
* Domagoj Kapec, 18, Croatian ice hockey player, car accident.
* Frank Mundus, 82, American shark fisherman, alleged inspiration for Quint in Jaws, heart attack.
* Gary O'Donnell, 40, British soldier, improvised explosive device.
* Yuri Osipyan, 77, Russian physicist.
* Reginald Shepherd, 45, American poet, cancer.
* Paul Williams, 85, British politician, MP (1953–1964).

### 11

* Bennett Campbell, 65, Canadian politician, premier of Prince Edward Island (1978–1979), cancer.
* Dave Hanner, 78, American football player and coach (Green Bay Packers), heart attack.
* Klaus Johann Jacobs, 71, German-born Swiss billionaire, cancer.
* Fran Reed, 65, American teacher and fish skin artist, cancer.
* Nils Johan Ringdal, 56, Norwegian author and historian.
* Martin Tytell, 94, American manual typewriter expert, cancer.
* Joan Winston, 77, American author, founder of Star Trek convention, Alzheimer's disease.
* Lai Ying Xin, 16, Malaysian schoolgirl, strangulation.

### 12

* Camila Ashland, 97, American actress (Dark Shadows, 10).
* George Brown, 85, American football player.
* Simon Hantaï, 85, Hungarian-born French abstract artist.
* Tomislav Ladan, 76, Croatian encyclopedist and polymath, malignant tumor.
* Max Mermelstein, 65, American drug trafficker, cancer.
* George Putnam, 94, American television news reporter, heart failure.
* Bob Quinn, 93, Australian footballer (Port Adelaide) and Military Medal recipient.
* Marjorie Thomas, 85, British opera singer, after long illness.
* Paola S. Timiras, 85, American doctor, expert on the physiology of ageing, heart failure.
* Ferenc Velkey, 92, Hungarian Olympic handball player.
* Charlie Walker, 81, American country music singer, colon cancer.
* David Foster Wallace, 46, American author and essayist (Infinite Jest), suicide by hanging.

### 13

* Peter Camejo, 68, American politician and activist, lymphoma.
* Dean Hoge, 71, American sociologist, specialist in American Catholicism, cancer.
* Duncan Laing, 75, New Zealand swimming coach, cancer.
* James Snow, 79, Canadian politician, member of Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1967–1985), diabetes.
* Olin Stephens, 100, American yacht designer.
* John Usher, 62, British academic lawyer, leukaemia.
* Alice Van-Springsteen, 90, American stuntwoman, pneumonia.
* Abdullah Wardak, Afghan governor of Logar Province, suicide attack.

### 14

* John Burnside, 91, American inventor, brain cancer.
* Hyman Golden, 85, American co-founder of Snapple Beverage Corporation, complications from stroke.
* Ștefan Iordache, 67, Romanian actor, leukemia.
* Georgi Kitov, 65, Bulgarian archaeologist, heart attack.
* Lynn Kohlman, 62, American model and photographer, breast and brain cancer.
* Lobsang Nyima Pal Sangpo, 79, Tibetan 100th Ganden Tripa (1994–2002), head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
* Mu Tiezhu, 59, Chinese basketball player, heart attack.
* Ralph Russell, 90, British Urdu scholar.
* Gennady Troshev, 61, Russian politician and military commander (Second Chechen War), plane crash.

### 15

* Marion Dewar, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (1978–1985), fall.
* Barthélémy Djabla, 72, Ivorian archbishop of Gagnoa.
* Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil, 85, Indian writer, cancer.
* Jean-Jacques Guissart, 81, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower.
* Charlotte Kohler, 99, American editor, heart failure.
* Danny Lawson, 60, Canadian ice hockey player (Minnesota North Stars, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings).
* John Matshikiza, 53, South African actor, writer and poet, heart attack.
* Juraj Njavro, 70, Croatian doctor and politician, after long illness.
* J. Patrick Rooney, 80, American insurance advocate.
* Stefano Rosso, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
* Richard Wright, 65, British keyboardist (Pink Floyd) and songwriter ("The Dark Side of the Moon"), cancer.

### 16

* Verlie Abrams, 87, American football player.
* Jack Alderman, 57, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Avraham Biran, 98, Israeli archaeologist, natural causes.
* Elizabeth Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, 92, British peeress.
* John Fancy, 95, British World War II RAF airman.
* David Laycock, 61, English cricketer
* Andrei Volkonsky, 75, Russian composer.
* Charles Whitebread, 65, American professor of law, cancer.
* Norman Whitfield, 68, American Motown songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine") and record producer, diabetes.

### 17

* Princess Luluwah bint Abdulaziz Al Saud, 80, Saudi member of the royal family, sister of King Abdullah.
* James Crumley, 68, American crime writer, complications from kidney and pulmonary diseases.
* Didier Dagueneau, 52, French winemaker, plane crash.
* José María Cirarda Lachiondo, 91, Spanish bishop of the Archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela (1978–1993).
* Anna Langford, 90, American politician, first African American woman to serve on the Chicago City Council, lung cancer.
* Michael Omondi, 46, Kenyan field hockey player, after short illness.
* Humberto Solás, 66, Cuban filmmaker, cancer.
* Robert Steinberg, 61, American physician, co-founder of Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, lymphoma.

### 18

* Ekaterina Andreeva, 66, Uzbek arachnologist.
* Mauricio Kagel, 76, Argentine-born German composer.
* Peter Kastner, 64, Canadian actor, heart attack.
* Ron Lancaster, 69, American Canadian Football League quarterback and coach, heart attack.
* Howard Mann, 85, American actor and comedian, cancer.
* Sherman Parker, 37, American politician, member of Missouri House of Representatives (2003–2006), brain aneurysm.
* Fabiola Salazar, 42, Peruvian congresswoman since 2006, car accident.
* Henry Z. Steinway, 93, American businessman (Steinway & Sons).
* Don Ultang, 91, American Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer.
* Florestano Vancini, 82, Italian film director and screenwriter, after long illness.
* John Webb, 82, American judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1986–1998), Parkinson's disease.

### 19

* Ernie Andres, 90, American college baseball coach and Major League Baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
* Marcel Dierkens, 83, Luxembourgish cyclist.
* Ned Harkness, 89, American ice hockey coach, stroke.
* Jun Ichikawa, 59, Japanese film director.
* David Jones, 74, British theatre and film director.
* Dave Needham, 57, British bantamweight boxing champion (1974–1975).
* Earl Palmer, 83, American rhythm and blues drummer, after long illness.
* Robert Royston, 90, American landscape architect.
* Dick Sudhalter, 69, American jazz trumpeter, pneumonia.

### 20

* Nappy Brown, 78, American blues singer.
* Francis A. Dennis, Liberian diplomat.
* William Fox, 97, British actor.
* Duncan Glen, 75, British poet, literary critic and designer, professor emeritus of visual communication (Nottingham Trent).
* Steve Gray, 64, British musician.
* Ken Harris, 45, American member of Baltimore City Council (1999–2007), shot.
* Arne Haugestad, 73, Norwegian Supreme Court lawyer, Arne Treholt's defender.
* Johnny H. Hayes, 67, American fundraiser for Al Gore's presidential campaigns, stomach cancer.
* Willi Heidel, 92, Romanian Olympic field handball player.
* Paul Howell, 57, British member of the European Parliament (1979–1994), plane crash.
* George Larson, 96, Canadian Olympic swimmer.
* Ed Sutton, 73, American football player, complications following heart bypass surgery.
* John Taylor, 87, American military archivist at National Archives and Records Administration, heart failure.
* Frank Valenti, 97, American mob boss (Rochester crime family).
* Ivo Žďárek, 47, Czech ambassador to Vietnam (2004–2008) and Pakistan (2008), suicide bombing.

### 21

* Mary Garber, 92, American sportswriter.
* Carlos González Cruchaga, 87, Chilean bishop of the Diocese of Talca (1967–1996).
* Nancy Hicks Maynard, 66, American journalist, advocate for diversity in journalism, organ failure.
* Sir Brian Pippard, 88, British physicist, Cavendish Professor of Physics (1971–1984).
* Barefoot Sanders, 83, American federal judge, natural causes.
* Paul Tansey, 59, Irish economics editor (The Irish Times).
* Brian Thomsen, 49, American author and editor, heart attack.
* Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, 92, Sri Lankan prime minister (1989–1993), president (1993–1994), after long illness.

### 22

* Michael Andreevich, 88, Russian prince.
* Plato Andros, 86, American National Football League player (Chicago Cardinals), Alzheimer's disease.
* Olli Auero, 82, Finnish diplomat.
* H. Dale Cook, 84, American federal judge since 1974, cancer.
* Thomas Dörflein, 44, German zookeeper, surrogate parent of the polar bear Knut, heart attack.
* Connie Haines, 87, American singer, myasthenia gravis.
* Guillermo López Langarica, 40, Mexican YouTube celebrity, car accident.
* Buddy McDonald, 85, American child actor (Our Gang), heart failure.
* Petrus Schaesberg, 41, German art historian, suicide by jumping.

### 23

* Mona Abul-Fadl, 62–63, Egyptian orientalist, breast cancer.
* José Martins Achiam, 64, Portuguese karate coach, stroke.
* Esther Figueiredo Ferraz, 92, Brazilian Minister of Education (1982–1985) and first female minister, stroke.
* Richard Henyard, 34, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Wally Hilgenberg, 66, American National Football League player (Minnesota Vikings), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Rudolf Illovszky, 86, Hungarian footballer and manager, pneumonia.
* Peter Leonard, 66, Australian broadcaster, mesothelioma.
* Pedro Masó, 81, Spanish film director and producer, natural causes.
* Brock McElheran, 90, Canadian conductor and composer.
* Loren Pope, 98, American education consultant, heart failure.
* Sonja Savić, 47, Serbian actress, heroin overdose.
* Ellen Tarry, 101, American children's author.
* William Woodruff, 92, British historian and author.

### 24

* Bengt Anderberg, 88, Swedish poet, novelist, editor and playwright.
* Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, 56, Ghanaian finance minister since 2005, after short illness.
* Oliver Crawford, 91, American television writer blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
* Irene Dailey, 88, American actress (Five Easy Pieces, The Amityville Horror, Another World), colon cancer.
* Sir Peter Derham, 83, Australian businessman and philanthropist, stroke.
* Uno Laht, 84, Estonian writer.
* Dick Lynch, 72, American football player and radio announcer (New York Giants), leukemia.
* Maurits van Nierop, 25, Dutch international cricketer, fall.
* Thiago Jotta da Silva, 24, Brazilian footballer, shot.
* Cherry Smith, 65, Jamaican singer (The Wailers), heart attack.
* Mickey Vernon, 90, American baseball player, stroke.
* Vice Vukov, 72, Croatian singer and politician.
* Claude Wilton, 89, Irish politician and solicitor.
* Ruslan Yamadayev, 46, Chechen warlord and member of Russian State Duma, shot.

### 25

* Glenn Andrews, 99, American politician, Representative (1965–1967), oldest surviving member of the House of Representatives.
* Brian Donnelly, 59, New Zealand diplomat and politician, MP (1996–2008).
* Edward Klima, 77, American linguist, complications from brain surgery.
* Horațiu Rădulescu, 66, Romanian composer, spectral music pioneer.
* Ralph Sazio, 86, Canadian football coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
* Jimmy Sirrel, 86, British football manager (Notts County), after long illness.
* Roger Vanderfield, 80, Australian rugby union referee, IRB chairman and ARU president.

### 26

* Bernadette Greevy, 68, Irish mezzo-soprano, after short illness.
* Joli Jászai, 101, Hungarian actress.
* Géza Kalocsay, 95, Hungarian football player and manager.
* Aggie Kukulowicz, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers), heart failure.
* Phyllis Welch MacDonald, 95, American theater and film actress.
* Raymond Macherot, 84, Belgian cartoonist.
* Stanisław Marucha, 71, Polish Olympic shooter.
* Jan Mazur, 88, Polish bishop of Siedlce.
* Marian McQuade, 91, American founder of National Grandparents Day, heart failure.
* Ernest Meissner, 71, Canadian Olympic diver.
* Marc Moulin, 66, Belgian jazz musician and journalist, throat cancer.
* Paul Newman, 83, American actor (The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, The Color of Money) and entrepreneur, Oscar winner (1987), lung cancer.
* Cirio H. Santiago, 72, Filipino filmmaker and producer, complications from lung cancer.
* Yonty Solomon, 71, South African pianist, brain tumour.

### 27

* Len Browning, 80, British footballer.
* John Houston, 78, British painter.
* Mahendra Kapoor, 74, Indian playback singer, heart attack.
* Mario Maya, 71, Spanish dancer and choreographer, cancer.
* Jimmy Murray, 72, British footballer, prostate cancer.
* Henri Pachard, 69, American pornographic film director, throat cancer.
* Olaf Poulsen, 88, Norwegian president of the International Skating Union (1980–1994).
* Gerald Small, 52, American football player (Miami Dolphins).

### 28

* Georges Adda, 92, Tunisian politician, heart attack.
* Andrzej Badeński, 65, Polish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) athlete.
* Osborn Elliott, 83, American editor of Newsweek (1961–1976), complications from cancer.
* Jack Faulkner, 82, American football coach and administrator.
* Margot Gayle, 100, American historic preservationist and author.
* Malalai Kakar, 41, Afghan senior policewoman, shot.
* Konstantin Pavlov, 75, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, after long illness.
* Athos Tanzini, 95, Italian Olympic fencer.
* Thomas Thewes, 76, American businessman, co-owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, leukemia.

### 29

* Youssef Sabri Abu Taleb, 79, Egyptian general.
* Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic, stroke.
* Richard Clayton, 93, American actor and talent agent (Burt Reynolds, James Dean), heart failure.
* Miguel Córcega, 79, Mexican actor and director.
* Milt Davis, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer.
* Tim Fortescue, 92, British politician, MP (1966–1974).
* Elinor Guggenheimer, 96, American philanthropist and author.
* Louis Guss, 90, American actor (Moonstruck, Highlander, The Godfather).
* Stan Kann, 83, American organist and Tonight Show regular, complications from heart procedure.
* Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, 72, Indian politician.
* Antônio Sarto, 82, Brazilian bishop of Barra do Garças.
* Glen Sheil, 78, Australian medical practitioner and politician, Senator (1974–1981, 1984–1990).
* Anthony Spero, 79, American financier, leader of Bonanno crime family, after short illness.
* Relus ter Beek, 64, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1989–1994), abolished conscription, lung cancer.
* Jock Wilson, 105, British soldier, UK's oldest D-Day veteran.

### 30

* Henry Adler, 93, American drummer, teacher of Buddy Rich.
* Ed Brinkman, 66, American baseball player and coach, lung cancer.
* Sam Calder, 92, Australian politician and World War II fighter pilot, MP (1966–1980).
* J. L. Chestnut, 77, American civil rights lawyer, kidney failure.
* Richard Haine, 91, British Royal Air Force officer.
* J. B. Jeyaretnam, 82, Singaporean politician, MP (1981–1986), NCMP (1997–2001), heart failure.