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

## March 2009
### 1

* Robert Haggiag, 95, Libyan-born American film producer (Candy).
* Ken Henry, 80, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) speed skater.
* Charles S. Lieber, 78, Belgian-born American nutritionist, stomach cancer.
* Paolo Maffei, 83, Italian astronomer and science fiction writer.
* Alf Pike, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and head coach (New York Rangers).
* Pepe Rubianes, 61, Spanish Catalan actor and theatre director, lung cancer.
* Eric Simms, 87, British ornithologist, writer and conservationist.
* Joan Turner, 86, British actress.

### 2

* Ernest Ashworth, 80, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry.
* Michael Baker, 52, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly since 1998, cancer.
* Halit Balamir, appr. 87, Turkish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) wrestler, myocardial infarction.
* Ernst Benda, 84, German politician, Interior Minister (1968–1969) and President, Federal Constitutional Court (1971–1983).
* Andy Bowman, 74, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Newport County), after long illness.
* Robert Bruce, 65, British-born New Zealand professional wrestler and talent agent, after short illness.
* Chris Finnegan, 64, British boxer, Olympic middleweight champion (1968), complications from pneumonia.
* Joaquín Gutiérrez Cano, 88, Spanish diplomat and politician.
* Anatoliy Klimanov, 59, Ukrainian boxer.
* Alexandre Léontieff, 60, French politician, President of French Polynesia (1987–1991), heart attack.
* Ann Marie Rogers, 57, British activist, campaigner for breast cancer drug Herceptin, breast cancer.
* Jacob T. Schwartz, 79, American mathematician and computer scientist, liver cancer.
* Urban Sea, 20, French racehorse and broodmare, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner (1993), complications during foaling.
* João Bernardo Vieira, 69, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Prime Minister (1978–1980) and President (1980–1999, since 2005), shot.

### 3

* Sydney Chaplin, 82, American actor.
* Frederick Conyngham, 7th Marquess Conyngham, 84, Irish nobleman, cancer.
* Sebastian Faisst, 20, German handball player, heart failure.
* Flemming Flindt, 72, Danish choreographer, after short illness.
* Frank Ford, 92, American radio talk show host, stroke.
* Åke Lindman, 81, Finnish actor and film director, after long illness.
* Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico.
* Gilbert Parent, 73, Canadian politician, Speaker (1994–2001) and Member of Parliament (1974–1984, 1988–2000), colon cancer.
* Barbara Wright, 93, British translator.

### 4

* Joseph Bloch, 91, American pianist and professor, heart attack.
* John Cephas, 78, American Piedmont blues guitarist, natural causes.
* Yvon Cormier, 70, Canadian professional wrestler, bone marrow cancer.
* Horton Foote, 92, American playwright (The Trip to Bountiful) and screenwriter (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies), Oscar winner (1963, 1984).
* Salwa Al Katrib, 55, Lebanese singer and stage actress.
* Patricia De Martelaere, 51, Belgian writer and philosopher, complications of brain tumor.
* George McAfee, 90, American Hall of Fame football player (Chicago Bears) .
* Harry Parkes, 89, British footballer (Aston Villa).
* Vasili Postnov, 46, Tajikistani footballer.
* Salvatore Samperi, 64, Italian film director.
* Triztán Vindtorn, 66, Norwegian poet.

### 5

* Mario Acuña, 68, Argentinian-born American astrophysicist, multiple myeloma.
* Valeri Broshin, 46, Russian footballer, cancer.
* Francis Essex, 79, British television producer.
* Temima Gezari, 103, American artist, natural causes.
* Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr., 99, American engineer, pioneer of television technology, complications of hip fracture.
* Janez Gradišnik, 91, Slovenian author and translator.
* Mac Henderson, 101, British rugby union player (Scotland) and businessman.
* Jitsuo Inagaki, 80, Japanese politician, illness.
* Oscar Kamau Kingara, 38, Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist, shot.
* Hung-Chang Lin, 89, Chinese-born American inventor, lung cancer.
* John Paul Oulu, Kenyan human rights activist, shot.
* Dave Pureifory, 59, American football player (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer.

### 6

* Jim Bellows, 86, American newspaper editor, Alzheimer's disease.
* Silvio Cesare Bonicelli, 76, Italian Bishop of Parma.
* James Clyde, Baron Clyde, 77, British judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1996–2001), cancer.
* Colleen Howe, 76, American sports agent, wife of Gordie Howe, Pick's disease.
* George Keverian, 77, American politician, member (1967–1991) and Speaker (1985–1991) of the Massachusetts House.
* Francis Magalona, 44, Filipino actor and rapper, leukemia.
* Kennedy McIntosh, 60, American basketball player, stroke.
* Vivian Murray, 76, Irish businessman, chairman of An Post and Bord Iascaigh Mhara, after long illness.
* Henri Pousseur, 79, Belgian composer.
* Eduardo Rodríguez, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player, septic shock.
* Christon Tembo, 64, Zambian politician, Vice President (1997–2001).
* Susan Tsvangirai, 50, Zimbabwean wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, car collision.

### 7

* Steve Bernard, 61, American businessman, founder of Cape Cod Potato Chips, pancreatic cancer.
* Michael Bowen, 71, American artist, complications of poliomyelitis.
* Jimmy Boyd, 70, American actor and singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), cancer.
* Daniel E. Button, 91, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for New York (1967–1971), after long illness.
* Chan Yun, 93, Taiwanese Buddhist monk and teacher of meditation.
* Schuyler Chapin, 86, American general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1972–1975).
* David Gaiman, 75, British businessman, public relations director for the Church of Scientology, heart attack.
* Jang Ja-yeon, 29, South Korean actress (Boys Over Flowers), suicide by hanging.
* Dmitri Kozlov, 89, Russian aerospace engineer, founder of Progress State Research and Production Space Center.
* Barbara Parker, 62, American novelist, after long illness.
* Tullio Pinelli, 100, Italian screenwriter (La strada).
* Anton Shokh, 49, Ukrainian football player and coach.

### 8

* Girdhari Lal Bhargava, 73, Indian politician, heart attack.
* Ali Bongo, 79, Indian-born British magician, pneumonia.
* James Allen Keast, 86, Australian ornithologist.
* Willie King, 65, American blues musician, heart attack.
* Hank Locklin, 91, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry.
* Anna Manahan, 84, Irish actress, multiple organ failure.
* Zbigniew Religa, 70, Polish cardiac surgeon and politician, Minister of Health (2005–2007), cancer.
* Robert Soost, 88, American botanist, heart attack.
* Ernest Trova, 82, American artist, heart failure.
* Mary Warburg, 100, American philanthropist.

### 9

* Timothy Abell, 78, English cricketer and field hockey player.
* Adiele Afigbo, 71, Nigerian historian.
* Hanne Darboven, 68, German artist, lymphoma.
* Eddie Lowe, 83, British footballer and manager.
* Joseph Martin, 84, American Roman Catholic priest, addiction counselor and author, heart disease.
* Larry Regan, 78, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager (Los Angeles Kings), Parkinson's disease.
* Russell Spears, 92, American stonemason, elder of the Narragansett tribe.
* Frank Stockwell, 80, Irish footballer.
* Guillermo Thorndike, 69, Peruvian journalist, writer and editor, co-founder of La República, heart attack.

### 10

* Brian Barry, 73, British philosopher.
* Denis Begbie, 94, South African cricketer.
* Derek Benfield, 82, British actor.
* Jack Capper, 77, British footballer.
* Dick Daugherty, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
* Nancy Eiesland, 44, American theologian and author, lung cancer.
* Jack Grimes, 82, American actor and voice actor (Speed Racer).
* Aaron Gural, 91, American real estate executive, pneumonia.
* Tom Hanson, 41, Canadian photojournalist, heart attack.
* George Hedges, 57, American lawyer and archaeologist, melanoma.
* Ralph Mercado, 67, American music promoter (RMM Records & Video), cancer.
* Anel Omar Rodríguez, 47, Panamanian politician, Minister of Culture, shot.
* Michael Shannon, 55, American pediatrician.

### 11

* Paul W. Airey, 85, American Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (1967–1969), complications from heart failure.
* Péter Bacsó, 81, Hungarian film director, after long illness.
* Frances Blaisdell, 97, American flautist.
* Arthur Code, 85, American astronomer, complications of lung condition.
* Izaac Hindom, 74, Indonesian bureaucrat and politician, pulmonary embolism.
* Charles Lewis Jr., 45, American businessman, co-founder of mixed martial arts apparel company Tapout, car accident.
* Grady Lewis, 92, American basketball player, executive with Converse.
* Liang Baozhu, 77, Singaporean actor, pneumonia.
* Harvey Lowe, 90, Canadian broadcaster and yo-yo world champion, after long illness.

### 12

* Leonore Annenberg, 91, American philanthropist, Chief of Protocol of the United States (1981–1982), natural causes.
* Kalman Bloch, 95, American clarinetist.
* Yann Brekilien, 88, French author, Breton language advocate.
* Jesús Elizondo, 78, Mexican Olympic shooter.
* Martin Knowlton, 88, American adult education innovator, founder of Elderhostel.
* Reginald C. Lindsay, 63, American jurist, member of the District Court for Massachusetts since 1993, after long illness.
* Milan Stitt, 68, American playwright.
* Ferenc Szabó, 88, Hungarian footballer (Ferencvárosi TC).
* Huw Thomas, 81, Welsh broadcaster.
* Blanca Varela, 82, Peruvian poet.
* David Wood, 86, British Army officer, last surviving platoon commander of the Pegasus Bridge operation during World War II.

### 13

* Medferiashwork Abebe, 84, Ethiopian royal.
* Claude Black, 92, American civil rights advocate, after long illness.
* Betsy Blair, 85, American actress (Marty), cancer.
* Claude Brinegar, 82, American politician, United States Secretary of Transportation (1973–1975), natural causes.
* Anne Brown, 96, American-born Norwegian opera singer.
* William Davidson, 86, American businessman, owner of the Detroit Pistons, Tampa Bay Lightning.
* Milou Ebb, 74, French Polynesian politician.
* Endal, 13, British service dog, stroke.
* Keith Herber, 60, American role-playing game designer.
* Alan W. Livingston, 91, American music executive, President of Capitol Records, creator of Bozo the clown.
* James Purdy, 94, American novelist, poet and playwright.
* Medet Sadyrkulov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, car crash.
* Andrew Saunders, 77, British civil servant.
* Test, 33, Canadian professional wrestler (WWE), accidental overdose.

### 14

* Alain Bashung, 61, French singer, composer and actor, lung cancer.
* Edith Lucie Bongo, 45, Congolese wife of Gabon President Omar Bongo, after long illness.
* Altovise Davis, 65, American actress and dancer, widow of Sammy Davis Jr., stroke.
* Terence Edmond, 69, British actor (Z-Cars), bronchiectasis.
* Ronald Max Hartwell, 88, Australian economic historian.
* Citizen Kafka, 61, American broadcaster and musician.
* Millard Kaufman, 92, American screenwriter (Bad Day at Black Rock), co-creator of Mr. Magoo.
* Abdul Rahman Khleifawi, 78–79, Syrian politician, Prime Minister (1971–1972, 1976–1978).
* Patrick Kinna, 95, British stenographer to Winston Churchill.
* Jeff Komlo, 52, American football player, fugitive, car crash.
* Robin Mukherjee, 65, Indian cricketer.
* Coy Watson Jr., 96, American silent film child actor, stomach cancer.

### 15

* Jumadi Abdi, 26, Indonesian footballer.
* Nikolai Afanasyev, 92, Russian firearms designer.
* Richard Aoki, 71, American civil rights activist.
* Miguel Bernad, 91, Filipino Jesuit priest, academician and writer.
* Billy C. Clark, 80, American writer.
* Edmund Hockridge, 89, Canadian singer and actor.
* Pirkle Jones, 95, American photojournalist.
* Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão.
* Michael Quinn, 86, American Lasallian brother and psychology professor, President of Saint Mary's College (1962–1969).
* William Schwartz, 86, American nephrologist.
* Ron Silver, 62, American actor (Ali, Timecop, The West Wing) and political activist, Tony winner (1988), esophageal cancer.
* Alan Suddick, 64, British footballer, cancer.
* Shinkichi Tajiri, 85, American-born Dutch sculptor.
* Gunnar Tjörnebo, 81, Swedish steeplechase athlete.
* Elmer Weingartner, 90, American baseball player.
* Harry Zachariah, 97, Australian cricketer.
* Lionel Ziprin, 84, American poet, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

### 16

* Bill Burns, 75, Australian politician.
* Roland Dantes, 67, Filipino film actor and martial arts instructor, heart failure.
* Carolyn Dezurik, 90, American country musician.
* Franz Feldinger, 80, Austrian Olympic footballer.
* Marjorie Grene, 98, American philosopher, after short illness.
* Sir Nicholas Henderson, 89, British diplomat.
* Nicholas Hughes, 47, American marine biologist, son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, suicide by hanging.
* Jack Lawrence, 96, American songwriter, complications from fall.
* Miljenko Licul, 62, Slovenian graphic designer.
* Ramón Mantilla Duarte, 83, Colombian Bishop of Ipiales (1985–1987).
* Popcorn Sutton, 62, American moonshiner, suspected suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

### 17

* Lester Davenport, 77, American blues musician, prostate cancer.
* Edith Hahn Beer, 95, Austrian author, Holocaust survivor, natural causes.
* Clodovil Hernandes, 71, Brazilian fashion stylist, politician and television presenter, stroke.
* Morton Lachman, 90, American television writer and producer (The Bob Hope Show, All in the Family, Gimme a Break!), complications from diabetes and heart attack.
* Whitey Lockman, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), pulmonary complications.
* Jane Mayhall, 90, American poet.
* Dale Memmelaar, 72, American football player (Cleveland Browns)
* Roi Wilson, 87, British Royal Navy officer.

### 18

* Eddie Bo, 78, American singer and pianist, heart attack.
* Ed Callahan, 79, American credit union administrator, blood complications.
* Gianni Giansanti, 52, Italian photographer, bone cancer.
* Des Healey, 81, Australian rules footballer.
* Kent Henry, 59, American guitarist.
* Lil E. Tee, 20, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby winner (1992), euthanized.
* Yeremey Parnov, 73, Russian writer.
* Moultrie Patten, 89, American actor (Northern Exposure) and jazz musician, pneumonia,
* Pocholo Ramirez, 76, Filipino race car driver and television host, cancer.
* Natasha Richardson, 45, British actress (Cabaret, The Parent Trap, Maid in Manhattan), Tony winner (1998), epidural hematoma.
* Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993).
* Glenn Sundby, 87, American gymnast, co-founder of USA Gymnastics, founder of International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
* Donald Tolmie, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Welland (1965–1972).
* Earl Wood, 97, American physiologist, co-inventor of the G-suit.

### 19

* Paul Angelis, 66, English actor and writer (Z-Cars, Porridge, Yellow Submarine)
* Felipe Santiago Benítez Ávalos, 82, Paraguayan archbishop of Asunción.
* Maria Bergson, 95, American architect and designer.
* Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock, 81, British aristocrat, writer and politician.
* Ion Dolănescu, 65, Romanian singer and politician, heart attack.
* Ezio Flagello, 78, American opera singer, heart failure.
* Harry Harris, 86, American television director (Fame, Falcon Crest), myelodysplasia.

### 20

* Joseph Albright, 70, American jurist, member of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, esophageal cancer.
* Roberta Alison, 65, American tennis player, injuries sustained in fire.
* Bill Bogash, 92, American roller derby skater, respiratory failure.
* Mel Brown, 69, American blues guitarist, emphysema.
* Abdellatif Filali, 81, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1994–1998).
* Vicente Gandía, 84, Mexican artist of Spanish origin, heart attack.
* Janet Irwin, 85, New Zealand medical practitioner.
* Jaroslav Pitner, 83, Czech ice hockey coach.
* Vladimir Savčić, 60, Serbian singer, cancer.
* Pierre Skawinski, 96, French Olympic sprinter.
* George Weber, 47, American radio broadcaster, stabbed.
* Václav Winter, 84, Czech Olympic athlete.
* Albina Yelkina, 76, Soviet Olympic athlete.

### 21

* Bob Arbogast, 81, American radio and television personality, lung cancer.
* Beach Towel, 22, American harness racehorse, Harness Horse of the Year (1990), colic.
* John Cater, 77, British actor.
* Drummond Erskine, 89, American actor (Late Show with David Letterman).
* Winifred Foley, 94, British writer.
* John Franklyn-Robbins, 84, British actor.
* Doug Frith, 64, Canadian MP for Sudbury (1980–1988), Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1984), heart attack.
* Joseph Jasgur, 89, American photographer, natural causes.
* Vladimir Kuchmiy, 61, Russian newspaper chief editor (Sport Express).
* Genoveva Matute, 94, Filipino writer.
* Walt Poddubny, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers).
* Khadijeh Saqafi, 95, Iranian widow of religious/political leader Ruhollah Khomeini, after long illness.

### 22

* Frank Bogert, 99, American politician, Mayor of Palm Springs, California (1958–1966, 1982–1988).
* Timothy Brinton, 79, British newsreader and politician, MP (1979–1987).
* Awilda Carbia, 71, Puerto Rican actress, comedian, impersonator and television personality, pneumonia.
* Ralph Cooperman, 81, British Olympic fencer.
* Steve Doll, 48, American professional wrestler, blood clot.
* Jade Goody, 27, British television personality (Big Brother), cervical cancer.
* Archie Green, 91, Canadian-born American folklorist and musicologist, renal failure.
* John L. Harper, 73, British biologist.
* Reg Isidore, 59, Aruban drummer (Robin Trower, Peter Green), heart attack,
* Howard Komives, 67, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons), natural causes.
* Guman Mal Lodha, 83, Indian judge and politician.
* Aubrey Mayhew, 81, American music producer.
* Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned.
* Kanta Rao, 85, Indian actor, liver cancer.
* Geoffrey Sherman, 93, British Royal Marines officer, organised the ceremony for the Japanese surrender in 1945.
* Aldo Vagnozzi, 83, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2002–2006), cancer.
* Leon Walker, 20, British rugby league player, natural causes (Wakefield Trinity Wildcats).

### 23

* Manuel del Rosario, 93, Filipino Bishop of Malolos (1962–1977), pneumonia.
* Geoff Holmes, 50, British cricketer.
* Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican former NBA (now WBA) world bantamweight champion boxer, cancer.
* Xavier Maniguet, 62, French intelligence agent, involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, plane crash.
* Billy Rackard, 78, Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer.
* Lloyd Ruby, 81, American auto racing driver.
* Ronald Tavel, 72, American playwright, heart attack.
* Tonda, 50, American Sumatran-born orangutan, oldest in captivity in United States.
* Peter Wherrett, 72, Australian motoring journalist, cancer.

### 24

* Robert Delford Brown, 78, American artist, drowned (body found on this date).
* Irina Gabashvili, 48, Georgian-born American gymnast, cancer.
* Uriel Jones, 74, American drummer (The Funk Brothers), complications from heart attack.
* George Kell, 86, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and broadcaster, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
* Hans Klenk, 89, German racing driver.
* Denis Miller, 90, New Zealand airline and bomber pilot.
* Gábor Ocskay, 33, Hungarian ice hockey player, heart attack.
* Laurie Short, 93, Australian trade union leader.
* Igor Stelnov, 46, Russian ice hockey player (HC CSKA Moscow), 1986 world champions team member, after long illness.

### 25

* Frank Adams, 76, British footballer.
* Steven Bach, 70, American film producer and author, cancer.
* Johnny Blanchard, 76, American baseball player (New York Yankees), heart attack.
* Marilyn Borden, 76, American actress (I Love Lucy), heart failure.
* Bob Boucher, 68, British academic.
* Donald W. Duncan, 79, American soldier and antiwar activist.
* Yukio Endō, 72, Japanese gymnast, esophageal cancer.
* John Hope Franklin, 94, American historian, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, heart failure.
* Mari Kapi, 58, Papua New Guinean judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (2003–2008), kidney failure.
* Kosuke Koyama, 79, Japanese-born American theologian, pneumonia.
* Manny Oquendo, 78, American percussionist (Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez), heart attack.
* Giovanni Parisi, 41, Italian Olympic featherweight champion boxer (1988), car accident.
* Arthur Richman, 83, American baseball executive (New York Yankees, New York Mets) and writer (New York Daily Mirror).
* Dan Seals, 61, American country music singer-songwriter (England Dan & John Ford Coley), mantle cell lymphoma.
* Michael Ward, 77, British politician, MP for Peterborough (1974–1979).
* Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, 54, Turkish politician, founder of the Great Union Party, helicopter crash.

### 26

* Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes.
* Arne Bendiksen, 82, Norwegian singer, composer and record producer, heart failure.
* Kim Bradley, 53, Australian surfer.
* Gus Cifelli, 84, American football player (Detroit Lions), natural causes.
* Ed Earle, 81, American basketball player.
* Larry Glick, 87, American talk radio host (WBZ), complications from cardiac surgery.
* Edmund Lawson, 60, British barrister, stroke.
* Wayne Lewellen, 65, American film studio executive (Paramount), cancer.
* John Mayhew, 61, British drummer (Genesis), heart failure.
* Shane McConkey, 39, Canadian extreme skier, base jumping accident.
* Bob Scott, 70, British conservationist and ornithologist, cancer.
* Ivan Wyatt, 85, New Zealand cricketer.

### 27

* Alysheba, 25, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner (1987), euthanized.
* Sandra Cantu, 8, American homicide victim.
* Jack Dreyfus, 95, American financier, pioneer of mutual funds.
* Evert Grift, 86, Dutch Olympic cyclist.
* Merle Hansen, 89, American civil rights activist, founding president of the North American Farm Alliance.
* Dorothy Kelly, 79, American educator, President of the College of New Rochelle, heart attack.
* Irving R. Levine, 86, American journalist (NBC news), prostate cancer.
* Arnold Meri, 89, Estonian Red Army World War II veteran.
* Penor Rinpoche, 77, Tibetan religious leader (Nyingma Buddhist tradition).

### 28

* Earle Brucker Jr., 83, American baseball player.
* Peter F. Donnelly, 70, American arts patron, vice-chairman of Americans for the Arts, complications of pancreatic cancer.
* Inger Lise Gjørv, 70, Norwegian politician, cancer.
* Janet Jagan, 88, American-born Guyanese President (1997–1999), abdominal aortic aneurysm.
* Hugh Kelly, 85, British footballer (Blackpool), pneumonia.
* Martin J. Klein, 84, American historian and physicist.
* Helmut Noller, 89, German Olympic sprint canoer.
* Jorge Preloran, 76, Argentine filmmaker, prostate cancer.

### 29

* Ivor Dent, 85, Canadian Mayor of Edmonton (1968–1974), Alzheimer's disease.
* Vladimir Fedotov, 66, Russian footballer and manager, Soviet Top League leading goalscorer (1964).
* Monte Hale, 89, American country musician and actor (Giant).
* Andy Hallett, 33, American actor (Angel), heart disease.
* Maurice Jarre, 84, French film composer (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ghost), Oscar winner (1963, 1966, 1985), cancer.
* Helen Levitt, 95, American photographer, respiratory failure.
* Miroslav Moravec, 70, Czech actor, cancer.
* Earl Paulk, 81, American pastor, implicated in several sex scandals, cancer.
* Lou Saban, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills), complications from fall.
* Kanwaljit Singh, 67, Indian politician, traffic accident.
* Helvecia Viera, 80, Chilean comedian and actress, stroke.
* Gerrit Viljoen, 82, South African politician, Administrator-General of South-West Africa (1978–1980).

### 30

* Shirl Bernheim, 87, American actress.
* Burton Blumert, 80, American president of the Center for Libertarian Studies, chairman of Mises Institute, cancer.
* Eugène Drenthe, 83, Surinamese playwright and poet.
* Herman Franks, 95, American baseball manager, heart failure.
* Andrea Mead Lawrence, 76, American alpine skier, cancer.
* Eric Munoz, 61, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly since 2001, complications of cardiac surgery.
* Jackie Pretorius, 74, South African racing driver, assault during home invasion.
* David Scott, 92, American art historian.
* George Stoddard, 92, American financier, natural causes.
* Loras Joseph Watters, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Winona (1969–1986).
* Sulim Yamadayev, 35, Russian military commander and Chechen warlord, shot.

### 31

* Raúl Alfonsín, 82, Argentine President (1983–1989), lung cancer.
* Jarl Alfredius, 66, Swedish journalist, prostate cancer.
* John Atkins, 92, British writer.
* Marga Barbu, 80, Romanian actress.
* Michael Cox, 60, British novelist, cancer.
* Paul E. Davis, 87, American college football coach.
* Emory Elliott, 66, American academic, heart attack.
* A. F. Golam Osmani, 76, Indian politician, lung cancer.
* Hong Song-nam, 79, North Korean politician, Premier (1997–2003).
* Gordon Kerr, 91, Canadian Olympic swimmer.
* Choor Singh, 98, Singaporean jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Singapore (1963–1980).
* Sir Reresby Sitwell, 81, British aristocrat and writer.