# Deaths in June 2009
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The following is a list of deaths in June 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), what subject was known for, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## June 2009
### 1

* Thomas Berry, 94, American cultural historian and ecotheologian.
* Bob Christie, 85, American racing driver.
* Ken Clark, 81, American actor, heart attack.
* Ernest R. May, 80, American historian (Harvard University), complications from cancer surgery.
* Vincent O'Brien, 92, Irish race horse trainer.
* Aleksandr Potupa, 64, Belarusian politician, physicist, economist and writer.
* Jerry Rosenberg, 72, American jailhouse lawyer, natural causes.
* Parvin Soleimani, 86, Iranian actress, brain tumor.
* Dirk du Toit, 65, South African politician, suspected heart failure.
* Notable people that died in the crash of Air France Flight 447:
** Silvio Barbato, 50, Italian-born Brazilian conductor and composer.
** Giambattista Lenzi, 58, Italian politician.
** Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu, 36, Turkish classical harpist and academic (Anadolu University in Eskişehir).
** Prince Pedro Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, 26, Brazilian prince.

### 2

* William Booth, 70, Irish Anglican priest, Deputy Clerk of the Closet (1991–2007).
* Chung Kai-lai, 92, Chinese-born American mathematician.
* Jaye F. Dyer, 81-82, American energy executive.
* David Eddings, 77, American fantasy author.
* John Ernsting, 81, British Air Vice-Marshal, expert in aviation medicine.
* FrancEyE, 87, American poet, complications from a hip fracture.
* Terry Hankins, 34, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Alfred Kern, 85, American novelist and academic.
* Tony Maggs, 72, South African racing driver, cancer.
* Palghat R. Raghu, 81, Burmese-born Indian musician, cardiac arrest.
* Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot, 75, Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Adigrat (1985–2001).
* Paul O. Williams, 74, American science fiction author, aortic dissection.

### 3

* Geoffrey Bingham, 90, Australian evangelical Christian writer.
* David Bromige, 75, British-born Canadian poet and academic, winner of the Pushcart Prize, complications from diabetes.
* Sam Butera, 81, American saxophonist, Alzheimer's disease.
* James F. Calvert, 88, American naval officer, 46th Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, heart failure.
* David Carradine, 72, American actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill, Boxcar Bertha) and film director, erotic asphyxiation.
* Do Kum-bong, 79, South Korean actress.
* Sam George, 56, Canadian activist, native rights campaigner who advocated for the Ipperwash Inquiry following the Ipperwash Crisis, pancreatic and lung cancer.
* Thomas Gill, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1963–1965), after long illness.
* Frank Harrison, 69, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1983–1985), natural causes.
* Geir Høgsnes, 58, Norwegian sociologist.
* Peter Landin, 78, British computer scientist, prostate cancer.
* Jack Ross, 110, Australian supercentenarian, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I.
* Shih Kien, 96, Hong Kong actor (Enter the Dragon).
* Koko Taylor, 80, American blues musician, complications from gastrointestinal surgery.

### 4

* Mojisola Adekunle-Obasanjo, 65, Nigerian army officer and politician.
* Lev Brovarskyi, 60, Ukrainian Soviet-era footballer and coach.
* Robert Colescott, 83, American painter, U.S. representative to Venice Biennale (1997).
* Ward Costello, 89, American actor and composer, complications from a stroke.
* Philip D. Curtin, 87, American historian, pneumonia.
* Luc Alfons de Hovre, 83, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels (1982–2002).
* John F. Henning, 93, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to New Zealand (1967–1969).
* Dorothy Layton, 96, American actress (County Hospital).
* Chris O'Brien, 57, Australian oncologist, surgeon on the reality television program RPA, brain tumour.
* Randy Smith, 60, American basketball player (Buffalo Braves), 1978 NBA All-Star Game MVP, heart attack.

### 5

* Bernard Barker, 92, Cuban-born American intelligence operative, Watergate burglar, lung cancer.
* Peter L. Bernstein, 90, American economic historian, pneumonia.
* Alan Berkman, 63, American physician and activist, lymphoma.
* Fleur Cowles, 101, American writer, editor and artist.
* Baciro Dabó, 51, Guinea-Bissauan politician, presidential candidate, shot.
* Jeff Hanson, 31, American singer–songwriter, mixed drug toxicity.
* Ola Hudson, 62, American fashion designer and costumier, cancer.
* Richard Jacobs, 83, American real estate developer, owner of the Cleveland Indians (1986–2001), after long illness.
* Luo Jing, 48, Chinese news presenter, lymphoma.
* Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, 53, Russian general, Interior Minister for the Republic of Dagestan, shot.
* Rajeev Motwani, 47, Indian-born American academic, advisor for Google, Inc.
* Boris Pokrovsky, 97, Russian opera director, People's Artist of the USSR.
* Helder Proença, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Minister of Defense, shot.
* Haydn Tanner, 92, British rugby union player.
* George Edward Wahlen, 84, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, after long illness.

### 6

* Charles Arnold-Baker, 90, British historian.
* Luke Cole, 46, American environmental lawyer, road accident.
* Jean Dausset, 92, French immunologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1980).
* Bobby Haarms, 75, Dutch football player and coach.
* Mary Howard de Liagre, 96, American actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Swamp Water).
* Jim Owens, 82, American college football coach (Washington Huskies), complications from hypertension and heart problems.
* Pio Sagapolutele, 39, American Samoan footballer (Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots), aneurysm.

### 7

* Roy Boe, 79, American businessman, owner of New Jersey Nets (1969–1978), New York Islanders (1972–1979), heart failure.
* Leonard Guttridge, 90, English historian and author.
* Hugh Hopper, 64, British progressive rock bassist and composer (Soft Machine), leukaemia.
* Willie Kilmarnock, 87, Scottish footballer (Motherwell).
* Gordon Lennon, 26, Northern Irish footballer (Dumbarton), car crash.
* Kenny Rankin, 69, American singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
* Peter Townsend, 81, British sociologist, pneumonia.
* Baron Vaea, 88, Tongan politician, Prime Minister (1991–2000), after short illness.

### 8

* Om Prakash Aditya, 72, Indian poet, car accident.
* Omar Bongo, 73, Gabonese politician, President (1967–2009), heart attack.
* Frank Dasso, 91, American baseball player.
* Sheila Finestone, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Mount Royal (1984–1999) and Senator (1999–2002), cancer.
* Aage Rou Jensen, 84, Danish footballer.
* Harold Norse, 92, American poet.
* Johnny Palermo, 27, American actor (Just for Kicks, Everybody Hates Chris), car accident.
* Matt Simpson, 73, British poet and literary critic.
* Habib Tanvir, 85, Indian playwright and theatre director, after short illness.

### 9

* Duke Bainum, 56, American politician (Hawaii House of Representatives, Honolulu City Council), aortic aneurysm.
* Norman E. Brinker, 78, American restaurateur (Brinker International), aspiration pneumonia.
* Cyril Connell Jr., 81, Australian rugby league player.
* Edward Hanrahan, 88, American lawyer, State's Attorney (Cook County, Illinois), leukemia.
* Jean Hugel, 84, French winemaker (Alsace wine), cancer.
* Bill Lillard, 90, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
* Jack Littrell, 80, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.
* Dick May, 78, American racing driver, after long illness.
* John Francis Mitchell, 81, American electronics engineer, president of Motorola.
* Vera Mutafchieva, 80, Bulgarian historian.
* Michael Roof, 32, American actor (xXx, Black Hawk Down, The Dukes of Hazzard), suicide by hanging.
* Dave Simons, 54, American comic book artist, cancer.
* Arne Tovik, 53, Norwegian newspaper editor and journalist.
* Karl Michael Vogler, 80, German actor.

### 10

* Barry Beckett, 66, American record producer, session musician, keyboardist (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section), natural causes.
* Andrew Wendell Bogue, 90, American federal judge.
* John A. Eddy, 78, American astronomer, cancer.
* Tenniel Evans, 83, British actor.
* Xaver Frick, 96, Liechtensteinian Olympic athlete and cross-country skier.
* Aza Gazgireyeva, 54, Russian jurist, senior judge in Ingushetia, shot.
* Huey Long, 105, American singer (The Ink Spots).
* Nguyễn Khắc Ngư, 100, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Long Xuyên (1960–1997).
* Jack Nimitz, 79, American jazz baritone saxophonist, complications from emphysema.
* Marian Pour-El, 81, American mathematical logician.
* Richard Quick, 66, American swimming and diving coach, brain tumor.
* Stelios Skevofilakas, 70, Greek footballer (AEK Athens), stomach cancer.
* Helle Virkner, 83, Danish actress and first lady, cancer.

### 11

* Viacheslav Aliabiev, 75, Ukrainian footballer (Shakhtyor Stalino), USSR Cup winner (1961, 1962), cancer.
* Sidney W. Bijou, 100, American child psychologist.
* Marian Goliński, 59, Polish politician, car accident.
* Woodie Held, 77, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), brain cancer.
* Jakob Kjersem, 83, Norwegian Olympic athlete.
* Frank J. Low, 75, American physicist and astronomer.
* Christel Peters, 93, German actress.
* Carl Pursell, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1977–1993), heart disease.
* Ricardo Rangel, 85, Mozambican photojournalist.
* Sumire, 21, Japanese fashion model, brain hemorrhage.
* Roger Terry, 87, American airman (Tuskegee Airmen), heart failure.
* Peter Wheeler, 65, British chemical engineer and businessman, owner of TVR, after short illness.
* Heinrich Zoller, 86, Swiss botanist, after a short illness

### 12

* Shailaja Acharya, 65, Nepalese politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1998), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.
* Annesley Dias, 82, Sri Lankan comedian,
* Robinson Everett, 81, American judge, member of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces since 1980.
* Charles Fenton, 97, Australian politician, member (1957–1981) and President (1972–1981) of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
* Peter Gowan, 63, British professor of politics, mesothelioma.
* Andy Hughes, 43, British musician (The Orb), producer and DJ.
* Ivan Lichter, 91, New Zealand physician, pioneer in palliative care.
* Félix Malloum, 76, Chadian politician, President (1975–1979), cardiac arrest.
* Rosa Markmann, 101, Chilean First Lady (1946–1952).

### 13

* Bashir Aushev, 62, Russian public official, Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia (2002–2008), shot.
* Otilio Galíndez, 73, Venezuelan poet and composer.
* Mitsuharu Misawa, 46, Japanese professional wrestler (AJPW), spinal cord injury.
* John Saville, 93, British Marxist economic and social historian.

### 14

* Khalil Abi-Nader, 87, Lebanese Maronite prelate, archbishop of Beirut (1986–1996).
* Bob Bogle, 69, American guitarist (The Ventures), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Angela Coughlan, 56, Canadian swimmer, bronze medalist (1968 Summer Olympics), multiple myeloma.
* Ivan Della Mea, 68, Italian singer–songwriter and author, after long illness.
* Yasuharu Hasebe, 77, Japanese film director, pneumonia.
* Dorothy Kozak, 77, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
* Li Wenqing, 79, Chinese politician.
* William McIntyre, 91, Canadian jurist, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1979–1989), throat cancer.
* Moumouni Adamou Djermakoye, 70, Nigerien politician.
* Carlos Pardo, 33, Mexican NASCAR race driver, race crash.
* Jackie Ronne, 89, American explorer, first American woman to visit Antarctica, cancer.
* Frederick Sontag, 84, American academic and author, professor of philosophy (Pomona College), heart failure.
* Abel Tador, 24, Nigerian footballer, shot.
* Hal Woodeshick, 76, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s), after long illness.

### 15

* Sohrab Aarabi, 19, Iranian student, shot.
* George Belotti, 74, American football player, complications of a stroke.
* Antonio Bianco, 57, South African diamond cutter, cancer.
* Helen Boosalis, 89, American politician, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska (1975–1983), brain tumor.
* Charles Horan, 85, British police officer.
* Joginder, 59, Indian actor.
* Allan King, 79, Canadian film director (Warrendale, Termini Station, Silence of the North), brain tumor.
* Henryk Lewczuk, 85, Polish soldier.
* Desmond Moran, 60, Australian criminal, member of Moran family, shot.

### 16

* John Anthony, 76, British Olympic shooter.
* Peter Arundell, 75, British racing driver, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Emmanuel Constant, 81, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Les Gonaïves (1966–2003).
* Paul A. Fino, 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1953–1968).
* Celia Fremlin, 95, British crime novelist.
* D. Mark Hegsted, 95, American nutritionist, research led to recommended decrease in dietary saturated fats.
* Eleanor Himmelfarb, 98, American artist, teacher and conservationist.
* Charlie Mariano, 85, American jazz alto saxophonist, cancer.
* Tina Marsh, 55, American jazz vocalist, breast cancer.
* Frank Herbert Mason, 88, American artist and teacher.
* Proud Accolade, 7, American Thoroughbred racehorse, neurological disorder.
* Sheila Rodwell, 62, British epidemiologist.

### 17

* Joji Banuve, 68-69, Fijian politician, Minister for Local Government and the Environment, after short illness.
* José Calvário, 58, Portuguese maestro and orchestrator, complications from heart attack.
* Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, 80, German-born British sociologist and politician, cancer.
* Alejandro Doria, 72, Argentine film director, pneumonia.
* Patrick Dowling, 89, British television producer.
* Eon, 55, British musician, complications from pneumonia.
* José Ignacio García Hamilton, 65, Argentine politician and historian.
* Jane Aiken Hodge, 91, American-born British writer, suicide by drug overdose.
* Wayne L. Horvitz, 88, American labor mediator, cancer.
* John Houghtaling, 92, American businessman and inventor (Magic Fingers vibrating bed), complications from a fall.
* IZ the Wiz, 50, American graffiti artist, heart attack.
* Darrell Powers, 86, American soldier (Easy Company).
* Dusty Rhodes, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants), complications from diabetes and emphysema.
* Ali Said, Somali public servant, chief of police (Mogadishu), shot.
* Perry Salles, 70, Brazilian actor (Mandala, Cinderela Baiana, O Clone) and film director, lung cancer.
* Shacky Tauro, 49, Zimbabwean footballer, after short illness.
* Tony Wong, 60, Canadian politician.
* Gordon Wray, 57, British-born Canadian politician.

### 18

* Omar Hashi Aden, Somali politician, Minister of Security, suicide bomb attack.
* Giovanni Arrighi, 71, Italian economist.
* Hortensia Bussi, 94, Chilean First Lady (1970–1973), widow of President Salvador Allende, natural causes.
* Victor Cosson, 93, French road bicycle racer.
* Terry Griffiths, 64, Australian politician.
* Sir Henry Hodge, 65, British jurist, High Court judge since 2004, acute myeloid leukaemia.
* Heyward Isham, 82, American diplomat.
* Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Indian sarod player, kidney failure.

### 19

* Alberto Andrade, 65, Peruvian politician, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Sir Derrick Bailey, 90, British cricketer and baronet, son of diamond tycoon and politician Sir Abe Bailey.
* H. A. Boucher, 88, American politician, first elected Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1970–1974).
* Ron Crocombe, 79, New Zealand academic (University of the South Pacific), heart attack.
* Vicenç Ferrer Moncho, 89, Spanish Jesuit missionary and philanthropist.
* Shelly Gross, 88, American Broadway producer, bladder cancer.
* Jörg Hube, 65, German actor, cancer.
* Arthur W. Lehman, 91, American euphonium player, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Peter Newbrook, 88, British cinematographer and film producer.
* Gary Papa, 54, American television sportscaster (WPVI-TV), prostate cancer.
* Ken Roberts, 99, American actor and announcer, pneumonia.
* Herschel Rosenthal, 91, American politician, member of the California Senate (1982–1998).
* Bob Schuler, 66, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate since 2002, cancer.
* Stan Sismey, 92, Australian cricketer.
* Tomoji Tanabe, 113, Japanese supercentenarian, was world's oldest living man, heart failure.

### 20

* Colin Bean, 83, British actor (Dad's Army).
* Aldo Gargani, 76, Italian philosopher.
* Joel Helleny, 52, American trombonist,
* Ralph F. Hirschmann, 87, American biochemist (synthesis of the first enzyme), renal failure.
* Nazir Jairazbhoy, 81, British-born American ethnomusicologist.
* Naci Kınacıoğlu, 79-80, Turkish academician, legal scholar, interim Minister of Transport.
* Patrick Kombayi, 70, Zimbabwean politician and businessman, complications from 1990 shooting.
* Godfrey Rampling, 100, British athlete, 1936 Olympic relay champion, NATO commander, father of actress Charlotte Rampling.
* Kenneth L. Reusser, 89, American Marine aviator, decorated veteran of World War II, Korean and Vietnam Wars.
* Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, Iranian student.
* Anthony Yeo, 60, Singaporean counsellor, Burkitt's lymphoma.

### 21

* Gilda Galán, 92, Puerto Rican actress.
* Lorena Gale, 51, Canadian actress (Battlestar Galactica, The Perfect Score, The Butterfly Effect) and playwright, throat cancer.
* José Nicomedes Grossi, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1962–1990).
* Errol Harris, 101, South African philosopher.
* Arthur Luft, 94, Manx politician and deemster.

### 22

* Agnes Tachyon, 11, Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, heart failure.
* Betty Allen, 82, American operatic mezzo-soprano, kidney disease.
* Bert Bank, 94, American radio pioneer and politician, Bataan Death March survivor.
* David Farquhar, 82, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1976).
* Alec Gallup, 81, American pollster, chairman of the Gallup Poll, heart disease.
* June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, 95, British musician and patron of the arts.
* Maj-Len Grönholm, 57, Finnish politician and beauty queen, councilwoman, Miss Finland (1972), cancer.
* Akhtar Imam, 91, Bangladeshi educationist.
* Moisei Itkis, 80, Soviet Olympic shooter.
* Hanne Kjærholm, 79, Danish architect.
* Billy Red Lyons, 77, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.
* Eddie Preston, 84, American jazz trumpeter.
* Steve Race, 88, British broadcaster and musician.
* Philip Simmons, 97, American blacksmith.
* Karel Van Miert, 67, Belgian politician, European Commissioner (1989–1999), cardiac arrest resulting in fall.
* Sam B. Williams, 88, American engineer and inventor.

### 23

* Thurman Adams Jr., 80, American politician, member of the Delaware Senate since 1972, pancreatic cancer.
* Raymond Berthiaume, 78, Canadian jazz musician, singer and record producer, cancer.
* Phyllis Busansky, 72, American politician, county commissioner and supervisor of elections (Hillsborough County, Florida).
* John Callaway, 72, American journalist (Chicago Tonight), heart attack.
* Harold H. Carstens, 84, American magazine publisher.
* Gegham Ghandilyan, 35, Armenian actor, car accident.
* İsmet Güney, 85, Cypriot artist and cartoonist, designed flag of the Republic of Cyprus, cancer.
* Hanne Hiob, 86, German actress, daughter of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht.
* Akpan Isemin, 69-70, Nigerian politician.
* Johny Joseph, 45, Haitian news presenter (Télévision Nationale d'Haiti), cancer.
* Thomas M. King, 80, American Roman Catholic priest and theologian, expert on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, heart attack.
* Ed McMahon, 86, American television host (Star Search) and announcer (The Tonight Show).
* Aram Miskaryan, 36, Armenian actor, car accident.
* Jerri Nielsen, 57, American physician, treated herself for breast cancer on Antarctica in 1999, breast cancer.
* Robin Plackett, 88, British statistician.
* Jackie Swindells, 72, British footballer.

### 24

* Irv Homer, 85, American talk show host, heart attack.
* Olja Ivanjicki, 78, Serbian painter.
* Tim Krekel, 58, American guitarist and songwriter, cancer.
* Robèrt Lafont, 87, French academic.
* Roméo LeBlanc, 81, Canadian politician (1973–1994), Governor General (1995–1999), Alzheimer's disease.
* Robert B. Pamplin, 97, American executive, President of Georgia-Pacific (1957–1976).
* Edward Arthur Thomas, 58, American football coach, NFL High School Football Coach of the Year (2005), shot.
* Steven Wells, 49, British journalist and author, cancer.

### 25

* Ramon Alcaraz, 93, Filipino World War II veteran and recipient of the Silver Star.
* Don Coldsmith, 83, American western author, stroke.
* Neera Desai, 84, Indian academician, political activist and Women's Studies pioneer.
* George Ernest, 87, American film actor.
* Farrah Fawcett, 62, American actress (Charlie's Angels, The Cannonball Run, Dr. T & the Women), anal cancer.
* Morton Gottlieb, 88, American Broadway theatre producer, Tony Award winner (1971), natural causes.
* James Baker Hall, 74, American poet and academic, Kentucky Poet Laureate (2001–2003), natural causes.
* Tōshirō Ishida, 96, Japanese military employee, pneumonia.
* Michael Jackson, 50, American singer ("Thriller", "Billie Jean", "Smooth Criminal") and dancer, nine-time Grammy winner, acute propofol intoxication.
* Clifton Johnson, 67, American jurist, North Carolina Superior Court (1978–1982) and Court of Appeals (1982–1996).
* Jack Johnson, 78, Canadian politician.
* Brian Jones, 70, British poet.
* Sylvia Levin, 91, American civic and voter registration activist, registered 47,000 new voters, stroke.
* Shiv Charan Mathur, 83, Indian politician, Governor of Assam since 2008, Chief Minister of Rajasthan (1988–1989), cardiac arrest.
* Mian Tufail Mohammad, 95, Pakistani politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Bela Mukherjee, 89, Indian singer, widow of singer and composer Hemanta Mukherjee, natural causes.
* Paul V. Nolan, 85, American physician and statesman, liver cancer.
* Kaleem Omar, 72, Pakistani poet and journalist, heart failure.
* Sky Saxon, 71, American rock musician (The Seeds), heart failure.
* Hugh Scaife, 79, British set decorator (The Elephant Man, The Spy Who Loved Me, A Passage to India).
* Zinaida Stahurskaya, 38, Belarusian cyclist, training collision (car accident).
* Al Siebert, 75, American author and educator, colon cancer.
* Anil Wilson, 62, Indian educator, Principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1991–2007), pancreatic cancer.
* Yasmine, 37, Belgian singer and television presenter, suicide by hanging.

### 26

* Jo Amar, 79, Moroccan-born Israeli singer.
* Bernard Ganley, 83, British rugby league player.
* Amnon Kapeliouk, 78, Israeli journalist and author.

### 27

* Ernst Barkmann, 89, German World War II Waffen-SS soldier and Panzer ace.
* Frank Barlow, 98, British historian.
* Victoriano Crémer, 102, Spanish poet and journalist, natural causes.
* Mary Lou Forbes, 83, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (1959), breast cancer.
* Kishore Sarja, 50, Indian film director.
* Willy Kyrklund, 88, Finnish-born Swedish author.
* Fayette Pinkney, 61, American musician (The Three Degrees), respiratory failure.
* Nanae Sasaki, 53, Japanese marathon runner, colorectal cancer.
* Gale Storm, 87, American actress (My Little Margie, The Gale Storm Show).
* Gordon Taylor, 93, British Anglican priest and Royal Navy chaplain.
* Jackie Washington, 89, Canadian blues musician, complications from a heart attack.

### 28

* Terry Black, 62, Canadian singer, multiple sclerosis.
* Joseph Crowdy, 85, British soldier, Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
* Josep Maria Guix Ferreres, 81, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Vic (1983–2003).
* Rita Keane, 86, Irish traditional singer.
* A. K. Lohithadas, 54, Indian screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
* Billy Mays, 50, American pitchman (OxiClean) and television host (Pitchmen), hypertensive heart disease.
* Jeff Swanagan, 51, American founding executive director and president of the Georgia Aquarium, heart attack.
* Fred Travalena, 66, American comedian and impressionist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Tom Wilkes, 69, American graphic designer.
* Yu Hyun-mok, 83, South Korean film director, cerebral infarction.

### 29

* Dave Batters, 39, Canadian politician, MP for Palliser (2004–2008), suicide.
* Joe Bowman, 84, American bootmaker and sharpshooter, heart attack.
* Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, cirrhosis.
* Pauline Picard, 62, Canadian politician, MP for Drummond (1993–2008), lung cancer.
* Jan Rubeš, 89, Czech-born Canadian actor (Witness, Snow Falling on Cedars, D2: The Mighty Ducks) and opera singer, stroke.
* Sandra Warfield, 88, American operatic mezzo-soprano, complications from a stroke.

### 30

* Pina Bausch, 68, German modern dance choreographer, cancer.
* Paquito Cordero, 76, Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer, respiratory disease.
* Robert DePugh, 86, American anti-Communist activist.
* Liam Fairhurst, 14, British fundraiser, synovial sarcoma.
* Jay Kleven, 59, American baseball player.
* James F. McNulty, Jr., 83, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arizona (1983–1985), Parkinson's disease.
* Jan Molander, 89, Swedish actor and film director.
* Luis Oliva, 101, Argentine Olympic athlete.
* Harve Presnell, 75, American actor (Fargo, Saving Private Ryan, Patch Adams) and singer, pancreatic cancer.
* Shi Pei Pu, 70, Chinese opera singer, gender-bending spy who was basis for M. Butterfly.