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

## May 2009
### 1

* Delara Darabi, 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging.
* Fred Delmare, 87, German actor, complications from pneumonia.
* Ric Estrada, 81, Cuban-born American comic book artist (Superman, Batman), co-creator of Power Girl, prostate cancer.
* Danny Gans, 52, American entertainer.
* Norman Gash, 97, British historian.
* Brian Grove, 88, Australian cricketer.
* Albert Hamilton Gordon, 107, American businessman.
* George Hannan, 98, Australian politician.
* Jokke Kangaskorpi, 37, Finnish footballer.
* Jack D. Maltester, 95, American politician, mayor of San Leandro, California.
* Derek Noonan, 62, British rugby league and rugby union player.
* Marc Rocco, 46, American film director (Murder in the First, Where the Day Takes You) and screenwriter.
* Sunline, 13, New Zealand champion racehorse, euthanized.
* John Wilke, 54, American investigative reporter, pancreatic cancer.

### 2

* Alfred Appel Jr., 75, American scholar, expert on Vladimir Nabokov, heart failure.
* K. Balaji, 74, Indian Tamil actor and producer, multiple organ failure.
* Augusto Boal, 78, Brazilian dramatist and theater director (Theatre of the Oppressed), respiratory failure.
* Víctor Andrés Catena, 84, Spanish screenwriter and director.
* Marilyn French, 79, American writer, heart failure.
* Harold Hankins, 78, British electrical engineer and academic administrator, Vice-Chancellor of UMIST.
* Kiyoshiro Imawano, 58, Japanese rock musician.
* Janus Kamban, 95, Faroese sculptor and graphic designer.
* Jack Kemp, 73, American politician and football player, candidate for Vice President (1996), cancer.
* Carole C. Noon, 59, American primatologist, founder of Save the Chimps, pancreatic cancer.
* Robert Pauley, 85, American executive, President of ABC Radio (1961–1967), heart failure.
* Virginia Prince, 96, American transgender activist.

### 3

* Dobby Campbell, 86, Scottish football player (Chelsea, Scotland) and manager.
* Robert B. Choate Jr., 84, American food lobbyist.
* Committed, 29, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Echo, 63-64, African bush elephant.
* John Elsworthy, 77, Welsh football player (Ipswich Town).
* Eddie Hui, 65, Hong Kong public servant, Commissioner of Police (1994–2001), cancer.
* Eleanor Perenyi, 91, American gardener and writer, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar, 78, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest.
* Ralph Thompson, 95, British animal artist.

### 4

* Nicholas Clemente, 80, American judge (New York Supreme Court).
* Dom DeLuise, 75, American actor (The Cannonball Run, The Secret of NIMH, Spaceballs), kidney failure.
* Sir Geoffrey Foot, 93, Australian politician.
* Edward Stewart Kennedy, 97, American historian.
* Charles Lugano, 59, Kenyan politician, after short illness.
* Martha Mason, 71, American author, lived 60 years in an iron lung.
* Fritz Muliar, 89, Austrian actor.
* Jane Randolph, 93, American actress.
* Gisela Stein, 73, German actress.

### 5

* Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.
* David S. King, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative for Utah (1959–1963).
* Richard Miller, 83, American operatic tenor and educator, Professor Emeritus of Voice (Oberlin Conservatory of Music).
* Dewey Smith, 36, American diver.
* Elsie B. Washington, 66, American author, wrote first African American romance novel, multiple sclerosis and cancer.
* Murasaki Yamada, 60, Japanese manga artist.

### 6

* Peyman Abadi, 37, Iranian actor, car accident.
* Erik Bluemel, 32, American professor (University of Denver), bicycle accident.
* Sam Cohn, 79, American talent agent, after short illness.
* Leon Despres, 101, American attorney and politician, heart failure.
* Ean Evans, 48, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer.
* Sima Eyvazova, 75, Azerbaijani diplomat, first Permanent Representative to the UN.
* Kevin Grubb, 31, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot.
* Sid Laverents, 100, American amateur filmmaker, pneumonia.
* Lev Loseff, 71, Russian poet and literary critic.
* Bob Meyer, 76, Australian logician, lung cancer.
* W. Wesley Peterson, 85, American mathematician and computer scientist.
* Valentin Varennikov, 85, Russian general.
* Viola Wills, 69, American pop singer, cancer.

### 7

* Robin Blaser, 83, American-born Canadian poet, Griffin Poetry Prize winner.
* Mickey Carroll, 89, American actor (The Wizard of Oz).
* Ian Cundy, 64, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Peterborough, mesothelioma.
* Linda Dangcil, 66, American actress (The Flying Nun, Jem, The Bad Pack), throat cancer.
* John Furia Jr., 79, American screenwriter (The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare), President of the Writers Guild, West (1973–1975).
* Alan Gilbertson, 81, New Zealand cricketer.
* Tony Marsh, 77, British racing driver.
* David Mellor, 78, British industrial designer, manufacturer and retailer.
* Frank Melton, 60, American politician, mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
* John Murphy, 95, Irish building contractor.
* Danny Ozark, 85, American baseball manager.
* Brian Sorenson, 79, New Zealand cricketer.
* Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, 85, British politician and writer.

### 8

* Gianni Baget Bozzo, 84, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician.
* Fons Brydenbach, 54, Belgian athlete, cancer.
* Dom DiMaggio, 92, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), brother of Joe DiMaggio, pneumonia.
* Hideyuki Fujisawa, 83, Japanese Go player, aspiration pneumonia.
* Carlos Kloppenburg, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Novo Hamburgo (1986–1995).
* Ninel Kurgapkina, 80, Russian prima ballerina, road accident.
* Greg Palmer, 61, American writer, television reporter and Emmy Award-winning journalist, lung cancer.
* Bud Shrake, 77, American journalist and novelist, lung cancer.
* Eunice Taylor, 75, American baseball player (Kenosha Comets).

### 9

* Eileen Albright, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
* Stephen Bruton, 60, American songwriter and guitarist (Kris Kristofferson band), throat cancer.
* Chuck Daly, 78, American basketball coach, pancreatic cancer.
* Travis Edmonson, 76, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bud & Travis), heart failure.
* Michael Fox, 75, British-born Israeli lawyer.
* Cyril Edwin Hart, 96, British forestry expert.
* Henry T. King, 89, American attorney, Nuremberg trials prosecutor, cancer.
* David Marcus, 85, Irish literary editor, after long illness.
* Ernest Millington, 93, British politician and educator, last living World War II-era member of the British Parliament.
* Eugene Smith, 88, American gospel singer.
* Evgenios Spatharis, 85, Greek shadow play artist, fall.
* Mendi Rodan, 80, Romanian-born Israeli conductor and violinist, cancer.
* Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe, 46, Belgian-born Ukrainian equestrian.
* George Zinkhan, 57, American academic and suspected murderer, suicide by gunshot.

### 10

* Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, 45-46, Libyan Al-Qaeda paramilitary trainer accused of terrorism, alleged suicide.
* Robert John Cornell, 89, American politician and Roman Catholic priest, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (1975–1979).
* Ronald Easterbrook, 78, British criminal.
* Sergio Escobedo, 78, Mexican Olympic modern pentathlete and fencer.
* Johnnie Johnson, 91, English cricketer.
* James Kirkup, 91, British poet, translator and travel writer, stroke.
* Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, 47, Guatemalan lawyer, shot.
* Brian Simnjanovski, 27, American football player (Berlin Thunder), car accident.
* Robert J. Sinclair, 77, American executive, CEO of Saab-Scania of America, cancer.

### 11

* Pat Booth, 66, British model and writer, cancer.
* Lude Check, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Abel Goumba, 82, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1957–1958, 1959, 2003) and vice-president (2003–2005).
* Claudio Huepe, 69, Chilean politician and diplomat, heart attack.
* Bill Kelso, 69, American baseball player.
* Roy Kline, 93, Australian footballer.
* Mark Landon, 60, American actor, adopted son of Michael Landon.
* Shanthi Lekha, 79, Sri Lankan actress.
* António Lopes dos Santos, 92, Portuguese general, Governor of Macau (1962–1966), Cape Verde (1969–1974).
* Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, 93, Indian admiral, Chief of Naval Staff (1970–1973).
* Peter Philips, 81, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1988).
* Sir Richard Posnett, 89, British colonial administrator, Governor of Belize (1972–1976) and Bermuda (1981–1983).
* Leonard Shlain, 71, American surgeon and writer, brain cancer.

### 12

* Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, 74, British aristocrat and politician, heart failure.
* Dame Heather Begg, 76, New Zealand operatic soprano, leukemia.
* Mohan Ellawala, 61, Sri Lankan politician, Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province (2008–2009), after long illness.
* Eden Ross Lipson, 66, American book editor, pancreatic cancer.
* Thomas Nordseth-Tiller, 28, Norwegian screenwriter (Max Manus), cancer.
* Roger Planchon, 77, French theatre director, heart attack.
* Sidique Ali Merican, 78, Malaysian sprinter, stroke.
* Ted Sampley, 63, American POW/MIA activist, complications from heart surgery.
* Antonio Vega, 51, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (Nacha Pop), pneumonia.
* Heini Walter, 81, Swiss racing driver.

### 13

* Frank Aletter, 83, American character actor (It's About Time), cancer.
* Ron Cameron, 85, Canadian Olympic rower.
* Waldemar Levy Cardoso, 108, Brazilian Field Marshal, WWI-era veteran.
* Achille Compagnoni, 94, Italian mountaineer, first person to ascend K2.
* Don Cordner, 87, Australian footballer.
* Rafael Escalona, 81, Colombian Vallenato composer and troubador.
* Norbert Eschmann, 75, Swiss footballer.
* Ernest Kline, 79, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1971–1979).
* Iwan Schmid, 61, Swiss Olympic cyclist.
* Anne Scott-James, 96, British journalist and author, widow of Sir Osbert Lancaster.
* L. William Seidman, 88, American public servant, Chairman of the FDIC (1985–1991), after short illness.
* Joe Tandy, 26, British auto racing team owner, car crash.

### 14

* Barathea, 19, Irish racehorse, euthanized.
* Monica Bleibtreu, 65, Austrian actress, screenwriter and drama teacher, cancer.
* Bob Boyd, 81, American football player.
* Newt Heisley, 88, American commercial artist, designer of POW/MIA flag, after long illness.
* Ken Hollyman, 86, Welsh footballer (Cardiff City, Newport County).
* Marian McDougall, 95, American amateur golfer.
* Buddy Montgomery, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure.
* William J. Passmore, 77, American jockey, complications from emphysema.
* Bob Rosburg, 82, American golfer and television color analyst, fall.
* George Williams, 69, American baseball player.

### 15

* Susanna Agnelli, 87, Italian politician and writer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–1996).
* Alexander Gordon Bearn, 86, British physician.
* Broad Brush, 26, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Si Frumkin, 78, Lithuanian-born Holocaust survivor.
* Alan Hackney, 84, British screenwriter.
* Mordechai Limon, 85, Israeli admiral, Commander of the Navy (1950–1954).
* Cheikh Hamidou Kane Mathiara, 69, Senegalese economist and politician.
* Rodger McFarlane, 54, American gay rights activist, first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, suicide.
* Mohammad-Amin Riahi, 86, Iranian historian and literary scholar.
* Edwin S. Shneidman, 91, American suicidologist.
* Helvi Sipilä, 94, Finnish diplomat.
* Roy Talbot, 94, Bermudan calypso musician, last surviving member of original Talbot Brothers.
* Bud Tingwell, 86, Australian actor, prostate cancer.
* Wayman Tisdale, 44, American basketball player and jazz bassist, cancer.
* Hubert van Es, 67, Dutch photographer at the fall of Saigon, brain hemorrhage.

### 16

* Prospero Amatong, 77, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Governor of Davao del Norte (1992–1998), fall.
* Antonio Chocano, 96, Guatemalan Olympic fencer and diplomat, emphysema.
* John E. Connelly, 82, American entrepreneur, founder of Gateway Clipper Fleet, heart failure.
* David Halsey, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1972–1989), after short illness.
* Sándor Katona, 66, Hungarian footballer and Olympic champion.
* Richardene Kloppers, 83, Namibian teacher.
* Craig G. Roberts, 78, American racehorse trainer.
* Peter Sampson, 81, British footballer (Bristol Rovers), Alzheimer's disease.

### 17

* Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani, 92, Iranian cleric, heart disease.
* Mario Benedetti, 88, Uruguayan author and poet.
* Daniel Carasso, 103, Greek-born French businessman (Groupe Danone).
* Adolf Dickfeld, 99, German World War II Luftwaffe flying ace.
* David Herbert Donald, 88, American historian, heart failure.
* Murray Hamilton, 91, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1967–1982).
* Masaru Hayami, 84, Japanese public servant, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1998–2003), respiratory failure.
* David Ireland, 78, American sculptor and conceptual artist, pneumonia.
* Jung Seung-hye, 44, South Korean film producer, colon cancer.
* Sunwoo Jin, 87, Korean politician and activist.
* Guillermo Lora, 87, Bolivian revolutionary leader, liver cancer.
* Dame Patricia Mackinnon, 97, Australian community worker and philanthropist, President of the Royal Children's Hospital.
* Prakash Mehra, 69, Indian film producer and director, pneumonia and multiple organ failure.
* William Moore, 60, British loyalist paramilitary, member of the Shankill Butchers, suspected heart attack.
* Zdeněk Pospíšil, 84, Czech Olympic sprinter.
* Peter Slabakov, 86, Bulgarian actor.
* Ron Snidow, 67, American football player (Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns), complications from Lou Gehrig's disease.
* Octavia St. Laurent, 45, American trans woman and performer.
* Al Tornabene, 86, American mobster.

### 18

* Wayne Allwine, 62, American voice artist (Mickey Mouse).
* Carole Cole, 64, American actress (Sanford and Son, Grady), daughter of Nat King Cole, lung cancer.
* Dolla, 21, American rap artist, shot.
* Sir David Hay, 92, Australian public servant, Ambassador to the United Nations, Administrator of Papua New Guinea.
* Isaipriya, 26-27, Sri Lankan journalist, killed.
* K. Pattabhi Jois, 93, Indian yoga teacher, after short illness.
* Paul Parin, 92, Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist.
* Türkan Saylan, 74, Turkish doctor, cancer.
* Lee Solters, 89, American press agent, natural causes.
* Either killed in a missile attack or shot:
** Pottu Amman, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE intelligence wing.
** Balasingham Nadesan, Sri Lankan rebel, political chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
** Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE.
** Soosai, 45, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE naval wing (Sea Tigers).

### 19

* Michael Preston Barr, 82, American composer, diabetes.
* Robert F. Furchgott, 92, American scientist, Nobel Prize winner.
* Andrei Ivanov, 42, Russian footballer.
* Knut Hammer Larsen, 38, Norwegian footballer, leukemia.
* Nicholas Maw, 73, British composer (Odyssey), heart failure.
* Clint Smith, 95, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks).
* Herbert York, 87, American physicist.

### 20

* John Brown Jr., 88, American Navajo code talker.
* Arthur Erickson, 84, Canadian architect (Simon Fraser University, Roy Thomson Hall).
* Lucy Gordon, 28, British actress (Spider-Man 3, The Four Feathers), suicide by hanging.
* Alan Kelly Sr., 72, Irish footballer (Preston North End, Republic of Ireland), cancer.
* Matthew Krel, 64, Russian-born Australian conductor, founder of the SBS Youth Orchestra, encephalitis.
* Randi Lindtner Næss, 104, Norwegian actress.
* Nguyễn Bá Cẩn, 78, South Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1975).
* Simon Oates, 77, British actor, prostate cancer.
* Larry Rice, 63, American racing driver, lung cancer.
* Roslyn L. Schulte, 25, United States Air Force officer, killed in action.
* María Amelia López Soliño, 97, Spanish blogger, world's oldest blogger.
* Noel Stanton, 82, British founder of The Jesus Army.
* Paul Vinar, 69, Australian footballer.
* Ralph D. Winter, 84, American missionary (U.S. Center for World Mission), multiple myeloma and lymphoma.
* Oleg Yankovsky, 65, Russian actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Yehoshua Zettler, 91, Israeli resistance fighter (Lehi).
* Jerzy Zubrzycki, 89, Polish-born Australian sociologist.

### 21

* Ghader Abdollahzadeh, 83, Kurdish traditional musician.
* Joan Alexander, 94, American radio actress (The Adventures of Superman), intestinal blockage.
* Walter da Silva, 68, Brazilian footballer and coach, heart attack.
* Fathi Eljahmi, 68, Libyan political activist, blood infection.
* Barry England, 77, British novelist and playwright.
* Anatoli Kirilov, 42, Bulgarian football coach (PFC Spartak Varna), car accident.
* Him Mark Lai, 83, American historian, bladder cancer.
* Sam Maloof, 93, American woodworker, pneumonia.
* Rolf McPherson, 96, American evangelist, son of Aimee Semple McPherson, natural causes.
* Robert Müller, 28, German ice hockey player, brain cancer.
* K. Pathmanathan, 64, Sri Lankan politician.
* Togo Tanaka, 93, American journalist, natural causes.

### 22

* Yves Duval, 75, Belgian comics author.
* Henry Jerrim, 93, Australian bishop.
* Alexander Mezhirov, 86, Russian poet.
* Zé Rodrix, 61, Brazilian musician.
* Yeo Woon-kay, 69, South Korean actress, kidney cancer.

### 23

* Charles Donald Albury, 88, American co-pilot of the Bockscar at atomic bombing of Nagasaki, heart failure.
* Sir Derek Bowett, 82, British academic lawyer, President of Queens' College, Cambridge (1970–1982).
* Raleigh Brown, 87, American politician, state representative (Texas), heart attack.
* Lawrence Daly, 84, British trade union leader.
* Joseph Duval, 80, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Rouen (1981–2004).
* Ken Gill, 81, British trade union leader.
* David Lunceford, 75, American football player, Alzheimer's disease.
* Nicholas J. Phillips, 75, British physicist.
* Tadeusz Pyka, 79, Polish politician.
* Roh Moo-hyun, 62, South Korean politician, President (2003–2008), suicide by jumping.
* Sir Tangaroa Tangaroa, 88, Cook Islands public servant, Queen's Representative (1985–1990).

### 24

* Jay Bennett, 45, American musician (Wilco) and songwriter, accidental drug overdose.
* Jack Lewis, 84, American screenwriter, lung cancer.

### 25

* Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 48, Nigerian Pan African activist, car accident.
* Billy Baxter, 70, Scottish footballer (Ipswich Town), cancer.
* Rolf Brahde, 91, Norwegian astronomer.
* Amos Elon, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist.
* John R. Guthrie, 87, American general.
* Charly Höllering, 65, German jazz musician, heart attack.
* Reg Libbis, 75, Australian rower.
* Haakon Lie, 103, Norwegian politician.
* Tomás Paquete, 85, Portuguese Olympic sprinter.
* Ivan van Sertima, 74, Guyanese-born British historian, linguist and anthropologist (Rutgers University).

### 26

* Antonio Braga, 80, Italian composer.
* Thomas Claw, 87, American WWII Navajo Code talker.
* Commanche Court, 16, Irish thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Arcangelo Ianelli, 86, Brazilian painter.
* Kaoru Kurimoto, 56, Japanese author, pancreatic cancer.
* Doris Mühringer, 88, Austrian poet and children's writer.
* Mihalis Papagiannakis, 68, Greek politician, MP, cancer.
* Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director (Three's Company), complications from a heart attack and stroke.
* Ronald Takaki, 70, American sociologist, professor of ethnic studies (University of California, Berkeley), suicide.
* Marek Walczewski, 72, Polish actor.
* Peter Zezel, 44, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs), haemolytic anemia.

### 27

* Ammo Baba, 74, Iraqi footballer and athletic trainer, diabetes.
* Thomas M. Franck, 77, American lawyer.
* Sir Clive Granger, 74, British economist, Nobel Prize winner for economics.
* Mona Grey, 98, British public servant, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland.
* Abram Hoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist.
* Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian political activist, after long illness.
* Carol Anne O'Marie, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease.
* Sir William Refshauge, 96, Australian public health administrator.
* Paul Sharratt, 75, British-born American television producer, cancer.

### 28

* Mort Abrahams, 93, American film and television producer (Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), natural causes.
* Terence Alexander, 86, British film and television actor (Bergerac).
* Terry Barr, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), Alzheimer's disease.
* Manuel Collantes, 91, Filipino diplomat, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984), cardiac arrest.
* Ed Dorohoy, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Carlton Forbes, 72, Jamaican-born British first-class cricketer.
* Marciano Guzman, Filipino poet.
* Roger Kaffer, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet.
* Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bilbao.
* Lenrie Peters, 76, Gambian surgeon and novelist, after short illness.
* Ercole Rabitti, 87, Italian footballer and trainer.
* Oleg Shenin, 71, Russian politician, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991).
* Umberto Silvestri, 93, Italian Olympic wrestler.
* Betty Tancock, 98, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1932).
* John Tolos, 78, Canadian professional wrestler, renal failure.

### 29

* Hank Bassen, 76, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack.
* Kevin Beurle, 53, British scientist, hot air balloon accident.
* Reginald Golledge, 71, Australian-born American geographer.
* Phale Hale, 94, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
* Ed Murray, 80, American politician, speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1987–1991).
* Bill Perkins, 89, Australian footballer (Richmond).
* Steve Prest, 43, British snooker player and coach, peritonitis.
* Karine Ruby, 31, French Olympic gold (1998) and silver (2002) medal-winning snowboarder, fall.
* Matt Zabitka, 88, American sportswriter.

### 30

* Torsten Andersson, 82, Swedish painter.
* Krystyna Borowicz, 86, Polish actress.
* Luís Cabral, 78, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1973–1980).
* Eva Dawes, 96, Canadian bronze medal-winning Olympic high jumper (1932), stroke.
* Roberto Falaschi, 77, Italian cyclist.
* Susanna Haapoja, 42, Finnish politician, cerebral haemorrhage.
* Eric Hammond, 79, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the EETPU.
* Ephraim Katzir, 93, Israeli biophysicist and politician, President (1973–1978).
* Herma Kirchschläger, 93, Austrian widow of former President Rudolf Kirchschläger.
* Waldemar Matuška, 76, Czech singer, pneumonia and heart failure.
* Gaafar Nimeiry, 79, Sudanese politician, President (1969–1985).
* Alexander Obregón, 31, Colombian footballer, car accident.

### 31

* Martin Clemens, 94, British colonial administrator and soldier.
* Millvina Dean, 97, British civil servant and cartographer, last living passenger aboard the RMS Titanic, pneumonia.
* Brian Edrich, 86, British cricketer.
* Sir John Holland, 94, Australian engineer, construction magnate.
* Danny La Rue, 81, Irish-born British female impersonator and singer, prostate cancer.
* Vyacheslav Nevinny, 74, Russian actor, diabetes.
* Emil L. Smith, 97, American biochemist, heart attack.
* Kamala Surayya, 75, Indian writer, after long illness.
* George Tiller, 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot.