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

## December 2008
### 1

* Thomas R. Adams, 87, American librarian.
* Paul Benedict, 70, American television actor (The Jeffersons).
* James Bree, 85, British actor (On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Satan's Slave, Doctor Who).
* Beverly Dustrude, 82, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
* Betty Goodwin, 85, Canadian artist.
* Jodami, 23, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, injury.
* Tom Kirby, 61, Irish darts player, pancreatic cancer.
* Siegfried Knappe, 91, German Wehrmacht artillery and General Staff officer, author (Soldat).
* Mikel Laboa, 74, Spanish Basque singer and songwriter.
* Raymond Lederer, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1977–1981), lung cancer.
* Lav Mantula, 79, Yugoslavian football player and coach.
* Emanuel Rackman, 98, American Orthodox rabbi; President of Bar-Ilan University.
* H. Sridhar, 50, Indian sound engineer, heart attack.
* Dorothy Sterling, 95, American writer and historian.
* Sir John Wall, 78, British jurist and blind rights campaigner.
* Joseph B. Wirthlin, 91, American Mormon prelate, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, natural causes.

### 2

* Carlos María Abascal Carranza, 59, Mexican public official, Secretary of the Interior (2005–2006), cancer.
* Kathleen Baskin-Ball, 50, American minister (United Methodist Church), cancer.
* Frank Crean, 92, Australian politician, Treasurer (1972–1974), Deputy Prime Minister (1975), after short illness.
* Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 81, American writer, filmmaker and scholar, after long illness.
* Leïla Karam, 80, Lebanese actress, after long illness.
* Margarita Karapanou, 62, Greek author, respiratory problems.
* Pyotr Latyshev, 60, Russian politician, presidential envoy to Urals Federal District.
* Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, 97, British aristocrat and politician.
* Henry Molaison, 82, American amnesiac, subject of brain science study, respiratory failure.
* Odetta, 77, American folk singer and human rights activist, heart disease.
* Edward S. Rogers Jr., 75, Canadian businessman, CEO of Rogers Communications and owner of the Toronto Blue Jays, heart failure.

### 3

* William Pierson, Jr., 97, American art historian.
* Oliver Selfridge, 82, British-born American computer scientist, pioneer of artificial intelligence, injuries from a fall.
* William Spoelhof, 98, American academic, President of Calvin College (1951–1976), complications from a fall.
* Ignacio Uría Mendizábal, 71, Spanish businessman, shot.
* Elmer Valentine, 85, American nightclub owner.
* Derek Wadsworth, 69, British composer and jazz trombonist.
* Alex Widmer, 52, Swiss executive, CEO of Julius Baer bank.
* Robert Zajonc, 85, Polish-born American psychologist, pancreatic cancer.

### 4

* Forrest J. Ackerman, 92, American science fiction expert, heart failure.
* Steve Bradley, 32, American wrestler.
* Ophélie Bretnacher, 22, French murder victim.
* Jan Kemp, 59, American academic, exposed bias in passing college football players, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Warren M. Robbins, 85, American art collector, complications from a fall.
* Richard Van Allan, 73, British opera singer, lung cancer.

### 5

* A. Bernard Ackerman, 72, American dermatopathologist, heart failure.
* Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, 79, Estonian-born Russian primate of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1990, heart failure.
* Jimmy Anderson, 55, American rodeo clown, heart disease.
* George Brecht, 82, American artist (Fluxus), natural causes.
* Martyn Crook, 52, Australian footballer and coach, heart attack.
* Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, 80, Romanian politician, cancer.
* Nina Foch, 84, Dutch-born American actress (Executive Suite, Spartacus, The Ten Commandments), myelodysplasia.
* Joseph Gardner, 38, American convicted murderer and fugitive, execution by lethal injection.
* Beverly Garland, 82, American actress (My Three Sons), after long illness.
* Paris Herouni, 75, Armenian scientist and professor.
* Sir Basil Kelly, 88, British politician and jurist, after short illness.
* Rawson Macharia, 96, Kenyan perjurer against Jomo Kenyatta, traffic accident.
* Jean-Pierre Nguema, 76, Gabonese politician, member of the Senate of Gabon.
* Anca Parghel, 51, Romanian jazz singer, metastatic breast cancer.
* Richard Topus, 84, American World War II messenger pigeon trainer and business executive, kidney failure.
* Dick Vertlieb, 78, American baseball and basketball executive.
* Wild Again, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.

### 6

* Tamar Adar, 69, Israeli children's author and poet.
* John Cumming, 78, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Scotland).
* Larry Devlin, 86, American CIA agent, emphysema.
* Sir Curtis Keeble, 86, British diplomat, Ambassador to the USSR (1978–1982).
* Gérard Lauzier, 76, French cartoonist and film director, after long illness.
* Elliot Manyika, 53, Zimbabwean politician, road accident.
* Richard Marsland, 32, Australian radio host, apparent suicide.
* Lloyd Ohlin, 90, American criminologist, complications of Shy–Drager syndrome.
* Ivan Semedi, 87, Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Mukacheve.
* Sunny von Bülow, 76, American heiress, cardiopulmonary arrest.
* Peter Wardle, 77, New Zealand botanist.

### 7

* Abul Ahsan, 71, Bangladeshi diplomat and politician, cardiac arrest.
* Marky Cielo, 20, Filipino Igorot actor, suspected acute pancreatitis.
* Jimmy Gourley, 82, American jazz guitarist.
* Herbert Hutner, 99, American chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Arts (1982–1990).
* George Kuzma, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys.
* Kerryn McCann, 41, Australian Olympic athlete, breast cancer.
* Georges Nguyen Van Loc, 75, French police officer, writer and actor.
* James H. Pomerene, 88, American electrical engineer.
* Roger Sonnabend, 83, American hotelier.
* John Ellis Williams, 84, British author.
* Dennis Yost, 65, American singer (Classics IV), respiratory failure.
* Mahbub Jamal Zahedi, 79, Pakistani journalist and philatelist, paralysis.

### 8

* Maurice Andrieux, 83, French politician.
* Manzoor Hussain Atif, 81, Pakistani field hockey player and administrator, after long illness.
* Frank K. Edmondson, 96, American astronomer.
* Xavier Perrot, 76, Swiss auto racer.
* Oliver Postgate, 83, British animator (Bagpuss, Clangers).
* Robert Prosky, 77, American actor (The Natural, Broadcast News, Hill Street Blues), complications following heart surgery.
* Bob Spiers, 63, British television director (Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers).
* William S. Stevens, 60, American lawyer, heart attack.
* Hillary Waugh, 88, American mystery writer.

### 9

* Jonathan Bailey, 69, British Angelican prelate, Bishop of Derby (1995–2005) and Clerk of the Closet (1997–2005).
* Emmanuel Bitanga, 55, Cameroonian Olympic sprinter.
* Ibrahim Dossey, 36, Ghanaian footballer, car accident.
* James Fergason, 74, American inventor.
* Yuri Glazkov, 69, Russian cosmonaut.
* Dražan Jerković, 72, Croatian football player and manager, heart failure.
* José María Larrauri Lafuente, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Vitoria.
* Howard Pack, 90, American businessman, shipping magnate, heart failure.
* William Neff Patman, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative for Texas (1981–1985), cancer.
* Pentti Rummakko, 65, Finnish Olympic runner.
* George Turman, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana (1981–1989), natural causes.

### 10

* Henning Christiansen, 76, Danish composer.
* Mildred Constantine, 95, American curator (Museum of Modern Art), heart failure.
* Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan, 44, Indian politician, car accident.
* Dorothy Porter, 54, Australian poet (The Monkey's Mask), breast cancer.
* Didith Reyes, 60, Filipino singer, heart attack and rupture of the pancreas.
* Chris Richardson, 28, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), brain aneurysm.
* Owen Wade, 87, British medical researcher and physician.
* Mizuki Yamada, 80, Japanese Olympic sailor.
* Sal Yvars, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants), amyloidosis.

### 11

* Ali Alatas, 76, Indonesian politician, Foreign Minister (1988–1999), heart attack.
* Maddie Blaustein, 48, American voice actress (Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Chaotic), stomach virus.
* Ron Carey, 72, American labor leader (Teamsters), lung cancer.
* Robert Chandler, 80, American CBS executive, heart failure.
* Elie Amsini Kiswaya, 80, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Sakania-Kipushi.
* Angeliki Laiou, 67, Greek historian, anaplastic thyroid cancer.
* Bettie Page, 85, American pin-up model and actress, complications from a heart attack.
* Robert Shepherd, 71, American academic lawyer.
* Yeh Shih-tao, 83, Taiwanese writer, colorectal cancer.

### 12

* David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 96, British aristocrat and public servant.
* Paddy Dooley, 82, Irish Olympic rower.
* Avery Dulles, 90, American Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal.
* Max Elbin, 88, American golfer, president of the PGA (1965−1968), heart failure.
* Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, 85, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1976).
* Sigitas Geda, 65, Lithuanian poet.
* Van Johnson, 92, American actor (Battleground, The Caine Mutiny, Brigadoon).
* Emmanuel Kasonde, 72, Zambian economist and politician, Finance Minister (1967−1971).
* Tassos Papadopoulos, 74, Cypriot politician, President (2003−2008), small cell lung carcinoma.
* Maksym Pashayev, 20, Ukrainian footballer, car accident.
* Amalia Solórzano, 97, Mexican First Lady (1934–1940), respiratory complications.
* Robin Toner, 54, American journalist (The New York Times), colon cancer.

### 13

* Doris Totten Chase, 85, American painter and sculptor.
* Christmas Past, 29, American Thoroughbred racehorse, infirmities of old age.
* Sir David Clutterbuck, 95, British admiral.
* John Drake, 49, New Zealand rugby union player.
* Mario Álvarez Dugan, 77, Dominican journalist and newspaper editor, heart problems.
* Otto Felix, 65, American actor (Up in Smoke), amyloidosis.
* Vince Karalius, 76, British rugby league player, cancer.
* Shan Lloyd, 55, British journalist.
* David Margolis, 78, American industrialist, cardiac arrest.
* Maurice Meersman, 86, Belgian cyclist.
* Kjartan Slettemark, 76, Norwegian political artist, heart failure.
* Kathy Staff, 80, British actress (Last of the Summer Wine, Crossroads, Mary Reilly), brain tumour.
* Horst Tappert, 85, German actor (Derrick).

### 14

* Véronique Ahoyo, 69, Beninese politician, car accident.
* K. P. Appan, 72, Indian literary critic.
* Mike Bell, 37, American professional wrestler (WWF, ECW), heart attack.
* Hank Goldup, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Henri G. Hers, 85, Belgian biochemist.
* William Kaufmann, 90, American nuclear strategist, adviser to seven Defense Secretaries, Alzheimer's disease.
* Carl Kotchian, 94, American aviation executive, president of Lockheed.
* Gastón Parra Luzardo, 75, Venezuelan academic and banker, after long illness.
* Candida Tobin, 82, British music educator.
* Nick Willhite, 67, American baseball pitcher, cancer.

### 15

* Hassib Ben Ammar, 84, Tunisian politician and journalist/editor.
* Valentin Berlinsky, 83, Russian cellist, after long illness.
* Mike Blum, 65, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Carlo Caracciolo, 83, Italian publisher (La Repubblica).
* León Febres Cordero, 77, Ecuadorian president (1984–1988), complications from pulmonary emphysema.
* Davey Graham, 68, British guitarist, lung cancer.
* Wanda Koczeska, 71, Polish actress.
* David Lieber, 83, Polish-born American biblical scholar, lung ailment.
* John W. Powell, 89, Chinese-born American journalist tried for sedition, complications from pneumonia.
* Gian Franco Romagnoli, 82, Italian chef, author, television personality.
* Clyde Sproat, 78, American musician.
* Anne-Cath. Vestly, 88, Norwegian children's writer and actress.
* John Webster, 95, Australian activist.
* Jay E. Welch, 83, American musician, founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus.

### 16

* Claudio Apollonio, 87, Italian ice hockey player.
* Peg Batty, 88, New Zealand cricketer.
* Evelyn Bonaci, 92, Maltese politician, MP.
* Sam Bottoms, 53, American actor (Apocalypse Now, The Last Picture Show, The Outlaw Josey Wales), glioblastoma multiforme.
* Richard Coleman, 78, British actor.
* George Constantinou, 75, Cypriot-born Papua New Guinean businessman, aggravated assault during carjacking.
* Serigne Lamine Diop, 74, Senegalese statistician and politician.
* Julius Fast, 89, American writer.
* Harold Gramatges, 90, Cuban composer and pianist.
* Joe Krol, 89, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts).
* Norberto Raffo, 69, Argentinian football player and manager (Banfield).
* John E. Sprizzo, 73, American jurist, organ failure.
* Zlatko Šugman, 76, Slovenian actor, illness.

### 17

* Elizabeth Abrahams, 83, South African political activist and trade unionist.
* Turgun Alimatov, 85, Uzbek musician.
* Ismet Bajramović, 42, Bosnian reputed organized crime figure and wartime commander, suicide by gunshot.
* Sammy Baugh, 94, American football player (Washington Redskins) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* Freddy Breck, 66, German schlager singer, cancer.
* Ved Prakash Goyal, 82, Indian politician, brain tumor.
* Gregoire, 66, Congolese African-born primate, oldest known chimpanzee.
* Ai Iijima, 36, Japanese media personality and AIDS activist, former adult film actress, pneumonia.
* Justin Levens, 28, American mixed martial art fighter, possible suicide by gunshot.
* Luis Félix López, 76, Ecuadorian writer and politician, Secretary of Government, cancer.
* Willoughby Sharp, 72, American artist, art dealer, curator and impresario, throat cancer.
* Dave Smith, 53, American baseball pitcher (Houston Astros), heart attack.
* Feliciano Vierra Tavares, 88, American musician and singer, father of the Tavares Brothers, prostate cancer.
* Henry Ashby Turner, 76, American historian, melanoma.
* Nina Varlamova, 54, Russian politician, mayor of Kandalaksha, stabbed.

### 18

* Majel Barrett, 76, American actress (Star Trek), leukemia.
* Peter Malam Brothers, 91, British Royal Air Force pilot, Battle of Britain ace.
* Pete Case, 67, American football player (New York Giants), after long illness.
* John Costelloe, 47, American actor (The Sopranos, Kazaam, Die Hard 2), suicide by gunshot.
* Jack Douglas, 81, British comedy actor (Carry On films), pneumonia.
* Mark Felt, 95, American public official, deputy director of the FBI, "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal, heart failure.
* Hannah Frank, 100, British sculptor.
* Nahla Hussain al-Shaly, 37, Iraqi women's rights activist, shot and decapitated.
* Robert Jonquet, 83, French footballer, after long illness.
* Ian MacMillan, 67, American author.
* Mellory Manning, 27, New Zealand murder victim.
* Conor Cruise O'Brien, 91, Irish politician, writer and academic.
* Ivan Rabuzin, 87, Croatian painter.
* Harold Snyder, 86, American pharmaceuticals magnate, pioneer of generic drugs, respiratory failure.
* Paul Weyrich, 66, American conservative activist, co-founder of The Heritage Foundation think tank, diabetes.

### 19

* James Bevel, 72, American civil rights leader, pancreatic cancer.
* Page Cavanaugh, 86, American jazz pianist and singer, kidney failure.
* Carol Chomsky, 78, American linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky, cancer.
* Michael Connell, 45, American political strategist, plane crash.
* Kenny Cox, 68, American jazz musician, lung cancer.
* Sir Bernard Crick, 79, British political theorist, cancer.
* Dock Ellis, 63, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), cirrhosis.
* Vi Hilbert, 90, American tribal leader.
* Neal Kenyon, 79, American theater director.
* Joe L. Kincheloe, 58, American professor, heart attack.
* Matt Kofler, 49, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Indianapolis Colts).
* Derek Stanford, 90, British poet and critic.
* Sam Tingle, 87, Zimbabwean racing driver.

### 20

* Samuele Bacchiocchi, 70, Italian theologian, liver cancer.
* Joseph Conombo, 91, Burkinabé politician, Prime Minister of Upper Volta (1978–1980).
* Jack Kuehler, 76, American electrical engineer, president of I.B.M. (1989–1993), Parkinson's disease.
* Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso, 83, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the diocese of Santiago de Chile.
* Olga Lepeshinskaya, 92, Ukrainian-born Russian ballerina.
* Joel Mandelstam, 89, British biochemist and microbiologist.
* Adrian Mitchell, 76, British poet, heart attack.
* Robert Mulligan, 83, American film director (To Kill a Mockingbird), heart disease.
* Albin Planinc, 64, Slovenian chess grandmaster, after long illness.
* Dorothy Sarnoff, 94, American opera singer, actress and self-help consultant.
* Igor Troubetzkoy, 96, Russian auto racer.

### 21

* Chayben Abou-Nehra, 34, Belizean businessman, suicide by gunshot.
* Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, 92, British noble.
* James Fulton, 58, Canadian politician, MP for Skeena (1979–1993), colon cancer.
* Teddy Gueritz, 89, British Royal Navy admiral.
* Christopher Hibbert, 84, British historian.
* Ron Hornaday, Sr., 77, American NASCAR driver, cancer.
* Al Meyerhoff, 61, American lawyer, complications from leukemia.
* Carlos Manuel Santiago, 82, Puerto Rican baseball player (Negro leagues), heart failure.
* Dale Wasserman, 94, American playwright (Man of La Mancha), heart failure.
* Maurice Zilber, 88, Egyptian horse trainer, cancer.

### 22

* Yoshiro Asakuma, 94, Japanese Olympic athlete.
* Anand Babla, 54, Fijian politician, MP (1992–2006), after long illness.
* Coy Bacon, 66, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins).
* Lansana Conté, 74, Guinean politician, President of Guinea since 1984, after long illness.
* Norm Cook, 53, American basketball player (Kansas Jayhawks, Boston Celtics).
* Ossie Dawson, 89, South African cricketer.
* Jani Lehtonen, 40, Finnish pole vaulter.
* Robert J. Marshall, 90, American minister, president of the Lutheran Church in America (1968–1978), heart failure.
* Hugh Myers, 78, American chess player and author.
* Erkki Puolakka, 83, Finnish Olympic runner.
* Alfred Shaheen, 86, American textile manufacturer, popularized the Hawaiian shirt, complications of diabetes.
* Guy Warren, 85, Ghanaian jazz musician, illness.

### 23

* Clint Ballard, Jr., 77, American songwriter ("You're No Good").
* Manuel Benitez, 39, American child actor and FBI fugitive, shot.
* Narciso Bernardo, 71, Filipino basketball player, cardiac arrest.
* Thomas Congdon, 77, American editor, Parkinson's disease and heart failure.
* Frank Krog, 54, Norwegian actor.
* Mitsugu Saotome, 82, Japanese author.
* Héctor Thomas, 70, Venezuelan Olympic decathlete, cancer.
* Ron Unsworth, 85, British Olympic hurdler.
* Thierry de la Villehuchet, 65, French money manager and businessman, apparent suicide by drug overdose and exsanguination.
* Eric Charles Twelves Wilson, 96, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
* Arnold Jacob Wolf, 84, American rabbi, heart attack.

### 24

* Ian Ballinger, 83, New Zealand sport shooter, 1968 Olympic medallist.
* Ray Deakin, 49, British footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Burnley), brain cancer.
* Stanley Eveling, 83, British playwright.
* Gordon Fairweather, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Royal, New Brunswick (1962–1977).
* Ralph Harris, 87, British journalist, respiratory failure.
* Samuel P. Huntington, 81, American political scientist, heart failure and complications of diabetes.
* Harold Pinter, 78, British playwright (The Homecoming), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2005), throat cancer.
* Rik Renders, 86, Belgian cyclist.
* Alf Robertson, 67, Swedish singer and composer.
* Ruhlmann, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, aneurism.

### 25

* Edd Cartier, 94, American illustrator (The Shadow).
* Alvah Chapman, Jr., 87, American publisher and philanthropist, pneumonia.
* Justin Eilers, 30, American mixed martial artist, shot.
* Olívio Aurélio Fazza, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu.
* Leo Frankowski, 65, American science fiction author.
* William Glendon, 89, American attorney.
* Lars Hollmer, 60, Swedish musician.
* Eartha Kitt, 81, American singer and actress (Batman, The Emperor's New Groove, Holes), colon cancer.
* Ann Savage, 87, American actress (Detour), complications from stroke.
* Robert Ward, 70, American blues singer and guitarist.
* Colin White, 57, British naval historian, cancer.

### 26

* Jaroslav Fikejz, 81, Czech Olympic athlete.
* Israel Horowitz, 92, American record producer.
* Eberhard Kneisl, 92, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.
* Gösta Krantz, 83, Swedish actor.
* Mikhail Krichevsky, 111, Ukrainian supercentenarian.
* Alan W. Lear, 55, Scottish writer.
* George Miller, 69, British footballer and manager (Falkirk FC, Wolverhampton Wanderers), cancer.
* Sir Kenneth Stoddart, 94, British Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside (1979–1989).
* Dick Voris, 86, American football player and coach.
* J. Lamar Worzel, 89, American oceanographer, heart attack.
* Wyvetter H. Younge, 78, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives since 1975, surgical complications.

### 27

* Arild Andresen, 80, Norwegian footballer and ice hockey player (Vålerenga).
* Rodrigo Arango Velásquez, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Diocese of Buga.
* Delaney Bramlett, 69, American songwriter and record producer, complications from gallbladder surgery.
* Sailor Brown, 93, British footballer and manager.
* Roque Cordero, 91, Panamanian-born American composer.
* John Fenton, 87, British Anglican priest and New Testament scholar.
* Robert Graham, 70, Mexican-born American sculptor, husband of actress Anjelica Huston, after long illness.
* Ian Harland, 76, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1989–2000), after long illness.
* Michael Hicks, 80, British army general.
* Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, 86, Malaysian King (1994–1999), Great Ruler of Negeri Sembilan since 1967.
* Patricia Kneale, 83, British actress.
* Iain MacLean, 55, Australian politician, Western Australian MLC for North Metropolitan (1994–1996) and MLA for Wanneroo (1996–2001).
* Christine Maggiore, 52, American AIDS denialist, pneumonia.
* Sahu Mewalal, 82, Indian footballer, natural causes.
* Alfred Pfaff, 82, German footballer, 1954 FIFA World Cup winner.

### 28

* Quentin C. Aanenson, 87, American fighter pilot, cancer.
* A. O. L. Atkin, 83, American mathematician, complications from a fall.
* Willie Clark, 90, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, St Johnstone).
* Vincent Ford, 68, Jamaican reggae songwriter ("No Woman, No Cry"), complications from diabetes.
* Donald Gleason, 88, American physician, creator of prostate cancer test, heart attack.
* Sir Michael Levey, 81, British art historian, Director of the National Gallery (1973–1986).
* Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, 92, American architect and industrial designer, created the United Nations logo, prostate cancer.
* Haralamb Zincă, 85, Romanian writer, Alzheimer's disease.

### 29

* Manjit Bawa, 67, Indian painter, after long illness.
* William Ellis Green, 85, Australian cartoonist.
* Jim Horne, 91, American model, heart failure.
* Freddie Hubbard, 70, American jazz trumpeter, complications from a heart attack.
* Victor H. Krulak, 95, American Marine Corps officer.
* Vladislav Lalicki, 73, Serbian production designer.
* Ted Lapidus, 79, French fashion designer, respiratory failure.
* Daniel Nagrin, 91, American choreographer and dancer.
* Alan Sargeson, 78, Australian chemist.
* Harlington Wood Jr., 88, American lawyer.
* Yang Jinzong, 76, Chinese chemical engineer.

### 30

* Roy Boehm, 84, American Navy SEAL commander.
* Stewart Cleveland Cureton, 78, American pastor, President of the National Baptist Convention (1999).
* Richard Genelle, 47, American actor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Zeo), heart attack.
* Bernie Hamilton, 80, American actor (Starsky and Hutch), cardiac arrest.
* Paul Hofmann, 96, Austrian writer, informant against the Nazis.
* Peter Karmel, 86, Australian economist.
* Roy Saari, 63, American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (1964).

### 31

* Stan Kielty, 83, English rugby league player (Halifax, national team).
* Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player, after long illness.
* Kazbek Pagiyev, 49, Russian politician, mayor of Vladikavkaz, shot.
* Brad Sullivan, 77, American actor (Slap Shot, The Prince of Tides, The Sting), liver cancer.
* Vic Washington, 62, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
* Donald E. Westlake, 75, American mystery writer, heart attack.