Deaths in April 2008
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.
April 2008
1
Mosko Alkalai , 77, Israeli actor (Blaumilch Canal , The Fox in the Chicken Coop , Yana's Friends ), respiratory failure.[ 1]
Triston Jay Amero , 26, American hotel bomber, pulmonary edema.[ 2]
Shosh Atari , 58, Israeli radio presenter and actress, heart attack.[ 3]
Péter Baczakó , 56, Hungarian weightlifter, 1980 Olympic champion, cancer.[ 4]
Sabin Bălaşa , 75, Romanian painter, heart attack.[ 5]
Sherry Britton , 89, American burlesque dancer and actor (Guys and Dolls ).[ 6]
Audrey Cahn , 102, Australian nutritionist and microbiologist.[ 7]
Jim Finney , 83, British football referee.[ 8]
Gabriel Mkhumane , Swazi opposition leader, shot.[ 9]
Licínio Pereira da Silva , 63, Portuguese last political prisoner of PIDE during Estado Novo , nosocomial infection.[ 10]
Floyd Simmons , 84, American decathlon Olympic bronze medallist (1948 , 1952 ) and actor (South Pacific ).[ 11]
Otto Soemarwoto , 82, Indonesian professor and ecologist, Order of the Golden Ark recipient.[ 12]
Marvin Stone , 26, American basketball player for Saudi Arabian Al-Ittihad (Jeddah) team, heart attack.[ 13]
2
Norberto Collado Abreu , 87, Cuban naval officer, helmsman of the yacht Granma which carried Fidel Castro to Cuba in 1956.[ 14]
Paul Arden , 67, British creative director and author.[ 15]
Johnny Byrne , 72, Irish writer and script editor (Doctor Who , Heartbeat ).[ 16]
Sir Geoffrey Cox , 97, British founder of ITN News at Ten .[ 17]
David Henshaw , 76, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Geelong (1982–1996).[ 18]
Ray Poole , 86, American football player (New York Giants ), cancer.[ 19]
Yakup Satar , 110, Crimean-born supercentenarian, believed to be the last Turkish veteran of World War I.[ 20]
Mona Seilitz , 65, Swedish actress and entertainer, breast cancer.[ 21]
Livio Spanghero , 88, Italian Olympic sailor.[ 22]
Adam Studziński , 97, Polish Roman Catholic Dominican priest, World War II chaplain of Polish forces.[ 23]
Taotao , 36, Chinese oldest captive giant panda, brain thrombus and cerebral hemorrhage.[ 24]
3
Percival Allen , 91, British geologist.[ 25]
Andrew Crozier , 64, British poet, brain tumour.[ 26]
Hrvoje Ćustić , 24, Croatian footballer (NK Zadar ), head injury.[ 27]
William Denman Eberle , 84, American businessman, U.S. Trade Representative (1971–1974), kidney failure.[ 28]
Frosty Freeze , 44, American B-boy , breakdancer and member of the Rock Steady Crew .[ 29]
Jeremy R. Knowles , 72, British-born Harvard University dean of Arts and Sciences (1991–2002), prostate cancer.[ 30]
Ivan Korade , 44, Croatian general and murder suspect, apparent suicide by gunshot.[ 31]
Leslie MacPhail , 55, Belgian Olympic judoka.[ 32]
Vladimír Preclík , 78, Czech sculptor and writer.[ 33]
Robert Tomasulo , 73, American computer scientist.
4
Harley Dickinson , 69, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1982–1992).[ 34]
Fay McKay , 78, American entertainer ("The Twelve Daze of Christmas").[ 35]
Jerry Rosholt , 85, American journalist and historian.[ 36]
Michael White , 59, Australian inventor of narrative therapy , cardiac arrest.[ 37]
Wu Xueqian , 87, Chinese politician, foreign minister (1982–1988).[ 38]
5
Giuseppe Attardi , 84, American molecular biologist.[ 39]
Iris Burton , 77, American talent agent, pneumonia and complications of Alzheimer's disease.[ 40]
Eugene Ehrlich , 85, American lexicographer and author.[ 41]
Alex Grasshoff , 79, American documentary filmmaker known for having his Academy Award revoked.[ 42]
Charlton Heston , 84, American actor (Ben-Hur , Ten Commandments , Planet of the Apes ), president of the NRA (1998–2003), Oscar winner (1960 ), pneumonia.[ 43]
Walt Masterson , 87, American baseball player, stroke.[ 44]
McKelvey , 9, British race horse, euthanised after fall during Grand National .[ 45]
Frank Opsal , 79, Canadian Olympic shooter.[ 46]
Steve Sinnott , 56, British general secretary of the National Union of Teachers since 2004, heart attack.[ 47]
Wang Donglei , 23, Chinese footballer, car accident.[ 48]
Sibte Hasan Zaidi , 89, Indian pathologist and toxicologist.[ 49]
6
James Barrier , 55, American wrestler.[ 50]
Lakshman de Alwis , 68, Sri Lankan national athletics coach, suicide bomb attack .[ 51]
Tony Davies , 68, New Zealand rugby union player (All Blacks ).[ 52]
Jeyaraj Fernandopulle , 55, Sri Lankan highways minister, suicide bomb attack .[ 53] [ 51]
Abdou Latif Guèye , 52, Senegalese politician, sixth vice-president of the National Assembly (2007–2008), car accident .[ 54]
Kuruppu Karunaratne , 47, Sri Lankan Olympic marathon runner , suicide bomb attack .[ 51]
Naziur Rahman Manzur , 59, Bangladeshi politician, mayor of Dhaka City Corporation .[ 55]
Abraham Osheroff , 92, American social activist, veteran of the Spanish Civil War (Abraham Lincoln Brigade ), heart attack.[ 56]
Gib Shanley , 76, American radio sportscaster (Cleveland Browns ), pneumonia.[ 57]
Jeu Sprengers , 69, Dutch chairman of the Royal Dutch Football Association .[ 58]
Teoh Chye Hin , 94, Malaysian secretary-general of the Asian Football Confederation (1974–1978).[ 59]
Sir Francis Vallat , 95, British international lawyer.[ 60]
7
Ludu Daw Amar , 92, Burmese journalist, writer and activist.[ 61]
Kunio Egashira , 70, Japanese chairman of Ajinomoto , pancreatic cancer.[ 62]
Ruth Greenglass , 84, American atomic spy for the Soviet Union, wife of David Greenglass , sister-in-law of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg .[ 63]
Bob Howard , 63, American football player (San Diego Chargers ), cancer.[ 64]
Sir Frank Little , 82, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Melbourne (1974–1996).[ 65]
Mark Speight , 42, British TV presenter (SMart ), suicide by hanging.[ 66]
Gloria Taylor , 57, British activist and mother of murdered schoolboy Damilola Taylor , heart attack.[ 67]
Andrei Tolubeyev , 63, Russian actor, pancreatic cancer.[ 68]
Esko Tommola , 77, Finnish news anchor, after long illness.[ 69]
Phil Urso , 82, American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer.[ 70]
8
Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley , 79, British Green Party member of the House of Lords.[ 71]
Cedella Booker , 81, Jamaican mother of Bob Marley , natural causes.[ 72]
John Button , 74, Australian senator, minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce (1983–1993), pancreatic cancer.[ 73]
Loren Driscoll , 79, American tenor.[ 74]
Graham Higman , 91, British mathematician.[ 75]
Seaman Jacobs , 96, American television writer (The Red Skelton Show , F Troop , The Jeffersons ), cardiac arrest.[ 76]
Stanley Kamel , 65, American actor (Monk , Domino , Cagney & Lacey ), heart attack.[ 77]
Hersh Lyons , 92, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals ).[ 78]
Kunio Ogawa , 80, Japanese novelist.[ 79]
Nadezhda Rumyantseva , 77, Russian actress, brain tumor.[ 80]
Jacqueline Voltaire , 59, British-born Mexican soap opera actress for Televisa , malignant melanoma.[ 81]
Kees Wijdekop , 94, Dutch Olympic canoer.[ 82]
Herbert Zearfoss , 78, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives .[ 83]
9
Ángel Aguiar , 81, Cuban gymnast.[ 84]
Abu Ubaidah al-Masri , 40s, Pakistani al-Qaeda senior operative, death from probable hepatitis confirmed on this date.[ 85]
George Butler , 76, American record producer and A&R man (Blue Note , Columbia ), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[ 86]
Herman Carr , 83, American physicist, pioneer of MRI , heart disease.[ 87]
Diego Catalán , 80, Spanish philologist, grandson of Ramón Menéndez Pidal , heart disease.[ 88]
Paul Dumont , 87, Canadian ice hockey administrator, kidney failure.[ 89]
Burt Glinn , 82, American photographer, kidney failure and pneumonia.[ 90]
Michael Golomb , 98, American mathematician.[ 91]
Erkki Junkkarinen , 78, Finnish singer.[ 92]
Bob Kames , 82, American polka musician, songwriter and popularizer of the Chicken Dance , prostate cancer.[ 93]
Daniela Klemenschits , 25, Austrian tennis player, abdominal cancer.[ 94]
Jacques Morel , 85, French actor, voice of Obelix .[ 95]
Choubeila Rached , 75, Tunisian singer.[ 96]
Marvin Sylvor , 75, American carousel designer, kidney failure.[ 97]
10
Francis Coleman , 84, Canadian-born British conductor, television producer and director.[ 98]
Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada , 88, Mexican cardinal, archbishop emeritus of Mexico.[ 99]
Peter Dubovský , 86, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Banská Bystrica (1991–1997).[ 100]
Robert W. Greene , 78, American investigative journalist, heart failure.[ 101]
Dickson Mabon , 82, British Labour and Social Democratic Party MP (1955–1983).[ 102]
Jeremiah J. M. Nyagah , 87, Kenyan politician, pneumonia.[ 103]
Marcel Pertry , 86, Belgian footballer (Cercle Brugge ).[ 104]
Gopal Raju , 80, American website pioneer of Indian ethnic media in USA (India Abroad , Indo-Asian News Service ), jaundice.[ 105]
Kim Santow , 67, Australian judge (NSW Supreme Court ), chancellor of the University of Sydney (2001–2007), brain tumour .[ 106]
Juan Ramón Sánchez , 51, Spanish actor, singer and artist (Barrio Sésamo ), lung cancer.[ 107]
11
Claude Abbes , 80, French football player.[ 108]
J. Leon Altemose , 68, American developer and contractor.[ 109]
Fraser Colman , 83, New Zealand politician, MP for Pencarrow (1978–1987).[ 110]
Clyde Cook , 72, American president of Biola University (1982–2007).[ 111]
Raymond E. Dana , 93, American politician.[ 112]
Joan Hunter Dunn , 92, British muse of poet John Betjeman .[ 113]
Willoughby Goddard , 81, British actor (Young Sherlock Holmes ).[ 114]
Harry Goonatilake , 78, Sri Lankan Air Force Commander (1976–1981).[ 115]
Donald Macfadyen, Lord Macfadyen , 62, Scottish jurist.[ 116]
Bob Pellegrini , 73, American football linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles ).[ 117]
Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson , 91, American author, daughter of Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke , heart failure.[ 118]
12
Duilio Agostini , 82, Italian racer.[ 119]
Cecilia Colledge , 87, British figure skater and 1936 Olympic silver medallist.[ 120]
Valda Cooper , 92, Australian-born American journalist for the Associated Press .[ 121]
Dieter Eppler , 81, German film actor and radio drama director.[ 122]
Donald Forbes , 73, British convicted murderer.[ 123]
Patrick Hillery , 84, Irish president (1976–1990) and minister (1959–1973), European commissioner for Ortoli Commission .[ 124]
Abbas Katouzian , 86, Iranian painter.[citation needed ]
Artur Maurício , 63, Portuguese Constitutional Court president (2004–2007), after long illness.[ 125]
Buzz Nutter , 77, American football player (Colts , Steelers ), heart failure.[ 126]
Augusta Wallace , 78, New Zealand district judge (1975–1990), after long illness.[ 127]
Dwaine Wilson , 47, American former Canadian Football League player, drowned.[ 128]
Jerry Zucker , 58, Israeli-born American businessman, cancer.[ 129]
13
Elías Amézaga , 86, Spanish writer.[ 130]
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah , 51, American kidnapper, heart attack.[ 131]
Larry Elliott , 72, American college football coach (Washburn University ).[ 132]
Robert Greacen , 87, Irish poet.[ 133]
Michael Mills , 80, Irish first government ombudsman (1984–1994).[ 134]
Kedamangalam Sadanandan , 82, Indian actor.[ 135]
John Archibald Wheeler , 96, American physicist who coined the term "black hole ", pneumonia.[ 136]
Khasan Yandiev , 52, Russian deputy head of Ingushetia Supreme Court , shot.[ 137]
Ross Yockey , 64, American Emmy Award-winning author, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.[ 138]
14
Olivia Cenizal , 81, Filipino actress, colon disease.[ 139]
Miguel Galván , 50, Mexican actor and comedian, respiratory arrest.[ 140]
Werner "Frick" Groebli , 92, Swiss ice skating comedian (Frick and Frack ).[ 141]
Tommy Holmes , 91, American baseball player (Boston Braves ).[ 142]
Ollie Johnston , 95, American animator (Cinderella , Pinocchio , Mary Poppins ), the last of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men ".[ 143]
Marisa Sannia , 61, Italian singer.[ 144]
Robert Somervaille , 86, Australian lawyer, chairman of the Australian Telecommunications Commission (1987–1991).[ 145]
June Travis , 93, American actress.[ 146]
15
Imre Antal , 72, Hungarian pianist, TV personality, actor and humorist, cancer.[ 147]
David K. Brown , 79-80, British naval architect.[ 148]
David Cass , 71, American economist.[ 149]
Sean Costello , 28, American blues guitarist and singer, accidental drug overdose.[ 150]
Hazel Court , 82, British actress (The Masque of the Red Death , The Raven ) , heart attack.[ 151]
Cliff Davies , 59, American musician, drummer for Ted Nugent , apparent suicide by gunshot.[ 152]
Brian Davison , 65, British musician, drummer for progressive rock band The Nice .[ 153]
Parvin Dowlatabadi , 84, Iranian children's author and poet, heart attack.[ 154]
Renata Fronzi , 82, Argentine-born Brazilian actress, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[ 155]
Hendrik S. Houthakker , 83, American economist.[ 156]
Fernand Jaccard , 100, Swiss football midfielder.[ 157]
Benoît Lamy , 62, Belgian motion picture writer-director, murdered.[ 158]
Madeline Lee , 84, American actress and theatrical producer, wife of Jack Gilford .[ 159]
Krister Stendahl , 86, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop.[ 160]
Mahinārangi Tocker , 52, New Zealand musician, asthma attack.[ 161]
16
Lou Allen , 83, American football player.
Joseph Cameron Alston , 81, American badminton player and FBI agent.[ 162]
Lucia Cunanan , 80, Filipino restaurateur credited with inventing sisig , murdered.[ 163]
Joe Feeney , 76, American tenor (The Lawrence Welk Show ), emphysema.[ 164]
Edward Norton Lorenz , 90, American professor of meteorology, cancer.[ 165]
Fadel Shana'a , 24, Palestinian Reuters cameraman, flechette shell.[ 166]
Joseph Solman , 99, American painter with Works Progress Administration .[ 167]
17
Edna Andrade , 91, American abstract artist.[ 168]
Aimé Césaire , 94, French Martiniquan poet and politician.[ 169]
Richard Chopping , 90, British illustrator (James Bond ).[ 170]
Gwyneth Dunwoody , 77, British Labour MP for Crewe and Nantwich , following open heart surgery.[ 171]
Danny Federici , 58, American keyboardist (Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band ), melanoma.[ 172]
Nicolette Goulet , 52, American actress (Ryan's Hope , Search for Tomorrow , The Guiding Light ), breast cancer.[ 173]
Zoya Krakhmalnikova , 79, Russian Christian dissident and writer.[ 174]
Lloyd Lamble , 94, Australian actor.[ 175]
Viktor Nosov , 67, Ukrainian football player and coach.[ 176]
George Pollard , 89, American portrait painter (Harry Truman , Muhammad Ali ), pneumonia.[ 177]
Rosario Sánchez Mora , 88, Spanish female anti-Franco veteran of the Spanish Civil War.[ 178]
Mikhail Tanich , 84, Russian poet, kidney problems.[ 179]
Su-Lin Young , 96, American explorer.[ 180]
18
Refat Appazov , 87, Soviet-Crimean Tatar rocket scientist.[ 181]
Peter Howard , 80, American music director and arranger, complications of Parkinson's Disease.[ 182]
Michael de Larrabeiti , 73, British author (The Borrible Trilogy ).[ 183]
Kay Linaker , 94, American actress and screenwriter (The Blob ).[ 184]
Joy Page , 83, American actress (Casablanca ), complications from a stroke and pneumonia.[ 185]
Rosalie Ritz , 84, American courtroom artist (O.J. Simpson Trial , Sirhan Sirhan trial), lung cancer.[ 186]
William W. Warner , 88, American biologist and writer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[ 187]
Charles S. Minter Jr. , 93, Vice Admiral Of United States Navy and Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland ( 1964–1965 ) .[ 188]
19
Mohammad Abbas Baig , 90, Pakistani officer.[ 189]
Hanan Al-Agha , 59-60, Palestinian-Jordanian writer, poet and plastic artist.[ 190]
Bob Bledsaw , 65, American founder of Judges Guild , cancer.[ 191]
Alessandro Cevese , 57, Italian ambassador to South Africa, Lesotho, Mauritius and Madagascar, car accident .[ 192]
Lawrence Hertzog , 56, American television writer and producer (Nowhere Man ), cancer.[ 193]
Alfonso López Trujillo , 72, Colombian Catholic archbishop, president of Pontifical Council for the Family , diabetes.[ 194]
John Marzano , 45, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox ), co-host of Leading Off on mlb.com , injuries from a fall.[ 195]
Germaine Tillion , 100, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance .[ 196]
Constant Vanden Stock , 93, Belgian president of RSC Anderlecht football club.[ 197]
20
Richard Alexander , 73, British politician, Conservative MP for Newark (1979–1997), cancer.[ 198]
Bebe Barron , 82, American composer, pioneer of electronic music .[ 199]
Frank Michael Beyer , 80, German composer.[ 200]
Gazanfer Bilge , 85, Turkish freestyle wrestler, 1948 Olympic champion .[ 201]
Farid Chopel , 55, French actor and singer, cancer.[ 202]
Monica Lovinescu , 84, Romanian writer.[ 203]
Derek McKay , 58, Scottish footballer (Deveronvale , Dundee , Aberdeen , Barrow ), heart attack.[ 204]
VL Mike , 32, American rapper , shot.[ 205]
Nissan Nativ , 86, Israeli director, actor and acting teacher.[ 206]
Tariq Niazi , 68, Pakistani field hockey player, member of 1968 Olympic gold medal team , cardiac arrest .[ 207]
Geoff Polites , 60, Australian CEO of Jaguar Land Rover .[ 208]
William R. Snodgrass , 85, American government official, Comptroller of Tennessee (1955–1999).[ 209]
Harry Ulinski , 83, American football player (Washington Redskins ), sepsis.[ 210]
Geoff Ward , 81, English cricketer (Kent and Essex ).[ 211]
21
Michel Allex , 60, French chocolatier and politician.[ 212]
Monna Bell , 70, Chilean singer, stroke.[ 213]
Fayr Jag , 8, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised.[ 214]
Darell Garretson , 76, American professional basketball referee.[ 215]
Sharp Cat , 13-14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[ 216]
Aaron Shearer , 88, American classical guitarist.[ 217]
Carmen Silva , 92, Brazilian actress, multiple organ failure.[ 218]
Al Wilson , 68, American soul singer ("Show and Tell "), kidney failure.[ 219]
22
Jack Ansell , 86, English footballer.[ 220]
Cameron Argetsinger , 87, American auto racing pioneer.[ 221]
Bob Childers , 61, American singer-songwriter, emphysema.[ 222]
Ed Chynoweth , 66, Canadian president of the Western Hockey League (1972–1995) and CHL (1975–1995), cancer.[ 223]
Paul Davis , 60, American singer ("I Go Crazy ", "'65 Love Affair ", "Cool Night "), heart attack.[ 224]
Safdar Kiyani , 60, Pakistani teacher and pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Balochistan , shot.[ 225]
Dora Ratjen , 89, German high jumper, disguised as female to compete for Nazi Germany at 1936 Summer Olympics .[ 226]
Francisco Martins Rodrigues , 81, Portuguese anti-Fascist resistant, Marxist-Leninist Committee founder, cancer.[ 227]
Daniel Lee Siebert , 54, American serial killer, pancreatic cancer.[ 228]
23
Abdellatief Abouheif , 78, Egyptian marathon swimmer.[ 229]
Jean-Daniel Cadinot , 64, French film director and producer, heart attack.[ 230]
Don Gillis , 85, Canadian-born American sportscaster.[ 231]
Martha Kostuch , 58, Canadian environmentalist, multiple system atrophy.[ 232]
Cook Lougheed , 86, American entrepreneur and philanthropist.[ 233]
Loreto Paras-Sulit , 99, Filipino writer.[ 234]
Rustam Sani , 64, Malaysian politician, sociologist, political scientist and blogger.[ 235]
Harold Stephenson , 87, British first-class wicketkeeper (Somerset ).[ 236]
William H. Stewart , 86, American surgeon general (1965–1969), complications from renal failure.[ 237]
24
Lucy Appleby , 88, British traditional cheesemaker.[ 238]
Tristram Cary , 82, British film and television composer (Doctor Who , The Ladykillers , Quatermass and the Pit ).[ 239]
James Day , 89, American television host, respiratory failure.[ 240]
Harry Geris , 60, Canadian Olympic wrestler.[ 241]
Jimmy Giuffre , 86, American jazz clarinetist, pneumonia.[ 242]
Carlos Robalo , 76, Portuguese politician, Secretary of State (1980–1981).[ 243]
Trilochan Singh , 85, Indian field hockey player, member of the gold medal-winning 1948 Summer Olympics team.[ 244]
25
Enrico Donati , 99, Italian-born American surrealist painter and sculptor.[ 245]
Sonny Grandelius , 79, American football player and coach.[ 246]
R. Laird Harris , 97, American Presbyterian minister and Old Testament scholar.[ 247]
Humphrey Lyttelton , 86, British jazz trumpeter and chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue , following surgery for aortic aneurysm.[ 248]
John H. McConnell , 84, American owner of Worthington Industries and the Columbus Blue Jackets .[ 249]
26
Anzar Shah Kashmiri , 80, Indian Islamic scholar, heart and kidney problems.[ 250]
Henry Brant , 94, Canadian-born American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.[ 251]
Moisey Feigin , 103, Russian artist, Guinness World Record–holder for the oldest professional working artist.[ 252]
Wallace Gichere , 53, Kenyan photojournalist.[ 253]
Yossi Harel , 90, Israeli captain of Exodus , cardiac arrest.[ 254]
Carmen Scarpitta , 74, Italian actress,[ 255]
27
Abraham Adesanya , 85, Nigerian politician, lawyer, and activist.[ 256]
Ram Babu Gupta , 72, Indian cricket umpire.[ 257]
Art Johnson , 88, American baseball player.[ 258]
Ron O'Brien , 56, American disc jockey, pneumonia.[ 259]
Mike Patrick , 55, American former NFL punter (New England Patriots ).[ 260]
Hal Stein , 79, American jazz musician.[ 261]
Marios Tokas , 54, Greek Cypriot composer, cancer.[ 262]
Sallie Wilson , 76, American ballerina, cancer.[ 263]
Frances Yeend , 95, American soprano opera singer.[ 264]
28
Alfredo José Anzola , 33, Venezuelan businessman, plane crash.[ 265]
Diana Barnato Walker , 90, British aviator, first British woman to break the sound barrier.[ 266]
John Barron , 74, Irish hurler.[ 267]
Ivan Caesar , 41, American football player (Boston College , Minnesota Vikings , Portland Forest Dragons ), shot.[ 268]
Max Cherry , 81, Australian Olympics and Commonwealth Games athletics coach, heart attack.[ 269]
Tarka Cordell , 40, British musician, suicide by hanging.[ 270]
John Patrick Crecine , 69, American president of Georgia Tech (1987–1994).[ 271]
Hans Eder , 81, Austrian Olympic skier.[ 272]
Jack Hanrahan , 75, American television writer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In , Get Smart , Dennis the Menace ), Emmy winner (1968 ).[ 273]
Sir Derek Higgs , 64, British chairman of Alliance & Leicester , heart attack.[ 274]
Ed Marion , 81, American official in the National Football League from 1960 to 1987.[ 275]
Will Robinson , 96, American coach, first African American Division I college basketball (ISU ) coach, Detroit Pistons scout .[ 276]
Eudy Simelane , 31, South African footballer.
29
Jadesola Akande , 67, Nigerian lawyer, author and academic.[ 277]
John Berkey , 75, American science fiction artist.[ 278]
Bo Yang , 88, Taiwanese writer.[ 279]
Ernesto Bonino , 86, Italian singer.[ 280]
Gordon Bradley , 74, British footballer and coach (North American Soccer League ), Alzheimer's disease.[ 281]
Lewis Croft , 88, American actor (The Wizard of Oz ).[ 282]
Chuck Daigh , 84, American racing driver, heart and respiratory disease.[ 283]
Hassan Dehqani-Tafti , 87, Iranian Anglican Bishop, first ethnic Iranian Christian bishop since the 7th century.[ 284]
Julie Ege , 64, Norwegian actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Service ), breast cancer.[ 285]
Tatsuo Hasegawa , 92, Japanese automotive engineer, development chief of the first Toyota Corolla .[ 286]
Albert Hofmann , 102, Swiss researcher, chemist and discoverer of LSD , heart attack.[ 287]
Sir Anthony Kershaw , 92, British Conservative MP (1955–1987).[ 288]
Francis Mahoney , 80, American basketball player (Boston Celtics ).[ 289]
Terlingua , 32, American thoroughbred horse, infirmities of old age.[ 290]
Charles Tilly , 78, American sociologist, historian and political scientist.[ 291]
Micky Waller , 66, British drummer (Jeff Beck Group , Cyril Davies ), liver failure.[ 292]
30
Jean Ancel , 67-68, Romanian-born Israeli author and historian.[ 293]
John Cargher , 89, Australian radio broadcaster, hosted Singers of Renown since 1966.[ 294]
Juancho Evertsz , 85, Dutch Antillean politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1973–1977).[ 295]
Ling Ling , 22, Chinese panda, lived in Ueno Zoo , Tokyo, oldest giant panda in Japan, heart failure.[ 296]
M. G. Pandithan , 68, Malaysian politician, leukemia.[ 297]
Clarence Ross , 84, American bodybuilder.[ 298]
Allan Sparrow , 63, Canadian politician, activist and Toronto city councillor (1974–1980), colorectal cancer.[ 299]
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